For centuries Mexican people of the plains—or los Llaneros—have inhabited and embodied the borderland region known today as the Southern Great Plains. Yet their central presence in the area is often forgotten. This diverse collection of essays brings much-needed attention to the ethnic culture and history of the Llano, the vast grassland plains encompassing the Texas Panhandle, eastern New Mexico, and corners of Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma.Los Llaneros covers a broad pe...

Texas history is often recounted through tales of revolution, oil booms, and cattle drives. But what if we considered a different lens—one shaped by wind and wildfire, rivers and drought, grasslands and pine forests?Nature and Place in Texas reimagines the Lone Star story by centering its ecosystems. This collection of essays by leading environmental historians reveals how the state’s natural features—its plains, deserts, rivers, forests, and coastlines—have shaped and bee...

Send buying indecision packing.As an insights expert, you're up-to-date on design, consumer behavior, and market trends-everything that influences success. But one wrong decision can quickly turn into a high-profile failure and, worse, loss of sales. With the endless options of structures, colors, copy, images, and fonts, it's no wonder you're overwhelmed.For decades, Alex Hunt, Matt Salem, and the Behaviorally team have partnered with worl...

Arguing that the well-known cowboy ballad “The Streets of Laredo” is an early expression of “discontent with an encroaching modernity,” author José E. Limón draws upon ethnomusicology, folklore, history, contemporary literature, and other sources to provide a deeply contextualized analysis of the song. He explores its place in the imaginative construction of the American West and its role in the interpretation of both Anglo-American and Mexican American identity in the Texas borderlands an...

This highly readable edited collection focuses on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. Each contributor to this volume explores a different facet of Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, regional environments, and local economies in her writing. Covering all of her novels and short story collections, scholars from the United States, Canada, and abroad engage in critical analyses of Proulx's new regionalism, use of geographical settings, and themes o...

Winner, 2020 Liz Carpenter Award For Best Book on the History of WomenThe realm of ranching history has long been dominated by men, from tales—tall or true—of cowboys and cattlemen, to a century’s worth of male writers and historians who have been the primary chroniclers of Texas history. As women’s history has increasingly gained a foothold not only as a field worthy of study but as a bold and innovative way of understanding the past, new generations of scholars ...

Since Silent Spring was published in 1962, the number of texts about the natural world written by women has grown exponentially. The essays in Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View argue that women writing in the 20th century are utilizing the historical connection of women and the natural world in diverse ways. For centuries women have been associated with nature but many feminists have sought to distance themselves from the natural world because of dominant cultural representations which...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.That critical, catastrophizing voice in your head isn’t you - it’s time to stop taking orders.It’s the 3 AM interrogation that steals your sleep, replaying every mistake on a relentless loop.It’s the dread before a big meeting, whispering that you’re an imposter.It’s the toxic narrator that twists a compliment into proof of fraud and a setback into catastrophe.For years, you’ve been trapped in a war with ...

Send buying indecision packing.As an insights expert, you’re up-to-date on design, consumer behavior, and market trends—everything that influences success. But one wrong decision can quickly turn into a high-profile failure and, worse, loss of sales. With the endless options of structures, colors, copy, images, and fonts, it’s no wonder you’re overwhelmed.For decades, Alex Hunt, Matt Salem, and the Behaviorally team have partnered with world-leading brands to apply behavior...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.That critical, catastrophizing voice in your head isn’t you - it’s time to stop taking orders.It’s the 3 AM interrogation that steals your sleep, replaying every mistake on a relentless loop.It’s the dread before a big meeting, whispering that you’re an imposter.It’s the toxic narrator that twists a compliment into proof of fraud and a setback into catastrophe.For years, you’ve been trapped in a war with ...

A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through the Nature Company, and the disputes between working people and en...

Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment in all areas of cultural production, from Wordsworth and Thoreau through to Google Earth, J.M. Coetzee and Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man.Greg Garrard’s animated and accessible volume traces the development of the movement and explores its key concepts, including:pollutionwildernessapocalypsedwellinga...