University Of Washington Press: 541 books
Whales and Nations
Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted to create an international regulatory framework that would allow for a sustainable whaling industry. In Whales and Nations, Kurkpatrick Dorsey...
Molecular Feminisms
Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
�Should feminists clone?� �What do neurons think about?� �How can we learn from bacterial writing?� These provocative questions have haunted neuroscientist and molecular biologist Deboleena Roy since her early days of research when she was conducting experiments on an in vitro cell line...
Ploughshare Village
Culture and Context in Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
This anthropological study of a workers� village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwanese social organization. Based on fieldwork conducted in 1973 and 1978, the study is exceptional not only because of its excellent data but also because...
Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy
Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their lives. In this edgy, evocative journey through myriad interleaved engagements�including the political economies of cinema; the emergent shapes taken by insurance,...
by Christopher Allen Sanford M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2008
The Adventurous Traveler's Guide to Health is just what every traveler needs: a straight-forward look at what you can do to stay healthy during your travels, from start to finish. Whether headed to the urban centers of Africa or the jungles of southeast Asia, there are precautions to be taken even...
Unending Crisis
National Security Policy After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
In Unending Crisis, Thomas Graham Jr. examines the second Bush administration's misguided management of foreign policy, the legacy of which has been seven major--and almost irresolvable--national security crises involving North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, the Arab-Israeli conflict in...
by Gi-Wook Shin
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
The period from 1876 to 1946 in Korea marked a turbulent time when the country opened its market to foreign powers, became subject to Japanese colonialism, and was swept into agricultural commercialization, industrialization, and eventually postcolonial revolutionary movements. Gi-Wook Shin examines...
Voice, Text, Hypertext
Emerging Practices in Textual Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Voice, Text, Hypertext illustrates brilliantly why interest in textual studies has grown so dramatically in recent years. For the distinguished authors of these essays, a �text� is more than a document or material object. It is a cultural event, a matrix of decisions, an intricate cultural practice...
A Symbol of Wilderness
Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Harvey details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II, the successful fight to prevent the building of Echo Park Dam. The dam on the Green River was intended to create a recreational lake in northwest Colorado and generate hydroelectric power, but would have...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
From the Flint water crisis to the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy, environmental threats and degradation disproportionately affect communities of color, with often dire consequences for people�s lives and health. Racial Ecologies explores activist strategies and creative responses, such as those...
The Power of Song
Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic �Singing Revolution.� When attacked by Soviet soldiers in public displays of violent force, singing Balts maintained faith in nonviolent political action....
by Eleanor L. Pray
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Over the next thirty-six years � from the time of Tsar Alexander III to the early years of Stalin�s rule � she wrote more than 2,000 letters chronicling her family life...
Chinook Resilience
Heritage and Cultural Revitalization on the Lower Columbia River
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The Chinook Indian Nation�whose ancestors lived along both shores of the lower Columbia River, as well as north and south along the Pacific coast at the river�s mouth�continue to reside near traditional lands. Because of its nonrecognized status, the Chinook Indian Nation often faces challenges...
Skid Road
An Informal Portrait of Seattle
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Skid Road tells the story of Seattle �from the bottom up,� offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City�s first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citizens. With his trademark combination of deep local knowledge, precision, and wit, Murray Morgan...