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Laura Méndez de Cuenca
Mexican Feminist, 1853–1928
The University of Arizona Press
Laura Méndez de Cuenca—poet, teacher, editor, writer, and feminist—dared to bypass the cultural traditions of her time. Her story reveals an extraordinary mexicana, an intrepid individual in a time of tumultuous politics and transformation. Covering Méndez de Cuenca’s exciting life experiences, Mílada Bazant has written a highly readable, intimate tale of a remarkable woman.
Latino Placemaking and Planning
Cultural Resilience and Strategies for Reurbanization
The University of Arizona Press
Latino Placemaking and Planning offers a pathway to define, analyze, and evaluate the role that placemaking can have with respect to Latino communities in the context of contemporary urban planning, policy, and design practices. The book illustrates the importance of placemaking as a pathway to sustainable urban revitalization.
Latinas and Latinos on TV
Colorblind Comedy in the Post-racial Network Era
The University of Arizona Press
Interweaving discussions about the ethnic, racial, and linguistic representations of Latinas/os within network television comedies, Isabel Molina-Guzmán probes published interviews with producers and textual examples from hit programs like Modern Family, The Office, and Scrubs to understand how these prime-time sitcoms communicate difference in the United States.
Ciudad Juárez
Saga of a Legendary Border City
The University of Arizona Press
Oscar J. Martínez offers a comprehensive history of Ciudad Juárez from its beginnings as a Spanish frontier outpost to the present. In this singular history, Martinez brings Juárez’s U.S. ties to the forefront, providing a rich and nuanced portrait of a complex border city.
A Natural History of the Mojave Desert
The University of Arizona Press
The Mojave Desert has a rich natural history. Despite being sandwiched between the larger Great Basin and Sonoran Deserts, it has enough mountains, valleys, canyons, and playas for any eager explorer. A Natural History of the Mojave Desert shares how the geology, geography, climate, and organisms, including humans, have shaped and been shaped by this fascinating desert.
The Interior West
A Fire Survey
The University of Arizona Press
America is a confederation of regions as well as a federation of states. Its fire scene is best understood in terms of those regions, of which the Interior West is one. This book surveys the fire scene characteristic of Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado through a mixture of journalism, history, and literary imagination that moves the topic beyond the usual science and policy formulations and places it within the national narrative.
The Real Horse
Poems
By Farid Matuk
The University of Arizona Press
Grounded by a rigorously innovative attention to form, The Real Horse offers a testament to and reminder of a daughter’s disobedience to cultural patrimony.
Pushing Our Limits
Insights from Biosphere 2
By Mark Nelson
The University of Arizona Press
Mark Nelson, one of the eight crew members locked in Biosphere 2 during its first closure experiment, offers a compelling insider’s view of the dramatic story behind the mini-world. Nelson clears up common misconceptions about the 1991–1993 closure experiment as he presents the goals and results of the experiment and the implications of the project for today’s global environmental challenges and for reconnecting people to a healthy relationship with nature.
Connected Communities
Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World
The University of Arizona Press
Connected Communities provides new insights into how social identities formed and changed in the ancient past via a strikingly original approach: methods and models from the comparative social sciences focused on contemporary social movements. The book has applications for archaeologists working in the Southwest, as well as anyone interested in broad topics such as identity, social transformation, and regional processes.
Bright Raft in the Afterweather
Poems
The University of Arizona Press
In her dazzling new collection, Jennifer Elise Foerster confronts humanity’s dangerous ecological imbalance, immersing the reader in a narrative of disorientation and reintegration. Each poem blends Foerster’s refined use of language with a mythic and environmental lyricism as she explores themes of destruction, spirituality, loss, and remembrance.