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The Two Thousand Yard Stare: Tom Lea's World War II (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) מאת Tom Lea Few artists saw World War II from as many perspectives as El Paso artist and writer Tom Lea. Commissioned by Life magazine to paint the war as it was being experienced by U.S. and Allied troops, Lea went aboard a Navy destroyer in the North Atlantic to cover the fight against the German U-boa...

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The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference, and the Making of Meaning (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology) מאת Ms. Jan Wiener Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http://txspace.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/88025/Weiner_Therape_9781603441476_txt.pdf?sequence=4 While C. G. Jung had a natural intuitive understanding of the transference and countertransference, his lack of a "coherent...

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The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology) מאת Stanton Marlan The black sun, an ages-old image of the darkness in individual lives and in life itself, has not been treated hospitably in the modern world. Modern psychology has seen darkness primarily as a negative force, something to move through and beyond, but it actually has an intrinsic importance to the hu...

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SerCe Limani, Vol 2: The Glass of an Eleventh-Century Shipwreck (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series) מאת Dr. George F. Bass PhD For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serçe Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship, now excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University, trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic wo...

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Cavalry Wife: The Diary of Eveline M. Alexander, 1866-1867 Eveline M. Alexander

Cavalry Wife: The Diary of Eveline M. Alexander, 1866-1867 מאת Eveline M. Alexander

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Selling Air Power: Military Aviation and American Popular Culture after World War II (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) מאת Steve Call In "Selling Air Power", Steve Call provides the first comprehensive study of the efforts of post-war air power advocates to harness popular culture in support of their agenda. In the 1940s and much of the 1950s, hardly a month went by without at least one blatantly pro - air power article appearing ...

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Hell's Islands: The Untold Story of Guadalcanal (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) מאת Stanley Coleman Jersey From August 1942 until February 1943, two armies faced each other amid the malarial jungles and blistering heat of Guadalcanal Island. The Imperial Japanese forces needed to protect and maintain the air base that gave them the ability to interdict enemy supply routes. The Allies were despera...

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The Sea of Galilee Boat (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series) מאת Dr. Shelley Wachsmann Ph.D. On a cold, cloudy day in early February 1985, Shelley Wachsmann, then resident nautical archaeologist for the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums, drove to Kibbutz Ginosar, an agricultural settlement near the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Two brothers, avid amateur archaeologists, had found...

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Taming the Land: The Lost Postcard Photographs of the Texas High Plains (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series) מאת John Miller Morris A postcard craze gripped the nation from 1905 to 1920, as the rise of outdoor photography coincided with a wave of settlement and prosperity in Texas. Hundreds of people took up cameras, and photographers of note chose some of their best work for duplication as photo postcards - sold for a nickel an...

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Colt Terry, Green Beret (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) מאת Charles D. Patton The 10th Special Forces Group was the first of the Green Beret units. Its five hundred men, all Airborne and mostly Rangers, received extensive training in everything from specialized weapons to uncommon languages. Their primary mission was to train and lead indigenous guerrillas operating in enemy ...

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Battles of the Red River War: Archeological Perspectives on the Indian Campaign of 1874 מאת J. Brett Cruse Battles of the Red River War unearths a long-buried record of the collision of two cultures. In 1874, U.S. forces led by Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie carried out a surprise attack on several Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa bands that had taken refuge in the Palo Duro Canyon of the Texas panhand...

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Hell under the Rising Sun: Texan POWs and the Building of the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) מאת Kelly E. Crager Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas, ready to complete the training they would need for active duty in World War II. Many of them had grown up together in Jacksboro, Texas, and almost all of them we...

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Hill Country Landowner's Guide (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series) מאת Jim Stanley In this invaluable new book, Jim Stanley charts a practical course for understanding and handling a variety of problems that both new and established landowners in the Texas Hill Country will confront—from brush control, grazing, and overpopulation of deer to erosion, fire, and management of ...

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Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico: Texas, Louisiana, and Adjacent Waters, Second Edition (W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series) מאת H. Dickson Hoese

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Promised Land: Solms, Castro, and Sam Houston's Colonization Contracts (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce) מאת Jefferson Morgenthaler In 1842, Sam Houston, president of the new Texas Republic, wanted four things: peace with Mexico, peace with the native population, financing from Europe, and productive settlers for his vast, new country. He issued colonization contracts in an effort to meet all these objectives, but onl...

