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Los Llaneros

The Mexican Southern Plains, 1500-1900

Edited by Joel Zapata, Andrew Reynolds, Alex Hunt, John Beusterien ...

For centuries Mexican people of the plains—or los Llaneros—have inhabited and embodied the borderland region known today as the Southern Great Plains. Yet their central presence in the area is often forgotten. This diverse collection of essays brings much-needed attention to the ethnic culture and history of the Llano, the vast grassland plains encompassing the Texas Panhandle, eastern New Mexico, ... Read more

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For centuries Mexican people of the plains—or los Llaneros—have inhabited and embodied the borderland region known today as the Southern Great Plains. Yet their central presence in the area is often forgotten. This diverse collection of essays brings much-needed attention to the ethnic culture and history of the Llano, the vast grassland plains encompassing the Texas Panhandle, eastern New Mexico,
... Read more
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Predict Packaging That Sells

by Alex Hunt, Matt Salem ...

Send buying indecision packing.As an insights expert, you're up-to-date on design, consumer behavior, and market trends-everything that influences success. But one wrong decision can quickly turn into a high-profile failure and, worse, loss of sales. With the endless options of structures, colors, copy, images, and fonts, it's no wonder you're overwhelmed.For decades, Alex Hunt, Matt Salem, and ... Read more

$8.99 USD

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Send buying indecision packing.As an insights expert, you're up-to-date on design, consumer behavior, and market trends-everything that influences success. But one wrong decision can quickly turn into a high-profile failure and, worse, loss of sales. With the endless options of structures, colors, copy, images, and fonts, it's no wonder you're overwhelmed.For decades, Alex Hunt, Matt Salem, and
... Read more

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Under the Cap of Invisibility

The Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant and the Texas Panhandle

by Lucie Genay ...

Pantex was built during World War II near the town of Amarillo, Texas. The site was converted early in the Cold War to assemble nuclear weapons and produce high explosives. For nearly fifty years Pantex has been the sole assembly and disassembly plant for nuclear weapons in the United States. Today, most of the activities of the plant consist of the manufacture of high explosive components and the ... Read more

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Pantex was built during World War II near the town of Amarillo, Texas. The site was converted early in the Cold War to assemble nuclear weapons and produce high explosives. For nearly fifty years Pantex has been the sole assembly and disassembly plant for nuclear weapons in the United States. Today, most of the activities of the plant consist of the manufacture of high explosive components and the
... Read more
The Streets of Laredo

Texas Modernity and Its Discontents

by José E. Limón ...

Series series American Wests, sponsored by West Texas A&M University
Arguing that the well-known cowboy ballad “The Streets of Laredo” is an early expression of “discontent with an encroaching modernity,” author José E. Limón draws upon ethnomusicology, folklore, history, contemporary literature, and other sources to provide a deeply contextualized analysis of the song. He explores its place in the imaginative construction of the American West and its role in the ... Read more

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Arguing that the well-known cowboy ballad “The Streets of Laredo” is an early expression of “discontent with an encroaching modernity,” author José E. Limón draws upon ethnomusicology, folklore, history, contemporary literature, and other sources to provide a deeply contextualized analysis of the song. He explores its place in the imaginative construction of the American West and its role in the
... Read more
Nature and Place in Texas

A History

by Alex Hunt, Samuel Brunk, C.J. Alvarez, Julie Courtwright, Tim Bowman, Scot McFarlane, Andrew C. Baker, Alana de Hinojosa, Todd M. Kerstetter, Brian Frehner, Neel Baumgardner, Arthur R. Gómez ...

Series series Environmental Histories of Texas
Texas history is often recounted through tales of revolution, oil booms, and cattle drives. But what if we considered a different lens—one shaped by wind and wildfire, rivers and drought, grasslands and pine forests?Nature and Place in Texas reimagines the Lone Star story by centering its ecosystems. This collection of essays by leading environmental historians reveals how the state’s natural ... Read more

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Texas history is often recounted through tales of revolution, oil booms, and cattle drives. But what if we considered a different lens—one shaped by wind and wildfire, rivers and drought, grasslands and pine forests?Nature and Place in Texas reimagines the Lone Star story by centering its ecosystems. This collection of essays by leading environmental historians reveals how the state’s natural
... Read more
The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx

Rethinking Regionalism

by Elizabeth Abele, Wes Berry, Paul Chafe, Hal Crimmel, Stéphanie Durrans, Margaret E. Johnson, Christopher Pullen, Bonnie Roos, Jennifer Denise Ryan, Kent C. Ryden, Christian Hummelsund Voie, O Alan Weltzien, Douglas Werden, Dan Flores ...

This highly readable edited collection focuses on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. Each contributor to this volume explores a different facet of Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, regional environments, and local economies in her writing. Covering all of her novels and short story collections, scholars from the United States, Canada, and abroad ... Read more

$47.79 USD

This highly readable edited collection focuses on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. Each contributor to this volume explores a different facet of Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, regional environments, and local economies in her writing. Covering all of her novels and short story collections, scholars from the United States, Canada, and abroad
... Read more
Texas Women and Ranching

On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities

by John T. Becker, Light Townsend Cummins, Alex Hunt, Jean Stuntz, Renee M. Laegreid, Amy M. Porter, Brooke Wilbracht ...

