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PIE TOWN REVISITED
by Arthur Drooker; Foreword by F. Jack Hurley

In this book author-photographer Arthur Drooker documents his own travels to Pie Town to find out what became of it seventy years after Russell Lee visited. Read on... 
by Robert von Hallberg

Examining twenty-eight great noir films from the earliest examples of the genre, including The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Out of the Past, to such twenty-first-century spy films as The Good Shepherd, Syriana, and The Bourne Ultimatum, this study explores the representations of trust and commitment that noir and spy films propose. Read on... 
AMADA'S BLESSINGS FROM THE PEYOTE GARDENS OF SOUTH TEXAS
by Stacy B. Schaefer

Schaefer's book weaves together the geography, biology, history, cultures, and religions that created the unique life of Mrs. Cardenas and the people she knew. Read on... 
NORTH AMERICAN HUMMINGBIRDS: An Identification Guide
by George C. West

Designed to help birders and banders identify, age, and sex all seventeen species of hummingbirds found in North America, this is the only identification guide devoted entirely to hummingbirds that includes up-close, easy-to-use illustrations. Read on...
University of New Mexico Press and the School for Advanced Research Press Announce New Publishing Partnership

UNM Press and SAR Press are pleased to announce a publishing alliance that will renew a business relationship dating back to the 1930s. 

Read the press release here.  

Congratulations to our 2015 finalists! Winners will be announced at the awards banquet on November 20th.

Find the list of nominees here.
 
"Pie Town, New Mexico, Then and Now. An iconic town from a New Deal-era government photography project gets revisited."--- Politico Magazine   

See the slideshow and read the article here.
 

"Writing the book, he says, was ultimately the most loving thing he could have done for himself. He spent
four years working on it."--- San Jose Mercury News 

Read the full article here.  

"Art beholds the beloved, remembers the beloved, makes the beloved visible. And art laments. Art keens. Art puts the private agony of grief out into the world where it reverberates with an elemental core of our human condition."
--- Priscilla Long in Psychology Today 
 
Read the full article here.  

"Is there anyone who hasn't seen the iconic picture of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon?
Or the equally famous Earthrise photo taken from lunar orbit by the Apollo 8 crew? They are justly famous because both are dramatic images that document two of the greatest moments in exploration: the first time humans left our planet behind, and the first time humans walked on another celestial body."--- John Bisney for Space.com

Read the full article here.  
 
by Sean Prentiss

Book Readings and Signings

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 
7:00pm 
Tempe, AZ

 Thursday, October 29, 2015
7:00pm
  Flagstaff, AZ
Edited by Michele Wehrwein Albion

Book Readings and Signings


Thursday, October 29, 2015 
6:00pm
Kittery, ME

Tuesday, November 10, 2015
7:00pm
York, ME
by Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez

Book Readings and Signings

Wednesday, October 28, 2015
7:00pm
Prairie Lights
Iowa City, IA

Friday, November 6, 2015

7:00pm
  Chaucer's Bookstore
Santa Barbara, CA
Edited by Fred Harris

Panel Discussion and Signing

Wednesday, October 28, 2015
7:00pm
Albuquerque, NM

Book Reading and Signing

Sunday, November 1, 2015
2:00pm
Patagonia, AZ
   by Sharon Oard Warner
 
Talk on Plot and Point of View in the Novel
 
Saturday, November 7, 2015
10:00am - 12:00pm
Albuquerque, NM
by John Bisney and J. L. Pickering

Book Signing

Saturday, November 7, 2015
All Day
  Astronaut Autograph & Memorabilia Show
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
by Thomas Fox Averill

Book Readings and Signings

Saturday, November 7, 2015
10:00am - 12:00pm
Lawrence, KS
 
Sunday, November 8, 2015
2:00pm
by William deBuys

Book Readings and Signings


Thursday, November 12, 2015
7:00pm
 Bookworks
Albuquerque, NM
 
Thursday, November 19, 2015
7:00pm
Santa Fe, NM
by Arthur Drooker

Book Readings and Signings

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Sunday, November 15, 2015
3:00pm
Albuquerque, NM
by Jim Kristofic; Illustrated
by Nolan Karras James

Book Reading and Signing

Saturday, November 14, 2015
10:00am, 12:00pm, 2:00pm
Page Public Library
Page, AZ

University of New Mexico Press
1717 Roma NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106