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University of Washington Press
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Join UW Press authors Lynda Mapes, Lauro Flores, and Cliff Mass
Literary Voices is the annual University of Washington Library benefit.
This wonderful evening brings together a variety of Northwest authors,
including UW Press authors Lynda Mapes, Cliff Mass, and Lauro Flores,
all in a beautiful setting with a lovely dinner. Literary Voices will take place Saturday, April 25 at 6 p.m. in the UW Club.
For more information, contact Joyce Agee at ageejoy@u.washington.edu
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Greetings!
April is poetry month, and we've brought together a full listing of our distinguished poetry titles, which span from the traditional to the contemporary. These will be on our website and we hope you'll discover titles you may have missed!
As always, if you have any questions please feel free to get in touch!
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 nontropical 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
Saturday, April 5, at 2 p.m. at Everett Public Library.
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Jim Kershner
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 Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life
Carl Maxey was, in his own words, "a guy who started from scratch --
black scratch." He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane
Children's Home and then kicked out at age eleven with the only other
"colored" orphan. Yet Maxey managed to make a national name for
himself, first as an NCAA championship boxer at Gonzaga University, and
then as eastern Washington's first prominent black lawyer and a
renowned civil rights attorney who always fought for the underdog.
During
the tumultuous civil rights and Vietnam War eras, Carl Maxey fought to
break down color barriers in his hometown of Spokane and throughout the
nation. As a defense lawyer, he made national headlines working on
lurid murder cases and war-protest trials, including the notorious
Seattle Seven trial. He even took his commitment to justice and antiwar
causes to the political arena, running for the U.S. Senate against
powerhouse senator Henry M. Jackson.
In Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life, Jim Kershner explores the sources of Maxey's passions as well as
the price he ultimately paid for his struggles. The result is a moving
portrait of a man called a "Type-A Gandhi" by the New York Times, whose
own personal misfortune spurred his lifelong, tireless crusade against
injustice.
"An essential biography of one city's civil rights
hero, wonderfully written and impeccably researched. . . . Carl Maxey
was a man whose complicated life transcended its own gripping details
to mirror a turbulent time in our recent history, a time when it seemed
as if race and justice would forever run on separate tracks." - Jess
Walter, author of The Zero
Jim Kershner is a journalist
for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane and staff historian at
HistoryLink.org. For more information, see http://www.jimkershner.net
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Xu Xi
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 Evanescent Isles
In Evanescent Isles, a book of quirky essays, some deeply personal, Xu Xi
writes of Hong Kong's vanishing culture and sensibility. She zooms in
on her own life in the city: on family, friends, and her professional
history as both business executive and author, to focus on moments that
offer wry observations of the shifting world around her. She casts her
eye on films, pop stars, public transportation, and also muses on the
political, without losing sight of the distinctly apolitical culture
that evolved through the city's history as a former British colony.
Like
letters to a dying lover, the tone shifts -- at times comic or
nostalgic, at others angry or despairing, at still others in raptures
of delight -- in a voice that is utterly Hong Kong.
Xu Xi is
one of Hong Kong's leading English language writers. She is the author
of six books of fiction and essays and has also edited several
anthologies of Hong Kong writing. She is on the faculty at the Vermont
College of Fine Arts.
Join Xu Xi for a lecture
Thursday, April 30, at 7 p.m. at Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City.
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COMING SOON
May will bring the publication of Lynda Mapes's long-awaited new book, Breaking Ground:The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village. This amazing book, the first in our Capell Family Book series, tells the story of the discovery of one of the
largest and oldest Indian village sites ever found in the region. When the site was unearthed by Washington State workers building a dry dock in Port Angeles, the state disturbed hundreds of burials and brought up more than 10,000 artifacts at Tse-whit-zen village, the
heart of the long-buried homeland of the Klallam people. This beautifully crafted and compassionate account,
illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, illuminates the collective
amnesia that led to the choice of the Port Angeles construction site.
"You have to know your past in order to build your future," tribal chairwoman Frances Charles
says, recounting the words of tribal elders. Breaking Ground takes that
teaching to heart, demonstrating that the lessons of Tse-whit-zen are
teachings from which we all may benefit. So please join Lynda Mapes at Seattle Public Library on Sunday, May 17, at 2 p.m. with Elliott Bay Books to learn more about our state's past, present, and future.
All the best,
Rachael Levay
University of Washington Press
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