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  • - Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the End of the Twentieth Century
     
    £24.99

    Focuses on the people of Hong Kong and how they are defining themselves under altered circumstances. This work is a broad multi-disciplinary view of Hong Kong's transformation. The transfer of Hong Kong sovereignty from Great Britain to China was a historical event, signifying the end of West's presence in Asia and the rise of China's hegemony.

  • - Japanese American Students and World War II
    by Gary Y. Okihiro
    £17.99 - 75.99

  • - Revolutionary Artists and the Making of Early Soviet Children's Books
    by Evgeny Steiner
    £25.99

    Basing his work on primary sources - Russian picture books from the Russian State Library, private collections, and publishers' archives - the author tells his story in deft prose with a wry sense of humor. He forcefully demonstrates that the Constructivists were as committed to implementing Utopia as their establishment counterparts.

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    - The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary
    by David Patterson
    £75.99

    Based on more than fifty diaries of Holocaust victims of all ages, written while the events described were taking place. This book illuminates the spiritual and physical devastation experienced by European Jewry during the Holocaust, showing how Jews chose life and the spirit of life in the midst of the inferno.

  • by Charles E. Odegaard
    £28.99

  • - Scandinavian Immigrants to the Pacific Northwest
    by Janet Elaine Guthrie
    £22.49

    Captures the voices of Scandinavian men and women who crossed the Atlantic during the early decades of the 20th century and settled in the Pacific Northwest. Based on oral history interviews with 45 Danes, Finns, Icelanders, Norwegians, and Swedes, this book includes background information on Scandinavian culture and immigration.

  • by Melvin Rader
    £21.49

    In the summer of 1948, with Cold War tensions rising, a young state legislator front Spokane, Washington, named Albert Canwell set out to combat the "communist menace" through a state version of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. University of Washington professor Melvin Rader was a victim of the Canwell Committee's rush to judgment, but he fought back. False Witness tells of his struggle to clear his name. It is a testament of personal courage in the face of mass hysteria and a cautionary example of how basic freedoms can rapidly erode when the powers of the state are allowed to serve a rigid ideological agenda. Fifty years after the Canwell Committee's inception, False Witness is reissued as part of the All Powers Project, a multidisciplinary effort by the University of Washington to recreate, reexamine, and redefine the significance today of those tumultuous times. The book includes a new Afterword by Leonard Schroeter, a Seattle attorney and activist who succeeded Melvin Rader as president of the Washington chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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    - The Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in the Northern West
    by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
    £42.49

    The colorful saga of miners and settlers struggling to get from here to there in the days before railroads reached the West is recreated in this book combining historical photographs, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts. The author describes in detail the technology of pre-industrial modes of transportation.

  • by Peter Bacho
    £14.99

    Twelve powerful stories by award-winning novelist Peter Bacho. Set in Seattle from the 1950s to the present, "Dark Blue Suit" depicts the lives of two groups: Filipino immigrant pioneers and their American-born children. Although narrated as fiction, the stories--their landmarks, activities, settings, and events--are grounded in historical fact.

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    - Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel
    by Galya Diment
    £35.99

  • by Linda Ty-Casper
    £21.49

    Recent events in the Philippines - the 1986 People Power Revolution, the ouster of President Marcos, the election of Corazon Aquino, and the coup of 1989 - are the backdrop of this new novel by a celebrated Filipina writer. She focuses on the experiences of the people in and beyond Gulod, a barrio that "has spread like a field sown by a blind hand" on the outskirts of Manila, on the fringes of power, in the tangled roots of dreams. The story is told through the conflicting lives and ambitions of disillusioned lawyer Benhur, the politician Osong for whom he works, Osong's wife Sally, the retired Col. Moscoso, and many others whose potent but fragile hopes are shaped and destroyed in a context of ceaseless revolutionary change. Linda Ty-Casper combines historical objectivity with convincing moral authority and provides readers with a remarkable sense of people and place, a leap of insight into what it is to live in the Philippines today at a critical juncture in the nation's history. Research in newspaper archives and interviews with participants in the revolution inform her narrative. The events are actual; her fictional characters are believable; her prose is sardonic, compassionate, and virtuosic.

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    by Odette Meyers
    £35.99

    A memoir of a young Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied France that recounts her own family's difficult and brave survival and portrays as well the love and quiet heroism of her rescuers. It focuses on Madame Marie Chotel, the Catholic concierge and seamstress who is cherished by the girl, even in absentia, as her godmother and mentor.

