Books published by University of Alaska Press

On title page: "Worksheets, activities, and reflections for grades 6-12 study guide."

"Arctic people live in and observe the Arctic environment year-round. Intimate knowledge of the environment and environmental changes is fundamental to their survival. They frequently depend on natural resources for their livelihood. This book presents a review of the capabilities, good practices, opportunities and barriers of community-based environmental monitoring programs in the Arctic, with a focus on decision-making for resource management"--

"John Schoen's Tongass Odyssey is both a memoir and a scientific manuscript. As a memoir it offers authorial stories related to Schoen's dealings in the Tongass National Forest; as a science-based manuscript it addresses the ecological and political history of the past 50 years of the Tongass. It also addresses the responsibility of conservation practitioners regarding the consequences of public lands and water management"--

Whether the reader is a student of history or someone unacquainted with Adolphus Greely's ill-fated expedition into the Arctic during the early 1880s, Alden Todd's book will prove interesting and informative.

"In 1941, Anna Harker is attacked by an ax-wielding assailant in the gold-bearing ridges bordering the Alaska Range. It is this moment of savagery that propels the people of Wild Rivers, Wild Rose. Anna's lover,Wade Daniels, learns of the deaths of Anna's husband and their farmhand, and he rushes to the hills to look for Anna and hunt the murderer. As she lies dying on the tundra, Anna relives the major events of her Alaska life while searching her memories for what could have led to the violence. And, decades later, an outsider named Billie Sutherland steps into a community still haunted by the murders. Plagued by her own ghosts, Billie delves into the past, opening old wounds. In this gripping novel by Sarah Birdsall, lives are laid bare and secrets ring out in the resonant Alaska Range foothills"

"Dedicated to the Officers and Sailors of the Alaska Marine Highway System, Past and Present."

The purpose of this volume is to create a northwest boreal region resource for regional land and resource managers and researchers by synthesizing the latest research on the historical and current status of landscape-scale drivers and ecosystem processes, future projected changes of each, and the effects of changes on important resources.

Please give a 200- to 300-word description of your book. The growth of modern-day Alaska began with the Klondike gold discovery in 1896. Over the course of the next two decades, as prospectors, pioneers, and settlers rushed in, Alaska developed its agricultural and mineral resources, birthed a structure of highway and railroad transportation, and founded the cities we know today. All this activity occurred within the context of the Progressive Age in American politics. It was a time of reform as Progressive politicians took on the powerful business trusts and enacted sweeping reforms to protect workers and consumers. As the population of Alaska grew, Congress responded to the needs of the nation's northern possession, giving the territory a delegate to Congress, a locally elected legislature, and ultimately in 1914 the federally funded Alaska Railroad. Progressives believed that government could and should be the agent of reform and a force for positive change in people's lives. In the traditional view of Alaska history, Alaska is considered to have been continually neglected and abused by the federal government. I contend, however, that in the years from 1896 to 1916 the territory benefitted richly in the age of Progressive Democracy. > Please give a 100-word description of your book. > Please give a one-sentence description of your book. Alaska benefitted richly in the years from 1896 to 1916, when, coincident with the Progressive Age in American politics, the idea prevailed that government at its best could be an instrument for positive social and economic change in people's lives.

"For seventeen years, During-the-Event, or D.E., has lived free in a pastoral life with his grandfather in North Dakota. But when death reaches their outpost. D.E. is forced on a journey that will change his life--and reveal surprises about his past"--

"Contributors include: Dermot Cole, Gerald McBeath, Mary F. Ehrlander, Ronald K. Inouye, Carolyn Kozak Loeffler, Sherry Simpson, Frank Soos, John Straley, Kes Woodward, Chris Allan, Ross Coen, Stephen Haycox, Lee Huskey, David Eric Jessup, Dan O'Neill, Leighton M. Quarles, Katherine Ringsmuth, Dirk Tordoff, Russ Vanderlugt and Heath Twichell."

In Jack London's lifetime, Burning Daylight was one of his best-selling books, yet it has been largely out of print for decades. Now the novel is being brought back for a new generation of readers to discover. The story features one of London's most engaging larger-than-life protagonists, Elam Harnish, a prospector with John Henry-like strength and a thirst for gold-plated wealth. Harnish, the "Burning Daylight" of the title, eventually strikes it rich through his talent in the mines--and at the poker table. But he ultimately makes the biggest gamble of his life when he decides to trade it all for the golden-haired love of his life. While the novel moves from Alaska to the Sonoma Valley and later into the wilds of Wall Street, it's the vivid descriptions of the Gold Rush-era Klondike that shine. London takes readers on journeys deep into mines and across the frozen North via sled dog. He captures the competitive spirit of the time and the endless hope that the big score is just one dig away. London weaves in progressive views on sustainability and land use, and also timeless lessons about the real riches in life. This new edition presents London's text in full and features a new afterword from University of Alaska Fairbanks professor Eric Heyne. Heyne situates the novel within London's life and writings and looks at some of the sources that may have inspired him. The re-emergence of Burning Daylight will allow London's fans to fill in an important spot on their bookshelf and rediscover a long-lost work.

Mar Ka lives in and writes from the foothills of Alaska's Chugach Mountains. Be-Hooved, her new poetry collection, creates a layered spiritual memoir of her decades in the northern wilderness. The poems inhabit her surroundings--structured along the seasons and the migration patterns of the Porcupine Caribou Herd--and are wrought with a fine and luminous language. Entrancing, profound, and startling, this book is a testament to hope before change, persistence before confusion, and empathy before difference: all the world's light and all the world's dark / can fit into an eye into a heart.