West Press: 337 books
by McOmie
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Emmy Award-winning journalist and fifth-generation Oregon native Grant McOmie provides travelers with an in-depth guide to 101 of the best Oregon destinations featured in his popular television series Grant's Getaways, produced by KGW-TV and Travel Oregon. Come along with Grant McOmie as he explores...
by Grant McOmie
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Emmy Award–winning Oregon journalist Grant McOmie has written a new book with Oregon-based publisher Graphic Arts Books. Grant's Getaways: Oregon Adventures with the Kids will be available June 2017 in travel friendly paperback and e-book version at bookstores, gift shops, and online sources.
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Smell and History
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Smell and History collects many of the most important recent essays on the history of scent, aromas, perfumes, and ways of smelling. With an introduction by Mark M. Smith—one of the leading social and cultural historians at work today and the preeminent champion in the United States of the emerging...
The Colorado Mountain Companion
A Potpourri of Useful Miscellany from the Highest Parts of the Highest State
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
A treasure trove of useful (and just plain fun) information about Colorado’s mountain country. A handy-dandy, comprehensive, wide-ranging reference guide to settling (good-naturedly) any arguments about Colorado’s high country. We’re not just talking about population figures, elevation stats,...
Ecological Governance
Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
As our economic and natural systems continue on their collision course, Bruce Jennings asks whether we have the political capacity to avoid large-scale environmental disaster. Can liberal democracy, he wonders, respond in time to ecological challenges that require dramatic changes in the way we approach...
Telluride Trails
Hiking Passes, Loops, and Summits of Southwest Colorado
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This is a handy pocket guide for the day hiker with easy?to?follow directions to the high country and peaks surrounding Telluride and beyond. Helpful maps are included at the beginning of each chapter. Many of the seventy?five hikes are illustrated with photos along with listings of elevation, distance, time, and ease of trails to help travelers through their journey.
by Betty Leavengood
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
This rich, enthusiastic guide to the Tucson, Rincon, Santa Catalina, and Santa Rita Mountains has been completely revised. Betty Leavengood’s fourth edition of her bestselling Tucson Hiking Guide offers new routes and updated access information, detailed maps, and clear descriptions to area trailheads....
Day Hikes in the Columbia River Gorge
Hiking Loops, High Points, and Waterfalls within the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
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Fifty Cents and a Box Top
The Creative Life of Nashville Session Musician Charlie McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
From Ann-Margret to Bob Dylan and George Jones to Simon & Garfunkel, Nashville harmonica virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist Charlie McCoy has contributed to some of the most successful recordings of country, pop, and rock music of the last six decades. As the leader of the Hee Haw “Million-Dollar...
The News Untold
Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia. It focuses on how small-town reporters and editors in some of the region’s poorest communities decide what aspects of poverty are news, how their audiences interpret those decisions, and how those...
The Argument about Things in the 1980s
Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In the late 1970s, a Jeff Koons art exhibit featured mounted vacuum cleaners lit by fluorescent tube lighting and identified by their product names: New Hoover Quik Broom, New Hoover Celebrity IV. Raymond Carver published short stories such as “Are These Actual Miles?” that cataloged the furniture,...
by EMORY L. KEMP
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A tributary of the Ohio River and significant commercial route in the nineteenth century, the Muskingum River in southeastern Ohio presents a remarkable case study of how Americans have managed their waterways. In Taming the Muskingum, esteemed scholar Emory Kemp traces this history, emphasizing...
Farthest Reach
Oregon and Washington
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields. The founding editors are Douglas A. Anderson (The Annotated Hobbit), Michael D. C. Drout...