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Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace

Rephotographing the Arizona Landscape

University of New Mexico Press

In Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace, award-winning geographer William Wyckoff celebrates the photographic legacy of Norman Grant Wallace, whose work as an Arizona highway engineer during the first half of the twentieth century afforded him the opportunity to survey every corner of the Grand Canyon State.

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Crazy Fourth

How Jack Johnson Kept His Heavyweight Title and Put Las Vegas, New Mexico, on the Map

University of New Mexico Press

In Crazy Fourth Toby Smith tells the story of how the African American boxer Jack Johnson--the bombastic and larger-than-life reigning world heavyweight champion--met Jim Flynn on the Fourth of July in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

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A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World

University of New Mexico Press

Through these ten essays, each further broken into ten smaller pieces, Rember examines the practical and ethical dilemmas of climate change, population, resource depletion, and mass extinction.

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The Shadowgraph

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

In The Shadowgraph James Cihlar explores the ways images, performances, and memories shape and inform LGBTQ+ identity.

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Same Players, Different Game

An Examination of the Commercial College Athletics Industry

University of New Mexico Press

In this thought-provoking new book, John C. Barnes examines the contemporary state of commercial college athletics as a guide for current and potential administrators, coaches, regents, and others involved in collegiate athletic operations and decision-making.

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Reservation Restless

University of New Mexico Press

"Once in a great while, a miracle of a book comes along, a gift that both touches the heart and engages the mind. Reservation Restless is such a book."--Anne Hillerman, New York Times best-selling author of Rock with Wings and The Tale Teller

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Try to Get Lost

Essays on Travel and Place

University of New Mexico Press

"Try to Get Lost is a bold, engaging disquisition on the perils and promises of travel: both cranky and wise, worldly and cultivated, humorous and rueful, its every sentence sparkles. All in all, it is thoroughly entertaining, a sophisticated pleasure."--Phillip Lopate, author of A Mother's Tale

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River Teeth

Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction

Edited by Joe Mackall and Daniel W. Lehman; Foreword by Robert Atwan
University of New Mexico Press

To celebrate twenty years of introducing talented new writers to readers and publishing great nonfiction, the founding editors, Joe Mackall and Daniel W. Lehman, have selected their all-time favorite essays published in River Teeth in this stunning collection.

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Crosscut

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

In this memoir-in-poems, Prentiss shares a music most of us will never experience, set to tools swung and sharpened, backdropped by rain and snow and sun, as individuals transform into crew.

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Re-creating the Circle

The Renewal of American Indian Self-Determination

University of New Mexico Press

A collaboration between Native activists, professionals, and scholars, Re-Creating the Circle brings a new perspective to the American Indian struggle for self-determination.

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Staging Frontiers

The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay

University of New Mexico Press

In this expansive and engaging narrative William Acree guides readers through the deep history of popular entertainment before turning to circus culture and rural dramas that celebrated the countryside on stage.

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Heroes of the Borderlands

The Western in Mexican Film, Comics, and Music

University of New Mexico Press

Christopher Conway's lavishly illustrated Heroes of the Borderlands tells the surprising story of the Mexican Western for the first time, exploring how Mexican authors and artists reimagined US film and comic book Westerns to address Mexican politics and culture.

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Victory on Earth or in Heaven

Mexico's Religionero Rebellion

University of New Mexico Press

This work reconstructs the history of Mexico's forgotten "Religionero" rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada.

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Nación Genízara

Ethnogenesis, Place, and Identity in New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

Nación Genízara examines the history, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genízaro people.

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Contested Nation

The Mapuche, Bandits, and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Chile

University of New Mexico Press

Contested Nation argues that with Chilean independence, Araucanía--because of its status as a separate nation-state--became essential to the territorial integrity of the new Chilean Republic.

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