Oregon State University Press
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Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History
$39.95 Read moreHydraulic Societies explores the linked themes of water, power, state-building, and hydraulic control. Bringing together a range of ecological, geographical, chronological, and methodological perspect
- Author: Breyfogle, Nicholas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712373
- Language: English
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The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking Through Love and Loss on Alaska’s Wild Coast
$22.95 Read moreThere are five layers of the ocean, though most of us will only ever see one. The deepest layer is the midnight zone, where the only light comes from bioluminescence, created by animals who live there… [more below]
- Author: Emerick, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: April 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0870710796
- Language: English
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Take Heart: Encouragement for Earth’s Weary Lovers
$18.95 Read moreEarth’s weary lovers are tired, perplexed, and battered from all directions. Their hearts have so often been broken. It’s hard to go on, but it is morally impossible to quit. How do Earth’s protectors… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Kathleen Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0870711776
- Language: English
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Astoria: An Oregon History
$19.95 Add to cartBefore Seattle, before Portland, there was Astoria.
The rest of the country is just beginning to discover Astoria, Oregon, that historic gem of a town at the mouth of the Columbia River west of Portl- Author: Leedom, Karen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0870711660
- Language: English
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Dead Wood: The Afterlife of Trees
$22.95 Read moreThe west is full of magnificent trees: mighty spruces, towering cedars, and stout firs. We are used to appreciating trees during their glory years, but how often do we consider what happens to a tree … [more below]
- Author: Wohl, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0870715275
- Language: English
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A Force for Nature: Nancy Russell’s Fight to Save the Columbia Gorge
$29.95 Read moreA Force for Nature is a biography of Nancy Russell and her successful campaign to establish and protect the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Bowen Blair tells the story of the activist who f… [more below]
- Author: Blair, Bowen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0870712187
- Language: English
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The Making of the Northwest Forest Plan: The Wild Science of Saving Old Growth Ecosystems
$39.95 Read moreTree sitters. Logger protests. Dying timber towns. An iconic species on the brink. The Timber Wars consumed the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s and early 1990s and led political leaders to ask sci… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, K. Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712241
- Language: English
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The Grail: A Year Ambling & Shambling Through an Oregon Vineyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole Wild World
$18.95 Add to cartA self-described wine doofus spends a year in a small Oregon vineyard, chronicling the creative and chaotic labor as the winemakers chase after the perfect pinot noir.
- Author: Doyle, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0870710931
- Language: English
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He, Leo: The Life and Poetry of Lew Welch
$29.95 Read moreLargely remembered for his mysterious disappearance in May 1971, Lew Welch was an important voice of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. He spoke of key issues that America was facing i… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Ewan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712470
- Language: English
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Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir
$24.95 Read moreIn these quirky and richly told tales, Alexandra Teague brings readers along for the wild ride of her youth, traversing wide swaths of the American landscape in the company of a talking puppet, Victo
- Author: Teague, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712551
- Language: English
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A Little Bit of Land
$22.95 Read moreFrom midwifing new lambs to harvesting basil, Jessica Gigot invites the reader into her life on a small farm and the uncommon road that led her there. Fascinated by farming and the burgeoning local fo
- Author: Gigot, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0870712136
- Language: English
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From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace
$24.95 Add to cartMitsuko “Mitzi” Asai was not yet ten years old in the spring of 1942 when President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 sent 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry–about two-thirds of them US citizens–fr
- Author: Loftus, Mitzi Asai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1962645053
- Language: English
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They Never Asked: Senryu Poetry from the WWII Portland Assembly Center
$29.95 Add to cartIn 1942, after Executive Order 9066 was issued, Japanese American families were removed from their homes in Oregon and the Yakima Valley and sent to the Portland International Livestock Exposition Cen… [more below]
- Author: Baker-Gard, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712357
- Language: English
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The Grail: A Year Ambling & Shambling Through an Oregon Vineyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole Wild World
$18.95 Add to cartA self-described wine doofus spends a year in a small Oregon vineyard, chronicling the creative and chaotic labor as the winemakers chase after the perfect pinot noir.
- Author: Doyle, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0870710931
- Language: English
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Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest
$45.00 Add to cartA key component in healthy ecosystems, lichens can be found in almost any natural habitat in the Pacific Northwest. This comprehensive guide to the region’s macrolichens is intended for use by beginn
- Author: McCune, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0870712519
- Language: English
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A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940
$22.95 Add to cartPublished in cooperation with Oregon Black Pioneers
A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940, remains the most comprehensive chronology of Black life in Oregon more than forty ye- Author: McLagan, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0870712217
- Language: English
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One Sunny Day: A Child’s Memories of Hiroshima
$29.95 Read more“Every year when the days begin to stretch and the penetrating heat of summer rises to a scorching point, I am brought back to one sunny day in a faraway land. I was a young child waiting for my mothe
- Author: Snider, Hideko Tamura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712330
- Language: English
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How to Live Longer and Feel Better
$19.95 Add to cartA twentieth anniversary edition of Pauling’s seminal work on the role of vitamins and minerals in preventing disease and achieving optimal health.
- Author: Pauling, Linus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0870710966
- Language: English
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The Other Oregon: People, Environment, and History East of the Cascades
$29.95 Add to cartThe Other Oregon: People, Environment, and History East of the Cascades is a multidisciplinary work that ranges widely through a diverse and often under-appreciated land, drawing on the fields of envi… [more below]
- Author: Cox, Thomas R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0870719750
- Language: English
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Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon
$19.95 Read moreIn 1887, more than 30 Chinese gold miners were massacred on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America. Massacred for Gold, the first authoritative account of the unsolved c
- Author: Nokes, R. Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0870715704
- Language: English
