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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses By Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2003. ISBN 0-87071-499-6. Paperback, $18.95. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us. |
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A Gathering of Stones: Journeys to the Edges of a Changing World By Carol Ann Bassett, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-545-3. Paperback, $12.95. A Gathering of Stones is a fascinating collection of personal narratives from the Canadian sub-arctic to southern Chile, and from Botswana to Nepal. Carol Ann Bassett's vivid prose combines elements of natural history, cultural anthropology, and travel literature as she takes the readers on an intimate journey into the communites, ceremonies, and lives of traditional peoples struggling to survive in the face of rapid change. |
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Good Wood: Growth, Loss, and Renewal Steven R. Radosevich 2005. ISBN 0-87071-115-6. Paperback, $18.95. Good Wood is a clear-eyed, finely hewed collection of personal essays on farming, forestry, and family in the Pacific Northwest. "A forest ecologist, a farmer, and a father, Steve Radosevich knows in his heart that some loss is necessary, and some is needless waste. In these powerful and deeply moving stories, Radosevich grieves for the necessary losses and rages against the needless. Good Wood is exactly the kind of 'nature writing' that the world needs next: From a man who knows what he's talking about, work-hardened truths about the desperate choices we must make to live on the land with love, respect, and common decency." -Kathleen Dean Moore, author of The Pine Island Paradox. |
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The Grail: A year ambling & shambling through an Oregon vineyard in pursuit of the best pinot noir wine in the whole wild world Brian Doyle Line drawings by Mary Miller Doyle 2006. ISBN-10 0-87071-093-1. ISBN-13 978-0-87071-093-3. Paperback, $18.95 From the red hills of Dundee, Oregon, come increasingly world-renowned pinot noir wines. Self-described ?wine doofus? Brian Doyle set out to spend a year in one Willamette Valley vineyard, chronicling the creative and chaotic labor as the winemakers chase after the perfect pinot. The Grail is his spirited account of the growing, making, and drinking of a truly special wine. ?Like the wine Doyle writes of, these recollections are layered with subtlety and depth. . . . Perfect for wine aficionados and word lovers, this is a full-bodied, ebullient account.? ?Publishers Weekly (starred review) |
| The Grains, or Passages in the Life of Ruth Rover with Occasional Pictures of Oregon Edited by Margaret Jewett Bailey. Evelyn Leasher and Robert J. Frank, 1986. ISBN 0-87071-346-9. Hardcover, $29.95. This autobiographical novel, first published in 1854, is generally considered the first novel written and published in the Pacific Northwest. Bailey provides a unique and provocative view of many prominent figures in early Oregon history. |
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The Great Northwest: The Search for Regional Identity Edited by William G. Robbins, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-492-9. Paperback, $21.95. In The Great Northwest, historian William G. Robbins gathers writings that explore the idea and reality of the Pacific Northwest from a surprising variety of viewpoints. Descriptions of and stories about such distinct places as Celilo Falls on the Columbia River, Alaska, interior British Columbia, and the reforested Tillamook Burn in Oregon show why the search for regional identity is a complex but ultimately rewarding endeavor. |
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Green Afternoons: Oregon Gardens to Visit By Amy Houchen. Illustrations by Lee Hascall, 1998. ISBN 0-87071-429-5. Paperback, $17.95. An informative and easy-to-use guide to more than six dozen gardens throughout Oregon and southwestern Washington. |
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A Guide to Oregon South Coast History: Traveling the Jedediah Smith Trail By Nathan Douthit, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-462-7. Paperback, $22.95. This indispensable guide and reference work opens with an overview of South Coast history, from prehistory to the present. This first section features in-depth looks at the region's native peoples, early exploration, white settlement, Indian-White warfare, the forest industry, transportation, and town development. |
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Handbook of Northwestern Plants By Helen M. Gilkey and La Rea J. Dennis, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-490-2. Paperback, $34.95. Intended for use by teachers, students, scientists, amateur botanists, and outdoor enthusiasts, the Handbook of Northwestern Plants brings together in one comprehensive but convenient volume the information necessary to identify the amazing variety of plants found between the Cascade mountains and the Pacific Coast in Washington and Oregon as far south as the Umpqua divide |
| Happy Valley By Anne Shannon Monroe. Introduction by Karen Blair, 1991. Northwest Reprints series. ISBN 0-87071-506-2. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN 0-87071-507-0. Paperback, $15.95. A stylishly written novel of pioneer life in Harney County, Oregon. |
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Harvest Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World and Agricultural Laborers in the American West, 1905-1930 By Greg Hall, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-532-1. Hardcover, $34.95. Harvest Wobblies personified most of the indelible features of IWW membership: they were the militant casual laborers of the American West, riding the rails, living in hobo jungles, preaching revolution, and facing repression and innovative strategies, impassioned speech, humor, and song. |
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The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem Jon R. Luoma Foreword by Jerry Franklin 2006. ISBN-10 0-87071-094-X. ISBN-13 978-0-87071-094-0. Paperback $22.95 Set aside as a living laboratory in 1948, the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon?s Cascade Range represents a vital scientific endeavor: the long-term study of a single contained ecosystem. Here, for the first time, researchers from an enormous range of disciplines have assembled to examine the role of every working element in the life of a forest. Luoma offers an absorbing account of how these scientists came to recognize the importance of forest ecosystems and how their research is revolutionizing forest management. |
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Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest Edited by Grace L. Dillon, 2003. Northwest Reader series. ISBN 0-87071-555-0. Paperback, $19.95. Hive of Dreams brings together for the first time the work of a dozen internationally prominent science fiction writers who make their home in the Pacific Northwest. |
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Homesteader's Portfolio By Alice Day Pratt. Introduction by Molly Gloss, 1993. Northwest Reprints series. ISBN 0-87071-516-X. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN 0-87071-517-8. Paperback, $15.95. This powerful memoir presents a rare, complete record of a single woman homesteader in the Oregon high desert. |
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How to Live Longer and Feel Better Linus Pauling Introduction by Melinda Gormley Afterword by Stephen Lawson, Linus Pauling Institute 2006. ISBN-10 0-87071-096-6. ISBN-13 978-0-87071-096-4. Paperback, $19.95 The OSU Press is proud to introduce How to Live Longer and Feel Better to a new generation of readers interested in achieving excellent health. A New York Times bestseller when it was first published in 1986, Linus Pauling's seminal work proposes taking vitamins and minerals to prevent disease and live a long life. Eminently readable and challenging on many levels, the book compiled for a popular audience a generation of scientific knowledge and helped to revolutionize the way Americans think about nutrition. |
