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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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Unruly Waters

A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River

University of New Mexico Press

This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Miziker’s Complete Event Planner’s Handbook

Tips, Terminology, and Techniques for Success

University of New Mexico Press

With decades of experience as a gala event planner, award-winning director and producer Ron Miziker presents the ultimate guide to planning and executing every special event in this one-of-a-kind guidebook.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity

Space and Spatial Analysis in Art History

University of New Mexico Press

Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Finding Abbey

The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

University of New Mexico Press

"Prentiss reveals the power of Ed Abbey's lasting call to action, not just as a Monkey Wrencher, but also as an ethicist who lives by Ed's own motto, 'Follow the truth no matter where it leads.'"--Jack Loeffler, author of Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey

  • Copyright year: 2015
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A Vision of Voices

John Crosby and the Santa Fe Opera

University of New Mexico Press

"An authoritative and exhaustive examination of John Crosby--the musician, the visionary, the impresario, the man--and his magnum opus, the Santa Fe Opera."--Juliana Gondek, professor of voice and opera studies, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Women's National Indian Association

A History

University of New Mexico Press

Mathes's edited volume, the first book to address the history of the WNIA, comprises essays by eight authors on the work of this important reform group.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Faster Redder Road

The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones

University of New Mexico Press

This collection showcases the best writings of Stephen Graham Jones, whose career is developing rapidly from the noir underground to the mainstream.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Community Health Narratives

A Reader

Edited by Emily Mendenhall and Kathy Wollner; Foreword by Bechara Choucair; Illustrated by Hannah Adams Burque
University of New Mexico Press

Community Health Narratives: A Reader along with its companions Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth and Environmental Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth (UNM Press), provides a comprehensive curriculum that examines people's health experiences across cultures and nations.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Report to the Department of the Interior

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

Constructed as a series of reports to the Department of the Interior, these poems of grief, anger, defiance, and resistance focus on the oppressive educational system adopted by Indian boarding schools and the struggle Native Americans experienced to retain and honor traditional ways of life and culture.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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One Day I'll Tell You the Things I've Seen

Stories

University of New Mexico Press

The stories in Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez's intimate conversational narrative take readers around the world, from the orchards of California to the cornfields of Iowa, from the neighborhoods of Madrid and Mexico City to the Asian shore of Istanbul.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Hoe, Heaven, and Hell

My Boyhood in Rural New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

In this account of his boyhood García writes unforgettably about his family's village life, telling story after story, all of them true, and fascinating everyone interested in New Mexico history and culture.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Canyon

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

To read this quiet, rich evocation of adolescent watchfulness is to experience what it is like to be fourteen years old, waiting for something to happen, aware of everything but oblivious to as much of it as possible.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Arranged Marriage

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

"Jehanne Dubrow in her fifth book of poems tells us a story so compelling that we put down our tasks and turn to her voice."--Hilda Raz, author of All Odd and Splendid

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Painted Turtle

Woman with Guitar

University of New Mexico Press

"Major brings his characters to life with the accretion of specific details. Even so, his novel is distinctly spiritual, emphasizing the significance of traditional beliefs in the lives of Painted Turtle and her family."--Publishers Weekly

  • Copyright year: 1988
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Four Square Leagues

Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Coronado

Knight of Pueblos and Plains

University of New Mexico Press

Herbert Eugene Bolton's classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire.

  • Copyright year: 1949
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The Zunis

Self-Portrayals

By The Zuni People; Translated by Alvina Quam
University of New Mexico Press

Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 1972
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The Hero Twins

A Navajo-English Story of the Monster Slayers

University of New Mexico Press

Told in Navajo, the Diné language, and English, this story exists in many versions, and all demonstrate the importance of thinking, patience, persistence, bravery, and reverence.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Protecting Yellowstone

Science and the Politics of National Park Management

University of New Mexico Press

In Protecting Yellowstone, Michael Yochim considers how park managers may best work within the contemporary policy-making context to preserve national parks.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Laguna Pueblo

A Photographic History

University of New Mexico Press

Laguna Pueblo: A Photographic History includes more than one hundred of Marmon's photos showcasing his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna people.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Jemez Spring

University of New Mexico Press

Rudolfo Anaya's latest Sonny Baca mystery eerily reflects current events: it involves terrorists, environmental activists, and water rights in the Southwest.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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El Paso's Muckraker

The Life of Owen Payne White

University of New Mexico Press

This long-overdue biography restores this overlooked writer to the forefront of western history and journalism.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Rider of the Pale Horse

A Memoir of Los Alamos and Beyond

By McAllister Hull, with Amy Bianco; Illustrated by John Hull
University of New Mexico Press

A recollection of life in the workshops where nuclear bomb components were constructed during the Manhattan Project.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Prep School Cowboys

Ranch Schools in the American West

University of New Mexico Press

"An engaging, well-researched account of the private schools that proliferated in the interwar years in the American Southwest. Bingmann does an excellent job of situating these schools in the context of the history of American education."--Lynn Dumenil, author of The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Spiritual Currency in Northeast Brazil

University of New Mexico Press

This book examines the spiritual community of the followers of St. Francis of Wounds in the town of Canindé in northeast Brazil.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Gila Country Legend

The Life and Times of Quentin Hulse

University of New Mexico Press

The compelling biography of a unique western rancher constantly adjusting to the inroads of modernity into his traditional way of life.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Searching for Madre Matiana

Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

Edward Wright-Rios examines the much-maligned--and sometimes celebrated--character of Madre Matiana and her position in the development of Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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How Long Is the Present

