Download or read book Mysterious New Mexico written by Benjamin Radford and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Mexico’s twin traditions of the scientific and the supernatural meet for the first time in this long-overdue book by a journalist known for investigating the unexplained. Strange tales of ghosts, monsters, miracles, lost treasure, UFOs, and much more can be found not far from the birthplace of the atomic bomb. Huge radio astronomy dishes search desert skies for alien life, and the world’s first spaceport can be found in this enchanted land; in many ways New Mexico truly is a portal to other worlds. Mysterious New Mexico is the first book to apply scientific investigation methods to explain some of New Mexico’s most bizarre lore and legends. Using folklore, sociology, history, psychology, and forensic science—as well as good old-fashioned detective work—Radford reveals the truths and myths behind New Mexico’s greatest mysteries.

Download or read book Feasting Wild written by Gina Rae La Cerva and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Selection “Delves into not only what we eat around the world, but what we once ate and what we have lost since then.”—The New York Times Book Review Two centuries ago, nearly half the North American diet was foraged, hunted, or caught in the wild. Today, so-called “wild foods” are becoming expensive luxuries, served to the wealthy in top restaurants. Meanwhile, people who depend on wild foods for survival and sustenance find their lives forever changed as new markets and roads invade the world’s last untamed landscapes. In Feasting Wild, geographer and anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva embarks on a global culinary adventure to trace our relationship to wild foods. Throughout her travels, La Cerva reflects on how colonialism and the extinction crisis have impacted wild spaces, and reveals what we sacrifice when we domesticate our foods —including biodiversity, Indigenous and women’s knowledge, a vital connection to nature, and delicious flavors. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, La Cerva investigates the violent “bush meat” trade, tracking elicit delicacies from the rainforests of the Congo Basin to the dinner tables of Europe. In a Danish cemetery, she forages for wild onions with the esteemed staff of Noma. In Sweden––after saying goodbye to a man known only as The Hunter––La Cerva smuggles freshly-caught game meat home to New York in her suitcase, for a feast of “heartbreak moose.” Thoughtful, ambitious, and wide-ranging, Feasting Wild challenges us to take a closer look at the way we eat today, and introduces an exciting new voice in food journalism. “A memorable, genre-defying work that blends anthropology and adventure.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times-bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction “A food book with a truly original take.”—Mark Kurlansky, New York Times bestselling author of Salt: A World History “An intense and illuminating travelogue... offer[ing] a corrective to the patriarchal white gaze promoted by globetrotting eaters like Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern. La Cerva combines environmental history with feminist memoir to craft a narrative that's more in tune with recent works by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Rush.”—The Wall Street Journal

Download or read book Haunted New Mexico written by Christine M. Rogel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a mystical quality to the land and sky in New Mexico. Places with long histories, such as New Mexico, breed superstition, carrying the memories, stories, and beliefs of those who have passed before. The state is such a notoriously superstitious place that real estate agencies post notices about whether a house is “truly” haunted, with pseudo-legal discussions about the need to disclose this information publicly. There is a haunted State Monument in Lincoln County, and a lovelorn ghost wanders through one of the state’s national parks. There are ghosts who are friendly and fearsome. Stories that have become fables, and others that are fully believed. Haunted New Mexico will occasionally ask you to suspend belief, showing those cracks between what is real and imagined.

Download or read book A Dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish written by Rubén Cobos and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, continuously in print since 1983, has become a classic Spanish reference book, widely used in classrooms across the United States. Linguist and folklorist Rubén Cobos, now in his nineties, has been diligently working on revisions for the past decade. Much expanded—the number of pages has increased by seventy—this revised edition will assume its place as the most authoritative reference on the archaic dialect of Spanish spoken in this region.

Download or read book Magical Medicine written by Wayland Debs Hand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magie.

Download or read book New Mexico written by Richard Melzer and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2011 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial celebration of New Mexico's history and landscape. In celebration of New Mexico's statehood centenial, Richard Melzer focuses on the various social and political elements that have made the Land of Enchantment what it is today. Filled with images that document the past hundred years, New Mexico is a photographic delight accompanied by brief insightful essays that leave the reader in no doubt of a history that is both imposing and exciting in its scope. This book is also an official product of the state's centennial celebration. Richard Anthony Melzer is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico Valencia Campus. He is a former president of the Historical Society of New Mexico and is the author of many books and articles on twentieth-century New Mexico history.

