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.
Albuquerque Remembered
An informative and entertaining history of "The Duke City" and its inhabitants by a longtime New Mexico reporter.
- Copyright year: 2006
Rabbit Plants the Forest
Based on the ancient Cherokee teaching that squirrels keep the woods alive and should not be hunted, Rabbit Plants the Forest tells the story from Cherokee mythology about animals and their places in our world.
- Copyright year: 2006
New Mexico
New Mexico is a single volume presentation of the fascinating succession of events and characters that make up the state's past.
- Copyright year: 2006
Larger Than Life
New Mexico in the Twentieth Century
Larger than Life offers eleven essays that touch on New Mexico's history through its people, places, and events.
- Copyright year: 2006
The Eyes of the Weaver
Los Ojos del Tejedor
Cristina Ortega shares with children her memories of visits with her grandfather who taught her how to weave when she was ten years old.
- Copyright year: 2006
National Parks and the Woman's Voice
A History
In this updated study, Polly Kaufman discovers that staff are no longer able to fulfill the National Park Service mission without outside support.
- Copyright year: 2006
Healing with Herbs and Rituals
A Mexican Tradition
Healing with Herbs and Rituals is an herbal remedy-based understanding of curanderismo and the practice of herbalists as found in the American Southwest and northern Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2006
Hoyt Street
An Autobiography
This story of a Mexican American childhood in the barrios of Southern California will touch your heart and make you laugh out loud.
- Copyright year: 2006
Sandra Day O'Connor
Justice in the Balance
Learn how O'Connor became the Court's most important vote on such issues as abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty, the role of religion in society, and the election of a president, decisions that shaped a generation of Americans.
- Copyright year: 2005
Into the Canyon
Seven Years in Navajo Country
"A delight to read; an invaluable historical and cultural narrative."--Leslie Marmon Silko
- Copyright year: 2006