Publishers: Texas Tech University Press

About this publisher’s catalog

This catalog offers a blend of regional history, cultural studies, and narrative nonfiction alongside occasional fiction. Readers can expect detailed explorations of local environments, social dynamics, and historical events, often grounded in specific places and communities. The range is broad, spanning from natural history to social issues, so browsing by topic or theme can help focus your search.

What you’ll often find

  • In-depth accounts of regional and local history, especially in the American Southwest and Texas
  • Studies of social and racial dynamics within specific communities and time periods
  • Environmental and natural history focusing on landscapes, ecosystems, and waterways
  • Nonfiction narratives involving rescue stories, sports history, and cultural memory
  • Collections of short stories with attention to identity and personal experience
  • Explorations of games and leisure activities with historical or cultural significance
  • Works that intersect media studies and technology in regional contexts

How to browse this shelf

  • Start by selecting topics related to geography or history to find focused regional studies
  • Look for themes around social issues or race relations for community-centered narratives
  • Explore environmental and natural resource subjects for landscape and ecosystem perspectives
  • Try browsing by narrative style to distinguish between nonfiction accounts and fiction collections
  • Use historical time frames to narrow works covering specific decades or events
  • Seek out works tagged with cultural or leisure activities for lighter, interest-driven reads
  • Filter by media or technology topics to find studies on communication and local media history

Good fit if you like

  • Detailed, place-based explorations of history and environment
  • Books that connect social history with personal or community stories
  • A mix of narrative nonfiction and occasional literary fiction
  • Works that balance scholarly insight with accessible storytelling
  • Reading that combines cultural memory with regional identity
  • Interest in how leisure, games, and media shape local culture

Generated from the books currently available in this catalog.

  • Optimizing an Octopus: An Engineering Evertyhing Adventure — Emily Hunt

    Optimizing an Octopus: An Engineering Evertyhing Adventure — Emily Hunt

  • Interlude in Umbarger Italian POWs and a Texas Church — Donald Mace Williams

    Interlude in Umbarger Italian POWs and a Texas Church — Donald Mace Williams

  • The West Texas Power Plant that Saved the World Energy, Capitalism, and Climate Change — Andy Bowman

    The West Texas Power Plant that Saved the World Energy, Capitalism, and Climate Change — Andy Bowman

  • As a Farm Woman Thinks Life and Land on the Texas High Plains, 1890-1960 — Nellie Witt Spikes

    As a Farm Woman Thinks Life and Land on the Texas High Plains, 1890-1960 — Nellie Witt Spikes

  • Remember the Alamo! The Runaway Scrape Diary of Belle Wood, Austin’s Colony, 1835-1836 — Lisa Waller Rogers

    Remember the Alamo! The Runaway Scrape Diary of Belle Wood, Austin’s Colony, 1835-1836 — Lisa Waller Rogers

  • Tascosa Its Life and Gaudy Times — Frederick W. Nolan

    Tascosa Its Life and Gaudy Times — Frederick W. Nolan

  • Women on the North American Plains (Plains Histories) — Renee M. Laegreid

    Women on the North American Plains (Plains Histories) — Renee M. Laegreid

  • Ferns and Fern Allies of the Trans-Pecos and Adjacent Areas — Sharon C. Yarborough

    Ferns and Fern Allies of the Trans-Pecos and Adjacent Areas — Sharon C. Yarborough

  • Charging a Tyrant The Arraignment of Saddam Hussein — Greg Slavonic

    Charging a Tyrant The Arraignment of Saddam Hussein — Greg Slavonic

  • The African American Experience in Texas An Anthology — Bruce A. Glasrud

    The African American Experience in Texas An Anthology — Bruce A. Glasrud

  • August Wilson’s Twentieth-Century Cycle Plays: A Reader’s Companion — Sanford Sternlicht

    August Wilson’s Twentieth-Century Cycle Plays: A Reader’s Companion — Sanford Sternlicht

  • Plugger Wade Fishing the Gulf Coast — Rudy Grigar

    Plugger Wade Fishing the Gulf Coast — Rudy Grigar

  • Help Indians Help Themselves The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša) — Zitkala-S̈a

    Help Indians Help Themselves The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša) — Zitkala-S̈a

  • Helios 44.1 — Steven M. Oberhelman

    Helios 44.1 — Steven M. Oberhelman

  • Finding Dorothy Scott Letters of a WASP Pilot — Sarah Byrn Rickman

    Finding Dorothy Scott Letters of a WASP Pilot — Sarah Byrn Rickman

  • Prairie Nights to Neon Lights The Story of Country Music in West Texas — Joe Carr

    Prairie Nights to Neon Lights The Story of Country Music in West Texas — Joe Carr

  • The World of Spirits and Ancestors in the Art of Western Sub-Saharan Africa — Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser

    The World of Spirits and Ancestors in the Art of Western Sub-Saharan Africa — Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser

  • Deep Time and the Texas High Plains: History and Geology (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest) — Paul H. Carlson

    Deep Time and the Texas High Plains: History and Geology (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest) — Paul H. Carlson

  • Hair A Lai Mỹ Memoir — Jade Hidle

    Hair A Lai Mỹ Memoir — Jade Hidle