University Of New Mexico Press: 489 books
by Lynn Walters, Jane Stacey
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
For over twenty years the nonprofit organization Cooking with Kids has educated thousands of children to make healthy eating choices through hands-on learning with fresh, affordable foods from diverse cultures. Written for families to use together, this cookbook includes Cooking with Kids’ most...
by George D. Moller
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
New data surrounding the procurement and modifications of arms produced by the national armories, and under federal contract procured by the individual states and by individual members of militias, is presented here for the first time. This information, interwoven with military, political, economic,...
Wings for My Flight
The Peregrine Falcons of Chimney Rock, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
“Blends adventure, romance, humor and pathos. . . . Offers vivid descriptions of her sky-diving subjects and the seductive beauty of the wilderness.”—Chicago Sun-Times“Well crafted and compelling, a dramatization of the classic conflict between the legitimate interests of conservationists...
Reining in the Rio Grande
People, Land, and Water
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to those early settlers. Alternately viewed as a valuable ecosystem and life-sustaining foundation of community welfare or a commodity to be engineered to yield...
Writing About Nature
A Creative Guide, Revised Edition.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Originally published by the Sierra Club in 1995, this handbook has already helped thousands of aspiring writers, scholars, and students share their experiences with nature and the outdoors. Using exercises and examples, John Murray covers genres, techniques, and publication issues. He uses examples...
A Carol Dickens Christmas
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
It’s Christmas, and Carol Dickens’s life is in major transition. Her son Finn, a talented trumpet player, is about to leave for college. Her ex-husband, a real-estate wheeler-dealer, wants to sell their properties in Kansas and move to Arizona. Her wheelchair-bound friend, Laurence, has fallen...
Tides of Revolution
Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Spanish colonial governments tried to keep revolution out of their provinces. But, as Cristina Soriano shows,...
Spooky Archaeology
Myth and the Science of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Outside of scientific journals, archaeologists are depicted as searching for lost cities and mystical artifacts in news reports, television, video games, and movies like Indiana Jones or The Mummy. This fantastical image has little to do with day-to-day science, yet it is deeply connected to why people...
Jai Alai
A Cultural History of the Fastest Game in the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Paula Morton provides a fun, concise introduction to jai alai, a fast-paced ball game with ancient roots that is admired by fans for the sport’s power and spectacle. Cesta punta, as the game is known in its Basque homeland, became a phenomenon during the twentieth century as organized jai alai spread...
by Andrew Geyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Set on a plantation in northern Peru, against the backdrop of El Niño and the resulting storms and floods, Meeting the Dead tells the story of two young Americans who get caught up in a blood feud between two powerful Peruvian families.The plot revolves around John Hauser, a Texan who accompanies...
by Marguerite Noble
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1985
This moving novel of pioneer life in Arizona has become a classic. Based on the life of the author's mother, it overturns every stereotype of western womanhood. "Comes closer to the truth and the validity of the so-called winning of the West than anything I have ever read. It is terrifying,...
The Science of Soccer
A Bouncing Ball and a Banana Kick
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. It is also an endless scientific panorama. Every movement by the players and each interaction with the ball involves physics, fluid mechanics, biology, and physiology, to name just a few of the scientific disciplines. In a book that targets middle and...
by Robert J. Conley
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in over four decades, this is also the first to be endorsed by the tribe and the first to be written by a Cherokee.Robert Conley begins his survey with...
Intimate Memories
The Autobiography of Mabel Dodge Luhan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Mabel Dodge Luhan’s Intimate Memories offers the brilliantly edited memoirs of one woman’s rebellion against “the whole ghastly social structure” under which the United States had been buried since the Victorian era. Luhan fled the Gilded Age prison of the upper classes to lead a life of notoriety...