UNIVERSITY OF
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Ordering Information . . 2 Contact Information . . 2 New Books . . . . . . . . 3 Popular Backlist Titles . 16 Popular Kids Titles . . . 20
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On the cover: Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home by Tom Sexton (p. 9). Cover design by Martyn Schmoll.
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Fresh Alaska Cookbook ROB KINNEEN
PHOTOS BY ASH ADAMS AND BRIAN ADAMS August 136 p. | 7 1/2 x 10 978-1-60223-359-1 Cloth $40.00 Cooking
What’s for dinner tonight? Is it something shaken from a bag or peeled from a plastic tray? Or is it flaky, fresh salmon paired with rhubarb-berry agua fresca? Alaska Native chef Rob Kinneen is out to revolutionize how Alaskans—and the world— see Alaska cuisine and with the Fresh Alaska Cookbook, he shows that it is possible for anyone to make this cuisine a hearty, healthy addition to our dinner rotations. While Kinneen spent time cooking in the busy kitchens of New York and New Orleans, his heart always remained in Alaska. Kinneen made it his mission to bring the flavors of his home state to the lower 48, combining contemporary cooking with Alaska’s native plants and animals. Going beyond smoked salmon and clam chowder, Kinneen introduces us to Arctic Polenta and Razor Clam Fritters with Smoked Mustard Aioli. Salmon, crab, and moose do figure prominently in the book, of course, but so do updates of foods like agudak and bannock. Along with the recipes, Kinneen describes the culinary culture of the many regions and peoples of Alaska and argues for the importance of a local food movement. He also offers tips for non-Alaskan cooks who want to taste more of the flavors unique to the state. From coast to interior, Alaska never tasted so good! Rob Kinneen is an Alaska Native chef who has been working in restaurants since he was fifteen years old. He has worked and staged in Louisiana, North Carolina, New York, and Illinois. He is a chef at The Boot in Durham, North Carolina, and also runs a catering company specializing in Alaska cuisine. 3
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Wildcat Women Narratives of Women Breaking Ground in Alaska’s Oil and Gas Industry CARLA WILLIAMS
272 p. | 6 x 9 978-1-60223-354-6 978-1-60223-355-3 (ebook) Paper $21.95 History Women's Studies
Subzero temperatures, whiteout blizzards, and even the lack of restrooms didn’t deter them. Nor did sneers, harassment, and threats. Wildcat Women is the first book to document the life and labor of pioneering women in the oil fields of Alaska’s North Slope. It profiles fourteen women who worked in the fields, telling a little-known history of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. These trailblazers conquered their fears to face hazardous working and living conditions, performing and excelling at “a man’s job in a man’s world. ”They faced down challenges on and off the job: they drove buses over ice roads through snowstorms; wrestled with massive pipes; and operated dangerous valves that put their lives literally in their hands; they also fought union hall red tape, challenged discriminatory practices, and fought for equal pay—and sometimes won. The women talk about the roads that brought them to this unusual career, where they often gave up comfort and convenience and felt isolated and alienated. They also tell of the lifelong friendships and sense of family that bonded these unlikely wildcats. The physical and emotional hardship detailed in these stories exemplifies their courage, tenacity, resilience, and leadership, and shows how their fight for recognition and respect benefited woman workers everywhere. v
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Carla Williams spent most of her career working in the Alaska oil and gas industry in Anchorage and on the North Slope. 5
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Through Their Eyes A Community History of Eagle, Circle, and Central EDITED BY MICHAEL KOSKEY, LAUREL TYRRELL, AND VARPU LOTVONEN September 206 p. | 6 x 9 978-1-60223-357-7 978-1-60223-358-4 (ebook) Paper $19.95 History Anthropology
The towns of Eagle, Circle, and Central are tucked away in the cold, rugged, and sparsely populated central-eastern interior of Alaska. These communities have fewer than three hundred residents in an area of more than 22,000 square miles. Yet they are closely linked by the Yukon River and by history itself. Through their Eyes is a glimpse into the past and present of these communities, showing how their survival has depended on centuries of cooperation. The towns have roots in the gold rushes but they are also located within the traditional territories of the Hän Hwëch’in, the Gwichyaa Gwich’in, and Denduu Gwich’in Dena (Athabascan) peoples. Over time, residents have woven together new heritages, adopting and practicing each other’s traditions. This book combines oral accounts with archival research to create a rich portrayal of life in rural Alaska villages. Many of the stories come directly from the residents of these communities, giving an inside perspective on the often colorful events that characterize life in Eagle, Circle, and Central. Michael Koskey is assistant professor and chair of the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is the author of Cultural Activity and Market Enterprise: A Circumpolar Comparison of Reindeer Herding Communities at the End of the 20th Century. Laurel Tyrrell is a resident of Central, Alaska, and lives a subsistence lifestyle with her family. Varpu Lotvonen is a doctoral student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. 7
