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Earth Rising: Ecological Belief in an Age of Science By David Oates, 1989. ISBN 0-87071-358-2. Hardcover, $27.95. ISBN 0-87071-357-4. Paperback, $17.95. Explores the ways in which the science of ecology has provided a basis for a contemporary worldview that combines an intuitive sense of wholeness with the validation of scientific truth. |
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An Editor for Oregon: Charles A. Sprague and the Politics of Change By Floyd J. McKay, 1998. ISBN 0-87071-523-2. Hardcover, $24.95. A biography of the esteemed Oregon governor and newspaper editor. |
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Elegant Arches, Soaring Spans: C.B. McCullough, Oregon's Master Bridge Builder By Robert W. Hadlow, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-534-8. Paperback, $24.95. Illustrated with historic photographs and drawings, Robert Hadlow's definitive and highly readable biography will delight bridge buffs and engineering enthusiasts everywhere. It will also be of great interest to Oregon coast visitors and residents, and to students of transportation and technology history. |
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Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia Second Edition By Roberta Ulrich, 2007. Culture and Environment in the Pacific West. ISBN 978-0-87071-188-6. Paperback, $19.95. Empty Nets is a disturbing history of broken promises and justice delayed. It chronicles the Columbia River Indians' fight to maintain their livelihood and culture in the face of an indifferent federal bureaucracy and hostile state governments. |
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Eva Emery Dye: Romance with the West By Sheri Bartlett Browne, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-008-7. Paperback, $24.95. Early 20th-century novelist Eva Emery Dye was one of the first writers to popularize (and romanticize) the Lewis and Clark Expedition and introduce a new American heroine, Sacagawea. This first biography of Dye chronicles the life of a writer whose books on the conquest of the American West helped to shape an entire generation’s understanding of American history and Manifest Destiny. |
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Ever Blooming: The Art of Bonnie Hall By Bonnie Hall Edited by James D. Hall Foreword by Robert Michael Pyle 2005. ISBN 0-87071-116-4. Hardcover, $25.00. Ever Blooming collects the work of an Oregon artist whose vivid screenprints of Pacific Northwest wildflowers, ferns, and butterflies have attracted a devoted following. The book features nearly forty full-color serigraphs, along with the artist's own text describing each plant and butterfly. For botanists, wildflower enthusiasts, gardeners, and anyone who loves the Northwest wilderness, Ever Blooming offers a singular glimpse of the natural world as seen through the eyes of a gifted and inspired artist. |
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Exploring Oregon's Historic Courthouses By Kathleen M. Wiederhold, 1998. ISBN 0-87071-436-8. Paperback, $17.95. This first guide to Oregon's historic courthouses combines fascinating local histories with valuable information on the state's architectural history. |
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Exploring Oregon's Historic House Museums By Kathleen M. Wiederhold, 2000. ISBN 0-87071-483-x. Paperback, $19.95. Each of the historic house museums featured is unique in its place and time. The book covers houses built from 1841 to 1936. |
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Exploring the Tualatin River Basin: A Nature and Recreation Guide By The Tualatin Riverkeepers, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-540-2. Paperback, $19.95. This informative, well-organized guide introduces 85 readily accessible sites throughout the Tualatin River Basin, from the River's tributaries in the Coast Range to its confluence with the Willamette River. The detailed site descriptions include directions, maps, and a wealth of information on the plants, wildlife, and natural attractions to be found. Also included are brief features on the flora, fauna, ecology, and history of the area. |
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The Fiction of Bernard Malamud Edited by Richard Astro and Jackson J. Benson, 1977. ISBN 0-87071-446-5. Hardcover, $21.95. A collection of papers on the famous novelist, who spent more than a decade teaching at OSU. |
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The First Oregonians Second Edition Edited by Laura Berg An Oregon Council for the Humanities Book 2007. ISBN 978-1-88037-702-4. Paperback, $22.95. The First Oregonians provides a comprehensive view of Oregon's native peoples from the past to the present. In this remarkable volume, Oregon Indians tell their own stories--more than half of the chapters are written by members of Oregon's federally recognized tribes. Also included are essays by prominent Northwest scholars exploring geography, federal-Indian relations, language, and art. No other book offers as wide a variety of views and stories about the historical and contemporary experience of Oregon Indians. |
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Fishing the Northwest: An Angler's Reader Edited by Glen Love, 2000. Northwest Reader. ISBN 0-87071-481-3. Hardcover, $28.95. A collection of stories and essays by twenty-two of the best angling writers in the region. The book ranges from Alaska to the Rogue River in southern Oregon, and the Olympic Mountains and Vancouver Island to the Continental Divide in Montana. |
