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Essays from the Borderlands
A unique, unmistakable voice in American fiction, Dagoberto Gilb is also a singular writer of personal and journalistic essays. In A Passing West he casts a penetrating gaze upon the culture and history of the Southwest, Mexican American identity, and …
View book details for When Einstein Walked with Godel
Excursions to the Edge of Thought
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Godel: Excursions to …
Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolanos Fiction and Poetry examines the ways in which Bolano employs a type of literary aesthetics that subverts traits traditionally associated with postmodernism. Pasten B. coins these aesthetics postmodernism of resistance and argues that this …
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Sustainable Buildings and Renegade Builders
Our buildings are making us sick. Our homes, offices, factories, and dormitories are, in some sense, fresh parasites on the sacred Earth, Nahasdzaan. In search of a better way, author Jim Kristofic journeys across the Southwest to apprentice with architects …
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The Crying Woman
La Llorona, the Crying Woman, is the legendary creature who haunts rivers, lakes, and lonely roads. Said to seek out children who disobey their parents, she has become a "boogeyman," terrorizing the imaginations of New Mexican children and inspiring them …
Written with clarity, tenacity, humor, and warmth, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World attempts to find tolerable ethical positions in the face of barely tolerable eventsand the real possibility of an intolerable future. It is a …
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winnerMarilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize …
Before recovery comes the preparation to recover. In City of Slow Dissolve, John Chavez takes readers through this journeythe slow dissolve, the unpacking and re-packing of self that must take place before healing can begin. Fusing language poetry, lyric, and …
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The Boy Who Never Was: A Novel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sjon's specialty, and Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was is no exception. But it is also Sjon's most realistic, accessible, and heartfelt work yet. It is the story of a young man on the …
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An Anthology of Punk, Trash, and Camp in Twentieth-Century Poetry
By tracing the impulses of punk rock, trash film, and camp through poetry, Drew Gardner sheds light on a literary tendency that has been part of poetrys DNA all along: uncovering the poetic values hidden in unpoetic things. This unique …
View book details for Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879
The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians
Here is a genuine Little Big Man story, with all the color, sweep, and tragedy of a classic American western. It is the tale of Herman Lehmann, a captive of the Apaches on the Southern Plains of Texas and New …
View book details for Breaking Down Breaking Bad
Critical Perspectives
The story of Walter Whites transformation from chemistry teacher to drug lord has captured the imagination of television viewers around the world. This collection of essays sets the series in the context of American culture, analyzing its reinvention of classic …
View book details for The Poetics of Fire
Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands
In The Poetics of Fire, Pulitzer prizewinning journalist and Chicano author Victor M. Valle posits the chile as a metaphor for understanding the shared cultural histories of ChicanX and LatinX peoples from preconquest Mesoamerica to twentieth-century New Mexico. Valle uses …
Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize, this first volume of the author's autobiography provides a searching portrait of his personal background and creative development. Elias Canetti was one of the major intellectual figures and polymaths of the twentieth century. A …
Tom Doherty Associates
*2018 LOCUS AWARD WINNER OF BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL**2018 HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL*John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today. Joe Hill, author of The FiremanThe first novel of a new space-opera sequence set …
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And Other Subjects of Discussion
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life in this "brave, funny compendium" (Slate)Nearly fifteen years after her debut collection, My Misspent Youth, captured the ambitions and anxieties of a generation, …
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Latin AmericanUS Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Gregory Weeks's Embracing Autonomy departs from other general treatments of Latin American-US relations not by putting US policy aside but by bringing in the Latin American and global contexts more closely and thus avoiding the incomplete picture provided by a …
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The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture
Winner of the 1996 Gaspar Perez de Villegra Award from the Historical Society of New MexicoMabel Dodge Luhan, hostess and visionary, made Taos, New Mexico, a center for artists and utopians when she moved there in 1917 and began inviting …
When it was first published in 1934, Erna Fergusson's Mexican Cookbook made authentic Mexican recipes accessible to cooks nationwide--including celebrated favorites such as enchiladas, chile rellenos, and carne adovada, as well as the simple, rustic foods traditionally prepared and served …
View book details for With a Book in Their Hands
Chicano/a Readers and Readerships across the Centuries
First Place Winner of the 2015 International Latino Book Award for Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Literary history is a history of reading. What happens during the act of reading is the subject of the branch of literary scholarship known …
View book details for Global West, American Frontier
Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression
This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers accounts of the West, from de Tocquevilles Democracy in America to William …
Extending from the spillway below Cochiti Dam, about fifty miles north of Albuquerque, to the headwaters of Elephant Butte Reservoir, near Truth or Consequences in the southern portion of New Mexico, the Middle Rio Grande Bosque is more than a …
Here some of the states most noted and qualified policy experts answer two vital questions: New Mexico 2050What can we be? What will we be? They have produced in this volume, edited by former US Senator Fred Harris, a dynamic …
Zonderkidz
Everything Vero has trained for in the Ether has led to this. In the third and final book of Laurice E. Molinaris Ether series, the young guardian angel Vero is given the quest of locating the Book of Razielwhich was …
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The Story of a Chicano Vietnam Vet
Juan Ramirez always believed he would die in Vietnam. As a teenager growing up in the San Francisco area in the early 1960s, "Nam was there, just over the horizon, like the distant thump of artillery." His father and uncles …
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