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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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The Story of Corn

University of New Mexico Press

This interweaving of folklore, history, and science tells the seven-century story of the importance of corn in the Americas.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Memory and Architecture

Edited by Eleni Bastéa
University of New Mexico Press

An international study of cultural relationships with built environments.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Dance Ceremonies of the Northern Rio Grande Pueblos

University of New Mexico Press, High Desert Field Guides

This guide contains detailed descriptions of and background for many Pueblo Indian ceremonies that occur year-round in New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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New Mexico!, 3rd Revised Editon, Teacher Guide

University of New Mexico Press

The resource guide includes lesson plans keyed to the state's instructional standards for social studies, student activities and exercises, as well as tests and answer keys.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Una Historia de Nuevo Mexico

Traducion directa de la tercera edicion

University of New Mexico Press

The resource guide, for the Spanish edition, includes lesson plans keyed to the state's instructional standards for social studies, answers to section and chapter reviews, four different types of student activity worksheets, tests and answer keys, bibliographies, and resource suggestions.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Ambassador Ortiz

Lessons from a Life of Service

By Frank V. Ortíz; Edited by Don J. Usner; Introduction by Bill Richardson
University of New Mexico Press

Ambassador Ortiz's memoir of over four decades in the U.S. foreign service, including behind-the-scenes encounters with international leaders.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Return to Abo

University of New Mexico Press

Niederman's first novel finds a cosmopolitan woman returning to her small ranching community roots and struggling with memories.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Curandero

A Life in Mexican Folk Healing

University of New Mexico Press

Practices of traditional Mexican folk healers, "curanderos," in the American Southwest as well as their native country.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Public Education in New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

The structure, politics, and financing of education in New Mexico today.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Women in the Crucible of Conquest

The Gendered Genesis of Spanish American Society, 1500-1600

University of New Mexico Press

The first history of women's contributions to the Spanish colonization of the New World.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains

University of New Mexico Press

A presentation of the most commonly encountered species of flora and fauna and ecological features found in New Mexico's Sandia Mountains.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912

University of New Mexico Press

Biographies of and a collection of writings by women who, for various reasons, found themselves living in New Mexico Territory, from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War I.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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A Navajo/English Bilingual Dictionary

Alchini Bi Naaltsoostsoh

University of New Mexico Press

This easy-to-use Navajo dictionary is intended primarily for Navajo children learning to read and write the language in bilingual classrooms, but it is also useful for anyone wanting to learn Navajo.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Horse of Seven Moons

University of New Mexico Press

The story of a sixteen-year-old Apache boy, a fourteen-year-old Anglo girl, and the horse they share, unbeknownst to each other.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Marc Simmons of New Mexico

Maverick Historian

University of New Mexico Press

A biography and a complete bibliography of New Mexico's leading independent historian.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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A Woman's Place

Women Writing New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

Profiles of six remarkable women writers and artists whose work was shaped significantly by their relationship with New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World

The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast

University of New Mexico Press

Michelene Pesantubbee explores the changing roles of Choctaw women from pre-European contact to the twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Germans in the Southwest, 1850-1920

University of New Mexico Press

A history of the German presence in the American Southwest, from the mid-nineteenth century through the World War I era.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Laser Ablation-ICP-MS in Archaeological Research

University of New Mexico Press

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of papers that specifically describe laser ablation, methods for data quantification, and applications to archaeological questions.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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The Offerings of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan

University of New Mexico Press

The spectacular findings of the historic Templo Mayor Project, which took place in the heart of Mexico City from 1978 to 1997.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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