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Call 800.826.8911 (use code RE15) or visit www.tamupress.com to order Texas A&M University Press and Texas Book Consortium titles. Supplies are limited. Orders are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Healing Landscapes
Sale Price: $5.00
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Artist Jeanne Norsworthy began to appreciate the unique grandeur of the Big Thicket of East Texas and the Big Bend of far West Texas as she embarked on breast cancer treatment. Read more.
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Fort Worth's Legendary Landmarks
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Byrd Williams photographed more than 80 structures in Fort Worth, Texas over a 30-year period. Carol Roark's text describes the history and significance of the pictured buildings. Read more.
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Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands
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Flying Down to Rio
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A 1933 film from RKO Radio Pictures is used as a basis for examination to follow the interplay of technology and popular culture that shaped 20th century ideas on aviation, movies, and mass tourism. Read more.
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Gunning for the Red Baron
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Leon Bennett analyzes combat sequences, aerial gunnery, and weapons used by the World War I fighter pilots and searches for the answer to the controversy of what finally brought the Red Baron down. Read more.
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Like Sex with Gods
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This unorthodox history of flying is filled with compelling stories and detailed illustrations that will appeal to aviation experts, those fascinated with technology and culture, and anyone with an interest in flying. Read more.
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The Gods of Diyala Sale Price: $5.00
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In March 2004, Caleb S. Cage and Gregory M. Tomlin deployed to Baquba, Iraq, on a mission that would redefine how conventional U.S. military forces fight an urban war. Read more.
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Into the Wild Blue Yonder Sale price $5.00
List Price: $29.95 Allan T. Stein left Texas A&M in 1943 to join the air force. When he retired in 1969, he had flown everything from BT-13s to B-52s and had participated in many crucial military operations. Read more.
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Reeducation in Postwar Vietnam Sale price $5.00 List Price: $24.95 When Saigon fell in 1975, Vietnamese who had worked for the Americans were persecuted. Three survivors share their stories in moving detail. Read more.
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Blue & Gold and Black Sale Price: $5.00
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The Naval Academy evolved from a racist institution to one that ranks equal opportunity among its top tenets. Robert J. Schneller Jr. analyzes how black midshipmen effected change in the Academy's policies and culture. Read more.
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Foo Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $19.95 Of the 6,000 Japanese-Americans who saw military service in the war against Japan, only two were captured. Frank Fujita, a combat soldier, was one of them. Read more.
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Border: The U.S.-Mexico Line
Sale Price: $5.00 List Price: $29.95 Award-winning historian Leon Metz took 14 years to chronicle the border, drawing on a vast range of human experiences and the massive effort of two nations trying to pull together for a common cause. Read more.
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The Road to Safwan
Sale Price: $5.00 List Price: $27.95 This is the complete history of the 1st Infantry Division's cavalry unit fighting in Operation Desert Storm and is based on extensive interviews and primary sources. Read more.
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Tales of a Cold War Submariner Sale Price: $5.00 List Price: $24.95 Dan Summitt tells the dramatic story of his military life, focusing on his experiences with nuclear submarines and Admiral Rickover, "the father of the nuclear navy." Read more.
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Mrs. Cordie's Soldier Son Sale Price $5.00
List Price: $24.95 This intimate portrait of an American family separated between the home-front and war during a time of world upheaval is at once heartwarming, sobering, and entertaining. Read more.
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Texas Whitewater Sale Price $5.00
List Price: $14.95 Steve Daniel spent years kayaking both recognized and little-known streams. This is a guide to more than 70 whitewater spots in the Lone Star state. Read more.
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Texas Water Atlas Sale Price $5.00 List Price: $24.95 This first comprehensive reference for water-related topics in Texas has more than 150 color maps and a water timeline that traces water events since European settlement. Read more.
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Saving the Big Thicket Sale Price $5.00 List Price: $34.95 At one time over two million acres, the Big Thicket was mostly gone by the 1920s. This is a classic account of the region's history and a play-by-play narrative of the fight to preserve it. Read more.
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Texas Rattlesnake Roundups Sale Price: $5.00
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This is the first full description of a controversial social and environmental phenomenon that started in the1920s as an organized form of predator control. Read more.
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A Dazzle of Dragonflies Sale Price: $5.00 List Price: $39.95 Electronic imaging pioneers and creators of the award-winning website Digital Dragonflies share scans of live dragonflies alongside photographs showcasing them in their natural environment. Read more.
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Nature at Your Doorstep
Sale Price: $5.00 List Price: $24.95 The Tvetens' weekly column in the Houston Chronicle introduced readers to everyday miracles of nature. This volume (with updates) features some of the best of these columns. Read more.
