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The Super Summer Virtual Warehouse |
We picked some of our favorite titles to offer at incredible prices
so you kick start your summer reading!
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Call 800.826.8911 or visit www.tamupress.com to order Texas A&M University Press and Texas Book Consortium titles.
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Archaeology & Anthropology
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The Sea of Galilee Boat Sale Price: $10.00
List Price: $23.00 The fascinating discovery and excavation story of the very first biblical-era boat found in the Sea of Galilee, written with humor and exceptional detail by the award-winning nautical archaeologist who headed the project. Read more.
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Historical Archaeology of Military Sites Sale Price: $25.00
List Price: $50.00 Professionals, students, and enthusiasts alike will enjoy this study of techniques and proven field methods used in modern-day military site conservation. Read more.
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Arch Lake Woman Sale Price: $15.00
List Price: $30.00 Douglas W. Owsley presents a recent analysis from data obtained in February 2000, by an inter-disciplinary team he led, of the third-oldest skeleton and burial site in North America. Read more.
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Greek Vase Painting Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $35.00 A companion piece to the Meadows Museum, Dallas, exhibit of the same name, this publication highlights Greek art from the Iron Age to the age of Alexander. Read more.
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Portraits of Community Sale Price: $10.00
List Price: $49.95 An amazing collection of over 200 duotone historical images of black Texans taken by a group of little-known black photographers. Read more.
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Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection Sale Price: $10.00
List Price: $60.00 A companion piece to the exhibit at the Meadows Museum, Dallas, this book features some the best Texas and Swiss art in the Southwest. Read more.
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Greg Lasley's Texas Wildlife Portraits Sale Price: $10.00
List Price: $30.00 Award-winning photographer Greg Lasley offers over a hundred stunning wildlife photographs in his home state. Read more.
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T exas WineriesSale Price: $3.00
List Price: $9.95 Enthusiast Melinda Esco visited many esteemed wineries around the state. She shares information on Texas wine-making history and culture, as well as her favorite places. Read more. |
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Stirring Prose Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $19.95 A traditional cookbook this is not. Texas authors write about themselves by sharing their favorite recipes. The results are both delicious and deliciously entertaining. Read more.
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Great Texas Chefs Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $8.95Though not exhaustive, this book covers a large spectrum of chefs whose specialties range from classical training to high art Southwestern cuisine, Tex-Mex and Mexican cuisines. Read more.
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Joshua Beene & God Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $14.95 Published in 1946, this novel was both praised as satire and damned as evil. An ill-tempered religious leader in Texas crusades against Spring Creek's Baptists, Holy Rollers, and nonbelievers alike. Read more.
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Caballero Sale Price: $10.00
List Price: $24.95 Written in the 1930s and 1940s, this legendary novel (sometimes called Texas's Gone With the Wind) centers on a mid-1800s Mexican landowner and his family weathering decades of intense change in South Texas. Read more.
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Larry McMurtry and the Victorian Novel Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $22.50 This intriguing study examines McMurtry's llifelong interest in Victorian authors and their influence on his novels. Three Victorian themes run steadily throughout his body of work. Read more.
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Let's Do Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $12.95 This award-winning collection of nine stories balances humors with painful clarity as various calamities strike ordinary Midwesterners who cope with a mixture of good intentions and ineptitude. Read more.
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Texas Bound Sale Price: $4.00
List Price: $12.95 Book I of stories that were part of the "Arts and Letters Live" series presented by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Friends of the Dallas Public Library. Includes stories by Larry McMurtry and Larry L. King. Read more.
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Texas Bound, Book II Sale Price: $4.00
List Price: $12.95 Book II contains stories by authors such as Sandra Cisneros, James Lee Burke, Lisa Sandlin, Dagoberto Gilb, Miles Wilson, Annette Sanford, Carolyn Osborn, and others. Read more.
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Texas Bound, Book III Sale Price: $4.00
List Price: $12.95 Book III contains stories by authors such as Sarah Bird, Daniel L. Garza, Ray Isle, Janet Perry, C.W. Smith, and others. Read more.
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Lone Star Lost
List Price: $9.95
Patrick Dearen went in search of untapped tales worthy of J. Frank Dobie. He found ten stories that spring from the bedrock, shared by native sons and daughters who know that the real treasure we cherish is our Texas heritage. Read more.
