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.
Cancionero
Songs of Laughter and Faith in New Mexico
Created for musicians and vocalists, Cancionero features arrangements for voice with piano or guitar accompaniments as well as selected concert versions for voice, oboe, harp, and piano.
- Copyright year: 2015
Art, Peace, and Transcendence
Réograms That Elevate and Unite
American artist Paul Ré invites us to join him on his journey for harmony, wisdom, and inner joy with Art, Peace, and Transcendence.
- Copyright year: 2015
Encyclopedia of the American Indian in the Twentieth Century
The Encyclopedia of the American Indian in the Twentieth Century provides a comprehensive overview of this dramatic process through profiles of key individuals, organizations, government policies, and events that have defined Native history since 1900.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Oppens Remembered
Poetry, Politics, and Friendship
In this book the poets, editors, writers, composers, and teachers who knew the couple consider their encounters and relationships with George and Mary Oppen.
- Copyright year: 2015
Secret Wars and Secret Policies in the Americas, 1842-1929
The intrigue and subterfuge revealed in this revisionist study add a fascinating new dimension to our understanding of transpacific and transatlantic politics following World War I.
- Copyright year: 2010
Native Women and Land
Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence
"What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?" Fitzgerald asks this question in her introduction and sets out to answer it in her study of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women who are writing about and often actively protesting against displacement caused both by forced relocation and environmental disaster.
- Copyright year: 2015
Enchantment and Exploitation
The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range, Revised and Expanded Edition
Now, more than thirty years later, this revised and expanded edition provides a long-awaited assessment of the quality of the journey that New Mexican society has traveled in that time--and continues to travel.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Maya of the Cochuah Region
Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives on the Northern Lowlands
This book, the first major collection of data from the Cochuah region investigations, presents and analyzes findings on more than eighty sites and puts them in the context of the findings of other investigations from outside the area.
- Copyright year: 2015
Quills
In the sixth book of the Mesaland Series, meet a strange little animal sprinkled with needle-sharp quills--Mr. Porcupine!
- Copyright year: 1948
Hop-a-long
In the second book of the Mesaland Series, Baby Jack grows up and is renamed Hop-a-long.
- Copyright year: 1944
Dumbee
“An engaging account of the adventures of a bumblebee.â€�â€"Fort Worth Star-Telegram
- Copyright year: 1945
Cocky
Cocky, a rollicking little roadrunner, joins baby jack rabbit Hop-a-long and the other creatures of the desert in the fourth book of the Mesaland Series.
- Copyright year: 1946
Big Fat
The fifth book of the Mesaland Series tells the story of lovable, lumbering prairie dog Big Fat.
- Copyright year: 1947
Baby Jack and Jumping Jack Rabbit
Join Baby Jack in the first book of the Mesaland Series as he explores the desert and encounters other creatures, including a little bee, a grasshopper, and a pile of big red ants.
- Copyright year: 1943
3 Toes
The final book of the Mesaland Series follows Three-Toes as he pops in and out of mischief on the sunny mesa.
- Copyright year: 1949
The Maltese Falcon to Body of Lies
Spies, Noirs, and Trust
Examining twenty-eight great noir films from the earliest examples of the genre, including The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Out of the Past, to such twenty-first-century spy films as The Good Shepherd, Syriana, and The Bourne Ultimatum, this study explores the representations of trust and commitment that noir and spy films propose.
- Copyright year: 2015
North American Hummingbirds
An Identification Guide
Designed to help birders and banders identify, age, and sex all seventeen species of hummingbirds found in North America, this is the only identification guide devoted entirely to hummingbirds that includes up-close, easy-to-use illustrations.
- Copyright year: 2015
In This Body
Kaqchikel Maya and the Grounding of Spirit
This account of life in one highland Maya community shows how, among Kaqchikels, spirit expresses itself fundamentally through the body, and not as something entirely separate from the body.
- Copyright year: 2015
Beyond Geopolitics
New Histories of Latin America at the League of Nations
Using research in frequently overlooked collections, Beyond Geopolitics makes groundbreaking contributions to the study of Latin American international relations, the history of the League of Nations, and the broader story of cooperation across borders.
- Copyright year: 2015
Amada's Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas
Schaefer's book weaves together the geography, biology, history, cultures, and religions that created the unique life of Mrs. Cardenas and the people she knew.
- Copyright year: 2015
Pie Town Revisited
In this book author-photographer Arthur Drooker documents his own travels to Pie Town to find out what became of it seventy years after Lee visited.
- Copyright year: 2015
From Shipmates to Soldiers
Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata
This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their descendants in Montevideo and Buenos Aires from the late colonial era to the first decades of independence.
- Copyright year: 2015
Just South of Zion
The Mormons in Mexico and Its Borderlands
Just South of Zion assembles new scholarship on the first century of Mormon history in Mexico, from 1847 to 1947.
- Copyright year: 2015
Brazil through French Eyes
A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics
In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard's Brazil with special attention to what she calls his "tropical romanticism": a vision of the country with an emphasis on the exotic.
- Copyright year: 2015
You Must Fight Them
A Novella and Stories
In this collection we meet characters navigating the difficult situations that arise when different worlds collide.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Quotable Amelia Earhart
This definitive resource provides a concise, documented collection of Earhart's quotations so that her words, as well as her achievements, may inspire a new generation.
- Copyright year: 2015
Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo
A Rare Photographic History
Beginning in 1967, Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo chronicles the program's twelve missions and its two follow-ons, Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
- Copyright year: 2015
¡Corrido!
The Living Ballad of Mexico's Western Coast
The present compilation of ballads from the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca documents one of the world's great traditions of heroic song, a tradition that has thrived continuously for the last hundred years.
- Copyright year: 2015
A Civil War History of the New Mexico Volunteers and Militia
Thompson draws on service records and numerous other archival sources that few earlier scholars have seen in this comprehensive work.
- Copyright year: 2015
¡Cancerlandia!
A Memoir
Comic and unsparing, ¡Cancerlandia! chronicles Alvarado Valdivia's journey as he not only fights to survive his personified adversary, Mr. Hodgkins, but also as he struggles with his own self-destructive spirit.
- Copyright year: 2015