University Of North Texas Press: 174 books
by Becky Adnot-Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The sharp-witted stories in Becky Adnot-Haynes' debut collection explore the secret lives of people--how they deal with the parts of themselves that they choose not to share with their closest confidants--and with the world. A pole-vaulter practices his sport only before dawn. A recently divorced woman...
You Shook Me All Campaign Long
Music in the 2016 Presidential Election and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Music has long played a role in American presidential campaigns as a mode of both expressing candidates’ messages and criticizing the opposition. The relevance of music in the 2016 campaign for the White House took various forms in a range of American media: a significant amount of popular music...
Mexican Light/Cocina Mexicana Ligera
Healthy Cuisine for Today's Cook/Para el Cocinero Actual
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Did you know that Pre-Columbian Mexican cuisine was low in fat and high in fiber and vitamins? Based on corn, squash, tomatoes, beans, and lean meats, the everyday diet of the first Americans was remarkably close to the recommendations for healthy eating we hear about every day. Now for the first time,...
by Brian A. Shook
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
William Vacchiano (19122005) was principal trumpet with the New York Philharmonic from 1942 to 1973 and taught at Juilliard the Manhattan School of Music the Mannes College of Music Queens College and Columbia Teachers College. While at the Philharmonic Vacchiano performed under the batons of Arturo...
The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music
The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music, and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Lonnie Johnson (18941970) was a virtuoso guitarist who influenced generations of musicians from Django Reinhardt to Eric Clapton to Bill Wyman and especially B. B. King. Born in New Orleans, he began playing violin and guitar in his father’s band at an early age. When most of his family was wiped out...
The View from the Back of the Band
The Life and Music of Mel Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Mel Lewis (1929-1990) was born Melvin Sokoloff to Jewish Russian immigrants in Buffalo, New York. He first picked up his father's drumsticks at the age of two and at 17 he was a full-time professional musician. The View from the Back of the Band is the first biography of this legendary jazz drummer....
by William & Rosalie Schiff and Craig Hanley
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
William & Rosalie is the gripping and heartfelt account of two young Jewish people from Poland who survive six different German slave and prison camps throughout the Holocaust. In 1941, newlyweds William and Rosalie Schiff are forcibly separated and sent on their individual odysseys through a...
by Caki Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry 2010. The poems in Circles Where the Head Should Be are full of objects and oddities bits of news epic catalogues and a cast of characters hoping to make sense of it all. Underneath the often whimsical surface however lies a search for those connections we...
Jade Visions
The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Jade Visions is the first biography of one of the twentieth century’s most influential jazz musicians, bassist Scott LaFaro. Best known for his landmark recordings with Bill Evans, LaFaro played bass a mere seven years before his life and career were tragically cut short by an automobile accident when...
by Ron Tatum
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Confessions of a Horseshoer offers a close and personal look at the mind-set of a professional horseshoer (farrier) who also happens to be a college professor. The book, an ironic and playful view of the many unusual animals (and people) Ron Tatum has encountered over thirty-seven years, is nicely balanced...
Finish Forty and Home
The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
During the early years of World War II in the Pacific theatre, against overwhelming odds, young American airmen flew the longest and most perilous bombing missions of the war. They faced determined Japanese fighters without fighter escort, relentless anti-aircraft fire with no deviations from target,...
Pacific Blitzkrieg
World War II in the Central Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Pacific Blitzkrieg closely examines the planning, preparation, and execution of ground operations for five major invasions in the Central Pacific (Guadalcanal, Tarawa, the Marshalls, Saipan, and Okinawa). The commanders on the ground had to integrate the U.S. Army and Marine Corps into a single striking...
Cataclysm
General Hap Arnold and the Defeat of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
In Cataclysm, Herman S. Wolk examines the thinking and leadership of General Henry H. (Hap) Arnold, Commanding General, Army Air Forces (AAF), during World War II. Specifically, Wolk concentrates on Arnolds role in crafting the weapons, organization, and command of the strategic bombing offensive against...
Written in Blood Vol. 2
The History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen, 1910-1928
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
In 2010 Written in Blood: The History of Fort Worths Fallen Lawmen, Volume 1, told the stories of thirteen Fort Worth law officers who died in the line of duty between 1861 and 1909. Now Richard F. Selcer and Kevin S. Foster are back with Volume 2 covering another bakers dozen line-of-duty deaths that...