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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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Seduced and Betrayed

Exposing the Contemporary Microfinance Phenomenon

University of New Mexico Press

The contributors to this multidisciplinary volume consider the origins, evolution, and outcomes of microfinance from a variety of perspectives and contend that it has been an unsuccessful approach to development.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction

University of New Mexico Press

Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines philosophy, history, psychology, literature, and social justice theory, this study delineates the synergistic connection between masquerade and social justice in Latin American fiction.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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How America Got Its Guns

A History of the Gun Violence Crisis

University of New Mexico Press

This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Whither the Waters

Mapping the Great Basin from Bernardo de Miera to John C. Frémont

University of New Mexico Press

This book places the man and the map in historical context, reminding readers of the enduring significance of Miera y Pacheco.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Life of Yellowstone Kelly

University of New Mexico Press

Based on Kelly's memoirs and correspondence, this is the first full-length biography of an extraordinary man of the American West.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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The Blood Contingent

The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1876–1911

University of New Mexico Press

This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio Díaz's army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Tending the Fire

Native Voices and Portraits

By (photographer) Christopher Felver; Foreword by Simon J. Ortiz; Introduction by Linda Hogan
University of New Mexico Press

Christopher Felver's Tending the Fire celebrates the poets and writers who represent the wide range of Native American voices in literature today.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as I Knew Them

Reminiscences of John P. Meadows

Edited by John P. Wilson
University of New Mexico Press

A collection of John P. Meadows's interviews originally given to refute inaccuracies in the 1930 movie Billy the Kid. Also includes Meadows's memories of the Southwest's frontier days and the characters he knew.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Deep Waters

Frank Waters Remembered in Letters and Commentary

University of New Mexico Press

A lively introduction to the breadth of Waters's work, Deep Waters touches on themes of ecology, philosophy, pre-Columbiana, Eastern philosophy, Egyptology, American Indians, and a host of other subjects reflecting the great cultural shifts occurring at the time.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Behind the Carbon Curtain

The Energy Industry, Political Censorship, and Free Speech

University of New Mexico Press

Exploring censorship imposed by corporate wealth and power, this book focuses on the energy industry in Wyoming, where coal, oil, and gas are pillars of the economy.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Sarapiquí Chronicle

A Naturalist in Costa Rica, Revised and Expanded Edition

University of New Mexico Press

The abundant insect life of the rainforests of northeastern Costa Rica is the subject of this engaging book, first published over twenty-five years ago and now including two new chapters on the rise of ecotourism in the region.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Fat Planet

Obesity, Culture, and Symbolic Body Capital

University of New Mexico Press

Fat Planet represents a collaborative effort to consider at a global scale what fat stigma is and what it does to people.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Exploring Sex and Gender in Bioarchaeology

University of New Mexico Press

This volume brings together the latest approaches in bioarchaeology in the study of sex and gender.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Aztlán

Essays on the Chicano Homeland, Revised and Expanded Edition

University of New Mexico Press

This expanded new edition of the classic 1989 collection of essays about Aztlán weighs its value.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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And Then There Were None

The Demise of Desert Bighorn Sheep in the Pusch Ridge Wilderness

University of New Mexico Press

This book uses the story of the desert bighorn sheep in the Pusch Ridge Wilderness and population decline as a case study in human alteration of wildlife habitat.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Account of the Martyrs in the Provinces of La Florida

University of New Mexico Press

This edition of Luis Jerónimo de Oré’s work presents readers with a new introduction and an annotated translation that place the text in the broader context of international politics.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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My Heart Belongs to Nature

A Memoir in Photographs and Prose

University of New Mexico Press

In My Heart Belongs to Nature, Nichols records his forty-five-year connection to the Taos valley and its mountains, where he still lives.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Rough Crossing

An Alaskan Fisherwoman's Memoir

University of New Mexico Press

Both an adult coming-of-age tale and a candid look at the Alaskan fishing industry, this is the story of a woman in a man's world.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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MEAN/TIME

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

"Grace Bauer's MEAN/TIME crackles with intelligence and heart. Reading this book is fuel for anyone's imagination. It does what poetry can do--it takes your mind where it hasn't gone before."--Dara Wier, author of You Good Thing

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Long Night Moon

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

Long Night Moon continues the story of the Vigils and the Silvas, begun in the authors' first two award-winning novels, Sunlight and Shadow and A Growing Season, depicting a complicated extended family in New Mexico's beautiful Rio Grande Valley.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Letters Like the Day

On Reading Georgia O'Keeffe

University of New Mexico Press

Taking O'Keeffe's letters as a touchstone, Sinor experiments with the limits of language using the same aesthetic that drove O'Keeffe's art.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Ground, Wind, This Body

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

"In this book a brilliant new voice commands our attention. Tina Carlson's poems take us by surprise, root us in their authenticity, and haunt us with their power."--Margaret Randall, author of She Becomes Time

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children

University of New Mexico Press

"Like her characters, Christine Granados is not afraid to step up and in. It doesn't matter who, what man or woman, Chicano or Chicana, she's fighting to win."--Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories

  • Copyright year: 2017
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What They Left Behind

Photographs

By (photographer) Richard S. Buswell; Foreword by George Miles; Introduction by Victoria Rowe Berry
University of New Mexico Press

Although rooted in Buswell's experience as a lifelong Montanan, the photographs in this book are no more (or less) "about" Montana than James Joyce's Dubliners, Portrait of an Artist, or Ulysses are "about" Dublin.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Oracles

