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.
Painted Turtle
Woman with Guitar
"Major brings his characters to life with the accretion of specific details. Even so, his novel is distinctly spiritual, emphasizing the significance of traditional beliefs in the lives of Painted Turtle and her family."--Publishers Weekly
- Copyright year: 1988
Four Square Leagues
Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico
This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day.
- Copyright year: 2014
Coronado
Knight of Pueblos and Plains
Herbert Eugene Bolton's classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire.
- Copyright year: 1949
The Zunis
Self-Portrayals
Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 1972
The Hero Twins
A Navajo-English Story of the Monster Slayers
Told in Navajo, the Diné language, and English, this story exists in many versions, and all demonstrate the importance of thinking, patience, persistence, bravery, and reverence.
- Copyright year: 2015
Protecting Yellowstone
Science and the Politics of National Park Management
In Protecting Yellowstone, Michael Yochim considers how park managers may best work within the contemporary policy-making context to preserve national parks.
- Copyright year: 2013
Laguna Pueblo
A Photographic History
Laguna Pueblo: A Photographic History includes more than one hundred of Marmon's photos showcasing his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna people.
- Copyright year: 2015
Jemez Spring
Rudolfo Anaya's latest Sonny Baca mystery eerily reflects current events: it involves terrorists, environmental activists, and water rights in the Southwest.
- Copyright year: 2005
El Paso's Muckraker
The Life of Owen Payne White
This long-overdue biography restores this overlooked writer to the forefront of western history and journalism.
- Copyright year: 2015
Rider of the Pale Horse
A Memoir of Los Alamos and Beyond
A recollection of life in the workshops where nuclear bomb components were constructed during the Manhattan Project.
- Copyright year: 2005