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Greetings!
Happy 2010! Come next week, our Spring and Summer 2010 catalog will be available online as a digital, interactive version. Like our Fall and Winter 2009 catalog, you can search by keyword, save pages or the whole catalog to your desktop, and send pages or the whole catalog to your contacts. Click on any book title to link to our website and, for a new fun way to learn more about our titles, click on "video" icons throughout the catalog to be directed to a trailer about that book and author. And, just another reminder -- the University of Washington Press is now on Facebook. Look for us there -- we'd love to see you as Fans!
 All the best,
Rachael
remann@u.washington.edu
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Charles LeWarne
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 The Love Israel Family:
Urban Commune, Rural Commune
In 1968, a time of turbulence and countercultural movements, a one-time
television salesman named Paul Erdmann changed his name to Love Israel
and started a controversial religious commune in Seattle's middle-class
Queen Anne Hill neighborhood. They
flourished for more than a decade, owning houses and operating
businesses on the Hill, although rumors of drug use, control of
members, and unconventional sexual arrangements dogged them.
By
1984, perceptions among many followers that some Family members -
especially Love Israel himself - had become more equal than others led
to a bitter breakup in which two-thirds of the members defected. The
remaining faithful, about a hundred strong, resettled on a ranch the
Family retained near the town of Arlington, Washington, north of
Seattle. There they recouped and adapted, with apparent social and
economic success, for two more decades.
In The Love Israel Family, Charles LeWarne tells the compelling story of this group of
idealistic seekers whose quest for a communal life grounded in love,
service, and obedience to a charismatic leader foundered when that
leader's power distanced him from his followers.
Charles P. LeWarne
is the author of Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885-1915 and Washington State, a text used in many regional school districts.
Join Chuck on
Saturday, January 9 at 2 p.m. at the Everett Public Library
Thursday, January 21 at 6:30 p.m. at Queen Anne Books
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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.
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.
Lorraine McConaghy is the historian at the Museum of History & Industry in Seattle.
Join Lorraine on
Saturday, January 9 at 10:30 a.m. at the Redmond Historical Society
Wednesday, January 27 at 7 p.m. at University Book Store
Tuesday, February 2 at 6:30 p.m. at University Book Store, Bellevue
Thursday, February 4 at 7 p.m. at Third Place Books
Saturday, February 20 at 2 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, downtown Bellevue
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Canyon Sam
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 Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History
Publishers Weekly called Sky Train a "remarkable book. . . . Visceral and
deeply felt, this narrative deserves a read from anyone interested in
human rights and the untold stories of oppressed women everywhere."
The San Francisco Chronicle says, "As a woman talking to women, Sam uncovers a much more intimate Tibet, which survives stubbornly in a tattered land. The passage of time between the interviews
gives their testimonies both richness and preciousness . . . . captures the heart-rending complexities of Tibet and China and how close to home they can be."
Join Canyon on
Thursday, February 4, at 7 p.m. at Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco
Thursday, February 11, at 7 p.m. at Book Soup, Los Angeles
Sunday, February 14 at 2 p.m. at Asia Pacific Museum, Pasadena, CA
Tuesday, February 23 at 6 p.m. at Teaching for Change Bookstore at Busboys and Poets, with International Campaign for Tibet
Sunday, February 28 at 7 p.m. at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York City |
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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. 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
Tuesday, February 9, at 7 p.m. at Fact and Fiction, Missoula, MT
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