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.
Return to the Land of the Head Hunters
Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema
Offspring of Empire
Koch’ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945
Confronting Memories of World War II
European and Asian Legacies
Family Revolution
Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture
Yokohama, California
First published collection of short fiction by a Japanese American writer, showing the 1940s through linked stories.
Skookum Summer
A Novel of the Pacific Northwest
Hart weaves together a gripping and suspenseful plot with richly observed Pacific Northwest history and a vivid picture of a community on the brink of change.
My Fight for a New Taiwan
One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power
Citizen 13660
Bodies in Balance
The Art of Tibetan Medicine
Bodies in Balance is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at the triangular relationship of the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa) with Buddhism, and arts and crafts.
Behind the Curve
Science and the Politics of Global Warming
In Behind the Curve, Joshua Howe explores the history of global warming from its roots as a scientific curiosity to its place at the center of international environmental politics.
The Shadows of Owls
A Novel
In a literary thriller about science, power, and the lives of ordinary people, John Keeble tells the story of a woman whose passion for her work puts herself and her family at serious risk.
Encounters in Avalanche Country
A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920
Encounters in Avalanche Country, 1820-1920 tells the story of mountain communities' responses to disaster over a century of social change and rapid industrialization.
Pests in the City
Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats
This story of flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats reveals that such creatures thrived on lax code enforcement and the marginalization of the poor, immigrants, and people of color.
Penguins
Natural History and Conservation
Lavishly illustrated, this book includes the most current knowledge on each of the eighteen penguin species written by the leading experts in the field.
North Pacific Temperate Rainforests
Ecology and Conservation
Free Boy
A True Story of Slave and Master
This is the heroic story of a thirteen-year-old slave who escaped from Washington Territory to freedom in Canada on the West’s underground railroad.
In Pursuit of Alaska
An Anthology of Travelers' Tales, 1879-1909
Selected Letters of A.M.A Blanchet, Bishop of Walla Walla and Nesqualy, 1846-1879
A Principled Stand
The Story of Hirabayashi v. the United States
For the first time, tells in Gordon Hirabayashi’s own words the story of the Supreme Court case that in 1943 upheld the mass removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast, vacated on appeal in 1987.
Narwhals
Arctic Whales in a Melting World
This stunning book reveals the world and plight of the most unusual and least-studied of the large whales, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming.
Different Horrors, Same Hell
Gender and the Holocaust
A Storied Wilderness
Rewilding the Apostle Islands
Roots and Reflections
South Asians in the Pacific Northwest
Uses oral history to examine the experiences of immigrants from South Asia in the Pacific Northwest.
Icons of Danish Modernity
Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen
This lively study brings its central characters to life while offering an original, thought provoking analysis of the origins and permutations of Danish modernism and Danish national identity – issues that continue to be significant in today's multi-ethnic Denmark.
Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead
The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination
Tells the unique story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nation.
Klallam Dictionary
Tells the unique story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nation.