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A Force for Nature

Bowen Blair

• Hardcover | Engels
• A Force for Nature is a biography of Nancy Russell and her successful campaign to establish and protect the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area.... Lees meer

A Peculiar Paradise

Elizabeth McLagan

• Paperback | Engels
• Remains the most comprehensive chronology of Black life in Oregon more than forty years after its original publication. The book has long been a resou... Lees meer

Holy Moli

Hob Osterlund

• Paperback | Engels
• Hob Osterlund moved to Hawai'i after being visited in a dream by an ancestor, Martha Beckwith, author of the monumental classic, Hawaiian Mythology. I... Lees meer

How to Live Longer and Feel Better

Linus Pauling

• Paperback | Engels
• A twentieth anniversary edition of Pauling's seminal work on the role of vitamins and minerals in preventing disease and achieving optimal health. Lees meer

He, Leo

Ewan Clark

• Paperback | Engels
• Largely remembered for his mysterious disappearance in May 1971, Lew Welch was an important voice of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance... Lees meer

Living with Thunder

Ellen Morris Bishop

• Paperback | Engels
• The Pacific Northwest is a region defined by its geology as much as its rugged coastline, drippy westside forests, fertile farms, and canyoned eastsid... Lees meer

"therefore, Choose Life..."

Moisey Wolf

• Paperback | Engels
• An annotated translation of the extraordinary autobiography of Dr. Moisey Wolf (1922-2007), "Therefore, Choose Life..." is an important addition to th... Lees meer

Dead Wood

Ellen Wohl

• Paperback | Engels
• The west is full of magnificent trees: mighty spruces, towering cedars, and stout firs. We are used to appreciating trees during their glory years, bu... Lees meer

Ellie's Strand

M L Herring

• Paperback | Engels
• Sigrud Olson Nature Writing Award, Notable Children's Book Green Earth Book Award, Honor Book There are days in late winter when the Pacific coast enj... Lees meer

All Coyote's Children

Bette Lynch Husted

• Paperback | Engels
• Jack and Annie Fallon had been living what seemed the ideal life with their son Riley, spending the school year in Portland, where Jack was a professo... Lees meer

SAP in Their Veins

David Paul Bayles

• Hardcover | Engels
• In 1972 David Paul Bayles left the suburbs of Los Angeles for a summer job as a logger. Then, instead of heading off to photography school in the fall... Lees meer

Black Woman in Green

Gloria D Brown, Donna L Sinclair

• Paperback | Engels
• From an unlikely beginning as an agency transcriptionist in her hometown of Washington, DC, Gloria Brown became the first African American woman to at... Lees meer

The Other Oregon

Thomas R Cox

• Paperback | Engels
• The Other Oregon: People, Environment, and History East of the Cascades is a multidisciplinary work that ranges widely through a diverse and often und... Lees meer

Naked in the Woods

Margaret Grundstein

• Paperback | Engels
• In 1970, Margaret Grundstein abandoned her graduate degree at Yale and followed her husband, an Indonesian prince and community activist, to a commune... Lees meer

Ricky in the City

Judith L Li, M L Herring

• Paperback | Engels
• It's early fall when Ricky and Ellie travel to Portland from their homes in the Cascade Mountains for a weekend school exchange. Much to their surpris... Lees meer

Numbers and Nerves

• Paperback | Engels
• We live in the age of Big Data, awash in a sea of ever-expanding information--a constant deluge of facts, statistics, models, and projections. The hum... Lees meer

The Red Coast

Aaron Goings, Brian Barnes, Roger Snider

• Paperback | Engels
• The Red Coast is a lively and readable informal history of the labor, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwe... Lees meer

Pedaling Revolution

Jeff Mapes

• Paperback | Engels
• Updated Edition includes a new epilogue by the author In a world of increasing traffic congestion, a grassroots movement is carving out a niche for bi... Lees meer

Accomplishing Nagpra

• Paperback | Engels | First Peoples
• Accomplishing NAGPRA reveals the day-to-day reality of implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The diverse contributo... Lees meer

Oregon Archaeology

Melvin C Aikens, Thomas J Connolly, Dennis L Jenkins

• Paperback | Engels
• Archaeological research has revealed much about Oregon's history in the last twenty years. "Oregon Archaeology" incorporates this new knowledge, telli... Lees meer

Field Guide to Oregon Rivers

Tim Palmer

• Paperback | Engels
• Despite Oregon's watery reputation, the state has lacked a field guide for its many celebrated rivers and streams. River conservationist, photographer... Lees meer

Something Hidden in the Ranges

Ellen Wohl

• Paperback | Engels
• We all see the largest features of mountain ecosystems--the impressively rugged peaks, the clear blue lakes, and the extensive forests--but each of th... Lees meer

Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600

Pamela O Long

• Paperback | Engels | OSU Press Horning Visiting Scholars Publication
• This book provides the historical background for a central issue in the history of science: the influence of artisans, craftsmen, and other practition... Lees meer

American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation, 3rd Ed

John F Reiger

• Paperback | Engels
• Environmentalists who believe that hunters and anglers are interested only in the kill and the catch may be surprised to learn that sportsmen were ori... Lees meer