University of Washington Press
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Lunch at the Shop: The Art and Practice of the Midday Meal
$24.95 Add to cartAn invitation to participate in the joy of sharing a meal and savoring fresh, seasonal, healthy food
Peter Miller and his colleagues make lunch every day at his bookshop in Seattle. It may be only a s
- Author: Miller, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0295755229
- Language: English
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Samurai
$65.00 Add to cartExplores the reality and myths of the samurai from medieval times to today’s popular culture
The figure of the samurai is unique in its global intelligibility, read both as a symbol of Japan and as a
- Author: Buckland, Rosina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0295755296
- Language: English
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The Dance of Legislation: An Insider’s Account of the Workings of the United States Senate
$26.95 Add to cartThe Dance of Legislation has long been considered a classic description of the legislative process. In it, Eric Redman draws on his two years as a member of Senator Warren Magnuson’s staff to trace t
- Author: Redman, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0295980230
- Language: English
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Seabirds as Sentinels: Auklets, Puffins, Shearwaters, and the View from Destruction Island
$32.95 Add to cartWhat the fates of seabirds reveal about the changing ocean and our shared future
Every spring, thousands of rhinoceros auklets return to Destruction Island off Washington’s coast, where they dig burro
- Author: Wagner, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0295754613
- Language: English
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Beyond Mysticism: The Modern Northwest
$45.00 Add to cartDemonstrates what made Modernist art in the Puget Sound region unique
In the early twentieth century, the Puget Sound region was home to a progressive artistic and cultural scene shaped by the region’
- Author: Papanikolas, Theresa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0295754842
- Language: English
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A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake
$29.95 Add to cartA deeply affecting memoir of reckoning with a father’s death and the Japanese American incarceration
In a moving conversation with the past, Tamiko Nimura explores her late father’s life and her famil
- Author: Nimura, Tamiko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0295754753
- Language: English
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Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal: A History and Guide
$24.95 Add to cartHow one canal reshaped Seattle’s history, economy, and environment
Seattle’s waterways are central to the city’s identity, and none more so than the Lake Washington Ship Canal and Ballard (Hiram M. Ch
- Author: Williams, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 029575494X
- Language: English
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Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice
$24.95 Add to cartFred Korematsu’s decision to resist F.D.R.’s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was initially the case of a young man followin
- Series: Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
- Author: Bannai, Lorraine K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 029574281X
- Language: English
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America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
$18.95 Read moreFirst published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an iti
- Series: Classics of Asian American Literature
- Author: Bulosan, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0295993537
- Language: English
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The Tlingit in Sitka: The Photography of Elbridge W. Merrill
$50.00 Add to cartA rare window into the changing lives of Native Alaskans between the late 1800s and 1920s
Lured north by the Klondike gold rush, Elbridge W. Merrill settled in Sitka, Alaska, and took up a career as a
- Author: Kan, Sergei
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753471
- Language: English
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Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth: Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World
$24.95 Add to cartAn entrancing collection of myths and legends of the sea
The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our anc
- Author: Smyth, Gerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0295754508
- Language: English
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Red Harbor: Radical Workers and Community Struggle in the Pacific Northwest
$29.95 Add to cartBrings to life Grays Harbor’s fiery legacy of class conflict
In the early decades of the twentieth century, Grays Harbor was the Lumber Capital of the World. While thousands of lumber and maritime w
- Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
- Author: Goings, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0295754001
- Language: English
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Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road
$60.00 Add to cartA celebration of one of Japan’s most talented, prolific, and popular artists
Over a career spanning four decades, the prolific Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) produced thousands of landscape and natur
- Author: Haft, Alfred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0295754095
- Language: English
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Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract
$34.95 Add to cart“The moment to savor [Mary Sully]. . . has arrived.” — New York Times
Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portraitist Thomas Sully, who ca
- Author: Deloria, Philip J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0295745045
- Language: English
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Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from Behind the Handlebars
$24.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction
The rise of an improbable bike culture in the Emerald City
Seattle was recently named the best bike city in the United States by
- Author: Fucoloro, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753218
- Language: English
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Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Horowitz Prize by the Bard Graduate Center
Winner of the 2025 James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Award in African American Art History from the Driskell Center at the University
- Author: Collins, Lisa Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753757
- Language: English
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Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe: A Memoir
$29.95 Add to cartA compelling on-the-ground account of Native activism in the Northwest
A relentless advocate for Native rights, Ramona Bennett Bill has been involved in the battles waged by the Puyallup and other N
- Author: Bennett Bill, Ramona
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753501
- Language: English
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Between the Tides in California: Exploring Beaches and Tidepools
$24.95 Add to cartA fascinating guide to the secret worlds of the intertidal zone
The vast and diverse California coast is an awe-inspiring place of exploration and discovery, full of life forms that are shockingly unf
- Author: Kelly, Ryan P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0295752378
- Language: English
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Norman MacLean: A Life of Letters and Rivers
$29.95 Add to cartThe first biography of one of Montana’s most celebrated writers
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after
- Author: McCarthy, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0295752483
- Language: English
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No-No Boy
$18.95 Add to cart“No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No
- Series: Classics of Asian American Literature
- Author: Okada, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0295994045
- Language: English