Selected Talk Poems of David Antin

University of New Mexico Press

In this book editor Stephen Fredman provides critical introductions to a selection of talk poems from Antin's now out-of-print collections in conjunction with a new interview with the author.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Bush League Boys

The Postwar Legends of Baseball in the American Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

"In Bush League Boys sportswriter Toby Smith relies upon fascinating oral histories to recall the home runs, screen money, and dust storms that characterized the glory days of post-World War II baseball in the Southwest."--Ron Briley, author of The Baseball Film in Postwar America: A Critical Study, 1948-1962

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Women Drug Traffickers

Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime

University of New Mexico Press

"The first full-length study of female drug traffickers. The lives of these women are fascinating and skillfully analyzed by the author. The book will be pleasurable reading to general readers and specialists alike."--Howard Campbell, author of Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez

  • Copyright year: 2014
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The Memory of Stone

Meditations on the Canyons of the West

By Erv Schroeder; Foreword by Bill McKibben; Introduction by Simon J. Ortiz
University of New Mexico Press

Erv Schroeder's photographs bear witness to the primordial forces of the earth--the raw power that moved and shifted huge hunks of rock to form natural stone sculptures.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Massacre of the Dreamers

Essays on Xicanisma. 20th Anniversary Updated Edition.

University of New Mexico Press

This new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Tortillas

A Cultural History

University of New Mexico Press

In this entertaining and informative account Paula E. Morton surveys the history of the tortilla from its roots in ancient Mesoamerica to the cross-cultural global tortilla.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Sophie's House of Cards

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

"A deftly woven story textured with beautifully flawed characters who redefine what it means to be a family in an age where love, not blood, connects all creatures--from humans to honeybees. What a charming and deeply compassionate novel."--B. K. Loren, author of Theft: A Novel

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Loose Cannons

Selected Prose

University of New Mexico Press

Like his poetry, Middleton's prose pieces are alive with incongruity, collage, and surprising juxtapositions.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends

University of New Mexico Press

In this enthralling memoir we follow Evans and Peckinpah through conversations in bars, family gatherings, binges on drugs and alcohol, struggles with film producers and executives, and Peckinpah's abusive behavior--sometimes directed at Evans himself.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Edmund G. Ross

Soldier, Senator, Abolitionist

University of New Mexico Press

This first full-scale biography of Ross reveals his importance in the history of the United States.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Global West, American Frontier

Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression

University of New Mexico Press

Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Enduring Acequias

Wisdom of the Land, Knowledge of the Water

University of New Mexico Press

Touching on the Middle East, Europe, Mexico, and South America before circling back to New Mexico, Arellano makes a case for preserving the acequia irrigation system and calls for a future that respects the ecological limitations of the land.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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The Powwow Highway

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

"Takes us into the places where Indians live . . . their jokes, their lovemaking, their hearts. . . . Leaves me feeling as if I had made the journey myself."--Denver Post

  • Copyright year: 1979
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The National Council on Indian Opportunity

Quiet Champion of Self-Determination

University of New Mexico Press

In this book, the first study of the NCIO, historian Thomas A. Britten traces the workings of the council along with its enduring impact on the lives of indigenous people.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Sweet Medicine

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

"Full of adventure, humor, love and sex, and occasionally some eloquent rage about the way Indians have been treated in America. . . . A trickster tale . . . in which a . . . clever and resourceful hero outsmarts stronger enemies and lives to fight another day."--New York Times Book Review

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Railroad Empire across the Heartland

Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward Journey

University of New Mexico Press

This book presents recent photographs by John R. Charlton of the scenes Alexander Gardner recorded, paired with the Gardner originals and accompanied by James E. Sherow's discussion.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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The Sky Is Shooting Blue Arrows

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

Celebrating life, travel, aging, and nature, this new book shines with Luschei's view of the world.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Dispatches from the Drownings

Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction

University of New Mexico Press

In homage to Michael Lesy's cult classic, Wisconsin Death Trip, Hollars pairs reports from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century journalists with fictional versions, creating a hybrid text complete with facts, lies, and a wide range of blurring in between.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Africans into Creoles

Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica

University of New Mexico Press

Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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A Selected History of Her Heart

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

"Through the lens of her singular and compelling life, Carole Simmons Oles guides us through our fractured, confused, violent century. At seventy, facing an increasingly fragile body, Oles crafts language that creates bonds--across cultures and tongues, across decades and oceans and continents. These powerhouse poems reach out generation to generation with generosity and compassion. These poems invite us in, offer food and drink and shelter."--Peggy Shumaker, author of Gnawed Bones

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Mysterious New Mexico

Miracles, Magic, and Monsters in the Land of Enchantment

University of New Mexico Press

Using folklore, sociology, history, psychology, and forensic science--as well as good old-fashioned detective work--Radford reveals the truths and myths behind New Mexico's greatest mysteries.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Conjugal Bliss

A Comedy of Martial Arts

University of New Mexico Press

"A hilarious, raucous, painfully graphic portrait of The Marriage from Hell."--Chicago Tribune

  • Copyright year: 1994
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A Carol Dickens Christmas

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

"Joyfully riffing on a holiday classic, Tom Averill's A Carol Dickens Christmas is a moving and contemporary tale that, like the work of that other Dickens, focuses on what affects us deeply: judgment and compassion, grief and hope, cruelty and kindness. With a warm and realistic cast of characters, this is a story for people who believe in the magic of the season and--more to the point--in simply caring for each other."--Laura Moriarty, author of The Chaperone

  • Copyright year: 2014
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