University of New Mexico Press

This book introduces sixty short hikes in the public lands on the eastern edge of the city of Albuquerque.Author: Tamara MassongPublisher: University Of New Mexico PressPublication Date: Apr 01,...

Author: Stanley CrawfordPublisher: University of New Mexico PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 1998Number of Pages: 255 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0826319602ISBN-13: 9780826319609

In this fascinating guide, former CIA agent E. B. Held uses declassified documents from both the CIA and KGB, as well as secondary sources, to trace some of the most notorious spying events in United...

Featuring thirty-two designs, Amazing Paper Airplanes showcases models resembling real-world aircraft, including the F-22 fighter jet, a P-51 World War II plane, the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger--the...

Fierce, visceral, sometimes funny, and wholly original, Hoahwah's poems will linger in a reader's dreams long after she's closed the book.Author: Sy HoahwahPublisher: University of New Mexico...

Which state has the most national monuments? Where in America can you find one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World? Where is the largest contiguous forest of ponderosa pine? In Awesome Arizona,...

Nasario Garc? has spent a lifetime dedicated to educating others in a variety of settings, including universities and prisons. A native of rural New Mexico and a beloved writer and folklorist, in...

Nena leaves Laredo, Texas, and moves to Madrid, Spain, to research the historical roots of traditional fiestas in Laredo. Immersing herself in post-Franco Spain and its rich history, its food, music,...

Winner of the Premio Aztl?n Literary Prize Canicula--the dog days--a particularly intense part of the summer when most cotton is harvested in South Texas. In Norma Cant?'s fictionalized memoir of...

An elegiac account of one man who followed 'his own peculiar trail' out of the Civil War, and the crippled, unrecorded company that went with him.--Kirkus ReviewsAuthor: Jack SchaeferPublisher:...

Love and friendship, art and craft, language and culture are the subjects of this look back at one woman's experiences in Mexico over a period of twenty years. What first propels Linda Grant Niemann...

A towering work of twentieth-century American literature, Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop tells the story of the French Catholic priest Jean Marie Latour, the first bishop of the...

What happens when beauty intersects with horror? In her newest nonfiction collection, Jehanne Dubrow interrogates the ethical questions that arise when we aestheticize atrocity. The daughter of US...

Like her characters, Christine Granados is not afraid to step up and in. It doesn't matter who, what man or woman, Chicano or Chicana, she's fighting to win.--Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the...

Cole offers more stories, strategies, tips on craft, and exercises to serve new and seasoned writers from the first draft to the final edit.Author: Joni B. ColePublisher: University of New Mexico...

Follows the adventures of Hop-a-long, one of a litter of four baby jack rabbits born in the early spring--Author: L. S. Tireman, Evelyn Yrisarri, Ralph DouglassPublisher: University Of New Mexico...

Paula Morton provides a fun, concise introduction to jai alai, a fast-paced ball game with ancient roots on several continents that is admired by fans for the sport's power and spectacle. Cesta...

Taking O'Keeffe's letters as a touchstone, Sinor experiments with the limits of language using the same aesthetic that drove O'Keeffe's art.Author: Jennifer SinorPublisher: University Of New Mexico...

This is a book about ownership. It begins with an essay about being given a man's furniture while he's on trial for murder and follows with essays that question corporeal, familial, and intellectual...

Author: Richard D. Bartlett, Patricia BartlettPublisher: University of New Mexico PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2013Number of Pages: 360 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In this stunning debut story collection, everyone's got the blues but nobody is willing to sing it. Evelyn Smith, Candace Lambert, and Dorene Wahrmund chafe against rigid small-town expectations...

A book of wild imagination and linguistic play, Nowhere begins by chronicling the pain that the speaker and her absent father endure during the years they are separated while he is in prison. The...

origin story outlines a family history of distant sisters, grieving mothers and daughters, and alcoholic fathers. These poems take us from Kansas to Korea and back again in an attempt to reconnect...

In Overhaul, historians Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint present the largely forgotten story of Albuquerque's locomotive repair shops, which were the driving force behind the city's economy...

Author Joni B. Cole worries that Vlad the Impaler may be a distant cousin. She feuds with a dead medium. She thinks (or overthinks) about insulting birthday cards, power trips, and the real reason...

In this remarkable collection, Katherine DiBella Seluja explores issues surrounding human migration, juxtaposing poems about the current struggles along the US-Mexican border with her ancestors'...

Red Or Green: New Mexico CuisineAuthor: Clyde CaseyPublisher: University of New Mexico PressPublication Date: Nov 15, 2013Number of Pages: 280 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Director Sam Peckinpah was just starting out when he made Ride the High Country in 1962. He was a new kind of director: young, brash, and in a hurry to help the Western "grow up" by treating it with...

Author: Theodore C. Van AlstPublisher: University of New Mexico PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2021Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0826362869ISBN-13:...

This dark, compelling, occasionally inappropriate, and often hilarious linked story collection introduces a character who defies all stereotypes about urban life and Indians.Author: Theodore C. Van...