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Aetna and the Moon book cover Aetna and the Moon: Explaining Nature in Ancient Greece and Rome
Liba Taub
Preface by Mary Jo Nye
The inaugural volume in the Horning Visiting Scholars Series
Series editors: Mary Jo Nye and Paul Farber
2008. ISBN 978-0-87071-196-1. Hardcover, $24.95
Classical authors used both prose and poetry to explore and explain the natural world. In Aetna and the Moon, Liba Taub examines the variety of ways in which ancient Greeks and Romans conveyed scientific information.
Afield book cover Afield: Forty Years of Birding the American West
Alan Contreras. Illustrations by Ramiel Papish
2009. ISBN 978-0-87071-420-7. Paperback, $18.95
The author of Birds of Oregon recounts his lifelong bird-watching experiences. Sprinkled with comments from ornithologists and early explorers of the West, the essays offer elements of natural history, personal memoir, and adventure travel. “…a beautiful and moving piece of writing.” –John Fitchen.
Beauty of the City book cover Beauty of the City: A. E. Doyle, Portland's Architect
Philip Niles
2008. ISBN 978-0-87071-298-2. Paperback, $29.95
The Central Library, Benson Hotel, Reed College, the Meier & Frank building, the U.S. National Bank—these are just a few of the grand Portland icons designed by Albert E. Doyle (1877-1928). Beauty of the City, the first biography of “Portland’s architect,” traces Doyle’s life and times in the context of the burgeoning cityscape.
Catching the Ebb: Drift-Fishing for a Life in Cook Inlet
Bert Bender
2008. ISBN 978-0-87071-296-8. Paperback, $22.95
In a memoir that recounts thirty summers of fishing Alaska’s Cook Inlet, Bert Bender describes his parallel careers as a commercial gill-netter and a professor of American literature. His narrative celebrates the fishing life as he knew it, traces the fishery’s path of change, and explores the issue of sustainability in the commercial salmon fishery.
Child of Steens Mountain
Eileen O’Keeffe McVicker with Barbara J. Scot
Foreword by Richard Etulain
2008. ISBN 978-0-87071-297-5. Paperback, $16.95
For Eileen O’Keeffe McVicker, born in 1927 to an Irish immigrant sheep rancher and a schoolteacher, growing up on a homestead in the West made for a “hard, happy life with layers of riches.” In her memoir of a childhood spent on the southern slope of Steens Mountain, McVicker offers an appealing, personal account of eastern Oregon history.
Eden Within Eden Book cover Eden Within Eden: Oregon’s Utopian Heritage
James J. Kopp
2009. ISBN 978-0-87071-424-5. Paperback, $24.95
Oregon has long been a destination for those seeking new beginnings. The state has been home to nearly three hundred communal experiments, from the Aurora Colony to Rajneeshpuram. Eden Within Eden is the first book to survey Oregon’s utopian history, from religious and Socialist groups of the nineteenth century to ecologically conscious communities of the twenty-first century.
Environmental Justice Book cover The Environmental Justice: William O. Douglas and American Conservation
Adam M. Sowards
2009. ISBN 978-0-87071-567-9. Paperback, $24.95
From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, American conservation politics underwent a transformation. The Environmental Justice tells the story, for the first time, of how Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas’s passion for nature helped to define the modern environmental movement.
Sedges Book cover Field Guide to the Sedges of the Pacific Northwest
Barbara L. Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Danna Lytjen, Bruce Newhouse, and Nick Otting of the Carex Working Group, 2008.
ISBN 978-0-87071-197-8. Paperback, $35.00
The first illustrated guide to all 163 species, subspecies, and varieties in the genus carex that occur in Oregon and Washington. Most of these species are found throughout the Pacific Northwest and California. An invaluable resource for botanists, land managers, restoration ecologists, and plant enthusiasts.
Here There Nowhere Book cover Here There Nowhere: Paintings by Michael Brophy
Essays by Jonathan Raban and William L. Lang
2008. ISBN 978-0-87071-295-1. Paperback, $25.00
A Nobius Projects Book
Michael Brophy has painted the Pacific Northwest landscape for over two decades. This large-scale monograph brings 15 of his most historically expansive paintings to date together with writings on the artistic and cultural history of the Northwest landscape by essayist Jonathan Raban and historian William L. Lang.
In the Blast Zone book cover In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens
Edited by Charles Goodrich, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Frederick J. Swanson.
2008. ISBN 978-0-87071-198-5. Paperback, $15.95
In prose and poetry, leading literary and scientific thinkers explore the story of Mount St. Helens' destruction and renewal. The first book to present such a rich cross-pollination of perspectives, In the Blast Zone explores the question: What can a radically altered landscape tell us about nature and how to live our lives?
Oregon Coastal Access Guide Book Cover Oregon Coastal Access Guide: A Mile-by-Mile guide to Scenic and Recreational Attractions
by Kenn Oberrecht
2008. ISBN-978-0-87071-293-7. Paperback, $22.95
Oregon is renowned not only for the natural beauty of its coastline but also for its enlightened tradition of publicly owned and protected beaches. The revised and updated Oregon Coastal Access Guide is essential for anyone exploring the nearly four hundred miles of coastline that lie between the Columbia River and the California border.
Living with Bugs Book Cover Living with Bugs: Least-Toxic Solutions to Everyday Bug Problems
Jack DeAngelis
2009. ISBN-978-0-87071-421-4. Paperback, $19.95
An essential guide for homeowners, master gardeners, and cooperative extension agents, Living With Bugs examines more than fifty of the most commonly encountered household pests, from ants to scabies to vinegar flies, and offers environmentally friendly management solutions.
Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest Book cover Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest
Bruce McCune and Linda Geiser
2009. Second Edition. ISBN 978-0-87071-565-5. Paperback, $30.00.
The revised and expanded edition of the first comprehensive guide to northwest macrolichens, featuring 116 new species and 176 additional illustrations.
Pedaling Revolution Book Cover Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities
Jeff Mapes
2009. ISBN-978-0-87071-419-1. Paperback, $19.95
In a world of increasing traffic congestion, a grassroots movement is carving out a niche for bicycles on city streets. Pedaling Revolution explores the growing bike culture that is changing the look and feel of cities, suburbs, and small towns across North America.
Strand Book cover Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris
Bonnie Henderson
2008. ISBN 978-87071-299-9. Paperback, $18.95
Writer Bonnie Henderson traveled as far as China and Japan to trace the journeys of debris washed up on a stretch of Oregon beach. Strand, which unravels these compelling stories, arose from Henderson’s experience of routinely walking Mile 157 on the central Oregon coast, puzzling over what she found.
Stubborn Twig Book cover Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family
Lauren Kessler
2008. ISBN 978-0-87071-417-7. Paperback, $18.95
Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American.