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A Good Idea of Hell Sale Price: $10.00
List Price: $39.95
Robert Pellissier left his post at Stanford to return to France as a volunteer. His diary and letters detail trench warfare in the volatile Vosges mountains of Alsace, a sector largely neglected in World War I literature. Read more.
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Blood on German Snow Sale Price: $10.00
List Price: $24.95 An amazing and rarely published viewpoint of a native black Texan's journey from segregated towns to European battlefields and on to postwar success in a world changed forever by war. Read more.
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Seven Stars Sale Price $5.00
List Price: $29.95
Nicholas Sarantakes juxtaposes diaries of two very different generals who fought at Okinawa. The is a record of how they handled command on a war-torn island at the end of a long logistical tether. Read more.
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The Bridges of Vietnam Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $18.95 As an intelligence officer during the Vietnam War, Fred L. Edwards Jr.visited every major ground unit in the country. This work is based on journals sent home during his first tour in 1966-67. Read more.
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Texas CactiSale Price: $10.00
List Price: $24.00 A concise, fully illustrated field guide to more than one hundred of the cacti most often found in Texas and the surrounding region. Read more.
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Dinosaur Highway Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $19.95 A colorful history of Dinosaur Valley State Park, covering millennia of geological time, local legend, old photographs, and quirky anecdotes by people who have called the valley home. Read more.
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Pride of Place Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $16.95
Texas nature writing at its finest. Fourteen essays show that, from West Texas to the Coastal Plains, we and the landscape are important and worthy of pride, if not downright bravado. Read more.
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The Character Factor Sale Price: $10.00
List Price: $16.95A veteran political analyst presents three character aspects that proved problematic for recent chief executives: lies, promise-keeping, and sexual probity. Read more.
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Quest for Justice Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $22.50
"All people engaged in local public affairs during the twenty-first century should use this book as a learning tool."--Charles V. Willie, professor emeritus, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education. Read more.
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Star Trek Visions of Law & Justice Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $16.95 Fourteen essays wed popular media with academic inquiry by illustrating the connection between the future world of Star Trek and today's American and global legal systems. Read more.
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Worse Than Death Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $26.95In 1984, a Moroccan national gunned down seven people (six died) in Dallas, but the death penalty was not an option. As a result, the 1985 Texas Legislature passed House Bill 8, making serial killing and mass murder capital crimes. Read more.
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Sports, Entertainment & Trivia
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Texas Football Legends Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $8.95
Heisman Trophy winners, All-Americans, All-Pros, MVPs and record-setters have, throughout the glamorous history of football in Texas, been all but commonplace. Read more.
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Pigskin Pulpit Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $22.95 High school football is one of the identifying institutions of Texas. Ty Cashion explains how this avocation wove itself so tightly into the fabric of Texas culture. Read more.
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The Wizard of Waxahachie
Sale Price: $4.00
List Price: $24.95 Using writings, personal papers, and newly discovered recordings, Warren Corbett chronicles the life of the man who left an indelible mark on our national pastime. Read more.
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Spoke
Sale Price: $4.00
List Price: $25.95 A chronicle of arguably the greatest centerfielder ever. Read more.
"No baseball fan will want to pass up this book. . . . of one of the game's most complex participants." --Newsday
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True West Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $29.95 This illustrated guide to the Western boasts hundreds of rare movie posters, pulp magazines, television memorabilia, ads, books, record album jackets, toys, and clothing! Read more.
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State Fare Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $8.95
Explore the history of film in Texas, as well as great, and not so great, films about one of the nation's most mythologized places. Read more.
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Texas Country Singers Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $8.95 Brief biographies, lists of best-known songs, and a review of awards/honors of classic Texas singers like Ernest Tubb, Hank Thompson, Willie Nelson, and Ray Price. Read more.
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Braggin' on Texas Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $9.95 A braggin' romp through some of the most obscure, convoluted, and occasionally outrageous achievements of Texans and their state. Read more.
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Texas People, Places, Culture & History
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Peg Leg Sale Price: $15.00
List Price: $39.95 Irish-born Thomas William lost his leg the first day he fought in the Texas Revolution; four years later he lost his arm. Yet, he surmounted his horrific injuries to become a notable public figure. Read more.
