An insider takes the Democrats to task
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 12/27/2007
"Heroes, Hacks, and Fools: Memoirs from the Political Inside" by Ted Van Dyk University of Washington Press, 306 pp., $24.95 "Heroes, Hacks, and Fools"...
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States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/30/2007
By Forkey, Neil S States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century. By Tina Loo. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xxiv + 280 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $85, paper $29.95.
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Love, Luck, and Resistance: The Chinese Experience on Both Sides of the Pacific
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 11/07/2007
... will also read excerpts of her novel Wooden Fish Songs (1997), newly revised for re-publication by University of Washington Press. The remarkable true story of 19th century immigrant-cum-renown horticulturalist Lum Gim Gong, Wooden Fish Songs has been adapted for stage and has been presented nationwide. The event is co-presented by Manilatown Heritage Foundation, Chinese Culture...
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Seattle poet and publishers to receive 2007 American Book Awards
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/31/2007
A Seattle poet and three Seattle publishers will receive 2007 American Book Awards that honor literary excellence and diversity.Judith Roche wins for "Wisdom of the Body" from Black Heron Press of Seattle. Roche said: "I am stunned, amazed and thankful to receive an American Book Award."Also honored are Fantagraphics Books for "Jimbo's Inferno," by Gary Panter of New York, and the University...
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Locals honored with book awards
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/30/2007
Local publisher Fantagraphics Books has won an ABA for Brooklyn graphic novelist Gary Panter's "Jimbo's Inferno." And an ABA went to University of Washington Press for Connecticut cultural analyst Jeffrey F.L. Partridge's "Beyond Literary Chinatown."
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Sen. Larry Craig 'wide stance'
Thomas Kraemer (Free subscription) | 10/20/2007
... Boise Furor, Vice and Folly in an American City," originally published by Macmillan Company 1966, University of Washington Press 2001 edition : "On the morning of November 2, 1955, the people of Boise, Idaho, were stunned by a screaming headline in the Idaho Daily Statesman, THREE BOISE MEN ADMIT SEX CHARGES. Time magazine picked up the story, reporting that a "homosexual underworld"...
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TINTORETTO & HOGARTH IN SEATTLE
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 09/22/2007
By The Editors Tintoretto, edited by Miguel Falomir, the catalog of an exhibition at the Prado in Madrid reviewed by Andrew Butterfield in the April 26 issue, and Hogarth, France and British Art: The Rise of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Robert Simon, reviewed by Sanford Schwartz in the June 28 issue, are both available in the US through the University of Washington Press....
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At Open Books Tonight
The Virtual World (Free subscription) | 09/13/2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007 at 07:30 PM NANCE VAN WINCKEL Nance Van Winckel stakes out her turf when she writes of standing near a van “so old and so red and broken, / and me as a ruptured part thunked lose on the road.” In her new collection, No Starling ($12.95 paper; $27 hardcover Univ. of Washington), she is often a tangential character, a witness who, happily for us, witnesses with a
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Minerva Magazine - online book reviews
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 09/11/2007
... Tyldesley - Thames and Hudson 2006 - Magic in Ancient Egypt - Geraldine Pinch - British Museum Press 2006 - An Ancient Egyptian Herbal - Lise Manniche - British Museum Press 2006 - Swifter Than The Arrow: The Golden Hunting Hounds of Ancient Egypt - Michael Rice - I.B. Tauris 2006 - Objects for Eternity: Egyptian Antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection - Edited by Carol A.R....
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Disney's letter demanding retraction
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 08/14/2007
August 13, 2007 Mark A. Emmert, Ph.D. President University of Washington 301 Gerberding Hall Box 351230 Seattle, Washington 98195 Re: University of Washington Press Release
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Take It Back: Walt Disney Demands Retraction From University of Washington Over Baby Einstein Video Press Release
Consumerist (Free subscription) | 08/13/2007
The Walt Disney Company has issued a press release demanding a retraction from the University of Washington over their "misleading" press release that prompted several news articles about Disney's Baby Einstein videos. Attached to the press release was the following letter to Mark A. Emmert, the president of the University of Washington from Bob Iger,...
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