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Native Seattle wins Washington State Book Award
Native Seattle, by Coll Thrush, won the History/Biography Washington State Book Award for 2008 and was honored at the ceremony on Tuesday, October 22. Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator, by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, was a finalist in the same category.
Native Seattle, which is
in the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series, received rave reviews
and strong reader reactions in the year since it was published. So,
many
congratulations to author Coll Thrush!
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We
are happy to announce that our website has been newly updated and
redesigned. While we continue to publish the same wonderful books, we
hope that this exciting website will show them off in a new way!
Be sure to check it out: www.washington.edu/uwpress
All the best,
Rachael
(206) 221.4995 / remann@u.washington.edu
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| Joseph S. Miller
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 Wicked Wine of Democracy
"Smilin' Joe" Miller
learned early that political campaigns hadn't changed since the days of
Babylon when politicians -- or, more correctly, kings and emperors --
stamped their visages on coins and invented lies about themselves. By
capitalizing on this simple secret, he found that politics could be
simplified to glorifying his candidate and denigrating the opposition.
It just required keeping up with the latest technological developments
and using them to advantage. There was nothing ennobling about this,
but it paid well, or, as Bob Dole liked to say, there was no heavy
lifting and it was all indoor work.
The Wicked Wine of Democracy is a frank account by a political
operative and practicing lobbyist who in the early 1950s went from
being a journalist in Seattle to working on the campaigns of such
important political figures as Warren G. Magnuson, Henry "Scoop"
Jackson, Frank Church, William Proxmire, and, finally, John F. Kennedy.
He was so successful in managing the media for campaigns across the
country that in 1957 the Washington Post labeled him "the Democrat's
answer to Madison Avenue." After Kennedy's victory, Miller opened a
lobbying office on Capitol Hill and took on clients as diverse as the
United Steelworkers of America, the Western Forest Industries
Association, and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association. In this
always revealing and often humorous memoir, Miller reports on the
highlights and backroom conversations from political campaigns, labor
negotiations, and lobbying deals to give an honest picture of how
politics worked over his forty-year career in the nation's capital.
Joseph S. Miller is a retired lobbyist living in Washington, D.C.
Miller wrote and edited for the Lewiston Morning Tribune, Boise Daily
Statesman, Oregon Journal, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer before
beginning his career as a media consultant for political campaigns and
a lobbyist for a variety of unions and associations.
Join Joe to hear more about The Wicked Wine of Democracy:
Monday, November 3 at Carwein Auditorium, University of Washington Tacoma campus with University of Washington Tacoma Alumni Association and University Book Store Tacoma, at 7 p.m.
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John Keeble
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 Yellowfish: A Novel
Wesley Erks, itinerant machinist and "high class jack-of-all- trades,"
takes a hefty fee for smuggling a group of illegal Chinese immigrants
("yellowfish") from Vancouver, B.C., to San Francisco in the
1970s. Three are teenaged "Hong Kong boys," one of whom has been
grievously injured. The fourth, a fugitive and the son of a rich
Chinese casino owner, means to settle a grudge with a Chinese
American secret society, the Triad, but is himself being pursued. The
tale of the perilous journey of these five men, along with a
woman who becomes implicated in a double-cross, is filled with vivid
fictional and historical characters. The whole of it conjures the story
of the West itself.
John
Keeble is the author of four novels, including Yellowfish and
Broken Ground, a collection of short stories, Nocturnal America, and a
work of nonfiction, Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in
Prince William Sound.For more information on the author go to: http://www.johnkeeble.net/books.htm
Join John:
Friday, November 7 at Auntie's Books, Spokane, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 8 at Elliott Bay Books at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 18 at Broadway Books, Portland, at 7:30 p.m.
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Cliff Mass
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 The Weather
of the Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest experiences the most varied and fascinating
weather in the United States, including world-record winter snows, the
strongest non-tropical storms in the nation, and shifts from desert to
rain forest in a matter of miles. Local weather features dominate the
meteorological landscape, from the Puget Sound convergence zone and
wind surges along the Washington Coast, to gap winds through the
Columbia Gorge and the "Banana Belt" of southern Oregon. This book is
the first comprehensive and authoritative guide to Northwest weather
that is directed to the general reader; helpful to boaters, hikers, and
skiers; and valuable to expert meteorologists.
In
The Weather of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington
atmospheric scientist and popular radio commentator Cliff Mass unravels
the intricacies of Northwest weather, from the mundane to the
mystifying. By examining our legendary floods, snowstorms, and
windstorms, and a wide variety of local weather features, Mass answers
such interesting questions as:
o Why does the Northwest have localized rain shadows?
o What is the origin of the hurricane force winds that often buffet the region?
o Why does the Northwest have so few thunderstorms?
o What is the origin of the Pineapple Express?
o Why do ferryboats sometimes seem to float above the water's surface?
o Why is it so hard to predict Northwest weather?