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

In this futuristic novel, the Yantuck Indians must find a way to preserve the natural environment that survives on their eastern United States reservation and yet participate in a global economy.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Manifestos and Polemics in Latin American Modern Art

Edited by Patrick Frank
University of New Mexico Press

Bringing together sixty-five primary documents vital to understanding the history of art in Latin America since 1900, Patrick Frank shows how modern art developed in Latin America in this important new work complementing his previous book, Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America, Revised and Expanded Edition.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Jerónimo Antonio Gil and the Idea of the Spanish Enlightenment

University of New Mexico Press

Examining the career of a largely unstudied eighteenth-century engraver, this book establishes Jerónimo Antonio Gil, a man immersed within the complicated culture and politics of the Spanish empire, as a major figure in the history of both Spanish and Mexican art.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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With a Book in Their Hands

Chicano/a Readers and Readerships across the Centuries

University of New Mexico Press

In this collection, Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez gathers diverse and passionate accounts of reading drawn from several research projects aimed at documenting Chicana and Chicano reading practices and experiences.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Give Me Life

Iconography and Identity in East LA Murals

University of New Mexico Press

This book offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones

A Critical Companion

University of New Mexico Press

The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones offers the first collection of scholarship on Jones's ever-expanding oeuvre.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Birth of the Imagination

William Carlos Williams on Form

University of New Mexico Press

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Before Brasília

Frontier Life in Central Brazil

University of New Mexico Press

Before Brasília offers an in-depth exploration of life in the captaincy of Goiás during the late colonial and early national period of Brazilian history.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Old Ramon

By Jack Schaefer; Illustrated by Harold E. West
University of New Mexico Press

Awarded a 1961 Newbery Honor, Old Ramon tells the timeless coming-of-age story of a young boy who spends a summer with an old shepherd in the Mojave Desert.

  • Copyright year: 1960
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America Unbound

Encyclopedic Literature and Hemispheric Studies

University of New Mexico Press

This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra, Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues, and Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Mayan Literacy Reinvention in Guatemala

University of New Mexico Press

Through this investigation, the promises and pitfalls of a literacy-revitalization endeavor are detailed and our understanding of the concept of literacy is reexamined.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Costly and Cute

Helpless Infants and Human Evolution

University of New Mexico Press

The contributors to this volume propose that the "helpless infant" has played a role in human evolution equal in importance to those of "man the hunter" and "woman the gatherer."

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Canyon

University of New Mexico Press

Based on a Cheyenne legend, this novel holds universal appeal as it explores the theme of a man's conflict with his culture.

  • Copyright year: 1953
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Heroes without Glory

Some Good Men of the Old West

University of New Mexico Press

Schaefer profiles pioneers of the West--the doctors, explorers, and cowboys who settled the challenging landscape and built communities in the Old West.

  • Copyright year: 1965
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Underground Ranger

Adventures in Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Other Remarkable Places

University of New Mexico Press

In Underground Ranger Doug Thompson passes along the essence of what he learned on this unusual job as a park ranger at Carlsbad Caverns National Park.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Pursuit of Ruins

Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

The Pursuit of Ruins argues that the government effort to take control of the ancient remains in Mexico took off in the late nineteenth century during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Cooking with Kids Cookbook

University of New Mexico Press

Written for families to use together, this cookbook includes Cooking with Kids' most enthusiastically kid-tested dishes, along with tips for engaging children in the kitchen and in the garden.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Río

A Photographic Journey down the Old Río Grande

Edited by Melissa Savage; Introduction by William deBuys
University of New Mexico Press

Weaving together landscape and memory, this book presents historical photographs of the Río Grande of the American Southwest.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Mexico’s Relations with Latin America during the Cárdenas Era

University of New Mexico Press

This book examines culture and diplomacy in Mexico’s relations with the rest of Latin America during the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas (1934â€"1940).

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Let's Roll This Train

My Life in New Mexico Education, Business, and Politics

University of New Mexico Press

This inspiring memoir chronicles Lenton Malry's journey from segregated Louisiana to a distinguished career in public service in New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Fabric of Indigeneity

Ainu Identity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Japan

University of New Mexico Press

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Architecture of Change

Building a Better World

Edited by Jerilou Hammett and Maggie Wrigley; Foreword by Michael Sorkin
University of New Mexico Press

"The call for change is everywhere, yet how to define it and how to achieve it remain vague. The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World is a unique book that documents how ordinary people have the power to transform their environments. It is a celebration of human diversity and a call for increased attention to our communities. This inspiring book explores the issues of equity, alternative forms of living, new concepts of urbanism, and the power of social networks."--Governor Bill Richardson, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Congressman, Secretary of Energy, and Governor of New Mexico

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Sons of the Mexican Revolution

Miguel Alemán and His Generation

University of New Mexico Press

Using a wide array of new archival sources, Alexander demonstrates that the transformative political decisions made by civilian government officials, after the 1946 election, represented both their collective values as a generation and their effort to adapt those values to the realities of the Cold War.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Molas

Dress, Identity, Culture

University of New Mexico Press

This book, based on original research, explores the origin of the mola in the early twentieth century, how it became part of the everyday dress of Kuna women, and its role in creating Kuna identity.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Untrussed

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

Stewart-Nuñez draws upon a number of styles--persona, ekphrastic, lyrical, formal--to create a collection that explores the promises of love and loss.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest!

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

In this insightful and bittersweet love story, masterful storyteller John Nichols brings to life northern New Mexico and three unforgettable characters.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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