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The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch’inch’imamí
Reflections on Sahaptin Ways
The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch’inch’imamí is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture. Author Virginia Beavert grew up in a traditional,...
ISBN: 9780295746128
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Shaping Seattle Architecture
A Historical Guide to the Architects, Second Edition
The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattle’s architects by showcasing the work of those who were instrumental in creating the region’s...
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The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag
From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design
Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape...
ISBN: 9780295746463
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Looking for Betty MacDonald
The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I
Betty Bard MacDonald (1907–1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children’s books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World...
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The Propeller under the Bed
A Personal History of Homebuilt Aircraft
On July 25, 2010, Arnold Ebneter flew across the country in a plane he designed and built himself, setting an aviation world record for aircraft of its class. He was eighty-two at the time and the...
ISBN: 9780295746081
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Olmsted in Seattle
Creating a Park System for a Modern City
In the midst of galloping growth at the turn of the twentieth century, Seattle’s city leaders seized on the confluence of a roaring economy with the City Beautiful movement to hire the Olmsted...
ISBN: 9781933245560
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Transit
The Story of Public Transportation in the Puget Sound Region
Ever since the first streetcars rumbled through the streets of Seattle in 1884, public transportation in the Puget Sound region has been a wild roller-coaster ride, replete with scandals, triumphs,...
ISBN: 9781933245553
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Sculpture on a Grand Scale
Jack Christiansen’s Thin Shell Modernism
The Kingdome, John (“Jack”) Christiansen’s best-known work, was the largest freestanding concrete dome in the world. Built amid public controversy, the multipurpose arena was designed to stand...
ISBN: 9780295745619
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Reclaiming the Reservation
Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed
In the 1970s the Quinault and Suquamish, like dozens of Indigenous nations across the United States, asserted their sovereignty by applying their laws to everyone on their reservations. This included...
ISBN: 9780295745855
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The Last Wilderness
Pray to the Empty Wells is a bilingual collection of poems by award-winning contemporary Ukrainian author Iryna Shuvalova. The 44 poems reflect the central section of Shuvalova’s forthcoming book...
ISBN: 9780295745336
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Fishes of the Salish Sea
Puget Sound and the Straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca
Fishes of the Salish Sea is the definitive guide to the identification and history of the marine and anadromous fishes of Puget Sound and the Straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca. This comprehensive...
ISBN: 9780295743745
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Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest abounds with native plants that bring beauty to the home garden while offering food and shelter to birds, bees, butterflies, and other wildlife. Elegant trilliums thrive in...
ISBN: 9780295744155
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Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry
The Art, the Artists, the History
Indigenous hand-engraved jewelry from the Pacific Northwest Coastis among the most distinctive, innovative, and highly sought-after art being produced in North America today. But these artworks are...
ISBN: 9780295745893
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The City Is More Than Human
An Animal History of Seattle
Winner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO)Winner of the 2017 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize, Western History AssociationSeattle...
ISBN: 9780295745718
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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...
ISBN: 9780295745442
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The Tao of Raven
An Alaska Native Memoir
In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the...
ISBN: 9780295745725
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The Deepest Roots
Finding Food and Community on a Pacific Northwest Island
As friends began “going back to the land” at the same time that a health issue emerged, Kathleen Alcalá set out to reexamine her relationship with food at the most local level. Remembering her...
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Gordon Walker
A Poetic Architecture
Gordon Walker’s (b. 1939) highly unusual design process has yielded an extensive architecture of extraordinary quality; he is a unique figure in the American architectural movement and in the history...
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Republic Café
Inspired by Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour, and sharing the spirit of Tomas Transtromer’s Baltics and Yehuda Amichai’s Time, Republic Café is a meditation...
ISBN: 9780295744537
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Puget's Sound
A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound
With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, “the City of Destiny,”...
ISBN: 9780295744230
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