Before Seattle Rocked: A City and Its Music
Kurt E. Armbruster"It's amazing how much musical history Kurt E. Armbruster has uncovered. . . . He clearly talked to everyone . . . and as lucid and lively as his own prose is, he's often upstaged by interviewees who are born raconteurs." -
"This is a lively tour of Seattle's musical heritage which opens a new window on local history." - "[Seattle's] culture and nightlight were dependent upon live musicians, from saloons at the turn of the century, to taverns in the 1920s, to symphony halls in the '40s and '50s. Throughout Seattle's history, music was truly woven into the city's cultural fabric." - "The book details a vibrant local scene featuring every kind of music, reflecting both the people of the time and the places they came from." -
William H. Johnson: An American Modern
Richard J. Powell et al."This new book brings to life Johnson's conscious combination of formal training, international influences, and personal experiences to pare his style down to the very simplest, starkest terms . . . forever marking him as a truly American modern." -
"Through his art, Johnson's life is triumphant. It celebrates the richness of human creativity, the beauty of the land, and the worth and dignity of people."-
Dark Rose: Organized Crime and Corruption in Portland
Robert C. Donnelly
"With new evidence discovered in recent
years, Dark Rose proves to be an intriguing and
very highly
recommended read for American history collections."
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Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Democracy
Bertil Lintner"Lintner is a veteran reporter who has written several books on Burma. His expertise is widely acknowledged. . . . While Suu Kyi still emerges as a remarkable, if somewhat testy, saint . . . Litner's conclusion is pessimistic." -
Beneath Cold Seas: The Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest
David Hall"A visual feast of Pacific Northwest sea life served with a science lesson on the side. Hall captures personality and emotion where you least expect it." -
Underdog: Poems
Katrina Roberts"It seems any moment can be caught and brought to light, and by the act of being caught, turned into something permanent. . . . Readers attracted to courageous, erudite poems with existential undercurrents will find a great deal in this volume to love." -
Inuit Prints, Japanese Inspiration: Early Printmaking in the Canadian Arctic
Norman Vorano"Inuit Prints, Japanese Inspiration is an absolutely wonderful catalogue - painstakingly researched, thoughtfully presented, well designed, and very readable. It is not a stretch to say that this work considerably raises the bar of Inuit scholarship." -
Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran
Arash Khazeni "Dr. Khazeni introduces here an entirely new historical perspective on the much romanticized Zagros peoples . . . he broadens the historical perspective to its fullest." -
Skwxwu7mesh Snichim-Xweliten Snichim Skexwts / Squamish-English Dictionary
Squamish Nation Dictionary Project"The more elaborate material is in the Squamish to English part, and includes some cultural and historical gems. There are, for example, single words to indicate a variety of ways to walk. . . . Summing Up: Recommended." -
Dagur Kari's Noi the Albino
Bjorn Nordfjord"A helpful, lucid account of both text and context. . . . The study is most illuminating when dealing with the aesthetics and recurrent images of the film: its use of colour, its place in a cinema that is concerned with Islands, and with maps." - Viewfinder
Rising Tides and Tailwinds: The Story of the Port of Seattle, 1911-2011
Kit Oldham, Peter Blecha, and the HistoryLink Staff"Rising Tides features plenty of colorful actors, from fiery longshore-union leader Harry Bridges to railroad mogul James J. Hill. . . . This is Seattle history from another angle." -
Ingmar Bergman's The Silence: Pictures in the Typewriter, Writings on the Screen
Maaret Koskinen"The monograph rests on the opening up of a new resource, the Bergman Archive, and Koskinen deserves our gratitude for her role here, in preserving this unique body of work for public access." -
The People Are Dancing Again: The History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon
Charles Wilkinson"[Wilkinson has] an underlying sense of what makes history, and better, what makes a good telling of a cultural story . . . poignant and powerful." -
Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners
Mette Hjort"An excellent introduction of the subject [Dogme], and is not over dependent on the now considerable literature on it." -
The Birth of a Republic: Francis Stafford's Photographs of China's 1911 Revolution and Beyond
Hanchao Lu"The scenes Stafford recorded as he travelled between Wuhan and Shanghai are indispensable to the study of the 1911 Revolution." -
The Pocho Research Society Field Guide to L.A.: Monuments and Murals of Erased and Invisible Histories
Sandra de la Loza"Ms. De la Loza's book is nicely done. . . . There is a touch of anarchy to the whole thing, since those who go about by night sticking their own plaques above the official L.A. bronze do tend to be secretive." -