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21 produkter
Carrying the Darkness: the Poetry of the Vietnam War
Av Texas Tech University Press, W. D. Ehrhart m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
171 kr
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Unaccustomed Mercy
Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War
Av Texas Tech University Press, W. D. Ehrhart
Häftad, 1989
171 kr
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Aims to represent the terrible beauty that Vietnam engendered in sensitive hearts, the curious grace with which the human spirit can endow even the ugliest realities.
Blades in the Sky
Windmilling Through the Eyes of B. H. ""Tex"" Burdick
Av Texas Tech University Press
Häftad, 1992
207 kr
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Windmills made life possible in the semi-arid Southwest. This book describes the work of a team of Texas-based windmill erectors in the early 1900s. The windmillers harsh, semi-nomadic lifestyle, and their courage as they clambered about on the high-rise towers, is chronicled here in words and …
Prairie Nights to Neon Lights
The Story of Country Music in West Texas
Av Texas Tech University Press
Häftad, 1997
210 kr
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Explains the vital contributions made by West Texas musicians to the music of America and the world. This title presents a historical documentation of the music and the musicians who brought it to life.
Big Ranch Country
Av Texas Tech University Press
Häftad, 1999
222 kr
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A Double Mountain Books' classic reissue, this is a story-book travelogue covering the big ranches of West and South Texas. Williams made many informal excursions to study their history, founders and owners, picking up facts, folklore and range gossip along the way. He documents the fifteen largest …
Harvey Girl
Av Texas Tech University Press
Häftad, 2006
197 kr
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'The nonfiction aspects of the subject and the era are subtly interwoven into Clara's own adventure; readers may not realize they're getting a history lesson as well as an exciting tale...Readers will follow with much interest Clara's experience as a young country girl out on her own, trying to …
Spurs of James J.Wheat, Pioneer Collector
Av Texas Tech University Press
Inbunden, 2008
403 kr
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This is a premier collection from the golden era of Western spur making. With pocket full of cards and the help of trusted scouts, oilman James J. Wheat of Loving County, Texas, amassed one of the most impressive collections of horse spurs in the state. Drawing from the 920 spur pairs and singles …
Taste of Texas Ranching
Recipe Postcards
Av Texas Tech University Press
Häftad, 1996
127 kr
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Desk in the Elephant House
Av Texas Tech University Press
Inbunden, 1998
248 kr
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'In a time when so many poets are out to unload the dead weight of their pasts on the reader, it is refreshing to read the work of Cathryn Essinger who realizes that before it can do anything else, poetry must give pleasure. Smart, sweetly crafted, and open-voiced, her poems are propelled not only …
Roles of Authority: Thespian Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Av Texas Tech University Press
Inbunden, 2003
451 kr
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Roadrunner
Av Texas Tech University Press
Inbunden, 2003
481 kr
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Suitable for those who love the bird we call roadrunner, this photo study presents the author's personal account of the years he has spent observing and recording the daily routine of several roadrunner families. Through his lens, it chronicles roadrunners courting, mating, nesting, hunting, and …
Death Assemblage
Av Texas Tech University Press
Häftad, 2003
184 kr
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This is the first of the Frankie MacFarlane series. The mountains west of Pair-a-Dice, Nevada, hold mysteries geological, historical, and personal. Geologist Frankie MacFarlane has mapped the Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks of the range for the past three summers. In the final week of her …
Detachment Fault
Av Texas Tech University Press
Inbunden, 2004
328 kr
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This book was given Honorable Mention 2004 ""ForeWord Magazine"" Book of the Year Award. It is second in the Frankie MacFarlane mysteries. 'Despite, and due to, the complexity of Miller's mystery, ""Detachment Fault"" remains a first-rate read, seasoned with a pinch of this and a dash of that. This …
Clearing
Av Texas Tech University Press
Inbunden, 2007
248 kr
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'Revolving around the deaths of the poet's parents and first wife, ""The Clearing"" is a sustained meditation on the nature of love and its transformations. Perpetually dissatisfied with memory and what one poem calls the falsehoods about death we tell ourselves, Whites poems turn on emotional …
Embroiderers of Ninhue
Stitching Chilean Rural Life
Av Texas Tech University Press
Inbunden, 2010
524 kr
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For four decades, the embroiderers of Ninhue, Chile, have been stitching scenes of rural life in the 'place of stones' - their village in the foothills of the Coastal Range between Santiago and Concepcion. Their work stands today among the most evocative of Chilean arts, as evocative as the story …
To Everything on Earth
New Writing on Fate, Community, and Nature
Av Texas Tech University Press, Kurt Caswell m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
246 kr
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This book offers information on nurturing ourselves and nature. In October 2004, Barry Lopez invited a group of writers to meet with him, Bill McKibben, Alan Weisman, and Dennis Covington at the Junction campus of Texas Tech University. Out of this meeting grew a community that has since …
Breathing, in Dust
Av Texas Tech University Press
Häftad, 2010
308 kr
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This is a snapshot of California that never appears in the tourist brochures. From poet and performance artist Tim Z Hernandez comes a harrowing depiction of the drug abuse, poverty, and desperation that play out in the lives of a humble farming community in California's heartland - a region known …
Detachment Fault
Av Texas Tech University Press
Häftad, 2012
232 kr
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Finalist, Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Award, Adult Fiction ForeWord Book of the Year Award, Honorable Mention After the murderous rigors of her Ph.D. field research, Frankie MacFarlane is happy to be settling down in her native Tucson, house-sitting the family home and teaching …
Laugh, Cry and Remember: the Journal of a G.I. Lady
Av Texas Tech University Press
Häftad, 1998
214 kr
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