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Distribution
of the Month
Center for the Art
of Translation
University
of Washington Press partners with publishers around the world for
distribution, including the new Center for the Art of Translation's Book Series. April
will feature the publication of New World/ New Words: Recent Writing
from the Americas -- A Bilingual Anthology. Featuring writing from
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda, Christina Peri Rossi, and Senal
Paz, this isn't one to miss! |
William Layman's River of Memory wins 2007 Silver Spur Award in the Nonfiction - Contemporary category.
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What's going on at University of Washington Press?
April features a wide range of books from an exploration of
Washington's archaeology past -- and future -- to a look at Buddhist
art in medieval temples, creating wilderness areas in the Pacific
Northwest, and the art of one of Seattle's greatest treasures.
All the best,
Rachael
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Archaeology in Washington
Ruth Kirk & Richard D. Daugherty
Archaeology
-- along with Native American traditions and memories -- holds a key to
understanding early chapters of the human story in Washington. This
all-new book draws together and brings up to date what has been learned
about the state's prehistory and the environments early people
experienced. It presents a sample of sites representing Washington's
geographic regions and touches on historical archaeology, including
excavations at fur-trade forts, the Whitman mission, and Cathlapotle, a
Columbia River village visited by Lewis and Clark. Color photographs,
line drawings, and maps lavishly illustrate the text, simultaneously
published in both cloth and paper.See the website for additional information.
RUTH KIRK and RICHARD D. DAUGHERTY will give a lecture accompanied by a video on two occasions:
June 8th at 7 p.m. at Walker-Ames Room in Kane Hall on University of Washington campus.
June 23rd at 2 p.m. at Elliott Bay.
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Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas
in the Pacific Northwest
Kevin R. Marsh
Drawing
boundaries around wilderness areas often serves a double purpose:
protection of the land within the boundary and release of the land
outside the boundary to resource extraction and other development.
Marsh discusses the roles played by various groups -- the Forest
Service, the timber industry, recreationists, and environmentalists --
in arriving at these boundaries. He shows that pragmatic, rather than
ideological, goals were often paramount, with all sides benefitting.
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| The Country in the City
Richard A. Walker
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful regions. Despite a population of 7 million people, it is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. A vast quilt of countryside is tucked into the folds of the metropolis,
stitched from fields, farms, and woodlands, mines, creeks, and
wetlands. Richard Walker tells the story here of how the jigsaw
geography of this greenbelt has been set into place.
The Bay Area's civic landscape has been fought
over acre by acre, an arduous process requiring popular mobilization,
political will, and hard work. Its most cherished environments -- Mount
Tamalpais, Napa Valley, San Francisco Bay, Point Reyes, Mount Diablo,
the Pacific coast -- have engendered some of the fiercest environmental
battles in the country and have made the region a leader in green ideas
and organizations.
While this book pertains to the Bay Area, it
also has a great deal of significance here in the Puget Sound.
Conservation and ecologically minded decisions are at the forefront of
the news in Seattle these days. Walker's historical examination of a
city that has made strong decisions to preserve the nature of San
Francisco's cityscape, has great importance for the future of all
cities.
RICHARD WALKER will be speaking at several Bay Area locations through May and June.
May 1 at 7 p.m. at Copperfield's in Sebastopol
May 2 at 7 p.m. at Cody's in Berkeley
June 23 at 2 p.m. at Book Passage in San Francisco
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 | I Surprise Myself:
The Art of Elizabeth Sandvig
Regina Hackett
"Sometimes
I surprise myself. I am always looking for some mysterious in-between
place where ideas and images come together to show me
a new, exciting
path to follow." --Elizabeth Sandvig
Much of Elizabeth Sandvig's work has dealt
with the transitory and fragile qualities of nature. Using materials
that include cast polyester resin, aluminum and polyester screen, nylon
thread, and silicon gels, she has emphasized a sense of layered
transparency, creating a shifting visual energy affected by light and
position. Born in Seattle, Sandvig is one of the Pacific Northwest's
most respected artists. Regina Hackett is art critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The
exhibit will open at Francine Seders Gallery April 6th between
11 a.m.
and 7:30 p.m.
