University of Washington Press
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Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal: A History and Guide
$24.95 Add to cartHow one canal reshaped Seattle’s history, economy, and environment
Seattle’s waterways are central to the city’s identity, and none more so than the Lake Washington Ship Canal and Ballard (Hiram M. Ch
- Author: Williams, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 029575494X
- Language: English
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Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice
$24.95 Add to cartFred Korematsu’s decision to resist F.D.R.’s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was initially the case of a young man followin
- Series: Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
- Author: Bannai, Lorraine K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 029574281X
- Language: English
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America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
$18.95 Add to cartFirst 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 iti
- Series: Classics of Asian American Literature
- Author: Bulosan, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0295993537
- Language: English
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The Tlingit in Sitka: The Photography of Elbridge W. Merrill
$50.00 Add to cartA rare window into the changing lives of Native Alaskans between the late 1800s and 1920s
Lured north by the Klondike gold rush, Elbridge W. Merrill settled in Sitka, Alaska, and took up a career as a
- Author: Kan, Sergei
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753471
- Language: English
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Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth: Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World
$24.95 Add to cartAn entrancing collection of myths and legends of the sea
The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our anc
- Author: Smyth, Gerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0295754508
- Language: English
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Red Harbor: Radical Workers and Community Struggle in the Pacific Northwest
$29.95 Add to cartBrings to life Grays Harbor’s fiery legacy of class conflict
In the early decades of the twentieth century, Grays Harbor was the Lumber Capital of the World. While thousands of lumber and maritime w
- Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
- Author: Goings, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0295754001
- Language: English
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Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road
$60.00 Add to cartA celebration of one of Japan’s most talented, prolific, and popular artists
Over a career spanning four decades, the prolific Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) produced thousands of landscape and natur
- Author: Haft, Alfred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0295754095
- Language: English
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Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract
$34.95 Add to cart“The moment to savor [Mary Sully]. . . has arrived.” — New York Times
Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portraitist Thomas Sully, who ca
- Author: Deloria, Philip J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0295745045
- Language: English
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Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from Behind the Handlebars
$24.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction
The rise of an improbable bike culture in the Emerald City
Seattle was recently named the best bike city in the United States by
- Author: Fucoloro, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753218
- Language: English
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Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Horowitz Prize by the Bard Graduate Center
Winner of the 2025 James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Award in African American Art History from the Driskell Center at the University
- Author: Collins, Lisa Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753757
- Language: English
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Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe: A Memoir
$29.95 Add to cartA compelling on-the-ground account of Native activism in the Northwest
A relentless advocate for Native rights, Ramona Bennett Bill has been involved in the battles waged by the Puyallup and other N
- Author: Bennett Bill, Ramona
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753501
- Language: English
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Between the Tides in California: Exploring Beaches and Tidepools
$24.95 Add to cartA fascinating guide to the secret worlds of the intertidal zone
The vast and diverse California coast is an awe-inspiring place of exploration and discovery, full of life forms that are shockingly unf
- Author: Kelly, Ryan P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0295752378
- Language: English
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Norman MacLean: A Life of Letters and Rivers
$29.95 Add to cartThe first biography of one of Montana’s most celebrated writers
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after
- Author: McCarthy, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0295752483
- Language: English
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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
