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Abbey's Road
• Edward Abbey
NATURAL HISTORY •
1991 •
PAPER
• 198 PAGES
Famed as a rascal, misanthrope and cantankerous lover of all things untamed, Abbey's writings reflect the beauty and spirit of wild places. They are also insightful and laugh-out-loud funny. This volume collects his explorations of varied locales around the globe, including the Sierra Madre of Mexico. If you like this book, we also carry Abbey's tribute to the American Southwest, Desert Solitaire.
(DES04, $17.00) |
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Bless Me, Ultima
• Rudolfo A. Anaya
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 290 PAGES
The first-person tale of Antonio, a Chicano boy whose life is changed when a mystical woman named Ultima comes to live with his family. Anaya's first novel, this now-classic book is based, in part, on the author's own experiences as a Chicano growing up in New Mexico. It evokes the folkways and beliefs of traditional villages in the Southwest. Anaya has since written dozens of novels, mysteries, stories, plays, and children's books set in and around Albuquerque. Originally published in 1972.
(USW264, $13.95) |
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The Blessing Way
• Tony Hillerman
MYSTERY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 304 PAGES
Hillerman's first mystery introduces Detective Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police, as well as Hillerman's now-trademark attention to Southwestern peoples' cultures and histories.
(SWU94, $9.99) |
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A Brief History of New Mexico
• Myra Jenkins
• Albert Schroeder
HISTORY •
1974 •
PAPER
• 89 PAGES
This slim volume packs in more historical information than you could ever imagine in a mere 89 pages. From prehistoric beginnings to the construction of major dams, the nature, politics, geology, industry, exploration and culture of New Mexico is detailed in a highly interesting, readable format.
(USW218, $14.95) |
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Brighter than a Thousand Suns, A Personal History of Atomic Scientists
• Robert Jungk
HISTORY •
1970 •
PAPER
An early history of the Atomic Age featuring interviews with U.S. and German physicists, famously including Heisenberg.
(HSC20, $21.95) |
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Compass Guide Santa Fe
• Lawrence Cheek
GUIDEBOOK •
2008 •
PAPER
• 268 PAGES
This wonderfully written handbook features outstanding color photography, detailed maps and in-depth information on the culture, history and attractions of Santa Fe. Cheek introduces the area's ancient Indian ruins, Pueblo arts, adobe architecture and Hispanic heritage, and provides some information on visiting the neighboring Taos. With archival photographs, literary excerpts and practical travel tips.
(USW129, $20.95) |
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Critical Assembly, A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945
• Lillian Hoddeson
• Paul W. Henriksen
• Roger A. Meade
• Catherine L. Westfall
SCIENCE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 509 PAGES
The best technical history of the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, covering from 1943-1945. It's a detailed and comprehensive account, rewarding for those who are willing to make the effort.
(HSC23, $69.00) |
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Desert Survival Skills
• David Alloway
GUIDEBOOK •
2000 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
A practical guide to survival in the desert, leavened by Alloway's sense of humor and own experience in the Chihuahuan desert. Topics include finding and conserving water, fire, shelter, weather, plant and animal resources, vehicle repair and first aid.
(DES06, $26.95) |
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Desert Survivor, An Adventurer's Guide to Exploring the Great American Desert
• John Annerino
GUIDEBOOK •
2001 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
A well informed, practical guide and handbook for hikers, backpackers and anyone else who would like to explore the parks and wilderness areas of the Chihuauan, Mojave, Sonoroan and Great Basin deserts of the American Southwest. With maps, drawings, photos, and guidelines for safe travel. Annerino is a popular author, photographer -- and desert rat -- who lives in Tucson. With an excellent overview of the natural and cultural history of the Great American Desert.
(USW372, $15.95) |
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Enchantment and Exploitation, The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range
• William Eno DeBuys
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1985 •
PAPER
• 394 PAGES
Pueblo Indian, Anglo, and Hispano intersect over the same mountain range in New Mexico. In this scholarly portrait of the region, DeBuys mixes sources drawn from history, ethnography, geology, and anthropology, with striking personal narrative.
(USW215, $29.95) |
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A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians
• Robert Stebbins
FIELD GUIDE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 533 PAGES
This field guide covers reptiles and amphibians found from Northern Mexico to Alberta. With the variety of chuckwallas, whiptails and other localized lizards and snakes in Baja California, it is an indispensable guide to that region. Baja endemics are featured on four of the book's 56 plates. P.S. It's true that Santa Catalina Island has a rattleless rattlesnake -- although it's retiring and hard to see. With color photographs, newly revised range maps and very good descriptive information.
(FG08, $22.00) |
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Gathering the Desert
• Gary Paul Nabhan
NATURAL HISTORY •
1985 •
PAPER
• 209 PAGES
An ecologist with a particular interest in the origins of foodstuffs, Nabhan interweaves ethnography, biochemistry, natural history and journalism to document traditional uses of 12 Sonoran desert plants: the creosote bush, palm, mescal, sandfood, organpipe cactus, amaranth, tepary bean, chile, devil's claw, panicgrass, and wild gourds.
