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Peter Bacho
Uncle Rico's Encore

A love note to the city and its once vibrant Pinoy communityFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant r…

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Monica Patrice Barra
Good Sediment

Coastal Louisiana is losing land at an unprecedented rate, and in response, scientists and policymakers have turned to massive restoration projects to slow the erosion. Good Sediment enters this charged l…

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Ramona Bennett Bill
Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe

"A relentless advocate for Native rights, Ramona Bennett Bill has been involved in the battles waged by the Puyallup and other Northwest tribes around fishing rights, land rights, health, and educati…

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Dawn Day Biehler,
Animating Central Park

The entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the world's iconic urban green spacesFrom deer and beavers to "free range" pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now kn…

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Peter Blecha
Stomp and Shout

Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction Parking lot rumbles, teen dance riots, and the rise of the Northwest Sound Long before the world discovered grunge, the Pacific Nort…

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Paolo Bocci
Viable Ecologies

How humans living amid an abundance of diverse flora and fauna help us rethink conservation Famous for their geographic isolation and high proportion of endemic species, the Galápagos Islands have long be…

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Paolo Bocci,
Viable Ecologies

How humans living amid an abundance of diverse flora and fauna help us rethink conservationFamous for their geographic isolation and high proportion of endemic species, the Galápagos Islands have long bee…

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Flannery Burke
Back East

Western imaginations of "Back East" rewrote America's cultural identity, shaping myths and realities alikeJust as easterners imagined the American West, westerners imagined the American East, re…

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Vindhya Buthpitiya,
A Volatile Picture

This groundbreaking ethnography explores how, in the context of Sri Lanka's protracted civil war and its turbulent aftermath, photography has become bound to the Tamil political imagination. From state-co…

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Sarah N Chasse, Lan Morgan
Gathering

A lavishly illustrated book highlighting some of the best works of contemporary studio glassThe Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, is the oldest continually operating museum in the United…

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Yve Chavez,
Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture

Examines how native artists kept their culture alive by creatively adapting under colonial ruleBetween 1769 and 1823, the Franciscans established twenty-one missions in California, colonizing the ancestra…

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Ron Chew
My Unforgotten Seattle

An insider's look at the making of a city's Asian American communityThird-generation Seattleite, historian, journalist, and museum visionary Ron Chew spent more than five decades fighting for Asian Americ…

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Tomas Cole
Possessed Landscapes

When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution - and liberation grows from the soil In 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry …

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Tomas Cole,
Possessed Landscapes

When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution - and liberation grows from the soil In 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry …

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Lisa Gail Collins
Stitching Love and Loss

Winner of the 2023 Horowitz Prize by the Bard Graduate Center Winner of the 2025 James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Award in African American Art History from the Driskell Center at the University of M…

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Susan Conway
Tai Magic

Lavishly illustrated and deeply researched, this volume opens a window into the rich supernatural traditions of the Tai peoples of Southeast Asia. Centered on manuscripts, textiles, and talismans, it expl…

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Meghan Crnic,
The Beach Cure

How sun and sea air were prescribed as medicine on America's Eastern coastFor centuries, the ocean was seen as a place of danger and work, but by the late nineteenth century, northeastern shores of the Un…

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Dada Docot
Town of Dollars

What does violence look like when it is not spectacular but quiet and routine? In this intimate ethnography, anthropologist Dada Docot introduces readers to her hometown of Nabua, located in the Bicol reg…

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Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
Caring for Caregivers

A transformative look at the lives of Filipina care workers and their mutual aid practices Migrant workers have long been called upon to sacrifice their own health to provide care in facilities and privat…

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Tom Fucoloro
Biking Uphill in the Rain

Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction The rise of an improbable bike culture in the Emerald City Seattle was recently named the best bike city in the United States by Bic…

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