University Of New Mexico Press: 489 books
Cancionero
Songs of Laughter and Faith in New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Composer John Donald Robb (1892–1989) built an invaluable legacy in the preservation of New Mexico’s rich musical traditions. His extensive field recordings, compositions, papers, and photographs now comprise the John Donald Robb Archives in the University of New Mexico Libraries’ Center for...
by V. B. Price, Nell Farrell
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Although most people prefer not to think about them, hazardous wastes, munitions testing, radioactive emissions, and a variety of other issues affect the quality of land, water, and air in the Land of Enchantment, as they do all over the world.
In this book, veteran New Mexico journalist V....
Mexico's Supreme Court
Between Liberal Individual and Revolutionary Social Rights, 1867-1934
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Although Mexico’s Constitution of 1917 mandated the division of large landholdings, provided land for the landless, and guaranteed workers the rights to organize, strike, and bargain collectively, it also guaranteed fundamental liberal rights to property and due process that enabled property owners...
Fifty Years at the Pit
The University of New Mexico's Legendary Venue
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Basketball fans at the University of New Mexico have always been loyal, loud, and numerous, and the devotees have grown in number over the fifty years since the opening of the University Arena, a.k.a. the Pit, in 1966. Herron recounts many of the best players and games in this celebration of one of...
New Mexico's High Peaks
A Photographic Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This book should be required reading for all who believe New Mexico is nothing but plains, mesas, and cacti. It proves in spectacular fashion that the Land of Enchantment is very much a mountain state, with at least sixty summits 12,000 feet or higher. Photographer-author Mike Butterfield has spent...
by Veronica E. Velarde Tiller
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In this E-short edition from New Mexico 2050, Veronica E. Tiller—a Jicarilla Apache who is the editor and publisher of the renowned reference guide Tiller’s Guide to Indian Country—surveys the history and present-day roles of Indian tribes in New Mexico. Considering the key issues impacting...
Sweet Nata
Growing Up in Rural New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Grandparents are our teachers, our allies, and a great source of love. They supply endless stories that connect us to a past way of life and to people long gone-people who led ordinary lives, but were full of extraordinary teachings. This is the subject of Sweet Nata, a memoir about familial traditions...
Mexico City, 1808
Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
In 1800 Mexico City was the largest, richest, most powerful city in the Americas, its vibrant silver economy an engine of world trade. Then Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, desperate to gain New Spain’s silver. He broke Spain’s monarchy, setting off a summer of ferment in Mexico City. People took...
by Sue Boggio, Mare Pearl
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
An acclaimed first novel by two award-winning New Mexico writers, Sunlight and Shadow is a story of family, friendship, and what it really means to have hope.
“Everything is going well for San Diego restaurateur Abby Silva. She is four months pregnant, and her husband Bobby is finished with...
Utopian Vistas
The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Winner of the 1996 Gaspar Perez de Villegra Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico
Mabel Dodge Luhan, hostess and visionary, made Taos, New Mexico, a center for artists and utopians when she moved there in 1917 and began inviting friends to visit her. Now available in paperback, Utopian...
by Craig Varjabedian
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This collection of elegantly composed black-and-white images by one of New Mexico’s most accomplished photographers, celebrates the state’s captivating physical variety and enduring allure. With subject matter ranging from some of the state’s most iconic landforms—including the White Sands...
by David P. Sklar
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
In 1972, when the world around him was making little sense, David Sklar left in his senior year of college to volunteer at a community clinic in rural Mexico. With absolutely no medical experience beyond being accepted to medical school at Stanford, Sklar literally learned medicine by practicing it....
New Mexico's Reptiles and Amphibians
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
New Mexico is home to 165 species and subspecies of snakes, lizards, turtles, frogs, toads, and salamanders. Some are ubiquitous and others are localized. If you want basic and reliable information on the lizard in your backyard or the snake you encountered on a hike in the mountains, this handy field...
by Elinore M. Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The Spanish began to settle New Mexico in the sixteenth century, and although scholars have long known the names of those settlers, this is the first book to place the colonists on the map. Using documentary, genealogical, and archaeological sources, Elinore M. Barrett depicts the settlement patterns...