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    - Class and Place in Contemporary China
    by Roberta Zavoretti
    £23.99

    Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumptions about migrant workers in China. Drawing on fieldwork in Nanjing, Roberta Zavoretti argues that many rural-born urban-dwellers arecontrary to state policy and media portrayalsheterogeneous in their employment, lifestyle, and aspirations. Working and living in the cities, rural-born workers change Chinas urban landscape, becoming part of an increasingly diversified and stratified society. Zavoretti finds that, over thirty years after the Open Door Reform, class formation, not residence status, is key to understanding inequality in contemporary China.

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    - Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design
    by Kathryn Rogers Merlino
    £26.99

  • - Poems
    by Kathleen Flenniken
    £16.49

    In her wide-ranging third book, poet Kathleen Flenniken undertakes the difficult task of re-seeing what is before us. Post Romantic fuses personal memory with national and ecological upheaval, interweaving narratives of family, nuclear history, love of country, and a dangerous age moving too fast. Flenniken takes these challenging moments¿bits and pieces of childhood, marriage, cultural touchstones¿and holds them up to the light, seeking comfort in a complicated world that is at once heartbreaking, confounding, and dear.

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    - A Novel
    by Kim Soom
    £17.99 - 78.49

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    - Place-Making in Papua New Guinea
    by Jamon Alex Halvaksz
    £23.99 - 78.49

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    - A Roadside Guide
    by Jack McLeod
    £18.49

    Helps travelers and readers to appreciate the deeper beauty behind the landscape. Organized as a series of stops at eye-catching sites along eighty miles of the highway, this book reveals the geological story of each location.

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    - A Personal History of Homebuilt Aircraft
    by Eileen A. Bjorkman
    £17.99

    Eileen Bjorkman is a writer, pilot, and retired U.S. Air Force flight test engineer.

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    - The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I
    by Paula Becker
    £17.99

    Paula Becker is a staff historian at HistoryLink.org. She is the coauthor of The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World¿s Fair and Its Legacy and Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Washington¿s First World Fair.

  • - An Alaska Native Memoir
    by Ernestine Hayes
    £14.99

    In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and, in some ways, less explored question: once the exile returns, then what? Using the story of Raven and the Box of Daylight (and relating it to Sun Tzus equally timeless Art of War) to deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their own land, but also recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her fifties and becoming a professor and a writer. Hayes lyrically weaves together strands of memoir, contemplation, and fiction to articulate an Indigenous worldview in which all things are connected, in which intergenerational trauma creates many hardships but transformation is still possible. Now a grandmother and thinking very much of the generations who will come after her, Hayes speaks for herself but also has powerful things to say about the resilience and complications of her Native community.

  • - A Personal History
    by Carlos Bulosan
    £14.99

    Describes author's boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.

  • - Selected Speeches, 1953-1983
    by Dorothy Fosdick
    £11.49

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    by Thaddeus Spratlen
    £36.49

    Guides students completing complex projects with a variety of small businesses, with an emphasis on solving marketing and management problems in culturally diverse and rapidly changing business environments

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    - Encounters with Rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail
    by Ellen Waterston
    £17.99

    Former high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks on a creative and inquisitive exploration, introducing readers to a ¿trusting, naïve, earnest, stubbly, grumpy old man of a desert¿ that is grappling with issues at the forefront of national, if not global, concern: public land use, grazing rights for livestock, protection of sacred Indigenous ground, water rights, and protection of habitat for endangered species.Blending travel writing with memoir and history, Waterston profiles a wide range of people who call the high desert home and offers fresh perspectives on nationally reported regional conflicts such as the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation. Walking the High Desert invites readers¿wherever they may be¿to consider their own beliefs, identities, and surroundings through the optic of the high desert of southeastern Oregon.

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    - Native American Stories from Puget Sound
     
    £20.99

    The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound represent an important part of the oral tradition by which one generation hands down beliefs, values, and customs to another. Vi Hilbert grew up when many of the old social patterns survived and everyone spoke the ancestral language.Haboo, Hilbert¿s collection of thirty-three stories, features tales mostly set in the Myth Age, before the world transformed. Animals, plants, trees, and even rocks had human attributes. Prominent characters like Wolf, Salmon, and Changer and tricksters like Mink, Raven, and Coyote populate humorous, earthy stories that reflect foibles of human nature, convey serious moral instruction, and comically detail the unfortunate, even disastrous consequences of breaking taboos.Beautifully redesigned and with a new foreword by Jill La Pointe, Haboo offers a vivid and invaluable resource for linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, future generations of Lushootseed-speaking people, and others interested in Native languages and cultures.

  • by Monica Sone
    £14.99

    With charm, humor, and deep understanding, this book tells what it was like to grow up Japanese American on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to "relocation" during World War II.

