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Uncertain Encounters: Indians and Whites at Peace and War in Southern Oregon, 1820s-1860s By Nathan Douthit, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-549-6. Paperback, $22.95. Uncertain Encounters makes a major contribution to the study of Indian-white relations in the Pacific Northwest by providing a comprehensive view of relations in southern Oregon over a fifty-year period beginning in the fur-trade era and ending with the Rogue River War of 1855-1856 and its aftermath. |
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The Unforgiving Coast: Maritime Disasters of the Pacific Northwest By David H. Grover, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-541-0. Paperback, $19.95. The Unforgiving Coast offers a penetrating look into each of these nine catastrophes, focusing on the unique, the inexplicable, the poignant, the heroic, and the tragic elements that make them remarkable. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Grover tries to explain not just what happened in each disaster, but how and why it happened. The stories vary considerably-some are mysteries, some are adventure thrillers, and some defy categorization. |
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Up All Night By Martha Gies, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-028-1. Paperback, $17.95. Night, inhospitable and dangerous, tantalizes the imagination. Rarely are we awake to see it through. This fascinating collection of voices from the graveyard shift shows us who is out there in the dark while the rest of us sleep. |
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Upstream: Sons, Fathers, and Rivers Robin Carey 2006. ISBN-10 0-87071-090-7. ISBN-13 978-0-87071-090-2. Paperback, $18.95 Upstream is at once a compelling chronicle of an arduous journey and a moving portrayal of turbulent father-son relationships. Robin Carey and his son Dev, both experienced river runners, set out to kayak up northern California?s wild Klamath River??an entire whitewater river in upstream mode.? A test of the limits of physical endurance, the river ascent also forces Carey to come to terms with a painful past haunted by a legacy of destructive family relationships. |
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Varieties of Hope: An Anthology of Oregon Prose Edited by Gordon B. Dodds, 1993. Oregon Literature Series, volume 3. ISBN 0-87071-373-6. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-374-4. Paperback, $24.95. This wide-ranging anthology of speeches, essays, and works of biography, history, and journalism, profiles the Oregon experience. |
| The Viewless Winds By Murray Morgan. Introduction by Harold Simonson, 1990. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-504-6. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN 0-87071-505-4. Paperback, $13.95. This dark, fascinating novel is based on the unsolved murder of a union leader's wife in Aberdeen, Washington. |
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Waging War on the Home Front: An Illustrated Memoir of World War II
By Chauncey Del French. 2004. ISBN 0-87071-048-6. Paperback, $24.95. Chauncey and Jessie French were among the hundreds of thousands of workers recruited during World War II for the nation's wartime emergency shipbuilding program. French's memoir, set in the Kaiser shipyard in Vancouver, Washington, offers a remarkable social history of the war at home. His colorful stories, together with more than 150 photographs, drawings, and paintings of shipyard life, capture the human drama, teamwork, and camaraderie behind the massive home-front effort. |
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Walking the Beach to Bellingham By Harvey Manning, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-547-X. Paperback, $19.95. This unique book by noted writer, environmental activist, and Pacific Northwest native Harvey Manning describes a memorable walk along the shoreline from Seattle to Bellingham--a 150-mile trek on which Manning covered nearly 3,000 foot-miles over a two-year period of walking routes in the lowlands and foothills of the Puget Basin. |
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The Wallowas: Coming of Age in the Wilderness By William Ashworth, 1998. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-523-2. Paperback, $17.95. Part mountaineering adventure story and part spiritual memoir, this book recounts a young man's search for the challenges and the solace of wilderness. |
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Water in the West: A High Country News Reader By Char Miller, 2000. ISBN 0-87071-480-5. Paperback, $29.95. A lively primer on the region's most precious and scarce resource. This volume collects the best reporting on the subject. |
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Westerns By Richard Dankleff, 1984. ISBN 0-87071-340-X. Paperback, $9.95. Publishers Weekly in its review of this book called it "the first book of poetry ever to have movie potential." |
