University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
The Promise of Wilderness
American Environmental Politics since 1964
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
From Denali's majestic slopes to the Great Swamp of central New Jersey, protected wilderness areas make up nearly twenty percent of the parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands that cover a full fourth of the nation's territory. But wilderness is not only a place. It is also one of...
Atomic Frontier Days
Hanford and the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Outstanding Title by Choice Magazine
On the banks of the Pacific Northwest�s greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert. The 586-square-mile compound on the Columbia River is known both for its...
Life as Surplus
Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, Life as Surplus is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood without...
High
Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Whether drinking Red Bull, relieving chronic pain with oxycodone, or experimenting with Ecstasy, Americans participate in a culture of self-medication, using psychoactive substances to enhance or manage our moods. A �drug-free America� seems to be a fantasyland that most people don�t want to...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was an astute observer of society and human behavior during America�s turbulent 1960s and 1970s. Trained in social anthropology and driven by a transcending curiosity about human motivations, Becker doggedly pursued his basic research question, "What makes people act...
by Linda K. Chalker-Scott
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
The Informed Gardener Blooms Again picks up where The Informed Gardener left off, using scientific literature to debunk a new set of common gardening myths. Once again, Linda Chalker-Scott investigates the science behind each myth, reminding us that urban and suburban landscapes are ecosystems requiring...
Information Ethics
Privacy, Property, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This anthology focuses on the ethical issues surrounding information control in the broadest sense. Anglo-American institutions of intellectual property protect and restrict access to vast amounts of information. Ideas and expressions captured in music, movies, paintings, processes of manufacture,...
HIV Interventions
Biomedicine and the Traffic between Information and Flesh
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize
HIV has changed in the presence of recent biomedical technologies. In particular, the development of anti-retroviral therapies (ARVs) for the treatment of HIV was a significant landmark in the history of the disease. Treatment with ARV...
American Indian Business
Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
American Indian business is booming. The number of American Indian� and Alaska Native�owned businesses increased by 15.3 percent from 2007 to 2012�a time when the total number of US businesses increased by just 2 percent�and receipts grew from $34.4 million in 2002 to $8.8 billion in 2012....
by Yegor Gaidar
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Yegor Gaidar, the first post-Soviet prime minister of Russia and one of the principal architects of its historic transformation to a market economy, here presents his lively account of governing in the tumultuous early 1990s. Though still in his forties, Gaidar has already played a pivotal role in...
The Jewish Life Cycle
Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to this day. For each phase of life--from childhood and adolescence to adulthood and the advanced...
Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions
Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Seventeenth-century Korea was a country in crisis�successive invasions by Hideyoshi and the Manchus had rocked the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), which already was weakened by maladministration, internecine bureaucratic factionalism, unfair taxation, concentration of wealth, military problems, and...
Bhakti and Power
Debating India's Religion of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as “personal devotion,” bhakti nonetheless implies and fosters public interaction. It is often associated with the marginalized voices of...
God's Little Daughters
Catholic Women in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
God's Little Daughters examines a set of letters written by Chinese Catholic women from a small village in Manchuria to their French missionary, "Father Lin," or Dominique Maurice Pourquié, who in 1870 had returned to France in poor health after spending twenty-three years at the local...