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Fall/Winter 2012 catalog
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Mark Fiege
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Kathleen Flenniken
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Our Fall/Winter 2012 catalog

For video trailers of six new titles, please see our digital catalog here.
New books now in stock

Discovering Totem Poles, by Aldona Jonaitis

Haa Leelk'w Has Aani Saaxi'u/Our Grandparents' Names on the Land by Thomas Thornton
Ellavut/Our Yupik World and Weather, by Ann Fienup-Riordan and Alice Rearden

The Environmental Moment, by David Stradling

Furniture Studio, by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner

Floricanto en Aztlan,
by Alurista; published by UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press
Quagmire
Quagmire,
by David Biggs, now in paperback

Art and Intimacy,
by Ellen Dissanayake, now in paperback

Knitted, Knotted, Twisted, and Twined,
by Stefano Catalani, Jeannine Falino, and Janet Koplos, published by Bellevue Arts Museum
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 May 2012
Greetings!

Happy almost May! We're excited to announce our Fall 2012 catalog, both in print and in digital form, so please see what the UW Press will be publishing in the next season. You can find our digital catalog here and on our homepage.

We're also bringing some big authors to the Seattle area. Both Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr (author of Unending Crisis) and Mark Fiege (The Republic of Nature) will be in town in May and June, with appearances on KING-5 TV and KUOW, respectively. So be sure to catch these two while they're around!

The Jefferson Museum of Art and History, in Port Townsend, will be opening a new exhibition on Friday, April 27 called "Contemporary Expressions of the Northwest: Fine Art from the Robert and Nora Porter Collection" which will feature pieces by Anne Hirondelle, subject of the new book Anne Hirondelle.

Feel free to get in touch if you'd like more info on any of these books, authors, or events -- we'd love to share more with you!

All the best,
Rachael
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mark fiege

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 on
Sunday, April 29, at 2 p.m. at Old Firehouse Books, Fort Collins, CO

Thursday, May 24, at 7:30 p.m. at Boulder Bookstore, Boulder, CO

Wednesday, May 30, at 7 p.m. at Tattered Cover, LoDo, Denver, CO

Friday, June 8, at 9 a.m. Tune in to KUOW's "Weekday with Steve Scher"

Friday, June 8, at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle, with University Book Store

Saturday, June 9, at 7 p.m. at Village Books, Bellingham

Wednesday, June 13, at 7 p.m. at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park
Ambassador thomas graham jr.

Unending Crisis

In Unending Crisis, Thomas Graham Jr. examines the second Bush administration's misguided management of foreign policy, the legacy of which has been seven major - and almost irresolvable - national security crises involving North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, the Arab-Israeli conflict in Palestine, and nuclear proliferation. Unending Crisis considers these issues individually and together, emphasizing their interrelationship and delineating the role that the neoconservative agenda played in redefining the way America is perceived in the world today.

"A concise, well-written, and thoroughly documented account of how our country lost its moorings over the last decade, Unending Crisis is a must read for all concerned about the role of the United States in a changing world." - Lt. General (USA, Ret.) Robert Gard, former president of the National Defense University

"A book of solid good sense and keen vision from one of our most experienced, dedicated diplomats." - Richard Rhodes, author of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb and The Twilight of the Bombs

As a U.S. ambassador, Thomas Graham Jr. was involved in the negotiation of major arms control agreements over the course of nearly 30 years. His publications include Common Sense on Weapons of Mass Destruction, Cornerstones of Security: Arms Control Treaties in the Nuclear Era, Disarmament Sketches: Three Decades of Arms Control and International Law, and Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies That Changed History.

Join Ambassador Graham on
Monday, April 30, at noon at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Sunday, May 20, at 2 p.m. at Seattle Public Library, with Elliott Bay Books

Monday, May 21, at 8:45 a.m. on KING 5 TV, Seattle

Wednesday, May 23, at 7:30 p.m. at Boulder Bookstore, Boulder, CO

kathleen flenniken

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
Wednesday, May 30, at 7 p.m. at University Book Store