Download or read book A Tangled Fate written by Aidy Award and published by Coffee Break Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Save the Geek Girl, Save the Galaxy. Ash Ayininkalbi has spent her whole life searching for who she is supposed to be. She doesn't know where she came from, why she can use magic, or why these two mega hot alien bear-shifters have suddenly kidnapped her. But, she does know one thing. Science. Her brains have gotten her out of worse situations than being stuck between two...aliens? bears? supermodels? Russ and Dunn Barrett need a weapon to defend thousands of innocent lives from the spectral warriors who have been stealing souls throughout the galaxy. They know exactly how to get one. But, cut off from Star Coalition, they'll have to kidnap an Earth scientist and coerce her into making it for them. That task becomes doubly hard when the curvy, lick-worthy scientist turns out to be both a witch with erratic powers and their fated mate. When the spectral scourge attacks, these twin bear-shifter warriors will have to choose, save their soul mate or save the universe.

Download or read book A Touch of Fate written by Aidy Award and published by Coffee Break Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Save the Geek Girl, Save the World Kady Ayininkizi, your anything but average curvy geek girl, has isolated herself in her brand new tiny house in the mountains because she's tired of being bullied by the alphaholes of the world. The spaceship that crashes in her backyard brings the first alien she's ever encountered, make that the sexiest alien, ever. When he insists she help him get to some weird place called Magic, New Mexico, she is determined to outwit the men in black, in spite of the growing attraction that she knows will never come to fruition. Black Barrett can't lead his elite team of shape-shifting Star Rangers on their mission to stop the scourge that is the spectral soul stealers if he can't get to Magic, New Mexico. His best bet is the luscious witch who doesn't seem to know how to use her powers but has earth's lawmen running in circles with her sexy-as-hell smarts. But, when her powers surface and bring the spectrals down around them in force, he must choose. Save his one true love that the Fates have brought him, or save the world. Another bewitching story from Magic, New Mexico~

Download or read book A Taste of Fate written by Aidy Award and published by Coffee Break Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clever fox and a rogue spy have the fate of the universe in their hands. All they have to do is admit they're in love before time runs out. Titian fell for his fated mate the day they met back as bright-eyed cadets at Star Command academy. She chose her career over him and now she's his commanding officer. She's also in a ship-load of trouble and he's been tasked with arresting her and bringing her to justice. Passion had one shot to save the galaxy from the spectral soul-stealers and she blew it. Her own Star Rangers think she's betrayed them, including the one man she loved and lost. She has to convince him to let her escape, or... ask him for help. Worst case scenario? She has to confess she has always loved him. A Taste of Fate is a fun, action-packed second chance sci-fi romance with shifters, Star Rangers, soul-stealers, and super-hot love set in the world of Magic, New Mexico. Get your taste today.

Download or read book In Graves Below Magic New Mexico written by Carol Van Natta and published by Chavanch Press, LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a disabled veteran and a magical dancer learn the secret of dreamwalk, or will demons turn the world into an all-you-can-eat buffet? Disabled, scarred veteran Idrián Odair is running out of time. If he doesn't figure out how to use earth magic to renew the barrier protecting his tribal lands near Magic, New Mexico soon, they'll be vulnerable to marauders, thieves, and worst of all, tourists. Trouble is, his grandfather died before telling him the secret, and Idrián is the only dreamwalk warrior left. Except for the stunning dancer he saw only once and can't forget. Riya Sanobal, mostly human dancer in Denver, is about to be named artistic director of a dance company. She can't stop thinking about the sexy, eagle-footed warrior she's been dreaming about for weeks. Especially since she has to deal with with an obnoxious visiting star and a big donor with an off-the-charts sleaze factor. When Idrián's grandfather insists they must drive to Denver to protect the dancer, finding her turns out to be the easy part. A powerful, greedy demon wants to invite more of his kind to town to make the world an all-you-can-eat buffet. He needs a dancer to do it, and he's targeted Riya. If the discovers Riya's gift for portal magic, he'll never let her go. Not if Idrián has anything to say about it. But even stealing Riya away and spiriting her to his New Mexico home won't save them if they can't figure out the secret of dreamwalk. In Graves Below is part of S.E. Smith's The Worlds of Magic, New Mexico, where creatures of fairy tales, myth, and nightmares are free to be themselves and find their happily ever after. - - - - - Note to Readers: This is a re-release of a story was originally published via the Magic, New Mexico worlds program. <><><> Keywords: paranormal romance, disabled veteran, magic, romantic, dancer, theatre, theater, demon, dreamwalk, shaman, Native American, Indian, ghost