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Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home TOM SEXTON October 72 p. | 6 x 9 978-1-60223-364-5 978-1-60223-385-2 (ebook) Paper $14.95 Poetry
Snowy Eegret Rising On the night Li Bai tried to embrace the moon in its fullness on the surface of the Yangtze River, blossoms scented the air, and beyond the moon pale stars powdered the sky. That faint shiver of white near the surface was a dolphin rising. I carry a book of his poems whenever I travel, poems that touch the heart like a gentle snow. Look, over there in that marsh, a snowy egret rising. The day after their wedding, Tom and Sharyn Sexton set off on the more than 4,500-mile journey from Massachusetts to Alaska. Now, more than fifty years later, Tom Sexton is retracing those steps through his exceptional poetry. He describes the communities they passed through and ruminates on the changes, good and bad, that have taken place in the decades since. He still finds beauty in the country and draws transformative hope from the land that connects all of us. Appropriate for a journey that moves from east to west, the Sexton’s real-life voyage is embedded in the imaginary journey of the ancient Chinese poet, Li Bai, from Broad Pass to Polychrome Pass in the Alaska Range. Tom Sexton is the founder of the creative writing program at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, as well as a former poet laureate of Alaska. His books include For the Sake of Light and A Ladder of Cranes, both from the University of Alaska Press.
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Roughly For the North •
CARRIE AYAGADUK OJANEN October 80 p. | 6 x 9 978-1-60223-362-1 978-1-60223-363-8 (ebook) Paper $14.95 Poetry
I wish I were a dancer to let lines fall like that. But I am dressed like you, roughly for the North. Roughly for the North is a tender and complex portrait of an Arctic and Subarctic world. Full of lush language and imagery, each poem is an act of devotion and love to one’s family and • land. Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen weaves a moving portrait of grief, of the rippling effects of historical trauma on succeeding generations, of resilience in the face of adversity, of respect for the Alaska Native traditions she grew up in. With vivid imagery, she draws the reader into Northern life, where the spiritual and industrial collide. She uses formalism and lyrical free verse to explore the natural world and to conjure a place of staggering beauty that hides death around every corner. A member of the Ugiuvamiut tribe, Ojanen grounds her work in a web of familial relationships. Especially important is her connection with her grandparents, members of the last generation to make their home on Ugiuvak (King Island), Alaska. With heartfelt verse, her poems reflect the staggering cultural changes her grandparents faced and the way traditional art forms continue to unite her community and help them connect to the past. • Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen is an Inupiat writer from the Ugiuvamiut tribe. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, the Louisville Review, As/Us Journal, and Yellow Medicine Review.
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Coming Out of Nowhere Alaska Homestead Poems LINDA SCHANDELMEIER
August 88 p. | 6 x 9 978-1-60223-360-7 978-1-60223-361-4 (ebook) Paper $14.95 Poetry
Homestead life is often romanticized as a valiant, resilient family persisting in the clean isolation of pristine wilderness, living off the land and depending only on each other. But there can be a darker side to this existence. Linda Schandelmeier was raised on a family homestead six miles south of the fledgling town of Anchorage, Alaska in the 1950s and 1960s. But hers is not a typical homestead story. In this book, part poetic memoir and part historical document, a young girl comes of age in a family fractured by divorce and abuse. Schandelmeier does not shy away from these details of her family history, but she also recognizes her childhood as one that was unique and nurturing, and many of her poems celebrate homestead life. Her words hint at her way of surviving and even transcending the remoteness by suggesting a deeper level of human experience beyond the daily grind of homestead life; a place in which the trees and mountains are almost members of the family. These are poems grounded in the wilds that shimmer with a mythic quality. Schandelmeier’s vivid descriptions of homesteading will draw in readers from all types of lives. Linda Schandelmeier is the author of Listening Hard Among the Birches. Her poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, the Northern Review, Cirque, Ice–Floe, and Connecticut River Review, among others. She was Artist in Residence at Denali National Park in 2012.
