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Award winners
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Winner of the Hal K. Rothman Book Prize from the Western History Association
The Country and the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area, by Richard Walker, was awarded the 2009 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize from WHA. The Country in the City is a Weyerhaeuser Environmental Book.
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Paula Becker and Alan Stein
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 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Washington's First World's Fair
This richly illustrated and well-researched volume chronicles the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, held in Seattle in 1909. The 3.7
million visitors to the fair during its four-month run, on what was to
become the University of Washington campus, beheld a cornucopia of
exhibits housed in an astonishing collection of buildings and enjoyed
the carnival-like - and sometimes controversial - entertainments of the
Pay Streak midway. Starting with the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897,
authors Alan J. Stein and Paula Becker recount in detail the history of
the fair that brought Seattle and Washington into the national
spotlight.
Alan J. Stein is a
HistoryLink.org staff historian and award-winning author of Safe
Passage, Bellevue Timeline, and
The Olympic. Paula Becker is a
staff historian for HistoryLink.org and author of the popular "Park
Hopping" column for ParentMap magazine.
Join Paula and Alan on
Monday, October 5, at 7 p.m. at Village Books, Bellingham
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Jin Yan
Jin Yan: The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai tells the remarkable story
of the "Emperor of Film," who dominated the golden age of Chinese
silent movies. Jin Yan achieved his greatest stardom in the 1930s, when
women literally threw themselves at his feet. Married first to the
Shanghai actress Wang Renmei, his movie roles with "the Goddess" Ruan
Ling-yu spurred public demand for more of them together in films made
by the leading studio, Lianhua. It was Jin who made Ruan aware of
film's awesome power to portray social problems while evading the
censors with melodramatic soap opera formats.
Richard J. Meyer teaches film at Seattle University. He is the author of Ruan Ling-yu.
Join Richard on
Wednesday, October 21, at 7 p.m. at University Book Store.
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Missed them the first time around?
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UW Press authors around the region
Catch Lynda Mapes, author of Breaking Ground, on Arts Beat, KONP Radio, Port Angeles, on October 2, at 1:30 p.m. Then join Lynda on Friday, October 2, at 7 p.m. at Vern Berton Community Center, with Port Book and News, Port Angeles, WA
Join Tim McNulty, author of Olympic National Park, Revised Edition, on Wednesday, October 14, at 7 pm. at the Rausch Auditorium on the University of Puget Sound campus, with the South Sound Chapter of the Washington Native Plants Society
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Greetings!
October is jam-packed with great events all around the Pacific Northwest and beyond. If you missed your chance to see Lynda Mapes, or Tim McNulty last spring, there are new opportunities, and many authors with great, brand-new books to entice you this fall.
As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch!
All the best,
Rachael
remann@u.washington.edu
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Alvin Ziontz
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 A Lawyer in Indian Country:
A Memoir
In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years
representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little
known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty. He
discusses the growth and maturation of tribal government and the
underlying tensions between Indian society and the non-Indian world. A Lawyer in Indian Country presents vignettes of reservation life and
recounts some of the memorable legal cases that illustrate the
challenges faced by individual Indians and tribes. As the senior
attorney arguing U.S. v. Washington, Ziontz was a party to the historic
1974 Boldt decision that affirmed the Pacific Northwest tribes' treaty
fishing rights, with ramifications for tribal rights nationwide. His
work took him to reservations in Montana, Wyoming, and Minnesota, as
well as Washington and Alaska, and he describes not only the work of a
tribal attorney but also his personal entry into the life of Indian
country.
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Joann Green Byrd
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 Calamity:
The Heppner Flood of 1903
June 14, 1903, was a typical, hot Sunday in Heppner, a small farm town
in northeastern Oregon. People went to church, ate dinner, and relaxed
with family and friends. But late that afternoon, calamity struck when
a violent thunderstorm brought heavy rain and hail to the mountains and
bare hills south of town. Within
an hour, one of every five people in the prosperous town of 1,300 would
lose their lives as floodwaters carried away
nearly everything in their path. In Calamity, Joann Green Byrd, a
native of eastern Oregon, carefully documents this poignant story,
illustrating that even the smallest acts have consequences - good or
bad. She draws on a wealth of primary sources, including a moving
collection of photographs, to paint a rare picture of how a small town
in the West coped with disaster at the turn of the twentieth century.
Joann
Green Byrd is a journalist who has worked for a number of
newspapers, including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the East Oregonian, and the
Washington Post.
