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Ecology

North by 2020 Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems

Lovecraft Amy Lauren, Eicken Hajo

ISBN: PB: 9781602231429, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2011
784 pp., 25.5x18 cm, colour illus.

Originating from a series of workshops held at the Alaska Forum of the Fourth International Polar Year, this interdisciplinary volume addresses a host of current concerns regarding the ecology and rapid transformation of the arctic. Concentrating on...

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Anthropology

Gwich'in Athabascan Implements History, Manufacture, and Usage According to Reverend David Salmon

O'Brien Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231443, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2011
202 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 73 halftones, 43 line illus.

The most detailed and well-illustrated study of material culture for any northern Athabascan language group to date, "Gwich'in Athabascan Implements" reproduces pre- and early post-contact tools that are historically important to the Athabaskan peopl...

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Poetry

Ice Floe II International Poetry of the Far North

Gramse Shannon, Kirk Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781602231481, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2011
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The long-awaited second volume of the newly revived "Ice Floe" series, "Ice Floe II" features new and exciting works of poetry from a vibrant and diverse group of writers from Alaska, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Iceland, and beyond. All work is presented...

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Anthropology

Travel

Ahtna Travel Narratives A Demonstration of Shared Geographic Knowledge among Alaska Athabascans

Kari James

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781555001056, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2011
143 pp., 27x22 cm, 22 maps, 23 halftones

Among the world's foremost pedestrian foragers, the Ahtna tribe possesses a profound system of geographic knowledge that has facilitated travel and spatial cognition in Ahtna and other Athabascan languages. Shedding light on a number of precise lands...

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Photography

Anthropology

Yupiit Yuraryarait Yup'ik Ways of Dancing

Barker James H., Fienup-Riordan Ann, Arevgaq John Theresa

ISBN: PB: 9781602231306, ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781602230828, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
237 pp., 25.5x25.5 cm, 100 halftones

Far more than just a dance, the dynamic choreography of the Yup'ik provides an illuminating window into the morality, social organization, and colonial history of this indigenous people. In "Yupiit Yurayarait", anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan begin...

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Other

Comparative Eskimo Dictionary With Aleut Cognates (Second Edition)

Fortescue Michael, Jacobson Steven, Kaplan Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9781555001094, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
720 pp., 28x21.5 cm

An updated and comprehensive reference to the Aleut-Eskimo languages spoken from the northeastern tip of Siberia all the way east to Greenland, this easy-to-use volume groups related words from the modern Eskimo languages in comparative sets with the...

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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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