University Of North Texas Press: 174 books
Through Animals' Eyes, Again
Stories of Wildlife Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
From the author of Through Animals Eyes come more true stories from the rare perspective of someone who not only cares for the animals she treats, but also has never wanted nor tried to tame or change them. Lynn Cuny founded Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation (WRR) in 1977 in her backyard in San Antonio....
by Kalena Cook and Margaret Christensen M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Birthing a Better Way presents a fresh proactive and positive approach to why you may want to consider the safest and most satisfying kind of birthnatural childbirthespecially in these times of overused medical interventions. Kalena Cook a mother who experienced natural childbirth and Margaret Christensen...
by Naomi Scott
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
This is the first book on therapeutic horseback riding meant for both parents and practitioners. Naomi Scott offers information about the amazing results possible with hippotherapy from recreational riding for individuals with physical and mental disabilities to the competitions some riders enter (and...
Command Culture
Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
In Command Culture, Joerg Muth examines the different paths the United States Army and the German Armed Forces traveled to select, educate, and promote their officers in the crucial time before World War II. Muth demonstrates that the military education system in Germany represented an organized effort...
by Richard F. Selcer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Fort Worth history is far more than the handful of familiar names that every true-blue Fort Worther hears growing up: leaders such as Amon Carter, B. B. Paddock, J. Frank Norris, and William McDonald. Their names are indexed in the history books for ready reference. But the drama that is Fort Worth history...
A History of Fort Worth in Black & White
165 Years of African-American Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A History of Fort Worth in Black & White fills a long-empty niche on the Fort Worth bookshelf: a scholarly history of the city's black community that starts at the beginning with Ripley Arnold and the early settlers, and comes down to today with our current battles over education, housing, and representation...
by Ron Forbes-Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
Chet Atkins called Lenny Breau (19411984) the greatest guitarist who ever walked the face of the earth. Breaus astonishing virtuosity influenced countless performers but unfortunately it came at the expense of his personal relationships. Forbes-Roberts analyzes Breau and his recordings to reveal an enormously...
We Were Going to Win, Or Die There
With the Marines at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
In 1940, native West Texan Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine Corps. A few years later his unit, the 8th Marine Regiment, went into the fight at Guadalcanal, where he commanded a platoon of 37 mm gunners. They endured Japanese attacks, malarial tropical weather, and starvation rations. His combat leadership...
See Sam Run
A Mother's Story of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Thousands of children are diagnosed with autism each year, with a rate of occurrence of 1 in 150 births, compared to 5 per 10,000 just two decades ago. This astounding escalation has professionals scrambling to explain why the devastating neurological disorder, which profoundly affects a persons language...
They Called Him Buckskin Frank
The Life and Adventures of Nashville Franklyn Leslie
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Nashville Franklyn “Buckskin Frank” Leslie was a man of mystery during his lifetime. His reputation has rested on two gunfights—both in storied Tombstone, Arizona—but he was much more than a deadly gunfighter. Jack DeMattos and Chuck Parsons have combined their research efforts to help solve...
by Jessica Hollander
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
When an unwed pregnant woman is pressured to get married by her boyfriend, parents, and the entire culture around her, she sees a feverish intensity emanating from the path to domesticity, a “paved path shaded by thick-trunked trees, lined with trim grass and manicured mansions, where miniature...
With the Possum and the Eagle
The Memoir of a Navigator's War over Germany and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Ralph H. Nutter was the lead navigator for Eighth Air Force raids over Germany when he was assigned as Maj. Gen. Curtis the Eagle LeMays group navigator. Later, as the strategic air war over Europe was winding down, the ace navigator was transferred to B-29 Superfortress duty with the Twentieth Air Force...
by Polly Buckingham
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The stories in The Expense of a View explore the psyches of characters under extreme duress. In the title story, a woman who has moved across the country in an attempt to leave her past behind dumps an empty suitcase into the Columbia River over and over again. In another story, a woman who wakes up...
Storming the City
U.S. Military Performance in Urban Warfare from World War II to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In an increasingly urbanized world, urban terrain has become a greater factor in military operations. Simultaneously, advances in military technology have given military forces sharply increased capabilities. The conflict comes from how urban terrain can negate or degrade many of those increased capabilities....