University Of Washington Press: 541 books
Pacific Walkers
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Nance Van Winckel's wry, provocative slant on the world and her command of images and ideas enliven these stunning poems. Presented in two parts, Pacific Walkers first gives imagined voice to anonymous dead individuals, entries in the John Doe network of the Spokane County Medical Examiner's Records....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
From Lake Coeur d�Alene to its confluence with the Columbia, the Spokane River travels 111 miles of varied and often spectacular terrain�rural, urban, in places wild. The river has been a trading and gathering place for Native peoples for thousands of years. With bountiful trout, accessible swimming...
Bracero Railroaders
The Forgotten World War II Story of Mexican Workers in the U.S. West
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program that sent a hundred thousand Mexican workers across the border to build and maintain railroad lines throughout the United States, particularly...
Rural Origins, City Lives
Class and Place in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumptions...
Fire on the Rim
A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In this lively account of one [fire] season, Pyne introduces us to the tightly knit world of a fire crew, to the complex geography of the North Rim, to the technique and changing philosophy of fire management.
The Ice
A Journey to Antarctica
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
�The Ice is a compilation of more about ice than you knew you wanted to know, yet sheer compelling significance holds attention page by page. . . . Pyne conveys a view of Antarctica that interweaves physical science with humanistic inquiry and perception. His audacity as well as his presentation warrant admiration, for the implications of The Ice are vast.��New York Times Book Review
Lijiang Stories
Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao illustrates how biopolitics and the essentialization of difference shape the ways in which Naxi residents...
Skookum Summer
A Novel of the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
As Skookum Summer begins, the year is 1981, and reporter Tom Dawson slinks back to his tiny Puget Sound hometown after making a disastrous mistake at the LA Times. Working reluctantly at the local weekly, the Big Skookum Echo, Tom is drawn into investigating a powerful logger’s murder.
As...
by Christopher Howell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In this extraordinary new collection by distinguished poet Christopher Howell, the opening poem presents us with a spiritual paradox that will echo throughout its pages. The speaker remembers an earlier time of happiness, freedom, and a certain innocence. The poem closes with:
And if he remembers...
Women in Pacific Northwest History
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This new edition of Karen Blair�s popular anthology originally published in 1989 includes thirteen essays, eight of which are new. Together they suggest the wide spectrum of women�s experiences that make up a vital part of Northwest history.
by Ruth Stark
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Working abroad offers adventure, friendship with people of other cultures, intimate familiarity with exciting places, and opportunities to make real differences in communities. It also presents countless challenges, ranging from packing and staying safe and healthy to balancing project objectives...
Fire in America
A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
Counterpunch
The Cultural Battles over Heavyweight Prizefighting in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter. However, not everyone in the region was a fan. Counterpunch examines how the sport’s meteoric rise in popularity in the West ran concurrently with a growing backlash among Progressive Era social reformers who saw...
Hard Times in Paradise
Coos Bay, Oregon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Blessed with vast expanses of virgin timber, a good harbor, and a San Francisco market for its lumber, the Coos Bay area once dubbed itself "a poor man's paradise." A new Prologue and Epilogue by the author bring this story of gyppo loggers, longshoremen, millwrights, and whistle punks into...