University of Oregon Books

This is a good Flora, if you want to do some serious botanizing in Glacier Park and the surrounding area this is a must have. I highly reccomend it to botanists, botany students, those with a very deep interest in botany and especially to native plant gardeners in Montana. I have found a few errors in the three years I have used this book, but it is the best book to have if you are in Glacier. You might supplement with Flora of the Pacific Northwest.

"Frontier Doctor" edges out Arthur Hertzler's "Horse and Buggy Doctor" and "The Life of Chevalier Jackson" as the most interesting of the physician autobiographies that were so popular about 75 years ago. In the thirties, doctors who'd lived through a revolution in medical care, found that readers and publishers were interested in the doctors' personal accounts of how medical practice had changed since the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Many wrote their stories. Later a few stragglers added their accounts and still later the university presses published more. "Frontier Doctor" is the best of the genre because of Urling Coe's writing skill. He has a knack for describing people and telling about events that makes his book most readable, interesting, and memorable. It's been more than a decade since I've read the book but I still remember so many episodes vividly. The story of Bend's fishing for the 1905 Fourth of July celebration, many buggy trips to isolated patients, and those people and their medical problems make up one enthralling story about life in the (not so) good old days in Bend, Oregon a century ago.

The book reflects the Orrs' respective roles in geology and paleontology at the University of Oregon that began back in 1967. This is a subject they obviously know well but, more importantly, have made clear and interesting. Brisk text and outstanding diagrams, photos, maps and drawings provide a 'visual' understanding of geologic processes in a familiar context. The reader gets a look at how accretion, subduction, extension, vulcanism, etc., shaped Oregon. The 'suggested reading' at the end of the chapters and the bibliography in the back are invaluable to anyone wanting to know more.

Includes Glaciers & Climate, The Conversion of Snow to Glacier Ice, The Flow of Glaciers, Structures In Glaciers, Oxygen-Isotope Ratios & the Future of Glaciers.

My husband liked this book. Arrived in good shape and in a timely fashion. Thanks.

This book is perfect for anyone interested in gardens in the northwest. It not only provides a complete guide with directions to each of the many gardens, but it also provides a review of the gardens and what you will find during each season. A perfect gift for a green thumb, this book will assist you in your touring of all of the northwest's finest gardens.

This is an absolutely excellent book for the area it covers, but the title is misleading. It purports to cover the entire Northwest, when in fact it only covers a few counties in Oregon and Washington west of the Cascade Mountains. I'll keep the book because one of the counties covered is where I was born, and I'm already fairly familiar with the plants there, but I was looking for a book that would cover the whole Pacific Northwest, so I'm pretty disappointed. If I'd known before I bought it that the coverage was so limited, I wouldn't have bought it. Still, I gave it five stars, because for the area it covers (Lane County, Oregon, to just north of Seattle) it is probably the best book you can buy.

Author: University of Oregon. Center for the Advanced Study of Educational Administration.
Title: Handbook of organization development in schools, by Richard A. Schmuck [and others.
Publisher: Palo Alto] National Press Books [1972]
Edition Date: 1972
Language: English
Notes: Second ed. (c1977) by the Center for Educational Policy and Management, published under title: The second handbook of organization development in schools.
Physical Details: xvii, 436 p. illus. 24 cm.
Other Authors: Schmuck, Richard A.
Subjects: School management and organization--United States.

This novel about a pioneer in Oregon is very well written. I was intrigued by the struggles encountered and the relationships formed. I don't know how else i could possible describe this novel without giving the magic of its discovery completely away. It was well written and quite a page turner. I highly reccomend it to those who enjoy stories of struggle and motivation.

An excellent, insightful collection of American stories gleaned from oral histories of the small-town community of Hood River, Oregon. Tamura herself has family from this area. Her scholarly eye focuses on the early immigrants of Japanese ancestry from the early 1900s, whose pioneering spirit and ingenuity helped them to survive the travails of the 1900s, including the Great Depression and en masse incarceration during World War II. A must read, in my opinion, for anyone seeking to study about this period in American history. I must reveal my bias, as a descendant of two of the featured "isseis," in the book. I personally do not know the author, but learned that first generation members of our families were friends. I was born and raised in the Los Angeles area, but grew up visiting Hood River with family, and have seen this town change over the past 30 years. My family and I have found the book to be honest and revealing into my grandparents' lives. The book peers into the lives of the extended "issei" community, who are now all but gone in the year 2006, but live on through stories such as those found in this book.