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In Love with a Hillside Garden מאת Ann Streissguth "It all began when architect Daniel, then a bachelor, built his own house on a wild hillside lot, developing his garden as next-door-neighbor, Ann, was developing a garden around natural springs in her backyard. We married, and together with our growing son, Benjamin, continued these gardens as we a...

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Treaty Talks in British Columbia, Third Edition: Building a New Relationship מאת Christopher McKee Treaty Talks in British Columbia traces the origins and development of treaty negotiations in the province. Since the second edition of this book was published in 2000, a number of significant developments have occurred: a controversial referendum on treaty mandates was held; the historic Tsawwassen...

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Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life (V Ethel Willis White Books) מאת Jim Kershner Carl Maxey was, in his own words, "a guy who started from scratch - black scratch." He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Children's Home and then kicked out at age eleven with the only other "colored" orphan. Yet Maxey managed to make a national name for himself, first as an NCAA ...

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Lifesaving Letters: A Child's Flight from the Holocaust (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) מאת Milena Roth In 1939, in the shadow of Hitler’s occupation of Czechoslovakia, six-year-old Milena Roth was sent away from her home and her loving parents and taken to safety by what came to be know as the Kindertransport, which rescued ten thousand Jewish children from the Holocaust and placed them with guardi...

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Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) מאת Mark Caprio During Japan's colonial rule over Korea from 1910 until the end of World War II, Japan adopted assimilation as its administrative policy but was unable to integrate the Korean people as Japanese. In Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945, Mark Caprio traces the history of...

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Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) מאת Connie Y. Chiang Monterey, California is home to the hugely successful Monterey Bay Aquarium and provided the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, yet the city's coastline was also the stage for a great shift in the junction of industry and tourism. From the late-nineteenth-century immigran...

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Picture Bride: A Novel מאת Yoshiko Uchida Hana travels to America to escape the arranged marriages her sisters experienced in pre-World War II Japan, but the young businessman to whom she has corresponded turns out to be a middle-aged man who exaggerated his success....

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Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan מאת Melissa Mccormick "Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan" is the first book-length study to focus on short-story small scrolls (ko-e), one of the most complex but visually appealing forms of early Japanese painting. Small picture scrolls emerged in Japan during the fourteenth-century and were unusual ...

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Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History מאת Canyon Sam Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women. Traveling on China's new "Sky Train," she celebrates Tibetan New Year with the Lhasa family whom she'd befriended decades earlier and concludes an oral-...

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Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea's Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung Hee (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) מאת Hwasook Nam Building Ships, Building a Nation examines the rise and fall, during the rule of Park Chung Hee (1961-79), of the combative labor union at the Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation (KSEC), which was Korea's largest shipyard until Hyundai appeared on the scene in the early 1970s. Draw...

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Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family מאת Yoshiko Uchida Autobiographical account of the internment of the Japanese American author's family in 1942....

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Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Seattle's Urban Community Gardens (Land and Community Design Case Studies) מאת Jeffrey Hou Although there are thousands of community gardens across North America, only Seattle and a few other cities include them in their urban development plans. While the conditions and experiences in Seattle may be unique, the city's programs offer insights and lessons for other cities and communities. <...

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The holocaust in historical perspective Yehuda Bauer

The holocaust in historical perspective מאת Yehuda Bauer

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The Essence of Chaos (The Jessie and John Danz Lecture Series) מאת Edward N. Lorenz The study of chaotic systems has become a major scientific pursuit in recent years, shedding light on the apparently random behaviour observed in fields as diverse as climatology and mechanics. InThe Essence of Chaos Edward Lorenz, one of the founding fathers of Chaos and the originator of its semin...

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The Love Israel Family: Urban Commune, Rural Commune מאת Charles P. Lewarne In 1968, a time of turbulence and countercultural movements, a one-time television salesman named Paul Erdmann changed his name to Love Israel and started a controversial religious commune in Seattle's middle-class Queen Anne Hill neighborhood. He quickly gathered a following and they, too, adopted ...

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Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments (A Mclellan Book) מאת Eric Ames The name of Carl Hagenbeck is as evocative in Europe as that of P. T. Barnum or Walt Disney in North America. Hagenbeck was the nineteenth century's foremost animal trader and ethnographic showman, known for his enormously popular displays of people, animals, and artifacts gathered from all corners ...

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The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port (Publications on the Near East) מאת Nancy Um Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop - coffee. After the imams of the Qasimi dynasty ousted the Ottomans i...

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Marginality and Subversion in Korea: The Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812 (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) מאת Sun Joo Kim In the history of Korea, the nineteenth century is often considered an age of popular rebellions. Scholarly approaches have typically pointed to these rebellions as evidence of the progressive direction of the period, often using the theory of class struggle as an analytical framework. In Margina...

