Author: David Whitbread
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: manual, design
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-01
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0868406589
ISBN-13: 9780868406589

For all those involved in any way with the design and production of documents, The Design Manual is the first comprehensive reference book that will give you all the answers and assistance that you will need. This indispensable reference source for traditional and digital publishing, including websites, is lavishly illustrated. For those involved in publication design, from beginners to graphic designers and desktop publishers, it is not a how-to but a how-to-do-it better.

Author: John W. Garver
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: taiwan, democratization, states, united, china, face
Number of Pages: 193
Published: 1997-09
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0295976179
ISBN-13: 9780295976174

Taiwan’s first presidential election, in 1996, sparked a Sino-U.S. military showdown that resulted in the biggest show of U.S. naval force in East Asia since the Vietnam War. This book is the first to explore the origins and triangular dynamics of that historic confrontation. Analyzing the key decisions and misperceptions that led to the Taiwan Strait crisis, Garver warns that it may usher in a more confrontational era of Sino-U.S. relations. China is already emerging as an economic powerhouse and fears of its becoming an expansionist military power have grown in recent years as China ha

Author: Gary Atkins
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: belonging, exile, stories, seattle, gay
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-03
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0295982985
ISBN-13: 9780295982984

In 1893, the Washington State legislature quietly began passing a set of laws that essentially made homosexuality, and eventually even the discussion of homosexuality, a crime. A century later Mike Lowry became the first governor of the state to address the annual lesbian and gay pride rally in Seattle. Gay Seattle traces the evolution of Seattle’s gay community in those 100 turbulent years, telling through a century of stories how gays and lesbians have sought to achieve a sense of belonging in Seattle. Gary Atkins recounts the demonization of gays by social crusaders around the turn of

Authors:Esther Benbassa, Aron Rodrigue,
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: althea, stroum, book, samuel, europe, life, southeastern, sephardi
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 1998-01-13
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0295976748
ISBN-13: 9780295976747

Author: Ellen Dissanayake
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: comes, art, aestheticus, homo
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0295974796
ISBN-13: 9780295974798

"Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being. In her view, art is intimately linked to the origins of religious practices and to ceremonies of birth, death, transition, and transcendence. Drawing on her years in Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Papua New Guinea, she gives examples of painting, song, dance, and drama as behaviors that enable participants to grasp and reinforce what is important to their cognitive world." --Publishers Weekly"A wide-ranging essay on the place of art in human

Author: Janet Ore
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: althea, stroum, book, samuel, houses, bungalow, people, seattle
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0295986271
ISBN-13: 9780295986272

In the early twentieth century, the appearance of new houses across the United States shifted dramatically. Rejecting the elaborate decoration and complexity of Victorian homes, these new houses featured open, parlorless interiors and a minimalist aesthetic, radiating an aura of warmth, coziness, and naturalness. Nowhere were such residences more evident than in West Coast cities, especially Seattle, where explosive growth generated entire neighborhoods of this new house type--the bungalow. It was the nation’s first modern home, and it established the essential characteristics of popular

Authors:Keith Rodney Benson, Philip F. Rehbock, Internationa
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: history, congress, international, pacific, oceanographic, proceedings
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 2002-07
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 029598239X
ISBN-13: 9780295982397

From a study of knowledge of the sea among indigenous cultures in the South Seas to inquiries into the subject of sea monsters, from studies of Pacific currents to descriptions of ocean-going research vessels, the sixty-three essays presented here reflect the scientific complexity and richness of social relationships that characterize ocean-ographic history. Based on papers presented at the Fifth International Congress on the History of Oceanography held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (the first ICHO meeting following the cessation of the Cold War), the volume features an unusual b