  • - A Guide to the Washington State Legislative Process
    by Edward D. Seeberger
    £21.49

    A description of how the Washington State Legislature works. Presenting information on women in the legislature, the role of the governor, and the various origins of legislation, it explains the process by which thousands of proposed laws are introduced each year and are culled down to the approximately twenty per cent that are eventually enacted.

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    by Gi-Wook Shin
    £23.49 - 75.99

    Examines how peasants responded to these events, and to their own economic and political circumstances, with protests that shaped the course of postwar revolution in the north and reform in the south.

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    - The Lives of Three Blind African Musicians
    by Simon Ottenberg
    £35.99

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    - Germany and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies
     
    £75.99

  • - A Road Guide to History
    by Ruth Kirk
    £24.99

    A traveler's guide to Washington state, focusing on historical sites. Sections on various regions describe local history, with entries on towns and sites offering information on festivals, museums, and historic districts. Contains b&w photos, and a chronology. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Port

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    by David C. Fowler
    £65.99

    This study combines a cultural history of 14th-century England with a biography of Trevista, from his Cornish origins, through his years in Oxford to his life as vicar of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, and his association with the Berkeley family.

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    £75.99

    This volume examines the role of dynastic rulers, the imperial system, and the ruling literati in the promotion and shaping of Chinese thought and culture. It includes ten papers chosen for publication from a conference held in Taiwan in September 1992: "Determining Orthodoxy: Imperial Roles" by Jack L. Dull; "Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Portrayal of the First Ch'in Emperor" by Stephan Durrant; "The Literary Emperor: The Case of Han Wu-ti" by David R. Knechtges; "Empress Wu and Feminist Sentiments in T'ang China" by Chen Jo-shui; "Academies: Official Sponsorship and Suppression" by Thomas H. C. Lee; "Imperial Power and The Reestablishment of Monastic Order in the Northern Sung" by Huang Chi-chiang; "Imperial Rulership in Cultural History: Chu Hsi's Interpretation" by Huang Chun-chieh; "The Emperor and the Star Spirits: A Mythological Reading of the Shui-hu chuan" by Frederick P. Brandeur; "Ku Yen-wu's Image and Ideal of the Emperor: A Cultural Giant and Political Dwarf" by Ku Wei-ying; and "Imperial Power and the Appointment of Provincial Governors in Ch'ing China" by R. Kent Guy.It will be of interest to students of Chinese culture including literature, art, religion, philosophy, and politics.

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    - A Life in Architecture and the Arts
    by T. William Booth
    £32.49

    Architect Gould (1873-1939) was one of the major shapers of modern Seattle (among his achievements: the U. of Washington campus plan and many of its buildings, and the Seattle Art Museum in Volunteer Park.) The authors draw on Gould's writings and public activities to trace the evolution of his ide

  • by Roger Sale
    £14.99

    From the time that Roger Sale's interpretive history Seattle Past to Present was published in 1976 he has often served as an unofficial guide for friends and visitors to Seattle, and has also been asked by those who run professional tours for advice on how to view Seattle with fresh eyes. In Seeing Seattle he invites the reader to join him in walking tours of the city in a collaborative process of looking, asking, and forming opinions and judgments. The book starts near where Seattle itself started and works out to the city limits in layers. In the first walk, the Pioneer Square area reveals through its buildings - many of them handsomely rehabilitated - how the city re-established itself after the great fire of 1889. We are asked to observe and evaluate how new buildings and new uses have been combined with old ones, and how architects, builders, and planners have served this historical area. The same points are considered for the downtown business district, Pike Place Market, and other areas near the historic core of the city. We face the breathtaking downtown skyline from viewpoints on Seattle's many hills, from points across the bay at Duwamish Head, and from Seward Park, which has Seattle's largest stand of old-growth forest. What makes Seattle distinctively Seattle? Sale muses over this question as he walks through the older residential sections of Queen Anne Hill and Capitol Hill, with their mansions and near mansions. He traces the routes along Lake Washington Boulevard and the influence of the Olmsted brothers in shaping the social as well as the visual landscape of the city. He tours upscale neighborhoods with lake and sound views as well as working-class neighborhoods thatowe their history and early growth to nearby mills and streetcar transportation. He visits the Chinatown/International District and the University of Washington, and learns to identify trees in Washington Park Arboretum and to recognize those trees elsewhere. He finds the "enchanted house" where Mary McCarthy lived as a girl and the garden in which Theodore Roethke sought solitude among trees that "came closer with a denser shade". Sale and photographer Mary Randlett have worked together to integrate photographs closely with text and promote a view of Seattle in a context of new and old, landscapes and skyscrapers, neighborhood streets and remarkable vistas. Estimated times for each walk (or drive, in outlying areas) and bus route information are provided.

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