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Timely Reading
The late Boris Yeltsin (February 1, 1931 to April 23, 2007) is the subject of University of Washington professor
emeritus Herbert J. Ellison's 2006
book Boris Yeltsin and Russia's Democratic Transformation.
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Distribution of the Month
Paul Holberton
University
of Washington Press partners with publishers around the world for
distribution, including Paul Holberton Publishing from the United Kingdom. Tintoretto, a catalogue from the exhibition at the Museo Nacional de Prado, was reviewed in the April 26 New York Review of Books.
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What's going on at University of Washington Press?
May
brings good weather and with it some great events around Seattle. Also,
we have a new catalog and Excerpts newsletter so please let me know if
you'd like copies of either.
All the best,
Rachael
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The Prints of
Roger Shimomura:
A Catalogue Raisonne, 1968-2005
Emily Stamey
with notes by the artist
Best
known as a painter and theater artist, Roger Shimomura explores his
Japanese American identity through a vibrant and provocative stylistic
combination of twentieth-century American pop art and traditional
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock prints.
In his printed works, one discovers a number
of firsts, among them the artist's first examination of place; his
first attempt to combat stereotypes by appropriating racist
caricatures; and his first use of explicitly sexual imagery. This
catalogue raisonne is also a first. Featuring color reproductions of
all the artist's extant prints to date, along with notes by Shimomura
about the creative and personal history behind particular images, this
is the first publication to systematically examine a specific body of
work within Shimomura's larger oeuvre.
Emily Stamey is a PhD candidate in art history
and a Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellow at the University of
Kansas, Lawrence.
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Spy Satellites
and Other Intelligence
Technologies That Changed History
Thomas Graham Jr. &
Keith 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 Thomas Graham Jr. and Keith 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 is chairman of the Cypress Fund for
Peace and Security in Washington, D.C. He served as general counsel of
the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for fifteen years and was
President Clinton's special assistant for arms control,
nonproliferation, and disarmament. Keith Hansen is consulting professor
in international relations at Stanford University and spent thirty-five
years in U.S. national security deliberations and strategic nuclear
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Danish Cookbooks:
Domesticity and National Identity,
1616-1901
Carol Gold
Cookbooks
tell stories. They open up the worlds in which the 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 locate outside the kitchen. Cookbooks
allow us to trace the course of empires, of social roles, and of new
nations over time. Danish Cookbooks draws
from three hundred years of cookbooks to trace the growth of
a
bourgeois consciousness, the development of domesticity and gendered
spheres, and the evolution of nationalism and a specific Danish
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Beyond Literary Chinatown
Jeffrey F.L. Partridge
The
phenomenon of "literary Chinatown" -- the ghettoization of Chinese
American literature -- was produced by the same dynamics of race and
representation that ghettoized the Chinese American community into
literal Chinatowns. In a 1982 response to reviews of Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston pinpointed the crux of the matter: "How dare they make their ignorance our inscrutability!"
Jeffrey F.L. Partridge examines the dynamic relationship between reader
expectations of Chinese American literature and the challenges to these
expectations posed by recent Chinese American texts. Arguing that
authors like Kingston, Gish Jen, Shawn Wong, and David Wong Louie are
aware of their readers' horizons and write to challenge those
assumptions, Partridge demonstrates how their writings function as a
potent medium of cultural transformation.
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| Events in May
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| May 11 -- John Lombard will be at Port Book and News in Port Angeles at 7 p.m.
May 12 -- Ruth Kirk and Richard Daugherty, authors of Archaeology in Washington, will be signing only at Fireside Books in Olympia at 1 p.m.
May 14 -- Jack Hamann, author of On American Soil, will be reading at University Book Store at 7 p.m.
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May 19 -- Jack Hamann will be reading at the Ballard Branch of the Seattle Public Library at 2 p.m.
May 21 -- Grant Hildebrand will be reading at University Book Store at 7:00
p.m.
May 23 -- Sarah Reichard and Amy Van Buren, authors of Invasive Species of the Pacific Northwest, will be reading at the Washington State Historical Museum in Olympia at 7:00 p.m.
May 23 -- Jack Hamann will be reading at the Jefferson County Library in Port Hadlock at 6:30 p.m.
May 24 -- Richard Walker will be reading at Mrs. Dalloway's in Berkeley at 7:30 p.m.
May 27 -- Jack Hamann will be reading at Queen Anne Books at 3 p.m.
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Forthcoming Titles for the Month of June!
Ipse Dixit: How the World Looks to a Federal Judge
William L. Dwyer
Foreword by Meade Emory
Introduction by Stimson Bullitt
 During
William L. Dwyer's fifteen-year tenure as a U.S. District Court judge,
he presided over many complex and ground-breaking cases. In one of his
most controversial rulings, he engaged environmentalists and the timber
industry in a heavily publicized and emotionally fraught battle over
the territory of the northern spotted owl, ultimately approving the
bird for "threatened species" status and forcing the Forest Service to
substantially reduce logging in owl-habitat areas.
Before his appointment to the district court
in 1987, Dwyer had spent more than thirty years as a trial lawyer,
never shying away from the most difficult cases. He argued the libel
suit of accused Communist sympathizer John Goldmark; he represented
newspaper employees in the contested proposal for a joint-operating
agreement between the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; and he brought a suit against baseball's American League that resulted in the return of the Mariners to Seattle.
Ipse Dixit collected fifteen of Dwyer's speeches and reveal the breadth and scope of Dwyer's legal wisdom.
The
University of Washington Press, Elliott Bay Books, and Town Hall are
co-sponsoring a panel at Town Hall on June 27 at 7:30 p.m. that will
feature Frederic Tausend, Honorable Robert S. Lasnik, Honorable Betty
B. Fletcher, Arthur Harrigan Jr., Stewart Jay, William Rodgers, and
Judith H. Ramseyer for a discussion of the lasting impact of Dwyer's
career.
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