The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town
Thurber, 1886–1933
Edited by T. Lindsay Baker
Published July 2021
Texas A&M University Press
978-1-62349-909-9 paperback $29.95
978-1-58544-629-2 cloth
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- State House Press, Kerrville
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- Stoney Creek Publishing Group
Each of the presses in the Texas Book Consortium acquire and publish their own books, which are then housed and sold by Texas A&M Press from its facility in College Station. Each press brings a distinct character to its publishing program, yet taken together the publishers in the Texas Book Consortium have provided an essential link to the history, culture, and literary life of the state and region, nurturing award-winning and sometimes groundbreaking works of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry.
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Founded in 1974, Texas A&M University Press is the book publishing arm of one of the nation’s leading research and land grant institutions. Throughout its history, the Press has enjoyed strong support from the University and the entire Texas A&M community, and that support has been essential to the Press’s growth and success.
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Texas A&M University Press publishes fifty to sixty new titles a year, and they include both works of science and scholarship and books that educate and entertain the general reader. All books are published simultaneously in print and ebook editions and sold all over the world.
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- Texas history, art, and culture
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Newly published books by Texas A&M University Press
Presidential Leadership at the Crossroads
William Howard Taft and the Modern Presidency
Published June 2021
Texas A&M University Press
978-1-62349-973-0 hardcover (printed case) $50.00 s
Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands
Edited by Harriett D. Romo and William A. Dupont
Published June 2021
Texas A&M University Press
978-1-62349-975-4 cloth $45.00 s
The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas
Published July 2021
Texas A&M University Press
978-1-62349-956-3 hardcover (printed case) $45.00 s
Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond
By Kevin Mooney
Published May 2021
Texas A&M University Press
978-1-62349-965-5 cloth $30.00
The Home Front
Edited by Christopher B. Bean
Published May 2021
Texas A&M University Press
978-1-62349-969-3 hardcover (printed case) $40.00 s
An Emerging Power in the Global Economy
By Henry Cisneros, David Hendricks, J. H. Cullum Clark and William Fulton
Published May 2021
Texas A&M University Press
978-1-64843-009-1 cloth $35.00
The Songwriting Legacy of Mickey Newbury
Published May 2021
Texas A&M University Press
978-1-62349-926-6 cloth $28.00
The Rise and Fall of the Lazy S Ranch
Published August 2021
Texas A&M University Press
978-1-62349-971-6 cloth $27.95
Lessons Learned in Marketing and Military Procurement
By James Hasik
Published August 2021
Texas A&M University Press
978-1-62349-942-6 hardcover (printed case) $45.00 s