University of Washington Press
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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
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Nisei Daughter
$19.95 Add to cartWith charm, humor, and deep understanding, Monica Sone tells what it was like to grow up Japanese American on Seattle’s waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to “relocation” during World War II.
- Series: Classics of Asian American Literature
- Author: Sone, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0295993553
- Language: English
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Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History
$34.95 Read moreThe entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the world’s iconic urban green spaces
From deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know
- Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
- Author: Biehler, Dawn Day
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 295753196
- Language: English
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Maidens or Monsters?: Tales of Amazons, Goddesses, Queens and Temptresses in Medieval Manuscripts
$29.95 Add to cartAn illustrated collection of exceptional female figures in myth and legend
In the Middle Ages, some of the most popular and well-loved stories were about female saints, classical heroines, and the fem
- Author: Westwell, Chantry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0295753544
- Language: English
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Cedar: Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the giant cedar of the rainforest came a wealth of raw materials vital to the way of life, art and culture of the early First Nations people of the Northwest Coast.
All parts of the cedar tree had
- Series: Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians
- Author: Stewart, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0295974486
- Language: English
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The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests
$29.95 Add to cartA call to rethink our relationship with forests
Ancient and carbon-rich, old-growth forests play an irreplaceable role in the environment. Their complex ecosystems clean the air, purify the water, coo
- Author: Mapes, Lynda V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753676
- Language: English
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Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific
$29.95 Add to cartA provocative retelling of shipwreck tales from the Northwest Coast
The Northwest Coast of North America is a treacherous place. Unforgiving coastlines, powerful currents, unpredictable weather, and
- Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
- Author: Thrush, Coll
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753765
- Language: English
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Seattle Walks: Discovering History and Nature in the City
$18.95 Add to cartAn updated and expanded new edition of the definitive walking guide to Seattle
One of America’s most walkable cities, Seattle rewards urban trekkers with expansive scenery and architectural and hist
- Author: Williams, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753579
- Language: English
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Silk Roads
$65.00 Add to cartExplores how the movement of people, objects, and ideas from 500 to 1000 CE shaped cultures and histories
In the ninth century CE, an Arabian ship sank off the coast of Indonesia. The objects found in
- Author: Brunning, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0295753536
- Language: English
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Heaven on the Half Shell: The Story of the Oyster in the Pacific Northwest
$29.95 Add to cartHeaven on the Half Shell offers a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated history of the Pacific Northwest’s beloved bivalve, the oyster. Starting with the earliest evidence of sea gardens and c
- Author: Gordon, David George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0295750782
- Language: English
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Full Light and Perfect Shadow: The Photography of Chao-Chen Yang
$29.95 Read moreThis is the first study of the work of Chao-Chen Yang (1909-1969), an important Seattle photographer who gained national prominence in the mid-twentieth century.
Born in Hangzhou, China, Yang received
- Author: Martin, David F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0998911259
- Language: English
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The Story of Propaganda in 50 Images
$24.95 Read moreFrom ancient Greek coinage to the sound bites of modern-day political spin doctors, propaganda has existed for thousands of years. But it was in the twentieth century that the art of persuasively comm
- Author: Welch, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0295751282
- Language: English
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Fishes of the Salish Sea: Puget Sound and the Straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca
$165.00 Read moreFishes of the Salish Sea is the definitive guide to the identification and history of the marine and anadromous fishes of Puget Sound and the Straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca. This comprehensive t
- Author: Pietsch, Theodore Wells
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1074
- Publish Date: July 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0295743743
- Language: English
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Fear No Man: Don James, the ’91 Huskies, and the Seven-Year Quest for a National Football Championship
$19.95 Read moreIn 1984 the University of Washington Huskies won every game but one, ranking second in national polls. For most coaches, such a season would be a career pinnacle. But for Don James second place motiva
- Author: Gastineau, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0295751215
- Language: English
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Olmsted in Seattle: Creating a Park System for a Modern City
$29.95 Add to cartIn the midst of galloping growth at the turn of the twentieth century, Seattle’s city leaders seized on the confluence of a roaring economy with the City Beautiful movement to hire the Olmsted Brother
- Author: Ott, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1933245565
- Language: English
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Cáw Pawá Láakni / They Are Not Forgotten: Sahaptian Place Names Atlas of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla
$29.95 Add to cartC?w Paw? L?akni / They Are Not Forgotten is a book like none other. This ethnogeographic atlas of Native place names presents a compelling account of interactions between a homeland and its people. A
- Author: Hunn, Eugene S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0295990260
- Language: English
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Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City
$29.95 Read moreFrom the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle’s urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal, extractive
- Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
- Author: Asaka, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0295750677
- Language: English
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One Left
$22.95 Read moreDuring the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territo
- Author: Soom, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0295747668
- Language: English
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Uncle Rico’s Encore: Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle
$24.95 Read moreFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant racism, sporadic violence, and poverty while their US-bor
- Author: Bacho, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0295749776
- Language: English
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Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023
$34.95 Read moreThis volume features the work of six Indigenous artists whose craft speaks to the responsibility of honoring cultural traditions while shaping the future. Joe Feddersen (Arrow Lakes/Okanagan) is a pri
- Author: Evans, Lara M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 093731188X
- Language: English