ELIZABETH SANDVIG and REGINA HACKETT will be
at the
reception April 15th from
2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
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 | Reinventing the Wheel
Stephen F. Teiser
The
Wheel of Rebirth is one of the most basic and popular images in
Buddhist visual culture. For nearly two thousand years, artists have
painted it onto the porches of Buddhist temples; preachers have used it
to explain karmic retribution; and philosophers have invoked it to
illuminate the contrast between ignorance and nirvana. In Reinventing the Wheel, noted
scholar Stephen F. Teiser explores the history and varied
interpretations of the Wheel of Rebirth, a circle divided into sections
depicting the Buddhist cycle of transmigration.
Combining visual evidence with narrative text, this book shows how the
metaphor of the wheel has been interpreted in divergent local
traditions, from India to Tibet, Central Asia, and China. Teiser deftly
shows how written and painted renditions of the wheel have animated
local architectural sites and religious rituals, informing concepts of
time and reincarnation and acting as an organizing principle in the
cosmology and daily life of practicing Buddhists.
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| Events in April
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April 2 -- Tomohito Shinoda, author of Koizumi Diplomacy, Thomson Hall, UW Campus, 3:30 p.m.
April 8 -- Coll Thrush, author of Native Seattle, Third Place Books, 5:30 p.m.
And, catch Coll on KEXP with Diane Horn at 8:30 a.m. on April 9!
April 11 -- Alex T. Anderson, author of The Problem of the House: French Domestic Life and the Rise of Modern Architecture, will be giving a lecture at the Henry Art Gallery at 6:30 p.m. |
| April 12 -- Coll Thrush will be at the Whatcom Historical Society at 7:30 p.m.
April 12 -- John Lombard, author of Saving Puget Sound, will be at Eagle Harbor Books on Bainbridge at 7:30 p.m.
April 15 -- Jack Hamann, author of On American Soil, will give a lecture at Fort Lewis at 8:00 a.m.
April 17 -- Catch Coll Thrush on KUOW's Weekday with Steve Scher at 10 a.m. Also, on April 17 Coll will be at Seattle University giving a public lecture in the Pigott Auditorium at 1:30 p.m.
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April 19 -- Bruce Beasley, author of The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems, will help celebrate Poetry Month at Elliott Bay at 7:30 p.m.
April
26 -- Coll Thrush will be joining the Alumni Association's
Washington Weekend festivities at the University Book Store with a reading at 7:00
p.m.
April 28 -- John Lombard will be reading at Third Place Books at 7:00 p.m.
April 30 -- Arthur Kruckeberg, author of many University of Washington
Press titles, will be lecturing at the Center for Urban Horticulture at
7:30 p.m.
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Forthcoming Titles for the Month of May!
Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies That Changed History
Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. and Keith A. Hansen
 Much has been said and written about the failure of U.S. intelligence
to prevent the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and its
overestimation of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction under Saddam
Hussein. This book focuses instead on the central role that
intelligence-collection systems play in promoting arms control and
disarmament. Ambassador Graham and Professor Hansen bring more than
fifty combined years of experience to this discussion of the
capabilities of technical systems, which are primarily based in space.
Their history of the rapid advancement of surveillance technology is a
window into a dramatic reconceptualization of Cold War strategies and
policy planning.
Graham and Hansen focus on the intelligence successes against Soviet
strategic nuclear forces and the quality of the intelligence that has
made possible accurate assessments of WMD programs in North Korea,
Iran, and Libya. Their important insights shed a much-needed light on
the process of verifying how the world harnasses the proliferation of
nuclear arms and the continual drive for advancements in technology.
Danish Cookbooks
Carol Gold
 Cookbooks
tell stories. They open up the worlds in which people who wrote and
read them once lived. In the hands of a good historian, cookbooks can
be shown to contain the markings of political, social, and ideological
changes that we conventionally place outside the
kitchen. Cookbooks
allow us to trace the growth of a bourgeois consciousness, the
development of domesticity and gender, and the evolution of a
nationalism and a specific Danish identity from the early seventeenth
to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Through the pages of
cookbooks -- in recipes, menus, and table settings -- we can chart the
growth of a nationalist Denmark and track the development of what it
means to be a Dane.
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