Join Joann on
Sunday, October 4, at 2 p.m. at Elliott Bay Book Company
Tuesday, October 6, at 7 p.m. at Auntie's Books, Spokane, WA
Friday, October 9, at 7 p.m. at Crossroads Art Center, with Betty's Books, Baker City, OR
Sunday, October 11, at 2 p.m. at Book and Game, Walla Walla, WA
Tuesday, October 13, from 5-9 p.m. at Klindt's Booksellers, The Dalles, OR
Saturday, October 17, at 2 p.m. at Main Street Books, Colfax, WA
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John Miles
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 Wilderness in National Parks: Playground or Preserve
Wilderness in National Parks casts light on the complicated
relationship between the National Park Service and its policy goals of
wilderness preservation and recreation. By examining the overlapping
and sometimes contradictory responsibilities of the park service and
the national wilderness preservation system, John C. Miles finds that nearly one hundred years into its existence, the
National Park Service is still struggling to deal with an idea that lies
at the core of its mission and yet complicates that mission.
John C. Miles is professor of environmental studies at Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington.
Join John on
Sunday, October 4, at 4 p.m. at Village Books, Bellingham.
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Canyon Sam
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Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History
Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist
Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan
women. Traveling on China's new "Sky Train," she celebrates Tibetan New
Year with the Lhasa family whom she'd befriended decades earlier and
concludes an oral-history project with women elders. As she uncovers stories of Tibetan women's courage, resourcefulness, and
spiritual strength in the face of loss and hardship since the Chinese
occupation of Tibet in 1950, and observes the changes wrought by the
controversial new rail line in the futuristic "new Lhasa," Sam comes to
embrace her own capacity for letting go, for faith, and for acceptance.
Tuesday, October 6, at 6 p.m. at San Francisco Public Library
Wednesday, October 7, at 7 p.m. at Copperfield's Sebastopol
Saturday, October 10, at noon at Litquake, San Francisco
Sunday, October 11, at noon and 3 p.m. at Wordstock, Portland
Tuesday, October 13, at 7:30 p.m. at Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle
Wednesday, October 14, at 7:30 p.m. at Ravenna Third Place Books, Seattle
Thursday, October 15, at 7:30 p.m. at Vancouver, BC Public Library
Friday, October 16, at 5:30 p.m. at University of British Columbia
Saturday, October 17, at 7 p.m. at Village Books, Bellingham
Saturday, October 24, at 3:30 p.m. at Martin Luther King Library, San Jose, CA
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Reinhard Stettler
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 Cottonwood and the River of Time: On Trees, Evolution, and Society
Cottonwood and the River of Time looks at some of the approaches
scientists have used to unravel the puzzles of the natural world. With
a lifetime of work in forestry and genetics to guide him, Reinhard
Stettler celebrates both what has been learned and what still remains a
mystery as he examines not only cottonwoods but also trees more
generally, their evolution, and their relationship to society. In
his search for answers, Stettler moves from the floodplain of a West
Cascade river, where seedlings compete for a foothold, to mountain
slopes, where aspens reveal their genetic differences in colorful
displays; from the workshops of Renaissance artists who painted their
masterpieces on poplar to labs where geneticists have recently
succeeded in sequencing a cottonwood's genome; from the intensively
cultivated tree plantations along the Columbia to old-growth forests
challenged by global warming.
Reinhard F. Stettler is professor emeritus of forestry at the University of Washington.
Join Reinhard on
Wednesday, October 7, at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall for the Seattle Science Lectures, with University Book Store
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Ann, Daniel, and Ben Streissguth
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 In Love with a Hillside Garden
This richly illustrated book offers timely inspiration to gardeners in
an increasingly urban world. In an engaging narrative, the Streissguths
show the emergence of their gardening partnership during forty years of
marriage, and their philosophy that developing a site along a public
stairway gave them the opportunity to share their garden with neighbors
and passersby. They offer practical insight into concepts of linking
inside and outside rooms and of combining private and public spaces,
and they describe the process through which they transformed a steep
forested hillside in the heart of Seattle into a deciduous woodland
garden with banks of perennials, a dell, vistas of the city and lake,
and a site for ornamental and food-producing plants. Finally,
they consider the future stewardship of the Streissguth Gardens, a park
linking the wild and tamed sections of a unique greenbelt garden shared
with joggers, strollers, fellow gardeners, schoolchildren, and those
who call it "a touch of Eden in a big city."
Ann Streissguth is
professor emerita at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Daniel Streissguth is professor emeritus at the University of
Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Benjamin
Streissguth has a degree in landscape architecture from the University
of Washington and lives in Seattle.
Join Ann, Daniel, and Ben on
Saturday, October 10, at 4:30 p.m. at Elliott Bay Books, Seattle.
Tuesday, October 20, at 7 p.m. at University Book Store, Seattle.
