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Greetings!
Our Spring and Summer 2010 catalog is now 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, f or 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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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
Tuesday, February 2 at 6:30 p.m. at University Book Store, Bellevue
Thursday, February 4 at 7 p.m. at Third Place Books
Thursday, February 18 at 7:30 p.m. at Horizon House, with Elliott Bay Books
Saturday, February 20 at 2 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, downtown Bellevue
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In Love with a Hillside Garden
The Informed Gardener Blooms Again
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 Northwest Flower and Garden Show, with University Bookstore
Catch Ann, Daniel, and Ben Streissguth and Linda Chalker-Scott at the annual Northwest Flower and Garden Show.
In Love with a Hillside Garden shows the emergence of the Streissguth family's
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 st eep 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.
The Informed Gardener Blooms Again picks up where The Informed Gardener
left off, using scientific literature to debunk a new set of common
gardening myths. Once again, Linda Chalker-Scott investigates the
science behind each myth, reminding us that urban and suburban
landscapes are ecosystems requiring their own particular set of
management practices.
The University Book Store will be hosting signings throughout the show and you can join our authors at their booth.
Join Ann, Daniel, and Ben on Thursday, February 4 at 11 a.m.
Join Linda on Friday, February 5 at 2:30 p.m. and at 4:45 p.m.
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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 11 a.m. on The Diane Rehm Show, Washington DC and national NPR broadcasts
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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