Holiday Offer: Signed Texas Books at 40% off, free shipping!

Through midnight on Monday, December 11, the University of Texas Press is proud to offer signed copies of select Texas books delivered in time for the holidays at 40% off, with free standard domestic shipping.

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Armadillo World Headquarters A Memoir By Eddie Wilson, with Jesse Sublett The founder of Armadillo World Headquarters recalls the lively history of this legendary music venue and its role in launching cosmic cowboy/redneck rock and making Austin, Texas, the live music capital of the world. Hardcover, $20.97 (40% off) ISBN: 978-1-4773-1382-4 Buy Now Surf Texas By Kenny Braun Evocative and nostalgic, this extended photo essay presents an insider’s portrait of the surf culture of Texas, one of the top six surfing states in America, as well as the singular and sometimes unexpected beauty of the Texas coast. Hardcover, $33.00 (40% off) ISBN: 978-0-292-75770-7 Buy Now Republic of Football Legends of the Texas High School Game By Chad S. Conine With interviews and stories of celebrated players, including past and present NFL stars, as well as legendary coaches and dynastic teams from across Texas, The Republic of Football captures the standout moments in Friday night lights. Hardcover, $14.97 (40% off) ISBN: 978-1-4773-0371-9 Buy Now Under Surveillance Being Watched in Modern America By Randolph Lewis Tackling one of today’s most timely issues from a broad, humanistic perspective, this book explores the emotional, ethical, and aesthetic challenges of living under constant surveillance in post-9/11 American society. Hardcover, $16.77 (40% off) ISBN: 978-1-4773-1243-8 Buy Now They Came from the Sky The Spanish Arrive in Texas By Stephen Harrigan This signed edition presents a spellbinding preview of the inaugural volume of the Texas Bookshelf—a major new history of Texas by the New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan. Hardcover, $11.97 (40% off) ISBN: 978-1-4773-1294-0 Buy Now

A Love Letter to Texas Women By Sarah Bird The acclaimed author of Above the East China Sea and The Yokota Officers Club celebrates the uniqueness of Texas women in this beautifully designed gift book Hardcover, $10.17 (40% off) ISBN: 978-1-4773-0949-0 Buy Now The Face of Texas Photographs by Michael O'Brien. With stories by Elizabeth O'Brien With twenty-three new portraits, including John Graves, Richard Linklater, Joel Osteen, and Cat Osterman, as well as updated profiles of all of the subjects, here is the face of Texas captured in the faces of noteworthy Texans by one of America’s premier portrait photographers. Paperback, $14.97 (40% off) ISBN: 978-0-292-76313-5 Buy Now Texas Sports Unforgettable Stories for Every Day of the Year By Chad S. Conine With a stirring story for every day of the year, this book celebrates the athletes and teams in more than twenty-five sports that have made Texas a dynamo in the world of sports across more than a century. Paperback, $11.97 (40% off) ISBN: 978-1-4773-1273-5 Buy Now Texas BBQ By Wyatt McSpadden Destined to become a classic like Smokestack Lightning and Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook, Wyatt McSpadden's Texas BBQ is the only large format, full-color photographic odyssey into the world of traditional barbecue. Hardcover, $23.97 (40% off) ISBN: 978-0-292-71858-6 Buy Now The Making of Gone With The Wind By Steve Wilson More than 600 rarely seen items from the David O. Selznick archive, this exhibition catalog that celebrates the 75th anniversary of Gone with the Wind offer fans and film historians alike a must-have behind-the-camera view of the production of this classic movie on its seventy-fifth anniversary. Hardcover, $30.00 (40% off) ISBN: 978-0-292-76126-1 Buy Now One More Warbler A Life with Birds By Victor Emanuel, with S. Kirk Walsh With stories of sighting rare birds ranging from an Eskimo Curlew to the cranes of Asia, one of America’s foremost birders recalls a lifetime of birding adventures, including friendships with luminaries Roger Tory Peterson, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. Hardcover, $17.97 (40% off) ISBN: 978-1-4773-1238-4 Buy Now

