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Photography

I Am Alaskan

Adams Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781602232136, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2013
216 pp., 26.7x26.7 cm, 200 colour plates

What does an Alaskan look like? When asked to visualize someone from Alaska, the image most people conjure up is one of a face lost in a parka, surrounded by snow. Missing from this image is the vibrant diversity of those who call themselves Alaskans...

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Children's Books

Deep in Alaska

Johnson Christine

ISBN: PB: 9781602232150, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2013
42 pp., 22.9x22.9 cm, 42 colour illus.

On a wintry white day, a small boy and a red sled step out for an adventure. As they slip through the snowy woods, their imagined journey takes place against real black-and-white photos of Eagle River, Alaska. Told entirely in haiku, this gentle book...

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Children's Books

Gone Again Ptarmigan

London Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781602232044, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2013
32 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 32 colour illus.

Every winter, willow ptarmigan birds put on new feathery coats, softly white and perfect for hiding in snow. In the spring they take on a spotted brown more suited to nesting. This is just one of the captivating changes that take place in the Far Nor...

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Photography

Nature

Nuvuk, the Northernmost Altered Land, Altered Lives in Barrow, Alaska

Inulak Lum Daniel James

ISBN: HB: 9781602231955, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2013
80 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 76 colour illus.

For years, tour guide Daniel Lum has brought visitors as well as his children out to the remote corners of Barrow, Alaska, one of the northernmost cities in the world, to witness polar bears and walrus on the dark, sandy beaches. Over time, snapping...

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Biography & Memoires

Boots, Bikes, and Bombers Adventures of Alaska Conservationist Ginny Hill Wood

Brewster Karen

ISBN: PB: 9781602231733, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 120 halftones

"Boots, Bikes, and Bombers" presents an intimate oral history of Ginny Hill Wood, a pioneering Alaska conservationist and outdoorswoman. Born in Washington in 1917, Wood served as a Women's Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, and flew a military...

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Literary Criticism

City Beneath the Snow Stories

Kowalski Cole Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9781602231559, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
230 pp., 23x15 cm

The final collection of stories by award-winning writer Marjorie Kowalski Cole, "The City Beneath the Snow" is a portrait of contemporary Alaskans, their interactions, and their foibles. These stories reveal the moral decisions that lurk at unexpecte...

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Dictionaries

Reference

Yup'ik Eskimo Dictionary (Second Edition) Volumes 1 and 2

Jacobson Steven A.

ISBN: PB: 9781555001155, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
1248 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

The most comprehensive Yup'ik dictionary in existence, the second edition of this important work now adds extensive research on Central Alaskan Yup'ik, enhancing the forty years of research done by Steven A. Jacobson on the Yup'ik language and dialec...

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Children's Books

Black Wolf of the Glacier Alaska's Romeo

Vanasse Deb

ISBN: PB: 9781602231979, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
30 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 30 colour illus.

In 2003, Alaskans fell for a lolloping, dog-friendly wolf they named Romeo. Left without a pack, this lone wolf found a new family among Juneau's domestic dogs and their owners, who became enamored with his striking looks and friendly demeanor. For y...

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Children's Books

Lucy's Dance

Vanasse Deb

ISBN: PB: 9781602231269, ISBN: HB: 9781602231276, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
29 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 18 colour illus.

A charming children's book about the return of traditional dancing to one Yup'ik village, "Lucy's Dance" tells the story of a little girl who is determined to help her grandfather demonstrate for the people of the town the beauty and complexity of ol...

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Anthropology

Caribou Herds of Northwest Alaska, 1850-2000

Burch Ernest S. Jr.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231795, ISBN: HB: 9781602231788, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
216 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 20 maps

In his final, major publication Ernest S".Tiger" Burch Jr. reconstructs the distribution of caribou herds in northwest Alaska using data and information from research conducted over the past several decades as well as sources that predate western sci...

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