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Lori, formerly at the RAND Corporation in Los Angeles, has joined the Press as sales manager. Welcome!
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 Russell Potter
Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875
When every
land seems already explored, and space travel has declined in scope and
prestige, the northern exploits of our Victorian forebears offer a
pleasantly distant mirror to our own time. Much has been written about
the Arctic regions, but they have also been the subject of a
long-lasting visual fascination, one which has from the outset crossed
boundaries between fine arts and mass entertainment, "high" and "low"
cultures, and even national identity. Russell Potter shows how
representations of the Arctic in visual culture expressed the
fascination, dread, and wonder that the region inspired, and continues
to inspire today.
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Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 W 24th St
Los Angeles, CA 90007
January 4-5, 2008, 8 p.m. both nights
Velaslavasay Panorama
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 Eddie Fung
and Judy Yung
The Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War
Eddie Fung was the only Chinese American taken prisoner by the Japanese
in WWII. He was brought to Burma where he worked on the Burma-Siam
Railroad, made famous by the film The Bridge Over the River Kwai.
Here, his story is told to his wife, Judy Yung, who balances accounts of his
childhood in San Francisco's Chinatown, his youth as a cowboy in Texas,
and his war years overseas. A warm and interesting memoir.
For more information, check our website.
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San Francisco Library
San Francisco, CA
Saturday, January 26
2:00 p.m.
Martin Luther King Library
San Jose, CA
Tuesday, January 29
6:00 p.m.
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 Ted Van Dyk
Heroes, Hacks, and Fools: Memoirs from the Political Inside
Ted
Van Dyk is a shrewd veteran of countless national political and policy
fights and casts fresh light on many of the leading personalities and
watershed events of American politics since JFK. He was a political
columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 2001 to 2007.
The Strand
New York, New York
Wednesday, January 9
7:00 p.m.
Barnes and Noble, Westlake
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Tuesday, January 22
7:30 p.m.
University of Texas, LBJ School
Austin, TX
Wednesday, January
noon
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 Thomas Graham and Keith Hansen
Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History
Much
has been said and written about the failure of U.S. intelligence to
prevent the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. This book focuses
instead on the central role that intelligence-collection systems play
in promoting arms control and disarmament.
University Book Store
Meet Thomas Graham
4326 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Friday, January 11
7:00 p.m.
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 Ruth Kirk & Richard Daugherty
Archaeology in Washington
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Archaeology
-- along with Native American traditions and memories -- holds a key to
understanding early chapters of the human story in Washington. Join
emeritus professor of anthropology Richard Daugherty and writer and
photographer Ruth Kirk to explore Washington's rich archaeological
past.
Seattle Art Museum
Olympic Sculpture Park
Saturday, January 12
2:00 p.m.
Washington State Library
Olympia, WA
Thursday, January 17
6:30 p.m.
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Jeffrey Ochsner
Lionel H. Pries
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Lionel
Pries (1897-1968) was one of the most influential teachers of
architecture and design at the University of Washington. Many prominent
twentieth-century architects were trained by Pries, whose highly
artistic style of design helped shape the development of American
Modernism in architecture.
Ochsner offers an erudite celebration of Pries's professional legacy,
tracing his evolution as a designer, architect, teacher, and artist. He
shows how Pries absorbed and synthesized disparate influences and
movements in design -- California Arts and Crafts and Spanish Colonial
Revival, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts tradition, Art Deco, Mexican and
Japanese motifs, and various strains of the Modern movement.
Seattle Public Library with Elliott Bay Books
1000 Fourth Ave
Seattle, WA
Sunday, January 27
2:00 p.m.
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Looking ahead to February
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Soon available:
Memory and Vision: Arts, Cultures, and Lives of Plains Indian Peoples, edited by Emma I. Hansen and published with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.
The story of the Native peoples of the Great Plains -- including the
Arapaho, Cheyanne, Lakota, Shoshone, Blackfeet, Kiowa, Pawnee, Arikara,
Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Mandane, Hidatsa, and Crow tribes -- is
integral to the history and heritage of the American West. These
buffalo hunting and horitcultural people once dominated the vast open
region of the Great Plains, west of the Mississippi River and east of
the Rocky Mountains, that stretches from present-day California to
Texas.
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