University Of New Mexico Press: 489 books
Sarapiquí Chronicle
A Naturalist in Costa Rica. Revised and Expanded Edition.
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
“Young . . . brings the trained eye of an entomologist and an unabashed admiration for the beauty of nature to this engaging and informative account of his experiences during twenty-one years of fieldwork in Costa Rica’s rainforests.”—Publishers Weekly“A splendid read. For newcomers...
The Ancient Southwest
Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde. Revised edition.
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Over twenty-five years ago, David Stuart began writing award-winning newspaper articles on regional archaeology that appealed to general readers. These columns shared interesting, and usually little-known, facts and stories about the ancient people and places of the Southwest. By 1985, Stuart...
Dispatches from the Drownings
Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Disturbed by stories of drownings in the river behind his home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, writer B. J. Hollars combed the archives of local newspapers only to discover vast discrepancies in articles about the deaths. In homage to Michael Lesy’s cult classic, Wisconsin Death Trip, Hollars pairs reports...
Critical Assembly
Poems of the Manhattan Project
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
With technical mastery and remarkable empathy, Canaday introduces readers to the people involved in the creation and testing of the first atomic bomb, from initial theoretical conversations to the secretive work at Los Alamos. Critical Assembly also includes brief biographies, notes, and a bibliography for further exploration about this critical event in world history.
This High, Wild Country
A Celebration of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
For centuries, the spectacular landscapes now protected in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park have amazed and inspired us. Historian-naturalist Paul Schullery and artist-illustrator Marsha Karle bring us a new and richly textured portrait of this magnificent region and reveal why Waterton-Glacier...
Heroes without Glory
Some Good Men of the Old West
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
This collection of essays features twelve “heroes” from the American West. Schaefer profiles pioneers of the West—the doctors, explorers, and cowboys who settled the challenging landscape and built communities in the Old West. These unsung champions highlight the unglorified work of the West...
How Cities Won the West
Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these...
Mono Lake
From Dead Sea to Environmental Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Mono Lake is one of the largest lakes in California, and Californians have been using it, enjoying it, and abusing it since nomadic northern Paiutes began hunting the lake’s vast bird populations. Controversy between environmentalists and the City of Los Angeles brought so much attention to Mono...
by Estella B. Leopold, Herbert W. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In the summer of 1969, a federal district court in Denver, Colorado, heard arguments in one of the nation’s first explicitly environmental cases, in which the Defenders of Florissant, Inc. opposed real estate interests intent on developing lands containing an extraordinary set of ancient fossils....
Stewart L. Udall
Steward of the Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
As a three-term member of Congress and as the secretary of the interior in the Kennedy and Johnson cabinets (1961–1969), Stewart L. Udall (1920–2010) was a distinguished public servant and one of the great environmental leaders in US history. This book, the first biography of Udall, introduces...
Oy, My Buenos Aires
Jewish Immigrants and the Creation of Argentine National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Between 1905 and 1930, more than one hundred thousand Jews left Central and Eastern Europe to settle permanently in Argentina. This book explores how these Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi immigrants helped to create a new urban strain of the Argentine national identity. Like other immigrants, Jews embraced...
by Rus Bradburd
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Why would a successful college basketball coach walk away from a lucrative job in America's most glamorous sport? The burned out Rus Bradburd, enamored with Ireland and its music, took a job coaching in the lowly Irish Super League, but was unprepared for what he found. Perplexed by the small town...
by Max Evans, Robert Nott
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Almost as famous for the legendary excesses of his personal life as for his films, Sam Peckinpah (1925–1984) cemented his reputation as one of the great American directors with movies such as The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Max Evans, one of Peckinpah’s best friends, experienced...
by Richard Flint, Shirley Cushing Flint
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
This volume is the first annotated, dual-language edition of thirty-four original documents from the Coronado expedition. Using the latest historical, archaeological, geographical, and linguistic research, historians and paleographers Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint make available accurate...