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Claytie Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $24.95
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Bigmama Didn't Shop at Woolworth's Sale Price: $10.00
List Price: $19.95 Black shoppers weren't welcome on Main Streets in 1950s-era Texas towns like Bryan. Read more. "Nash paints a rich portrait of daily life in the black, rural South."
--Journal of Women's History
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Stanley Marcus from A-Z Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $24.95 Gems of wisdom and wit on diverse topics. Read more. "The Chairman Emeritus
of the Neiman Marcus empire offers words
of wisdom on much more
than merchandising."
--Texas Living
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The Texas Legacy Project
Sale Price: $10.00
List Price: $30.00
The Conservation History Association of Texas launched the Texas Legacy Project in 1998, traveling thousands of miles to conduct hundreds of interviews. This companion book shares stories from people representing a variety of causes, communities, and walks of life. Read more.
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Extraordinary Texas Women
List Price: $8.95Texas may corner the market in masculine image, but there have always been women who have written crucial scenes in the ongoing script of Texas history. Read more.
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Where I Come From
Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $16.95
Bryan Woolley of The Dallas Morning News recorded stories of how North Texans became who they are. The stories were published in a column, which ran from May 1999 to December 2000. The best of these is gathered here with photos of each storyteller. Read more.
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Texas Roots
Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $19.95
Only 10 percent of Texans lived in towns in 1850. Read more. "A useful reference tool concerning rural life in
antebellum Texas. . . . a solid addition to reading seminars in Texas or environmental history, and a nice addition to personal libraries."--East Texas Historical Journal
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Gospel Tracks through Texas List Price: $29.95
Texas, 1895: There's a new train in town. Read more. "An exceptionally well-crafted examination of the nearly forgotten railroad chapel car phenomenon."--H. Roger Grant, Centennial Professor of History, Clemson University
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Just Between Us Sale Price: $25.00
List Price: $35.00
These firsthand (and rarely shared) stories provide glimpses into the East Texas Pine Belt that have not previously been recorded or widely shared and which, collectively, make a profound statement about the character of an important region in Texas history and culture. Read more.
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A Frontier Texas Mercantile Sale Price: $20.00
List Price: $30.00 In 1841, Thomas Gibbs and Gardner Coffin opened a mercantile in Hunstville. Ever since, members of the Gibbs family have operated their business interests from the same location on the square. Read more.
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Famous Texas Feuds Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $16.95First published in 1936, this classic covers 1870s feuds such as the East Texas Conflict of the Regulators and the Moderators, the Taylor-Sutton controversy, and the Elizario Salt War of West Texas, to name a few. Read more.
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Growing up a Sullen Baptist and other Lies Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $21.95 A humorous and eclectic collection of essays by Baptist and Marine Robert Flynn, who tried to meld the idea that "all men are brothers" with the missive "you will attack until I say you are dead." Read more.
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The Family Saga
Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $34.95Families with strong bonds create legends, passed along in the oral tradition, which forms the family saga. Included here are stories from favorite storytellers like Elmer Kelton and John Graves. Read more
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The Alamo Sale Price: $3.00
List Price: $24.95A thoroughly researched, vividly illustrated, objective description of the circumstances building up to and leading from that vital last stand. Includes illustrations, maps, paintings, and photographs of artifacts. Read more.
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Texas Vistas Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $22.95
The newest edition of a classic anthology illustrating the rich diversity of Texas history, especially in the areas of gender and ethnic studies, and include the writings of today's most respected Texas historians. Read more.
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Texas Republic Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $24.95
Written in 1946, the book became an instant classic because it emphasized the lives of ordinary people as well as of the legendary figures of the Republic period and challenged the myth of "heroic" Texas history. Read more.
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The Texas State Capitol Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $13.95 Each chapter covers a different facet of the Capitol's history, showing that the dedicated commitment of our elected officials is how the finest statehouse of the late nineteenth century was completed. Read more.
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THE SUPER SUMMER VIRTUAL WAREHOUSE SALE LASTS UNTIL JULY 31, 2014.
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Call 800.826.8911 or visit www.tamupress.com to order Texas A&M University Press and Texas Book Consortium titles.
In the Bryan/College Station area? Come by our location on campus to place your order and receive your books immediately. Or, call in your order and we will have it waiting for you. Avoid shipping charges! (Web orders not applicable.)
John H. Lindsey Building, Lewis Street 4354 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-4354
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