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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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Unending Crisis
Thomas Graham, a long-time University of Washington Press author, has a new book that sheds important light on international politics. Thomas will be at Seattle Public Library, with Elliott Bay Books, on Sunday, May 20, at 2 p.m.
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New books now in stock
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Art by the Book, by J.P. Park
Chinuk Wawa, by The Chinuk Wawa Dictionary Project
In My Father's House, by John Hodgen
Last Night, by Thomas Brush
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UW Today featured Is It A House? in a recent issue. This book, edited by Amanda K. Taylor and Julie K. Stein, is a copublication with the Burke Museum.
Our good friends at the University of Washington Libraries are gearing up for another wonderful Literary Voices. UW Press authors hosting tables include Rebecca Brown (editor and contributor to Looking Together); Maid Adams, Jean Durining, Joan Singler, and Bettylou Valentine (authors of Seattle in Black and White); Kurt Armbruster (author of Before Seattle Rocked); Paula Becker and Alan Stein (authors of Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition); John M. Findlay and Bruce Hevly (authors of Atomic Frontier Days and The Atomic West); Kathleen Flenniken (author of Plume); and Richard Morrill (author, with Michael Brown, of Seattle Geographies). Please see their website for info on attending this magical evening!
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Greetings!
Can you believe spring is already here? The winter seems to have flown by, and we're already busy talking about our exciting lineup of books for the Fall season. Our Fall/Winter 2012 catalog will be available May 1, so stay tuned! If you're attending the American Society for Environmental History in Madison (March 28-31), please come by and say hello! Finally, I'm excited to announce something very fun -- many of you may not be in one of the cities Mark Fiege will be visiting next month in support of his book, The Republic of Nature. If that's the case, you can join a Virtual Booksigning with the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop, where you can listen to Mark, ask him questions, and even have him sign a book that will be sent to you by the store. It's a great opportunity and please check it out -- the event will happen on Sunday, March 31 at noon CT! More info can be found here. All the best, Rachael remann@u.washington.edu  |
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The Republic of Nature
"Eminently readable . . . an original contribution." -Publishers Weekly, January 2012
In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical icons so familiar that schoolchildren learn to take them for granted, he makes surprising connections that enable readers to see old stories in a new light.
Among the historical moments revisited here, a revolutionary nation arises from its environment and struggles to reconcile the diversity of its people with the claim that nature is the source of liberty. Abraham Lincoln, an unlettered citizen from the countryside, steers the Union through a moment of extreme peril, guided by his clear-eyed vision of nature's capacity for improvement. In Topeka, Kansas, transformations of land and life prompt a lawsuit that culminates in the momentous civil rights case of Brown v. Board of Education.
By focusing on materials and processes intrinsic to all things and by highlighting the nature of the United States, Fiege recovers the forgotten and overlooked ground on which so much history has unfolded. In these pages, the nation's birth and development, pain and sorrow, ideals and enduring promise come to life as never before, making a once-familiar past seem new. The Republic of Nature points to a startlingly different version of history that calls on readers to reconnect with fundamental forces that shaped the American experience.
Mark Fiege is an associate professor of history and the William E. Morgan Chair of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. He is the author of Irrigated Eden.
Join Mark
Saturday, March 31, at noon at the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop, Chicago -- ANYONE CAN JOIN VIA LIVE VIRTUAL BOOKSIGNING!