Tacos of Texas By Mando Rayo and Jarod Neece With authentic recipes, behind-the-scenes stories, and recommendations of where the locals eat, this is the indispensable guide to Texas’s appetizingly diverse tacos and taco culture by the authors of Austin Breakfast Tacos. Paperback, $11.97 (40% off) ISBN: 978-1-4773-1043-4 Buy Now Thursday Night Lights The Story of Black High School Football in Texas By Michael Hurd Telling an inspiring, largely unknown story, Thursday Night Lights recounts how African American high school football programs produced championship teams and outstanding players during the Jim Crow era. Hardcover, $14.97 (40% off) ISBN: 978-1-4773-1034-2 Buy Now The Swimming Holes of Texas By Julie Wernersbach and Carolyn Tracy; photography by Carolyn Tracy Full of practical information to help plan your visits and enticing color photos of one hundred freshwater swimming holes, here is the first-ever guide to the best places to swim in Texas. Paperback, $13.17 (40% off) ISBN: 978-1-4773-1237-7 Buy Now The Texanist Fine Advice on Living in Texas By David Courtney and Jack Unruh The first collection of acclaimed illustrator Jack Unruh’s work, this book gathers the best of the illustrations he created for The Texanist, Texas Monthly’s back-page column, along with the serious and not-so-serious questions that inspired them. Hardcover, $14.97 (40% off) ISBN: 978-1-4773-1297-1 Buy Now ¡Viva Tequila!  Cocktails, Cooking, and Other Agave Adventures By Lucinda Hutson With a festive blend of inspired recipes for fabulous drinks and dishes, lively personal anecdotes, spicy cultural history, and colorful agave folk art, proverbs, and lore, America’s premier tequila expert shows us how to savor the most Mexican of all libations. Hardcover, $20.97 (40% off) ISBN: 978-0-292-72294-1  Buy Now

Book Recommendations for Father's Day

We have gift recommendations for books that make great Father's Day gifts, including books for guitar gear heads, taco lovers, shutterbugs, architects, swimming hole aficionados, and more. Shop at your local independent bookstore!

* Top Pick for Father's Day * "'Bang!' went my heart when I opened the photographer Jack Spencer’s powerful This Land: An American Portrait." Dominique Browning, New York Times Book Review

This Land An American Portrait Photographs by Jack Spencer; foreword by Jon Meacham Created across thirteen years, forty-eight states, and eighty thousand miles, this startlingly fresh photographic portrait of the American landscape shares artistic affinities with the works of such American masters as Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Mark Rothko, and Albert Bierstadt. Hardcover, $45.00 284 pages | 13 x 11 | 142 color photos | ISBN: 978-1-4773-1189-9

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A Perfectly Good Guitar By Chuck Holley Musicians including Rosanne Cash, Guy Clark, JD Souther, Jorma Kaukonen, Bill Frisell, and Kelly Willis pose with and tell stories about the classic Gibsons, Fenders, Martins, and other guitars that have become their most prized instruments. Hardcover, $34.95 208 pages | 7 x 9 | 91 color photos, 4 b&w photos | ISBN: 978-1-4773-1257-5

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Rosanne Cash, JD Souther, and Sonny Landreth's Prized Guitars

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One More Warbler A Life with Birds By Victor Emanuel, with S. Kirk Walsh With stories of sighting rare birds ranging from an Eskimo Curlew to the cranes of Asia, one of America’s foremost birders recalls a lifetime of birding adventures, including friendships with luminaries Roger Tory Peterson, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. Hardcover, $29.95 ISBN: 978-1-4773-1238-4 Order Now The Texanist By David Courtney and Jack Unruh The first collection of acclaimed illustrator Jack Unruh’s work, this book gathers the best of the illustrations he created for The Texanist, Texas Monthly’s back-page column, along with the serious and not-so-serious questions that inspired them. Hardcover, $24.95 ISBN: 978-1-4773-1297-1 Order Now Rewrite Man The Life and Career of Screenwriter Warren Skaaren By Alison Macor This lively biography of the screenwriter of 1980s hit movies Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, Beetlejuice, and Batman illuminates issues of film authorship that have become even more contested in the era of blockbuster filmmaking.  Hardcover, $35.00 ISBN: 978-0-292-75945-9 Order Now T Bone Burnett A Life in Pursuit By Lloyd Sachs This first critical appreciation of T Bone Burnett reveals how the proponent of Americana music and producer of artists ranging from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to B. B. King and Elvis Costello has profoundly influenced American music and culture. Hardcover, $26.95 ISBN: 978-1-4773-0377-1 Order Now The American Idea of Home: Conversations about Architecture and Design By Bernard Friedman; foreword by Meghan Daum Wide-ranging interviews with leading architectural thinkers, including Thom Mayne, Richard Meier, Robert Venturi, Paul Goldberger, Robert Ivy, Denise Scott Brown, Kenneth Frampton, and Robert A. M. Stern, spotlight some of the most significant issues in architecture today. Hardcover, $27.95 ISBN: 978-1-4773-1286-5  Order Now

