University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books

George Perkins Marsh

Prophet of Conservation

by David Lowenthal
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009

George Perkins Marsh (1801�1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh�s career and shows his relevance today, in a book which has its roots in but wholly...

White Grizzly Bear's Legacy

Learning to Be Indian

by Lawney L. Reyes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

"I walked across the highway and stood on the bank overlooking Lake Roosevelt. My attention was directed to the area where Kettle Falls once flowed. As I stood there the wind came. As I listened I imagined that it talked to me. It seemed that it was telling me of how things once were. I began...

Stories Old and New

A Ming Dynasty Collection

by Feng Menglong
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011

Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong�s Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of Feng�s three such collections and was...
by David C. Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

John Trevisa (ca.1342-1402), perhaps the greatest of Middle English prose translators of Latin texts into English, was almost an exact contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer. Trevisa was born in Cornwall, studies at Oxford, and was instituted vicar of Berkeley, a position he held until his death. Over...

Philip Vera Cruz

A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement

by Lilia Villanueva, Craig Scharlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

Filipino farmworkers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and began the strike that brought about a dramatic turn in the long history of farm labor struggles in California. Their efforts led to the creation of the United Farm Workers union under Cesar Chavez, with Philip Vera...

Market Street

A Chinese Woman in Harbin

by Xiao Hong
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015

Back in print - Market Street

Reading Portland

The City in Prose

by
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017

America Is in the Heart

A Personal History

by alquizola
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014

First 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 itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West. Replaced by ISBN 9780295993539
by Shawn Wong
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005

Read about the movie, Americanese, based on Shawn Wong's book, at: http://www.americanesethemovie.com

Repairing the American Metropolis

Common Place Revisited

by Douglas S. Kelbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016

Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh’s Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It is more timely and significant than ever, with new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and New Urbanism, a movement that he helped pioneer....

ECMO

Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Support in Critical Care

by
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2018

Discovering Totem Poles

A Traveler's Guide

by Aldona Jonaitis
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017

Better than the Best

Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2007

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011

In these engaging and forthright interviews, thirteen African American athletes talk about how they endured through pain, loneliness, and rejection to become champions. In sports as diverse as football and fencing, wrestling and track and field, these men and women triumphed over the odds to become...

Stirring Up Seattle

Allied Arts in the Civic Landscape

by R. M. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014

In the 1950s, the city of Seattle began a transformation from an insular, provincial outpost to a vibrant and cosmopolitan cultural center. As veteran Seattle journalist R. M. Campbell illustrates in Stirring Up Seattle: Allied Arts in the Civic Landscape, this transformation was catalyzed in part...
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