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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Speaking for the River

Confronting Pollution on the Willamette, 1920s-1970s

Oregon State University Press

Speaking for the River is the first book-length study of Willamette River clean-up efforts from the 1920s through the 1970s. These efforts centered on a struggle between abatement advocates and the two primary polluters in the watershed, the City of Portland and the pulp and paper industry.

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Undercurrents

From Oceanographer to University President

Oregon State University Press

Undercurrents recounts the life and career of John Byrne, who started his career as a geologist for an oil company and ended his career as president of a land-grant university.  Byrne reveals the lessons he learned in the oil industry and in government as the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and how he used those lessons in leading Oregon State University as its president.

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A Primer for Computational Biology

Oregon State University Press

A Primer for Computational Biology aims to provide life scientists and students the skills necessary for research in a data-rich world. The text covers accessing and using remote servers via the command-line, writing programs and pipelines for data analysis, and provides useful vocabulary for interdisciplinary work.

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The Alternate Route

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Native Space

Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism

Oregon State University Press
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The People's School

A History of Oregon State University

Oregon State University Press
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Legible Sovereignties

Rhetoric, Representations, and Native American Museums

Oregon State University Press
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Grass Roots

A History of Cannabis in the American West

Oregon State University Press
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Eleanor Baldwin and the Woman's Point of View

New Thought Radicalism in Portland’s Progressive Era

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Dangerous Subjects

James D. Saules and the Rise of Black Exclusion in Oregon

Oregon State University Press
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Legends of the Northern Paiute

as told by Wilson Wewa

By Wilson Wewa; Edited by James A. Gardner; Compiled by James A. Gardner; Introduction by James A. Gardner
Oregon State University Press
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Wild and Scenic Rivers

An American Legacy

Oregon State University Press
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The Salem Clique

Oregon's Founding Brothers

Oregon State University Press
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New Strategies for Wicked Problems

Science and Solutions in the 21st Century

Oregon State University Press
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My Life, by Louis Kenoyer

Reminiscences of a Grand Ronde Reservation Childhood

By Louis Kenoyer; Introduction by Henry Zenk; Translated by Jedd Schrock and Henry Zenk
Oregon State University Press
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The Only Woman in the Room

The Norma Paulus Story

Oregon State University Press
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The Long Shadows

A Global Environmental History of the Second World War

Oregon State University Press
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Kanaka Hawai'i Cartography

Hula, Navigation, and Oratory

Oregon State University Press
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Accidental Gravity

Residents, Travelers, and the Landscape of Memory

Oregon State University Press

Accidental Gravity moves from upstate New York to the contemporary western U.S., from urban and suburban places to wild lands. The essays are informative, but the focus is personal. Quetchenbach writes about urban and suburban places as well as wild lands. In the first section of the book, he focuses on suburban neighborhoods, "the places where tensions between human and animal nature, and between differing concepts of the natural world, come to the fore."  In the second section, he juxtaposes these humanized places with Yellowstone National Park, in the context of climate change and other contemporary pressures.
 

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On the Ragged Edge of Medicine

Doctoring Among the Dispossessed

Oregon State University Press
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