A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America's preeminent weste...

New case studies documenting ten thousand years of cuisines across the cultures of Oaxaca, Mexico...

How disenfranchised Black Brazilians use hip-hop to reinvigorate the Black radical tradition.

A history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond.

In the nine stories of Let's Do, various calamities strike ordinary Midwesterners, who cope with ...

This captivating study uses stories from classical antiquity to show that serial killers were alm...

In this 2004 winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry the poems describe everyday acts, like p...

This richly illustrated volume provides the first broad synthesis of findings at Poggio Civitate,...

Challenging common approaches to archaeology and sexuality studies, this book explores, in part b...

A lively, interdisciplinary history of why the banana became America's most popular fresh fruit a...

Largely set in the South, this work features eleven stories that guide us into the hidden worlds ...

A decade after he celebrated traditional, wood-smoked ’cue in Texas BBQ, Wyatt McSpadden captures...