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Texas State Historical Association  

Senior Editor Jay Dew, Marketing Director Gayla Christiansen, and Marketing Communications and Exhibits Manager Kathryn Krol  were on hand to witness the continued impact of TAMU Press's contributions to Texas history.

    


Jones signs copies of his  best selling book

Lens on the Texas Frontier
By Lawrence T. Jones III

  

Photographs of Texas's frontier  are incredibly valuable and usually only available to dedicated collectors. LAWRENCE T. JONES III, premier private collector of historic Texas photographs, has handpicked photographs spanning the years 1846-1945 from among his collection housed at Southern Methodist University's DeGolyer Library.

Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, stereographs, and more display the immense variety of people walking the Texas terrain, from Confederate and Union soldiers and Mexican Revolution officials to Texans from a wide spectrum of cultures and ages. Read more. 

 

  


Learn more about this year's winner of the  Liz Carpenter Award for Research in the History of Women, also published by TAMU Press. Click here.  
 

 

American Society of Environmental History
Senior editor Jay Dew announced our new "Connecting the Greater West" series by unveiling its recent award-winning release.

Working Women into the Borderlands

By Sonia Hern�ndez


SONIA HERN�NDEZ sheds light on how women's labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women's labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. Read more.

"A passionate and careful exploration of the role of women's labor in the making of the Mexican Northeast. This work belongs on the bookshelves of all who care about the region's past."--Dr. Benjamin Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaulkee

 

State of the Coast
Marketing Communications and Exhibits Manager Kathryn Krol rolled out this new release from Brian Piazza, director of freshwater and marine science at The Nature Conservancy, Louisiana.

The Atchafalya River Basin:
History and Ecology of an American Wetland
By Brian Piazza

This basin supports one of North America's greatest biodiversity treasure troves, provides flood protection for millions, hosts a global commerce nerve center, and is the heartbeat of Cajun culture. Sustainable management is necessary to protect this delicate balance between ecology, economy, and culture. Existing and emerging threats pose challenges and have the basin on an unsustainable trajectory. Read more

Piazza's book was in such demand that it sold nearly 100 copies in two days.

Click here to read an interview with Brian Piazza about his book and how he weighs in on the "crayfish" versus "crawfish" debate. 

 

Society of Military History
Senior Editor Jay Dew trekked to Kansas City to the highly anticipated annual meeting. This year
marks the 100th anniversary of the Great War
.

The World War I Diary of Jos� de la Luz S�enz

Edited and with an Introduction by Emilio Zamora 

Translated by Emilio Zamora with Ben Maya      

 

This English edition of one of only two known war diaries of a Mexican American in the Great War is translated with an introduction and annotation by noted Mexican American historian Emilio Zamora. Read more.


JAMES H. WILLBANKS, director of the department of military history at the US Army Command and General Staff College and author of TAMU Press title A Raid Too Far: Operation Lam Son 719 and Vietnamization in Laos poses with Jay Dew. Click here to read about his book that was featured in our February 2014 newsletter.


Texas Library Association
Marketing Communications and Exhibits Manager Kathryn Krol and Accounts Receivable Manager Wynona McCormick attended this year's conference to introduce some of our newest reference books.


Prepare to Defend Yourself ... How to Navigate the Healthcare System and

Escape with Your Life

By Matthew Minson, MD

A physician, disaster medicine,  and healthcare policy expert empowers patients to take control.  This is a humorous, patient-friendly, essential consumer's guide to modern healthcare with accurate advice that any reader can use. Read more.

The TOS Handbook of Texas Birds, Second Edition

By Mark W. Lockwood and Brush Freeman

 

This updated edition of a definitive classic contains 140 photographs and over 600 maps for locating different species of birds in Texas. Read more.

Wynona McCormick poses with new releases
Kathryn Krol and book co-author Kristine Egan accept the TLA RRT Texas Reference Award

Click here
to learn more about this year's Reference Round Table Texas Resource Award winner.


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The Ultimate Modern-day Texas River Adventure

Running the River: Secrets of the Sabine

By Wes Ferguson and Jacob Croft Botter  


East Texas Journalist  

Wes Ferguson steered clear of the Sabine's murky waters, where alligators lived and from which an occasional body was pulled. But when he set out to do a series of articles on the upper portion of the river and took along college buddy and professional photographer Jacob Croft Botter, he found much more than he could have ever anticipated. Read more.   

 

Botter and Ferguson sold out of books at the launch party held in the Longview Museum of Fine Arts

Click here to watch an interview with Botter and Ferguson and get a feel for the Sabine River.


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From Our Blog 

Hundreds of E-Readers Preloaded with Texas A&M Press Content Sent To Submarines Around the World

Findaway World has ordered 385 e-Readers loaded with "Execute Against Japan:" The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare to be sent to submarines around the world.

 

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News from the Texas Book Consortium
One reason we partner with other presses is because they publish titles that consistently win wide-spread recognition as best in class.

Texas Christian University Press
 
The Chicken Hanger by BEN REHDER was awarded the Philosophical Society of Texas Award of Merit 2013 for best fiction at this year's February 2014 meeting. Read more.




Fair Park Deco: Art
and Architecture of
the Texas Centennial Exposition
by JIM PARSONS and DAVID BUSH won this year's Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book on Texas History and Cuture at TSHA.  Read more.

University of North Texas Press

NEW RELEASE: In the Permanent Collection by STEFANIE WORTMAN, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2013.  


This debut collection yields moments of surprising levity even as they mount a sharp critique of human folly. Read more.   

"This should be part of any serious poet's permanent collection."
--Chad Davidson, author,
The Last Predicta, and judge  
 

State of the Gulf Coast
Marketing Director Gayla Christiansen attended this summit, which  brought together leaders of public and private sectors from all over the five Gulf States. 

We publish two series sponsored by Texas A&M-Corpus Christi  that have anchored modern-day studies of the Gulf of Mexico. Click on the catalogs below to browse these t
itles.

Gulf Coast Books
Harte Research Institute Gulf of Mexico Studies

American Association for Physical Anthropology
We partner with professionals like Scholarly Book  Services, Inc. so that our in-demand titles and authors can more easily reach their international audiences. This conference in Canada was just one of our international TAMU Press appearances this academic year.    

To view titles that were available at this conference, see the panel below about the Society of American Archaeology meeting in Austin, Texas.**

Society of American Archaeology
Editor Thom Lemmons proudly represented TAMU Press at this year's national meeting held in our own backyard.

Many of our titles in anthropology, archaeology, and nautical archaeology have become discipline standards. Veteran archaeologist and educator April Beisaw's new manual is no exception and sold out almost immediately.

Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones 

By April Beisaw

Readers are led through stages of identification and analysis with sample images and data, illustrating how to make analytical decisions to identify even the smallest bone fragments. Read more.

Click on the catalogs below to browse our other popular titles.**
Anthropology and Archaeology
Nautical Archaeology

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