Oregon State University Press
For fifty years, Oregon State University Press has been publishing exceptional books about the Pacific Northwest—its people and landscapes, its flora and fauna, its history and cultural heritage. The Press has played a vital role in the region’s literary life, providing readers with a better understanding of what it means to be an Oregonian. Today, Oregon State University Press publishes distinguished books in several academic areas from environmental history and natural resource management to indigenous studies.
Raw Material
What begins as a knitter’s search for local yarn becomes a dirty, unlikely, and irresistible new career, as the author leaves her high-tech job for a new way of life considered long dead.
Ellie's Strand
Exploring the Edge of the World's Largest Ocean
In this sequel to Ellie's Log (2013) and Ricky's Atlas (2016), Ellie and her friend Ricky explore marine ecology on the Oregon Coast.
A Deadly Wind
The 1962 Columbus Day Storm
Veteran journalist John Dodge tell stories of tragedy and heroism, loss and resilience, in the aftermath of the 1962 Columbus Day Storm, which plowed a path of destruction from the San Francisco Bay Area to British Columbia.
Son of Amity
Three lives in ruin cross paths on the downtrodden grid of a small Oregon town. This is the story of how they earned their lives back through the promise of a five-year old boy.
Beginner’s Luck
Dispatches from the Klamath Mountains
A clueless big-city guy ends up at a hippie commune in the Klamath Mountains in the late 1960s – a place where people help each other out, even if they don’t always agree.
All Coyote’s Children
This novel explores the complexities of cultural inheritance in a small rural community at the far edge of Oregon, where whites and Native Americans coexist.
Penguins in the Desert
Most people wouldn’t think to look for penguins in a hot desert, but every year along a windswept edge of coastal Patagonia, hundreds of thousands of Magellanic penguins gather to rear their young at Punta Tombo, Argentina, the largest penguin colony in the world outside of Antarctica.
Homing Instincts
This collection of personal essays based on pivotal moments in the author’s life in New York City and Oregon explores the ways we define “home.”
Grass Roots
A History of Cannabis in the American West
Legal or not, marijuana cultivation has long had an impact on the environment and economy of the American West.
Legends of the Northern Paiute
As told by Wilson Wewa
This collection includes twenty-one legends of the Northern Paiutes as told by Wilson Wewa, historian and spiritual leader of the Northern Paiutes on the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon.
Wild and Scenic Rivers
An American Legacy
On the 100th anniversary of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, this is a celebration of America’s premier system of protected rivers nationwide, with 160 stunning photos and text that tells the colorful history of this vital program.
My Life, by Louis Kenoyer
Reminiscences of a Grand Ronde Reservation Childhood
A rare, first-person narrative by the last-known speaker of the Tualatin Northern Kalapuya, discussing life on an Oregon reservation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
New Strategies for Wicked Problems
Science and Solutions in the 21st Century
Accidental Gravity
Residents, Travelers, and the Landscape of Memory
This collection of personal essays explores the author’s relationship to the natural world in urban, suburban, and wild places.
The Long Shadows
A Global Environmental History of the Second World War
The Long Shadows is the first book-length work to offer global perspectives on the environmental history of World War II. Based on long-term research, the selected articles represent the best available studies in different fields and countries. With contributions touching on Europe, America, Asia, and Africa, the book has a truly global approach.
On the Ragged Edge of Medicine
Doctoring Among the Dispossessed
Through a Green Lens
Fifty Years of Writing for Nature
A collection of essays from Robert Michael Pyle, spanning five decades of his writing career.
A Naturalist's Guide to the Hidden World of the Pacific Northwest Dunes
A guide to the plants, animals and ecology of the Pacific dunes, from California to Canada.
Boundary Layer
Exploring the Genius Between Worlds
An exhilarating mix of natural history, botanical exploration, and philosophical speculation.
Ricky's Atlas
Mapping a Land on Fire
Upper elementary kids will love this sequel to Ellie’s Log, in which Ricky documents his discoveries about the ecology of wildfires.
Living Off the Pacific Ocean Floor
Stories of a Commercial Fisherman
The Color of Night
Race, Railroaders, and Murder in the Wartime West
Wild in the Willamette
Exploring the Mid-Valley's Parks, Trails, and Natural Areas
Outsiders in a Promised Land
Religious Activists in Pacific Northwest History
Outsiders in a Promised Land explores the role that religious activists have played in shaping the culture of the Pacific Northwest, particularly in Washington and Oregon, from the middle of the 19th century onward.
Embracing a Western Identity
Jewish Oregonians, 1849–1950
Embracing a Western Identity places Jewish history in the larger context of western narratives, challenging the traditional view that the “authentic” North American Jewish experience stems from New York.
Numbers and Nerves
Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data
A School for the People
A Photographic History of Oregon State University
A School for the People tells the story of OSU’s nearly 150 years as a land grant institution through more than 500 photographs, maps, documents, and extensive captions.
Shaping the Public Good
Women Making History in the Pacific Northwest
Shaping the Public Good restores a missing piece of Pacific Northwest history by demonstrating the part that women—“the famous, the forgotten, and all the women in between”—have always played in establishing their families and building communities.