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.
Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature
Using Gloria Anzaldúa's theories of conocimiento as a critical lens, the authors examine several literary works including Side by Side / Lado a lado; They Call Me Güero; Land of the Cranes; Efrén Divided; and Gabi, a Girl in Pieces.
- Copyright year: 2022
Colorado Family Outdoor Adventure
An All-Ages Guide to Hiking, Camping, and Getting Outside
Colorado Family Outdoor Adventure is the definitive guide for families of all ages to experiencing the natural splendors of Colorado.
- Copyright year: 2022
Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico
- Copyright year: 2022
Graciela
One Woman's Story of War, Survival, and Perseverance in the Peruvian Andes
Graciela chronicles the life of a Quechua-speaking Indigenous woman in the remote Andean highlands during the war in Peru that killed seventy thousand people and displaced hundreds of thousands more in the 1980s and 1990s.
- Copyright year: 2022
The New Death
Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century
The New Death brings together scholars who are intrigued by today's rapidly changing death practices and attitudes.
- Copyright year: 2022
The Mexican Chile Pepper Cookbook
The Soul of Mexican Home Cooking
The Mexican Chile Pepper Cookbook is the first book to explore the glories of Mexican regional cooking by focusing on this single, but endlessly variable, ingredient.
- Copyright year: 2022
From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going
A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Tucumcari Tonite!
A Story of Railroads, Route 66, and the Waning of a Western Town
Tucumcari Tonite! blends in-depth research and personal and family experiences to re-create a "memoir" of Tucumcari.
- Copyright year: 2022
Hiking Trails in Valles Caldera National Preserve, Revised Edition
Hiking Trails in Valles Caldera National Preserve offers first-time and returning visitors a complete guide to the recreation and beauty found in this unique landscape.
- Copyright year: 2022
First Impressions
A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest
First Impressions: A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the first nonnatives to describe them.
- Copyright year: 2017
Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades
The essays in this collection do not offer simple solutions to histories of colonialism, patriarchy, and misogyny through which gender binaries and racial hierarches have been imposed and reproduced, but rather provide a crucial opportunity for reflection on and continued reimagination of the contours of Latinidad.
- Copyright year: 2022
Donaciano Vigil
The Life of a Nuevomexicano Soldier, Statesman, and Territorial Governor
In this gripping biography of a remarkable man, Maurilio E. Vigil and Helene Boudreau fill the gap within the scholarship on Hispanics in nineteenth-century New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2022
Astonishing Light
Conversations I Never Had with Patrociño Barela
E. A. Mares never crossed paths with the great New Mexico sculptor, but the conversations he imagines with the gifted Taos artist attempt to capture the genius, the isolation, and the tragedy of Patrociño Barela while revealing the ability of the human spirit to triumph over adversity.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Believer
Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack
The Believer reveals the life and work of a man who explored the deepest of scientific conundrums and further leads us to the hidden dimensions and alternate realities that captivated Mack until the end of his life.
- Copyright year: 2021
Requiem for America’s Best Idea
National Parks in the Era of Climate Change
A poignant and thought-provoking work, Requiem for America's Best Idea investigates the interactions between people and nature and the world that can inspire and destroy them.
- Copyright year: 2022
Walking Uphill at Noon
Poems
Walking Uphill at Noon showcases Yenser's mastery of prosody and love of play.
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The Creole Rebellion
The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History
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What Cannot Be Undone
True Stories of a Life in Medicine
In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics.
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The Loneliest Girl
Poems
In The Loneliest Girl, Kate Gale creates a powerful alternative narrative for Medusa and for all women who have carried guilt and shame--for being a woman, for not being enough, for being a victim.
- Copyright year: 2022
Up the Winds and Over the Tetons
Journal Entries and Images from the 1860 Raynolds Expedition
Historians, travelers, and outdoor enthusiasts will welcome this important addition to the literature of western exploration.
- Copyright year: 2012
Native American Rhetoric
Native American Rhetoric is the first book to explore rhetorical traditions from within individual Native communities and Native languages.
- Copyright year: 2021
James Silas Calhoun
First Governor of New Mexico Territory and First Indian Agent
- Copyright year: 2021
Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 2
Mind, Nation, and Power
Horace speaks of poetry delighting and instructing. While Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 1 explores the pleasures of poetry--its language, forms, and musicality--volume 2 focuses on the public dimensions.
- Copyright year: 2021
Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 1
Language, Form, and Music
The essays collected in both volumes of Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950 move away from esoteric literary criticism toward a more evaluative and speculative inquiry that will serve as the basis from which poets will be discussed and taught over the next half-century and beyond.
- Copyright year: 2021
A Critical Collection on Alejandro Morales
Forging an Alternative Chicano Fiction
- Copyright year: 2021
Richard Tregaskis
Reporting under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam
- Copyright year: 2021
Gamboa's World
Justice, Silver Mining, and Imperial Reform in New Spain
Gamboa's World examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (1717-1794).