| The Fleas of the Pacific Northwest By Robert E. Lewis, Joanne H. Lewis, and Chris Maser, 1988. ISBN 0-87071-355-8. Hardcover, $59.95. A comprehensive study of the fleas of the region. |
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Flora of Glacier National Park By Peter Lesica, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-538-0 Paperback, $34.95. The first new guide to the flora of Glacier National Park in more than eighty years, this manual features keys and descriptions for accurate identification, as well as original line drawings and a section of color photographs. For each species, the book provides information on habitats, geographical range, taxonomy, and ethnobotanical uses. The introduction includes general information on the Park's climate and geology, early botanical exploration, plant geography, and introduced species. |
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Flora of Mount Rainier National Park By David Biek, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-470-8. Paperback, $34.95. Flora of Mount Rainier National Park provides a complete listing of the 866 species of native and introduced plants found in the Park, with keys, line drawings, and descriptions for identification, as well as a guide to plant location. |
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Flora of Steens Mountain By Donald H. Mansfield, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-471-6 Paperback, $29.95. A significant contribution to Oregon and Great Basin flora, this comprehensive field guide identifies plants of Steens Mountain and surrounding areas in southeastern Oregon, including Malheur national Wildlife Refuge, Diamond Craters, and the Alvord Desert. |
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Following the Nez Perce Trail: A Guide to the Nee-Me-Poo National Historic Trail with Eyewitness Accounts Second Edition, Revised and Expanded By Cheryl Wilfong, available 2006. ISBN 0-87071-117-2 Paperback, $29.95. The 1877 flight of the Nez Perce from their homelands while pursued by U.S. soldiers and citizen volunteers is one of the most compelling and sorrowful events in American history. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, this unique book chronicles the heartbreaking retreat of Chief Joseph and his people. It offers an essential guide for anyone who wishes to follow all or part of the Trail. |
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Fool's Hill By John Quick, 1995. ISBN 0-87071-385-X. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN 0-87071-399-X. Paperback, $15.95. John Quick is Garrison Keillor with an attitude and Fool's Hill is his quirky childhood autobiography, set on the southern Oregon coast. |
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Forest and Stream Management in the Oregon Coast Range Edited by Stephen D. Hobbs, John P. Hayes, Rebecca L. Johnson, Gordon H. Reeves, Thomas A. Spies, John C. TappeinerII, and Gail E. Wells, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-544-5. Hardcover, $39.95. Forest and Stream Management in the Oregon Coast Range presents a wealth of fundamental and applied research on managing Coast Range forest and stream ecosystems for mulitple values, including fish, wildlife, timber, and recreation. |
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Forest of Time: A Century of Science at Wind River Experimental Forest By Margaret Herring and Sarah Greene Foreword by William G. Robbins 2007. ISBN 978-0-87071-185-5. Paperback, $22.95. The Wind River Experimental Forest has been called the cradle of forestry in the Pacific Northwest, a place of groundbreaking discoveries in forest genetics and ecology. Forest of Time follows one hundred years of forest science at Wind River, as social and scientific changes transformed the twentieth century and the Pacific Northwest forest itself. It is a story of discovery and blindness, of opportunities taken and missed, in a forest dedicated to long-term research. |
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Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest By Chris Maser, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-529-1. Paperback, $19.95. In this classic work of ecology, Chris Maser traces the growth of an ancient forest in Oregon's Cascade Mountains from its fiery birth in the year 987 to the present. A unique "biography" of an ecosystem, Forest Primeval portrays a diverse fabric of plants, animals, and microorganisms working in unison. |
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Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska By Stephen Haycox, 2002. Culture and Environment in the Pacific West. ISBN 0-87071-536-4. Paperback, $21.95. Frigid Embrace examines how the drive for natural resouce extraction has shaped Alaskans' understanding of nature and of Native peoples. It presents for a wide audience an illuminating portrait of modern colonialism |
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From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry Edited by Primus St. John and Ingrid Wendt, 1993. Oregon Literature Series, volume 4. ISBN 0-87071-375-2. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-376-0. Paperback, $24.95. This historical anthology opens with Native American texts and ends with a broad sampling of Oregon's finest contemporary poets. |
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Frontier Doctor: Observations on Central Oregon
and the Changing West By Urling C. Coe. Introduction by Robert Bunting, 1996. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-520-8. Paperback, $15.95. Coe's autobiography details the experiences of a young physician in Bend in the early 20th century and presents a vivid social history of town and ranch life. |
