While people love wildflowers in their natural environment, their potential as flowering landscape plants remains largely unfulfilled. Lifecycles of many wildflowers allow shifting from labor-intensi
Co-published by the Audubon Society of Portland and the Oregon State University Press, this fine natural history of the cities on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers contains short chapters describing
Songs of Power and Prayer in the Columbia Plateau explores the role of song as a transformative force in the twentieth century, tracing a cultural, spiritual, and musical encounter that upended notion
Multnomah County is possibly Oregon's most unusual jurisdiction: it is the most populous county in the state and the smallest; and it is frequently the lightning rod for issues that reflect the state'
“The Ideal College is a college free to pursue its mission with unobscured vision of the truth, and power to proclaim the truth without fear or favor of politicians, or religious sects, or benefactors
"This book provides the historical background for a central issue in the history of science: the influence of artisans, craftsmen, and other practitioners on the emergent empirical methodologies that
Barbara Roberts, the first female governor of Oregon, began her career in public service as an advocate for her autistic son and other disabled children. She eventually rose from the school board to b
Crane (history, Sam Houston State U.) offers an environmental and human history of the Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington from the perspective of federal legislation in 19
Aquatic entomologists recount their adventures, misfortunes, and surprises as they have looked for details about insects that live in streams across North America. Some of the stories are fictional, b
This memoir about growing up along the Klamath River in Northern California details the travails of life in a community with waning economic prospects and a vanishing culture. The work discusses the u
This superb textbook surveys the rich archaeological record of Oregon, with each chapter focused on a separate geographic region, describing both Native and non-Native activity and settlements into th
When it was first released in 1982, When It Rains was one of the earliest published literary works in the O’odham language. Speakers from across generations shared poems that showcased the aesth
The whispers of buried lives. The silence of a growing resistance. The stigma of poverty. In haunting images, Juan Delgado explores the boundaries we cross daily. These poems deal honestly with the r
Huitzilopochtli has returned. Aztec destroyer, god of sun and war. He of the hummingbird. Son of Coatlique, Our Lady of the Serpent Skin. But you can call him H. H. is reborn in the sprawlin
Her blood is both Aryan and Aztec and runs as deep as the waters between two worlds.Rita Magdaleno was born near Dachau shortly after World War II to a German mother and a Mexican American GI. Her fam
Paleonutrition is the analysis of prehistoric human diets and the interpretation of dietary intake in relation to health and nutrition. As a field of study, it addresses prehistoric diets in order to
A '77 Pinto. Two boys "a few months from their driver's license." And in the back seat, a ghost of the present observing this scene refracted by memory. In this collection of poetry by Carl Marcu
A first-generation Latino born in Chicago, Rane Arroyo is a leading poeta puertorriqueno and playwright whose readership transcends his ethnicity. In Home Movies of Narcissus, his fourth collection of
A white woman navigates her fear and uncertainty to learn the ways of the people she called savages, until she begins to dream “in Dakota, syllables sliding / on my tongue like tender pieces of meat.”
Come, step outside your human skin for just a little while. Margo Tamez's voice is that of the cicada and the cricket, the raven and the crane. In this volume of poetry, she shows us that the earth