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Treasure into Tractors: The Selling of Russia's Cultural Heritage, 1918-1938 מאת Anne Odom Sixteen scholars from Russia, Vienna, and the United States explore the fate of Russian art collections and libraries following the Russian Revolution in 1917, the institutions and individuals responsible for their sale, and the prominent collectors, libraries, and museums that acquired them. Unlike...

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This Is What They Say: Stories מאת François Mandeville Chipewyan is one of the many Northern Athapaskan languages spoken in Alaska and western Canada. Mandeville's story cycle is a rich picture of traditional life and thought in the Northern Athapaskan world. ...

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Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud: The Moving Word (McLellan Books) מאת James Schamus If there is one film in the canon of Carl Theodor Dreyer that can be said to be, as Jacques Lacan might put it, his most "painfully enjoyable," it is Gertrud. The film's Paris premier in 1964 was covered by the Danish press as a national scandal; it was lambasted on its release for its lugubr...

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The vasa triology August Strindberg

The vasa triology מאת August Strindberg

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Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper מאת Chris R. Kyle The first newspaper arrived in England in 1620 and sparked a huge demand for up-to-the minute reports on domestic and world events. Men and women in Renaissance England were addicted to news, whether from the battlefields of Europe, or the scandal-filled salons of its courtiers. Newspapers commented...

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Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body מאת Ifi Amadiume Explorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. Black Womanhood examines an especially charged icon - the black female body - and contempora...

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The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest (Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series in Western History and Biography) מאת Alexandra Harmon Treaties with Native American groups in the Pacific Northwest have had profound and long-lasting implications for land ownership, resource access, and political rights in both the United States and Canada. In "The Power of Promises", a distinguished group of scholars, representing many disciplines, ...

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Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire, and Shadows מאת Melissa G. Post For nearly two decades, Preston Singletary has straddled two unique cultures, melding his Tlingit ancestry with the dynamism of the Studio Glass Movement. In the process, he has created an extraordinarily distinctive and powerful body of work that depicts cultural and historical images in richly det...

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Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea's Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung Hee (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) מאת Hwasook Nam "Building Ships, Building a Nation" examines the rise and fall, during the rule of Park Chung Hee (1961-79), of the combative labor union at the Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation (KSEC), which was Korea's largest shipyard until Hyundai appeared on the scene in the early 1970s. Drawing o...

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A Lawyer in Indian Country: A Memoir מאת Alvin J. Ziontz In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty. He discusses the growth and maturation of tribal government and the underlying tensions between Indian ...

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Looking Together: Writers on Art (Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists) מאת Rebecca Brown The relationship between writers and artists has long been a collaborative one. Plato used the word ekphrasis to describe what happens when a writer writes creatively, as opposed to critically, about art. Gertrude Stein claimed that her innovative writing style was inspired by the paintings of Cé...

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The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation מאת Alice Y. Tseng It was not until Japan's opening to the West during the Meiji period (1868-1912) that terms for "art" (bijutsu) and "art museum" (bijutsukan) were coined. The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan documents Japan's unification of national art and cultural resources to forge a modern identity influe...

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Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) מאת Mark Caprio During Japan's colonial rule over Korea from 1910 until the end of World War II, Japan adopted assimilation as its administrative policy but was unable to integrate the Korean people as Japanese. In Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945/i>, Mark Caprio traces the history of ...

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Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU מאת Harvey Schwartz The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, born out of the 1934 West Coast maritime and San Francisco general strikes under the charismatic leadership of Harry Bridges, has been known from the start for its strong commitment to democracy, solidarity, and social justice. In this collection of f...

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A Moveable Empire: Ottoman Nomads, Migrants, and Refugees (Studies in Modernity and National Identity) Resat Kasaba

A Moveable Empire: Ottoman Nomads, Migrants, and Refugees (Studies in Modernity and National Identity) מאת Resat Kasaba A Moveable Empire examines the history of the Ottoman Empire through a new lens, focusing on the migrant groups that lived within its bounds and their changing relationship to the state's central authorities. Unlike earlier studies that take an evolutionary view of tribe-state relations - cas...

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Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance (New Directions in Scandinovian Studies) מאת Monika Zagar Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supporter of the German occupation of Norway during the Second World War. In 1943, Hamsun sent his Nobel medal to Third-Reich propaganda minister Jos...

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Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: Roles and Representations of Women (The Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies) מאת Paula E. Hyman

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The Book of Men and Women (Pacific Northwest Poetry) מאת David Biespiel David Biespiel's energetic language, so varied and musical and precise, is quite unmatched by that of other contemporary poets. The Book of Men and Women is his second collection in the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, and as always he is the master of the long line, his words strung across i...

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Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban מאת Larry P. Goodson Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned Taliban fundamentalists, Larry Goodson explains in this concise analysis of the Afghan war what has really been happening in Afghanistan in the last 20 years, and why the future of Afghanistan matters. Be...

