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Peter Bacho
Uncle Rico's Encore

"From the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant racism, sporadic violence, and poverty while their US-b…

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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

"Telling a multispecies history of Central Park from the 1850s until the 1970s, Dawn Day Biehler illuminates the vibrant lives of humans and animals in the park, showcasing stories of decorative shee…

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Peter Blecha
Stomp and Shout

"In this book, Peter Blecha tells the story of the Pacific Northwest music scene from the 1940s to the 1960s, an underappreciated golden era of music that deserves its respectful due. Drawing on exte…

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Paolo Bocci,
Viable Ecologies

"Famous for their geographic isolation and high proportion of endemic species, the Galâapagos Islands have long been promoted as the premier destination for tourists and scientists seeking to escape …

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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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Carlos Bulosan
America Is in the Heart

First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinera…

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Flannery Burke
Back East

"Weaving together overlapping networks of writers, defining and redefining the ever-shifting meanings of regions, and tracing the expanding space for the margin and the marginalized, Flannery Burke a…

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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

"Between 1769 and 1823, the Franciscans established twenty-one missions in California, colonizing the ancestral territories of many Native communities between present-day Sonoma and San Diego. In Ind…

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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 o…

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Tomas Cole,
Possessed Landscapes

Experiments in Conservation and Sovereignty in Southeast Myanmar

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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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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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Valerie Francisco-Menchavez,
Caring for Caregivers

"Migrant workers have long been called upon to sacrifice their own health to provide care in facilities and private homes throughout the United States. What draws them to such exploitative, low-wage …

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Tom Fucoloro
Biking Uphill in the Rain

"Seattle was recently dubbed the best bike city in America by Bicycling magazine-but how did this notoriously hilly and rainy city become so inviting to people riding bikes? And what potholes lie ahe…

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Brendan A Galipeau,
Crafting a Tibetan Terroir

"From the introduction of vineyards by nineteenth-century by French and Swiss Catholic missionaries to make sacramental wine, to twenty-first century commercialization, this ethnography documents the…

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