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Underdog by Katrina Roberts, is now available. This, the newest book in the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, draws on wide-ranging historical and cultural sources to consider questions of identity, to ask us to meditate on how each of us is "other" -- native, immigrant, sojourner, alien -- and to examine our at-once shared and foreign frontiers and margins. |
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Greetings!
Hello hello, those of you still around town as the weather turns wonderful!  We're still here all summer long, so we hope to see you at some of the great events we're cooking up! For those of you in Seattle, join Penny Harrison, William Ruckelshaus, Eric Redman, and Lee Neff at Town Hall Seattle, with Elliott Bay Books, for the launch of Open Spaces tomorrow, June 21, at 7:30 p.m. Or, if you're in Portland, please join Penny Harrison, John Daniel, Kim Stafford, and Linda Besant at Powell's for the Portland launch on Wednesday, June 22, at 7:30 p.m. All the best, Rachael remann@u.washington.edu 
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robert donnelly
| |  Dark Rose
In April 1956, Portland Oregonian investigative reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert exposed organized crime rackets and rampant corruption within Portland's law enforcement institutions. The biggest scandal involved Teamsters officials and the city's lucrative prostitution, gambling, and bootlegging operations. Turner and Lambert blew the cover on the Teamsters' scheme to take over alcohol sales and distribution and profit from these fringe enterprises. The Rose City was seething with vice and intrigue.
The exposé and other reports of racketeering from around the country incited a national investigation into crime networks and union officials headed by the McClellan Committee, or officially, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field. The commission discovered evidence in Portland that helped prove Teamsters president Dave Beck's embezzlement of union funds and union vice president Jimmy Hoffa's connection to the mob.
Dark Rose reveals the fascinating and sordid details of an important period in the history of what by the end of the century had become a great American city. It is a story of Portland's repeated and often failed efforts to flush out organized crime and municipal corruption - a familiar story for many mid-twentieth-century American cities that were attempting to clean up their police departments and municipal governments. Dark Rose also helps explain the heritage of Portland's reform politics and the creation of what is today one of the country's most progressive cities.
Robert C. Donnelly is assistant professor of history at Gonzaga University.
Join Robert on
Friday, July 8, at 7:30 p.m. at Powell's, Portland
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edited by penny harrison
| |  Open Spaces
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.
Featured writers:
Bruce Babbitt
Richard P. Benner
Linda Besant
Emory Bundy
Jeff Curtis
Bob Davison
Sandra Dorr
Angus Duncan
David James Duncan
Tom Grant
Stephen J. Harris
Roy Hemmingway
Thomas F. Hornbein
William Kittredge
Jane Lubchenco
Kathleen Dean Moore
Lee C. Neff
James Opie
Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain
Jarold Ramsey
Richard Rapport
Eric Redman
William D. Ruckelshaus
Robert Sack
Edward W. Sheets
Scot Siegel
Kim Stafford
John Struloeff
Ann Ware
Charles Wilkinson
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.
Join contributors on
Monday, July 11, at 7 p.m., with Emory Bundy and Richard Rapport, at Village Books, Bellingham
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grant hildebrand and george suyama
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|  Suyama
George Suyama began his architectural practice in Seattle in 1971. His early career is marked by a number of notable designs in the contemporaneous wood idiom of the region. Over time, however, Suyama developed an architecture characterized by a search for minimalist simplicity, a paradoxical architecture of intense, even exciting, tranquility. In Suyama: A Complex Serenity, Grant Hildebrand introduces the man and his work, discussing relevant aspects of Suyama's life, the influences that have shaped his beliefs, and twenty of his built and unbuilt projects that illuminate the development of his remarkable art and craft. Included also are appendices that illustrate Suyama's deep and long-standing involvement with the arts and product design.
Grant Hildebrand is professor emeritus of architecture and art history at the University of Washington, and author of seven books on architecture, including The Wright Space: Pattern and Meaning in Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses and Frank Lloyd Wright's Palmer House. He is a recipient of the Washington Governor's Writers Award for work of literary merit and lasting value.
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edited by pamela camp & john g. 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
A trip across Washington presents an array of habitats, from dripping spruce and hemlock forests along the coast to arid grasslands, shrub-steppe, and sand dune systems east of the mountains, from low-elevation outwash prairies to alpine slopes, from basalt flows and rocky islands to salt marshes and riverbanks. 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.
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john findlay & Bruce hevly
| |  Atomic Frontier Days
On the banks of the Pacific Northwest's greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert. The 586-square-mile compound on the Columbia River is known both for its origins as part of the Manhattan Project and for the monumental effort now under way to clean up forty-five years of waste from manufacturing plutonium for nuclear weapons. Hanford routinely makes the news, as scientists, litigants, administrators, and politicians argue over its past and its future.
It is easy to think about Hanford as an expression of federal power, a place apart from humanity and nature, but that view distorts its history. Atomic Frontier Days looks through a wider lens, telling a complex story of production, community building, politics, and environmental sensibilities. In brilliantly structured parallel stories, the authors bridge the divisions that accompany Hanford's headlines and offer perspective on today's controversies. Influenced as much by regional culture, economics, and politics as by war, diplomacy, and environmentalism, Hanford and the Tri-Cities of Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick illuminate the history of the modern American West.
John M. Findlay is professor of history at the University of Washington, with expertise in social and urban history. Bruce Hevly, an expert in the history of science and technology, is associate professor of history at the University of Washington.
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