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Country Houses of John F. Staub (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities)

9 reviews
Stephen Fox

Texas A&M University Press, 2007

Preservation of historic Houston Architecture
Many of us are subjected to the new mega mansions in our neighborhoods and in other areas of our city. It's not just the close in Arts & Crafts and cottages that were our once our modest childhood homes at stake anymore. Many historical structures by talented architects in Houston such as John Staub, Barnstone, etc are now be razed to build homes that more resemble bank buildings to satisfy the ...

Danger Close: Tactical Air Controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq (Texas a&M University Military History)

5 reviews
Steve Call

Texas A&M University Press, 2007

Excellent
Really sets the record straight on who actually control Air Force air-strikes. A job well done!

Trees, Shrubs, And Vines Of The Texas Hill Country: A Field Guide (W L Moody, Jr, Natural History Series)

3 reviews
Jan Wrede

Texas A&M University Press, 2005

An excellent guide in understanding Texas hill country
The pictures and descriptions have been invaluable in my interpretive walks and hikes. This is a must have for hikers and hill property owners. I bought two! One for me and one for a friend.

Salt Warriors: Insurgency on the Rio Grande (Canseco-Keck History)

4 reviews
Paul Cool

Texas A&M University Press, 2008

Good Book
The best book about the war over the salt flats just west of the Guadalupe Mountains in West Texas.

Doug Welsh's Texas Garden Almanac (Month-by-Month Guide)

4 reviews
Doug Welsh

Texas A&M University Press, 2007

Treasured Gift - Just in Time for the Holidays
Finally we have a companion to the nationwide Farmer's Almanac - designed for our unique state - our climate and our plants. Doug Welsh's Texas Garden Almanac is the definitive almanac on Texas gardening, covering indepth topics such as pruning trees, attracting butterflies, and managing fire ants. In addition, readers will find handy quick-tips including: ...

East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950 (Texas a & M University Military History Series)

10 reviews
Roy Edgar Appleman

Texas A&M University Press, 1991

Honest, In Depth and Heartbreaking.
I've long been very familiar with the 1st Marine Division's history at the Chosin, but until I read Roy Appleman's book I didn't realize just how much I didn't know about the Army's side of the conflict. This tale of desperation and bravery should be required reading amongst all American service personnel and perhaps even in High Schools. Excellently written, this book holds your attention ...

Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves

3 reviews
Rob Desalle, Ian Tattersall

Texas A&M University Press, 2008

Human origins
Thought the book did an overall great job of human origins,genetics,and the fossil record was well rounded. Could be too technical for some people not too familiar with human evolution so I would recommend from Lucy to language by Donald Johnson as a good primer.

Flash Floods In Texas (Texas A&M Nature Guides)
Jonathan Burnett

Texas A&M University Press, 2008

How many times have you heard the television or radio alert, "We are now under a flash flood watch"? While the destructive force of flash flooding is a regular occurrence in the state and has caused a tremendous amount of damage and heartache over the years, no one until now has recorded in a single book the history of flash floods in Texas. After combing libraries and archives, grilling county historians, trekking to flood sites, and ...

Finding Birds On The Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail: Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast (Texas ...
Ted Lee, Jr. Eubanks, Robert A. Behrstock, ...

Texas A&M University Press, 2008

The Texas coast offers rich avian treasures for expert birders and beginners alike, if only they know where to look. For those familiar with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's maps to the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail, this book on the Upper Texas Coast offers more--more information, more convenient and detailed maps, more pictures, more finding tips, and more birding advice from one of the trail's creators, Ted Lee Eubanks Jr., and ...

To the Limit of Endurance: A Battalion of Marines in the Great War (C.A. Brannen Series)

4 reviews
Peter F. Owen

Texas A&M University Press, 2007

CWO4 Allan Cordera USMC Retired
An exceptional job by Lieutenant Colonel Pete Owen on his research and writing by masterfully piecing together first hand accounts of the Marines of all ranks that fought at Belleau Wood and Soissons. A well organized, simple read - but one that provides any military leader many lessons learned that can be applied to today's global war on terror and the battlefields of Iraq. Any reader who ...

