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Using California as window into the diversity of religion in America, Nahmias looks at marginalized communities at prayer in their own faith traditions. A photojournalistic work, Nahmias envisions this project as a prayer book that will enable readers to see, hear, and learn about several different groups, including San Quentin Buddhists, a transsexual gospel choir, a Mormon congregation for the deaf, and Jewish recovering addicts. The text includes essays from theologians, plus oral histories, and photos.

Describes the author's exploration of the petroglyphs of Espanola in northern New Mexico.

The Youth Development Center at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, known locally as the Morganza was founded in the 19th century as a farm for orphaned boys. By the 1960s, the Morganza had been burdened with a sinister reputation when it was converted into a detention center for youth convicted of crimes. This book describes the life of students and staff.

An illustrated how-to guide that invites fishermen to hone their hunting skills, sharpen their senses, and shift their perspective from that of an angler to that of a fly-fishing predator. It illustrates how you can improve your fishing experience by applying predator skills.

The effects of floods, droughts, hurricanes, and earthquakes and tsunamis have destroyed people's lives and their built environments, and changed land forms, such as mountains, rivers, forests, and canyons. This collection of essays focuses on earthquakes in Latin America since the mid-nineteenth century.

Darfur, located in westernmost Sudan, is that nation's largest region, situated on the border with Chad. Northern Sudan has been predominantly Arab Muslim and the south, black African. Ruled as a colonial state by Egypt and Britain, Sudan was granted independence in 1956 with Khartoum, in the northern Arab Muslim territory, as its seat of power.

A collection of narratives told from the perspectives of young people from around the world that serves as a useful educational tool, providing youth with a context for understanding global health, not just in a physiological sense, but from a psychological and sociological perspective as well.

Since it became the world's first national park in 1872, Yellowstone has welcomed tourists from all corners of the globe who returned to their hometowns and countries with reports of this American wonderland. Stories from the park's earliest visitors began to spread so rapidly that by 1897 Yellowstone became solidly established as a successful tourist destination with more than ten thousand tourists passing through its entrances. Travelers in the park's first years faced long, dusty, and tediously slow stagecoach trips and could choose only between rather primitive hotels and tent camps for their overnight accommodations. Devoured by nineteenth-century readers, many of the narratives from this era are long forgotten today and are only gradually being recovered from historical archives. Park historians Lee Whittlesey and Elizabeth Watry have combed thousands of firsthand accounts, selecting nineteen tales that offer unique and engaging perspectives of visitors during Yellowstone's stagecoach era. From an 1873 newspaper serial that represents one of the earliest park's recorded trips to the 1914 "e;Little Journey"e; that popular writer Elbert Hubbard took with his wife Alice, the chronicles included here reveal the enduring captivation that Yellowstone held in the popular imagination, as it does today.

The Valles Caldera consists of a twelve-mile-wide collapsed volcanic crater and post collapse volcanic domes in New Mexico's Jemez Mountains. This book offers a summary of geologic events that have taken place in the Valles Caldera area. It presents the volcanology, and geothermal characteristics of the Caldera and the Jemez volcanic field.

This study utilizes archival materials to reconstruct Lipan history through numerous threats to their society. Winner of the 2010 TOMFRA Award.

Offers an history of American archaeology in its most critical decade, the 1930s.

Examines class formation and social and labor issues in the Hidalgo mining district in Northern Mexico from the 1890s to the 1920s.

The California Institution for Women, Tehachapi, pitted those who viewed rehabilitating female inmates as crucial to creating community bonds against critics who derided the coddling of hardened criminals, no matter what their gender. The controversy doomed the prison. This book argues that this failure does not negate its historical importance.

John Doyle Lee was convicted for the 1857 attack on an Arkansas immigrant wagon train camped at Mountain Meadows, Utah. He was the only member of the Church of Latter Day Saints to be sentenced for participation in the killing of more than 120 men, women, and children. This biography offers an account of his arrest and execution.

Describes the physical and human tale of the penitentiary at Deer Lodge whose idyllic setting contrasts so violently with the history it holds. This book features photographs of the prison's interiors and exteriors that illustrate the stories of the people who lived - and sometimes died - within its walls.

A collection of essays that explores personal issues and political responsibilities.

Farm labor leader and civil rights advocate Dolores Huerta first worked with Cesar Chavez as a community organizer in Mexican American areas of southern California in the mid-1950s. This book includes a biographical introduction, articles and book excerpts written about her, and her own writing and speeches.

Examines a dramatic, complex episode in the early history of New Spain that stands as an instructive counterpoint to the much more familiar, triumphalist narrative of Spanish daring, resilience and victory embodied in the oft-told tale of the conquest of central Mexico.

Sonny Baca investigates the brutal murder of his cousin, whose husband is a candidate for mayor of Albuquerque.

Against the backdrop of 19th-century Oaxaca City, this book analyzes rapto trials - cases of abduction and/or seduction of a minor - to gain insight beyond the actual crime and into the reality that testimonies by parents, their children, and witnesses reveal about courtship practices, generational conflict, and the negotiation of honor.

Professor Rosa Medina meets Nadine, a mysterious sixteen-year-old who insists that the two of them travel to Roswell, New Mexico. Nadine is convinced that C-Force, a secret government agency, has decoded the DNA of ChupaCabra and an extraterrestrial. If the two genomes are combined, a new and horrific life form will be created.

"When a woman dies after falling from a hot-air balloon at Albuquerque's world-famous balloon fiesta, private investigator Sonny Baca's intuition tells him it's murder. His intuition also tells him that the murder is the work of the Raven, the leader of a violent cult that murdered Sonny's cousin, and a man Sonny thought he'd killed. The murder jeopardizes the millions of tourist dollars connected with the fiesta, but Sonny knows the Raven has more on his mind than simple mayhem. This is a completely entertaining mystery novel, but Anaya actually offers two parallel lands of enchantment. One is temporal New Mexico; the other is Nuevo Mexicano, a land of santos, milagros, spirits, visions, and even brujas (witches). It's a land of old ways, old values, and old wisdom. And it's a land where small farms and multigenerational families are fast being wiped out by modernity." - Booklist"

Nights of intermittent dreams introduce Owl Woman, one of private detective Sonny's ancestors. As Sonny sleeps, Raven abducts Owl Woman and soon, one by one, each of Sonny's forebears begin to disappear. Immobilizing Sonny physically was Raven's first goal; now he wants to destroy Sonny's soul by erasing his history.

Written by the author whose career involves firefighting, fire rehabilitation, timber sale administration, environmental education, and many other aspects of forest management, this book focuses on the important bond between land and people. It contains tales that offer insight into forest issues.

Features photographs that illustrate the river, Gila's journey from its high mountain source to the arid canyon lands where it leaves New Mexico.

Kenneth Milton Chapman was instrumental in the establishment of the Museum of New Mexico, the School of American Research, and the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe. This biography focuses on his professional development as artist and archaeologist, and tracks his life from his midwestern upbringing through to his seventy years in New Mexico.

Arizona's history is liberally seasoned with legends of lost mines, buried treasures, and significant deposits of gold and silver. The famous Lost Dutchman Mine has lured treasure hunters for over a century into the remote, treacherous, and reportedly cursed Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix.

A collection of essays that places Jewish-Latin Americans within the context of Latin American and ethnic studies. It emphasizes human actors and accounts of lived experiences.