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Finding True North First-Hand Stories of the Booms that Build Modern Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234437, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2021
201 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Melting sea ice and simmering volcanoes. Sled dogs racing through unnamed valleys. These were the images that came to mind when Molly Rettig got a job at the local Fairbanks Daily News-Miner following journalism school. An environmentalist at heart,...
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£18,00
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I Thought There Would Be More Wolves Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781602234499, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2021
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
After moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, poet Sara Ryan found herself immersed in the isolated spaces of the North: the cold places that never thawed, the animals that stayed hidden and hunted. As she struggled with loneliness, cruelty, and t...
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£12,00
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Melting the Ice Curtain The Extraordinary Story of Citizen Diplomacy on the Russia-Alaska Frontier
ISBN: PB: 9781602233348, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 1 map
Just five years after a Soviet missile blew a civilian airliner out of the sky over the North Pacific, an Alaska Airlines jet braved Cold War tensions to fly into tomorrow. Crossing the Bering Strait between Alaska and the Russian Far East, the 1988...
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£22,50
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Critical Norths Space, Nature, Theory
ISBN: PB: 9781602233195, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2017
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 5 tables
For millennia, "the North" has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions – empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history – it...
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£34,00
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Coloring the Universe An Insider's Look at Making Spectacular Images of Space
ISBN: HB: 9781602232730, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2015
200 pp., 26.7x26.7 cm, 200 colour plates
With a fleet of telescopes in space and giant observatories on the ground, professional astronomers produce hundreds of spectacular images of space every year. These colorful pictures have become infused into popular culture and can found everywhere,...
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£37,50
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Married to the Empire Three Governors' Wives in Russian America 1829-1864
ISBN: HB: 9781602232648, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2015
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 map
The Russian Empire had a problem. While they had established successful colonies in their territory of Alaska, life in the settlements was anything but civilized. The settlers of the Russian-America Company were drunk, disorderly, and corrupt. Worst...
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£37,50
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Finding Mars
ISBN: PB: 9781602231221, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2011
190 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 128 halftones
"Finding Mars" is an interwoven tale of science, travel, and adventure, as science writer Ned Rozell accompanies permafrost researcher – and inveterate wanderer – Kenji Yoshikawa on a 750-mile trek by snowmobile through the Alaska wilderness. Along t...
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£17,50
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Alaska Native Cultures and Issues Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
ISBN: PB: 9781602230910, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
102 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 16 halftones
Making up more than ten percent of Alaska's population, Native Alaskans are the state's largest minority group. Yet most non-Native Alaskans know surprisingly little about the histories and cultures of their indigenous neighbors, or about the importa...
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£11,50
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