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 Our Fall/Winter 2012 catalog For video trailers of six new titles, please see our digital catalog here. |
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Join Dean Adams, author of Four Thousand Hooks, at Seattle Public Library, with Captain's Nautical Supply, on Sunday, October 7, at 1 p.m. He'll also be at Village Books on Friday, October 12, at 7 p.m. and at Wordstock, in Portland!  Kimberly Jensen, author of Oregon's Doctor to the World, will also be at Wordstock, in Portland, and will be launching her book at Oregon Historical Society on Monday, October 22, at 7 p.m. |
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Greetings!
September is just around the corner and with it comes the first of our fabulous Fall events. Before summer bows out entirely, don't forget that August 18 is the first annual Mazama Book Festival and you can see Kathleen Flenniken (author of Plume and Washington State poet laureate) on stage. Also, coming up in September, see A-P Hurd, author of The Carbon Efficient City, at the Seattle Design Festival on September 20. For more info, including how to purchase event tickets, see their website. All the best, Rachael remann@u.washington.edu  |
thomas graham jr.
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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.
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, Disarmament Sketches, and Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies That Changed History.
PRAISE FOR UNENDING CRISIS
"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
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aldona jonaitis
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Discovering Totem Poles
Rising from a forest mist or soaring overhead in parks and museums, magnificent cedar totem poles have captured the attention and imagination of visitors to Washington State, British Columbia, and Alaska.
Discovering Totem Poles is the first guidebook to focus on the complex and fascinating histories of the specific poles visitors encounter in Seattle, Victoria, Vancouver, Alert Bay, Prince Rupert, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), Ketchikan, Sitka, and Juneau. It debunks common misconceptions about totem poles and explores the stories behind the making and displaying of 90 different poles.
Travelers with this guide in their pockets will return home with a deeper knowledge of the monumental carvings, their place in history, and the people who made them.
Aldona Jonaitis is the author of a number of books including Art of the Northwest Coast and, with Aaron Glass, The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History. She is director emerita of the University of Alaska Museum of the North. View the book trailer here.
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linda tamura
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Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence
Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence is a compelling story of courage, community, endurance, and reparation. It shares the experiences of Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, fighting on the front lines in Italy and France, serving as linguists in the South Pacific, and working as cooks and medics. The soldiers were from Hood River, Oregon, where their families were landowners and fruit growers. Town leaders, including veterans' groups, attempted to prevent their return after the war and stripped their names from the local war memorial. All of the soldiers were American citizens, but their parents were Japanese immigrants and had been imprisoned in camps as a consequence of Executive Order 9066. The racist homecoming reception that the Hood River Japanese American soldiers received was decried across the nation.
Linda Tamura, who grew up in Hood River and whose father was a veteran of the war, conducted extensive oral histories with the veterans, their families, and members of the community. She had access to hundreds of recently uncovered letters and documents from private files of a local veterans' group that led the campaign against the Japanese American soldiers. This book also includes the little known story of local Nisei veterans who spent 40 years appealing their convictions for insubordination.
Linda Tamura is professor of education at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. She is the author of The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley.
PRAISE FOR NISEI SOLDIERS BREAK THEIR SILENCE
"This important chronicle of the community's wartime contributions interweaves fact and anecdote . . . Tamura provides an engaging outlet for a hidden voice." -Publishers Weekly, June 2012
"An important book about significant wartime events, a group of heroic World War II veterans, and the anguished experience of a community coming to grips with its own social sins. It is a superb oral history, a compelling community history, and a cautionary story about what happens when a democracy goes to war." -William L. Lang, Portland State University
Watch the book trailer here and join Linda on
Saturday, September 15, at TBD at the Hood River County History Museum, with Waucoma Bookstore
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gordon miller
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Voyages
We know the shape of the world today because ships of the mid-fifteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries, driven by wind and human muscle, were navigated into every last bay and estuary on Earth searching for new riches. First the take was spices and other exotic products of the Orient, then gold and ivory from Africa, followed by beaver pelts, coffee, and goods from the Americas, and finally luxurious sea otter pelts from the Northwest Coast of North America. The ships that made these voyages evolved over time and their navigators benefited from centuries of accumulated experience.
Voyages recounts the extraordinary feats of more than twenty of Europe's most daring maritime explorers as they ventured into the unknown and braved uncharted territory, including Christopher Columbus, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, John Cabot, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Jacques Cartier, Martin Frobisher, Ferdinand Magellan, Francis Drake, and James Cook.
Exquisitely illustrated with almost 100 of Gordon Miller's paintings, many detailed maps, and ship drawings, Voyages reveals the evolution of maritime technologies, the rise and fall of maritime empires, the extreme dangers of sailing uncharted waters, the courage and brutality of life at sea, and the discovery of new continents, cultures, and products. Through their voyages, these ships and sailors defined the true dimensions of the oceans and coastlines of the world.
Gordon Miller is a distinguished maritime artist and illustrator living in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Saturday, September 15, at 2 p.m. at the Center for Wooden Boats, Seattle
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kurt armbruster
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Before Seattle Rocked
The rich, deep roots of Seattle's musical heritage have profoundly affected the city's cultural life and history. For this once remote city, music forged links as real as those created by railroads and steamships. Personal anecdotes and memories from many of Seattle's most beloved musicians and historic photographs of the changing music scene enrich this entertaining panorama of Seattle music from the 1890s to the 1960s, "before Seattle rocked."
Kurt E. Armbruster is a Seattle native, historian, professional bassist, and singer-songwriter. He has played music of many genres, from Beethoven to balalaika, Sousa to swing, and has written three books, including Orphan Road: The Railroad Comes to Seattle, 1853-1911. He is a proud member of the Seattle Musicians' Association, afm Local 76-493.
PRAISE FOR BEFORE SEATTLE ROCKED
"Packed with history, personalities, and great stories, this multilayered look at Seattle's musical beginnings will delight anyone interested in the sources that fed the region's unique cultural identity. A fun and absorbing read!" -Maxine Frost, Classical KING FM 98.1
"This unusual book is chock-full of marvelous anecdotes about Seattle's musical history, from folk to country to opera to jazz." -Paul de Barros, Seattle Times jazz critic and author of Jackson Street After Hours: The Roots of Jazz in Seattle
"Covers most imaginable music-related subjects in our community's past, from Bach through the Wang Doodle Orchestra and beyond." -Paul Dorpat, Pacific Northwest Magazine, December 2011
Watch the trailer here and join Kurt on
Saturday, September 29, at 6:30 p.m. at Third Place Books
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