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50 Keystone Fauna Species of the Pacific Northwest : A Pocket GuideAuthor: Collin VarnerPublisher: University of Washington PressPublication Date: Apr 09, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

50 Keystone Flora Species of the Pacific Northwest : A Pocket GuideAuthor: Collin VarnerPublisher: University of Washington PressPublication Date: Apr 09, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

The autobiography of an indefatigable visionary and citizen activist Jim Ellis was one of the most influential and impactful civic leaders of Seattle's and Washington's recent history. Though he...

The US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan's invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to advance colonial expansion in relation to the...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and...

After surviving the failed chicken farm-and marriage-immortalized in The Egg and I, Betty MacDonald returns to live with her mother and desperately searches to find a job to support her two young...

The vast and diverse California coast is an awe-inspiring place of exploration and discovery, full of life forms that are shockingly unfamiliar. Intertidal fish that can breathe in air, worms that...

An accessible foray into botany's origins and how we can transform its future Colonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across...

Photographs do not simply speak for themselves. Their meanings are built through interpretive frameworks that shift over time. Today, photographs of receding glaciers are one of the most well...

In recent years China has positioned itself as a champion of state-led resource conservation and sustainable development as it seeks to combat negative ecological effects of rapid economic growth and...

In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio's outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A...

During the early Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency created dozens of funding fronts to support work that aligned with CIA goals, from clandestine operations and research to liberal...

Over the last five years, headlines have thrust campus police departments from relative obscurity into the national spotlight. Campus constituents have called for campus police, as a tangible...

Exiled to Motown: A Community History of Japanese Americans in DetroitAuthor: Scott KurashigePublisher: University of Washington PressPublication Date: Mar 05, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE The disappearance of China's naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country's history, one often blamed on imperial...

Socialist China's state forestry and timber industries employed men as state workers and women as family dependents and collective workers who, beginning in the 1950s, turned rural land into...

Games as global and connected phenomena have been examined in the rising scholarly field of game studies, but relatively little has been published on the history of games and gaming in China. Weiqi...

In Good Wife, Wise Mother, female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan's uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and Japanese ideas and practices. A...

For thousands of years people have traveled across Washington's spectacular terrain, establishing footpaths and roads to reach hunting grounds and coal mines high in the mountains, fishing sites and...

The Shan are the largest of the many national ethnic groups residing in the Union of Myanmar. After migrating from their early home in the Hwangho-Yangtze region of China, they settled in the eastern...

Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish...

A compact, full-colour field guide to the growing number of invasive plant species spreading across coastal BC and the Pacific Northwest, highlighting their hazards and uses. The spread of invasive...

South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebol (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation's economy. Leader Park Chung Hee's...

Tracing the phases and themes that have defined the artist's creative trajectory Lesley Dumbrell (b. 1941) is one of Australia's most remarkable abstract artists. A stalwart of the women's art...

Mumbai is not commonly seen as a bike-friendly city because of its dense traffic and the absence of bicycle lanes. Yet the city supports rapidly expanding and eclectic bicycle communities. Exploring...

Celebrates the thoughtfulness, wit, and sense of wonder that are signatures of Callan's work Seeing glass through the eyes of Nancy Callan is a delight, and experiencing the material through her work...

No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life ?no-no boys.? Yamada answered ?no? twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the...

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after the success of the Hollywood film based on the title story. Yet...

In the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy "others," combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed civil liberties for many...