Oregon State University Press

Author: Karen L LeedomPublisher: Oregon State University PressPublication Date: Jan 15, 2022Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0870711660ISBN-13: 9780870711664

The first documentary history of wildfire management in the United States, Burn Scars probes the long efforts to suppress fire, beginning with the Spanish invasion of California in the eighteenth...

A Japanese American girl born and raised partly in traditional Japanese farm style in Oregon--and unjustly imprisoned by her own country during World War II--eventually overcomes the self-hatred...

Author: Robin Wall KimmererPublisher: Oregon State University PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2003Number of Pages: 168 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0870714996ISBN-13: 9780870714993

Set 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...

How to Live Longer and Feel Better introduces to a new generation of health-conscious readers Linus Pauling's regimen for healthy longevity. Eminently readable and challenging, and a New York Times...

I Lived To Tell the World recounts the experiences of individuals who have survived Holocaust, genocide and the atrocities of war, honoring the complexity of the survivor's stories while providing...

Legends of the Northern Paiute shares and preserves twenty-one original and previously unpublished Northern Paiute legends, as told by Wilson Wewa, a spiritual leader and oral historian of the Warm...

Linda Meanus grew up at Celilo Falls in the years before the Dalles Dam was built and was very close with her grandparents, tribal leaders Flora and Tommy Thompson. Now a respected elder and leader...

In Nature on the Edge, ecologist Bruce Byers offers readers new perspectives on two iconic California coastal regions, San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate and the Santa Barbara Channel Islands...

William Bill" Sumio Naito (1925-1996) was a remarkable and visionary individual--the Portland-born son of Japanese immigrants who became one of the city's most significant business and civic leaders...

Oregon is commonly perceived to have little, let alone notable, South Asian history. Yet in the early 1900s Oregon was at the center of two entwined quests for Indian independence and civic...

River of Renewal tells the remarkable story of the Klamath Basin, a region of the Pacific Northwest spanning the Oregon-California border. Indian reservations are at the headwaters, along the...

Author: Tina OntiverosPublisher: Oregon State University PressPublication Date: Sep 30, 2020Number of Pages: 200 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0870710338ISBN-13: 9780870710339

This 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...

Author: Lori TobiasPublisher: Oregon State University PressPublication Date: Sep 15, 2020Number of Pages: 204 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0870710117ISBN-13: 9780870710117

Author: Bonnie HendersonPublisher: Oregon State University PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2014Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0870717324ISBN-13: 9780870717321

How do we plan for a better Oregon in 2050? What will the state be like in that year for five million Oregonians, particularly for the least privileged and powerful residents? These are the questions...