june events
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Join Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, author of Winning the West for Women , at the Harvard Exit Theater, with Elliott Bay Books, for an event sponsored by the Women's Century Club on June 17 at 1 p.m.
Join William Ruckelshaus, Eric Redman, and Lee Neff at the Seattle launch of Open Spaces at Town Hall, with Elliott Bay Books, on June 21 at 7:30 p.m.
For those Portlanders out there, join Linda Besant, John Daniel, and Kim Stafford for the launch of Open Spaces at Powell's on June 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Join Marquand Books in celebrating Trimpin (with Trimpin!) at Town Hall Seattle on June 24 at 6 p.m.
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Building New Pathways to Peace, by Noriko Kawamura, Yoichiro Murakami, and Shin Chiba, is now available. This book considers both the old concepts of tolerance, shalom, and wa, and the relatively new concepts of human security, decent peace, credibility, accountability, plurality, multiculturalism, and transnationalism. |
other events
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Charlotte Cote, author of Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors, will be at the Seattle Yacht Club for the UW Auxiliary Club meeting on May 18 at noon.
Christopher Howell, author of Dreamless and Possible, will be at the Burning Word Festival in Leavenworth on May 21.
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Greetings!
Next month we'll be announcing our Fall/Winter 2011 titles in our new catalog, complete with new video trailers. Sneak peek? Check out our YouTube account for Kurt Armbruster's video for Before Seattle Rocked.  And last month we reminded you about Dark Rose, by Robert C. Donnelly. Mark your calendars -- Powell's will host the author on July 8. More info soon! Happy May! All the best, Rachael remann@u.washington.edu 
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joan singler, jean durning, bettylou valentine, & maid adams
| |  Seattle in Black and White:
The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity
Seattle was a very different city in 1960 than it is today. There were no black bus drivers, sales clerks, or bank tellers. Black children rarely attended the same schools as white children. And few black people lived outside of the Central District. In 1960, Seattle was effectively a segregated town.
Energized by the national civil rights movement, an interracial group of Seattle residents joined together to form the Seattle chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Operational from 1961 through 1968, CORE had a brief but powerful effect on Seattle. The chapter began by challenging one of the more blatant forms of discrimination in the city, local supermarkets. Located within the black community and dependent on black customers, these supermarkets refused to hire black employees. CORE took the supermarkets to task by organizing hundreds of volunteers into shifts of continuous picketers until stores desegregated their staffs. From this initial effort CORE, in partnership with the NAACP and other groups, launched campaigns to increase employment and housing opportunities for black Seattleites, and to address racial inequalities in Seattle public schools. The members of Seattle CORE were committed to transforming Seattle into a more integrated and just society.
Seattle was one of more than one hundred cities to support an active CORE chapter. Seattle in Black and White tells the local, Seattle story about this national movement. Authored by four active members of Seattle CORE, this book not only recounts the actions of Seattle CORE but, through their memories, also captures the emotion and intensity of this pivotal and highly charged time in America's history.
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michael brown and richard morrill
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|  Seattle Geographies
Seattle is located on the northwest edge of the continental United States, flanked by two mountain ranges and set on the calm shores of Puget Sound. It is remote from the country's hub but a portal to Alaska and Asia. It is widely considered liberal and green, but such a characterization oversimplifies a city of many idiosyncrasies and contradictions. Seattle Geographies explores the human geography of the city and region to examine why Seattle is Seattle. The contributors to this volume look into Seattle's social, economic, political, and cultural geographies across a range of scales from neighborhoods to the world. They tackle issues as diverse as economic restructuring, gay space, trade with China, skateboarding, and P-patches. They apply a geographic perspective to uniquely Seattle events and movements such as the WTO protests and grunge. They also look at homelessness, poverty, and segregation.
Michael Brown is professor of geography at the University of Washington. Richard Morrill is professor emeritus of geography at the University of Washington.
Join Michael and Richard on
Tuesday, May 3 at the UW Club, for a celebration of the Geography Department's 75th anniversary, at 6 p.m.
