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Fall/Winter
2009 catalog
In print or as a digital, interactive version
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Missed Lynda Mapes the first time around?
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Join her at
Third Place Books
Catch Lynda Mapes, author of Breaking Ground, on Friday, November 13, at 6:30 p.m. at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park
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Join our electronic mailing list?
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In mid-November we'll be mailing our 2009 issue of Excerpts, a newsletter for Friends of the Press.
If you're interested in receiving a digital, interactive edition of this newsletter, please let Rachael Levay know at remann@u.washington.edu and we'll gladly send you a notification when the issue is available.
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Coming up in December
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In December, we're happy to publish two books by UW faculty members, including
With a Single Glance
by Cynthea Bogel
and
A Moveable Empire
by Resat Kasaba.
Resat is a coeditor of the Press's Studies in Modernity and National Identity Series.
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Greetings!
We are pleased to again offer a web special this holiday season -- now through December 31, you can receive 20% off all purchases made on our website by using the code W209 in your checkout. This offer applies to all our titles, so for those of you who missed Cliff Mass's The Weather of the Pacific Northwest last holiday season, or those of you who have been eyeing Preston Singletary or Puget Sound Through an Artist's Eye this year, now is your chance! Details on the sale can be found on our site and, 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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Tony Angell
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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, November 1, at 2 p.m. at Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner
Saturday, November 14, at 7 p.m. at Village Books, Bellingham
Monday, November 16, at 7 p.m. at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park
Saturday, November 21, at 2 p.m. at Elliott Bay Books, Seattle
Saturday, December 5, at 2 p.m. at Foster/White Gallery, Pioneer Square, Seattle
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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.
Join Canyon on
Sunday, November 1, at 4 p.m. at Laurel Bookstore, Oakland, CA
Wednesday, November 4, at 7 p.m. at Gateways Bookstore, Santa Cruz, CA
Thursday, December 3, at 7 p.m. at Books Inc., Berkeley, CA |
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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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 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
Thursday, November 5, at 7:30 p.m. at Open Books, Seattle
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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
Tuesday, November 10, at 6:30 p.m. at Camalli Book Company, Bend, OR
Thursday, November 12, at 6:30 p.m. at Tea Party Bookshop, Salem, OR
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Lorraine McConaghy
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 Warship under Sail:
The USS Decatur in the Pacific West
Ordered to join the Pacific Squadron in 1854, the sloop of war Decatur
sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, through the Strait of Magellan to
Valparaiso, Honolulu, and Puget Sound, then on to San Francisco,
Panama, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, while serving in the Pacific until
1859, the eve of the Civil War. Historian Lorraine McConaghy presents
the ship, its officers, and its crew in a vigorous, keenly rendered
case study that illuminates the forces shaping America's antebellum
navy and foreign policy in the Pacific, from Vancouver Island to Tierra
del Fuego.
One of only five ships in the squadron, the Decatur
participated in numerous imperial adventures in the Far West, enforcing
treaties, fighting Indians, suppressing vigilantes, and protecting
commerce. With its graceful lines and towering white canvas sails, the
ship patrolled the sandy border between ocean and land.
Warship
under Sail focuses on four episodes in the Decatur's Pacific Squadron
mission: the harrowing journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
through the Strait of Magellan; a Seattle war story that contested
American treaties and settlements; participation with other squadron
ships on a U.S. State Department mission to Nicaragua; and more than a
year spent anchored off Panama as a hospital ship. In a period of five
years, more than 300 men lived aboard ship, leaving a rich record of
logbooks, medical and punishment records, correspondence, personal
journals, and drawings. Lorraine McConaghy has mined these records to
offer a compelling social history of a warship under sail. Her research
adds immeasurably to our understanding of the lives of ordinary men at
sea and American expansionism in the antebellum Pacific West.
Lorraine McConaghy is the historian at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle.
Join Lorraine on
Thursday, November 12, at 4 p.m. in the Petersen Room of the Allen Library on the University of Washington campus for the 10th Emil and Katherine Sick Lecture, sponsored by the UW Department of History and UW Libraries. The lecture will be followed by a reception and book signing, with book available from University Book Store
Thursday, November 19, at 6 p.m. at the Museum of History and Industry, Seattle
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