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Kimberly Jensen
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Lissa Wadewitz
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Effective October 1, Beth Fuget will be our new Advancement Officer and Grants Manager. Beth has worked at the press for the past nine years in both marketing and acquisitions. She managed our exhibits and subsidiary rights programs, and acquired books in fields ranging from regional history to natural history to international studies.  

 

Before joining the press, she divided her time between teaching and editorial work. She has taught in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, and worked as a writer, editor, and translator for newsmagazines and for international organizations such as UNICEF and Oxfam. Beth grew up in Seattle and holds master's degrees in literature and language education from the University of Washington.

 

new books now available

Seeking Refuge
Seeking Refuge, by Robert Wilson. New in paperback

Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead, by Laurie Arnold

Lalibela, by Jacques Mercier and Claude Lepage. Distributed for Paul Holberton Publishing

The Gulf War Did Not Take Place,
by Jean Baudrillard. Distributed for Power Publications

Breaking the Mold,
by Gabriel P. Weisberg Distributed for Snite Museum of Art

Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries,
byDavid Jongeward, Elizabeth Errington, Richard Salomon, and Stefan Baums. Distributed for Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project, Seattle

An Enduring Legacy
, by David F. Martin. Distributed for Women Painters of Washington

Seekers and Travellers,
by Gary Wyatt

Of Earth,
by John Daniel. Distributed for Lost Horse Press

Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence
, by Linda Tamura
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 October 2012
Greetings!

October is now just around the corner -- and pretty soon UW Press will be debuting a Spring/Summer 2013 catalog with all new books, authors, and videos. We can't wait to show you what's in store, but in the meantime, join us as we launch Dean Adams' book, Four Thousand Hooks, and A-P Hurd's The Carbon Efficient City.

Also,  please join us at the Northwest African American Museum on October 24 at 6 p.m. for a public lecture by Sedat Pakay, photographer of our copublication, James Baldwin in Turkey. This will also open the Museum's related exhibition, so it will be a lovely evening and we hope to see you there!

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dean adams

Four Thousand Hooks
As Four Thousand Hooks opens, an Alaskan fishing schooner is sinking. It is the summer of 1972, and the sixteen-year-old narrator is at the helm. Backtracking from the gripping prologue, Dean Adams tells how he came to be a crew member on the Grant and unfolds a tale of adventure that reads like a novel -- with drama, conflict, and resonant portrayals of halibut fishing, his ragtag shipmates, maritime Alaska, and the ambiguities of family life.

At sea, the Grant's crew teach Dean the daily tasks of baiting thousands of longline hooks and handling the catch, and on shore they lead him through the seedy bars and guilty pleasures of Kodiak. Exhausted by twenty-hour workdays and awed by the ocean's raw power, he observes examples of human courage and vulnerability and emerges with a deeper knowledge of himself and the world.

Four Thousand Hooks is both an absorbing adventure tale and a rich story of a way of life and work that has sustained Northwest families for generations. This coming of age story will appeal to readers -- including young adults -- interested in ocean adventures, commercial fishing, maritime life, and the Northwest Coast.

Dean Adams went on to become the captain of his own fishing boat and to earn bachelor's and master's degrees from the School of Aquatic and Fishery Science at the University of Washington. He and his family live in Seattle and Kerikeri, New Zealand.

PRAISE FOR FOUR THOUSAND HOOKS

"I relived my own past reading Four Thousand Hooks. The way Adams described seeing things for the first time through the eyes of a greenhorn crew member -- the sights and smells, what it's like to really feel work and exhaustion, being on your own as a young man in Alaska -- brought back memories I didn't know I had." -Sig Hansen, Captain of the Northwestern, as seen on Deadliest Catch

"Gritty but literate, this book has the slap-dash of real boat experience. Four Thousand Hooks never loses its salt. It's about an 'inbreaker' ready to take it all as it comes-fish slime, full hold, and hopefully a payday." -William McCloskey, author of Highliners

"A real-life account of a young man's first season working as a crew member on his uncle's commercial fishing boat in the 1970s. Adams tells of the drunken shore leave, the surprising gentleness and understanding between crew members, and the rough but careful teaching of any new crew member to be part of a team upon which one sometimes had to depend for one's survival." - Margaret Willson, author of Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond

Visit the author's website:  http://www.fourthousandhooks.com/

Join Dean on
Sunday, October 7, at 1 p.m. at Seattle Public Library, with Captain's Nautical Supply

Friday, October 12, at 7 p.m. at Village Books, Bellingham

Sunday, October 14, at 3 p.m. at Wordstock, Portland

Friday, November 2, at 7 p.m. at University Book Store

cindy ott

Pumpkin
Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with elaborately carved jack-o'-lanterns. Towns hold annual pumpkin festivals featuring giant pumpkins and carving contests, even though few have any historic ties to the crop.

In this fascinating cultural and natural history, Cindy Ott tells the story of the pumpkin. Beginning with the myth of the first Thanksgiving, she shows how Americans have used the pumpkin to fulfull their desire to maintain connections to nature and to the family farm of lore, and, ironically, how small farms and rural communities have been revitalized in the process. And while the pumpkin has inspired American myths and traditions, the pumpkin itself has changed because of the ways people have perceived, valued, and used it. Pumpkin is a smart and lively study of the deep meanings hidden in common things and their power to make profound changes in the world around us.

