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Northern Garden Symphony Combining Hardy Perennials for Blooms All Season
ISBN: PB: 9781602234413, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Put the power of a garden planning pro to work for you! Northern Garden Symphony offers explanations and illustrations of the sequential blooms of ornamental perennials as a tool for garden design. The idea of sequential blooming, Fairbanks-famous au...
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£24,00
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During-the-Event
ISBN: PB: 9781602233829, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2019
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For D. E., only two certainties exist: his grandfather is dead and life will never be the same".During-the-Event" is a dystopian adventure that roams across a fallen United States, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters along the way. In the...
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£17,00
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Wildcat Women Narratives of the Women Breaking Ground in Alaska's Oil and Gas Industry
ISBN: PB: 9781602233546, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 2 maps
Subzero temperatures, whiteout blizzards, and even the lack of restrooms didn't deter them. Nor did sneers, harassment, and threats".Wildcat Women" is the first book to document the life and labor of pioneering women in the oil fields of Alaska's Nor...
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£17,00
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Northern Exposures An Adventuring Career in Stories and Images
ISBN: PB: 9781602231931, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2014
250 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 96 colour illus.
North of the sixtieth parallel parallel, the sun shines for less than six hours in the winter, and towering mountains are the only skyscrapers. Pristine waters serve caribou, moose, and bears in an unbroken landscape. At any given moment in this spec...
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£22,50
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Raven and River
ISBN: PB: 9781602231504, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2012
32 pp., 25.5x25.5 cm, colour illus.
"Raven and River" leads young readers on a fantastical journey with a raven across the icy Alaska landscape on the verge of spring. Along the way, the raven's sonorous cry wakes a cast of sleeping woodland creatures, including a bear, a beaver, a har...
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£9,00
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Khanty People of the Taiga Survivng the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9781602231245, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2011
496 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 15 figures, 80 halftones
Drawing on nearly twenty years of fieldwork, as well as ethnohistory, politics, and economics, this volume takes a close look at changes in the lives of the indigenous Siberian Khanty people and draws crucial connections between those changes and the...
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£30,00
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When the Laughing Stopped The Strange, Sad Death of Will Rogers
ISBN: PB: 9781602230415, ISBN: HB: 9781602230293, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
197 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 32 halftones
The sudden death of renowned American entertainer Will Rogers inspired a national mourning not seen since Lincoln's death, and it still resonates today. In this intimate and informed recounting, John Evangelist Walsh recalls the events of that day an...
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£15,00
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£20,50
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On Sea Ice
ISBN: HB: 9781602230798, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2010
664 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 354 graphs and figures
Covering more than seven percent of the earth's surface, sea ice is crucial to the functioning of the biosphere – and is a key component in our attempts to understand and combat climate change. With "On Sea Ice", geophysicist W. F. Weeks delivers a n...
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£64,00
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