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HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN

PATRICK KEATING

This engaging study of Alfonso Cuarón's 2004 film demonstrates why it is an essential work of twenty-first-century cinema. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is an elegant exemplar of contemporary cinematic trends, including serial storytelling, the rise of the fantasy genre, digital filmmaking, and collaborative authorship. With craft, wonder, and wit, the film capture...

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RENEGADES & ROGUES

TODD B. VICK

This biography of the creator of Conan the Barbarian is " deep dive work," in which "this 'mysterious' Texas scribe gets his most complete story arc told" ( Houston Press). Robert E Howard's most famous creation, Conan the Barbarian, is an icon of popular culture. In hundreds of tales detailing the exploits of Conan, King Kull, and others, Howard helped to invent the sword an...

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APOSTLES OF CHANGE

FELIPE HINOJOSA

This "important and well-researched" study of 1960s urban Latino activism and religion is "brimming with the ideas and voices of . . . Latinx activists" (Llana Barber, author of Latino City). In the late 1960s, American cities found themselves in steep decline, with poor and working-class families hit the hardest. Many urban religious institutions debated whether to move to the...

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SOLDIERS & SILVER

MICHAEL J. TAYLOR

"Taylor's study critically compares the manpower and revenues of Republican Rome with those of Carthage and the Antigonid, Seleucid and Ptolemaic kingdoms." —Dominic Rathbone, author of Civilizations of the Ancient World By the middle of the second century BCE, after nearly one hundred years of warfare, Rome had exerted its control over the entire Mediterranean world, forcing...

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THE LEGO MOVIE

DANA POLAN

What happens when we set out to understand LEGO not just as a physical object but as an idea, an icon of modernity, an image—maybe even a moving image? To what extent can the LEGO brick fit into the multimedia landscape of popular culture, especially film culture, today? Launching from these questions, Dana Polan traces LEGO from thing to film and asserts that The LEGO Movie is...

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COMMON INSECTS OF TEXAS AND SURROUNDING STATES

JOHN C. ABBOTT / KENDRA ABBOTT

A comprehensive field guide to Texas's insects, featuring 1,300 species and over 2,700 photographs. Thanks to its size and geographic position, Texas is home to nearly 30,000 species of insects, likely making its insect population the most diverse in the nation. Ranging from eastern and western to temperate and tropical species, this vast array of insects can be difficult to id...

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A THIRSTY LAND

SEAMUS MCGRAW

"An important story not just about [Texas's] water history, but also about its social, economic, and political identity" ( Western Historical Quarterly). As a changing climate threatens the whole country with deeper droughts and more furious floods that put ever more people and property at risk, Texas has become a bellwether state for water debates. Will there be enough water f...

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JERICHO

CHARLES BOWDEN

When Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind an archive of unpublished manuscripts. Jericho marks the fifth installment in his venerable "Unnatural History of America" sextet. In it he invokes the cycles of destruction and rebirth that have defined the ancient biblical city over millennia. From the ruins of Jericho's walls Bowden reflects on the continuum of war and violenc...

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AMERICAN TACOS

JOSÉ R. RALAT

This culinary travelogue is "a deeply researched guide to north-of-the-border taco culture and history" ( Los Angeles Times). Tacos may have been created south of the border, but Americans have made this Mexican food their own, with each style reflective of a time and a place. American Tacos explores them all, taking us on a detailed and delicious journey through the evolution ...

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THE ANCIENT ROMAN AFTERLIFE

CHARLES W. KING

A comprehensive study of the manes, their worship, and their place in Roman conceptions of their society. In ancient Rome, it was believed some humans were transformed into special, empowered beings after death. These deified dead, known as the manes, watched over and protected their surviving family members, possibly even extending those relatives' lives. But unlike the Greek...

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TEXAS SEAFOOD

PJ STOOPS / BENCHALAK SRIMART STOOPS

"A valuable compendium no matter where you live, Texas Seafood encourages you to explore uncommon varieties from your local fishmonger." — The Wall Street Journal The abundance of seafood available from the northwest Gulf of Mexico includes hundreds of delicious species that are often overlooked by consumers. Celebrating this regional bounty, Texas Seafood showcases the exper...

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BOWIE

MARÍA HESSE / FRAN RUIZ

"An entertaining and informative glimpse of Bowie's public and private life, music and disappearance from this earth." — Shelf Media Group David Bowie was a master of artifice and reinvention. In that same spirit, illustrator María Hesse and writer Fran Ruiz have created a vivid retelling of the life of David Robert Jones, from his working-class childhood to glam rock success...

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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND THE CULT OF ROCK 'N' ROLL

CASEY RAE

A history of the writer's impact on some of the biggest names in rock music from the Beatles to Bowie, and his role as a secret architect in the genre. William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary—but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented―until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinie...

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HUMAN MATTER

RODRIGO REY ROSA

This prizewinning Guatemalan author's meta-novel delves into the secret police records and history of political violence in his homeland. In 2005, novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa started visiting the Historical Archive of the Guatemala National Police, where millions of previously hidden records were being cataloged, bringing to light detailed evidence of crimes against humanity. I...

