Author: Leonard A. Brennan
Publisher: TAMU Press
Keywords: texas, amp, university, kingsville, sponsored, perspectives, quails, ecology, management, south
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2006-11-27
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1585445037
ISBN-13: 9781585445035
Nothing is more evocative of the Texas outdoors than the whistled call of the bobwhite. While the familiar two-note greeting is now just a memory for most of us who live in the state’s growing urban sprawl, this bird is an economic commodity on par with crops and livestock in some regions of Texas. Three other native species of quail also inhabit Texas. Like the northern bobwhite, the scaled quail is significant as a game bird. The other two species, Gambel’s quail and Montezuma quail, are found in limited areas of southwestern Texas and represent an important indicator of forest, range
Author: Dr. Alan B. Govenar PhD
Publisher: TAMU Press
Keywords: texas, series, music, sponsored, center, dickson, john, blues, rise, contemporary, sound, robin
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2008-10-09
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 158544605X
ISBN-13: 9781585446056
Texas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words, revealing the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries of age and race to seize the musical imagination of the entire world. Fully illustrated with 495 dramatic, high-quality color and black-and-white photographs--many never before published--Texas Blues provides comprehensive and authoritative documentation of a musical tradition that has changed contemporary music. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author Alan Govenar here builds on his previous groundbreaking w
Author: Timothy Brush
Publisher: TAMU Press
Keywords: texas, south, perspectives, sponsored, amp, kingsville, university, valley, tropical, birds, frontier, lower, grande, rio, nesting
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2005-10-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1585444901
ISBN-13: 9781585444908
Halfway between Dallas and Mexico City, along the last few hundred miles of the Rio Grande, lies a subtropical outpost where people come from all over the world to see birds. Located between the temperate north and the tropic south, with desert to the west and ocean to the east, the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas provides habitat for a variety of birds seen nowhere else in the United States. If you want to see a Hooked-billed Kite, Muscovy Duck, or Altamira Oriole, this is the place. Drawing on years of personal observation and study, Timothy Brush has written a classic work of natural histo
Author: James L. Rogers
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Keywords: texas, north, system, university, normal, story, college
Number of Pages: 784
Published: 2002-04-15
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1574411284
ISBN-13: 9781574411287
Author: Craig D. Hillis
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: texas, life, culture, series, history, smothers, jack, trilogy, small, town, doris
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0292734638
ISBN-13: 9780292734630
"Six o’clock silence of a new day beginnin’ Is heard in the small Texas town. Like a signal from nowhere, the people who live there Are up and moving around." Singer-songwriter Steven Fromholz’s earliest memories go back to a small Texas town where he spent summers with his grandmother. He gave those memories expression in three songs--"Daybreak," "Trainride," and "Bosque County Romance"--that together form his "Texas Trilogy." This classic folksong has resonated with listeners from its first recording on the 1969 Frummox album From Here to There to Lyle Lovett’s
Author: Jim Harri
Publisher: University of North Texas Pre
Keywords: texas, folklore, publications, society, journalists, fillers, features
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1574410741
ISBN-13: 9781574410747
Author: editors of Texas Monthly
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: texas, crime, monthly, true
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0292716753
ISBN-13: 9780292716759
"When they say everything’s bigger in Texas, they mean nice things: hair, smiles, steaks, sky. Crime is too depressing to make the cut, but like it or not, our crime is not just big but bigger than anyone else’s, so we may as well brag about it. . . . Since its inception, Texas Monthly has made hay of true crime, in the great tradition of our literary forebears. . . . [The] twelve gems [in this book] have in common what you’d want from any good read: memorable characters, a compelling plot, and rich scenes. And, of course, great writing. The authors are some of the finest not
