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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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