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Established in 1950, the University of Texas Press produces approximately one hundred new books each year and has over 3000 books in print. Their areas of scholarly concentration include American studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, classics, film and media studies, food studies and cookbooks, history, Jewish studies, Latin American and pre-Columbian studies, Latinx studies, Middle Eastern studies, music, nature and environment, photography, and Texas and the Southwest. In addition, UT Press publishes books of general interest for a wider audience on a variety of subjects, including history, current affairs, the visual arts, music, and food, among others, as well as books on the history, culture, arts, and natural history of Texas.

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Personality Development in Children

Originally published in 1960, this book presents penetrating observations by six authorities on the personality development of children for the enlightenment of parents, teachers, and others who have a vital interest in children.

  • Copyright year: 1960
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Thomas J. Wise

Centenary Studies

Edited by William B. Todd

Essays on a major literary forger.

  • Copyright year: 1959
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Polk and the Presidency

How and why James K. Polk, the eleventh President of the United States, responded to the challenges of his times and thereby increased the authority and importance of the Presidential role for future incumbents.

  • Copyright year: 1960
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The Virgin's Children

Life in an Aztec Village Today

An absorbing account of the descendants of the ancient Aztecs and of the survival of their culture into the twentieth century in the Valley of Mexico is presented in this fascinating volume

  • Copyright year: 1960
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6000 Miles of Fence

This book of reminiscences of old XIT Ranch cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch run.

  • Copyright year: 1961
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Home on the Double Bayou

Memories of an East Texas Ranch

By Ralph Semmes Jackson; Illustrated by Bubi Jessen; Introduction by J. Frank Dobie

The memoir of a man's boyhood on a ranch in east Texas.

  • Copyright year: 1961
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Image of Britain 1

Essays, fiction, poetry, and illustrations about British life and culture in the mid-twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 1961
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Image of Britain 2

Essays, fiction, poetry, and illustrations about British life and culture in the mid-twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 1961
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The United States and Inter-American Security, 1889–1960

This comprehensive case study examines every aspect of security cooperation in the Western Hemisphere in the mid-twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 1961
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Toward a Reasonable Society

A defense of industrial culture., drawing upon numerous areas of knowledge—ethics, sociology, economics, anthropology, history, philosophy, psychology, biology, music, the graphic arts, mathematics, the physical sciences—to show the uniformities and the u

  • Copyright year: 1961
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Yesterday in Mexico

A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919–1936

The story of Mexico's emergence as a modern nation, including much material from interviews with principals of the Revolution.

  • Copyright year: 1961
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Indian Tales of North America

An Anthology for the Adult Reader

Folk tales from a wide range of Native American tribes.

  • Copyright year: 1961
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