Mass
brings together eyewitness accounts, historical records, and
meteorological science to explain Pacific Northwest weather. He also
considers possible local effects of global warming. The final chapters
guide readers in interpreting the Northwest sky and in securing weather
information on their own.
Cliff Mass, professor of atmospheric
sciences at the University of Washington and weekly guest on KUOW
radio, is the preeminent authority on Northwest weather. He has
published dozens of articles on Northwest weather and leads the
regional development of advanced weather prediction tools.
Join Cliff for discussions of The Weather of the Pacific Northwest:
Friday, November 14 on KUOW at 9 a.m.
Saturday, November 15 at Seattle Central Library, co-sponsored by Hugh and Jane Ferguson Seattle Room and Elliott Bay Books, at 2 p.m.
Thursday, December 4 at Kane Hall 120, co-sponsored by Department of Atmospheric Sciences and University Book Store, 7 p.m.
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| Patricia Buckley Ebrey
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 Accumulating Culture
By the end of the sixth century CE, both the royal courts and the
educated elite in China were collecting works of art, particularly
scrolls of calligraphy and paintings done by known artists. By the time
of Emperor Huizong (1082-1135) of the Song dynasty (960-1279), both
scholars and the imperial court were cataloguing their collections and
also collecting ancient bronzes and rubbings of ancient inscriptions.
The catalogues of Huizong's painting, calligraphy, and antiquities
collections list over 9,000 items, and the tiny fraction of the listed
items that survive today are all among the masterpieces of early
Chinese art.
Patricia
Ebrey's study of Huizong's collections places them in both political
and art historical context. The acts of adding to and cataloguing the
imperial collections were political ones, among the strategies that the
Song court used to demonstrate its patronage of the culture of the
brush, and they need to be seen in the context of contemporary
political divisions and controversies. At the same time, court
intervention in the art market was both influenced by, and had an
impact on, the production, circulation, and imagination of art outside
the court.
Accumulating Culture provides a rich context for
interpreting the three book-length catalogues of Huizong's collection
and specific objects that have survived. It contributes to a rethinking
of the cultural side of Chinese imperial rule and of the court as a
patron of scholars and the arts, neither glorifying Huizong as a man of
the arts nor castigating him as a megalomaniac, but rather taking a
hardheaded look at the political and cultural ramifications of
collecting and the reasons for choices made by Huizong and his
curators. The reader is offered glimpses of the magnificence of the
collections he formed and the disparate fates of the objects after they
were seized as booty by the Jurchen invaders in 1127.
The heart
of the book examines in detail the primary fields of collecting -
antiquities, calligraphy, and painting. Chapters devoted to each of
these use Huizong's catalogues to reconstruct what was in his
collection and to probe choices made by the cataloguers. The acts of
inclusion, exclusion, and sequencing that they performed allowed them
to influence how people thought of the collection, and to attempt to
promote or demote particular artists and styles.
This book will
be of interest to scholars and students of Chinese art history, social
history, and culture, as well as art collectors.
Patricia
Buckley Ebrey is professor of history at the University of Washington
and author of The Cambridge Illustrated History of China and The Inner
Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period.
Join Patricia Ebrey at:
Thursday, November 20 at Seattle Asian Art Museum, at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, December 2 at the Walker-Ames Room in Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus, co-sponsored by China Studies Program and East Asian Studies Center, at 7 p.m.
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 LOOKING AHEAD TO DECEMBER
Greg Robinson, associate professor of history at the University of
Montreal, will be joining us in Seattle to discuss the life and work
of Asian American pioneer, Miné Okubo.
"To me life and art are one and the same, for the key lies in
one's
knowledge of people and life. In art one is trying to express
it in the
simplest imaginative way, as in the art of past civilizations,
for
beauty and truth are the only two things which live timeless
and
ageless," said Miné Okubo.
Robinson's book, co-edited by Elena Tajima Cref, is the first
book-length critical examination of the life and work of
Miné Okubo
(1912-2001), a pioneering Nisei artist, writer, and social
activist
who repeatedly defied conventional role expectations for women
and for Japanese Americans over her seventy-year career. Okubo's
landmark Citizen 13660
(first published in 1946) is the first and
arguably best-known autobiographical narrative of
the wartime Japanese
American relocation and confinement experience.
Miné Okubo expands
the sparse critical literature on Asian American women, as well as that
on the Asian American experience in the eastern United States. It also
serves as an excellent
companion to Citizen 13660, providing critical
tools and background to place Okubo's work
in its historical and
literary contexts.
Please join Greg Robinson on December 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Elliott Bay Books.
All the best,
Rachael Levay
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