Download or read book Memories of C bola written by Abe M. Peña and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Let Abe Pena transport you to a Hispanic New Mexico village. There in San Mateo and in the nearby town of Grants, he introduces us to relatives and friends from his youth on his family's sheep ranch. His stories of their lives and experiences between the 1920s and the 1950s speak to such universal themes as coming of age, striking out on one's own, and joining family and neighbors to celebrate good times and to aid them in overcoming hardships."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book The Spell of New Mexico written by Tony Hillerman and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1984-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous writers tell of the fascination of New Mexico.

Download or read book The Watkins Dictionary of Magic written by Nevill Drury and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3000 authoritative, cross-referenced entries, covering magical traditions from all around the world.

Download or read book Accidental Anthropologists written by Claudia Clavel and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A middle aged couple moves into a small village in rural New Mexico, unaware that they are moving into the adventure of a lifetime

Download or read book Making New Mexico written by Ed H Whorton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of New Mexico, in the United States was originally part of Texas and the land included in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The lands were purchased from the French and included portions of fourteen current U.S. states and two Canadian Provinces. These lands were under French control from 1682 - 1763 and from 1803 1804; the area was named in honor of King Louis 14th. A Spanish expedition, in 1540 by Francisco Vasquez Coronado was formed in an attempt to find the ancient Seven Golden Cities of Ci. The rumor began with Cabeza de Vacas visit to what is now southern New Mexico. It is rumored that seven priest fled the city of Merida, Spain taking vast amounts of gold and other treasures to a far away land later to be called the Americas. Coronado, however, was, unsuccessful and returned home. Another expedition led by Juan de Onate Salazar in 1598 explored north of the Rio Grande and claimed most of modern day New Mexico for Spain. Santa Fe became the capital city of the territory and remains the capital of the state.

Download or read book A Twist of Fate written by Aidy Award and published by Coffee Break Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lion, a Witch, and a War Tia Ayininruhu, hates everything she has become. She’s nothing more than a tool for Task Force Omega and their greedy plans to rule the galaxy. She’s ready to end it all but can’t when the shining soul of her lion-shifter true mate brings a new light and purpose into her life. But, he’s too late for her to escape her fate. Fedelis is the Star Rangers deadliest weapon and he’s been sent to take out the only thing standing between good and evil. Except the Fates have played another cruel trick on him. The witch he must destroy to save Earth and the rest of the souls in the galaxy is his one true mate. He knows the only choice is to destroy her soul and his own in the process if he wants to save everyone else’s. Save the Geek Girl, or Save the Galaxy Another bewitching tale from Magic, New Mexico.

Download or read book Material Approaches to Roman Magic written by Adam Parker and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume in the new TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology series seeks to push the research agendas of materiality and lived experience further into the study of Roman magic, a field that has, until recently, lacked object-focused analysis. Building on the pioneering studies in Boschung and Bremmer's (2015) Materiality of Magic, the editors of the present volume have collected contributions that showcase the value of richly-detailed, context-specific explorations of the magical practices of the Roman world. By concentrating primarily on the Imperial period and the western provinces, the various contributions demonstrate very clearly the exceptional range of influences and possibilities open to individuals who sought to use magical rituals to affect their lives in these specific contexts – something that would have been largely impossible in earlier periods of antiquity. Contributions are presented from a range of museum professionals, commercial archaeologists, university academics and postgraduate students, making a compelling case for strengthening lines of communication between these related areas of expertise.