University of Washington Press
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Life and Afterlife in Ancient China
$39.95 Read moreThe three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilization still in place today: an extraordinarily chall
- Author: Rawson, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 029575236X
- Language: English
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A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast
$29.95 Add to cartIn the dense rainforest of the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Somass River (c̓uumaʕas) brings sockeye salmon (miʕaat) into the Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht. C̓uumaB
- Series: Indigenous Confluences
- Author: Cot?, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0295749520
- Language: English
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Birds of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Guide
$29.95 Add to cartIn this updated edition of their best-selling field guide, renowned bird experts Tom Aversa, Richard Cannings, and Hal Opperman illuminate the key identification traits, vocalizations, seasonal status
- Author: Aversa, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 31 2020
- ISBN10: 0295748052
- Language: English
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The Portland Black Panthers: Empowering Albina and Remaking a City
$24.95 Add to cartPortland, Oregon, though widely regarded as a liberal bastion, also has struggled historically with ethnic diversity; indeed, the 2010 census found it to be “America’s whitest major city.” In early re
- Series: V Ethel Willis White Books
- Author: Burke, Lucas N. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0295742712
- Language: English
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The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartIn her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and, i
- Author: Hayes, Ernestine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 11 2019
- ISBN10: 029574572X
- Language: English
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Jesintel: Living Wisdom from Coast Salish Elders
$34.95 Add to cartDynamic and diverse, Coast Salish culture is bound together by shared values and relations that generate a resilient worldview. Jesintel–“to learn and grow together”–characterizes the spirit of this
- Author: Children of the Setting Sun Productions
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0295748648
- Language: English
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China’s Hidden Century: 1796-1912
$75.00 Read moreCultural creativity in China between 1796 and 1912 demonstrated extraordinary resilience in a time of warfare, land shortages, famine, and uprisings. Innovation can be seen in material culture (includ
- Author: Harrison-Hall, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0295751851
- Language: English
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Hiking Washington’s History
$19.95 Add to cartFor thousands of years people have traveled across Washington’s spectacular terrain, establishing footpaths and roads to reach hunting grounds and coal mines high in the mountains, fishing sites and t
- Author: Bentley, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0295748524
- Language: English
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Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle’s Topography
$19.95 Add to cartResidents and visitors in today’s Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the city grew, its leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered its topo
- Author: Williams, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0295999403
- Language: English
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Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
$24.95 Add to cartThis updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle’s Native past into a broader context. Native Seattle focuses on the e
- Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
- Author: Thrush, Coll
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0295741341
- Language: English
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Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers
$29.95 Read moreJust as a basket’s purpose determines its materials, weave, and shape, so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material, weave, and shape. Editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton ground
- Author: Washuta, Elissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0295745754
- Language: English
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Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest
$39.95 Add to cartThe Pacific Northwest abounds with native plants that bring beauty to the home garden while offering food and shelter to birds, bees, butterflies, and other wildlife. Elegant trilliums thrive in woodl
- Author: Kruckeberg, Arthur R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0295744154
- Language: English
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Stomp and Shout: R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll
$29.95 Add to cartLong before the world discovered grunge, the Pacific Northwest was already home to a singular music culture. In the late 1950s, locals had codified a distinct offshoot of rockin’ R&B, and a surprising
- Author: Blecha, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0295751258
- Language: English
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The Last Wilderness: A History of the Olympic Peninsula
$24.95 Add to cartMurray Morgan’s classic history of the Olympic Peninsula, originally published in 1955, evokes a remote American wilderness “as large as the state of Massachusetts, more rugged than the Rockies, its l
- Author: Morgan, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0295745339
- Language: English
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Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound
$19.95 Add to cartNot far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish commun
- Author: Williams, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0295751002
- Language: English
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Haboo: Native American Stories from Puget Sound
$29.95 Read moreThe stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound represent an important part of the oral tradition by which one generation hands down beliefs, values, and customs to another.
- Author: Hilbert, VI
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0295746963
- Language: English
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Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington State
$24.95 Read moreFrom trilobites near the Idaho border and primitive horses on the Columbia Plateau to giant bird tracks near Bellingham and curious bear-like beasts on the Olympic Peninsula, fossils across Washington
- Author: Nesbitt, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0295752327
- Language: English
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Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress
$29.95 Add to cartTo cities, sports have never been just entertainment. Progressive urbanites across the United States have used athletics to address persistent problems in city life: the fights for racial justice, wor
- Author: Scott, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0295751991
- Language: English
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Edible and Medicinal Flora of the West Coast: The Pacific Northwest and British Columbia
$22.95 Add to cartThe coastal Pacific Northwest of North America is home to a multitude of edible and medicinal plant species, edible mushrooms, and marine plants?from Black Gooseberry to Western Tea-Berry, from Golden
- Author: Varner, Collin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0295751843
- Language: English
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Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World
$34.95 Add to cart**2nd place for the 2023 Chicago Folklore Prize**
Ayetli gadogv–to “stand in the middle”–is at the heart of a Cherokee perspective of the natural world. From this stance, Cherokee Earth Dwellers offe
- Author: Teuton, Christopher B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0295750189
- Language: English
