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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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        2021

        Micronutrient Depleters: Cholesterol-lowering Drugs

        Things to know about medicines and micronutrients

        by Uwe Gröber and Prof. Dr. Klaus Kisters

        Elevated blood lipid levels are among the major risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. The class of substances most commonly used for lowering blood lipids is the type of cholesterol-lowering drug known as statins. Taking cholesterol-lowering drugs can lead to disruption of the coenzyme Q10 balance and muscle metabolism. In addition, statin therapy increases the need for selenium, vitamin D, omega-3 fatty acids, B vitamins and L-carnitine. This guide provides patients with important medical information about the interactions of their medicines with these micronutrients. This way, patients can optimise their treatment, reduce the side effects of their medication, and improve their quality of life!

      • The Arts
        March 1905

        Concerning the Spiritual in Art

        by Wassily Kandinsky

        A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and crystallizes the ideas that were influencing many other modern artists of the period. Along with his own groundbreaking paintings, this book had a tremendous impact on the development of modern art. Kandinsky's ideas are presented in two parts. The first part, called "About General Aesthetic," issues a call for a spiritual revolution in painting that will let artists express their own inner lives in abstract, non-material terms. Just as musicians do not depend upon the material world for their music, so artists should not have to depend upon the material world for their art. In the second part, "About Painting," Kandinsky discusses the psychology of colors, the language of form and color, and the responsibilities of the artist. An Introduction by the translator, Michael T. H. Sadler, offers additional explanation of Kandinsky's art and theories, while a new Preface by Richard Stratton discusses Kandinsky's career as a whole and the impact of the book. Making the book even more valuable are nine woodcuts by Kandinsky himself that appear at the chapter headings. This English translation of Über das Geistige in der Kunst was a significant contribution to the understanding of nonobjectivism in art. It continues to be a stimulating and necessary reading experience for every artist, art student, and art patron concerned with the direction of 20th-century painting.

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        December 2021

        Hotel der Schlaflosen

        Erzählungen

        by Ralf Rothmann

        »Fear is a man’s best friend« lautet das Motto von Ralf Rothmanns Erzählungsband, und tatsächlich ist es oft die Angst, die seinen Figuren aus der Not hilft. Der alternde Dozent, dem während einer Autopanne in der mexikanischen Wüste die Logik der Liebe aufgeht, die Geigerin, die eine finale Diagnose erhält, oder das Kind im Treppenflur, das seine Prügelstrafe erwartet – sie alle erfahren Angst auch als spiegelverkehrte Hoffnung. Und sogar in der erschütternden Titelgeschichte, dem Gespräch des Schriftstellers Isaak Babel mit Wassili Blochin, seinem Moskauer Henker, für den eine Pistolenkugel die letzte und höchste Wahrheit ist, lässt uns der Autor teilhaben an der Einsicht, dass es eine höhere gibt.

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        September 2017

        Handbuch Optische Messtechnik

        Praktische Anwendungen für Entwicklung, Versuch, Fertigung und Qualitätssicherung

        by Schuth, Michael; Buerakov, Wassili

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        January 1963

        Die Bedeutung der Sowjetunion für die Welterdölwirtschaft von 1960 bis 1975.

        (Veröffentlichungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Forschungsinstitute e. V., Bonn, zum Energiegutachten 1961).

        by Judy, Richard; Leontief, Wassily

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        January 1996

        Hol' die Wäsche rein

        Die Geschichte einer ganz gewöhnlichen Abschiebung

        by Stoop, Chris de

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2025

        The devil’s highway

        Urban anxieties and subaltern cultures in London’s sailortown, c.1850-1900

        by Brad Beaven

        Between 1850 and 1900, Ratcliffe Highway was the pulse of maritime London. Sailors from every corner of the globe found solace, and sometimes trouble, in this bustling district. However, for social investigators, it was a place of fascination and fear as it harboured chaotic and dangerous 'exotic' communities. Sailortowns were transient, cosmopolitan and working class in character and provide us with an insight into class, race and gendered relations. They were contact zones of heightened interaction where multi-ethnic subaltern cultures met, sometimes negotiated and at other times clashed with one another. The book argues that despite these challenges sailortown was a distinctive and functional working-class community that was self-regulating and self-moderating. The book uncovers a robust sailortown community in which an urban-maritime culture shaped a sense of themselves and the traditions and conventions that governed subaltern behaviour in the district.

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        March 2019

        Die Bauhaus-Postkarten

        by Gloria Köpnick, Rainer Stamm

        1919 von Walter Gropius in Weimar als Kunstschule gegründet, wurde das Bauhaus rasch zum Treffpunkt der europäischen Avantgarde. Mit Weltoffenheit und internationaler künstlerischer Vielfalt zog das Bauhaus bald weltberühmte Künstler an: Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy und Oskar Schlemmer unterrichteten dort. Gemeinsam mit den Studenten gestalteten sie zwischen 1921 und 1923 Postkarten und handaquarellierte Einladungskarten zu den Festen und Ausstellungen am Bauhaus, die hier zum großen Jubiläum erstmals in einem Band versammelt sind. Eine exklusive Bauhaus-Sammlung im Taschenformat.

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        July 2019

        Herzen undercover

        Roman

        by Lay, Cara

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