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Imagining Anchorage The Making of America’s Northernmost Metropolis EDITED BY JAMES K. BARNETT AND IAN C. HARTMAN November 488 p. | 9 x 11 978-1-60223-366-9 Cloth $45.00 History
Anchorage has grown from a town site of tents to become the largest city in the state. It just celebrated its centenary in 2015, but it has seen inhabitants for millennia. Combining full-color images with insightful essays, Imaging Anchorage is the most expansive and comprehensive take on this exceptional city. This book brings together twenty renowned contributors, from historians to long-time locals, to tell a piece of Anchorage’s story. The essays cover the major movements in Anchorage: the first people, the arrival of Europeans, the founding of Anchorage, and its transformation into a modern city. The chapters highlight topics such as indigenous history, exploration and early colonialism, the rise of the oil industry, the economic importance of Alaska Native Corporations, the civil rights movement in Alaska, and the role of the military through Anchorage’s past and present. James K. Barnett is an Alaska attorney and author. Ian C. Hartman is associate professor of history at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
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Ivory and Paper
In the Quiet Season and Other Stories
Woman Prime
MARTHA AMORE 978-1-60223-352-2 978-1-60223-353-9 (ebook) Paper $16.95
Poems GAIL C. DIMAGGIO 978-1-60223-342-3 978-1-60223-343-0 (ebook) Paper $14.95
The Thousand-Mile War
Outside in the Interior
Just Between Us
World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians BRIAN GARFIELD 978-0-912006-83-3 978-1-60223-117-7 (ebook) Paper $24.95
An Adventure Guide for Central Alaska, 2nd edition KYLE JOLY 978-1-60223-280-8 Paper $26.95
DAVID MCELROY 978-1-60223-350-8 978-1-60223-351-5 (ebook) Paper $14.95
Alaska Trees and Shrubs
Cool Plants for Cold Climates
Coloring the Universe
Adventures in and Out of Time RAY HUDSON 978-1-60223-346-1 978-1-60223-347-8 (ebook) Paper $16.95
2nd Edition LESLIE A. VIERECK & ELBERT J. LITTLE, JR. 978-1-889963-86-0 978-1-60223-132-0 (ebook) Paper $24.95
A Garden Designer's Perspective BRENDA ADAMS 978-1-60223-325-6 978-1-60223-326-3 (ebook) Paper $35.00
An Insider's Look at Making Spectacular Images of Space DR. TRAVIS A. RECTOR, KIMBERLY ARCAND, MEGAN WATZKE 978-1-60223-273-0 Cloth $50.00
The Tanana Chiefs
Skijor with Your Dog
Entangled
Native Rights and Western Law WILLIAM SCHNEIDER 978-1-60223-344-7 978-1-60223-345-4 (ebook) Paper $35.00
Second Edition MARI HØE-RAITTO & CAROL KAYNOR 978-1-60223-186-3 978-1-60223-187-0 (ebook) Paper $17.95
People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay MARILYN SIGMAN 978-1-60223-348-5 978-1-60223-349-2 (ebook) Paper $16.95
Threadbare
Made of Salmon
Alaska Native Cultures and Issues
Class and Crime in Urban Alaska MARY KUDENOV 978-1-60223-340-9 978-1-60223-341-6 (ebook) Paper $15.95
Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams GARY A. LAURSEN & RODNEY D. SEPPELT 978-1-60223-058-3 978-1-60223-109-2 (ebook) Paper $28.95
Alaska Stories from The Salmon Project EDITED BY NANCY LORD 978-1-60223-283-9 978-1-60223-284-6 (ebook) Paper $21.95
Responses to Frequently Asked Questions EDITED BY LIBBY RODERICK 978-1-60223-091-0 978-1-60223-092-7 (ebook) Paper $14.95
The Geography of Water
Whiteout
MARY EMERICK 978-1-60223-270-9 978-1-60223-271-6 (ebook) Paper $16.95
JESSICA GOODFELLOW 978-1-60223-327-0 978-1-60223-328-7 (ebook) Paper $14.95
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Melting the Ice Curtain
The Extraordinary Story of Citizen Diplomacy on the Russia-Alaska Frontier David Ramseur
To Russia With Love
KAYLENE JOHNSON-SULLIVAN, WITH RAY BANE 978-1-60223-278-5 978-1-60223-279-2 (ebook) Paper $24.95
An Alaskan's Journey VICTOR FISCHER, WITH CHARLES WOHLFORTH 978-1-60223-140-5 978-1-60223-141-2 (ebook) Paper $19.95
The Extraordinary Story of Citizen Diplomacy on the Russia-Alaska Frontier DAVID RAMSEUR 978-1-60223-334-8 978-1-60223-335-5 (ebook) Paper $29.95
Ends of the Earth
There’s a Moose in My Garden
Plants That We Eat
Poems KATE PARTRIDGE 978-1-60223-332-4 978-1-60223-333-1 (ebook) Paper $14.95
Alaska on the Go
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Melting the Ice Curtain
Our Perfect Wild
Exploring the 49th State with Children ERIN KIRKLAND 978-1-60223-221-1 978-1-60223-222-8 (ebook) Paper $21.95
Designing Gardens for Alaska and the Far North BRENDA ADAMS 978-1-60223-208-2 Paper $35.00
Treadwell Gold An Alaska's Saga of Riches and Ruin SHEILA KELLY 978-1-60223-118-4 978-1-60223-102-3 (ebook) Paper $17.95
Nauriat Nigġiñaqtuat ANORE JONES 978-1-60223-074-3 Paper $24.95
More Than God Demands Politics & Influence of Christian Missions in Northwest Alaska, 1897-1918 ANTHONY URVINA WITH SALLY URVINA 978-1-60223-293-8 978-1-60223-294-5 (ebook) Paper $50.00
Attu Boy
Fighting for the 49th Star
Land of Extremes
A Young Alaskan’s WWII Memoir NICK GOLODOFF 978-1-60223-249-5 978-1-60223-250-1 (ebook) Paper $22.95
C. W. Snedden and the Crusade for Alaska Statehood TERRENCE COLE 978-1-88330-906-0 978-1-88330-907-7 (ebook) Cloth $30.00
A Natural History of the Arctic North Slope of Alaska ALEX HURYN & JOHN HOBBIE 978-1-60223-181-8 978-1-60223-182-5 (ebook) Paper $29.95
Across the Shaman's River
Qanemcit Amllertut/ Many Stories to Tell
Worldviews of the Greenlanders
John Muir, the Tlingit Stronghold and the Opening of the North DANIEL HENRY 978-1-60223-329-4 978-1-60223-330-0 (ebook) Paper $32.95
Among Wolves Gordon Haber’s Insights into Alaska’s Most Misunderstood Animal GORDON HABER & MARYBETH HOLLEMAN 978-1-60223-218-1 978-1-60223-219-8 (ebook) Paper $29.95
Tales of Humans and Animals from Southwest Alaska EDITED BY ANN FIENUP-RIORDAN 978-1-60223-336-2 978-1-60223-337-9 (ebook) Paper $39.95
An Inuit Arctic Perspective BIRGITTE SONNE 978-1-60223-338-6 978-1-60223-339-3 (ebook) Cloth $65.00
Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska, 4th ed.
