Focuses on one aspect of the world-renowned modernist painter and designer's career: his work in black, white and grey. Throughout most of his career Albers was largely immune to changing currents in the art world, but was influenced by...

In 1905 George Hunt, at the insistence of anthropologist Franz Boas, acquired a remarkable collection of materials from the Mowachaht band of the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) for the American Museum of Natural History. An assemblage of 92...

The emergence of genetic science has profoundly shaped how we think about biology. Indeed, it is difficult now to consider nearly any facet of human experience without first considering the gene. But this mode of understanding life is...

1991 300 Seiten hardcover w/ dj. University of Washington Press,

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"Seattle, Past to Present" von Roger Sale bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der Geschichte Seattles von ihren Anfängen bis zur modernen Zeit. Sale beleuchtet die Entwicklung der Stadt von einer kleinen Siedlung zu einem bedeutenden...

From the river valleys of interior British Columbia south to the hills of northern Oregon and east to the continental divide in western Montana, hundreds of cliffs and boulders display carved and painted designs created by ancient...

"Encounters in Avalanche Country: A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920" von Diana L. Di Stefano untersucht die Herausforderungen und Überlebensstrategien der Menschen, die im Bergwesten Amerikas lebten und arbeiteten. Im...

Published in conjunction with an exhibit organized by the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and the Coastal-Yukon Mayors' Association. For the Yup'ik of southwestern Alaska, masked dancing has long been a focal point of ceremonial...

"Tangled Roots: The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics" von Sarah Mittlefehldt untersucht die Geschichte und Entwicklung des Appalachian Trails im Kontext der amerikanischen Umweltpolitik. Das Buch beleuchtet, wie der...

Looks at masks, rattles, bowls, charms, and clubs made by the Indians of the Pacific Northwest

"Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy" von Caroline Tisdall ist eine interdisziplinäre Untersuchung, die die Schnittstellen zwischen Kunst, Wissenschaft und Spiritualität im Kontext einer sich wandelnden Wirtschaft...