- Copyright year: 2021
El feliz ingenio neomexicano
Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa
El feliz ingenio neomexicano is a bilingual recovery edition of Obras de Felipe Maximiliano Chacón, el Cantor Neomexicano: Poesía y prosa, the first collection of poetry published by a Mexican American author.
- Copyright year: 2021
Chasing Dichos through Chimayó
In these reflections on the dichos of the Chimayó Valley in northern New Mexico native son Don J. Usner has written a memoir that is also a valuable source of information on the rich language and culture of the region.
- Copyright year: 2014
Sacred City
Our young narrator now heads deeper into the heart of the city and himself, accompanied by ancestors and spirits who help him and the reader see that Chicago was, is, and always will be Indian Country.
- Copyright year: 2021
Designs and Anthropologies
Frictions and Affinities
The chapters in this captivating volume demonstrate the importance and power of design and the ubiquitous and forceful effects it has on human life within the study of anthropology.
- Copyright year: 2021
A Guide to New Mexico Film Locations
From Billy the Kid to Breaking Bad and Beyond
A Guide to New Mexico Film Locations offers a "call sheet" to explore many of the Land of Enchantment's most iconic film locales such as those from Easy Rider or The Terminator. From alpine forests to sand dunes, from spaceports to historic ranches, New Mexico's movie backdrops showcase the most dramatic and stunning parts of the state.
- Copyright year: 2021
Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship
Driven by the overwhelming political urgency of the moment, the contributors to this volume seek to frame Trumpism's origins and political effects.
- Copyright year: 2021
Memorial Ride
Memorial Ride is a high-speed, ragtag chase across the American Southwest.
- Copyright year: 2021
Yiddish South of the Border
An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing
Alan Astro's pioneering collection of Latin American Yiddish writings translated into English includes works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, Colombia, and Cuba.
- Copyright year: 2003
Patterns of Connection
Essential Essays from Five Decades
- Copyright year: 2021
Memory into Memoir
A Writer's Handbook
Memory into Memoir provides a lively guide for anyone looking to wrestle the unruly past onto the page.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Best Peace Fiction
A Social Justice Anthology
In the first anthology of its kind, Robert Olen Butler and Phong Nguyen assemble an astounding collection of stories that cause readers to contemplate war, peace, and social justice in a new light.
- Copyright year: 2021
Sky Rider
Park Van Tassel and the Rise of Ballooning in the West
Sky Rider weaves together the many threads of Van Tassel's extraordinary life journey, situating him at last in his rightful place among the prominent aerial exhibitionists of his time.
- Copyright year: 2021
Unburied Lives
The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875
In Unburied Lives Wilkie demonstrates how we can "listen" to stories found in things neglected, ignored, or disparaged--documents not consulted, architecture not studied, material traces preserved in the dirt.
- Copyright year: 2021
South Mountain Park and Preserve
A Guide to the Trails, Plants, and Animals in Phoenix's Most Popular City Park
A true southwestern treasure, this all-inclusive guide to South Mountain Park and Preserve encourages readers to discover the nature and adventure available in this massive outdoor playground.
- Copyright year: 2021
New Mexico Family Outdoor Adventure
An All-Ages Guide to Hiking, Camping, and Getting Outside
An experienced outdoors writer, naturalist, and family camper, Christina M. Selby offers families an in-depth guide to experiencing the natural splendors of New Mexico in New Mexico Family Outdoor Adventure.
- Copyright year: 2021
My Book of the Dead
New Poems
- Copyright year: 2021
The Blood Poems
The Blood Poems is one part bloodletting, one part healing, and one part sensuous celebration as Jessica Helen Lopez lays out what it means to be a strong brown woman, a single mother, and the kickass bard that the twenty-first century needs.
- Copyright year: 2021
origin story
poems
origin story outlines a family history of distant sisters, grieving mothers and daughters, and alcoholic fathers.
- Copyright year: 2021
Nowhere
Poems
This brilliant debut collection offers cohesive trauma narratives and essential counter-narratives to addiction stories, and it consistently complicates the stories told by the world about so-called fatherless girls and the bodies of women.
- Copyright year: 2021
Commissions y Corridos
Poems
The poems collected here insist that with the power to do right, people also have a responsibility to themselves, their loved ones, and complete strangers to be better and strive harder.
- Copyright year: 2021
Modernist Poetry and the Limitations of Materialist Theory
The Importance of Constructivist Values
In Modernist Poetry and the Limitations of Materialist Theory, Charles Altieri skillfully dissects the benefits and limitations of Materialist theory for works of art.
- Copyright year: 2021
Native Peoples, Politics, and Society in Contemporary Paraguay
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
This unique collection of multidisciplinary essays explores recent developments in Paraguay over the course of the last thirty years since General Alfredo Stroessner fell from power in 1989.
- Copyright year: 2021
Expanding Authorship
Transformations in American Poetry since 1950
Expanding Authorship collects important essays by Peter Middleton that show the many ways in which, in a world of proliferating communications media, poetry-making is increasingly the work of agencies extending beyond that of a single, identifiable author.
- Copyright year: 2021