A trail guide for history buffs—and a history book for hikers

Hiking Washington’s History
Second Edition
By Judy Bentley and Craig Romano

Showcases the vibrant practices of Tlingit women's beadwork

Painful Beauty
Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience
By Megan A. Smetzer

An intimate biography of place and an urgent call to conservation

Homewaters
A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound
By David B. Williams

What do chickens reveal about our relationship with animals and food?

Hatched
Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement
By Gina G. Warren

Defines how Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment influenced later European revolutionary movements

Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx
The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights
By Jonathan I. Israel

The first comparative study of these two early empires

Ancient Egypt and Early China
State, Society, and Culture
By Anthony J. Barbieri-Low

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  • Gifts from Their Grandmothers: Megan Smetzer on “Painful Beauty”
    A common thread running through the contemporary artworks included in my book, Painful Beauty, is the deep respect for the tangible and intangible gifts received by the artists from their mothers and grandmothers through the beadwork they created. Two ephemeral fragments—a family snapshot of a mother and daughter beading moccasins and a paper beadwork pattern […]
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