University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
by Neal O. Hines
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Retirement Association at the University of Washington
by Judy Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Hiking Washington�s History reveals the stories embedded in Washington�s landscape. This trail guide narrates forty historic trails, ranging from short day hikes to three- or four-day backpacking trips over mountain passes. Every region in the state is included, from the northwesternmost tip of...
Walking Washington's History
Ten Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Walking Washington�s History: Ten Cities, a follow-up to Judy Bentley�s bestselling Hiking Washington�s History, showcases the state�s engaging urban history through guided walks in ten major cities. Using narrated walks, maps, and historic photographs, Bentley reveals each city�s aspirations.
She...
Henry M. Jackson
A Life in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Henry M. Jackson ranks as one of the great legislators in American history. With a Congressional career spanning the tenure of nine Presidents, Jackson had an enormous impact on the most crucial foreign policy and defense issues of the Cold War era, as well as a marked impact on energy policy, civil...
War and Politics by Other Means
A Journalist's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Shelby Scates�s thirty-five-year career as a prize-winning journalist and columnist for International News Service, United Press International, the Associated Press, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has taken him to centers of action across this country and to wars and conflicts in many of the...
Heroes, Hacks, and Fools
Memoirs from the Political Inside
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Ted Van Dyk, a shrewd veteran of countless national political and policy fights, casts fresh light on many of the leading personalities and watershed events of American politics since JFK. He was a Pentagon intelligence analyst during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and an aide to Jean Monnet and other...
Confederacy of Ambition
William Winlock Miller and the Making of Washington Territory
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
The promise of opportunity drew twenty-seven-year-old Illinois schoolteacher William Winlock Miller west to the future Washington Territory in 1850. Like so many other Oregon Trail emigrants Miller arrived cash-poor and ambitious, but unlike most he fulfilled his grandest ambitions. By the time of...
Walking Washington's History
Spokane
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Walking Washington's History
Bellingham
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Walking Washington's History
Vancouver
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Sine Die
A Guide to the Washington State Legislative Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This 1997 edition of Sine Die is a completely new book. Since the first edition of Sine Die was published in 1987, there have been dramatic changes in the Washington State Legislature and in state politics. Limits have been placed on campaign contributions and reporting requirements are expanded;...
by Clifford Mass
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Pacific Northwest experiences the most varied and fascinating weather in the United States, including world-record winter snows, the strongest non-tropical storms in the nation, and shifts from desert to rain forest in a matter of miles. Local weather features dominate the meteorological landscape,...
The Final Forest
Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award
Before Forks, a small town on Washington�s Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyer�s Twilight book series, it...
Resuscitate!
How Your Community Can Improve Survival from Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death among adults, yet it need not be fatal. Though survival in most communities is very poor, a few communities achieve rates as high as 50%. Why are some communities so successful in snatching life from the jaws of death? Resuscitate! describes the...