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Hole in the Roof: The Dallas Cowboys, Clint Murchison Jr., and the Stadium That Changed American Sports Forever
$30.00 Read moreIn 1966, when the still-young Dallas Cowboys franchise ended six years of agony with their first winning season, the team’s owner and founder, Clint Murchison Jr., son of a billionaire oilman, was fe
- Series: Swaim-Paup Sports Series, Sponsored by James C. ’74 & Debra
- Author: Murchison, Burk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1648430961
- Language: English
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Cemetery Birding: An Unexpected Guide to Discovering Birds in Texas
$35.00 Read moreIt might seem unlikely that a place designed for the departed could be teeming with life. Cemeteries have a long history of serving the dual purpose of honoring the deceased while also proving a space… [more below]
- Series: Texas Experience, Books Made Possible by Sarah ’84 and Mark
- Author: Bristol, Jennifer L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1648431445
- Language: English
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Memoir of a Pandemic: Fighting Covid from the Front Lines to the White House
$32.95 Read more“Every American should read this insightful and gripping account to understand all our Nation accomplished in the midst of the worst pandemic in 100 years and the difference one dedicated leader at Un… [more below]
- Series: Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes the Presidency and Leadership
- Author: Giroir, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1648431585
- Language: English
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I Know about a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas
$24.00 Read moreStruggling for 30 years with chronic illness at her ranch outside Uvalde, Texas, Ann Alejandro was a writer of transporting natural talent and prolificity. Though she would have loved to be widely re
- Series: Wittliff Collections Literary
- Author: Shihab Nye, Naomi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1648432409
- Language: English
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Making Space for Women: Stories from Trailblazing Women of Nasa’s Johnson Space Center
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the creation of the Manned Spacecraft Center to the launching of the International Space Station and beyond, Making Space for Women explores how careers for women at Johnson Space Center have cha
- Series: Pioneering Women: Leaders and Trailblazers, Sponsored by the Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leade
- Author: Ross-Nazzal, Jennifer M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1623499933
- Language: English
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The American Campaign, Second Edition: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote
$19.95 Add to cartReporting data and predicting trends through the 2008 campaign, this classroom-tested volume offers again James E. Campbell’s “theory of the predictable campaign,” incorporating the fundamental condit
- Series: Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presi
- Author: Campbell, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 14 2008
- ISBN10: 1585446289
- Language: English
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Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe Volume 15
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1952 C. G. Jung published a paradoxical hypothesis on synchronicity that marked an attempt to expand the western world’s conception of the relationship between nature and the psyche. Jung’s hypothe… [more below]
- Series: Carolyn and Ernest Fay Analytical Psychology #15
- Author: Cambray, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 07 2012
- ISBN10: 1603443002
- Language: English
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Prairie Time
$29.95 Add to cartWinner, Carroll Abbott Memorial Award, presented by the Native Plant Society of Texas In its prime, the Texas Blackland Prairie formed a twelve-million-acre grassy swath across the state from the San … [more below]
- Series: Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce #10
- Author: White, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2013
- ISBN10: 1623491363
- Language: English
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Love at the Five and Dime: The Songwriting Legacy of Nanci Griffith
$34.95 Read moreNanci Griffith (1953-2021) remains, despite her untimely death, a “living, breathing, ever-present entity and inspiration.” According to author Brian T. Atkinson, reflections on Griffith’s omnipresen
- Series: Texas Music Series, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University
- Author: Atkinson, Brian T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1648432387
- Language: English
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Sappers in the Wire: The Life and Death of Firebase Mary Ann
$27.95 Add to cartDuring the night of 27-28 March 1971, a Viet Cong sapper company infiltrated Fire Support Base Mary Ann, the forwardmost position in the 23d Division (Americal), Snipping through the defensive wire an… [more below]
- Series: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History #45
- Author: Nolan, Keith William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 12 2007
- ISBN10: 1585446432
- Language: English
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Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump
$28.00 Read moreJENNIFER MERCIECA is associate professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Founding Fictions and coeditor of The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establi
- Author: Mercieca, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1623499062
- Language: English
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Journal of an Indian Trader: Anthony Glass and the Texas Trading Frountier, 1790-1810
$16.95 Add to cartA decade before the celebrated mountain men entered the Northern Plains and Rockies, some dozen little-known trading forays were launched into the plains of the Southwest. Anthony Glass led one of the… [more below]
- Series: Texas A & M Southwestern Studies (Paperback) #4
- Author: Flores, Dan L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 19 1985
- ISBN10: 1585440167
- Language: English
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Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the dance halls to the main stage, from small town Texas to the big cities, and from treasured local cultural traditions to the national display of Mexican Texas’ finest talent, m俍ica tejana is
- Series: Fronteras Series, Sponsored by Texas A&m International Unive #1
- Author: San Miguel, Guadalupe, Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1585441880
- Language: English
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The Archetypal Imagination
$16.95 Add to cartAlso available in an open-access, full-text edition at http: //oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/85764
“What we wish to know, and most desire, remains unknowable and lies beyond our grasp.” With … [more below]
- Series: Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology
- Author: Hollis, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 25 2002
- ISBN10: 1585442682
- Language: English
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One Woman’s Army: A Black Officer Remembers the Wacvolume 12
$26.00 Add to cartWhen America entered World War II, the surge of patriotism was not confined to men. Congress authorized the organization of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (later renamed Women’s Army Corps) in 1942,… [more below]
- Series: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History #12
- Author: Earley, Charity Adams
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 11 2010
- ISBN10: 089096694X
- Language: English
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FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address
$19.95 Add to cart“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” These are some of the most famous, the most quoted, and the best remembered words in American political history. They seem to be a natural expression o… [more below]
- Series: Library of Presidential Rhetoric
- Author: Houck, Davis W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 21 2013
- ISBN10: 1585441988
- Language: English
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The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing
$19.95 Add to cartAt the low-water bridge below Tom Miller Dam, west of downtown Austin, during the summer of his tenth or eleventh year, Ken Roberts had his first encounter with cedar choppers. On his way to the bridg
- Series: Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce #24
- Author: Roberts, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1623498201
- Language: English
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The Hump: America’s Strategy for Keeping China in World War II
$29.95 Add to cartChronicling the most ambitious airlift in history . . . Carried out over arguably the world’s most rugged terrain, in its most inhospitable weather system, and under the constant threat of enemy attac
- Series: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History #134
- Author: Plating, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1623495962
- Language: English
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El Mesquite: A Story of the Early Spanish Settlements Between the Nueces and the Rio Grande
$15.95 Add to cartThe open country of Texas between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande was sparsely settled through the nineteenth century, and most of the settlers who did live there had Hispanic names that until rec… [more below]
- Series: Rio Grande/Rio Bravo #4
- Author: O’Shea, Elena Zamora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1585441082
- Language: English
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Trammel’s Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North
$30.00 Add to cartTrammel’s Trace tells the story of a borderlands smuggler and an important passageway into early Texas.
Trammel’s Trace, named for Nicholas Trammell, was the first route from the United States into the
- Series: Red River Valley Books, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Te #5
- Author: Pinkerton, Gary L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1623497906
- Language: English
