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Earth Sciences

On Sea Ice

Weeks Willy

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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Women Studies

Natalia Shelikhova Russian Oligarch of Alaska Commerce

Black Dawn Lea, Petrov Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9781602230736, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2010
250 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

This volume makes available for the first time in English a variety of primary source materials relating to the life and work of Natalia Shelikov, a pioneering nineteenth-century Russian-American businesswoman. As a principal of the Russian-American...

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Biography & Memoires

Land Beyond A Memoir

Ives Jack

ISBN: PB: 9781602230774, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
186 pp., 23x15 cm, 52 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and work...

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Women Studies

Before the Storm A Year in the Pribilof Islands, 1941-1942

Martin Fredericka

ISBN: PB: 9781602230767, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
385 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 30 halftones

From June of 1941 through the following summer, Fredericka Martin lived with her husband, Dr. Samuel Berenberg, on remote St. Paul Island in Alaska. During that time, Martin delved into the complex history of the Unangan people, and "Before the Storm...

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Earth Sciences

Changing Arctic Landscape

Tape Ken

ISBN: HB: 9781602230804, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
56 pp., 23x28 cm, 30 halftones, 41 colour illus.

With this book, photographer Ken Tape sets changes in the landscape in stark relief, pairing decades-old photos of the arctic landscape of Alaska with photos of the same scenes taken in the present. The resulting volume is a stunning reminder of in...

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Anthropology

Ultimate Americans Point Hope Alaska: 1826-1909

Lowenstein Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781602230385, ISBN: HB: 9781602230279, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
368 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 30 halftones

The third volume in a series on Point Hope, Alaska, "Ultimate Americans" examines the first encounters between the native Tikigaq people and Anglo-Americans during the nineteenth century. Tom Lowenstein investigates the interactions between Native Al...

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Mammals

Recent Mammals of Alaska

Cook Joseph A., MacDonald Stephen O.

ISBN: PB: 9781602230729, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
399 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 110 maps, 50 line illus.

From the polar bear and the gray wolf to the walrus and river otter, there are 115 species of mammals in Alaska that have never been fully catalogued until now. Biologists Joseph A. Cook and Stephen O. MacDonald have compiled here the first comprehen...

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Biography & Memoires

Mammals

Bear Wrangler Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist

Troyer Will

ISBN: PB: 9781602230446, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones

Beginning in 1951, Will Troyer embarked on a thirty-year career with the U. S. Department of the Interior that included positions such as fish and game warden and manager of the Kodiak Island brown bear preserve. Troyer's engaging prose affirms his p...

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Anthropology

Aleutian Ethnography

Turner Lucien

ISBN: PB: 9781602230392, ISBN: HB: 9781602230286, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 50 halftones

Lucien Turner was a pioneering nineteenth-century ethnographer whose study of Aleut communities surpassed the work of all of his contemporaries, and now his rare writings are collected here for the first time. Turner's admittedly fragmentary ethnogra...

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Travel

Innocents in the Dry Valleys An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-1959

Bull Colin

ISBN: PB: 9781602230712, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
267 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 halftone, 4 maps, 2 graphs, 81 colour illus.

In the summer of 1958, physicist Colin Bull, along with a biologist and two undergraduate geology students from Victoria University of Wellington, launched an exploration of the Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica – the first of what has become...

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