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Join Robert Donnelly, author of Dark Rose, at Powell's on July 8, at 7:30 p.m. |
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Darwin's Pharmacy by Richard Doyle, is now available. This book explores the rhetoric of the psychedelic experience and its significance to evolution. Doyle takes his readers on an epic journey through the writings of William Burroughs and Kary Mullis, the work of ethnobotanists and anthropologists, and anonymous trip reports. The results offer surprising insights into evolutionary theory, the war on drugs, the internet, and the nature of human consciousness itself. |
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Greetings!
We're happy to announce our Fall/Winter 2011 digital, interactive catalog -- complete with three fun new video trailers! There are some amazing new regional titles coming up, as well as an array of fascinating new academic books.  As usual, the digital catalog has some helpful features -- it can be saved to your desktop, allowing you to keep track of your favorite upcoming titles by writing notes; you can send it to friends or colleagues; you can click through to our website by clicking any book title; and you can click through to see videos for Before Seattle Rocked, Exploring Fort Vancouver, and Purple Flat Top. Pretty fun! All the best, Rachael remann@u.washington.edu 
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michael brown and richard morrill
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|  Seattle Geographies
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.
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Lorraine mcconaghy
| |  Warship Under Sail
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.
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Judy Bentley
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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.
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jennifer ross-nazzal
| |  Winning the West for Women
In 1856, in an opera house in Roseville, Illinois, Susan B. Anthony called for the supporters of woman suffrage to stand. The only person to rise was eight-year-old Emma Smith. And she continued to take a stand for the rest of her life. As a leader in the suffrage movement, Emma Smith DeVoe stumped across the country organizing for the cause, raising money, and helping make the West central to achieving the vote for women.
Winning the West for Women demonstrates the importance of the West in the national suffrage movement. It reveals the central role played by the National Council of Women Voters, whose members were predominantly western women, in securing the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Winning the West for Women also tells a larger story of dissension and discord within the suffrage movement. Though ladylike in her courtship of male support for the cause, DeVoe often clashed with other activists who disagreed with her tactics or doubted her commitment to the movement. This fascinating biography describes the real experiences of women and their relationships as they struggled to win the right to vote.
Jennifer M. Ross-Nazzal is a historian at the NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.
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Wednesday, June 15, at 7 p.m. at Elliott Bay Books
Thursday, June 16, at noon at the Coach House at the State Capital Museum, Olympia
Friday, June 17, at 1 p.m. at the Women's Century Club, Harvard Exit Theater, with Elliott Bay Books
Saturday, June 18, at 1 p.m. at the DeVoe Mansion, Tacoma
Saturday, June 25, at 3 p.m. at Blue Willow Bookstore, Houston
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edited by penny harrison
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Since its beginnings, Open Spaces has been on the cutting edge of thinking about the Pacific Northwest--an intelligent, provocative, beautifully conceived magazine for thoughtful readers who are searching for new ways to understand the region, themselves, and many of the major issues of our time.
Collectively, the writers in this volume apply their expertise and talent to provide an intelligent and informed context through which to see public issues and make sense of the changes that continue to shape the region and our world. Individually, they touch on our deepest sense of human experience and continuity and reflect the spirit of the Northwest. Open Spaces enlightens, challenges, and inspires.
Penny H. Harrison is the editor and publisher of Open Spaces magazine. She was formerly an assistant attorney general for Oregon, specializing in natural resource issues.
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Tuesday, June 21,at 7:30 p.m., with William Ruckelshaus, Eric Redman, Lee Neff, and Penny Harrison, at Town Hall, Seattle, with Elliott Bay BooksWednesday, June 22, at 7:30 p.m., with John Daniel, Linda Besant, Kim Stafford, and Penny Harrison, at Powell'sThursday, June 24, at 6 p.m., with Angus Duncan, Ed Sheets, and Richard Benner, at Illahee, Portland
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anne focke
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|  Trimpin
Trimpin, the sound sculptor and composer, has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships; been the subject of a full-length documentary film and a profile in The New Yorker magazine; been included in hundreds of shows, performances, and new music festivals; and has had installations and exhibitions around the world. Despite all this, access to Trimpin's work is limited. He doesn't record his music and very few of his sculptural works are in public or private collections.
This book captures a record of this remarkable journey and places Trimpin's work in the context of visual art, music composition, performance, ambitious engineering, acoustics, and installation art. A touchstone for the book is a two-year series of exhibitions of his work in museums across the Pacific Northwest. It includes essays on Trimpin's life, his work with composer Conlon Nancarrow, and a fully illustrated presentation of key sculptures and performances. Additional essays by writers, composers, and curators consider his work through specific pieces. Trimpin's own voice is a continuous thread running through the entire publication.
Anne Focke is a writer and for 19 years coeditor of the Grantmakers in the Arts Reader. Other contributors include Charles Amirkhanian, Jenny Bilfield, Chris Bruce, Kyle Gann, David Harrington, Hans Lauber, Sasha Leitman, David Mahler, Reynold Pritikin, Beth Sellars, and Jean Strause.
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