Changó,
the Biggest Badass
Manuel Zapata Olivella
Fiction / The Americas
February 2010
The long-awaited English-language translation
of an Afro-Latino masterpiece |
Breathing,
In Dust
Tim Z. Hernandez
Fiction / The Americas
March 2010
A coming-of-age novel like no other . . . a purely original and
courageous book penned by a writer of uncanny wisdom and heart."
—Alex Espinoza |
Our White Boy
Jerry Craft, with Kathleen Sullivan
Texas / Baseball
February 2010
In the Jim Crow South, an inspiring story
of "Jackie Robinson in reverse"
An engaging and finally touching book . . . a story of racial
harmony in an era of racial distrust.
—Larry McMurtry |
Playing in Shadows
Texas and Negro League Baseball
Rob Fink
Texas / Baseball
February 2010
The untold story of black semiprofessional
baseball in the Lone Star State |
To Everything on Earth
Kurt Caswell, Sue Tomlimson, and Diane Hueter Warner, eds.
Environment
NOW AVAILABLE
A journey through many landscapes, ending by addressing perhaps the central question of our time: how best do we make a home on earth? |
| ABOUT THE PRESS Texas Tech University Press, the book publishing office of the university since 1971, publishes nonfiction titles in the areas of natural history and the natural sciences; eighteenth-century and Joseph Conrad studies; studies of modern Southeast Asia, particularly the Vietnam War; costume and textile history; Latin American literature and culture; and all aspects of the Great Plains and the American West, especially biography, history, sports history, memoir, and travel. In addition, the Press publishes five journals, one invited poetry manuscript annually, and occasionally a regional novel with national appeal. |