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Green Talk in the White House Sale Price $5.00
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Covering an array of approaches to studying environmental rhetoric, this volume examines various administrations and views on the "rhetorical presidency" in this policy area. Read more.
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Who Belongs in America? Sale Price $5.00 List Price: $39.95 An overarching essay and 10 case studies select moments in U.S. immigration history that focus on presidential discourse preceding, addressing, or otherwise corresponding to important events. Read more.
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Mestizo Democracy Sale Price $5.00 List Price: $19.95 Mestizo is a Mexican socio-political term meaning "mixture." Theorist John Burke offers this type of theory to address the changing American population and traces its implications for public policy. Read more.
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Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $27.50 Using official U.S. and U.K. documentation and insider CIA accounts, contributors analyze the national security decision-making process by using Iraq as a case study. Read more.
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The American Campaign Sale Price: $5.00 List Price: $19.95 This classroom-tested volume offers James E. Campbell's "theory of the predictable campaign," incorporating fundamental conditions that systematically affect the presidential vote: competition, incumbency, and economic conditions. Read more.
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Slouching toward Zion and More Lies
Sale Price: $5.00 List Price: $24.95 Robert Flynn has gathered 23 stories that are funny, political, and more than a bit prophetic as well as being superbly crafted. Read more.
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Texas People, Places, Culture, & History
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Texas Roots
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Only 10 percent of Texans lived in towns in 1850. This is a useful reference guide to rural life in Texas before the Civil War that is a must-have for both scholars and Texas history buffs alike. Read more.
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Indian Agent
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Peter Ellis Bean, a fairly minor but fascinating character, casts unexpected light on conflicts, famous characters, and events from the time of Mexican rule through the years of the Republic . Read more.
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Beyond Redemption List Price: $35.00
Historian Patrick G. Williams provides a unique dual study of the issues facing Texas Democrats as they rebuilt their party and of the policies they pursued once they were back in power. Read more.
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Texas Almanac, 2014-2015 Sale Price: $5.00 List Price: $24.95 The definitive book on Texas since 1857, the Texas Almanac covers every part of the state in fine detail, including: political elections, sports, farming, weather patterns, population figures, etc. Read more.
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Lovin' That Lone Star Flag Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $29.95 Texans will decorate almost anything with their state flag, and former Houston Chronicle photographer E. Joe Deering has striking pictures from across the state to prove it. Read more.
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Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009 Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $39.95 The Texas Folklore Society is one of the oldest and most prestigious organizations in the state. This book explains why it has lasted so long, and why it will continue. Read more.
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Upon this Chessboard of Nights and Days Sale Price: $5.00 List Price: $26.95 In this unique book, prisoners on Texas Death Row share their feelings, hopes, fears, and memories with the reader through a series of nonfiction pieces and original art. Read more.
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Texas Vistas, Third Edition Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $22.95 The newest edition of this classic Texas history anthology features 18 essays that illustrate the rich diversity of Texas history (including gender and ethnic studies) and by some of today's most respected Texas historians. Read more.
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The 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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31 by Lawrence Clayton Sale Price: $5.00
List Price: $29.95 Few writers could capture West Texas ranch life, and fewer could translate the nomenclature and nuances of a working ranch to readers. Dr. Clayton did both. Read more.
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Adventures with a Texas Humanist Sale Price: $5.00 List Price: $24.95 James Ward Lee discusses long-standing arguments about Texas literature and surveys bodies of work that have had an impact on it. Read more.
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Reflections of the Brazos Valley Sale Price: $5.00 List Price: $30.00
Through the photography of D. Gentry Steele and the revealing reflections of M. Jimmie Killingsworth, the Brazos Valley found champions in people who learned to love its uncelebrated beauty. Read more.
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Texas History for Young Readers
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The African Texans
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Immigrants of African descent have a long and complex history in Texas. Readers get a clear sense of the challenges African Texans faced and the social and cultural contributions that they have made in the Lone Star State. Read more.
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The Asian Texans
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Readers are introduced to the languages, religions, cultures and important contributions of Chinese, Japanese, East Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Laotian, and Cambodian Texans. Read more.
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The European Texans
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Numerous photographs and first-hand accounts showcase French, English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Belgian, Swiss, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Wend, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Greek, and Slavic Texans. Read more.
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The Indian Texans
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Before Texas became "Texas," Indians called it home. From prehistory to the beginning of the 21st century, author James Smallwood traces the survival and revival of Native Americans in Texas. Read more.
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Come by our campus location to place your order and pick up books immediately. Or, call in your order and we will have it waiting for you. (Web orders not applicable.)
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Sale prices good until 8/31/2015
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