Monday, April 2, at 4 p.m. at the University of ChicagoTuesday, April 3, at 3 p.m. at Georgetown UniversityFriday, April 6, at 9 a.m. CST, on "The Kathleen Dunn Show," Wisconsin Public RadioMonday, April 9, at Bryn MawrWednesday, April 11, at the New SchoolSaturday, April 14, at 2 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, Marlton, NJMonday, April 16, at 4 p.m. at Barnes and Noble Educator Event, Downtown PhiladelphiaMonday, April 16, at 6 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, Downtown PhiladelphiaWednesday, April 18, at noon, at MITWednesday, April 18, at 7 p.m. at the Harvard CoopSunday, April 29, at 2 p.m. at Old Firehouse Books, Fort Collins, CO |
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Plume
The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland, Washington, at the height of the Cold War, next door to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where "every father I knew disappeared to fuel the bomb," and worked at Hanford herself as a civil engineer and hydrologist. By the late 1980s, declassified documents revealed decades of environmental contamination and deception at the plutonium production facility, contradicting a lifetime of official assurances to workers and their families that their community was and always had been safe. At the same time, her childhood friend Carolyn's own father was dying of radiation-induced illness: "blood cells began to err one moment efficient the next / a few gone wrong stunned by exposure to radiation / as [he] milled uranium into slugs or swabbed down / train cars or reported to B Reactor for a quick run-in / run-out." Plume, written twenty years later, traces this American betrayal and explores the human capacity to hold truth at bay when it threatens one's fundamental identity. Flenniken observes her own resistance to facts: "one box contains my childhood / the other contains his death / if one is true / how can the other be true?"
The book's personal story and its historical one converge with enriching interplay and wide technical variety, introducing characters that range from Carolyn and her father to Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and Manhattan Project health physicist Herbert Parker. As a child of "Atomic City," Kathleen Flenniken brings to this tragedy the knowing perspective of an insider coupled with the art of a precise, unflinching, gifted poet.
Join Kathleen, the new Washington State poet laureate, on
Tuesday, March 27, at 7 p.m. at Odegaard Library for the opening of the "Particles on a Wall" exhibition Monday, April 2, at 7 p.m. at Elliott BayThursday, April 5, at 7 p.m. at Richard Hugo HouseSaturday, April 7 at 7 p.m. at Village BooksSunday, April 15, at 3 p.m. at Museum of GlassSunday, April 18, at 1 p.m. at Secret Garden BooksSaturday, April 28, at 6 p.m. at Literary Voices, University of Washington |
anne hirondelle, jake seniuk, and rikki Ducornet
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Anne Hirondelle
For three decades, nationally renowned ceramist Anne Hirondelle has pushed the boundaries of traditional pottery, producing beautiful works that appear warmly alive and visually engaging. From her early majestic urns to her architectural impulse for sedate forms to her bright ropes of coiling clay, she keeps exploring new possibilities without rejecting the traditions of her chosen material.
Hirondelle's studio in Port Townsend, Washington, is the nexus of her creative and imaginative life. Her works have been exhibited in numerous one-person shows throughout the United States.
Jake Seniuk is an artist and executive director of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center and Webster Woods Art Park. Rikki Ducornet is a writer and friend.
Join Anne, in conversation with Jake Seniuk and Rikki Ducornet, on
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john findlay and bruce hevly
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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.
Atomic Frontier Days looks through a wide 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 and Bruce Hevly, are both professors of history at the University of Washington.
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jeffrey ochsner
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Furniture Studio
Furniture Studio explores the origins, methods, results, and influence of the unique and highly successful furniture design and fabrication studios offered by the University of Washington Department of Architecture. The furniture program, initiated by Andris Vanags, is an immersion into the role of materials, design, and making in architectural education. Students directly engage the physical properties of materials, and the knowledge gained through this engagement enriches the design and fabrication process. The experiences of its graduates reveal that the studio fosters creative thinking that truly integrates design and making.
Ochsner presents historical background to shop-based courses, including furniture studio; traces the careers of four representative graduates of the program; and suggests implications from this program for architectural education and individual achievement beyond the University of Washington. Eleven students and the projects they created in the winter 2009 studio are profiled, and the book contains a fully illustrated catalogue of exemplary student projects from 1989 to the present.
Jeffrey Karl Ochsner is professor of architecture and associate dean for academic affairs, College of Built Environments, University of Washington. He is the author of Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator and coauthor of Distant Corner: Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H. H. Richardson.
Join Jeffrey on
Monday, April 30, at 7 p.m. at Architecture Hall 147, University of Washington campus
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