Series series Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation
Winner, 2020 Liz Carpenter Award For Best Book on the History of WomenThe realm of ranching history has long been dominated by men, from tales—tall or true—of cowboys and cattlemen, to a century’s worth of male writers and historians who have been the primary chroniclers of Texas history. As women’s history has increasingly gained a foothold not only as a field worthy of study but as a bold and ... Read more

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Winner, 2020 Liz Carpenter Award For Best Book on the History of WomenThe realm of ranching history has long been dominated by men, from tales—tall or true—of cowboys and cattlemen, to a century’s worth of male writers and historians who have been the primary chroniclers of Texas history. As women’s history has increasingly gained a foothold not only as a field worthy of study but as a bold and
... Read more
Women Writing Nature

A Feminist View

by Alex Hunt, Susan A. C. Rosen, Barbara J. Cook, Sarah E. McFarland, Mary Kate Azcuy, Heidi Hutner, H Louise Davis, Allison Steele, Joan E. Maloof, Rosemarie Rowley ...

Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Since Silent Spring was published in 1962, the number of texts about the natural world written by women has grown exponentially. The essays in Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View argue that women writing in the 20th century are utilizing the historical connection of women and the natural world in diverse ways. For centuries women have been associated with nature but many feminists have sought to ... Read more

$44.59 USD

Since Silent Spring was published in 1962, the number of texts about the natural world written by women has grown exponentially. The essays in Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View argue that women writing in the 20th century are utilizing the historical connection of women and the natural world in diverse ways. For centuries women have been associated with nature but many feminists have sought to
... Read more
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Predict Packaging That Sells

by Alex Hunt, Matt Salem ...

Narrated by Blade O'Neill, Sebastian Brown, Erik Gamborg, Diana Bustelo ...

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5 hours 45 min

Send buying indecision packing.As an insights expert, you’re up-to-date on design, consumer behavior, and market trends—everything that influences success. But one wrong decision can quickly turn into a high-profile failure and, worse, loss of sales. With the endless options of structures, colors, copy, images, and fonts, it’s no wonder you’re overwhelmed.For decades, Alex Hunt, Matt Salem, and ... Read more

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Also available as: eBook

Send buying indecision packing.As an insights expert, you’re up-to-date on design, consumer behavior, and market trends—everything that influences success. But one wrong decision can quickly turn into a high-profile failure and, worse, loss of sales. With the endless options of structures, colors, copy, images, and fonts, it’s no wonder you’re overwhelmed.For decades, Alex Hunt, Matt Salem, and
... Read more

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Anxiety Voice, The

How to Tune Out the Noise, Retrain Your Brain, and Finally Enjoy Your Life

by Alex Hunt ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Brian E ...

Unabridged

1 hour 41 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.That critical, catastrophizing voice in your head isn’t you - it’s time to stop taking orders.It’s the 3 AM interrogation that steals your sleep, replaying every mistake on a relentless loop.It’s the dread before a big meeting, whispering that you’re an imposter.It’s the toxic narrator that twists a compliment into proof of fraud and a setback into ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.That critical, catastrophizing voice in your head isn’t you - it’s time to stop taking orders.It’s the 3 AM interrogation that steals your sleep, replaying every mistake on a relentless loop.It’s the dread before a big meeting, whispering that you’re an imposter.It’s the toxic narrator that twists a compliment into proof of fraud and a setback into
... Read more

Remembering the Alamo

Memory, Modernity, & the Master Symbol

by Richard R. Flores ...

Series series CMAS History, Culture, and Society Series
This study examines the American mythology surrounding the Alamo and its influence on cultural identity, historical memory, and ethnic relations.Over nearly two centuries, the Mexican victory over an outnumbered band of Alamo defenders has been transformed into an American victory for the love of liberty. Through a metamorphosis of memory and mythology, the Alamo became a master symbol in Texan ... Read more

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This study examines the American mythology surrounding the Alamo and its influence on cultural identity, historical memory, and ethnic relations.Over nearly two centuries, the Mexican victory over an outnumbered band of Alamo defenders has been transformed into an American victory for the love of liberty. Through a metamorphosis of memory and mythology, the Alamo became a master symbol in Texan
... Read more
Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea

Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols

by Rebecca Kay Jager, Ph.D. ...

The first Europeans to arrive in North America’s various regions relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of three well-known and legendary female cultural intermediaries, Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea, examines their initial contact with Euro-Americans, their negotiation of multinational frontiers, and their symbolic representation over time ... Read more

$19.49 USD

The first Europeans to arrive in North America’s various regions relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of three well-known and legendary female cultural intermediaries, Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea, examines their initial contact with Euro-Americans, their negotiation of multinational frontiers, and their symbolic representation over time
... Read more

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