University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
George Perkins Marsh
Prophet of Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
George Perkins Marsh (1801�1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh�s career and shows his relevance today, in a book which has its roots in but wholly...
White Grizzly Bear's Legacy
Learning to Be Indian
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
"I walked across the highway and stood on the bank overlooking Lake Roosevelt. My attention was directed to the area where Kettle Falls once flowed. As I stood there the wind came. As I listened I imagined that it talked to me. It seemed that it was telling me of how things once were. I began...
Stories Old and New
A Ming Dynasty Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong�s Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of Feng�s three such collections and was...
by David C. Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
John Trevisa (ca.1342-1402), perhaps the greatest of Middle English prose translators of Latin texts into English, was almost an exact contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer. Trevisa was born in Cornwall, studies at Oxford, and was instituted vicar of Berkeley, a position he held until his death.
Over...
Philip Vera Cruz
A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Filipino farmworkers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and began the strike that brought about a dramatic turn in the long history of farm labor struggles in California. Their efforts led to the creation of the United Farm Workers union under Cesar Chavez, with Philip Vera...
Market Street
A Chinese Woman in Harbin
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Back in print - Market Street
America Is in the Heart
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
First 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 itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.
Replaced by ISBN 9780295993539
by Shawn Wong
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
Read about the movie, Americanese, based on Shawn Wong's book, at: http://www.americanesethemovie.com
Repairing the American Metropolis
Common Place Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh’s Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It is more timely and significant than ever, with new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and New Urbanism, a movement that he helped pioneer....
ECMO
Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Support in Critical Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2018
Discovering Totem Poles
A Traveler's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Better than the Best
Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In these engaging and forthright interviews, thirteen African American athletes talk about how they endured through pain, loneliness, and rejection to become champions. In sports as diverse as football and fencing, wrestling and track and field, these men and women triumphed over the odds to become...
Stirring Up Seattle
Allied Arts in the Civic Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
In the 1950s, the city of Seattle began a transformation from an insular, provincial outpost to a vibrant and cosmopolitan cultural center. As veteran Seattle journalist R. M. Campbell illustrates in Stirring Up Seattle: Allied Arts in the Civic Landscape, this transformation was catalyzed in part...