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.
Grass Roots
A History of Cannabis in the American West
Eleanor Baldwin and the Woman's Point of View
New Thought Radicalism in Portland’s Progressive Era
Dangerous Subjects
James D. Saules and the Rise of Black Exclusion in Oregon
Legends of the Northern Paiute
as told by Wilson Wewa
New Strategies for Wicked Problems
Science and Solutions in the 21st Century
My Life, by Louis Kenoyer
Reminiscences of a Grand Ronde Reservation Childhood
The Long Shadows
A Global Environmental History of the Second World War
Kanaka Hawai'i Cartography
Hula, Navigation, and Oratory
Accidental Gravity
Residents, Travelers, and the Landscape of Memory
On the Ragged Edge of Medicine
Doctoring Among the Dispossessed
Science Without Frontiers
Cosmopolitanism and National Interests in the World of Learning, 1870–1940
Leaded
The Poisoning of Idaho's Silver Valley
Keeping Oregon Green
Livability, Stewardship, and the Challenges of Growth, 1960–1980
Keeping Oregon Green is a new history of the signature accomplishments of Oregon’s environmental era: the revitalization of the polluted Willamette River, the Beach Bill that preserved public access to the entire coastline, the Bottle Bill that set the national standard for reducing roadside litter, and the nation’s first comprehensive land use zoning law. Drawing on extensive archival research, source materials ranging from poetry to congressional hearings, and firmly rooted in the cultural, economic, and political history of the Pacific Northwest, Keeping Oregon Green argues that the state’s environmental legacy is not just the product of visionary leadership, but rather a complex confluence of events, trends, and personalities that could only have happened when and where it did.
Hiking from Portland to the Coast
An Interpretive Guide to 30 Trails
Through a Green Lens
Fifty Years of Writing for Nature
A Guide to Freshwater Fishes of Oregon
Where the Wind Dreams of Staying
Searching for Purpose and Place in the West
The Jewish Oregon Story, 1950-2010
Published in Cooperation with the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Rivers of Oregon
Rivers of Oregon captures the beauty and the intrinsic qualities of the state’s irresistible riverscapes like no other book has done. From the underwater view and from the refuge of riparian forests, from the seat of a canoe or raft and from distant mountain summits, readers will gain new perspectives on the extraordinary features that provide us with water, with life, and with scenes whose loss would leave us deeply impoverished.
A Naturalist's Guide to the Hidden World of Pacific Northwest Dunes
A Week in Yellowstone's Thorofare
A Journey Through the Remotest Place
Ricky's Atlas
Mapping a Land on Fire
Boundary Layer
Exploring the Genius Between Worlds
Holy Moli
Albatross and Other Ancestors
Ethnobotany of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians
Reporting the Oregon Story
How Activists and Visionaries Transformed a State
Wild in the Willamette
Exploring the Mid-Valley's Parks, Trails, and Natural Areas
The Color of Night
Race, Railroaders, and Murder in the Wartime West
Outsiders in a Promised Land
Religious Activists in Pacific Northwest History
Living Off the Pacific Ocean Floor
Stories of a Commercial Fisherman
A School for the People
A Photographic History of Oregon State University
Shaping the Public Good
Women Making History in the Pacific Northwest
Numbers and Nerves
Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data
Embracing a Western Identity
Jewish Oregonians, 1849-1950
Marie Equi
Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions
Honey in the Horn
An essential book for all serious readers of Northwest literature, this classic coming-of-age novel has been called the “Huckleberry Finn of the West.” It is the only Oregon book that has ever won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. With a new introduction by Richard W. Etulain, this path-breaking work from one of Oregon’s premier authors is once again available for a new generation to enjoy.
Building a Better Nest
Living Lightly at Home and in the World
What does it mean to build a better nest? Better for whom? Is it better for the individual or family? The planet? Green building and sustainable design are popular buzzwords, but to Hess, sustainable building is not a simple matter of buying and installing the latest recycled flooring products. It is also about cooperative work: working together in employment, in research, in activism, and in life. Hess is concerned with her local watershed, but also with the widening income gap, disappearing species, and peak resources. She actively works to reduce overconsumption and waste. For Hess, these problems are both philosophical and practical.
As Hess and her husband age, the questions of how to live responsibly arise with greater frequency and urgency. With unfailing wit and humor, she looks for answers in such places as neuroscience, Buddhism, and her ancestral legacy. Building a Better Nest will appeal to anyone with an interest in sustainable building, off-grid living, or alternative communities. The questions it asks about the way we live are earnest and important, from an author whose voice is steeped in wisdom and gratitude.