The Tacos of Texas By Mando Rayo and Jarod Neece With authentic recipes, behind-the-scenes stories, and recommendations of where the locals eat, this is the indispensable guide to Texas’s appetizingly diverse tacos and taco culture by the authors of Austin Breakfast Tacos. Paperback, $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-4773-1043-4 Order Now Armadillo World Headquarters A Memoir By Eddie Wilson, with Jesse Sublett, Foreword by Dave Marsh The founder of Armadillo World Headquarters recalls the lively history of this legendary music venue and its role in launching cosmic cowboy/redneck rock and making Austin, Texas, the live music capital of the world. Hardcover, $34.95 ISBN: 978-1-4773-1382-4 Order Now Project 258: Making Dinner at Fish & Game By Zakary Pelaccio and Peter Barrett "Project 258 is a thoughtful celebration of the evolution of ingredients that will make you feel hungry and fulfilled at the same time. It’s more about living as a cook than a mere series of collectible recipes. It’s a way of shopping, cooking, and thriving in joy, love, and life! It is inspiring the way reading Thoreau is inspiring." —Mario Batali, Chef, author, entrepreneur Hardcover,  $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-4773-1225-4 Order Now They Came from the Sky The Spanish Arrive in Texas By Stephen Harrigan This signed edition presents a spellbinding preview of the inaugural volume of the Texas Bookshelf—a major new history of Texas by the New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan. Paperback, $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-4773-1294-0 Order Now The Devil's Sinkhole Two Centuries of American Quilts from the Briscoe Center By Bill Wittliff; illustrated by Joe Ciardiello In this engrossing sequel to The Devil’s Backbone, the young man Papa and his cowboy amigo Calley Pearsall confront a legendary killer with a thirst for revenge and a psychopathic boy as the two friends search for the beautiful captive Pela Rosa. Hardcover, $29.95 ISBN: 978-1-4773-0974-2 Order Now

The Republic of Football Legends of the Texas High School Game By Chad S. Conine With interviews and stories of celebrated players, including past and present NFL stars, as well as legendary coaches and dynastic teams from across Texas, The Republic of Football captures the standout moments in Friday night lights. Hardcover, $24.95 ISBN: 978-1-4773-0371-9 Order Now Eddie Adams Bigger than the Frame By Eddie Adams; foreword by Don Carleton; preface by Alyssa Adams; essay by Anne Wilkes Tucker This career-spanning collection of both iconic and rarely seen images celebrates the work of Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist Eddie Adams, whose potent visual storytelling ran the gamut from the horrors of war to the lives of the famous and powerful. Hardcover, $60.00 ISBN: 978-1-4773-1185-1 Order Now The Swimming Holes of Texas By Julie Wernersbach and Carolyn Tracy Photography by Carolyn Tracy Full of practical information to help plan your visits and enticing color photos of one hundred freshwater swimming holes, here is the first-ever guide to the best places to swim in Texas. Paperback, $21.95 ISBN: 978-1-4773-1297-1  Order Now A Pure Solar World Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism By Paul Youngquist Surveying the range of Sun Ra’s extraordinary creativity, this book explores how the father of Afrofuturism brought “space music” to a planet in need of transformation, supporting the aspirations of black people in an inhospitable white world. Hardcover, $27.95 ISBN: 978-0-292-72636-9 Order Now Two Prospectors The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark By Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark Edited by Chad Hammett A compelling portrait of a complex, decades-long friendship, these deeply honest letters and candid family photographs offer the most intimate glimpse we may ever get into the life, personal philosophy, and creative process of America’s leading dramatist. Paberback, $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-292-76196-4 Order Now