People, Places, and Portrayals of the Coronado Expedition
This book examines the environmental and cultural impact of the Coronado expedition while also placing it in the context of what was happening in Mexico as Spain expanded west and north of Mexico City. Winner of the TOMFRA Award, sponsored by the Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association and presented by the Texas Catholic ......
The authoritative history of the most ambitious (and perhaps most controversial) nuclear waste repository in the United States, now in an updated edition covering twenty-five years of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant's operation. Before the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant received its first shipment in 1999, the facility had been actively planned ......
The first-ever reference guide to New Mexico's diverse literary history that includes significant New Mexican authors, periods, genres, publishers, themes, and books (as well as some of their characters). A Reader's Guide to New Mexico Literature is an essential introduction to one of the most distinctive literary traditions in the United ......
Master of the essay form and master of the sentence, Priscilla Long combines memoir and science to explore the spaces we live in, the spaces we go to in our imagination, and the colors that surround us. In On Spaces and Colors, Priscilla Long reflects on the spaces we inhabit and the colors that surround us. The essays occur in threes: space ......
The third edition of a comprehensive writing guide that has been a game changer for thousands of writers. From writing the virtuoso sentence to structuring your story, essay, or book, The Writer's Portable Mentor offers deeply craft-oriented guidance to writers at all levels, from beginner to advanced. Readers of this new edition will find ......
Preeminent film historian Thomas Doherty explores the blockbuster 1969 film adaptation of the Charles Portis novel True Grit, which stars John Wayne in his only Oscar-winning performance. The year 1969 was a tipping point for Hollywood cinema and a good year for Westerns. In 1968 the censorious Production Code was eliminated. American cinema ......
A critical analysis of Martin Ritt's Hud (1963), the film adaptation of the novel by Larry McMurtry, starring Paul Newman and with James Wong Howe's Oscar-winning cinematography, from production through the film's complicated reception. Martin Ritt's 1963 classic Hud is a quintessential Western. Update horses with pickup trucks and a pink ......
The third collection from John A. Robertson Award- and Pushcart Prize-winning poet David Meischen, looking at the joys, the struggles, and the contradictions of aging. In this gorgeous assembly of poems, award-winning poet David Meischen candidly examines how spirit defies both age and time, even when it cannot defeat either. Meischen's poems ......
An excellent overview of the diversity of Mexican music and its powerful role in society to awaken, narrate, and interpret political consciousness. The essays in Migration, Dislocation, and Place Making in Mexican Popular Music explore a convoluted musical landscape through personal testimonial, cultural history, and musical ethnography. The ......