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    - The Archaeology of Tattooing
     
    £26.99

    The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary by region, culture, and era, all human societies have engaged in practices designed to augment and enhance peopleΓÇÖs natural appearance. Tattooing, the process of inserting pigment into the skin to create permanent designs and patterns, is one of the most widespread forms of body art and was practiced by ancient cultures throughout the world, with tattoos appearing on human mummies by 3200 BCE.Ancient Ink, the first book dedicated to the archaeological study of tattooing, presents new, globe-spanning research examining tattooed human remains, tattoo tools, and ancient art. Connecting ancient body art traditions to modern culture through Indigenous communities and the work of contemporary tattoo artists, the volumeΓÇÖs contributors reveal the antiquity, durability, and significance of body decoration, illuminating how different societies have used their skin to construct their identities.

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    - Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema
     
    £23.99

    Photographer Edward CurtisΓÇÖs 1914 orchestrally scored melodrama In the Land of the Head Hunters was one of the first US films to feature an Indigenous cast. This landmark of early silent cinema was an intercultural product of CurtisΓÇÖs collaboration with the Kwakwa╠▒ka╠▒ΓÇÖwakw of British ColumbiaΓÇömeant, like CurtisΓÇÖs photographs, to document a supposedly vanishing race. But as this collection shows, the epic film is not simply an artifact of colonialist nostalgia.In recognition of the filmΓÇÖs centennial, and the release of a restored version, Return to the Land of the Head Hunters brings together leading anthropologists, Native American authorities, artists, musicians, literary scholars, and film historians to reassess the film and its legacy. The volume offers unique Kwakwa╠▒ka╠▒ΓÇÖwakw perspectives on the film, accounts of its production and subsequent circulation, and evaluations of its depictions of cultural practice. Resituated within film history and informed by a legacy of Kwakwa╠▒ka╠▒ΓÇÖwakw participation and response, the movie offers dynamic evidence of ongoing cultural survival and transformation under shared conditions of modernity.

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    - Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country
    by William Philpott
    £20.99

    Tells the story of the region's dramatic transformation in the decades after World War II, when a loose coalition of tourist boosters fashioned alluring images of nature in the high country and a multitude of local, state, and federal actors built the infrastructure for high-volume tourism.

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    - An Environmental History
    by Christopher W. Wells
    £17.99

    For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. In this book, the author rejects the idea that the nation's automotive status quo can be explained as a simple byproduct of an ardent love affair with the automobile.

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    - Seattle, the Pilots, and Stadium Politics
    by Bill (William) Mullins
    £17.99

    Tells the story of Seattle's relationship with major league baseball from the 1962 World's Fair to the completion of the Kingdome in 1976 and beyone. This book focuses on the acquisition and loss, after only one year, of the Seattle Pilots and documents their on-the-field exploits in lively play-by-play sections.

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    - A Chinese Woman in Harbin
    by Xiao Hong
    £17.99

    Back in print - Market Street

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    - Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art, 1775-2012
    by Barbara C. Matilsky
    £26.49

    Introduces the artistic legacy of the planet's frozen frontiers now threatened by a changing climate. Tracing the impact of glaciers, icebergs, and fields of ice on artists' imaginations, this book explores the connections between generations of artists who adopt different styles, media, and approaches to interpret alpine and polar landscapes.

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    - Studies from the Columbia Early China Seminar
     
    £23.99

    Recently discovered ancient texts dating to the third century BCE and earlier inform the groundbreaking interpretations presented here on the emergence and spread of literacy in Chinese society. This book provides insights into literacy's role in early civilization.

  • - Poems
    by Katrina Roberts
    £13.99

    Includes poems that are elaborate matrices of associations, translations, and re-imaginings; repositories for spells, memories, and tales; and concise prismatic shards, refracting meaning and beauty in an inscrutable world.

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    - American Environmental Politics since 1964
    by James Morton Turner
    £20.99

    Wilderness is not only a place. It is also one of the most powerful and challenging ideas in American environmental thought, representing everything from sublime beauty to the overextension of government authority. This title examines the profound and surprising ways that the idea of wilderness has shaped modern American environmental politics.

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    - Archaeological Excavations at English Camp, San Juan Island, Washington
     
    £20.99

    Examines the evidence to reveal new directions and insights for identifying houses

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    - Montana's Changing Landscape
    by William Wyckoff
    £20.99

    Explores Montana's changing physical and cultural landscape. This book features photographs that offer an intimate view into Montana, into how Montana has changed and how it may continue to change in the twenty-first century. It is suitable for regional and agricultural historians, geographers and geologists, and rural and urban planners.

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    - Coos Bay, Oregon
    by William G. Robbins
    £17.99

    Presents a story of gyppo loggers, longshoremen, millwrights, and whistle punks. The author describes Coos Bay's transition from timber town to a retirement and tourist community, where the site of a former Weyerhaeuser complex is home to the Coquille Indian Tribe's Mill Casino.

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