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Pamela camp and john gamon
| |  Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Washington
Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Washington offers a window into the beauty and diversity of the rarest plants in the state.
The field guide includes:
- 317 vascular plants, six mosses, and one lichen
- Full-color photographs of the plants and their habitats, line drawings, and distribution maps
- Detailed species descriptions, identification tips, and easiest times to identify the plants
- Current conservation status and state rank
- Complete reference list, and glossary
Each rare plant is fully characterized according to its appearance, reproductive strategy, associated plants, habitat, current threats, and scarcity in areas outside the state. This book brings attention to the rarest and least understood plant species that find niches in this complex landscape.
Pamela Camp is a private consultant in field biology and restoration ecology and former Spokane District Botanist with the Bureau of Land Management. John G. Gamon is the Natural Heritage Program Manager at the Department of Natural Resources in Olympia, Washington.
Join some of the people behind the book on
Thursday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m. at the Center for Urban Horticulture
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grant hayter-menzies
| |  The Empress and Mrs. Conger
The story of two women from worlds that could not seem farther apart -- imperial China and the American Midwest -- who found common ground before and after one of the greatest clashes between East and West, the fifty-five-day siege of the Beijing foreign legations known as the Boxer Uprising. The Empress and Mrs. Conger traces the parallel lives of the Empress Dowager Cixi and American diplomat's wife Sarah Pike Conger, which converged to alter their perspectives of each other and each other's worlds.
Grant Hayter-Menzies's first book for Hong Kong University Press was Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling. He lives in Sidney, British Columbia, where he is working on a biography of Lillian Carter.
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david f. martin and nicolette bromberg
| |  Shadows of a Fleeting World
Pictorialism emerged in the early twentieth century as a prominent style of fine art photography. Artists engaged in this style were interested in the effects of transient light and Japanese compositional elements.Recent rediscoveries from American regional camera clubs, including the Seattle Camera Club (SCC), reveal that the movement was broader and more individualist than previously thought. Shadows of a Fleeting World provides a rare glimpse into the regional Pictorialist movement. It documents the lives and artistic accomplishments of the SCC photographers. The SCC was one of the most active and successful in the United States, and, fortunately, preservation of its works and history allow for a rich interpretation of its art. Japanese immigrants formed the club's core, and their work routinely blended Pictorialist methods with Japanese aesthetic traditions.
David F. Martin is an independent art historian and curator specializing in women and minority artists of the Pacific Northwest. Nicolette Bromberg is visual materials curator, Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries.
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Judy Bentley
| |  Hiking Washington's History
Hiking Washington's History reveals the stories embedded in Washington's landscape. This trail guide narrates forty historic trails, ranging from short day hikes to three- or four-day backpacking trips over mountain passes. Every region in the state is included, from the northwesternmost tip of the continental United States at Cape Flattery to the remote Blue Mountains in the southeast. Each chapter begins with a brief overview of the region's history followed by individual trail narratives and historical highlights. Quotes from diaries, journals, letters, and reports, as well as contemporary and historic photographs, describe sites and trails from Washington's past. Each trail description includes a map and provides directions, so hikers can follow the historic route. Judy Bentley tells readers how to get there, what to expect, and what to look for.
Judy Bentley, who teaches at South Seattle Community College, is an avid hiker and the author of fourteen books for young adults.
Join Judy on
Wednesday, May 18, at 7 p.m. at the Washington Native Plant Society, Bellingham
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john keeble
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|  Broken Ground
Broken Ground employs a construction project in the Oregon desert as the basis for a story with far-reaching political and moral implications. Hank Lafleur has been sent to supervise the project, which is a prison-for-profit financed by a multinational corporation under government contract, and meant to house felons, illegal immigrants, and, as Lafleur comes to learn, political prisoners from Latin America. Broken Ground is remarkable for its prophetic vision of the hollow securities promised by incarceration and of the effects of "privatization" as an armature of American imperialism-in both the domestic and international realms.
John Keeble is the author of four novels, including Yellowfish and Broken Ground, a collection of short stories, Nocturnal America, and a work of nonfiction, Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound.
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