University of Washington Press
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Seattle Walks: Discovering History and Nature in the City
$18.95 Add to cartAn updated and expanded new edition of the definitive walking guide to Seattle
One of America’s most walkable cities, Seattle rewards urban trekkers with expansive scenery and architectural and hist
- Author: Williams, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753579
- Language: English
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Silk Roads
$65.00 Add to cartExplores how the movement of people, objects, and ideas from 500 to 1000 CE shaped cultures and histories
In the ninth century CE, an Arabian ship sank off the coast of Indonesia. The objects found in
- Author: Brunning, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0295753536
- Language: English
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Heaven on the Half Shell: The Story of the Oyster in the Pacific Northwest
$29.95 Add to cartHeaven on the Half Shell offers a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated history of the Pacific Northwest’s beloved bivalve, the oyster. Starting with the earliest evidence of sea gardens and c
- Author: Gordon, David George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0295750782
- Language: English
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Full Light and Perfect Shadow: The Photography of Chao-Chen Yang
$29.95 Read moreThis is the first study of the work of Chao-Chen Yang (1909-1969), an important Seattle photographer who gained national prominence in the mid-twentieth century.
Born in Hangzhou, China, Yang received
- Author: Martin, David F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0998911259
- Language: English
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The Story of Propaganda in 50 Images
$24.95 Read moreFrom ancient Greek coinage to the sound bites of modern-day political spin doctors, propaganda has existed for thousands of years. But it was in the twentieth century that the art of persuasively comm
- Author: Welch, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0295751282
- Language: English
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Fishes of the Salish Sea: Puget Sound and the Straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca
$165.00 Read moreFishes of the Salish Sea is the definitive guide to the identification and history of the marine and anadromous fishes of Puget Sound and the Straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca. This comprehensive t
- Author: Pietsch, Theodore Wells
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1074
- Publish Date: July 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0295743743
- Language: English
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Fear No Man: Don James, the ’91 Huskies, and the Seven-Year Quest for a National Football Championship
$19.95 Read moreIn 1984 the University of Washington Huskies won every game but one, ranking second in national polls. For most coaches, such a season would be a career pinnacle. But for Don James second place motiva
- Author: Gastineau, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0295751215
- Language: English
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Olmsted in Seattle: Creating a Park System for a Modern City
$29.95 Add to cartIn the midst of galloping growth at the turn of the twentieth century, Seattle’s city leaders seized on the confluence of a roaring economy with the City Beautiful movement to hire the Olmsted Brother
- Author: Ott, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1933245565
- Language: English
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Cáw Pawá Láakni / They Are Not Forgotten: Sahaptian Place Names Atlas of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla
$29.95 Add to cartC?w Paw? L?akni / They Are Not Forgotten is a book like none other. This ethnogeographic atlas of Native place names presents a compelling account of interactions between a homeland and its people. A
- Author: Hunn, Eugene S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0295990260
- Language: English
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Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City
$29.95 Read moreFrom the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle’s urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal, extractive
- Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
- Author: Asaka, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0295750677
- Language: English
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One Left
$22.95 Read moreDuring the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territo
- Author: Soom, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0295747668
- Language: English
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Uncle Rico’s Encore: Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle
$24.95 Read moreFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant racism, sporadic violence, and poverty while their US-bor
- Author: Bacho, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0295749776
- Language: English
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Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023
$34.95 Read moreThis volume features the work of six Indigenous artists whose craft speaks to the responsibility of honoring cultural traditions while shaping the future. Joe Feddersen (Arrow Lakes/Okanagan) is a pri
- Author: Evans, Lara M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 093731188X
- Language: English
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Renegade EDO and Paris: Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec
$30.00 Read moreBoth the Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan and the late nineteenth century in France witnessed a multitude of challenges to the status quo from the rising middle class. In Edo (present-day Tokyo), towns
- Author: Wu, Xiaojin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0932216072
- Language: English
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The Boathouse: The Artist’s Studio of Dale Chihuly
$36.00 Read moreThis book features an exclusive glimpse into The Boathouse, the private working studio of artist Dale Chihuly, and into the history of its location on the shores of Lake Union in Seattle. Inhabited fo
- Author: Jackson Chihuly, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1576841197
- Language: English
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Revolution to Evolution: The Story of the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity at the University of Washington
$29.95 Read moreRevolution to Evolution maps the journey of the University of Washington’s Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity (OMA&D), from its inception as a list of demands on paper put forward by a dedicate
- Author: Pitre, Emile
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1933245670
- Language: English
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50 Keystone Flora Species of the Pacific Northwest: A Pocket Guide
$14.95 Add to cartA compact, user-friendly guide to ecologically significant plant species of the Nothwest Coast
A keystone species is an organism that defines and supports an entire ecosystem, filling a vital ecologic
- Author: Varner, Collin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0295752882
- Language: English
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Citizen 13660
$19.95 Add to cartMine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent – nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens – who were forced into “protective custody” shortly after Pearl Harbor. Ci
- Series: Classics of Asian American Literature
- Author: Okubo, Miné
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0295993545
- Language: English
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50 Keystone Fauna Species of the Pacific Northwest: A Pocket Guide
$14.95 Add to cartA compact, user-friendly guide to ecologically significant animal species of the Northwest Coast
A keystone species is an organism that defines and supports an entire ecosystem, filling a vital ecolog
- Author: Varner, Collin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0295752890
- Language: English
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Matisse: Life and Spirit: Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris
$60.00 Read moreSpanning six decades of the artist’s work, Matisse: Life & Spirit presents an extraordinary immersion in the range and depth of the art of Henri Matisse, one of the world’s most beloved, innovative an
- Author: Verdier, Aurélie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 174174153X
- Language: English