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Eastern Screech Owl: Life History, Ecology, and Behavior in the Suburbs and Countryside (W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series) מאת Frederick R. Gehlbach

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Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II (Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions) מאת Emilio Zamora In Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas, Emilio Zamora traces the experiences of Mexican workers on the American home front during World War II as they moved from rural to urban areas and sought better-paying jobs in rapidly expanding industries. Contending that discrimination u...

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Voices in the Kitchen: Views of Food and the World from Working-Class Mexican and Mexican American Women (Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions) מאת Meredith E. Abarca "Literally, chilaquiles are a breakfast I grew up eating: fried corn tortillas with tomato-chile sauce. Symbolically, they are the culinary metaphor for how working-class women speak with the seasoning of their food."-from the Introduction Through the ages and across cultures, women have carved ...

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To Get a Better School System: One Hundred Years of Education Reform in Texas (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University) מאת Gene B. Preuss In 1949, as postwar Texas was steadily becoming more urban and calls for education reform were gathering strength throughout the state and nation, State Representative Claud Gilmer and State Senator A. M. Aikin Jr. sponsored a bill designed to increase salaries for Texas schoolteachers. Also ti...

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"Execute Against Japan": The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) מאת Joel Ira Holwitt Less than five hours after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, U.S. naval leaders reluctantly chose to pursue a form of warfare they despised - targeting not only Japanese military assets but also civilian-operated fishing trawlers, freighters, and tankers. The move to unrestricted submarine warfare...

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What Can I Do with My Herbs?: How to Grow, Use, and Enjoy These Versatile Plants (W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series) מאת Judy Barrett With tips covering everything from artemisia to vetiver grass, What Can I Do with My Herbs? offers a fun and lively look at forty common herbs and the creative and useful things people do with them. Each herb description includes the plant's history and a list of popular uses, as well as...

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Frontier Blood: The Saga of the Parker Family (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University) מאת Jo Ella Powell Exley

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Out of the Shadow: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War (Foreign Relations and the Presidency) מאת Dr. Christopher Maynard PhD As America watched the fall of the Berlin Wall with great enthusiasm, President George H. W. Bush called the incident simply "a good development." He knew that the Cold War was far from over and that bringing it to an end would require not only symbolic gestures but also practical diplomacy. Dur...

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The Louisiana Coast: Guide to an American Wetland (Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi) מאת Gay M. Gomez Hurricane Katrina gave the nation an urgent reminder of the extent and value of Louisiana's wetlands when daily discussions of subsidence and sedimentation revealed how much ordinary coastal processes affect humanity--and vice versa. Now, with a native Louisiana naturalist as a guide, readers can le...

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Transformation: Emergence of the Self (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology) מאת Murray Stein Noted analyst and author Murray Stein explains what the psychological process of transformation, more commonly known as a midlife crisis, actually is, and what it means for an individual to experience it. Consciously working through this life stage can lead people to become who they have always pote...

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The Gods of Diyala: Transfer of Command in Iraq (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) מאת Caleb S. Cage 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. Having led artillery units through a transition into anti-insurgent rifle companies and carrying out daily combat patrols in one of ...

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Operation PLUM: The Ill-fated 27th Bombardment Group and the Fight for the Western Pacific (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) מאת Adrian R. Martin They went in as confident young warriors. They came out as battle-scarred veterans, POW camp survivors . . . or worse. The Army Air Corps' 27th Bombardment Group arrived in the Philippines in November 1941 with 1,209 men; one year later, only 20 returned to the United States. The Japanese attack...

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Lovin' That Lone Star Flag מאת E. Joe Deering Texans will decorate almost anything with their state flag, and E. Joe Deering has the pictures to prove it. In Lovin’ That Lone Star Flag, photographer Deering has collected more than a hundred of his favorite images, showing state-flag-adorned pickup trucks, belt buckles, hang glide...

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Insects of Texas: A Practical Guide (W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series) מאת David H. Kattes This practical, non-technical introduction to insect classification offers a well-illustrated, straight-forward primer in entomology. Whether you are part of a master naturalist program, are interested in environmentally friendly pest management, or simply enjoy knowing what to call that strange-loo...

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Inside the VC and the NVA: The Real Story of North Vietnam's Armed Forces (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) מאת Col. Michael Lee Lanning Lt. Col. (RET) If the costs of the Vietnam War were great to Americans and staggering to the South Vietnamese, they were even worse for the North. And those costs were borne largely by the individual soldiers--the soldiers who won the war. Based on interviews, soldiers' diaries, letters, and government documen...

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Ethics and Analysis: Philosophical Perspectives and Their Application in Therapy (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology) מאת Luigi Zoja Most books on psychoanalytical ethics focus on rules, but author Luigi Zoja argues that ethics is really concerned with personal decisions--as is analysis itself. Rules are defined by others and center on punishment, but the purpose of analysis is to free the individual to make choices from ...

