Winter 2016
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Light in the Trees
Gail Folkins ’85
Texas Tech University Press: 2016
Folkins draws on her experiences growing up in rural western Washington to weave a coming of age tale for both the narrator and the place. The memoir, touching on everything from serial killers and Northwest volcanoes to Sasquatch myths and runaway livestock, glides through past and present while exploring cultural and environmental topics illustrating the changing American West.
The Expanding Universe: A Primer on Relativistic Cosmology
William D. Heacox ’72 MA
Cambridge University Press: 2015
Cosmology, the science of the universe, has seen a renaissance in recent decades. This textbook by … » More …