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AUTHOR EVENTS
Thursday, February 28 at 7:00pm: Slim Randles, author of Sweetgrass Mornings, will discuss and sign his books as part of the Authors Speak Series at the Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos, NM. |
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AUTHORS ON THE AIR
Thomas Fox Averill discusses rode on "New Letters on the Air."
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University of New Mexico Press 1717 Roma Ave NE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106 katm@unm.edu
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NEW FROM UNM PRESS
by Kathleen P. Chamberlain
The events of July 19, 1878, marked the beginning of what became known as the Lincoln County War and catapulted Susan McSween and a young cowboy named Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, into the history books.
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 THAT EVERY MAN BE ARMED: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right
by Stephen P. Halbrook
That Every Man Be Armed, the first scholarly book on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, has played a significant role in constitutional debate and litigation since it was first published in 1984.
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 AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN NEW MEXICO: Portraits from Five Hundred Years
edited by Bruce A. Glasrud
Although their total numbers in New Mexico were never large, blacks arrived with Spanish explorers and settlers and played active roles in the history of the territory and state.
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 SAY THAT
by Felicia Caton Garcia
Caton Garcia's poems layer sound and image to offer a tangible point of access into the complex and often contradictory ideas contained within the work.
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 WORKERS GO SHOPPING IN ARGENTINA: The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture
by Natalia Milanesio
In 1951 an Argentine newspaper announced that the standard of living of workers in Argentina was "the highest in the world."
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KUDOS AND SALUDOS
The following UNM Press titles are winners of the Border Regional Library Association 2012 Southwest Book Awards:
 AMADITO AND THE HERO CHILDREN
by Enrique R. Lamadrid
illustrated by Amy Córdova
Recounting the two most deadly epidemics to strike the Southwest, this beautifully illustrated narrative reveals that with tragedy comes heroism, as demonstrated by the children who bravely transported the smallpox vaccine from Mexico's interior to New Mexico in 1805.
photographs by Richard Moeller
This bilingual tale offers an authentic slice of life in the multicultural West and will warm the hearts of readers of all ages.
 HARD TO HAVE HEROES
by Buddy Mays
When fourteen-year-old wannabe cowboy Noah Odell moves to his flamboyant uncle's ranch in rural New Mexico, he soon finds himself encountering some of the Chihuahuan Desert's strangest characters.
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