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To Russia with Love An Alaskan's Journey
ISBN: PB: 9781602231405, ISBN: HB: 9781602231399, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2014
400 pp., 23x15 cm
Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends' parents disappear after pol...
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£15,00
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£21,00
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Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska Conversations with Father Rene Astruc and Paul Dixon on Their Work with Yup'ik People
ISBN: PB: 9781602231610, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2012
346 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 25 halftones
"Mission of Change" is an oral history describing various types of change – political, social, cultural, and religious – as seen through the eyes of Father Astruc and Paul Dixon, non-Natives who dedicated their lives to working with the Yup'ik people...
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£26,50
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Comparative Eskimo Dictionary With Aleut Cognates (Second Edition)
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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£45,00
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Bong Hits 4 Jesus A Perfect Constitutional Storm in Alaska's Capital
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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£22,50
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Point Hope, Alaska Life on Frozen Water
ISBN: HB: 9781602230651, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2009
204 pp., 27.9x25 cm, 192 halftones
This book is a window to the daily life and the environment of the Tikigaq, the Inupiaq people of "Point Hope, Alaska", as seen in photographs taken by young Norwegian artist Berit Arnestad Foote from 1959 to 1962. In Berit Foote's days in Point Hope...
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£49,00
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Alaska Native Art Tradition, Innovation, Continuity
ISBN: PB: 9781889963822, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2007
312 pp., 26.8x21.5 cm, 220 colour plates, 85 halftones, 2 colour maps
Ranging from the islands of the Bering Sea to Alaska's interior forests,"Alaska Native Art" celebrates the rich art of Alaska's Native peoples, both setting their work in the context of historical traditions and demonstrating the vibrant role it cont...
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£25,00
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