Spring/Summer 2009 web banner
University of Washington Press
E-Newsletter

In This Issue
UW Press receives Mellon Grant
Jack Hamann
Cliff Mass
Quick Links
UW Press receives Mellon Grant to publish in Modern Languages


The University of Washington Press and the presses at Fordham University, University of California, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Virginia have been awarded a collaborative grant of $1.16 million from the prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to publish scholarly books on the literatures of the non-Anglophone world. The Modern Language Initiative (MLI) will support the publication of 20 titles by the University of Washington Press over the next five years.
 
The grant will assist the University of Washington Press in identifying, publishing, and disseminating first books by scholars in such fields as rhetoric, film, performing arts, and popular culture, as well as language and literature. The focus of this initiative is on language itself, especially as manifested in literature and other cultural narratives, rather than on areas of geographic or national origin.

We're also quite excited to be part of such a great collaborative effort!

Jack Hamann at the UW Library's 2009 Blom Lecture
Jack Hamann
On American Soil

Jack Hamann, author of On American Soil, is the featured lecturer at the University of Washington Library's annual Blom Lecture, which will take place at 7 p.m. on March 6.
 
This lecture is free and open to the public, but an rsvp is requested. More details can be found here.
 
Join our list
Join Our Mailing List
 February 2009
Greetings!

We thank you for your continued support! Cliff Mass's new book, The Weather of the Pacific Northwest, has sustained remarkable success over the holiday season and we are happy to report we now have 20,000 copies in print. Cliff was featured in Seattle Weekly, Seattle Times, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and was a
guest on both KUOW and The Bob Rivers Show.

Our Spring/Summer 2009 catalog can now be viewed on our website, where you'll see all the new books we'll be bringing out in the coming months.

All the best,
Rachael
(206) 221.4995 / [email protected]
 
Cliff Mass
Weather of the Pacific Northwest 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.

Catch Cliff Mass on:

Sunday, February 8 at 4 p.m. at Village Books.

Wednesday, February 25 at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle, with University Book Store.

Wednesday, March 15 at 3:00 p.m. at Eagle Harbor Books.







  COMING SOON









We are pleased to announce the March 12 publication of Looking Together: Writers on Art.
This co-publication with the Frye Art Museum will bring together 12 Northwest writers whose
creative pieces explore works either in the Frye's permanent collection or works that were
exhibited there.

Melinda Mueller and Jack Nisbit will read their pieces from the book on March 12 at 7 p.m.
at the Frye. We hope to see you there!

All the best,


Rachael Levay
University of Washington Press