University Of New Mexico Press: 489 books
by Lucinda Ciddio Leyba
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
In this powerfully eerie tale by Lucinda Ciddio Leyba, the legend of La Llorona is recast as the tale of a witch intent on doing evil in modern Santa Fe.By the light of the full moon, La Llorona is released from her earthly tomb. Cursed with the memories of her past, she becomes obsessed with...
by Timothy Hillmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Ravenhill is the story of one fateful day in an American high school in 1997. As told from multiple points of view, the novel unfolds a few hours after an act of violence leaves five people dead and shocks the community.Leonard, a ninth grade student, has a secret so horrific he hides it beneath...
by Lawrence Gustave Desmond
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Alice Dixon (1851-1910) was born into a comfortable middle class life in London that she eagerly left behind to travel to Yucatán as the young bride of Maya archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon. Working side by side as photographers and archaeologists, the Le Plongeons were the first to excavate and...
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume III
Flintlock Alterations and Muzzleloading Percussion Shoulder Arms, 1840-1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
This third volume in Moller’s authoritative reference work describes muzzleloading percussion shoulder arms procured by the U.S. government for issue to federal and state armed forces in the period that includes the Civil War. These twenty-five years were an exciting time in the history of...
The Memory of Stone
Meditations on the Canyons of the West
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
This intimate portrait of the Colorado Plateau celebrates the landscape in photographs and writing. Erv Schroeder’s photographs bear witness to the primordial forces of the earth—the raw power that moved and shifted huge hunks of rock to form natural stone sculptures. Schroeder’s prints engage...
by Tamara Massong
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The hiking trails in the Sandia Mountains are one of the great assets of Albuquerque, for residents and visitors alike. This book will help more people take advantage of these beautiful places to walk, most of them hitherto unmapped. It introduces sixty short hikes in the public lands on the eastern...
A Patriot After All
The Story of a Chicano Vietnam Vet
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Juan Ramirez always believed he would die in Vietnam. As a teenager growing up in the San Francisco area in the early 1960s, "Nam was there, just over the horizon, like the distant thump of artillery." His father and uncles had served in World War II, another uncle in Korea. Numerous cousins had enlisted....
by Thomas Fox Averill
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Not just epistolary, this novel is archival, told entirely through journals, letters, photos, drawings, notes, and clippings left behind by Nell Doerr, who lived in Lawrence, Kansas, between 1854 and 1889. Although Nell seems so real you can reach out and touch her, she is a fictional character. The...
Wellness Beyond Words
Maya Compositions of Speech and Silence in Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The delivery of health care can present a minefield of communication problems, particularly in cross-cultural settings where patients and health practitioners come from dissimilar cultures and speak different languages. Responding to the need for in-depth ethnographic studies in cultural and communicative...
Finding Abbey
The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore. In this book a young writer...
For Our Navajo People
Dine Letters, Speeches, and Petitions, 1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2002
One hundred documents written by Diné men, women, and children speaking for themselves and on behalf of their communities are collected in this book. Discovered during Iverson's research for Diné: A History of the Navajos, these letters, speeches, and petitions, almost all previously unpublished,...
by José-Antonio Orosco
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Cesar Chavez has long been heralded for his personal practice of nonviolent resistance in struggles against social, racial, and labor injustices. However, the works of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. have long overshadowed Chavez's contributions to the theory of nonviolence. José-Antonio Orosco...
Magpie's Blanket
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In this thoughtful novel Kimberly D. Schmidt brings to life the history of Plains Indian women and the white invasion—an account not solely of violence and bloodshed but also of healing and forgiveness. Magpie’s Blanket begins with the story of a young Southern Cheyenne woman who survived the...