books by University of Washington Press     books:       Citizen 13660 Miné Okubo University of Washington Press, 1983 Mine Okubo was one of 110,000 people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of them American citizens -- who were rounded up into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660 , her memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, was first published in 1946, then reissued by University of Washington Press in 1983 with a new Preface by the author. With 197 pen-and-ink illustrations, and poignantly written text, the ...             No-No Boy John Okada, Lawson Fusao Inada University of Washington Press, 1979 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 was dead of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work. "Asian American readers will appreciate the sensitivity and integrity with which the late John Okada wrote about his own group. He heralded ...             A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States (Capell Family Book) Gordon Hirabayashi, James A. Hirabayashii, ... University of Washington Press, 2013 "I never look at my case as just my own, or just as a Japanese- American case. It is an American case, with principles that affect the fundamental human rights of all Americans." -Gordon K. Hirabayashi In 1942, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result. In A Principled Stand , Gordon's brother James ...             Narwhals: Arctic Whales in a Melting World (A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) Todd McLeish University of Washington Press, 2013 Among all the large whales on Earth, the most unusual and least studied is the narwhal, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming. Narwhals thrive in the fjords and inlets of northern Canada and Greenland. These elusive whales, whose long tusks were the stuff of medieval European myths and Inuit legends, are uniquely adapted to the Arctic ecosystem and are able to dive below thick sheets of ice to depths ...             Flora of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated Manual C. Leo Hitchcock, Arthur Cronquist University of Washington Press, 1973             Becoming Big League: Seattle, the Pilots, and Stadium Politics Bill Mullins University of Washington Press, 2013 Becoming Big League is the story of Seattle's relationship with major league baseball from the 1962 World's Fair to the completion of the Kingdome in 1976 and beyond. Bill Mullins focuses on the acquisition and loss, after only one year, of the Seattle Pilots and documents their on-the-field exploits in lively play-by-play sections. The Pilots' underfunded ownership, led by Seattle's Dewey and Max Soriano and William Daley of Cleveland, ...             Penguins: Natural History and Conservation (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) University of Washington Press, 2013 Penguins, among the most delightful creatures in the world, are also among the most vulnerable. The fragile status of most penguin populations today mirrors the troubled condition of the southern oceans, as well as larger marine conservation problems: climate change, pollution, and fisheries mismanagement. This timely book presents the most current knowledge on each of the eighteen penguin species--from the majestic emperor penguins of the ...             Temple Grove: A Novel Scott Elliott University of Washington Press, 2013 Deep in the heart of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula lies Temple Grove, one of the last stands of ancient Douglas firs not under federal protection from logging. Bill Newton, a gyppo logger desperate for work and a place to hide, has come to Temple Grove for the money to be made from the timber. There to stop him is Paul, a young Makah environmentalist who will break the law to save the trees. A dangerous chase into the wilds of Olympic ...             Nisei Daughter Monica Itoi Sone University of Washington Press, 1979 With charm, humor, and deep understanding, a Japanese American woman tells how it was to grow up on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to "relocation" dring World War II. Along with some 120,000 other persons of Japanese ancestry--77,000 of whom were U.S. citizens--she and her family were uprooted from their home and imprisoned in a camp. In this book, first published in 1952, she provides a unique personal account of these ...             America Is in the Heart (Washington Paperbacks, Wp-68) Carlos Bulosan University of Washington Press, 1973 First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West. "America came to him in a public ward in the Los Angeles County Hospital while around him men died gasping for their last bit of air, and he learned that while America could be cruel it could also be ...             Northwest Coast Indian Art (Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State M) Bill Holm University of Washington Press, 2003 "NORTHWEST COAST INDIAN ART is a very beautiful book and it is also an important contribution to the fields of art and anthropology, Its most distinguished feature is the author's sensitive yet scientific approach in coming firmly to grips with elements of art which often have been considered intangible".--THE BEAVER.             Helping Your Child Recover from Sexual Abuse Caren Adams, Jennifer Fay University of Washington Press, 1992 The sexual abuse of a child creates a devastating family crisis. Parents want to know what to do and say to help their child, both immediately and in the long term. Helping your Child Recover from Sexual Abuse offers practical guidance for parents who courageously face the days and months after a child's abuse. Written in a positive, reassuring jargon-free style, it discusses each stage of a child's recovery. Information for parents appears ...             The Weather of the Pacific Northwest Cliff Mass University of Washington Press, 2008 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 landscape, from the Puget Sound convergence zone and wind surges along the Washington Coast, to gap winds through the Columbia Gorge and the "Banana Belt" ...             Morris Graves: Selected Letters (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) University of Washington Press, 2013 Morris Graves is a major American painter with roots in the Pacific Northwest. Morris Graves: Selected Letters draws on a vast cache of the his unpublished correspondence, dating from his teenage years until his death in 2001. Few visual artists of any era have left such a rich and wide-ranging collections of letters, which makes this body of work an unusual and valuable document in American art. The Graves correspondence is remarkable for ...             Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast Hilary Stewart University of Washington Press, 2003 http://69.131.42.194/showpic.php?image=9780295956459.jpg             Seashore Life of the Northern Pacific Coast: An Illustrated Guide to Northern California, Oregon, Washington, ... Eugene Kozloff University of Washington Press, 1983 From Monterey Bay to northern British Columbia, zoologist Eugene Kozloff explores the rich variety of Pacific coast seashore life. The common plants and animals that inhabit rocky shores, sandy beaches, and quiet bays and estuaries are described and illustrated with encyclopedic thoroughness. Almost every species mentioned is illustrated. The text, cross-referenced with figures and plates, describes in precise terms the size, color, activities, ...             Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family Yoshiko Uchida University of Washington Press, 1982 In the spring of 1942, shortly after the United States entered into war with Japan, the federal government initiated a policy whereby 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were rounded up and herded into camps. They were incarcerated without indictment, trial, or counsel - not because they had committed a crime, but simply because they resembled the enemy. There was never any evidence of disloyalty or sabotage among them, and the majority were ...             Pictorial Anatomy of the Cat Stephen G. Gilbert University of Washington Press, 1968 This book is designed for use as a dissection guide in comparative vertebrate anatomy or in mammalian anatomy. The material covered and the time allotted to such courses varies considerably, and the illustrations are therefore designed to enable the instructor to point out the important features of areas which cannot be dissected in detail by every student. 'The text describes the norm, and for the sake of brevity the numerous variations which ...             Free Boy: A True Story of Slave and Master (V Ethel Willis White Books) Lorraine McConaghy, Judith Bentley University of Washington Press, 2013 Free Boy is the story of a 13-year-old slave who escaped from Washington Territory to freedom in Canada on the West's underground railroad. When James Tilton came to Washington Territory as surveyor-general in the 1850s he brought with his household young Charles Mitchell, a slave he had likely received as a wedding gift from a Maryland cousin. The story of Charlie's escape in 1860 on a steamer bound for Victoria and the help he received from ...             Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) Cindy Ott University of Washington Press, 2012 Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with elaborately carved jack-o'-lanterns. 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