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Spring/Summer 2012 catalog
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Our Spring/Summer 2012 catalog

For video trailers of seven new titles, please see our digital catalog here.
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This superb book of poetry by Seattle poet Kathleen Flenniken will be available in February. You can see her read at Open Books on March 18 at 3 p.m. She's also taking part in the UW Odegaard exhibition, "Particles on the Wall" with an event on Thursday, March 29, at 7 p.m. See her video trailer on our YouTube channel.
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Mark Fiege, author of The Republic of Nature (forthcoming April 2012) is happy to announce a wonderful website that complements this powerful book. From this site, you'll be able to see his upcoming events, media promotions, and a video trailer.
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The film Americanese, based on the book American Knees by UW professor Shawn Wong, premiered at the SIFF cinema on Jan. 24. The film will have broad distribution later in 2012, so stay tuned! More info can be found here.

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More great reviews of Signs of Home, by Barbara Johns, keep coming in. The International Examiner says "Barbara Johns examines Tokita's art in the context of his life and the historic events that he lived through, integrating it all into a deeply moving human story."

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The UW has announced that the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity's new Ethnic Cultural Center will be named in honor of the late Samuel E. Kelly, the founding vice president for the office and a pioneer for diversity on campus. The Press is proud to have published Dr. Kelly's autobiography, Dr. Sam, Soldier, Educator, Advocate, Friend.
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 February 2012
 Greetings!

Hopefully everyone has shoveled out from last week's snow storm! I'd be willing to bet more than a few of us consulted Cliff Mass's The Weather of the Pacific Northwest to get a sense of what was going on with our weather patterns.

I'd like to remind you that the University of Washington Press is on Goodreads. If you're a member of this lively social network for big-time readers, consider looking us up! We offer giveaways of select titles and would love to see your reviews of UW Press titles online. If you have any questions, just let me know -- I'm a Goodreader!

Otherwise, we have some great events coming up this month so we hope to see you around town.

All the best,
Rachael
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Judy bentley
Hiking Washington's History

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
RESCHEDULED FROM SNOW CANCELLATION:
Wednesday, February 1, at 6:30 p.m. at the Jefferson County Library, Port Hadlock, WA

barbara johns

Signs of Home
JOHSIG
This eloquent account of Issei artist Kamekichi Tokita, together with his paintings and wartime diary, vividly illustrates an immigrant's life in Seattle in the 1920s and '30s and the uncertainties and anxieties of Japanese Americans during the World War II incarceration. Tokita emigrated from Japan in the early twentieth century and settled in Seattle's Japanese American immigrant community. By the 1930s he was established as a prominent member of the Northwest art scene and allied with the region's progressive artists. His art shares qualities of American Realism while it embodies a ditinctively Issei perspective on his new home.

On the day Pearl Harbor was bombed, Tokita started a diary that he vowed to keep until the war ended. In it he recorded with great vividness and insight the events, fears, rumors, restrictions, and his own emotional turmoil before and during his detention at Minidoka. The diary in this book is a rare personal account of this time written as events were unfolding by a person of maturity and stature.

This book contextualizes Tokita's paintings and diary within the art community and Japanese America. It also introduces us to an amazing man who embraced life despite living through challenging and disheartening times.

Barbara Johns is an art historian, curator, and the former chief curator of the Tacoma Art Museum. Her previous books include Paul Horiuchi: East and West, Jet Dreams: Art of the Fifties in the Northwest, and Anne Gould Hauberg: Fired by Beauty.

Join Barbara
Thursday, February 2, at 2 p.m. at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

Thursday, February 9, at 1:30 p.m. at Horizon House, with Elliott Bay Book Company

Reinhard F. Stettler
Cottonwood and the River of Time

Cottonwood and the River of Time 
Cottonwood and the River of Time looks at some of the approaches scientists have used to unravel the puzzles of the natural world. With a lifetime of work in forestry and genetics to guide him, Reinhard Stettler celebrates both what has been learned and what still remains a mystery as he examines not only cottonwoods but also trees more generally, their evolution, and their relationship to society.

Cottonwoods flourish on the verge, near streams and rivers. Their life cycle is closely attuned to the natural dynamics of rivers. An ever-changing floodplain keeps generating new opportunities for these pioneers to settle and prepare the ground for new species. Perpetual change is the story of cottonwoods, and in a broader sense, the story of all trees and all kinds of life. Through the long parade of generation after generation, as rivers meander and glaciers advance and retreat, trees have adapted and persisted, some for thousands of years. How do they do this? And more urgently, what lessons can we learn from the study of trees to preserve and manage our forests for an uncertain future?

By offering lessons in how nature works and how science can help us to understand it, Cottonwood and the River of Time illuminates connections between the physical, biological, and social worlds.

Reinhard F. Stettler is professor emeritus of forestry at the University of Washington.

Join Reinhard on
Friday, February 10, at 7 p.m. at Barn Beach Reserve, Wenatchee

Saturday, February 11, at 1 p.m. at A Book for All Seasons, Leavenworth