Thursday, October 22, at a time TBD at Graham Visitors Center, Washington Park Arboretum
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 The Book of Men and Women: Poems
David Biespiel's energetic language, so varied and musical and precise,
is quite unmatched by that of other contemporary poets. The Book of Men and Women is his second collection in the Pacific Northwest Poetry
Series, and as always he is the master of the long line, his words
strung across its reach as tightly as beads. But new poems in this book
explore the intimacies of the shorter line as well and display
Biespiel's formal inventiveness and emotional range. The
book concludes with a series of autobiographical poems that confront
the frailties of love and desire with unflinching intimacy and
gratitude. These last poems, composed during an intense three-month
period of writing, as well as the other poems in this remarkable
volume, showcase Biespiel at the very top of his form.
David
Biespiel is the author of Shattering Air and Wild Civility. He divides
his teaching time among Oregon State University; the Pacific Lutheran
University M.F.A. Program in Tacoma, Washington; Wake Forest University
in North Carolina; and at The Attic Writers' Workshop in Portland,
Oregon, where he is director and writer-in-residence.
Join David on
Saturday, October 10, at 11 a.m. at Wordstock, in Portland.
Sunday, October 18, at 4 p.m. at Powell's on Hawthorne, Portland.
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Jeffrey Hou, Julie Johnson, and Laura Lawson
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 Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Seattle's Urban Community Gardens
Greening Cities, Growing Communities focuses on six community gardens
in Seattle where there has been a strong network of knowledge and
resources. These case studies reveal the capacity of community gardens
to serve larger community issues, such as food security, urban
ecosystem health, demonstration of sustainable gardening and building
practices, active living and pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods, and
equity concerns. The authors also examine how landscape architects,
planners, and allied design professionals can better interact in the
making of these unique urban open spaces, and how urban community
gardens offer opportunities for professionals to have a more prominent
role in community activism and urban sustainability.
Jeffrey Hou
and Julie M. Johnson are associate professors of landscape architecture
at the University of Washington. Laura J. Lawson is associate professor
of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
Join Jeffrey and Julie on
Wednesday, October 14, at 7 p.m. at University Book Store.
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 Puget Sound Through an Artist's Eye
Puget Sound's rich abundance of life - from mammals to birds - can be
attributed to the fact that the region is far more than just a body of
water. Edged by an extraordinary range of habitats, this region is
visited and occupied year-round by species that are finely tuned to
exploit the resources here that are necessary for their survival. Birds
are among the most obvious occupants of these communities, and
witnessing their dynamic lives has been a source of inspiration for
artist and naturalist Tony Angell. Angell explains the methods he uses in his art. The shapes,
movements, patterns, and even temperatures and smells that he
experiences in the field are all brought to bear on his work. His
drawings bring clarity to his visual and emotional memories, and his
sculptures allow him to approach a memory from many directions and
retain that memory in his hands. In all of his work, he lets the
passion and excitement of his discoveries drive his artistic expression.
Tony Angell is an illustrator, sculptor, and author.
Join Tony on
Sunday, October 18, at 2 p.m. at Seattle Puget Library, Downtown
Thursday, October 22, at 7 p.m. at Port Townsend Marine Science Center
Sunday, November 1, at 2 p.m. at Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner
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Nicolette Bromberg
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 Picturing the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: The Photographs of Frank H. Nowell
For those who experienced it, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition was a
time of wonder in a "citadel set in stars" - a grand world's fair that
transformed the summer of 1909 in Seattle into a whirl of excitement
and pleasure. On what would become the University of Washington campus,
for a brief moment a huge city emerged. The best record of the event was made by Frank H. Nowell,
official photographer for the exposition. He documented the
construction of the city, its landscaping, the people who built it, and
the people who visited it, as well as the buildings that housed
displays from dozens of foreign countries. He used a large view camera
and 8 x 10 glass-plate negatives to create several thousand
photographs. For this book, Nicolette Bromberg has chosen the best and
most representative. Her essay illuminates both the man and the fair,
providing perspective to a history of the West that connects us to a
world-expanding event a hundred years ago, and also contains Nowell's
photographs of Alaska during the gold rush, relating how an Alaskan
photographer became the official A-Y-P photographer. For the
100th anniversary of the exposition, John Stamets organized and led
University of Washington students in a project to rephotograph the
site.
Nicolette
Bromberg is visual materials curator in Special Collections at the
University of Washington Libraries in Seattle. John Stamets is a
lecturer in photography in the Department of Architecture, University
of Washington.
Join Nicolette and John on
Monday, October 19, at 7 p.m. at Suzzallo Library Exhibit Room 101 for a lecture, tour of the Libraries Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition exhibit, and reception, with University Book Store, Seattle |
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