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Geography of Water
ISBN: PB: 9781602232709, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2015
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this exquisite debut novel, Mary Emerick takes readers into the watery landscape of southeast Alaska and the depths of a family in crisis. An abusive father and a broken home forces a teenage Winnie to seek the safety of a neighboring bay and a pa...
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£13,00
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Coloring the Universe An Insider's Look at Making Spectacular Images of Space
ISBN: HB: 9781602232730, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2015
200 pp., 26.7x26.7 cm, 200 colour plates
With a fleet of telescopes in space and giant observatories on the ground, professional astronomers produce hundreds of spectacular images of space every year. These colorful pictures have become infused into popular culture and can found everywhere,...
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£37,50
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Stubborn Gal The True Story of an Undefeated Sled Dog Racer
ISBN: HB: 9781602232723, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2015
32 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
"Stubborn Gal" is the true story of a sixty-mile sled dog race and a young woman determined, if not exactly qualified, to run it. A grandfather tells his granddaughter about the tenacious Sarah and her adventure with sled dogs. The older Sarah, bored...
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£12,00
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Cabin, Clearing, Forest
ISBN: PB: 9781602232754, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2015
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"People break my heart. Every single one of them does". In settings that range from rural fishing communities to the urban capital, the stories of "Cabin, Clearing, Forest" are a lyrical road map to the human landscape of contemporary Alaska. In "Blu...
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£13,00
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Married to the Empire Three Governors' Wives in Russian America 1829-1864
ISBN: HB: 9781602232648, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2015
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 map
The Russian Empire had a problem. While they had established successful colonies in their territory of Alaska, life in the settlements was anything but civilized. The settlers of the Russian-America Company were drunk, disorderly, and corrupt. Worst...
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£37,50
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Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602232662, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2015
175 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 4 photos, 10 figures
With three roads and a population of just over 500 people, Shishmaref, Alaska seems like an unlikely center of the climate change debate. But the island, home to Inupiaq Eskimos who still live off subsistence harvesting, is falling into the sea, and...
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£19,00
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Connecting Alaskans Telecommunications in Alaska from Telegraph to Broadband
ISBN: HB: 9781602232686, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2015
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
"Alaska is now open to civilization". With those six words in 1900, the northernmost territory finally had a connection with the rest of the country. The telegraph system put in place by the US Army Signal Corps heralded  the start of Alaska's commun...
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£45,00
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Upriver
ISBN: PB: 9781602232020, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2015
60 pp., 23x15 cm
There is a triumphant and satisfying feeling the first time one returns to a once-unfamiliar place and finally feels like it is home. When strangeness is shed and familiar patterns emerge, there is a deep sense of comfort that is the reward for those...
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£11,50
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Kal'unek-from Karluk Kodiak Alutiiq History and the Archaeology of the Karluk One Village Site
ISBN: HB: 9781602232440, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2015
350 pp., 29.3x24.1 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Karluk One is a remarkable archaeological site. For six hundred years, the Alutiiq built houses upon houses, preserving layer after layer of their ways of life. When fresh water from a nearby pond seeped through the deposit, the massive mound of cult...
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£37,50
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Exploring and Mapping Alaska The Russian America Era, 1741-1867
ISBN: HB: 9781602232518, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2015
450 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 75 maps
Russia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire eighteenth century. For centuries since, cartographers have struggled to define and develop the enormous region comprising northeastern Asia,...
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£60,00
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