{"id":292,"date":"2018-12-31T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2018-12-31T11:37:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:37:58","slug":"university-presses-a-texas-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"University Presses: A Texas Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s a small sampling of recent and forthcoming titles from five of Texas’s university presses. Click through to learn more, or to order from the publishers’ websites.<\/p>\n

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Texas A&M University Press<\/h1>\n

Houston Cougars in the 1960s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Robert D. Jacobus<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacobus tells the gripping story of the coaches, athletes, and supporters who blazed a trail not only for athletic success but also for racial equality in 1960s Houston. $29.95 cloth<\/p>\n

Tattooed on My Soul: Texas Veterans Remember World War II<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Edited by Stephen M. Sloan, Lois E. Myers, and Michelle Holland<\/span><\/p>\n

The editors bring together seventeen of the most compelling narratives of World War II veterans from Baylor\u2019s extensive collection of interviews, creating a mosaic of those critical years. $29.95 cloth<\/p>\n

12 Texas Aggie War Heroes: From World War I to Vietnam<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

James R. Woodall; foreword by Thomas G. Darling<\/span><\/p>\n

Woodall tells the stories of 12 servicemen\u2014among tens of thousands of Aggies who served in the nation\u2019s military and stand out as singular examples of bravery and heroism. $29.95 cloth<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span>Texas Christian University Press<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Weird Yet Strange: Notes from an Austin Music Artist<\/span><\/p>\n

Danny Garrett<\/span><\/p>\n

Danny Garrett began creating music poster art at the same time that such art began to chronicle the establishment of the Austin music scene in the early 1970s. Garrett richly and poignantly details the history of the music, musicians, and venues that spread the surprising harmony of \u201cthe Austin Sound.\u201d $29.95 paperback<\/p>\n

Chili Queen<\/span><\/p>\n

Marian L. Martinello<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s 1886, and the Perez family is struggling to make a living off their chili stand on Military Plaza in San Antonio. Seventeen-year-old Lupe works to turn things around. Facing obstacle after obstacle, Lupe must act boldly to save the family business. Chili Queen is full of true tales of trail drives, corridos, maps, photos, and recipes. $22.95 paperback<\/p>\n

The Garden of Eden: The Story of a Freedmen\u2019s Community in Texas<\/span><\/p>\n

Drew Sanders<\/span><\/p>\n

The Garden of Eden neighborhood in Fort Worth has endured for over a century as a homeplace for freed African American slaves and their descendants. The great-great-grandson of one such family, Drew Sanders recounts engaging tales of his family\u2019s life against the backdrop of Fort Worth and Tarrant County history. $24.95 paperback<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span>Texas Tech University Press<\/h1>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Carrying the Black Bag: A Neurologist\u2019s Bedside Tales<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Hutton, M.D.<\/span><\/p>\n

During his thirty-plus years of practicing in West Texas and Minnesota, physician and neurologist Tom Hutton discovered that a doctor\u2019s best teachers are often his patients. Carrying the Black Bag<\/span> invites readers to experience what it is like to be a doctor\u2019s hands, eyes, and heart. $27.95 hardcover<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>Finding the Great Western Trail<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Sylvia Gann Mahoney; foreword by Ray Klinginsmith<\/span><\/p>\n

The Great Western Trail is a nineteenth-century cattle trail that originated in northern Mexico, traversed the United States for some two thousand miles, and terminated after crossing the Canadian border. Finding the Great Western Trail<\/span> documents the first multi-community effort made to recover evidence and verify the route of the Great Western Trail. $34.95 hardcover<\/p>\n

Light in the Trees<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Gail Folkins; foreword by Andy Wilkinson<\/span><\/p>\n

A memoir of home, nature, and change in the American West, Light in the Trees<\/span> makes cultural and environmental topics personal through a narrator\u2019s travels between past and present, rural and urban. Gail Folkins explores challenges of the natural world, navigating new versions of home and self along the way. $35.00 hardcover<\/p>\n

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University of North Texas Press<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Shoot the Conductor: Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Anshel Brusilow and Robin Underdahl<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Brusilow worked with the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras before conducting then-troubled Dallas Symphony Orchestra and founding their pops series. Brusilow later directed conducting programs at UNT and SMU. Tinged with humor and heartache, Shoot the Conductor is an inspiring story of a working-class immigrant in a tough arena. $29.95 hardcover<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Tales of Texas Cooking: Stories and Recipes from the Trans-Pecos to the Piney Woods and High Plains to the Gulf Prairies<\/span><\/p>\n

Edited by Frances B. Vick<\/span><\/p>\n

Forthcoming December 15, 2015<\/p>\n

This latest Texas Folklore Society publication contains stories and more than 120 recipes from long ago and yesterday, organized by the ten Texas vegetation regions. Herein you\u2019ll find Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson\u2019s Family Cake, Hank the Cowdog\u2019s John Erickson\u2019s memories of sassafras tea, and Sam Houston\u2019s barbecue sauce.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>A History of Fort Worth in Black & White: 165 Yea<\/span><\/a><\/span>rs of African-American Life<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard F. Selcer<\/span><\/p>\n

Forthcoming November 15, 2015<\/p>\n

A history of Fort Worth\u2019s black community that ranges from the beginning with Ripley Arnold and the early settlers to current battles over education, housing, and city planning representation. The sidebars on African Americans of note make it appealing as a school text as well as for the general reader. $29.95 hardcover<\/p>\n

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University of Texas Press<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Comin\u2019 Right at Ya: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Alseep at the Wheel<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ray Benson and David Menconi<\/span><\/p>\n

A who\u2019s who of American popular music fills this lively memoir, in which Ray Benson recalls how a Philadelphia Jewish hippie and his bandmates in Asleep at the Wheel turned on generations of rock and country fans to Bob Wills\u2013style Western swing.<\/p>\n

Forthcoming October 1, 2015; $24.95 hardcover<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Freddie Steinmark: Faith, Family, Football<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Bower Yousse and Thomas J. Cryan<\/span><\/p>\n

A new biography of legendary University of Texas football player, Freddie Steinmark, whose courage on the field and battling cancer inspires not only the Longhorn nation, but people everywhere. See the major motion picture My All American this November inspired by Freddie Steinmark story. Available now; $24.95 hardcover<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Picturing Texas Politics: A Photographic History from Sam Houston to Rick Perry<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Chuck Bailey, with historical text by Patrick Cox<\/span><\/p>\n

With rare, previously unpublished photographs and iconic images of politicians from the state\u2019s founders to Ann Richards, George W. Bush, and Rick Perry, this is the first-ever photographic album of Texas politicians and political campaigns. Available October 1, 2015; $45.00 hardcover<\/p>\n

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