All media by Faculty, Staff, and Students
35 reviews of media by Faculty, Staff, and Students.
Greenscapes—Olmsted’s Pacific Northwest
Fall 2009
John Charles Olmsted, nephew and stepson of world-famous park designer Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. and half brother of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., spent much of his life in the shadows of his more famous relatives. Even so, on the...
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Gardening, Landscape architecture
America's Nuclear Wastelands: Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup
Fall 2009
When engineers, physicists, and other scientists began making materials for nuclear bombs, the Manhattan Project sites around the country including Hanford, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge were wrapped in World War II and Cold War secrecy. The processes...
Categories: Public affairs, Environmental studies
Tags: Nuclear waste
White Jade and Other Stories
Spring 2009
The seven stories in this collection are delightful. Sometimes funny and even perverse, they show an extravagant imagination, and a very sharp political perspective deepened by their concern for how wars and historical dislocations jam people into...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Short stories, Asian Americans
Conquistador: Hernan Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Winter 2008
I suspect I am a good example of the intended audience for this book, which is a popular account of the strange, tragic relationship between Cortés and Montezuma, and the destruction of a way of life. I can't remember reading anything about Co...
Categories: History
Tags: Aztecs, Conquistadors
Disturbance-Loving Species
Spring 2008
Much has been made of the supposed decline of short fiction in recent years. But Peter Chilson's intelligent, gripping, and emotionally complex new book, Disturbance-Loving Species, winner of the prestigious Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for fiction...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Africa
New Poets / Short Books, Volume One
Spring 2008
Three collections of poems, by Gwendolyn Cash, Boyd W. Benson, and Lisa Galloway, each numbering something over 20 pages, comprise the first volume of Lost Horse Press's New Poets / Short Books series under the editorship of renowned poet Marvin Bell...
Categories: Poetry
Tags: Anthology
Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival
Spring 2009
About twelve years ago, I drank my first cup of fair trade coffee. I didn't spend much time thinking about the implications—it just seemed like a decent idea to pay farmers a good price for their product. But even the simple assumption that...
Categories: Social sciences, Sociology
Tags: Coffee, Fair trade, Organic foods
With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture since 1830
Spring 2007
For many years, the study of popular culture, like comedian Rodney Dangerfield, "got no respect." Only with the vast amount of excellent, sophisticated research in the last three decades has the culture preferred by millions of Americans become serio...
Categories: History
Tags: Popular culture
Handmade
Winter 2006
It's no accident that the cover art for Paul Ely Smith's compact disc, Handmade, features a detail from an oriental rug. Paul, an instructor in the General Education Program at Washington State University, has been a collector of tribal woven piecesâ...
Categories: Music
Tags: Instrumental music, World music
Panda Diaries
Summer 2007
In Panda Diaries, Alex Kuo's latest novel, a panda mailman chastises his improbable cohort, Ge, for buying into its pop image. "You're supposed to be in intelligence. You've seen me smoke. If I relied only on that bamboo diet, we'd all be extinct by ...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: China, Asian Americans
