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Established in 1929, the University of New Mexico Press publishes creative works and scholarship in several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, Native studies, Latin American studies, art, architecture, and the history, literature, ecology, and cultures of the American West. UNM Press is the largest publisher in New Mexico and seeks to represent the culture, history, and stories of the Southwest.

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Georgia O'Keeffe

A Life Well Lived

By Malcolm Varon; Foreword by Cody Hartley; Introduction by Barbara Buhler Lynes
University of New Mexico Press

This book is the first collection of photographs to portray O'Keeffe and her surroundings in color.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Conflict in Colonial Sonora

Indians, Priests, and Settlers

University of New Mexico Press

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries northwestern Mexico was the scene of ongoing conflict among three distinct social groups--Indians, religious orders of priests, and settlers. In this study, Yetman examines seven separate instances of such conflict, each of which reveals a different perspective on this complicated world.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Claims and Speculations

Mining and Writing in the Gilded Age

University of New Mexico Press

This study of a broad range of responses to gold and silver mining in the late nineteenth century sets the literary writings of figures such as Mark Twain, Mary Hallock Foote, Bret Harte, and Jack London within the context of writing and representation produced by people involved in the industry: miners and journalists, as well as writers of folklore and song.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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An Imperative to Cure

Principles and Practice of Q’eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize

University of New Mexico Press

James B. Waldram's groundbreaking study, An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine in Belize, explores how our understanding of Indigenous therapeutics changes if we view them as forms of "medicine" instead of "healing."

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Making History

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

University of New Mexico Press

Written by scholars actively producing Native art resources, this book guides readers--students, educators, collectors, and the public--in how to learn about Indigenous cultures as visualized in our creative endeavors.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Arizona's Scenic Roads and Hikes

Unforgettable Journeys in the Grand Canyon State

University of New Mexico Press

In this captivating new guide Roger Naylor features all twenty-seven of Arizona's state-designated scenic and historic roads, including five National Scenic Byways.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Archaeologies of Empire

Local Participants and Imperial Trajectories

University of New Mexico Press

This book demonstrates how archaeological research can contribute to our conceptualization of empires across disciplinary boundaries.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Unmasking

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

"The Unmasking is smart, irreverent, and wickedly tender."--Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of My Life as a Silent Movie: A Novel

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Gender, Race, and Power in the Indian Reform Movement

Revisiting the History of the WNIA

University of New Mexico Press

This collection of essays offers a new interpretation of the WNIA's founding, argues that the WNIA provided opportunities for indigenous women, creates a new space in the public sphere for white women, and reveals the WNIA's role in broader national debates centered on Indian land rights and the political power of Christian reform.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Shook

An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day

University of New Mexico Press

Shook tells the story of resilience, nerve, and survival on the deadliest day on Everest.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Chile Peppers

A Global History

University of New Mexico Press

In Chile Peppers: A Global History, Dave DeWitt, a world expert on chiles, travels from New Mexico across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia chronicling the history, mystery, and mythology of chiles around the world and their abundant uses in seventy mouth-tingling recipes.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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At the Precipice

New Mexico's Changing Climate

University of New Mexico Press

At the Precipice explores the question many of us have asked ourselves: What kind of world are we leaving to our children?

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Where the Ox Does Not Plow

A Mexican American Ballad

University of New Mexico Press

Manuel Peña chronicles his transformative journey from migrant worker to academia in twenty-six poignant life episodes.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Book of Literary Terms

The Genres of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and Scholarship, Second Edition

University of New Mexico Press

Chapters covering fiction, drama, nonfiction, and literary criticism and scholarship offer readers a comprehensive guide to all forms of prose and their many sub-genres.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Book of Forms

A Handbook of Poetics, Fifth Edition

University of New Mexico Press

Filled with both common and rarely heard of forms and prosodies, Turco's engaging style and apt examples invite writers to try their hands at exploring forms in ways that challenge and enrich their work.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Book of Dialogue

How to Write Effective Conversation in Fiction, Screenplays, Drama, and Poetry

University of New Mexico Press

The Book of Dialogue is an invaluable resource for writers and students of narrative seeking to master the art of effective dialogue.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Ho! For Wonderland

Travelers' Accounts of Yellowstone, 1872-1914

University of New Mexico Press

These stories by early Yellowstone Park visitors helped propel the popularity of this American wonderland.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Grief Land

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

In Grief Land Carrie Shipers explores the paradoxical nature of bereavement as both a universal human experience and an intensely personal one.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Feel Puma

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

In Feel Puma, Ray Gonzalez traces his love of reading, philosophy, and learning with poems constantly in conversation--with each other, with texts by other writers and the writers themselves, with world history and his personal history and people he has encountered.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Abiquiu

The Geologic History of O'Keeffe Country

University of New Mexico Press, High Desert Field Guides

With stunning photographs, timelines, and a regional geologic map, noted geologist Kirt Kempter explains the geologic story and landscape evolution of the region for travelers, hikers, and armchair geologists.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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