Concerns about the cost and environmental consequences of the “traditional” American model of burial—embalming, casket, vault, single perpetual grave—are prompting the first significant challenges to American disposition practices since the Civil War. Burial itself is even being challenged—the popularity of cremation has exploded in recent decades and it will soon become the dominant practice. Americans eager to innovate in deathcare find that the law—still heavily rooted in 17th century English, Protestant practices and beliefs—is ill-equipped to adapt. Cemetery law in the United States has changed little in the past 200 years, but the challenges to our disposition practices are so widespread and significant that it will soon have no choice. It is unimaginable that we will start with a clean slate. Instead, the law will, as it always does in a common law system, slowly evolve from its current form. Before we can change the law, we must first understand it. This book is designed to help jumpstart that process by outlining the history, structure, and doctrines of the common law of burying grounds in the United States.

Cemetery Law: The Common Law of Burying Grounds in the United States

Marsh, Tanya D

GIBSON, DANIEL

Legal History

God's Acre Publishing

This invaluable book tells you everything there is to know about skiing and snowboarding in the Land of Enchantment, with thousands of helpful details on the state's downhill ski resorts and cross-country and backcountry venues.
Each ski area is profiled in a separate chapter, including details on facilities and services such as childcare and instructional options; statistics like average snowfall, vertical drop, and lift capacity; transportation options, including shuttle and bus services; and prices of lift tickets, rental equipment, and lessons. Gibson also includes historical facts about each ski area and its founders, suggestions for best runs by type of terrain, activities off the slopes, and notes on his favorite places to stay and eat. Separate chapters on cross-country and backcountry downhill skiing are equally informative.

Skiing New Mexico: A Guide to Snow Sports in the Land of Enchantment (Southwest Adventure Series)

Sports & Outdoors

Winter Sports

University of New Mexico Press

Missions: The Next Generation

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Xlibris, Corp.

Crow Indian Artist Kevin Red Star is not only one of the most acclaimed Native American artists, but he is also a visual historian of his people, the Crow. His art celebrates, commemorates, and perpetuates the Crow culture. Gibson and Leaken showcase the talents of Red Star in this collection of artwork while also exploring his motivations. Red Star’s childhood on the reservation, his time at the Institute of American Indian Arts and San Francisco Art Institute, and his friends and family are all a part of his ever-evolving path of expression that makes his artwork so iconoclastic. DANIEL GIBSON has worked as a freelance writer and editor for numerous publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Cowboys &amp; Indians. He served as editor of Native Peoples magazine for 12 years and as a columnist for the Santa Fe New Mexican. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. KITTY LEAKEN creates documentaries that preserve art and culture of native peoples of the world. She has been the photographer for several books, including Contemporary Native American Artists. She is an official photographer for the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Kevin Red Star

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Gibbs-Smith

Skiing in New Mexico (Images of America)

New Mexico's long and distinguished skiing history began with the miners of the late 19th century and its pioneer settlers. Ski area development was launched in the 1930s in the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque and quickly spread to the southernmost range of the Rocky Mountains--the Sangre de Cristos, north of Santa Fe. Students of a boarding school, the Los Alamos Ranch School, took up the sport in the Jemez Mountains, and when the school was occupied in the 1940s by American and international scientists like Neils Bohr working to create the world's first atomic bomb, they enthusiastically pursued skiing in their rare spare time. Taos Ski Valley's founding in 1955 elevated the scene to world-class status, and today, there are eight major downhill ski areas and one cross-country center stretching from the deserts of south-central New Mexico to the Colorado border.

Blackwood, Jay

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

Arcadia Pub (Sc)

Offering the best routes, logical driving loops, and sound advice on accommodations and dining, Travel-Smart presents readers with hassle-free trip planning. Suggested itineraries match travelers' interests and include Outdoor Recreation, Hispanic and Indian Cultures, Art Lovers, Nature Lovers, and Fun Family Trips. Destinations include the cultural attractions of New Mexico's vibrant cities and towns -- Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos, and Carlsbad -- and the scenic destinations of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Borderlands, Gila Country, and the northwest's Navajo Indian Reservation.

Travel Smart: New Mexico

Travel

United States

Rick Steves

This updated and expanded edition of American Southwest Travel-Smart has four new chapters on Arizona and two new chapters on New Mexico. It also includes fun special-interest tours.

Travel Smart: American Southwest

Pueblos of the Rio Grande is an authoritative and colorful travelers guide to the nineteen venerable pueblos of New Mexico. Written in consultation with pueblo community elders, this book celebrates the cultural diversity and enduring values of Acoma, Cochiti, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Namb, Picuris, Pojoaque, Taos, Tesuque, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Sandia, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santa Domingo, Zia, and Zuni. Cultural identity and artistry are vividly expressed by skilled Pueblo potters, silversmiths, fetish carvers, basket makers, and painters, whose finest works are highly sought-after by discerning art buyers worldwide. Daniel Gibson provides first-time visitors and experienced Indian art collectors alike with a wealth of trip-planning information, including the arts and crafts traditions distinct to each pueblo, annual celebrations open to the public, proper etiquette and attire, and photography restrictions.

Pueblos of the Rio Grande: A Visitor's Guide

Rio Nuevo Publishers

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