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The Spanish Colonial Settlement Landscapes of New Mexico, 1598-1680

University of New Mexico Press

Presented for the first time is a detailed picture of the Spanish settlement landscape of New Mexico during the period from the beginning of colonization in 1598 up to 1680.

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Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini

A Rare Photographic History

University of New Mexico Press

"A wonderful collection of rarely seen photographs that true space buffs will enjoy. The captions are worth their weight in space-fact gold.."--Richard W. Orloff, coauthor of Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook

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Of Love and Other Passions

Elites, Politics, and Family in Bogotá, Colombia, 1778–1870

University of New Mexico Press

In Of Love and Other Passions Guiomar Dueñas-Vargas delves into the world of emotions among the bourgeois elite in Bogotá from the end of the colonial period to 1870.

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All Trails Lead to Santa Fe

Guide and Map for Three National Historic Trails Connecting Santa Fe to the Rest of the World

University of New Mexico Press, High Desert Field Guides

This guide, created for the Three Trails Conference of 2015, tells the history of the El Camino Real, the Santa Fe Trail, and the Old Spanish Trail as they traced their paths across the state of New Mexico.

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Advocates for the Oppressed

Hispanos, Indians, Genízaros, and Their Land in New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

Having written about Hispano land grants and Pueblo Indian grants separately, Malcolm Ebright now brings these narratives together for the first time, reconnecting them and resurrecting lost histories.

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Workers Go Shopping in Argentina

The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture

University of New Mexico Press

Combining theories from the anthropology of consumption, cultural studies, and gender studies with the methodologies of social, cultural, and oral histories, Milanesio shows the exceptional cultural and social visibility of low-income consumers in postwar Argentina along with their unprecedented economic and political influence.

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Wildflowers of the Northern and Central Mountains of New Mexico

Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, Sandia, and Manzano

University of New Mexico Press

This unique reference work describes over 350 wildflowers and flowering shrubs that grow in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, Sandia, and Manzano Mountains, as well as neighboring ranges, including the Manzanita, San Pedro, Ortiz, and other lower-elevation mountains in central portions of the state.

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Unruly Waters

A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River

University of New Mexico Press

This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow.

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Miziker’s Complete Event Planner’s Handbook

Tips, Terminology, and Techniques for Success

University of New Mexico Press

With decades of experience as a gala event planner, award-winning director and producer Ron Miziker presents the ultimate guide to planning and executing every special event in this one-of-a-kind guidebook.

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Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity

Space and Spatial Analysis in Art History

University of New Mexico Press

Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them.

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Finding Abbey

The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

University of New Mexico Press

"Prentiss reveals the power of Ed Abbey's lasting call to action, not just as a Monkey Wrencher, but also as an ethicist who lives by Ed's own motto, 'Follow the truth no matter where it leads.'"--Jack Loeffler, author of Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey

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A Vision of Voices

John Crosby and the Santa Fe Opera

University of New Mexico Press

"An authoritative and exhaustive examination of John Crosby--the musician, the visionary, the impresario, the man--and his magnum opus, the Santa Fe Opera."--Juliana Gondek, professor of voice and opera studies, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

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The Women's National Indian Association

A History

University of New Mexico Press

Mathes's edited volume, the first book to address the history of the WNIA, comprises essays by eight authors on the work of this important reform group.

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The Faster Redder Road

The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones

University of New Mexico Press

This collection showcases the best writings of Stephen Graham Jones, whose career is developing rapidly from the noir underground to the mainstream.

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Community Health Narratives

A Reader

Edited by Emily Mendenhall and Kathy Wollner; Foreword by Bechara Choucair; Illustrated by Hannah Adams Burque
University of New Mexico Press

Community Health Narratives: A Reader along with its companions Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth and Environmental Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth (UNM Press), provides a comprehensive curriculum that examines people's health experiences across cultures and nations.

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Report to the Department of the Interior

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

Constructed as a series of reports to the Department of the Interior, these poems of grief, anger, defiance, and resistance focus on the oppressive educational system adopted by Indian boarding schools and the struggle Native Americans experienced to retain and honor traditional ways of life and culture.

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One Day I'll Tell You the Things I've Seen

Stories

University of New Mexico Press

The stories in Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez's intimate conversational narrative take readers around the world, from the orchards of California to the cornfields of Iowa, from the neighborhoods of Madrid and Mexico City to the Asian shore of Istanbul.

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Hoe, Heaven, and Hell

My Boyhood in Rural New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

In this account of his boyhood García writes unforgettably about his family's village life, telling story after story, all of them true, and fascinating everyone interested in New Mexico history and culture.

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The Canyon

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

To read this quiet, rich evocation of adolescent watchfulness is to experience what it is like to be fourteen years old, waiting for something to happen, aware of everything but oblivious to as much of it as possible.

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The Arranged Marriage

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

"Jehanne Dubrow in her fifth book of poems tells us a story so compelling that we put down our tasks and turn to her voice."--Hilda Raz, author of All Odd and Splendid

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