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        Who We Are   The University of Washington Press is celebrating its centennial this year. We publish compelling and transformative work with regional, national, and global impact. We are committed to the idea of scholarship as a public good and work collaboratively with our authors to produce books that meet the highest editorial and design standards. We value and promote equity, justice, and inclusion in all our work.   What We Publish   We publish in the following core academic areas:   American Studies Anthropology Art History / Visual Culture Asian American Studies Asian Studies Critical Ethnic Studies Environmental History Native American and Indigenous Studies US History Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies   We also publish vibrant nonfiction about the Pacific Northwest and beyond, often in partnership with museums, cultural organizations, and Indigenous nations and communities.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2023

        Borders of desire

        by Elissa Helms, Tuija Pulkkinen

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        January 1998

        Candide iudex

        Beiträge zur augusteischen Dichtung. Festschrift für Walter Wimmel zum 75. Geburtstag

        by Herausgegeben von Radke, Anna Elissa

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      • August 2014

        My Body Is a Book of Rules

        by Elissa Washuta

        AS ELISSA WASHUTA MAKES THE TRANSITION from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself overwhelmed by the calamities piling up in her brain. When her moodstabilizing medications aren’t threatening her life, they’re shoving her from depression to mania and back in the space of an hour. Her crisis of American Indian identity bleeds into other areas of self-doubt; mental illness, sexual trauma, ethnic identity, and independence become intertwined. Sifting through the scraps of her past in seventeen formally inventive chapters, Washuta aligns the strictures of her Catholic school education with Cosmopolitan’s mandates for womanhood, views memories through the distorting lens of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and contrasts her bipolar highs and lows with those of Britney Spears and Kurt Cobain. Built on the bones of fundamental identity questions as contorted by a distressed brain, My Body Is a Book of Rules pulls no punches in its selfdeprecating and ferocious look at human fallibility.

      • Romance
        August 2014

        The Trail To love

        by Barbara Cartland

        "The beautiful Elissa Valentine has no idea what lies in store for her after the death of her beloved Papa, who was a talented artist. She travels to Yorkshire to start a new life at Fellbrook Towers as a companion to her fearsome grandmother, Lady Hartwell. She soon discovers that the luxurious lifestyle at The Towers is under threat from the wild gambling of her handsome and impetuous cousin, Falcon. When Elissa saves the day by predicting the winning horse in a big race, Falcon showers her with gifts and proposes marriage. But she cannot accept his offer as the struggling artist Richard Stanfield has stolen her heart and she cannot forget him. Will Richard’s love for Elissa survive Lady Hartwell’s attempts to deter him and the violent threats of her cousin? And will Elissa stand firm in her love for Richard, even when she finds him in the arms of the glamorous Latin American beauty, Mercedes de Rosario? Find out all in this the dazzling and intriguing romance by BARBARA CARTLAND."

      • Stella Fenicia

        by Alessandro Sponzilli

        STELLA FENICIA romanzo storico di ALESSANDRO SPONZILLI Il mare odora di salsedine, la notte è avvolgente e la Stella Fenicia si staglia, nel buio, a indicare la via che la giovane Elissa dovrà percorrere. È terrore quello che la attraversa, ma nel suo cuore una fiammella di forza sta prendendo forma, lei è la donna che cambierà il mondo. Un'avventura coinvolgente tra terra e mare, intrighi e uomini d’onore nel mondo dell’antica Fenicia.

      • Mystery
        2012

        Physics Can Be Fatal

        An Edwina Goodman Mystery

        by Elissa D. Grodin

        Alan Sidebottom was what some outside the rarified world of academic physics might call a superstar.  In the realm of string theory, black holes, and the Higgs-Boson particle, Sidebottom was a celebrity.  So, when tiny Cushing College snagged him for their faculty, all the physics professors were excited–and threatened.  It seemed that most of them had personal reasons to despise Sidebottom. Edwina Goodman, one of the youngest members of the physics faculty, and one of the few who held no animosity towards the newcomer, was given the daunting–and unwelcome task of escorting Sidebottom around campus.  So, when the great man was found dead shortly after his arrival–apparently murdered–Edwina believed it her responsibility to track down her charge’s killer.  Would her scientific brain be able to ignore the fact that the entire pool of suspects apparently resided within the walls of her very own department?  Or would the young police detective, Will Tenney, spark a different kind of investigatory zeal in Edwina? It remained to be seen, for all was not as it first seemed in the world of invisible particles and mathematical equations–at least not at Cushing College.  And the murder of one noted physicist might not be the last.

      • Mystery
        2014

        Death By Hitchcock

        An Edwina Goodman Mystery

        by Elissa D. Grodin

        Physics and film seemingly have few academic features in common.  However, when local siren Bunny Baldwin, a student in the Film Studies Department at Cushing College, is found strangled to death on opening night of the Hitchcock Film Festival, Physics professor Edwina Goodman puts on her detecting hat.  Using her scientific sleuthing skills to assist her almost boyfriend Police Detective Will Tenney, the pair work together to investigate the campus murder.  Edwina wants to know––why did the murderer tie a strip of film around the victim’s head?  Why did the killer time the murder to coincide with the showing of the famous Hitchcock film Spellbound?  Was Bunny really killed by strangulation or did the unusual drugs found in her system suggest poisoning? Why do all the suspects have a seemingly airtight alibi? There are certainly sufficient suspects as Edwina quickly ascertains.  The head of the Film Studies Department was having a torrid and practically public affair with the victim.  His wife was apparently furiuous, but not enough to keep her from also engaging in sexual hanky panky.  The victim had stolen a screenplay written by her roommate, Mary, to secure a Hollywood agent.  Mary is out for payback.  A quirky older woman who uses plants and other natural remedies to cure various ailments followed the head of the department around like a moon-struck calf.  And, of course, there’s the film department’s boy savant who plays chess with Edwina and keeps her updated on the various players. Can Edwina use her knowledge of physics to unlock the strange features of this most unusual crime?  When a second murder occurs, it looks like she may––if the killer doesn’t find her first.

      • Fiction
        2019

        A Jorney to the Abyss

        by Nikelen Witter

        This is the story of advancing deserts that covered cities. The story of a world on the verge of destruction. It is about the people who inhabited that world, their alienation and the violent war in which they lost themselves. This is the story of a young woman, who healed wounds, and her best friend, who ran a brothel, and how they faced all that was thrown at them. It is also the story of a tiger and a little girl. But, when you get to know all of them, you will have to answer the call to look into the future and plunge into the abyss.

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