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Alaska Native Games and How to Play Them
ISBN: PB: 9781602234185, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2020
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates
The athletes of the Alaska Native games aren't just returning to their roots. They've never left them. In this beautifully illustrated book, readers learn the history of twenty-five Native games that have been handed down through generations, how eac...
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£16,00
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Alaska Constitution
ISBN: PB: 9781602234109, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2020
100 pp., 16.5x10.7 cm
The Alaska Constitution, ratified by the people in 1956, became operative with the proclamation of statehood on January 3, 1959. The constitution was drafted by fifty-five delegates who convened at the University of Alaska to determine the authority...
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£4,00
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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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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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Across the Shaman's River John Muir, the Tlingit Stronghold, and the Opening of the North
ISBN: PB: 9781602233294, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 1 map
"Across the Shaman's River" is the story of one of Alaska's last Native American strongholds, a Tlingit community closed off for a century until a fateful encounter between a shaman, a preacher, and John Muir. Tucked in the corner of Southeast Alas...
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£25,00
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Alaska on the Go Exploring the Alaska Marine Highway System with Children
ISBN: PB: 9781602233157, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2017
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 maps
Every year, nearly two million tourists visit Alaska, and at least half of them spend time exploring the state's waterways. For families that want to do so in a more independent fashion than a cruise ship or guided tour would allow, Erin Kirkland has...
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£16,50
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Alaska's Greatest Outdoor Legends Colorful Characters Who Built the Fishing and Hunting Industries
ISBN: PB: 9781602232990, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 halftones, 1 map
Outdoor tourism is one of Alaska's biggest industries, and the thousands of people who flock to the state's dramatic landscapes and pristine waters to hunt and fish are supported by a large and growing network of guides, lodges, outfitters, and wildl...
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£22,50
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Alaska Politics and Public Policy The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Personalities, and Power
ISBN: HB: 9781602232891, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
750 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 maps
Politics in Alaska have changed significantly since the last major book on the subject was published more than twenty years ago, with the rise and fall of Sarah Palin and the rise and fall of oil prices being but two of the many developments to alter...
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£56,50
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