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.
The Story of Corn
This interweaving of folklore, history, and science tells the seven-century story of the importance of corn in the Americas.
- Copyright year: 2004
Memory and Architecture
An international study of cultural relationships with built environments.
- Copyright year: 2004
Dance Ceremonies of the Northern Rio Grande Pueblos
This guide contains detailed descriptions of and background for many Pueblo Indian ceremonies that occur year-round in New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2005
New Mexico!, 3rd Revised Editon, Teacher Guide
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
Una Historia de Nuevo Mexico
Traducion directa de la tercera edicion
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
Ambassador Ortiz
Lessons from a Life of Service
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
Return to Abo
Niederman's first novel finds a cosmopolitan woman returning to her small ranching community roots and struggling with memories.
- Copyright year: 2005
Curandero
A Life in Mexican Folk Healing
Practices of traditional Mexican folk healers, "curanderos," in the American Southwest as well as their native country.
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Public Education in New Mexico
The structure, politics, and financing of education in New Mexico today.
- Copyright year: 2005
Women in the Crucible of Conquest
The Gendered Genesis of Spanish American Society, 1500-1600
The first history of women's contributions to the Spanish colonization of the New World.
- Copyright year: 2005
Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains
A presentation of the most commonly encountered species of flora and fauna and ecological features found in New Mexico's Sandia Mountains.
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Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912
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.
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A Navajo/English Bilingual Dictionary
Alchini Bi Naaltsoostsoh
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
Horse of Seven Moons
The story of a sixteen-year-old Apache boy, a fourteen-year-old Anglo girl, and the horse they share, unbeknownst to each other.
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Marc Simmons of New Mexico
Maverick Historian
A biography and a complete bibliography of New Mexico's leading independent historian.
- Copyright year: 2005
A Woman's Place
Women Writing New Mexico
Profiles of six remarkable women writers and artists whose work was shaped significantly by their relationship with New Mexico.
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Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World
The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast
Michelene Pesantubbee explores the changing roles of Choctaw women from pre-European contact to the twentieth century.
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Germans in the Southwest, 1850-1920
A history of the German presence in the American Southwest, from the mid-nineteenth century through the World War I era.
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Laser Ablation-ICP-MS in Archaeological Research
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
The Offerings of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan
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