Oregon State University Press

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

The Laysan albatross is called ml in Hawaiian.--Author: Hob OsterlundPublisher: Oregon State University PressPublication Date: May 05, 2016Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

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Legends of the Northern Paiute shares and preserves twenty-one original and previously unpublished Northern Paiute legends, as told by Wilson Wewa, a spiritual leader and oral historian of the Warm...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

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