Oregon State University Press
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The Wet Engine: Exploring the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart
$18.95 Add to cartIn this poignant and startlingly original book, Brian Doyle examines the heart as a physical organ–how it is supposed to work, how surgeons try to fix it when it doesn’t–and as a metaphor: the seat
- Author: Doyle, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0870716530
- Language: English
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Protest City: Portland’s Summer of Rage
$24.95 Read moreIn the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election, Portland made national news with nightly social justice protests, often met with violent response by counter protestors and law enforcement
- Author: Dundon, Rian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712268
- Language: English
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The Jackson County Rebellion: A Populist Uprising in Depression-Era Oregon
$29.95 Read moreThe Jackson County Rebellion explores a dramatic if little-known populist insurgency that captured national attention as it played out in rural Oregon. Jeffrey LaLande traces the rebellion’s roots bac… [more below]
- Author: Lalande, Jeffrey Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712292
- Language: English
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Oregon Geology
$24.95 Add to cartBecause Oregon sits on the leading edge of a moving crustal plate, a striking diversity of geologic events have molded its topography. Over a century of study, a deeper understanding of the region’s t… [more below]
- Author: Orr, Elizabeth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0870716816
- Language: English
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Shrubs to Know in Pacific Northwest Forests
$15.00 Add to cartThis full-color, simple-to-use field guide makes shrub identification easy and fun. It features 100 of the most common shrubs that grow in and around Pacific Northwest forests–from southern British C… [more below]
- Author: Jensen, Edward C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0870713205
- Language: English
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family
$19.95 Add to cartStubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a mo… [more below]
- Series: Oregon Reads
- Author: Kessler, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: August 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0870714171
- Language: English
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Abalone: The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California’s Iconic Shellfish
$22.95 Read moreFrom rocky coves at Mendocino and Monterey to San Diego’s reefs, abalone have held a cherished place in California culture for millennia. Prized for iridescent shells and delectable meat, these unique
- Author: Vileisis, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0870719882
- Language: English
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Legends of the Northern Paiute: As Told by Wilson Wewa
$19.95 Add to cartLegends of the Northern Paiute shares and preserves twenty-one original and previously unpublished Northern Paiute legends, as told by Wilson Wewa, a spiritual leader and oral historian of the Warm Sp… [more below]
- Author: Wewa, Wilson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0870719009
- Language: English
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Honey in the Horn
$19.95 Add to cartSet in Oregon in the early years of the twentieth century, H. L. Davis’s Honey in the Horn chronicles the struggles faced by homesteaders as they attempted to settle down and eke out subsistence from … [more below]
- Author: Davis, H. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0870717685
- Language: English
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Children & Other Wild Animals: Notes on Badgers, Otters, Sons, Hawks, Daughters, Dogs, Bears, Air, Bobcats, Fishers, Mascots, Charles Darwin, Newts,
$18.95 Add to cartIn Children and Other Wild Animals, bestselling novelist Brian Doyle (Mink River, The Plover) describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape. These true tales of animals and human… [more below]
- Author: Doyle, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0870717545
- Language: English
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Rough House: A Memoir
$18.95 Read moreTina Ontiveros was born into timber on both sides of the family. Her mother spent summers driving logging trucks for her family’s operation, and her father was the son of an itinerant logger, raised i
- Author: Ontiveros, Tina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0870710338
- Language: English
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Native and Ornamental Conifers in the Pacific Northwest: Identification, Botany and Natural History
$24.95 Add to cartMost conifer guides available for the Pacific Northwest focus on native species observed in the wild. Native and Ornamental Conifers in the Pacific Northwest presents an integrated perspective for und… [more below]
- Author: Price, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0870711679
- Language: English
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Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People
$22.95 Add to cartA compact and comprehensive history of Portland from first European contact to the twenty-first century, Portland in Three Centuries introduces the women and men who have shaped Oregon’s largest city…. [more below]
- Author: Abbott, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0870712071
- Language: English
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Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfisher
$24.95 Read moreWinner of the John Burroughs Medal Award for Natural History Writing
More than one hundred species of kingfishers brighten every continent but Antarctica. Not all are fishing birds. They range in siz- Author: Richie, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0870712039
- Language: English
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An Ocean Garden: The Secret Life of Seaweed
$24.95 Add to cartIn this captivating book, artist and avid beachcomber Josie Iselin reveals the unexpected beauty of seaweed. Produced on a flatbed scanner, Iselin’s vibrant portraits of ocean flora reveal the exquisi… [more below]
- Author: Iselin, Josie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 087071239X
- Language: English
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Trask
$19.95 Read moreSet in 1848 on the wild edge of the continent, in the rain forests and rugged headlands of the Oregon coast Trask follows a mountain man’s quest for new opportunities and new land to settle. The OSU P… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0870710230
- Language: English
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There Was an Old Woman: Reflections on These Strange, Surprising, Shining Years
$24.95 Add to cartAndrea Carlisle isn’t struggling with her new identity as the Old Woman in the ways society seems to think she should. In fact, she is finding her later years to be an extraordinary and interesting t
- Author: Carlisle, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712578
- Language: English
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Trees to Know in Oregon and Washington
$20.00 Add to cartFor 70 years, people have turned to one book to learn about Northwest trees: Trees to Know in Oregon. This new edition, retitled Trees to Know in Oregon and Washington, expands its scope to cover more… [more below]
- Author: Jensen, Edward C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: February 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0870711202
- Language: English
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My Name Is Lamoosh
$14.95 Add to cartMy Name is LaMoosh is the life story of Warm Springs Tribal Elder Linda Meanus. She grew up with her grandma Flora Thompson and grandpa Chief Tommy Thompson near Celilo Falls, a mighty fishery on the … [more below]
- Author: Meanus, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712314
- Language: English
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Kaiaulu: Gathering Tides
$19.95 Read moreThe tide is rising ahead of the early morning sun on the northeast coast of the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i. Waves rush singing onto the outer reef where two throw net fishermen stalk the surge. An elde… [more below]
- Author: Vaughan, Mehana Blaich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 087071922X
- Language: English