(USW120, $22.95) |
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Made in the Southwest: A Shopper's Guide to the Region's Best Native American, Hispanic and Western Craft Traditions
• Laura Morelli
GUIDEBOOK •
2006 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
A shopper's guide to all that is handmade and beautiful in the Southwest's Hispanic, Native American and Western traditions, by writer and art historian Laura Morelli. With a state-by-state guide to artisans and stores and 80 color illustrations.
(SWU209, $24.95) |
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The Man Who Killed the Deer
• Frank Waters
LITERATURE •
1942 •
PAPER
• 266 PAGES
A heartfelt tale of a Pueblo Indian in New Mexico by Frank Waters, who wrote two dozen books of fiction and non-fiction set in the Southwest. Waters captures the difficult position of his protagonist Martiniano, straddled between his tribe and white society. It's an award-winning exploration of cultural conflicts and the human condition, rich in details of daily life.
(USW265, $12.95) |
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Masked Gods, Navaho and Pueblo Ceremonialism
• Frank Waters
HISTORY •
1984 •
PAPER
• 433 PAGES
Originally published in 1950, this is an expansive survey of the history, ceremony and religion of Pueblo life by an important writer of the American Southwest.
(USW220, $22.95) |
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Native Universe, Voices of Indian America
• Clifford E. Trafzer
ANTHOLOGY •
2008 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
This anthology of personal and historical essays, as well as over 300 color illustrations of Native American art, is being published to accompany the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. It includes selections from several modern Native American writers, including Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie.
(USA95, $22.00) |
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Patterns of Culture
• Ruth Benedict
• Margaret Mead
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2006 •
PAPER
• 290 PAGES
Essential reading for any anthropologist, this pioneering book compares and contrasts three cultures: the Kwakiutl (Pacific Northwest), Zuni (American Southwest) and the Dobu Island culture (Papua New Guinea). With a preface by Margaret Mead.
(PNG10, $15.00) |
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Pueblo Indians of North America
• Edward P. Dozier
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1983 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
Having spent his life among the Pueblos in Hopi towns in Arizona and Taos settlements in New Mexico, Dozier writes the story of their adaptation to a changing physical and political environment in this scholarly profile.
(USW234, $19.95) |
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Roadside Geology, New Mexico
• Halka Chronic
NATURAL HISTORY •
1987 •
PAPER
• 260 PAGES
Designed for the roadside traveler, this book explains in detail the geologic history of New Mexico as seen through the window. It's a great introduction to basic geomorphology and how the dramatic landscapes were formed. Each section is organized around a particular route, with black-and-white photographs complementing the amazingly detailed geologic maps. The highly readable text lets you know exactly how and when that butte on the horizon was formed and how it fits into the larger geologic picture.
(SWU59, $18.00) |
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Scats and Tracks of the Desert Southwest
• James Halfpenny
• Todd Telander
FIELD GUIDE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 144 PAGES
An essential pocket guide to tracks, scats and signs of not just the mammals of the region but also the reptiles, amphibians and birds. Each of the species gets a double-page spread with line drawings of the animal, scat and track, range map, and description. With shaded pencil drawings by Todd Telander.
(SWU61, $9.95) |
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Summer People, Winter People: A Guide to Pueblos in the Santa Fe Area
• Sandra Edelman
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1986 •
PAPER
• 31 PAGES
A pamphlet with short descriptions of Pueblo communities between Albuquerque and Taos. With a list of feast days, dances and celebrations, and brief overview of the Pueblos of Northern New Mexico.
(USW214, $4.95) |
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Talking With the Clay, The Art of Pueblo Pottery
• Stephen Trimble
• Tom Ireland
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 116 PAGES
With color photographs throughout, this 20th anniversary edition of Trmible's portrait of the Pueblo people as revealed through pottery traditions includes interviews with a new generation of artists.
(USW235, $19.95) |
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Utopian Vistas, The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture
• Lois Palken Rudnick
HISTORY •
1996 •
PAPER
• 401 PAGES
A cultural history of the Mabel Dodge House -- and the community of avant-guard painters, writers and intellectuals who have visited over the years. Designated a national historic landmark in 1991, the house is today a center for alternative education. Since its origins in 1918, the house has provided shelter to some of America's most influential writers, photographers, painters, and choreographers. Rudnick has also writen a biography of Mabel Dodge.
(SWU30, $24.95) |
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Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province, Exploring Ancient and Enduring Uses
• William Dunmire
• Gail Tierney
FIELD GUIDE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 304 PAGES
A plant ecologist and an anthropologist teamed up to write this accessible guide to the diverse plant communities of the Pueblo people, a rich source of information on the plants and human ecology of the high deserts and mountains of New Mexico and surrounding regions. With a laminated paper cover and sturdy spine, this book is meant to be taken in the field. With color landscape photos and individual drawings of 60 important plants.
(USW09, $22.50) |
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