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.
Finding Abbey
The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave
"Prentiss reveals the power of Ed Abbey's lasting call to action, not just as a Monkey Wrencher, but also as an ethicist who lives by Ed's own motto, 'Follow the truth no matter where it leads.'"--Jack Loeffler, author of Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey
- Copyright year: 2015
A Vision of Voices
John Crosby and the Santa Fe Opera
"An authoritative and exhaustive examination of John Crosby--the musician, the visionary, the impresario, the man--and his magnum opus, the Santa Fe Opera."--Juliana Gondek, professor of voice and opera studies, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
- Copyright year: 2015
The Women's National Indian Association
A History
Mathes's edited volume, the first book to address the history of the WNIA, comprises essays by eight authors on the work of this important reform group.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Faster Redder Road
The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones
This collection showcases the best writings of Stephen Graham Jones, whose career is developing rapidly from the noir underground to the mainstream.
- Copyright year: 2015
Community Health Narratives
A Reader
Community Health Narratives: A Reader along with its companions Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth and Environmental Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth (UNM Press), provides a comprehensive curriculum that examines people's health experiences across cultures and nations.
- Copyright year: 2015
Report to the Department of the Interior
Poems
Constructed as a series of reports to the Department of the Interior, these poems of grief, anger, defiance, and resistance focus on the oppressive educational system adopted by Indian boarding schools and the struggle Native Americans experienced to retain and honor traditional ways of life and culture.
- Copyright year: 2015
One Day I'll Tell You the Things I've Seen
Stories
The stories in Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez's intimate conversational narrative take readers around the world, from the orchards of California to the cornfields of Iowa, from the neighborhoods of Madrid and Mexico City to the Asian shore of Istanbul.
- Copyright year: 2015
Hoe, Heaven, and Hell
My Boyhood in Rural New Mexico
In this account of his boyhood García writes unforgettably about his family's village life, telling story after story, all of them true, and fascinating everyone interested in New Mexico history and culture.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Canyon
A Novel
To read this quiet, rich evocation of adolescent watchfulness is to experience what it is like to be fourteen years old, waiting for something to happen, aware of everything but oblivious to as much of it as possible.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Arranged Marriage
Poems
"Jehanne Dubrow in her fifth book of poems tells us a story so compelling that we put down our tasks and turn to her voice."--Hilda Raz, author of All Odd and Splendid
- Copyright year: 2015