An Oregon Library Association selection for the statewide 2009 Oregon Reads program.
Water in the 21st-Century West Book cover Water in the 21st-Century West: A High Country News Reader
Char Miller, editor
2009. ISBN 978-0-87071-566-2. Paperback, $24.95
Offers a timely look at the central issue facing the American West—the region’s diminishing water supply. A collection of the best reporting on the subject, drawn from the pages of High Country News, the newspaper that sets the standard for coverage of environmental issues in the West.
Way of the Woods Book cover The Way of the Woods: Journeys Through American Forests
Linda Underhill
2009. ISBN 978-0-87071-568-6. Paperback, $18.95
In a lyrically written narrative combining science and personal reflection, Linda Underhill celebrates the magnificence and mystery of American forests. The Way of the Woods explores some of the nation’s most extraordinary forests, including Cook Forest (PA), the Sierra Mountains (CA), the Olympic Peninsula (WA), and the Great Smoky Mountains (TN).
Wild Beauty Book cover Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957
Terry Toedtemeier and John Laursen
2008. ISBN 978-0-87071-418-4. Hardcover, $75.00
Wild Beauty is an exquisitely produced large-format book of 135 historic images. Photographers from Carleton Watkins to Ray Atkeson, many of whom have never before been published or exhibited, have framed and interpreted the way we see the Gorge, and have in turn had their artistic vision shaped by this compelling landscape.
With Grit and By Grace cover With Grit and By Grace
Breaking Trails in Politics and Law, A Memoir

Betty Roberts with Gail Wells
2008. ISBN 978-0-87071-199-2. Paperback, $24.95
With Grit and By Grace follows Betty Roberts’ rise from a Depression-era childhood on the Texas plains to become a teacher, lawyer, state legislator, candidate for governor, and eventually Oregon’s first woman Supreme Court Justice.

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