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.
Sophie's House of Cards
A Novel
"A deftly woven story textured with beautifully flawed characters who redefine what it means to be a family in an age where love, not blood, connects all creatures--from humans to honeybees. What a charming and deeply compassionate novel."--B. K. Loren, author of Theft: A Novel
- Copyright year: 2014
Loose Cannons
Selected Prose
Like his poetry, Middleton's prose pieces are alive with incongruity, collage, and surprising juxtapositions.
- Copyright year: 2014
Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends
In this enthralling memoir we follow Evans and Peckinpah through conversations in bars, family gatherings, binges on drugs and alcohol, struggles with film producers and executives, and Peckinpah's abusive behavior--sometimes directed at Evans himself.
- Copyright year: 2014
Edmund G. Ross
Soldier, Senator, Abolitionist
This first full-scale biography of Ross reveals his importance in the history of the United States.
- Copyright year: 2013
Global West, American Frontier
Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression
Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention.
- Copyright year: 2013
Enduring Acequias
Wisdom of the Land, Knowledge of the Water
Touching on the Middle East, Europe, Mexico, and South America before circling back to New Mexico, Arellano makes a case for preserving the acequia irrigation system and calls for a future that respects the ecological limitations of the land.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Powwow Highway
A Novel
"Takes us into the places where Indians live . . . their jokes, their lovemaking, their hearts. . . . Leaves me feeling as if I had made the journey myself."--Denver Post
- Copyright year: 1979
The National Council on Indian Opportunity
Quiet Champion of Self-Determination
In this book, the first study of the NCIO, historian Thomas A. Britten traces the workings of the council along with its enduring impact on the lives of indigenous people.
- Copyright year: 2014
Sweet Medicine
A Novel
"Full of adventure, humor, love and sex, and occasionally some eloquent rage about the way Indians have been treated in America. . . . A trickster tale . . . in which a . . . clever and resourceful hero outsmarts stronger enemies and lives to fight another day."--New York Times Book Review
- Copyright year: 1992
Railroad Empire across the Heartland
Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward Journey
This book presents recent photographs by John R. Charlton of the scenes Alexander Gardner recorded, paired with the Gardner originals and accompanied by James E. Sherow's discussion.
- Copyright year: 2014