Photographic masterpiece on beloved White Sands National Park; now in paperback. Winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Photography. Like Ansel Adams in a contemporary and pristine setting. Powerfully relevant today. Winner of the 2018 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award's Father Thomas J. Steele Award for History Award-winning photographer ......
From Crazy Heart to Oppenheimer and beyond, let film industry veteran and northern New Mexico expert Jason Strykowski guide you through the City Different to discover locations from treasured films and cultural highlights. Demons, detectives, cowboys, hippies, lawmen, and Asgardian gods have all visited Santa Fe, New Mexico. The City Different ......
This fully revised and updated edition of Peter B. Dedek's classic is a thorough dive into the history and current delights of America's Road in time for its 100th birthday! In 2026, Route 66 reached a major mile marker: it has celebrated its one-hundredth anniversary. Commissioned by the federal government as US Highway 66 in 1926, Route 66 ......
First time in paper, these essays are an extension of the author's previous books Mayordomo and A Garlic Testament. This book is like Stanley Crawford's floor. The floor began more than thirty years ago when Crawford moved his family to New Mexico after selling movie rights to his first novel. The history of their home-made house is written in the ......
The Global Reach of the World's Most Lucrative Illicit Drug
This superbly edited volume provides scholars and general readers with an in depth view of the evolution, nature, dynamics, and consequences of the global cocaine industry. Cocaine: The Global Reach of the World's Most Lucrative Illicit Drug offers an unprecedented global analysis of the cocaine trade, revealing how the world's most lucrative ......
The Global Reach of the World's Most Lucrative Illicit Drug
This superbly edited volume provides scholars and general readers with an in depth view of the evolution, nature, dynamics, and consequences of the global cocaine industry. Cocaine: The Global Reach of the World's Most Lucrative Illicit Drug offers an unprecedented global analysis of the cocaine trade, revealing how the world's most lucrative ......
The wonderful tales offered in this bilingual collection provide readers with a new set of living stories that give insight into the current traditional ways and daily habits of Guatemala's Tz'utujil Maya people-traditions that are fast disappearing. Anthropologist James D. Sexton and Maya storyteller Pedro Cholotio Temo have worked together ......
The wonderful tales offered in this bilingual collection provide readers with a new set of living stories that give insight into the current traditional ways and daily habits of Guatemala's Tz'utujil Maya people-traditions that are fast disappearing. Anthropologist James D. Sexton and Maya storyteller Pedro Cholotio Temo have worked together ......
Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico
Lieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army's use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of Arizona and New Mexico in the late nineteenth century. The heliograph network in the Southwest, which began development in 1882, used mirror-based ......