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REVENGE OF THE SHE-PUNKS

VIVIEN GOLDMAN

A dazzling survey of women in punk, from the genre's inception in 1970s London to the current voices making waves around the globe. As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman has an unusually well-rounded perspective on music journalism. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes—identity, money, love, and protest—to explore what makes pun...

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DICHOS! THE WIT AND WHIMSY OF SPANISH SAYINGS

JOSEPH J. KEENAN

A language guide "exploring nearly 300 old and new expressions, proverbs and folk wisdom" from the author of Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish ( The Eagle). One of the most challenging—and entertaining—aspects of learning another language is the idiom. Those quirky phrases, steeped in metaphor and colorful cultural references, enliven conversation and make your cross-cultura...

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WHY THE RAMONES MATTER

DONNA GAINES

"Unequivocally fresh and engrossing. Even the biggest fans will find something new to enjoy here." ― Razorcake The central experience of the Ramones and their music is of being an outsider, an outcast, a person who's somehow defective, and the revolt against shame and self-loathing. The fans, argues Donna Gaines, got it right away, from their own experience of alienation at h...

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WHY THE BEACH BOYS MATTER

TOM SMUCKER

"An excellent introduction to the band that might have evolved, [the author] suggests, into the Beatles." — New York Journal of Books Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond. The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we...

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THE RED CADDY

CHARLES BOWDEN

The author of Blood Orchid and Blue Desert presents a biography on his friend, the writer and environmentalist, Edward Abbey. A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927–1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire e...

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DESIERTO

CHARLES BOWDEN

The acclaimed author of Blue Desert explores life on the arid borderlands of southern Arizona in this "compelling and wonderfully poetic" essay collection (Ron Hansen, New York Times Book Review). In Desierto, Charles Bowden brings his signature eye for vivid detail and penetrating insight to the Sonoran Desert. Travelling across this unforgiving terrain, he explores struggling...

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SPEAKER JIM WRIGHT

J. BROOKS FLIPPEN

The rise and fall of a Texas Democrat: "A definitive, richly detailed biography [and] an engrossing history that sheds light on our own fractious times." ― Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A former Golden Gloves boxer and WWII bombardier, Jim Wright entered Congress to fight a different kind of battle, making his mark on virtually every major policy issue of the later twentiet...

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WHERE NO BLACK WOMAN HAS GONE BEFORE

DIANA ADESOLA MAFE

A look at African American women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror: "A compelling contribution to the scholarship on speculative cinema and television." — Journal of American Culture When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet sever...

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A PLACE OF DARKNESS

KENDALL R. PHILLIPS

"An illuminating history . . . it's clear that the right story can still terrify us; A Place of Darkness is a primer on how the movies learned to do it." — NPR Horror is one of the most enduringly popular genres in cinema. The term "horror film" was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural a...

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SCREENING STEPHEN KING

SIMON BROWN

"Gathers together the unruly mess of King adaptations . . . And places it within the sociocultural and industrial context of four decades of horror." — Philip L. Simpson, author of Psycho Paths Starting from the premise that Stephen King has transcended ideas of authorship to become his own literary, cinematic, and televisual brand, Screening Stephen King explores the impact ...

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MISINFORMATION AND MASS AUDIENCES

BRIAN G. SOUTHWELL, EMILY A. THORSON, AND LAURA SHEBLE

"Gathers an impressive group of experts across disciplines to explore who believes in misinformation, what effect it has, and how to address it." —Brendan Nyhan, Professor of Government, Dartmouth College Lies and inaccurate information are as old as humanity, but never before have they been so easy to spread. Each moment of every day, the Internet and broadcast media purvey mi...

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HYSTERICAL!

LINDA MIZEJEWSKI

Susan Koppelman Award Winner: "A juicy read for those who love the many ways female comics use their art to question the patriarchy." — Bust Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren't funny. But today's fu...

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THE MEXICAN MAHJAR

CAMILA PASTOR

This prize-winning study of Levantine migration to Mexico brings "a new and revelatory light" to the subject (Christina Civantos, author of Between Argentines and Arabs). In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, migration from the Middle East brought hundreds of thousands of people to the Americas. After a pause during World War I, this intense mobility resumed in ...

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WEATHER IN TEXAS

GEORGE W. BOMAR

"Bomar provides scientific and practical information about Texas weather . . . full of interesting statistical data statewide and city by city." — Abilene Reporter News Only in Texas could a snowstorm pelt the Panhandle at the very moment abrasive dust is scouring the Permian Basin while searing heat is wilting the Winter Garden region in the south. The state's large size and c...

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UNDER SURVEILLANCE

RANDOLPH LEWIS

"An engaging, alarming, and enlightening book, one that is certain to be among the most important books on surveillance in the twenty-first century." —Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Antisocial Media Never before has so much been known about so many. CCTV cameras, TSA scanners, NSA databases, big data marketers, predator drones, "stop and frisk" tactics, Facebook algorithms, hi...

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THURSDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

MICHAEL HURD

The history of black high school football in segregated Texas: "Though this book is long overdue, it is also right on time." — Texas Observer At a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. Temple Dunbar, Austin Anderson, and other segregated high s...

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