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AAUP's Books for Understanding Program

The University of Washington Press is a proud participant in the American Association of University Press's Books for Understanding. A free, easy-to-use resource to help scholars and general readers find books on current events, Books for Understanding is constantly being updated with new material. New bibliographies are compiled when a major news story breaks or public debate heats up.

This program highlights one of the greatest values of a university press: to publish top research and scholarship in all fields regardless of immediate commercial potential.


Recently added University of Washington Press titles include:

Islamic Thought & Culture: Islamic & Arabic Arts, Literature, and Languages

Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914,
by Zeynep Celik

Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century, edited by Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar Rizvi


Race Relations in Art and Culture: Visual Arts

Miné Okubo: Following Her Own Road, edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef

Paul Horiuchi: East and West, by Barbara Johns

Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan, by Joyce Brodsky

Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body,
edited by Barbara Thompson

Interventions: Native American Art for Far-flung Territories, by Judith Ostrowitz

Joe Feddersen: Vital Signs, by Rebecca J. Dobkins, Barbara Earl Thomas,
and Gail Tremblay


Global Climate Change, Policies & Politics: Issues in the United States

DDT, Silent Spring, and the Rise of Environmentalism, edited by Thomas R. Dunlap


Parties, Politics, and Elections in U.S. States

The Wicked Wine of Democracy: A Memoir, by Joseph S. Miller


For more information, please see AAUP's Books for Understanding Program.

Empire, Architecture, 
and the City cover

Modernism and the
Middle East cover

Mine Okubo 
cover

Black Womanhood
cover

DDT, Silent Spring, 
and the Rise of Environmentalism cover

The Wicked Wine of 
Democracy cover