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Long March to Freedom: The True Story of a Colombian Kidnapping מאת Tom Hargrove Running late for work one morning in September 1994, Tom Hargrove, communications director for an international agricultural aid organization in Cali, Colombia, was mildly annoyed when he spotted a roadblock, or retén, manned by soldiers in fatigues. He chafed at the delay, but told ...

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The Austin-Boston Connection: Five Decades of House Democratic Leadership, 1937-1989 מאת Anthony Champagne For the more than fifty years that Democrats controlled the U.S. House of Representatives, leadership was divided between Massachusetts and Texas. When the Speaker was from Texas (or nearby Oklahoma), the Majority Leader was from the Boston area, and when the Speaker was from Boston, the Major...

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Confederate Struggle for Command: General James Longstreet and the First Corps in the West (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) מאת Alex Mendoza Was Lt. Gen. James Longstreet a lackluster, indecisive leader or a victim of political circumstances? Though traditionally saddled with much of the blame for the Confederate loss at Gettysburg, Longstreet was actually a capable, resourceful, and brave commander, argues historian Alexander Mendoz...

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Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas: Profiles of Organic Farmers and Ranchers across the State (Texas A&M University Agriculture Series) מאת Ms. Pamela Walker As more and more people seek locally grown food, independent, family owned and operated agriculture has expanded, creating local networks for selling and buying produce, meat, and dairy products and reviving local agricultural economies throughout the United States. In Growing Good Things t...

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Texas Cacti: A Field Guide (W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series) מאת Brian Loflin In Texas Cacti, authors Brian and Shirley Loflin present a concise, fully illustrated field guide to more than one hundred of the cacti most often found in Texas and the surrounding region. The book opens with an illustrated introduction to cactus habitat and anatomy. The species ...

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Red Cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry (Centennial of Flight Series) מאת Dr. James T. Andrews Ph.D Long before the space race captured the world’s attention, K. E. Tsiolkovskii first conceived of multi-stage rockets that would later be adapted as the basis of both the U.S. and Soviet rocket programs. Often called the grandfather of Russian rocketry, this provincial scientist was even sanc...

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Storm over the Bay: The People of Corpus Christi and Their Port (Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi) מאת Mary Jo O'Rear Since the late 1830s, the natural harbor at the mouth of South Texas' Nueces River has been a center of regional maritime trade. But by the early 1900s, a storm of political wrangling, cronyism, and corruption was threatening to scuttle the city's efforts toward securing a dependable deep water port...

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A Dazzle of Dragonflies מאת Forrest L. Mitchell From fossils and folklore to life cycles and the latest in digital imaging techniques, A Dazzle of Dragonflies will take you into the far-reaching and sometimes secret world of one of our most beneficial insects. The guides are two of the most experienced and ardent fans of the "mosquitohawk," and y...

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Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda (Presidential Rhetoric Series) מאת Mary E. Stuckey Though Jimmy Carter is widely viewed as one of the least effective modern presidents, the human rights agenda for which his administration is known remains high in the national awareness and continues to provide important justifications for presidential and congressional action a quarter-century lat...

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On the Move: A Black Family's Western Saga (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest) מאת S. R. Martin Jr. In distinctive, engaging prose, S. R. Martin Jr. crafts the story of his forebears and their westward journey, begun even before the great black migration that occurred around the two world wars. By narrating the struggles and triumphs of his family - both paternal and maternal - during their move w...

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Spanish Water, Anglo Water: Early Development in San Antonio (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University) מאת Charles R. Porter Jr. In 1718, the Spanish settled San Antonio, partly because of its prolific and breathtaking springs—at that time, one of the largest natural spring systems in the known world. The abundance of fresh water, coupled with the Spanish colonial legal concept that water was to be equitably shared by ...

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Capturing Nature: The Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodriguez (Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions) מאת Patsy Pittman Light Over a period of some twenty years, Mexican-born artisan Dionicio Rodríguez created imaginative sculptures of reinforced concrete that imitated the natural forms and textures of trees and rocks. He worked in eight different states from 1924 through the early 1950s but spent much of his early career...

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The Polio Years in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown מאת Heather Green Wooten From the 1930s to the 1950s, in response to the rising epidemic of paralytic poliomyelitis (polio), Texas researchers led a wave of discoveries in virology, rehabilitative therapies, and the modern intensive care unit that transformed the field nationally.  The disease threatened the li...