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  March 2012

 NEW FROM UNM PRESS
Great Taos Bank Robbery
by Tony Hillerman

This classic collection of nonfiction essays about life in New Mexico by the great Tony Hillerman remains a must read for anyone looking to understand the state's unique charm.




Children of TimeCHILDREN OF TIME: Evolution and the Human Story
by Anne H. Weaver
illustrated by Matt Celeskey
  
Children of Time brings the evolution of human behavior to life through Anne Weaver's scientifically-informed imagination.


Mad Crazy RiverA MAD, CRAZY RIVER: Running the Grand Canyon in 1927
by Clyde L. Eddy  
 
In 1927 Clyde Eddy recruited a handful of college students to serve as crewmen and loaded them, a hobo, a mongrel dog, and a bear cub into three boats and set out to travel the length of the Colorado River. This book is the original narrative of that foolhardy and thrilling adventure. 


Reshaping Our National ParksRESHAPING OUR NATIONAL PARKS AND THEIR GUARDIANS: The Legacy of George B. Hartzog Jr.
by Kathy Mengak
  
This biography of the seventh director of the National Park Service brings to life one of the most colorful, powerful, and politically astute people to hold this position.



Modernizing Minds in El Salvador  MODERNIZING MINDS IN EL SALVADOR: Education Reform and the Cold War, 1960-1980
by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes and Erik Ching  
 
In this thoughtful collaborative study, the authors examine the processes by which education reform in El Salvador in the 1960s and 1970s became entwined in debates over theories of modernization and the politics of anticommunism. 

 

by Elinore M. Barrett
 
Presented for the first time is a detailed picture of the Spanish settlement landscape of New Mexico during the period from the beginning of colonization in 1598 up to 1680.
 
 
 
El Miron Cave

EL MIRÓN CAVE, CANTABRIAN SPAIN: The Site and Its Holocene Record

edited by Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales

 

Archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians will be drawn to this study of El Mirón Cave and its extensive findings, dated by some seventy-five radiocarbon assays.

 

 KUDOS AND SALUDOS
rode
RODE by Thomas Fox Averill has won the 2012 Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Western Novel from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum!  Given for literature, music, film and television that reflects the significant stories of the American West, the Western Heritage Awards will be presented at a black-tie event on April 21 at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
 
Latest Word from 1540
by Richard and Shirley Cushing Flint received the TOMFRA Award, sponsored by the Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association and presented by the Texas Catholic Historical Society. The award is given annually for the best book involving the Spanish colonial history of Texas.
 
 
Rudolfo Anaya
Congratulations to Rudolfo Anaya, recipient of the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement! Mr. Anaya will be honored at the 32nd Annual Presentation of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes on April 20. 
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 UNM Press Marketing & Publicity 
  
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 SPRING BOOK SALE
Spring Sale 2012
 UPCOMING EVENTS

Sunday, March 18 from 1:00-3:00pm:
Nasario García reads and signs GRANDPA LOLO'S NAVAJO SADDLE BLANKET: La tilma de Abuelito Lolo at Treasure House Books in Albuquerque, NM

Sunday, March 18 at 3:00pm: Martha Egan discusses and signs AN APRICOT YEAR at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM

Wednesday, March 21 from 9:30am-11:30am: Janet Chapman discusses KENNETH MILTON CHAPMAN: A Life Dedicated to Indian Arts and Artists at UNM Continuing Education in Albuquerque, NM    

 
Saturday, March 24 at 2:00pm: Pauline Eisenstadt discusses and signs her memoir, A WOMAN IN BOTH HOUSES: My Career in New Mexico Politics at the Octavia Fellin Public Library in Gallup, NM
 
Sunday, March 25 at 2:00pm: Nasario García reads and signs GRANDPA LOLO'S NAVAJO SADDLE BLANKET: La tilma de Abuelito Lolo at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, NM

Saturday, March 31 at 12:00pm: Nasario García reads and signs GRANDPA LOLO'S NAVAJO SADDLE BLANKET: La tilma de Abuelito Lolo at Alamosa Books in Albuquerque, NM 
 
Wednesday, April 4 at 12:00pm: Margaret Randall reads from and signs RUINS at the UNM Bookstore in Albuquerque, NM 

Saturday, April 7 from 2:00-4:00pm: Book Launch for THE GREAT TAOS BANK ROBBERY AND OTHER TRUE STORIES by Tony Hillerman (Reading and signing with Anne Hillerman and Don Strel) at Moby Dickens in Taos, NM
 
Sunday, April 8 at 3:00pm: Carolyn Dodson discusses and signs A GUIDE TO PLANTS OF THE NORTHERN CHIHUAHUAN DESERT at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM
 
Saturday, April 14 from 9:00am-4:00pm: Nasario García (GRANDPA LOLO'S NAVAJO SADDLE BLANKET) and Melody Groves (HOIST A COLD ONE!) sign their books as part of the 6th Annual Authors for Literacy Event at the Moriarty Civic Center in Moriarty, NM
 
Thursday, April 19 at 7:00pm: Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz reads from and signs BREATHS at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM
 
 AUTHORS ON THE AIR

Wednesday, March 21 at 10:30am MST:
Melody and Myke Groves discuss HOIST A COLD ONE! Historic Bars of the Southwest on KSJE-FM's "Write On! Four Corners"