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America

Dangerous Idea The Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights

Metcalfe Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781602232396, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

Decades before the marches and victories of the 1960s, a group of Alaska Natives were making civil rights history. Throughout the early twentieth century, the Alaska Native Brotherhood fought for citizenship, voting rights, and education for all Alas...

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America

Steaming to the North The First Summer Cruise of the US Revenue Cutter Bear, Alaska and Chukotka, Siberia, 1886

Donahue Katherine C., Switzer David C.

ISBN: HB: 9781602232389, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 74 halftones

On a rugged frontier where the ocean was king, most laws came from those who ruled the sea – and few ships policed the western Arctic like the revenue cutter Bear. Commissioned into the organization that would eventually become the US Coast Guard, th...

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Other

Inupiatun Uqaluit Taniktun Sivuninit / Inupiaq to English Dictionary

MacLean Edna

ISBN: HB: 9781602232334, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2014
1018 pp., 26.6x21.6 cm, 1 map, 25 line drawings

This is a comprehensive treatment of one of Alaska's oldest ancestral languages. Through its 19,000 entries and thirty-one appendices – with categories such as kin terms, names of constellations, and a list of explanations – the dictionary is an exce...

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Poetry

You Haven't Asked About My Wedding or What I Wore Poems of Courtship on the American Frontier

Harris Jana

ISBN: PB: 9781602232358, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2014
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

"Nowhere / on these parchment leaves do I find / myself, my likeness, my name, / not a whisper – Cynthia – not one / breath of me". For thirty years poet Jana Harris researched the diaries and letters of North American pioneer women. While the nam...

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America

Kiska The Japanese Occupation of an Alaska Island

Coyle Brendan

ISBN: HB: 9781602232372, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2014
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 250 colour plates, 77 halftones

Alaska's windswept Aleutian Island chain arcs for over a thousand miles toward Asia from the Alaska Peninsula. In this remote and hostile archipelago is Kiska Island, an uninhabited sub-arctic speck in the tempestuous Bering Sea. Few have the opportu...

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Children's Books

Pup and Pokey

Kantner Seth

ISBN: PB: 9781602232419, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2014
48 pp., 21.6x17.7 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

A boisterous wolf pup and an awkward young porcupine are unlikely allies in this tale of friendship set on Alaska's tundra. The two grow up as neighbors, but only through helping each other escape from a trapper do they learn what it means truly to b...

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Children's Books

Mary's Wild Winter Feast

Lindoff Hannah

ISBN: PB: 9781602232327, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2014
40 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

When winter rain washes away Mary's chances for a sledding day, she thinks there is no hope for excitement. But with a little imagination and a brimming pantry she soon finds herself caught up in a colorful journey. Together with her father she reliv...

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Fiction

Cold Spell

Vanasse Deb

ISBN: PB: 9781602232426, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With precise and evocative prose, "Cold Spell" tells the story of a mother who risks everything to start over and a daughter whose longings threaten to undo them both. From the moment Ruth Sanders rips a glossy photo of a glacier from a magazine, she...

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Children's Books

King Salmon Journey

Miller Debbie S., Eiler John H.

ISBN: PB: 9781602232310, ISBN: HB: 9781602232303, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2014
32 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Two thousand miles is a staggering distance for any kind of journey. But imagine making it not by car or even foot – but by fin. That's what faces Chinook, a female king salmon, as she takes a dramatic trip to safely deliver her eggs. From the Bering...

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Travel

Northern Exposures An Adventuring Career in Stories and Images

Waterman Jonathan

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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