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Whistlepunks and Geoducks: Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest By Ron Strickland, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-495-3. Paperback, $19.95. In searching for people whose stories would add up to a portrait of the Evergreen State, Strickland discovered a region as alive with folklore as it is with natural beauty. The author provides a helpful glossary to local terms and adds an index to names, places and livelihoods. |
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Wildlife-Habitat Relationships in Oregon and Washington David H. Johnson and Thomas A. O'Neil, Managing Directors, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-488-0. Hardcover, $65.00. Wildlife-Habitat Relationships in Oregon and Washington is the first book to compile and synthesize in a single convenient, comprehensive volume a vast amount of diverse information on 593 wildlife species and their relationships with the 32 terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitat types of Oregon and Washington. |
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Wildlife Viewing: A Management Handbook By Michael J. Manfredo, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-548-8. Paperback, $24.95. Wildlife Viewing provides natural resource and recreation professionals with a useful model to help them manage wildlife and wildlife habitat in order to provide sustainable viewing opportunities. |
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Wildmen, Wobblies, and Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest Edited by Brian Booth, 1994. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-383-3. Paperback, $19.95. Here the best of Holbrook's colorful and irreverent accounts of the region's history, from forgotten scandals and murders to stories of forest fires and floods and tales of loggers and life in the logging camps. |
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Willamette River Basin Atlas: Trajectories of Environmental and Ecological Change By The Pacific Northwest Ecosystem Research Consortium, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-542-9. Paperback, $55.00. The Willamette River Basin Planning Atlas offers a valuable resource for anyone interested in the region's past, present, and future. Using a dazzling variety of color maps, charts, and photographs, the Atlas presents a vast amount of information intended to provide a long-term, large-scale view of changes in human and natural systems within the basin. |
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Winter Twigs: A Wintertime Key to Deciduous Trees and Shrubs of Northwestern Oregon and Western Washington, Revised Edition By Helen M. Gilkey and Patricia L. Packard, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-530-5. Paperback, $19.95. Intended for use by teachers, students, scientists, amateur botanists, and outdoor enthusiasts, Winter Twigs brings together in one convenient volume the information necessary to identify all of the native deciduous woody plants likely to be encountered in the region, as well as many of the more common escaped cultivated species, Also included are certain species which are normally evergreen but may be deciduous during severe winters. |
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With Grit and By Grace: Breaking Trails in Politics and Law, A Memoir By Betty Roberts with Gail Wells 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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Wood Works: The Life and Writings of Charles Erskine Scott Wood Edited by Edwin Bingham and Tim Barnes, 1997. ISBN 0-87071-397-3. Hardcover, $29.95. Northwest Reader Series. This long-awaited first anthology of C. E. S. Wood's writings includes nearly eighty selections, an extensive biographical introduction, and historic photographs. |
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Work, Welfare, and Politics: Confronting Poverty in the Wake of Welfare Reform Edited by Frances Fox Piven, Joan Acker, Margaret Hallock, and Sandra Morgen ISBN 0-87114-301-1. Paperback, $27.95 This book sheds much-needed light on the ideology and impacts of recent welfare reform legislation. Noted scholars, advocates, and policy makers explore the issues currently facing legislators, including welfare-to-work policies, daycare, and job training. From politics and social control to families and childcare, this volume is comprehensive in scope?and offers concrete suggestions for authentic welfare reform. |
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The World Begins Here: An Anthology of Oregon Short Fiction Edited by Glen A. Love, 1993. Oregon Literature Series, volume 1. ISBN 0-87071-369-8. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-370-1. Paperback, $24.95. Thirty-three Oregon stories ranging from a Nez Perce tale to stories by many contemporary writers including Ursula Le Guin, Craig Lesley, Barry Lopez, and Ken Kesey. |
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Writing the World: Understanding William Stafford By Judith Kitchen, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-456-2 Paperback, $19.95. An excellent introduction for readers coming to William Stafford for the first time and an overview of the work for the many readers already familiar with his poetry, Writing the World offers the best single guide to one of the most respected and celebrated poets of our time. |