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Communist Multiculturalism: Ethnic Revival in Southwest China (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China) מאת Susan K. Mccarthy The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the nation's unity or its modernizing goals. In "Communist Multiculturalism", Susan K. McCarthy examines three minority groups in t...

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Warship under Sail: The USS Decatur in the Pacific West (Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series in Western History and Biography) מאת Lorraine McConaghy Ordered to join the Pacific Squadron in 1854, the U.S. Navy warship Decatur sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, through the Strait of Magellan to Valparaiso, Honolulu, and Puget Sound, then on to San Francisco, Panama, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, while serving in the Pacific until 1859, the eve of the Civ...

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HIV Interventions: Biomedicine and the Traffic between Information and Flesh (In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science) מאת Marsha Rosengarten 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 drug regimens, which began in 1996, has enabled many thousands t...

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Cape Dorset Sculpture מאת Derek Norton Cape Dorset Sculpture showcases an extraordinary collection of outstanding works of contemporary Inuit stone sculpture, with related graphic works and classic older carvings. All the artists are from the Arctic community of Cape Dorset, Nunavut, which has had the single greatest impact on the worldw...

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The Birth of a Republic: Francis Stafford's Photographs of China's 1911 Revolution and Beyond (A China Program Book) מאת Hanchao Lu China's 1911 Revolution ended both the rule of the 267-year-old Manchu Qing dynasty and the more than 2,000-year-old imperial system, establishing Asia's first, if not lasting, republic. Because war correspondence was not an established profession in China and the camera was a rare apparatus in Chin...

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The Sjovold Site: A River Crossing Campsite in the Northern Plains (Mercury Series) Ian G. Dyck

The Sjovold Site: A River Crossing Campsite in the Northern Plains (Mercury Series) מאת Ian G. Dyck

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Breasts, Bodies, Canvas: Central Desert Art As Experience מאת Jennifer Loureide Biddle Breasts, Bodies, Canvas combines an appreciation of Aboriginal art with contemporary theoretical concerns. On one level it is a beautifully illustrated book about contemporary Aboriginal art from the Central Desert of Australia, which has become immensely popular in the world's art markets. A...

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Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850 (Literary Conjugations) מאת Richard T. Gray In "Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850", Richard Gray investigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. The transition from an agrarian or proto-industrial economy to a capi...

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Olympic National Park: A Natural History, Revised Edition מאת Tim McNulty In this thoroughly revised edition, Tim McNulty returns his gaze to the Olympic National Park: 1,400 square miles of rugged mountains and wilderness in the heart of the Olympic Peninsula. By examining the effects of global warming and its rapid changes throughout the region alongside current archaeo...

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Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body מאת Ifi Amadiume Explorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. "Black Womanhood" examines an especially charged icon - the black female body - and contemporary ar...

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Writing and Law in Late Imperial China: Crime, Conflict, and Judgment (Asian Law) מאת Robert E. Hegel Scholars of Chinese history, law, literature, and religion explore the intersection of legal practice with writing in many different social contexts. Their focus is the late Ming and Qing periods (c. 1550-1911); and their documents....

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Wilderness in National Parks: Playground or Preserve מאת John C. Miles Wilderness in National Parks casts light on the complicated relationship between the National Park Service and its policy goals of wilderness preservation and recreation. By examining the overlapping and sometimes contradictory responsibilities of the park service and the national wilderness ...

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Seeing Culture Everywhere, from Genocide to Consumer Habits מאת Joana Breidenbach Today's world is shaped by an obsession with cultural difference that penetrates everyday life and matters of state in unprecedented ways. Culture and cultural difference are commonly used to explain everything that's in the news - from wars to economic development and consumer behavior. This fuels ...

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Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai מאת Jin Jiang This ground-breaking volume documents women's influence on popular culture in twentieth-century China by examining Yue opera. A subgenre of Chinese opera, it migrated from the countryside to urban Shanghai and morphed from its traditional all-male form into an all-female one, with women cross-dressi...

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Protestantism and Politics in Korea (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) מאת Chung-Shin Park Following its introduction to Korea in the late nineteenth century, Protestantism grew rapidly both in numbers of followers and in influence, and remained a dominating social and political force throughout the twentieth century. In Protestantism and Politics in Korea, Chung-shin Park charts t...

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Picturing the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: The Photographs of Frank H. Nowell מאת Nicolette Bromberg For those who experienced it, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition was a time of wonder in a "citadel set in stars" - a grand world's fair that transformed the summer of 1909 in Seattle into a whirl of excitement and pleasure. On what would become the University of Washington campus, for a brief mome...

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Painting at the Edge of the World: The Watercolours of Tony Foster מאת Tony Foster In the Grand Canyon and on the icy flanks of Mount Everest, deep in rainforests and deserts, underwater and at the mouths of live volcanoes - Tony Foster paints his expansive watercolors at the edges of the world. Presented here with personal accounts of his journeys, they are an exultant testament ...