The American Crow and the Common Raven (The W.L. Moody Jr Natural History Series, No 10)

4 reviews
Lawrence Kilham

Texas A&M University Press, 1991

Don't forget the illustrations!
There are more than enough reasons to pick up this book if you have any interest in crows or birds in general or even seeing a good example of descriptive biological studies, however one point missed by others are the beautiful illustrations in this volume that are well above average for a science book. There are very few books about Corvids, and even fewer based on North American research, ...

The Feud That Wasn't: The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas (Sam Rayburn ...
James M. Smallwood

Texas A&M University Press, 2008

Marauding outlaws, or violent rebels still bent on fighting the Civil War? For decades, the so-called "Taylor-Sutton feud" has been seen as a bloody vendetta between two opposing gangs of Texas gunfighters. However, historian James M. Smallwood here shows that what seemed to be random lawlessness can be interpreted as a pattern of rebellion by a loose confederation of desperadoes who found common cause in their hatred of the Reconstruction ...

Capturing Nature: The Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodriquez (Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture & ...

1 review
Patsy Pittman Light

Texas A&M University Press, 2008

A Visionary Artist from Mexico
Like author Patsy Light, I was intrigued when I moved to San Antonio, Texas by the strange concrete false-wood constructions that dot the city: a jungle hut bus stop on Broadway, an arbor footbridge in Brackenridge Park, a 125-foot long rail fence at the Alamo Cement Company's headquarters. Who, I thought, would do something like this? Architectual historian Light has now provided the answer in ...

Grace and Gumption: Stories of Fort Worth Women

2 reviews

Texas A&M University Press, 2007

Wonderful Fort Worth History!
We gave this book to my mom, a one-time long term Fort Worth resident now living in Colorado. She loves it. She likes skipping around and reading about the different ladies from Fort Worth history. And she greatly admires many of those who have contributed to the book. We recommend this book for your mom... or your grandmother... well, for yourself as well. We heard Katie Sherrod's interview on ...

Grasses of the Texas Hill Country: A Field Guide (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series)

4 reviews
Brian Loflin, Shirley Loflin

Texas A&M University Press, 2006

Grasses of the Texas Hill Country: A Field Guide
I use this book as my only field guide even though I'm out studying and teaching others about the tall grass prairie near Houston. I find the explanations, photos, and general tabs extremely helpful. Because I live outside of the Hill Country, I only wish that the author would do a book about the almost extinct Gulf Coast prairies.

Hell's Islands: The Untold Story of Guadalcanal (Texas A & M University Military History)

1 review
Stanley Coleman Jersey

Texas A&M University Press, 2008

An informative and entertaining book
Has many interesting facts about the earlier history of the area. Really liked the coverage of the actions on the "outer islands". That's an aspect that hasn't been covered as well as it should in many previous works on this period of the war. Thought the naming of individual commanders down to the platoon level was a bit overdone, but if the author was trying to put faces on the many units ...

Freshwater Fishes of Texas: A Field Guide (River Books)

2 reviews
Chad Thomas, Timothy H. Bonner, ...

Texas A&M University Press, 2007

Excellent Reference
About as thorough and straightforward as a field guide can get. This one is a keeper. Very useful.

Osteology of Infants And Children

2 reviews
Brenda J. Baker, Tosha L. Dupras, ...

Texas A&M University Press, 2005

Osteology of Infants and Children
This is an excellent book for anybody doing archaeological osteology work in the lab or field. The illustrations are detailed and offer a good overview of bone change and growth from perinate to adolescent. Highly recommended.

A Dazzle of Dragonflies

12 reviews
Forrest L. Mitchell, James L. Lasswell

Texas A&M University Press, 2005

Enter the Dragonfly
Forrest Mitchell and James Laswell's labor of love, "A Dazzle of Dragonflies", accomplishes a feat that any science exhibit hopes to do: hook the viewer with visual flair, and then pique their interest with previously mundane data. This method of exhibition is applicable for exotic or esoteric subjects, such as Himalayan vistas or microscopic bacteria activity, but it also holds well for ...

The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian Far East

13 reviews
Sharon Hudgins

Texas A&M University Press, 2004

The Far Side
The Other Side of Russia is part travel narrative, part social history, part memoir, part food writing. All these parts come together to make a terrific book. Sharon Hudgins and her husband Tom spent a year and a half in post-Soviet Siberia teaching business management for the University of Maryland's overseas program. As peripatetic ex-patriates, they were familiar with unfamiliarity. But ...

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