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Wild Rivers, Wild Rose
ISBN: PB: 9781602234062, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map
In 1941, Anna Harker is attacked by an ax-wielding assailant in the gold-bearing ridges bordering the Alaska Range. It is this moment of savagery that propels the people of "Wild Rivers, Wild Rose". Anna's lover, Wade Daniels, learns of the deaths of...
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£16,00
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Glass, Light, and Electricity Essays
ISBN: PB: 9781602234086, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Fleet-footed and capricious, the essays in "Glass, Light & Electricity" wander through landscapes both familiar and unfamiliar, finding them equal parts magical and toxic. They explore and merge public and private history through lyric meditations th...
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£18,00
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Coast of Scenic Wonders Coastal Geology and Ecology of the Outer Coast of Oregon and Washington and the Strait of Juan de Fuca
ISBN: PB: 9780981661858, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2020
229 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 166 colour plates, 25 halftones
This book will help you explore origins of the coastal features such as wave-cut rocks cliffs, sea stacks, wave cut rock platforms, and the amazing array of beaches, deltas, and tidal flats. It explains the processes that create the diverse coastal l...
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£24,00
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Armor & Ornament
ISBN: PB: 9781602233874, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
70 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Armor & Ornament" turns away from the popular trends of contemporary poetry, calling instead upon traditional and Biblical forms. Rather than drawing on recent styles and modern trends, Miles looks to the texts that have inspired artists for millenn...
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£13,00
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Drivers of Landscape Change in the Northwest Boreal Region
ISBN: PB: 9781602233973, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
225 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 48 figures, 38 halftone
The northwest boreal region (NWB) of North America is a land of extremes. Extending more than 1.3 million square kilometers (330 million acres), it encompasses the entire spectrum between inundated wetlands below sea level to the tallest peak in Nort...
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£24,00
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How to Lobby Alaska State Government
ISBN: PB: 9781602233959, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Lobbying is about getting the right message to the right people in the right form at the right time. Even the most persuasive arguments or most influential groups will come up short if they aren't combined with personal connections and an understandi...
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£19,00
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Making of an Ecologist My Career in Alaska Wildlife Management and Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9781602233911, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
544 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 129 halftones
This is an innovative and collaborative life history of one of Alaska's pioneering wildlife biologists. David R. Klein has been a leader in promoting habitat studies across wildlife research in Alaska, and this is his first-hand account of how scienc...
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£27,00
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Akulmiut Neqait Fish and Food of the Akulmiut
ISBN: PB: 9781602233867, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
350 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 60 colour plates
For centuries, the Akulmiut people – a Yup'ik group – have been sustained by the annual movements of whitefish. It is a food that sustains and defines them. To this day, many Akulmiut view not only their actions in the world, but their interactions w...
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£27,00
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Alaska Codfish Chronicle A History of the Pacific Cod Fishery in Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602233898, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
557 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 halftones
Cod is one of the most widely consumed fish in the world. For many years, the Atlantic cod industry took center stage, but partly thanks to climate change and overfishing, it is more and more likely that the cod on your kitchen table or in your fast...
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£23,00
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Alaska in the Progressive Age A Political History, 1896 to 1916
ISBN: PB: 9781602233843, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
The growth of modern-day Alaska began with the Klondike gold discovery in 1896. Over the course of the next two decades, as prospectors, pioneers, and settlers rushed in, Alaska developed its agricultural and mineral resources, birthed a structure of...
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£19,00
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