books by Texas A&M University Press     books:     Texas A&M Universi...      Danger Close: Tactical Air Controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq (Texas a&M University Military History) Steve Call Texas A&M University Press, 2007 All about TACP's Okay, it looks like I'm the first to review this thing and it's a pretty good read. As a younger TACP, I found this book very informative. The author is a former Air Laison Officer. The author briefly talks about our "twilight worlds" where we're "held at arms length ...             Trees, Shrubs, And Vines Of The Texas Hill Country: A Field Guide (W L Moody, Jr, Natural History Series) Jan Wrede Texas A&M University Press, 2005 An excellent guide in understanding Texas hill country The pictures and descriptions have been invaluable in my interpretive walks and hikes. This is a must have for hikers and hill property owners. I bought two! One for me and one for a friend.             The Archetypal Imagination (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology) James Hollis Texas A&M University Press, 2003 What's it all about? We live in a world devoid of transcendent meaning, and in that abyss we desperately seek a purpose for & the foundations of Life. Many embrace a rigid fundamentalist dogma, whether religious or ideological; others seek the illusory comfort of vague New Age nostrums; ...             The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology) Stanton Marlan Texas A&M University Press, 2008 Unusual and mesmerizing The Black Sun is an extraordinary examination of the alchemical stage known as the "nigredo"..the blackening or mortification, so often experienced as depression, terror, or madness. I was especially transfixed at the way in which Dr. Marlan expresses the paradoxical ...             The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian Far East Sharon Hudgins Texas A&M University Press, 2004 The Far Side The Other Side of Russia is part travel narrative, part social history, part memoir, part food writing. All these parts come together to make a terrific book. Sharon Hudgins and her husband Tom spent a year and a half in post-Soviet Siberia teaching business ...             Doug Welsh's Texas Garden Almanac (Month-by-Month Guide) Doug Welsh Texas A&M University Press, 2007 Treasured Gift - Just in Time for the Holidays Finally we have a companion to the nationwide Farmer's Almanac - designed for our unique state - our climate and our plants. Doug Welsh's Texas Garden Almanac is the definitive almanac on Texas gardening, covering indepth topics such as pruning ...             The Gods Of Diyala: Transfer of Command in Iraq (Texas A & M University Military History) Caleb S. Cage, Gregory M. Tomlin Texas A&M University Press, 2008 A compelling story, intelligently told When training up for their Iraq mission, an overconfident, neocon Harvard scholar told them they'd be like the "gods of Diyala." As it turned out, the soldiers commanded by Caleb Cage and Gregory Tomlin often found themselves, in that restive Iraqi province, at wit's ...             A Weekend in September John Edward Weems Texas A&M University Press, 1989 You will tremble as you read It's odd that no titantic movie has ever been made about the greatest natural disaster to ever occur in the United States. Kind of like East Texas, the Big Thicket, and the swamps, the Galveston disaster somehow didn't become part of the Texas myth. Yet, what happened ...             A Dazzle of Dragonflies Forrest L. Mitchell, James L. Lasswell Texas A&M University Press, 2005 Enter the Dragonfly Forrest Mitchell and James Laswell's labor of love, "A Dazzle of Dragonflies", accomplishes a feat that any science exhibit hopes to do: hook the viewer with visual flair, and then pique their interest with previously mundane data. This method of exhibition is ...             Through a Night of Horrors: Voices from the 1900 Galveston Storm Casey Edward Greene, Shelly Henley Kelly Texas A&M University Press, 2002 Authentic voice from the survivors This is a collection of stories gathered from first hand survivors of the Great Galveston Hurricane that occured on September 9th in 1900. There are letters that were written in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, as well as memoirs written in the years that ...             Common Texas Grasses: An Illustrated Guide (W. L. Moody, Jr., Natural History) Frank Gould Texas A&M University Press, 1978 GRASSES AND HOW TO IDENTIFY THEM THIS BOOK ON GRASS IS A REAL GOOD BOOK FOR PEOPLE INTERESTED IN LEARNING A LOT OVER IDENTIFICATION OF GRASSES.             The Archaeology of Death and Burial (Texas a&M University Anthropology, 3) Michael Parker Pearson Texas A&M University Press, 2001 Excellent Survey of World Funerary Practices Written as a great guide to world funerary practices for undergraduates and the curious layperson, Parker Pearson's, "The Archaeology of Death and Burial" presents excellent traditionalist, processualist, and post-processualist theories and empiracal evidence of death ...             Battles Of The Red River War: Archeological Perspectives on the Indian Campaign of 1874 J. Brett Cruse Texas A&M University Press, 2008 Battles of the Red River War unearths a long-buried record of the collision of two cultures. In 1874, U.S. forces led by Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie carried out a surprise attack on several Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa bands that had taken refuge in the Palo Duro Canyon of the Texas panhandle and destroyed their winter stores and horses. After ...             Country Houses of John F. Staub (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities) Stephen Fox Texas A&M University Press, 2007 Preservation of historic Houston Architecture Many of us are subjected to the new mega mansions in our neighborhoods and in other areas of our city. It's not just the close in Arts & Crafts and cottages that were our once our modest childhood homes at stake anymore. Many historical structures by talented ...             Capturing Nature: The Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodriquez (Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture & ... Patsy Pittman Light Texas A&M University Press, 2008 A Visionary Artist from Mexico Like author Patsy Light, I was intrigued when I moved to San Antonio, Texas by the strange concrete false-wood constructions that dot the city: a jungle hut bus stop on Broadway, an arbor footbridge in Brackenridge Park, a 125-foot long rail fence at the Alamo Cement ...          products you might be interested in search for books anthropology, archaeology, archeological, imagination, month-by-month, perspectives      toavi.com    web we recommend The Far Side randomly chosen book: Ruler of the Realm (The Faerie Wars Chronicles, Book 3)