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The Informed Gardener מאת Linda Chalker-Scott In this introduction to sustainable landscaping practices, Linda Chalker-Scott addresses the most common myths and misconceptions that plague home gardeners and horticultural professionals. Chalker-Scott offers invaluable advice to gardeners gardeners who have wondered: o Are native plants th...

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Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast מאת Ian M. Thom In the past few decades, contemporary Native American artists of the Northwest Coast have made a name for themselves as among the most dynamic and important artists working in North America. Challenging Traditions celebrates this success by presenting the work of forty top living artists whos...

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The Merchant Houses of Mocha (Publications on the Near East) מאת Nancy Um Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop - coffee. After the imams of the Qasimi dynasty ousted the Ottomans i...

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Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) מאת David Stradling For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas ha...

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Mind's World: Imagination and Subjectivity from Descartes to Romanticism (Literary Conjugations) מאת Alexander M. Schlutz Imagination is unruly. It creates the mind's world, linking the sensory realm to the realm of the intellect by oscillating between mind and body, self and world, ideal and real. It has been construed as both essential to rational thought and as a dangerous impediment to it. Alexander Schlutz demonst...

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No-No Boy מאת John Okada John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his wo...

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Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance (New Directions in Scandinavian Studies) מאת Monika Zagar Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supporter of the German occupation of Norway during the Second World War. In 1943, Hamsun sent his Nobel medal to Third-Reich propaganda minister Jos...

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Communist Multiculturalism: Ethnic Revival in Southwest China (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China) מאת Susan K. McCarthy The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the nation's unity or its modernizing goals. In Communist Multiculturalism, Susan K. McCarthy examines three minority groups...

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Nature Protests: The End of Ecology in Slovakia (Culture, Place, and Nature) מאת Edward Snajdr As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, policy makers, and environmental practitioners to understand the dynamic relationship between environmental movements and the state. In communist Eastern ...

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Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass מאת Susanne K. Frantz For Lino Tagliapietra, glass art represents his life: Venice and the lagoon, its shadow and light. "It is part of my culture, my brain, my blood," he says. Raised on the island of Murano, Tagliapietra rose from a working class family and a minimal education to become an internationally acknowledged ...

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Puget Sound Through an Artist's Eye מאת Tony Angell For nearly fifty years Tony Angell has used Puget Sound's natural diversity as his artist's palette. In this book, he describes the living systems within the Sound and shares his observations and encounters with the species that make up the complex communities of the Sound's rivers, tidal flats, isl...

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Nisei Daughter מאת Monica Itoi Sone

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Pictorial Anatomy of the Cat מאת Stephen G. Gilbert

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The Weather of the Pacific Northwest מאת Cliff Mass The Pacific Northwest experiences the most varied and fascinating weather in the United States, including world-record winter snows, the strongest non-tropical storms in the nation, and shifts from desert to rain forest in a matter of miles. Local weather features dominate the meteorological landsca...

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Calamity: The Heppner Flood of 1903 מאת Joann Green Byrd June 14, 1903, was a typical, hot Sunday in Heppner, a small farm town in northeastern Oregon. People went to church, ate dinner, and relaxed with family and friends. But late that afternoon, calamity struck when a violent thunderstorm brought heavy rain and hail to the mountains and bare hills sout...

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The Inner Bird: Anatomy and Evolution מאת Gary W. Kaiser The Inner Bird introduces readers to the avian skeleton, then moves beyond anatomy to discuss the relationships between birds and dinosaurs and other early ancestors. Gary Kaiser examines the challenges scientists face in understanding avian evolution - even recent advances in biomolecular ge...

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Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai מאת Jin Jiang This ground-breaking volume documents women's influence on popular culture in twentieth-century China by examining Yue opera. A subgenre of Chinese opera, it migrated from the countryside to urban Shanghai and morphed from its traditional all-male form into an all-female one, with women cross-dressi...

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Mind's World: Imagination and Subjectivity from Descartes to Romanticism (Literary Conjugations) מאת Alexander M. Schlutz Imagination is unruly. It creates the mind's world, linking the sensory realm to the realm of the intellect by oscillating between mind and body, self and world, ideal and real. It has been construed as both essential to rational thought and as a dangerous impediment to it. Alexander Schlutz demonst...

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Munch's Ibsen: A Painter's Visions of a Playwright מאת Joan Templeton Drawing on a mass of printed and archival sources, including Munch's extensive unpublished writings, Munch's Ibsen provides a comprehensive account of the relation between the two great Norwegian modernists. Situating the interlocking careers of Edvard Munch and Henrik Ibsen within Norway's ...

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The Adventurous Traveler's Guide to Health מאת Christopher Sanford 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...