Books published by Texas Tech Press,U.S.

Texans love to eat, and one dish they can't get enough of is chili - so much so that chili con carne is Texas's state meal. This seemingly simple staple of Texan identity proves to be anything but, however. Texas Is Chili Country is a brief look at the favoured fare - its colourful history, its many incarnations, and the ways it has spread both across the country and the world.

Cotton stickiness is a worldwide contamination problem. Following a general overview of cotton stickiness, the authors evaluate various detection methods, including chemical tests and physical tests, and review the advantages and limitations of high-speed stickiness detectors. They also discuss the effect of stickiness on fiber processing.

Bruce Lack's poetry confronts the human cost of sending young men and women to fight a war of questionable justification against an insurgency unbound by rules of engagement. Lack's poems engage honestly with the frustration of fighting an elusive, ruthless enemy, the guilt of surviving when others do not, and the residual anger that may never leave the generation of veterans of the War on Terror.

While seeking inspiration among the historical artifacts contained in the trunk, Hannah, her brother Nick, and friend Jackie are suddenly thrown back through time, finding themselves at an old Spanish mission in San Antonio. This title lets you join Hannah, Nick, and Jackie as they learn valuable lessons about honor and the importance of history.

In 1894, George Isaacs, the penniless black sheep of his family, was running with the worst of the outlaws in the Oklahoma Territory. There, a get-rich-quick scheme that seemed fool proof was hatched up. The scheme failed and led to two murders. With his usual rough-and-tumble tenacity, Bill Neal undertakes the investigation of these murders.

LaSalle's intense, haunting novel beckons readers into the shadowy lives of undocumented workers in the US and the difficult choices they must face. Written as a single book-length sentence, Mariposa's Song is also a truly innovative achievement in the novel form itself, as it continually startles and satisfies with stylistic daring and sheer lyrical radiance.

Lynwood Krenecks screenprints are recognized throughout the world for their imaginative, often humor-filled content, vivid colors, and always superb technical execution. This title follows the artists rise from a lonely childhood on a South Texas farm to recognition as one of the leading printmakers.

Its the South Plains, 1873. Bison herds are dwindling on the Kansas prairie. Logan Fletcher, a young faith healer from Kentucky, labors as a skinner on a buffalo hunting crew, waiting for the taming of the plains and the chance to spread the Word to the coming immigrants.

A personal ecology is what poet and writer Peggy Pond Church called the journals she kept for more than fifty years on New Mexicos Pajarito Plateau. This title includes journals from her childhood in the 1930s through 1986, the year of her death.

From the Texas panhandle to the mountains of Arizona, Amy Auker has lived the cowboy life - as wife, as mother, as cook, as ranch hand, as writer. In fine-grained detail she captures the prairie light, the traffic on small farm-to-market roads, the vacant stillness of shipping pens when fall works are over. But she also captures the unmistakable westernness of the people and creatures around her.

"First English edition published by Oneworld Publications, copyright c 2007 by Judith Buber Agassi"--Title page verso.

"Frank Scotton, assigned to Viet Nam from 1962 to 1975, details counterinsurgency technique used and shares observations and conclusions about the challenges faced in the US's involvement in the Viet Nam War"--Provided by publisher.

Originally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in English in 2004, The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts that reflects Rosencof's life growing up in 1930s Uruguay as the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants and, later, his twelve-year imprisonment during the military dictatorship.

This is a novel that unfolds like a Sam Shepard story made into a Wim Wenders road movie. It is the first Mexican detective novel that reflects rural Mexican life and culture, showcasing the splendour of its customs and traditions. The novel unfolds as two revolving stories that eventually intertwine into one.

The stories in John J. Clayton's newest collection are luminous, expressing a struggle to see growth and meaning in life as much as possible. Nearly all focus on family, and the characters, most of them Jewish, grapple with questions of living, dying, loving and worshipping. These are masterful stories of spiritual questing, emotional depth and often great humour.

Presents the story of Homer Maxey, war hero and multimillionaire, and his record-breaking, precedent-setting legal case, that illuminates a community and a self-styled go-getter who refused to back down, even when his opponents were old friends, well-heeled leaders of the community, a bank backed by powerful Odessa oil men and the most formidable attorneys in West Texas.

Glenn Ohrlin (1926-2015) was a cowboy singer, working cowboy, rodeo rider, storyteller, and illustrator. In The Hell-Bound Train he has gathered dozens of his favourite songs, which chronicle the range and rodeo life he lived. Most of his repertoire comes from the period of 1875 to 1925.