A Coast Beyond Compare
BY KATE WYNNE ILLUSTRATED BY PETER FOLKENS 978-1-56612-167-5 Paper $25.00
Coastal Geology and Ecology of Southern Alaska MILES O. HAYS & JACQUELINE MICHEL 978-1-4675-0934-3 Paper $24.95
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A King Salmon Journey
Black Wolf of the Glacier
DEBBIE MILLER AND JOHN EILER, ILLUSTRATED BY JON VAN ZYLE 978-1-60223-230-3 Cloth $15.95
Alaska's Romeo DEB VANASSE ILLUSTRATED BY NANCY SLAGLE 978-1-60223-197-9 Paper $12.95
978-1-60223-231-0 Paper $12.95
A Woolly Mammoth Journey
Mary's Wild Winter Feast
DEBBIE MILLER ILLUSTRATED BY JON VAN ZYLE 978-1-60223-099-6 Cloth $15.95
HANNAH LINDOFF ILLUSTRATED BY NOBU KOCH AND CLARISSA RIZAL
978-1-60223-098-9 Paper $9.95
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Raven and River NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM ILLUSTRATED BY JON VAN ZYLE 978-1-60223-150-4 Paper $11.95
Little Whale A Story of the Last Tlingit War Canoe ROY A. PERATROVICH, JR. 978-1-60223-295-2 978-1-60223-296-9 (ebook) Paper $16.95
Lucy's Dance
Kayak Girl
Stubborn Gal
DEB VANASSE ILLUSTRATED BY NANCY SLAGLE 978-1-60223-127-6 Cloth $16.95
MONICA DEVINE ILLUSTRATED BY MINDY DWYER 978-1-60223-188-7 978-1-60223-263-1 (ebook) Paper $12.95
The True Story of an Undefeated Sled Dog Racer DAN O'NEILL ILLUSTRATED BY KLARA MAISCH 978-1-60223-272-3 978-1-60223-305-8 (ebook) Cloth $15.95
978-1-60223-126-9 Paper $10.95
Ollie's First Year
Alaska on the Go
Apun
JOHNATHAN LONDON ILLUSTRATED BY JON VAN ZYLE 978-1-60223-228-0 Cloth $15.95
Exploring the Alaska Marine Highway System with Children ERIN KIRKLAND 978-1-60223-315-7 978-1-60223-316-4 (ebook) Paper $21.95
Apun: Teacher's Guide
978-1-88996-229-7 Paper $12.95
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The Arctic Snow MATTHEW STURM 978-1-60223-069-9 978-1-60223-112-2 (ebook) Paper $12.95 The Arctic Snow 978-1-60223-070-5 978-1-60223-111-5 (ebook) Paper $19.95
Permafrost Permafrost is the farthest north literary journal in the world and is published annually by the graduate students in the UAF Department of English. For submission information and subscription rates, visit www.permafrostmag.com or email editor@permafrostmag.com.
Tidal Echoes Tidal Echoes is a literary and art journal that showcases the art and writing of Southeast Alaskans. The journal is published by the University of Alaska Southeast and edited by undergraduate students on the Juneau campus. It may be purchased for $5 from Emily Wall at edwall@alaska.edu.
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A Seal Named Patches ROXANNE BELTRAN AND PATRICK ROBINSON Available now Published November 2017 48 p. | 10 x 10 978-1-60223-331-7 Cloth $15.95 Children's Non-fiction
Two polar explorers are out to solve a mystery: Where is their special seal, Patches? Scientists Roxanne Beltran and Patrick Robinson set off on a polar adventure, traveling to Antarctica to study the lives of Weddell seals. By finding Patches, a wily seal they’ve been tracking since its birth, they’ll be able to learn a lot about how much the seals eat and how many pups they raise. A Seal Named Patches takes young readers into the world at the very bottom of the globe, where they meet the extraordinary animals that live in cold, icy conditions. Through breathtaking photos and real-life stories, young readers will learn about how scientists do fieldwork, the challenges of researching animals in harsh climates, and even what it’s like to fly a helicopter over Antarctica. This engaging story will especially entertain and educate children ages five to eight. Roxanne Beltran studies the influences of ecology and physiology on animal behavior at the University of Alaska. Patrick Robinson is reserve director for the University of California Natural Reserve System.