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Examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Mike Tapia examines this region by exploring a century of historical developments through a criminological lens and by studying the diverse subcultures on both sides of the law.

Ty Hale, a young corporal from New Mexico, finds himself alone in the middle of a grain field in Normandy after being knocked unconscious. Stunned and overwhelmed by visions of his grandfather and the simple life of the New Mexico prairie he has left behind, Ty stumbles onto a country estate and inextricably into the lives of its inhabitants.

In his eighty-plus years, Max Evans has known, owned, ridden, and been thrown by quite a number of horses. In For the Love of a Horse, Evans shares his favourite horse stories for all to enjoy.

With the temperament of Santa Claus and the tenacity of a badger, Jack Loeffler reveals his compassion and concern for Southwestern traditional cultures and their respective habitats. In this honest memoir, he advises each and every one of us to go skinny-dipping joyfully in the flow of Nature to better understand where we're headed.

Explores the wide-ranging oeuvre of this seminal author, examining Owens's work and his importance in literature and Native studies. Louis Owens offers a critical introduction and thirteen essays arranged into three sections: ""Owens and the World"", ""Owens and California"", and ""The Novels"".

Provides a simple and quick guide written especially for amateur plant lovers, nature enthusiasts, interested hikers, tourists, and botanists who want to learn more about the plants of the White Mountains in east-central Arizona.

One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years. Circling the Canon, Volume II focuses on the second half of her prolific career, showcasing reviews from 1995 to 2017.

Examines the history, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genizaro people. Contributors cover topics including ethnogenesis, slavery, settlements, poetics, religion, gender, family history, and mestizo genetics.

In this expansive and engaging narrative William Acree guides readers through the deep history of popular entertainment before turning to circus culture and rural dramas that celebrated the countryside on stage.

Bird enthusiasts of all ages will welcome this fun approach to learning about the raptors of North America. Educators, children, and beginning birders will find creative ways to learn about the birds and their distinguishing characteristics with the activities and colouring exercises in this book.

Throughout the colonial period the Spanish crown made numerous unsuccessful attempts to conquer Araucania, Chile's southern borderlands region. Contested Nation argues that with Chilean independence, Araucania - because of its status as a separate nation-state - became essential to the territorial integrity of the new Chilean Republic.

Discusses tobacco in modern and ancient contexts. The chapters utilize research from archaeology, ethnography, mythic narrative, and chemical science from the eighth through the twenty-first centuries.

In 1837 Mariquita Sanchez de Mendeville was so fed up with governor Juan Manuel de Rosas that she chose to leave her beloved city of Buenos Aires. Juan Manuel de Rosas's version of order alienated Mariquita, who chose self-imposed exile. Their lives provide an overarching narrative for Argentine history for both scholars and students.

In this collection of what the author calls Easy Essays, LeRoy Chatfield recounts his childhood, explains the social issues that have played a significant role in his life and work, and uncovers the lack of justice he saw all too frequently.

One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years. Circling the Canon, Volume I covers roughly the first half of Perloff's career, beginning with her first ever review, on Anthony Hecht's The Hard Hours.

Home to one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, Arizona is a beacon for outdoor enthusiasts - the desert landscape is brimming with opportunities for exploration and adventure. In this guide we join travel writer Roger Naylor as he takes us through the state parks of this amazing region.

Maeve Beaufort's family is messy and complicated, rife with competing demands, difficult compromises, and on-the-spot judgment calls. Anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed, underappreciated, underpaid, and underwater will find a kindred spirit in Maeve.

Examines the cult of La Santa Muerte's role in people's lives and explores how popular religious practices of worship and devotion developed around a figure often associated with the illicit. These essays move beyond the visually arresting sight of La Santa Muerte as a tattoo or figurine, suggesting that she represents a major movement in Mexico.

Pays homage to the rivers that taught the poet - the Rio Grande and the Chicago and Illinois Rivers. Sharp-eyed and empathetic, Golden serves as a witness, documenting place, history, and people, especially those left voiceless due to violence or discrimination.

Full of sensory detail and written with astute observation, to cleave searches for and lays bare the mythic moments one finds even in the most ordinary life. In this stunning collection Rockman explores the themes of aging; our relationships to our bodies; marriage; and the surprises, griefs, and joys of motherhood.

Despite rapidly changing social and economic conditions worldwide, patriarchal practices remain remarkably widespread and persistent. Contributors to this volume draw on field research and in-depth qualitative data from different parts of the world to explore the reasons for women's varied psychological responses to patriarchy.

Develops an anthropology of labour that is sharply attuned to the irreversible effects of climate change, extinction, and deforestation. The authors push ethnographic inquiry beyond the anthropocentric documentation of human work on nature in order to develop a Language for thinking about how all labour is a collective ecological act.

First published in 1934 this popular cookbook contains recipes for the foods that are now served in trendy restaurants worldwide - enchiladas, chilli rellenos and carne adovada. But the heart of the book consists of the simple, rustic food served in New Mexican homes - green chilli sandwiches and sweet rice.

Offers the edited memoirs of one woman's rebellion against "the whole ghastly social structure" under which the US had been buried since the Victorian era. Intimate Memories details Mabel Dodge Luhan's assemblage of a series of utopian domains aimed at curing the malaise of the modern age and shows Luhan not just as a visionary hostess but as a talented and important writer.

Puebloan sociocultural formations of the past and present are the subject of the essays collected in this volume. The contributors draw upon the insights of archaeology, ethnology, and linguistic anthropology to examine social history and practice, including kinship groups, ritual sodalities, architectural forms, economic exchange, environmental adaptation, and political order.

Since the 2000 elections toppled the PRI, over 150 Mexican journalists have been murdered. Failed assassinations and threats have silenced thousands more. In this collection historians, media experts, political scientists, cartoonists, and journalists reconsider censorship, state-press relations, news coverage, and readership to retell the history of Mexico's press.

One of the most paradoxical aspects of Cuban history is the coexistence of national myths of racial harmony with lived experiences of racial inequality. In this book a historian addresses this issue by examining the ways soldiers and politicians coded their discussions of race in ideas of masculinity during Cuba's transition from colony to republic.