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Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle (Lamar Series in Western History)
by Matthew Klingle  Publisher Comments At the foot of the snow-capped Cascade Mountains on the forested shores of Puget Sound, Seattle is set in a location of spectacular natural beauty. Boosters of the city have long capitalized on this splendor, recently likening it to the fairytale...
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The Story of the Boeing Company
by Bill Yenne Publisher Comments In the early years of the 20th century William Edward Boeing summed up his new company’s mission: "To let no new improvement in flying and flying equipment pass us by." And sure enough, in the century since, nothing and no one has outflown Boeing...
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Out & About With Kids Seattle 3RD Edition
by Ann Bergman Publisher Comments Candid and comprehensive, and expanded and updated with all new content, Out and About with Kids Seattle provides plenty of answers to that age-old question: what is there to do? Packed with useful information, this book gives the scoop on where to slide...
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Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: From Boom to Bust in the Number One City of the Future
by Fred Moody Publisher Comments Praise for Fred Moody's previous books: "An engrossing, sometimes horrifying, fly-on-the wall account of the men, the women, and the work of VR in the Seattle area in the mid-1990s." - The Wall Street Journal on The Visionary Position "Mr. Moody has done...
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Legacy: The Kreielsheimer Foundation
by Paul Dorpat Book News Annotation The Pacific Northwest's Kreielsheimer Foundation was founded in 1975 as a philanthropic granting organization focusing on arts and education and came to its pre-scheduled end 25 years later. Seattle Times columnist Dorpat has here assembled a team of...
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Best Places Seattle 10TH Edition
by Shannon Oleary Publisher Comments Written by local reviewers, Best Places guides let travelers in on the best a city or region has to offer. A listing in a Best Places guide is coveted. To get one star is an honor. To get four stars is extremely rare and guaranteed to be the créme...
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Reading Seattle: The City in Prose
by Peter Donahue and John Trombold Publisher Comments Seattle, with its spectacular natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology spans seven decades and includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting,...
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Seattle Survival Guide: The Essential Handbook for Seattle and Eastside Living
by Eric Lucas Publisher Comments The Seattle Survival Guide boasts 13 chapters of information designed to help newcomers and residents negotiate life in the city. Chapters cover everything from buying and selling a home, public transportation, and schools to the food scene, bookstores...
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Eccentric Seattle: Pillars and Pariahs Who Made the City Not Such a Boring Place After All
by J Kingston Pierce Publisher Comments In Eccentric Seattle, readers explore the Emerald City's troubled, tragic, and bawdy past as well as the more familiar, rosy portrayals. A visitor in 1897, at the height of the raucous Klondike gold rush, called the Pacific Northwest's most ambitious...
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Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle (Urban West)
by John C Putman Publisher Comments The dawn of the twentieth century saw enormous changes throughout the United States, reflecting technological advances, population growth, widespread industrialization, and the establishment of a national market economy. In the Far West, these changes...
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Pike Place Market: 100 Years: Celebrating America's Favorite Farmer's Market
by Pike Place Market Publisher Comments In 1907, Seattle’s farmers and shoppers were angry. The former were being cheated by middlemen, the latter objected to the high price of onions. A city experiment to connect the two groups was proposed, and thus was born the Pike Place Market. One...
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The Seattle Bungalow: People and Houses, 1900-1940
by Janet Ore Publisher Comments The common notion that architectural change flows only from the design elite is modified in an examination of how ordinary people played a crucial role in the development of the bungalow style of American architectural design. Original....
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Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America
by James Lyons Publisher Comments Starbucks, Microsoft, Amazon.com, World Trade Organization, the grunge music of such groups as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden — all are synonymous with Seattle, Washington, as well as ubiquitous symbols of American culture. Selling Seattle is...
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Wild Seattle: A Celebration of the Natural Areas in and Around the City
by Terry Donnelly Publisher Comments Seattle is famous for its breathtaking natural environment — from the islands and waterways of Puget Sound to the old-growth forests of the Olympic Range to magnificent Mount Rainier. Now, in celebration of this scenic city, Wild Seattle explores...
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Soul of the City: The Pike Place Public Market
by Alice Shorett Book News Annotation Where else can you talk to the people who actually made the cheese you are buying? Or pick out your dinner fish from a tank? Or take home celery with the morning dew still on it? Not Covent Garden or Les Halles, neither of which has survived as they...
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Hydroplane Racing in Seattle (Images of Sports)
by David D. Williams Publisher Comments Hydroplane racing burst onto the Seattle scene in 1950, and local sports fans embraced it with a passion that is hard to imagine. Throughout the early 1950s, thousands of fans flocked to Lake Washington to watch classic races between Seattle's Slo-mo...
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Game On!: How Women's Basketball Took Seattle by Storm
by Jayda Evans Publisher Comments Game On! tells the heady story of women’s basketball in Seattle — and beyond — through the careers of three of its players who embody the sport’s past, present, and future. Written by the only reporter to follow the team since its...
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Seattle: Growth of the City
by Alexander Holmes Publisher Comments This series follow the growth of cities/states from earliest times through to today. Black and white historic photography, maps, paintings and color current images provide a charming overview of these important locations....
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Our Seattle
by Barbara Sleeper Publisher Comments Whether you’re a life-long resident of Seattle, a recent transplant, a visitor, or an armchair traveler, you’ll cherish this tribute to the Emerald City. Covering everything from the people to the mountains and parks, from the boat locks to...
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Historic Photos of Seattle (Historic Photos.)
by Walt Crowley Synopsis Historic Photos of Seattle captures the past through photographs from the city's finest archives. From the Civil War period, to the turn of the century, to the building of a modern metropolis, Historic Photos of Seattle follows life, government...
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