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Astronomy

Coloring the Universe An Insider's Look at Making Spectacular Images of Space

Rector Travis, Arcand Kimberly, Watzke Megan

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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Fiction

Cabin, Clearing, Forest

Falcon Zach

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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Technology & Engineering

Connecting Alaskans Telecommunications in Alaska from Telegraph to Broadband

Hudson Heather E.

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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Fiction

Creatures at the Absolute Bottom of the Sea

McGuire Rosemary

ISBN: PB: 9781602232594, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2015
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A man witnesses a tragic accident that calls his own life into question. A young woman meets her high school sweetheart after many years and seeks to make sense of the separate paths they've taken. A soldier home from Iraq tries to rebuild his life i...

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Fiction

Cold Spell

Vanasse Deb

ISBN: PB: 9781602232426, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With precise and evocative prose, "Cold Spell" tells the story of a mother who risks everything to start over and a daughter whose longings threaten to undo them both. From the moment Ruth Sanders rips a glossy photo of a glacier from a magazine, she...

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Fiction

Caribou Journey

Miller Debbie S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602230965, ISBN: HB: 9781602230972, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2014
32 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 15 colour illus.

An imposing line of caribou stretches for miles across the frozen tundra of Alaska. The sound of clicking hooves echoes through the air as the herd follows its centuries-old migration route. With their thick coats and their padded, shovel-like hooves...

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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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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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Poetry

Cormorant Hunter's Wife

Kane Joan

ISBN: PB: 9781602231573, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2012
76 pp., 23x15 cm

This collection of poetry is inspired by the author's lineage as an Inupiaq Eskimo woman with family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. The poems' syncopated cadences and evocative images bring to life the exceptional physical and cultural co...

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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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