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Dictators and the Disappeared

Democracy Lost and Restored

Russ Davidson, Editor
Leslie Blaugrund Kim, Editor

Trim: 12" x 9"

Pages: 240

Illustrations: 150 color images

Latin American History

Latin American Art

Latin American Politics

© 2023

Dictators and the Disappeared is a timely look at a tumultuous period in Latin American history. Essays by Maryam Ahranjani, Francisco Letelier, Nancy Morris, Michael Nutkiewicz, Alicia Partnoy, and Natasha Zaretsky represent a range of topics and perspectives considering political events and what it means to live and struggle today with the legacies of past dictatorships.

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New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023 is an "ode and homage to nuestra querencia, our beloved homeland." Two hundred original, previously unpublished poems explore themes such as community, culture, history, identity, landscape, and water.

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Harwood Centennial

100 Works for 100 Years

Emily Santhanam
Nicole Dial-Kay

Trim: 11" x 10"

Pages: 176

Illustrations: 100 color images

Art Collections

American Art

Native American Art

© 2023

The Harwood Museum of Art in Taos houses among the finest collections of New Mexican and Southwest art. In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the museum, this publication highlights one hundred works drawn from more than 6,500 objects collected since its establishment.

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Here, Now and Always

Voices of The First Peoples of The Southwest

Maxine E McBrinn, Editor

Trim: 10" x 7.25"

Pages: 152

Illustrations: 152 color, 8 black and white images

Native American Art

Southwest

History

© 2022

This revised and expanded 2nd edition of Here, Now & Always, is reissued as a companion to the recently renovated permanent exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe. The book and exhibit draw from the museum's vast collections, including art, basketry, pottery, textiles and ancestral items, to illustrate Native narratives speaking to themes of origin, place and self-determination.

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The Ballad of Plácida Romero

A Woman's Captivity & Redemption

Aulton E. "Bob" Roland

Trim: 10" x 7"

Pages: 140

New Mexico History

Southwest

© 2022

Early on the morning of August 8, 1881, seven Apache warriors and twelve Navajo raiders made their way on horseback down a piñon-and-ponderosa-shrouded plateau in west central New Mexico Territory to the rock and terrones La Cebolla Ranch house of Domingo and Plácida Romero Gallegos. The raiders killed Domingo Gallegos along with a ranch hand, José Mará Vargas, carried off Plácida Romero, and rode off into the timbered high country to the east. This is the story of Plácida Romero’s capture, heartbreaking agony, and miraculous escape passed from generation to generation and became the subject of one of the most fascinating and captivating traditional (Hispanic) native ballads in New Mexico history.

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Old Santa Fe Today

A History & Tour of Historic Properties

Audra Bellmore, Author

Trim: 10.75" x 8"

Pages: 288

Illustrations: 173 color & 82 black-and-white photographs, 8 maps

Architecture

Historic Preservation

History

© 2022

Old Santa Fe Today is an engaging read about Santa Fe’s architecture, history, and important figures through its culturally significant properties, among them churches, government buildings, and homes. The book also serves as a walking tour guide for locals and visitors wanting to sightsee. Originally published in 1966, Old Santa Fe Today has been used by writers and scholars exploring the history and architectural significance of Santa Fe. With new essays updating the 1991 fourth edition, this fifth edition of the classic reference book also has a complete inventory of properties—now approximately one hundred—including those recently added to the Historic Santa Fe Foundation’s “Register of Properties Worthy of Preservation” since 1961. Each property entry includes revised and expanded narratives on its architecture, history, and ownership, providing social and cultural context as well.

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Seasons of Ceremonies

Rites and Rituals in Guatemala and Mexico

William Frej, Author

Trim: 10" x 11.5"

Pages: 240

Illustrations: 164 duotone plates

Photography

Latin America

Art

© 2021

This book is a captivating visual record of the rich, still-alive traditions in Mexico and Guatemala conveyed through striking duotone photographs of community events in the region that take place within an annual cycle that refers to its pre-Columbian past, agricultural seasons, and Catholic traditions. The seasons of life are represented by colorful celebrations and rituals commemorating Mesoamerican history, culture, and religion.

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New Mexico Christmas Story

Owl in a Straw Hat 3

Rudolfo A. Anaya, Author

Trim: 8.5" x 11"

Pages: 40

Illustrations: 12 color illustrations

Children's Fiction

Bilingual

© 2021

Acclaimed New Mexico author Rudolfo Anaya presents a northern New Mexico Christmas tale in this third volume from his Owl in a Straw Hat series featuring the loveable Ollie Tecolote and his Wisdom School classmates Uno the Unicorn, Jackie Jackalope, Bessie Beaver, Sally Skunk, Robbie Rabbit, and Ninja Raccoon.

