University of Texas Press
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Bonfire of Roadmaps
$19.95 Add to cartSince he first hitched a ride out of Lubbock, Texas, at the age of sixteen, singer-songwriter and Flatlanders band member Joe Ely has been a road warrior, traveling highways and back roads across Amer
- Series: Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music
- Author: Ely, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0292756291
- Language: English
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The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right
$34.95 Add to cartHow West Texas business and culture molded the rise of conservatism in the United States.
Much of what we understand as modern American political conservatism was born in West Texas, where today it pr
- Author: Roche, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1477332642
- Language: English
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Goldee’s Bar-B-Q: A Cookbook
$45.00 Add to cartThe top joint in Texas shares its secrets to award-winning barbecue.
Goldee’s Bar-B-Q, which sits in a quiet corner of Dallas-Fort Worth, opened only a few weeks before COVID-19 closed the dining room
- Author: Heard, Jalen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1477332022
- Language: English
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The Devil Is in It: A History of the American Acoustic Guitar
$34.95 Add to cartThe rich history of the acoustic guitar and its impact on the music world.
In 2020, guitar expert John Stubbings released a limited-edition book on the American acoustic guitar that sold out in days.
- Author: Stubbings, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1477332588
- Language: English
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Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic
$34.95 Add to cartAn oral history with the women of Parliament-Funkadelic, from forming the band to landing the mothership.
Parliament-Funkadelic is perhaps the greatest funk band ever assembled. Yet at the time of the
- Series: American Music
- Author: Neblett, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1477332677
- Language: English
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Someday All the Adults Will Die!: The Birth of Texas Punk
$29.95 Add to cartA deep dive into the early days of punk in Austin, Texas, this oral history immerses readers in a diverse and influential music scene.
Texas has always teemed with music and counterculture. When punk
- Series: American Music
- Author: Blashill, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1477332472
- Language: English
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Texas Takes Shape: A History in Maps from the General Land Office
$45.00 Read moreA comprehensive volume on historical mapping in Texas.
The Texas General Land Office’s map collection contains over 45,000 maps, some dating from the sixteenth century, making it one of the most impor
- Author: Lambert, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1477330925
- Language: English
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Texian Exodus: The Runaway Scrape and Its Enduring Legacy
$39.95 Read moreA narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic of Texas.
Two events in Texas history shine so brigh
- Author: Hardin, Stephen L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1477330054
- Language: English
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Grief Is a Sneaky Bitch: An Uncensored Guide to Navigating Loss
$21.95 Add to cartA comprehensive and compassionate guide to navigating loss.
When social worker Lisa Keefauver became a widow in 2011, she was alarmed to discover that even though 100 percent of us experience loss, we
- Author: Keefauver, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1477329307
- Language: English
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Loose of Earth: A Memoir
$26.95 Read moreAn arresting memoir of love and unbending religion, toxicity and disease, and one family’s desperate wait for a miracle that never came.
Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn was the oldest of five children, a t
- Author: Blackburn, Kathleen Dorothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1477329625
- Language: English
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Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836
$29.95 Add to cartWinner, T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award, Texas Historical Commission
Summerfield G. Roberts Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas
Honorable Mention, Certificate of Commendation, American Association for- Series: Texas Classics
- Author: Hardin, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0292731027
- Language: English
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Rick Perry: A Political Life
$35.00 Read moreHow Rick Perry navigated and shaped Texas politics as the state’s longest serving governor.
Rick Perry, the charming rancher, pilot, and politician from West Texas who was governor from 2000 to 2015,
- Author: Rottinghaus, Brandon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1477328890
- Language: English
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The Poetic Edda
$27.95 Read moreThe Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poe
- Author: Hollander, Lee M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 01 1962
- ISBN10: 0292764995
- Language: English
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A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of ’90s Austin
$27.95 Read moreA twisting path through Austin’s underground music scene in the twentieth century’s last decade, narrated by the people who were there.
It’s 1990 in Austin, Texas. The next decade will be a tipping poi
- Author: Beets, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1477328130
- Language: English
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Why Alanis Morissette Matters
$24.95 Add to cartThe first critical biography of iconic musician Alanis Morissette, creator of Jagged Little Pill.
The 1990s hardly saw a bigger hit than Jagged Little Pill. Alanis Morissette’s defining album won Gram
- Author: Volpert, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1477330879
- Language: English
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The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
$27.95 Add to cartA memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.
When Wilco’s 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as “dad rock,” Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted t
- Series: American Music
- Author: Stratis, Niko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1477331484
- Language: English
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For the Bees: A Handbook for Happy Beekeeping
$26.95 Read moreA handbook for what to expect the first year of beekeeping and beyond.
The path to becoming a successful beekeeper begins with a deep understanding of the bees themselves. Taking an approach that is b
- Author: Chapman, Tara Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 147732951X
- Language: English
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Country Music USA: 50th Anniversary Edition
$27.95 Add to cart“Fifty years after its first publication, Country Music USA still stands as the most authoritative history of this uniquely American art form. Here are the stories of the people who made country music
- Author: Malone, Bill C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1477315357
- Language: English
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Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation
$15.95 Read moreRecent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax “constitutional conservatism” lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America’s founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic c
- Series: Discovering America
- Author: Hogeland, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0292757530
- Language: English
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Earl Campbell: Yards After Contact
$27.95 Read moreEarl Campbell was a force in American football, winning a state championship in high school, rushing his way to a Heisman trophy for the University of Texas, and earning MVP as he took the Houston Oil
- Author: Price, Asher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1477316493
- Language: English
