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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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Poetry

Ice Floe New & Selected Poems

Gramse Shannon, Kirk Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781602230835, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2010
233 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Ice Floe", the celebrated and award-winning journal of circumpolar poetry, is here reborn as an annual book series. This first volume features the best of the journal's first seven years, along with evocative new poetry from Alaska, Canada, Iceland,...

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Children's Books

Woolly Mammoth Journey

Miller Debbie S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602230989, ISBN: HB: 9781602230996, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2010
32 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 15 colour illus.

"A Woolly Mammoth Journey" travels back in time to follow a pack of woolly mammoths across rivers, plains, and glacial ridges on their annual migration to familiar feeding grounds. Along the way, a new calf is born and learns to walk, use her trunk t...

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America

General

Alaska Native Cultures and Issues Responses to Frequently Asked Questions

Roderick Libby

ISBN: PB: 9781602230910, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
102 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 16 halftones

Making up more than ten percent of Alaska's population, Native Alaskans are the state's largest minority group. Yet most non-Native Alaskans know surprisingly little about the histories and cultures of their indigenous neighbors, or about the importa...

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Fiction

Cold Flashes Literary Snapshots of Alaska

Engelhard Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781602230934, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 68 halftones

As the old adage goes, "if you can't say it in a few pages, you won't in a hundred". The selections in "Cold Flashes" – very short prose and black-and-white photographs – embody perfectly this transparency, thrift, and restraint. Found here are highl...

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Political Science

Globalization and the Circumpolar North

Heininen Lassi, Southcott Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781602230781, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
320 pp., 23x15 cm

The circumpolar north has long been the subject of conflicting national aspirations and border disputes, and with the end of the cold war and the coming era of potential resource scarcity, its importance will only grow over the next several decades....

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Nature

Anthropology

Plants That We Eat Nauriat Niginaqtaut: From the Traditional Wisdom of the Inupiat Elders of Northwest Alaska

Jones Anore

ISBN: PB: 9781602230743, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2010
241 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 60 halftones

"Plants That We Eat" is a handy, easy-to-use guide to the abundant edible plant life of Alaska. Drawing on centuries of knowledge that have kept the Inupiat people healthy, the book uses photographs and descriptions to teach newcomers to the north ho...

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