Established in 1929, the University of New Mexico Press publishes creative works and scholarship in several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, Native studies, Latin American studies, art, architecture, and the history, literature, ecology, and cultures of the American West. UNM Press is the largest publisher in New Mexico and seeks to represent the culture, history, and stories of the Southwest.
Camera Hunter
George Shiras III and the Birth of Wildlife Photography
This biography serves as an important record of Shiras's accomplishments as a visual artist, wildlife conservationist, adventurer, and legislator.
- Copyright year: 2019
Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala
Cultural Collapse and Christian Pentecostal Revitalization
Drawing on over fifty years of research and data collected by field-school students, Hawkins argues that two factors--cultural collapse and systematic social and economic exclusion--explain the recent religious transformation of Maya Guatemala and the style and emotional intensity through which that transformation is expressed.
- Copyright year: 2021
Public Waters
Lessons from Wyoming for the American West
Public Waters shows how, as popular hopes and dreams meet tough terrain, a central idea that has historically structured water management can guide water policy for Western states today.
- Copyright year: 2021
Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil
Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil introduces recent Brazilian scholarship to English-language readers, providing fresh perspectives on newspaper and periodical culture in the Brazilian empire from 1822 to 1889.
- Copyright year: 2021
A Bloody and Barbarous God
The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy
A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism and the perennial philosophy and how these traditions have influenced the later novels of Cormac McCarthy, namely, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, No Country for Old Men, and The Road.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Hi Lo Country, 60th Anniversary Edition
At its heart, The Hi Lo Country is the story of the friendship between two men, their mutual love of a woman, and their allegiance to the harsh, dry, achingly beautiful New Mexico high-desert grassland.
- Copyright year: 2021
New Mexico Food Trails
A Road Tripper's Guide to Hot Chile, Cold Brews, and Classic Dishes from the Land of Enchantment
New Mexico Food Trails takes readers and road trippers on a tour of the state with their taste buds, through towns large and small, where cooks and chefs are putting their own spin on New Mexico's most famous ingredients and dishes.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Rock Cycle
Essays
In this collection of essays, Kevin Honold explores themes of history and its fading significance in modern American life.
- Copyright year: 2021
Overhaul
A Social History of the Albuquerque Locomotive Repair Shops
In Overhaul, historians Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint present the largely forgotten story of Albuquerque's locomotive repair shops, which were the driving force behind the city's economy for more than seventy years.
- Copyright year: 2021
John P. Slough
The Forgotten Civil War General
Recounting Slough's timeless story of rise and fall during America's most tumultuous decades, historian Richard L. Miller brings to life this extraordinary figure.
- Copyright year: 2021
Fortunate Son
Selected Essays from the Lone Star State
Rick Bass's Fortunate Son is a literary tour of the Lone Star State by a native Texan of exceptional talent.
- Copyright year: 2021
Field Guide to the Trees of the Gila Region of New Mexico
Field Guide to the Trees of the Gila Region of New Mexico is the definitive guide for field botanists, researchers, students, and avid nature lovers who wish to explore the natural history of native and introduced tree species across the Gila.
- Copyright year: 2021
Doña Tules
Santa Fe's Courtesan and Gambler
Cook takes a new look at this notorious woman of 1840s Santa Fe.
- Copyright year: 2007
Writing the Novella
While the novella has existed as a distinct literary form for over four hundred years, Writing the Novella is the first craft book dedicated to creating this intermediate-length fiction.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Gospel According to Billy the Kid
A Novel
Here is a tale of the old New Mexico territory, corrupt lawmen, honest ranchers, murder, betrayal, and the explosive events of the Lincoln County War that sent young Billy off seeking justice--and headed toward a bloody rendezvous with a sheriff hired to track him down.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Ecology of Herbal Medicine
A Guide to Plants and Living Landscapes of the American Southwest
The Ecology of Herbal Medicine introduces botanical medicine through an in-depth exploration of the land, presenting a unique guide to plants found across the American Southwest.
- Copyright year: 2021
Hill of Beans
A Novel of War and Celluloid
Leslie Epstein's Hill of Beans is the story of how one nation, one industry, and in particular one man responded to the desperate hope of freedom in the Second World War.
- Copyright year: 2021
Words Like Love
Poems
With beauty and ease, Winder explores emotion and thought through the poems featured in this debut collection.
- Copyright year: 2016
Velroy and the Madischie Mafia
Poems
Hoahwah relays this story with a distinctive narrative flair, honed syntax, wild imagery, and a splash of lyricism.
- Copyright year: 2009
The Definition of Empty
Poems
The Definition of Empty is the story of a dedicated advocate trying to help adolescents facing incarceration and newly released parolees navigate imperfect and seemingly indifferent legal systems and societies.
- Copyright year: 2021