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Birds

Flight of the Golden Plover The Amazing Migration Between Hawaii and Alaska

Miller Debbie S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231511, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
32 pp., 20.5x25.5 cm, colour illus.

The remarkable story of the golden plover's annual migration, this beautifully illustrated nature title for young readers sees the small but mighty plover embark on a six-thousand-mile flight between the frozen Alaska tundra and gentle grassy slopes...

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Anthropology

Khanty People of the Taiga Survivng the Twentieth Century

Wiget Andrew, Balalaeva Olga

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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Biography & Memoires

Finding Mars

Rozell Ned

ISBN: PB: 9781602231221, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2011
190 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 128 halftones

"Finding Mars" is an interwoven tale of science, travel, and adventure, as science writer Ned Rozell accompanies permafrost researcher – and inveterate wanderer – Kenji Yoshikawa on a 750-mile trek by snowmobile through the Alaska wilderness. Along t...

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Cartography

Kandik Map

Johnson Linda

ISBN: PB: 9781602230422, ISBN: HB: 9781602230323, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
160 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In 1880, a Native American named Paul Kandik and a French explorer, Francois Mercier, traveled across northeastern Alaska and western Canada to create the earliest known map of the region. Linda Johnson now delves into the fascinating story behind th...

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Biography & Memoires

When the Laughing Stopped The Strange, Sad Death of Will Rogers

Walsh John Evangelist

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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Poetry

I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese Poets

Sexton Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781602231191, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
59 pp., 22.6x15 cm

This all-new collection by former Alaska poet laureate smoothly blends his life in Maine, his years in Alaska, and his love of Chinese poetry – which has been a key influence on his work – into a lyrical fantasy that will enchant lovers of verse. The...

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America

City for Empire An Anchorage History, 1914-1941

Jones Preston

ISBN: PB: 9781602230842, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2010
214 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

First settled in 1915, Anchorage, Alaska, was founded with the American empire in mind. During World War I, it served as a conduit through which coal could be shipped to the Pacific, where the U. S. Navy was engaged with Japan. Decades later, during...

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Photography

Still Rainin' Still Dreamin' Hall Anderson's Ketchikan

Anderson Hall

ISBN: PB: 9781889963907, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2010
118 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 100 halftones

A staff photographer for the Ketchikan Daily News, Hall Anderson counted among his early influences photographers like Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson, who understood the visual bounty to be found in photographing the candid side of life. For...

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Education

Bong Hits 4 Jesus A Perfect Constitutional Storm in Alaska's Capital

Foster James C.

ISBN: PB: 9781602230897, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2010
373 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In January 2002, for the first time, the Olympic Torch Relay visited Alaska on its way to the Winter Games. When the relay runner and accompanying camera cars passed Juneau-Douglas High School, senior Joseph Frederick and several friends unfurled a f...

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Photography

Arctic Sanctuary Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Jones Jeff

ISBN: HB: 9781602230880, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2010
173 pp., 22.8x35.5 cm, 162 colour illus.

Guided by photographer Jeff Jones's sure and well-developed vision, "Arctic Sanctuary" leads the reader on a remarkable journey that few of us will ever take in real life: a trek deep into Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. By turns celebrator...

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