A brief history of the Austin Avenue United Methodist Church of Waco, Texas / by Todd Bradford Willis.
By: Willis, Todd Bradford.
This is a well-documented history of a historic Methodist church in Waco.
Reviewer: Longhorn Reviewer
Role models : feminine identity in contemporary American photography
By: National Museum of Women in the Arts
This book is full of beautiful and provocative photographs.
Reviewer: Laura
Outside the dream syndicate
By: Tony Conrad with Faust
The heavier side of American Minimalism.
Reviewer: Tommy
Christian Lacroix : histoires de mode
By: Christian Lacroix
Quoting Eddy in the BBC’s Absolutely Fabulous, “Lacroix, darling.”
Reviewer: Beth
Theres a light beyond these woods sound recording / Nanci Griffith.
By: Griffith, Nanci.
This is a beautiful recording. We’ve been looking for works done by B.F. Deal records – Mike Williams. Nanci sung backup for him on another recording, also a favorite of ours. We are so happy to find these are preserved at UT. Thank you – our search has not been in vain.
Reviewer: Bruce and Elaine Pollock - Wisconsin
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
By: Jared Diamond
This Pulitzer Prize winner addresses the question as to why human development proceeded at different rates on different continents and why some groups of people came to dominate others. It asks the question: “Why did wealth and power become distributed as they are now, rather than in some other way?”
The author examines interactions among disparate peoples at various times in history, and proposes that the answers lie not in inate ability, but in the early domestication of wild plants and animals and other benefits of environment and location. Not only is there an advantage gained by feeding nonfarming specialists for scholarship, government, and the military, but the nasty germs developed by those who lived with livestock became very potent weapons when the “civilized” came into contact with the “primitive.”
Reviewer: Bill Grosskopf
