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Greetings!
We
have plenty of events and new, exciting books to help make the holiday
season less stressful! Books make great gifts and, with our websale now through
December 31, all orders placed online are 20% off, with a select number
of titles up to 40% off.
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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| 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.
Be sure to catch Cliff:
Wednesday, December 3 from 9-10 a.m. on KUOW
Wednesday, December 3 from 5-7 p.m. at Ivar's Mukilteo Landing for a book signing.
Thursday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Kane Hall with Department of Atmospheric Sciences and University Book Store. If you would like to pre-register for this event, please click here.
Wednesday, January 21 at 7 p.m. at Third Place Books.
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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.
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 on:
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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Greg Robinson
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 Mine 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.
This critical examination looks at 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:
Friday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Elliott Bay Books.
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