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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quills
In the sixth book of the Mesaland Series, meet a strange little animal sprinkled with needle-sharp quills--Mr. Porcupine!
Hop-a-long
In the second book of the Mesaland Series, Baby Jack grows up and is renamed Hop-a-long.
Dumbee
“An engaging account of the adventures of a bumblebee.â€�â€"Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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.
Big Fat
The fifth book of the Mesaland Series tells the story of lovable, lumbering prairie dog Big Fat.
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.
3 Toes
The final book of the Mesaland Series follows Three-Toes as he pops in and out of mischief on the sunny mesa.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You Must Fight Them
A Novella and Stories
In this collection we meet characters navigating the difficult situations that arise when different worlds collide.
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.
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.
¡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.
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.
¡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.
The Haunting of the Mexican Border
A Woman's Journey
"This is an important book at the right time. We need to read this story and understand its vision. Recommended."--Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway: A True Story
Self-Portrait with Spurs and Sulfur
Poems
Through persona poems and odes, the collection argues that the muddier the narrative, the closer the story gets to truth.
A Life on Hold
Living with Schizophrenia
Méndez-Negrete's powerful account is the first memoir by a Mexican American author to share the devastation and hope a family experiences in dealing with schizophrenia.
The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl
Pre-Hispanic History, Religion, and Nahua Poetics
Lee offers a more realistic portrait of the legendary Aztec ruler Nezahualcoyotl, derived from examination of original Nahuatl codices and poetry, as well as Spanish chronicles.
Roadside New Mexico
A Guide to Historic Markers, Revised and Expanded Edition
This revised and expanded edition of Roadside New Mexico provides additional information about these sites and includes approximately one hundred new markers, sixty-five of which document the contribution of women to the history of New Mexico.
New Mexico 2050
Here some of the state's most noted and qualified policy experts answer two vital questions: New Mexico 2050--What can we be? What will we be?
Reining in the Rio Grande
People, Land, and Water
This study examines human interactions with the Rio Grande from prehistoric time to the present day and explores what possibilities remain for the desert river.
Crossing Over
Poems
"Priscilla Long would take a bridge anywhere to reach her lost sister, and these poems are replete with bridges literal and metaphoric. In her quest and resolve, these words resonate from 'Kaddish for Susanne': 'All praise to all that is.'"--Carole Simmons Oles, author of A Selected History of Her Heart: Poems
Religion in New Spain
This extensive study examines the variety of religious practice and tradition that developed from the confluence of the numerous beliefs and cultures in the northern colonies of New Spain.
The Wild That Attracts Us
New Critical Essays on Robinson Jeffers
The first collection in twenty years of essays on Robinson Jeffers, one of the great American poets of the twentieth century, this work signals the sea change in Jeffers scholarship, as well as the increasing breadth and depth of criticism of the literature of the American West.
Huichol Women, Weavers, and Shamans
"A beautiful ethnographic work. Schaefer deftly relates mythology, cosmology, family life, and economics within the spiritual practice and mechanics of weaving. There is clearly a preservation ethos underlying Schaefer's work, yet her depiction is not mournful, it is celebratory."--Ethnohistory
Chasing the Santa Fe Ring
Power and Privilege in Territorial New Mexico
David L. Caffey's book tells the story of the rise and fall of the Santa Fe Ring, looking beyond myth and symbol to explore the history of this remarkably durable alliance.