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.

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Eden Within Eden

Oregon's Utopian Heritage

Oregon State University Press
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Afield

Forty Years of Birding the American West

Oregon State University Press
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The Way of the Woods

Journeys Through American Forests

Oregon State University Press
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The Environmental Justice

William O. Douglass and American Conservation

Oregon State University Press
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Nature’s Justice

Writings of William O. Douglas

Oregon State University Press
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Water in the 21st-Century West

A High Country News Reader

Oregon State University Press
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Pedaling Revolution

How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities

Oregon State University Press

Updated Edition includes a new epilogue by the author

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.

From traffic-dodging bike messengers to tattooed teenagers on battered bikes, from riders in spandex to well-dressed executives, ordinary citizens are becoming transportation revolutionaries. Jeff Mapes traces the growth of bicycle advocacy and explores the environmental, safety, and health aspects of bicycling. He rides with bicycle advocates who are taming the streets of New York City, joins the street circus that is Critical Mass in San Francisco, and gets inspired by the every-day folk pedaling in Amsterdam, the nirvana of American bike activists. Chapters focused on big cities, college towns, and America’s most successful bike city, Portland, show how cyclists, with the encouragement of local officials, are claiming a share of the valuable streetscape.

“A growing number of Americans, mounted on their bicycles like some new kind of urban cowboy, are mixing it up with swift, two-ton motor vehicles as they create a new society on the streets. They’re finding physical fitness, low-cost transportation, environmental purity—and, still all too often, Wild West risks of sudden death or injury.” —from the introduction

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Beauty of the City

A.E. Doyle, Portland's Architect

Oregon State University Press
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Wild Beauty

Photography of the Columbia River Gorge, 1860-1960

Oregon State University Press
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Strand

An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris

Oregon State University Press
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Catching the Ebb

Drift-Fishing for Life in Cook Inlet

Oregon State University Press
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Stubborn Twig

Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family

Oregon State University Press
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With Grit and By Grace

Breaking Trails in Politics and Law, Memior

Oregon State University Press
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Oregon Coastal Access Guide, Second Edition

A Mile by Mile Guide to Scenic and Recreational Attractions

Oregon State University Press
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Linus Pauling

Scientist and Peacemaker

Oregon State University Press
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Here There Nowhere

Paintings by Michael Brophy

Oregon State University Press
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Teaching Oregon Native Langauges

Edited by Joan Gross
Oregon State University Press

In a world where over half of the remaining six thousand languages will most likely disappear by the end of the century, attention has finally begun to focus on the struggles of indigenous people to save their languages. Lack of knowledge concerning the vast linguistic diversity of Oregon's languages has been a major obstacle to language ...

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To Harvest, To Hunt

Stories of Resource Use in the American West

Oregon State University Press

To Harvest, To Hunt is a rich collection of writings that reveals how diverse peoples have valued and used natural resources throughout the history of the American West. Drawing on family letters, oral traditions, historical records, and personal experience, the book's contributors offer readers new perspectives on the land they live on, ...

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