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Virgil Ortiz

reVOlution

Charles S. King, Author

Trim: 12" x 10"

Pages: 236

Illustrations: 55 color plates, 200 color and black-and-white photographs

Native American Art

Fine Art

Biography

© 2021

With an artistic career spanning four decades, Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo) is one of the most innovative artists working today. Not one to be limited or categorized, Ortiz's artistry extends across mediums and boundaries--challenging societal expectations and breaking taboos.

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soft bright fluffy

a fiesta of special shape balloons

Nancy Abruzzo, Author
Noel Chilton, Illustrator

Trim: 6" x 6"

Pages: 24

Juvenile Fiction

© 2021

Nancy Abruzzo, balloon enthusiast and a pilot herself, presents the magic of Special Shape balloons in this children's picture book for young readers beautifully illustrated by Nöel Dora Chilton.

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Valles Caldera

A New Vision for New Mexico's National Preserve

William deBuys, Author
Don J. Usner, Author

Trim: 12" x 10.5"

Pages: 208

Illustrations: 30 duotone and 70 colorplates

National Parks

New Mexico

Environment

© 2020

About 1.25 million years ago, a spectacular volcanic eruption created the 13-mile wide circular depression now known as the Valles Caldera, located in northern New Mexico. This revised & expanded edition marks the twentieth anniversary of the Valles Caldera Preservation Act, a visionary piece of legislation that transferred to the public domain a privately owned ranch (signed in 2000 by President Bill Clinton). The preserve was assigned to a board of citizens appointed by the president to manage it as a self-sustaining preserve. The experiment in semi-private land management ended in 2014 as the Valles Caldera was legislatively reassigned to the National Park Service.

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Cultural Convergence in New Mexico

Interactions in Art, History & Archaeology--Honoring William Wroth

Robin Farwell Gavin, Editor
Donna Pierce, Editor

Trim: 11" x 9"

Pages: 320

Illustrations: 18 color plates, 165 color and black-and-white figures

Spanish Colonial Art

Folk Art

Art

© 2021

Cultural Convergence in New Mexico is a volume in honor of William Wroth (1938–2019), whose career as a cultural historian and curator contributed greatly to our understanding of Spanish Colonial art in the Americas.

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Eva Mirabal

Three Generations of Tradition and Modernity at Taos Pueblo

Lois P. Rudnick, Author
Jonathan Warm Day Coming, Author

Trim: 10.5" x 9"

Pages: 160

Illustrations: 17 color plates, 55 color and black-and-white figures

Native American Art

Fine Art

Biography

© 2021

Eva Mirabal (Eah-Ha-Wa, Fast Growing Corn, 1920–1968) studied for six years at the Dorothy Dunn Studio art program in Santa Fe, where she was a favorite of the program’s founder and served as an assistant to Dunn’s successor, Geronima Montoya (P’Otsunu, 1915–2015, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo). By the time she was twenty years old, Mirabal was exhibiting in museums and galleries across the country.

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Clearly Indigenous

Native Visions Reimagined in Glass

Letitia Chambers, Author
Cathy Short, Photo Editor

Trim: 11" x 10"

Pages: 192

Illustrations: 200 color photographs

Native American Art

Glass Art

Fine Art

© 2020

Whether reinterpreting traditional iconography or expressing current issues, Native glass artists have created a rich body of work. These artists have melded the aesthetics and properties inherent in glass art with their respective cultural knowledge. The result is the stunning collection of artwork presented here.

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Sharing Code

Art1, Frederick Hammersley, and the Dawn of Computer Art

Patrick Frank, Author
Joseph Traugott, Foreword

Trim: 10.5" x 9.5"

Pages: 160

Art History

Computer Art

New Mexico

© 2020

Sharing Code tells the story of Art1—a computer program developed in 1968 at the University of New Mexico—and its role in early digital creativity. The program, designed by electrical engineer Richard Williams with the encouragement of art department chair and renowned kinetic artist Charles Mattox, enabled artists who knew nothing about computers to create artworks on a large mainframe machine by sending output to a line printer.

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Pueblo Chico

Land and Lives in Galisteo since 1814

Lucy R. Lippard, Author

Trim: 10" x 8.5"

Pages: 336

Illustrations: 200 black-and-white and color photographs

New Mexico History

Galisteo

© 2020

In her second book on Galisteo, New Mexico, cultural historian Lucy R. Lippard writes about the place she has lived for a quarter century. The history of a place she refers to as Pueblo Chico (little town) is based largely on other people's memories--those of the descendants of the original settlers in the early 1800s, heirs of the Spanish colonizers and the indigenous colonized who courageously settled this isolated valley despite official neglect and threats of Indian raids. The memories of those who came later--Hispano and Anglo--also echo through this book. But too many lives have already receded into the land, and few remain to tell the stories. The land itself has the longest memory, harboring traces of towns, trails, agriculture, and other land use that goes back thousands of years.

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