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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.

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The Fly-Fishing Predator

University of New Mexico Press

Raymond Shewnack invites fishermen to hone their hunting skills, sharpen their senses, and become predators in the trout stream.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument

University of New Mexico Press, High Desert Field Guides

Color diagrams and graphics of the history of geologic formations, including the Rio Grande rift, provide background for understanding the area, and a detailed, durable topographic map provides information about trails and features for the day hiker.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Hard Time at Tehachapi

California's First Women's Prison

University of New Mexico Press

The brief history of this controversial and experimental women's prison posed questions about crime and rehabilitation that remain unresolved today.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Fire

The Spark That Ignited Human Evolution

University of New Mexico Press

Fire and light, and their impacts on our earliest human ancestor, are the subjects of this innovative study of the development of the species.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Weighty Words, Too

University of New Mexico Press

Young readers will build their vocabularies with this new, amusing collection of weighty words.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Weighty Word Book

University of New Mexico Press

"Each of these twenty-six short stories takes an elaborate, circuitous path that leads to a 'weighty' one-word punch line."--School Library Journal

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Developing Zapatista Autonomy

Conflict and NGO Involvement in Rebel Chiapas

University of New Mexico Press

Based on his own experience and further research in Chiapas, Barmeyer provides an in-depth analysis of the advances and limitations of the Zapatista autonomy project over the past fourteen years.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Simon J. Ortiz

A Poetic Legacy of Indigenous Continuance

University of New Mexico Press

This volume reveals the insights and aesthetics of Ortiz's indigenous lens.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Paddy on the Hardwood

A Journey in Irish Hoops

University of New Mexico Press

A burned out basketball coach takes a job in Ireland and is surprised by what he finds.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Land of a Thousand Dances

Chicano Rock 'n' Roll from Southern California

University of New Mexico Press

Reyes and Waldman tell the stories of Chicano rock music in Southern California and the musicians who continue to make pop music with a Latin beat.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Cricket in the Web

The 1949 Unsolved Murder that Unraveled Politics in New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

After exhaustive research, Paula Moore provides the first objective account of the 1949 murder of "Cricket" Coogler--a case that shook New Mexico politics.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Monuments of Piedras Negras, an Ancient Maya City

University of New Mexico Press

The stunning imagery created at Piedras Negras was produced for cultural and ceremonial purposes, but Maya expert Clancy argues that its enduring artistic value cannot be ignored.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Forester's Log

Musings from the Woods

University of New Mexico Press

This collection of Stuever's popular columns celebrates the bond between land and people and inspires us to preserve our forest treasures.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Naked Rainbow and Other Stories

El arco iris desnudo y Otros Cuentos

University of New Mexico Press

This charming collection of tales are based on stories and characters Nasario García knew of growing up in the Rio Puerco Valley of northern New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Shaman Winter

University of New Mexico Press

Sonny Baca returns in this eerie and supernatural struggle with his nemesis Raven.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Nambé Year One

University of New Mexico Press

This gem of a story portrays the folkways of the Gypsies and Payasos, the wanderers of early northern New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Global Health Narratives

A Reader for Youth

Edited by Emily Mendenhall; Foreword by Kate Winskell; Illustrated by Hannah Adams
University of New Mexico Press

This collection of narratives on health issues, told from the perspectives of young people from around the world, provides a valuable educational tool for teachers and parents alike.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Voices of the Buffalo Soldier

Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West

University of New Mexico Press

All students of the frontier army as well as aficionados with a special interest in the Buffalo Soldiers will find this an invaluable tool. Drawing on a wide variety of periodicals, military records, and letters, the book covers such key topics as the legislative origin of the inclusion of black soldiers in the army.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

This edited volume focuses on Mexico's social and cultural history through the lens of celebrated cases of social deviance from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Edited by Davíd Carrasco
University of New Mexico Press

A new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva España.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe

Tradition and Transformation

University of New Mexico Press

This richly illustrated study examines how the Black Madonna has become a symbol of national identity, resistance against oppression, and empowerment for the female populations of such diverse cultures as Poland and Cuba.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Speak Like Singing

