University of Washington Press
The University of Washington Press (UWP) is the nonprofit book and multimedia publishing arm of the University of Washington. The Press has published approximately 4,400 books, of which about 1,400 are currently in print. From the beginning, the Press has reflected the University’s major academic strengths. Building on those strengths, the Press has achieved recognition as the leading publisher of scholarly books and distinguished works of regional nonfiction in the Pacific Northwest. The Press has especially distinguished lists in Asian studies, Middle East studies, anthropology, Western history and biography, environmental studies, and natural history.
Reclaiming the Reservation
Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed
The Nuosu Book of Origins
A Creation Epic from Southwest China
Shapes of Native Nonfiction
Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers
Unruly Figures
Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala
Shifting Grounds
Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art
Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature
Tales and Commentary
The Deepest Roots
Finding Food and Community on a Pacific Northwest Island
The Other Milk
Reinventing Soy in Republican China
Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools
The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics
Molecular Feminisms
Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab
Flora of the Pacific Northwest, 2nd. Edition
An Illustrated Manual
Novel Medicine
Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China
A New Middle Kingdom
Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700-1850)
Endangered Species
Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity
Sexuality in China
Histories of Power and Pleasure
Racial Ecologies
Building Reuse
Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design
Kathryn Rogers Merlino makes an impassioned case that truly sustainable design requires reusing and reimagining existing buildings.
We Are Dancing for You
Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremonies
The Last Wilderness
Firebrand Feminism
The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore
Unapologetic, troublemaking, agitating, revolutionary, and hot-headed: radical feminism bravely transformed the history of politics, love, sexuality, and science.
A Family History of Illness
Memory as Medicine
In this deeply personal narrative, Brett L. Walker constructs a history of his body to understand his diagnosis with a serious immunological disorder.
The Organic Profit
Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism
Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet
Eating with the World in Mind
Organic Sovereignties
Struggles over Farming in an Age of Free Trade
Slapping the Table in Amazement
A Ming Dynasty Story Collection
Slapping the Table in Amazement is the unabridged English translation of the famous story collection Pai’an jingqi by Ling Mengchu (1580–1644), originally published in 1628.
Gender before Birth
Sex Selection in a Transnational Context
American Sabor
Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music / Latinos y latinas en la musica popular estadounidense
The Art of Resistance
Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China
Drawing on interviews with the artists and their families and on materials collected during her visits to China, Shelley Drake Hawks examines their painting styles, political outlooks, and life experiences.
North
Finding Place in Alaska
North: An Anthology of Place explores the various facets of Alaska through the lenses of exhibitions and artifacts at the Anchorage Museum and the words of a diverse selection of writers, curators, historians, anthropologists, and artists.
Chinook Resilience
Heritage and Cultural Revitalization on the Lower Columbia River
High
Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users
By challenging what we think we know about drugs and users, High: Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users signals the next wave of drug reform in the US, as equitable policy and health care starts with recognition of a full spectrum of drug use practices.
Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy
Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance
Smell Detectives
An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
Playing While White
Privilege and Power on and off the Field
From media commentary to the games themselves, from online chatter to the larger discursive positioning of sports celebrities and events, Playing While White focuses on the ways that sports culture narrates an athletic world defined by exceptional whiteness, victimized whiteness, transgressive whiteness, marginal whiteness, exceptional whiteness, and redemptive whiteness.
Network Sovereignty
Building the Internet across Indian Country
Tracing Autism
Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience
Razor Clams
Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest
In this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to dig, clean, and cook them using his favorite recipes.
The Gift of Knowledge
Reflections on Sahaptin Ways
Unlikely Alliances
Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands
Unlikely Alliances explores the evolution from conflict to cooperation between Indigenous peoples and their non-Indigenous neighbours through place-based case studies in Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Montana, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, from the 1970s to the 2010s.
