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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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3 Toes

By Loyd Tireman; Illustrated by Ralph Douglass
University of New Mexico Press

The final book of the Mesaland Series follows Three-Toes as he pops in and out of mischief on the sunny mesa.

  • Copyright year: 1949
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The Maltese Falcon to Body of Lies

Spies, Noirs, and Trust

University of New Mexico Press

Examining twenty-eight great noir films from the earliest examples of the genre, including The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Out of the Past, to such twenty-first-century spy films as The Good Shepherd, Syriana, and The Bourne Ultimatum, this study explores the representations of trust and commitment that noir and spy films propose.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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North American Hummingbirds

An Identification Guide

University of New Mexico Press

Designed to help birders and banders identify, age, and sex all seventeen species of hummingbirds found in North America, this is the only identification guide devoted entirely to hummingbirds that includes up-close, easy-to-use illustrations.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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In This Body

Kaqchikel Maya and the Grounding of Spirit

University of New Mexico Press

This account of life in one highland Maya community shows how, among Kaqchikels, spirit expresses itself fundamentally through the body, and not as something entirely separate from the body.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Beyond Geopolitics

New Histories of Latin America at the League of Nations

University of New Mexico Press

Using research in frequently overlooked collections, Beyond Geopolitics makes groundbreaking contributions to the study of Latin American international relations, the history of the League of Nations, and the broader story of cooperation across borders.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Amada's Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas

University of New Mexico Press

Schaefer's book weaves together the geography, biology, history, cultures, and religions that created the unique life of Mrs. Cardenas and the people she knew.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Pie Town Revisited

University of New Mexico Press

In this book author-photographer Arthur Drooker documents his own travels to Pie Town to find out what became of it seventy years after Lee visited.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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From Shipmates to Soldiers

Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata

University of New Mexico Press

This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their descendants in Montevideo and Buenos Aires from the late colonial era to the first decades of independence.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Just South of Zion

The Mormons in Mexico and Its Borderlands

University of New Mexico Press

Just South of Zion assembles new scholarship on the first century of Mormon history in Mexico, from 1847 to 1947.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Brazil through French Eyes

A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics

University of New Mexico Press

In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard's Brazil with special attention to what she calls his "tropical romanticism": a vision of the country with an emphasis on the exotic.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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