Classics of Native American Literature

University of New Mexico Press

Speak Like Singing honors talk-song visions for all relatives and seeks to plumb, if not to reconcile, Native and American poetics, tribal chorus, and solitary vision.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Crafting the Republic

Lima's Artisans and Nation-Building in Peru, 1821-1879

University of New Mexico Press

An elegantly written social history of the evolution of artisan guilds in nineteenth-century Peru.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Ten Turtles to Tucumcari

A Personal History of the Railway Express Agency

University of New Mexico Press

From its founding in 1929, Railway Express Agency dominated the transportation industry until the 1960s. This history of REA coincides with the career of Klink Garrett, who began as a temporary employee in Rapid City, South Dakota, in 1934 and retired in 1973 as a senior executive and member of REA's board of directors.

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Santa Ana

The People, the Pueblo, and the History of Tamaya

University of New Mexico Press

Relying on oral tradition, as well as documentary sources, this book traces Santa Ana Pueblo's history from the sixteenth century to the recent past.

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Feast of Souls

Indians and Spaniards in the Seventeenth-Century Missions of Florida and New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

A study of native responses to the imposition of Spanish spiritual and secular practices in North America.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado

A Linguistic Atlas

University of New Mexico Press

This linguistic exploration delves into the language as it is spoken by the Hispanic population of New Mexico and southern Colorado.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Paleontology of New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

This comprehensive survey of the fossil record of New Mexico catalogs the plants and animals of the area for the past 500 million years from Precambrian time through the Pleistocene Era.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Moche Art and Visual Culture in Ancient Peru

University of New Mexico Press

This multidisciplinary study analyzes the visual, linguistic, and cultural significance of the imagery used by the Moche in their ceramics and murals.

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In Beauty I Walk

The Literary Roots of Native American Writing

University of New Mexico Press

This generous selection of classics of American Indian literature illustrates the many connections with Native oral tradition carried on, and sometimes departed from, by today's younger generation of Indian authors.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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A Dolores Huerta Reader

University of New Mexico Press

This is the first book to focus on the life of labor and social justice advocate Dolores Huerta through her own writings, articles about her, and a recent interview with editor Mario Garcia.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Runaway Daughters

Seduction, Elopement, and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

Sloan investigates how civil laws in post-colonial Mexico played a significant role in changing social norms for marriage, sexuality, and parental authority.

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Otero Mesa

Preserving America's Wildest Grassland

University of New Mexico Press

A powerful defense in words and photos of this unique grassland under increasing threat of oil and gas exploitation.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Gila Libre!

New Mexico's Last Wild River

University of New Mexico Press

Salmon tells the varied story of this unique, undammed, Southwestern river--in the past, the present, and, possibly, the future.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Free Flow

The Gila River in New Mexico

By Jan Haley; Introduction by M. H. Salmon
University of New Mexico Press

Heartfelt photographs--dramatic, tranquil, and vivid by turn--portray the wild beauty of southwest New Mexico's Gila River.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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A Field Guide to the Plants and Animals of the Middle Rio Grande Bosque

University of New Mexico Press

Including over 800 color photos, this authoritative guide is the first of its kind for the Middle Rio Grande Bosque of New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Tree of Hate

Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting United States Relations with the Hispanic World

University of New Mexico Press

"Powell seeks not merely to trace the origins of what he calls Hispanophobia but to analyze its impact on American education, textbooks, religion, and especially foreign policy."--Journal of American History

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba

University of New Mexico Press

Dodson examines the history of traditional religious practices in the Oriente region of contemporary Cuba.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Kenneth Milton Chapman

A Life Dedicated to Indian Arts and Artists

University of New Mexico Press

The many contributions of this early expert on Pueblo Indian anthropology and art are highlighted by two of his descendants.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Hanging with Bats

Ecobats, Vampires, and Movie Stars

University of New Mexico Press

Through fascinating photographs and text Hanging with Bats introduces young readers to these beneficial but often vilified creatures.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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