April Book Bulletin

NEW FROM UNM PRESS

NEW MEXICO'S HIGH PEAKS:

A Photographic Celebration

by Mike Butterfield

Photographer-author Mike Butterfield has spent forty years hiking New Mexico's high mountains, and his magnificent images are paired here with the chronicle of his adventures. Read on...

MAKING AZTLÁN:

Ideology and Culture of the Chicana and Chicano Movement, 1966-1977

by Juan Gómez-Quiñones and Irene Vásquez

This book provides a long-needed overview of the Chicana and Chicano movement's social history as it grew, flourished, and then slowly fragmented. The authors examine the movement's origins in the 1960s and 1970s, showing how it evolved from a variety of organizations and activities united in their quest for basic equities for Mexican Americans in U.S. society. Read on...

XYLOTHEQUE:

Essays

by Yelizaveta P. Renfro

Combining memoir and nature writing, this book comprises nine essays that represent different seasons and slices of time, not unlike the rings of a tree. No two rings are alike, but each accretes to the next, creating, section by section, a life. Read on...

AMERICAN BLOOD:

A Novel

by John Nichols

Though Michael Smith cannot forget the pornographic atrocities he witnessed abroad during the Vietnam war, it is the pervasive brutality of civilian life that threatens to destroy him. American Blood

is a timely and fiercely moral statement on violence and loss. Read on...

AN ELEGY FOR SEPTEMBER:

A Novel

by John Nicols

A brief, poignant, and eloquent novel that renders an age-old story in a fresh and powerful form, An Elegy for September

captures the turning point in the life of a man as he confronts his own mortality. Read on...

THE WAR HAS BROUGHT PEACE TO MEXICO:

World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State

by Halbert Jones

Though the war years in Mexico have attracted less attention than other periods, this book shows how the crisis atmosphere of the early 1940s played an important part in the consolidation of the post-revolutionary regime. Read on...

MONO LAKE:

From Dead Sea to Environmental Treasure

by Abraham Hoffman

Environmental controversy brought so much attention to Mono Lake in the late twentieth century that it became best known for its appearance on "Save Mono Lake" bumper stickers. This thoughtful study is the first book to explore the lake's environmental and cultural history. Read on...

HISPANIC FOLK MUSIC OF NEW MEXICO AND THE SOUTHWEST:

A Self-Portrait of a People

by John Donald Robb

First published in 1980 and now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, this classic compilation of New Mexico folk music is based on thirty-five years of field research by a giant of modern music, composer John Donald Robb. Read on...

A JESUIT MISSIONARY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SONORA:

The Family Correspondence of Philipp Segesser

Edited by Raymond H. Thompson

The Swiss Jesuit missionary Philipp Segesser was sent to northwestern Mexico in 1731. His letters home, translated and edited in this fascinating book, provide a frank and intimate view of missionary life on the remote northwestern frontier of New Spain. Read on...

PUBLICITY POSTS

LEAVING TINKERTOWN
by Tanya Ward Goodman

Congratulations to UNM Press author Tanya Ward Goodman whose book Leaving Tinkertown won the 2013 Sarton Memoir Award! Read on...

TWO UNM PRESS BOOKS WIN WESTERN HERITAGE AWARDS

from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

Nasario García's Grandma's Santo on Its Head won for Outstanding Juvenile Book, and David M. Wrobel's Global West, American Frontier won for Outstanding Nonfiction Book!