Cindy Ott is assistant professor of American Studies at Saint Louis University.

PRAISE FOR PUMPKIN

"A harvest of precise, wide-ranging research, Pumpkin traces the historical roots twining beneath the pumpkin patch and modern farm-stand agriculture." - John R. Stilgoe, Harvard University

"When you scoop out that October pumpkin, you get lots of seeds, a mountain of pulp, and more than three centuries' worth of jumbo ideas about politics, women, men, modern life, and American identity."-Jenny Price, author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America

"An extraordinary scholar and storyteller, Cindy Ott tracks the culture that altered the very nature of the pumpkin-and in doing so, tells us a revealing story about ourselves. Her book is a new optic on the relation between food, environment, cultures, and markets, and is not to be missed."-Philip J. Deloria, author of Playing Indian and Indians in Unexpected Places

"From the symbolism of pumpkins in classical and medieval mythology to locavores and harvest festivals, Ott's paean to pumpkins is important, entertaining, and enlightening."
- Warren Belasco, author of Food: The Key Concepts

Join Cindy on
Wednesday, October 10, at 1 p.m. at Saint Louis University Bookstore

kimberly jensen

Oregon's Doctor to the World
Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy, whose long life stretched from 1869 to 1967, challenged convention from the time she was a young girl. Her professional life began as one of Oregon's earliest women physicians, and her commitment to public health and medical relief took her into the international arena, where she was chair of the American Women's Hospitals after World War I and the first president of the Medical Women's International Association. Most disease, suffering, and death, she believed, were the result of wars and social and economic inequities, and she was determined to combat those conditions through organized action.

Lovejoy's early life and career in the Pacific Northwest gave her key experiences and strategies to use for what she termed "constructive resistance," the ability to take effective action against unjust power. She took a political and pragmatic approach to "woman's big job" -- achieving a full female citizenship -- and emphasized the importance of votes for women. In this engaging biography, Kimberly Jensen tells the story of this important western woman, exploring her approach to politics, health, and society and her civic, economic, and medical activism.

Kimberly Jensen is professor of history and gender studies at Western Oregon University and the author of Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War.

PRAISE FOR OREGON'S DOCTOR TO THE WORLD

"Jensen illuminates the life of this fascinating, important leader and ably demonstrates the centrality of Oregon and the western U.S. to these currents." - Marjorie Feld, author of Lillian Wald: A Biography

"Oregon's Doctor to the World is cutting edge in its presentation of a transnational history of women's participation in international health care, and its early chapters deepen understanding of the Northwest and the national woman suffrage movement and women's partisan activism." - Melanie Gustafson, author of Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924

Watch the book trailer here and join Kimberly on
Saturday, October 13, at 10:30 a.m., at noon, and at 4 p.m. at Wordstock, Portland

Monday, October 22, at 7 p.m. at the Oregon Historical Society
A-p hurd

The Carbon Efficient City
The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency. It details ten strategies for reducing carbon emissions in our cities: standardized measurement, frameworks that support innovation, regulatory alignment, reducing consumption, reuse and restoration, focus on neighborhoods, providing spaces for nature, use of on-site life cycles for water and energy, coordination of regional transportation, and emphasis on solutions that delight people.

Although climate change is recognized as an urgent concern, local and national governments, nonprofits, and private interests often work at cross purposes in attempting to address it. The Carbon Efficient City's focus on concrete, achievable measures that can be implemented in a market economy gives it broad appeal to professionals and engaged citizens across the political spectrum.

PRAISE FOR THE CARBON EFFICIENT CITY

"We have to change the human systems that affect how we generate and consume energy. It can be done and this book tells us how." - William D. Ruckelshaus, founding head of the Environmental Protection Agency

"This is an excellent and essential primer for public officials, progressive developers, and students of sustainability and public policy programs." - Liz Dunn, developer of urban infill projects and head of the Preservation Green Lab

A-P Hurd lives in Seattle where she is vice president of a commercial real estate development company. She has worked on a number of public policy initiatives at the state and local level.

View the book trailer here and join A-P on
Friday, October 19, at 7 p.m. at Village Books, Bellingham

Tuesday, October 30, at 7 p.m. at Seattle Public Library, with Elliott Bay Books
  
lissa wadewitz

The Nature of Borders
For centuries, borders have been central to salmon management customs on the Salish Sea, but how those borders were drawn has had very different effects on the Northwest salmon fishery. Native peoples who fished the Salish Sea -- which includes Puget Sound in Washington State, the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca -- drew social and cultural borders around salmon fishing locations and found ways to administer the resource in a sustainable way. Nineteenth-century Euro-Americans, who drew the Anglo-American border along the forty-ninth parallel, took a very different approach and ignored the salmon's patterns and life cycle. As the canned salmon industry grew and more people moved into the region, class and ethnic relations changed. Soon illegal fishing, broken contracts, and fish piracy were endemic - conditions that contributed to rampant overfishing, social tensions, and international mistrust. The Nature of Borders is about the ecological effects of imposing cultural and political borders on this critical West Coast salmon fishery.

Lissa K. Wadewitz is assistant professor of history and environmental studies at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon.

Watch the book trailer here and join Lissa on
Tuesday, October 23, at 4 p.m. for a Sick Lecture in the Petersen Room, UW Library