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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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