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.
The Carbon Efficient City
The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency.
The Promise of Wilderness
American Environmental Politics since 1964
The Environmental Moment
1968-1972
A collection of documents that reveal the significance of the years 1968-1972 to the environmental movement in the United States.
The Republic of Nature
An Environmental History of the United States
Mark Fiege uncovers nature’s presence in religious beliefs, founding documents, presidents, battles, technologies, examining how biophysical conditions have American history.
Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather
Continuity and Change on the Bering Sea Coast
The result of nearly ten years of gatherings among Yup'ik elders, this comprehensive work documents the qanruyutet (words of wisdom) that guide their interactions with the Bering Sea coastal environment.
Art by the Book
Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming China
Torture
Power, Democracy, and the Human Body
World-renowned scholars explore the definition and legitimacy of torture through multiple lenses: the boundaries of legitimate political violence; its effects on human and social bodies; visual and artistic representations; dehumanization; complicity and ethical boundaries.
How to Work in Someone Else's Country
Drawing on thirty years of experience as an international consultant in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific, Ruth Stark provides guidance for anybody preparing to work in a foreign country.
Before Seattle Rocked
A City and Its Music
In this tribute to musicians, Kurt Armbruster tells the musical history of Seattle, from the impact of the radio on the psychology of making music in boom and bust times, to the influence of the Musicians Union.
The Fishermen's Frontier
People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska
"As David Arnold makes clear in his marvelous book The Fishermen's Frontier, Alaska possesses a rich and problematic history as 'the self-proclaimed last frontier.'" -- Agricultural History
Albert Bierstadt
Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast
This book reveals the fact within the fiction of Bierstadt's 1870 painting "Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast."
Toxic Archipelago
A History of Industrial Disease in Japan
Darwin’s Pharmacy
Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere
This book inquires into the swarm of ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions provoked by psychedelic experience in the context of global ecological crisis.
Seattle Geographies
Seattle Geographies explores the human geography of the city and region to examine why Seattle is Seattle.
Open Spaces
Voices from the Northwest
These cutting-edge essays and articles collected from Open Spaces magazine provide thoughtful readers with new ways to understand the Pacific Northwest region, themselves, and many of the major issues of our time.
Building New Pathways to Peace
Building New Pathways to Peace considers both old concepts of tolerance, shalom, and wa, and the relatively new concepts of human security, multiculturalism, and transnationalism, to elucidate impediments to and necessary conditions for actualizing peace.
Iceland Imagined
Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic
A cultural and environmental history that explores the unusual geography, saga narratives, language, culture, and politics, of the North Atlantic landscape to analyze the region’s modern transformation.
A Year in Lapland
Guest of the Reindeer Herders
This lyrical memoir of adjusting to life as a reindeer herder is a rare insider's account of the Saami people of Swedish Lapland.
Better than the Best
Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2000
Thirteen black athletes describe how they succeeded in the face of often daunting odds, including economic barriers and racist attitudes and practices.
Seeking Refuge
An Environmental History of the Pacific Flyway
Seeking Refuge examines the development and management of refuges in the wintering range of migratory birds along the Pacific Flyway, the subject of recent contentious debates over water usage.
Dance Lest We All Fall Down
Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond
Brimming with honesty and grace, this book unfolds the story of this remarkable alliance, showing how friendship, when combined with courage, insight, and passion, can transform dreams of a better world into reality.
The Northern Region of Korea
History, Identity, and Culture
Broken Ground
A Novel
A construction project in the Oregon desert has far-reaching political and moral implications in this modern classic by John Keeble.
The Nature of Gold
An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush
A profound and compelling exploration of how the economic and political culture of the 1890s shaped the rush for gold in the Yukon and Alaska.
Art Quantum
The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, 2009
Essays by five Eiteljorg Fellowship artists aim to situate the larger issue of Native identity in the contemporary art world, beyond the blood quantum laws that have been used to determine an individual's inclusion in a Native group.
China Watcher
Confessions of a Peking Tom
An illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, that reflects on forty years of learning about and interacting with the People's Republic of China.
The Informed Gardener Blooms Again
Linda Chalker-Scott investigates scientific literature to debunk common gardening myths, reminding us that urban and suburban landscapes are ecosystems requiring their own particular set of management practices.
The Power of Promises
Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest
Distinguished scholars discuss treaties with Native American groups in the Pacific Northwest, and their implications for land ownership, resource access, and political rights in both the United States and Canada.