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Author : TIMOTHY. KRAUSE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book SEVEN WONDERS OF OREGON written by TIMOTHY. KRAUSE and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robin Cody
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 9781570610837
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Voyage of a Summer Sun written by Robin Cody and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the centre of this wonderful book is the great Columbia River-rich with history, myth, and riverfolk, as well as progress and its effects. Cody's canoe trip from the Columbia's Canadian headwaters to where it meets the Pacific Ocean, churns up a lively portrait of the river and the land through which it courses. The Los Angeles Times Book Review praised the hardcover edition with "Voyage is neither an environmental treatise nor a search for [Cody's] own soul. It's about the taming of a river and, from water level, what that taming has meant.....Cody is a clear writer with strong descriptive powers." The hardcover edition was awarded the 1996 PNBA Award.
Author : Diana Lemberg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544030
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Barriers Down written by Diana Lemberg and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom of information is a principle commonly associated with the United States’ First Amendment traditions or digital-era technology boosters. Barriers Down reveals its unexpected origins in political, economic, and cultural battles over analog media in the mid-twentieth century. Diana Lemberg traces how the United States shaped media around the world after 1945 under the banner of the “free flow of information,” showing how the push for global media access acted as a vehicle for American power. Barriers Down considers debates over civil liberties and censorship in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and elsewhere alongside Americans’ efforts to circumvent foreign regulatory systems in the quest to expand markets and bring their ideas to new publics. Lemberg shows how in the decades following the Second World War American free-flow policies reshaped the world’s information landscape, though not always as intended. Through burgeoning information diplomacy and development aid, Washington diffused new media ranging from television and satellite broadcasting to global English. But these actions also spurred overseas actors to articulate alternative understandings of information freedom and of how information flows might be regulated. Bridging the historiographies of the United States in the world, human rights, decolonization and development, and media and technology, Barriers Down excavates the analog roots of digital-age debates over the politics and ethics of transnational information flows.
Author : Pierre Souyri
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231118422
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)
Download or read book The World Turned Upside Down written by Pierre Souyri and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique synthetic history of Japan's "middle ages" is a remarkable portrait of a complex period in the evolution of Japan. Using a wide variety of sources--ranging from legal and historical texts to artistic and literary examples--to form a detailed overview of medieval Japanese society, Souyri demonstrates the interconnected nature of medieval Japanese culture while providing an animated account of the era's religious, intellectual, and literary practices.
Author : Lewis R. Freeman
Publisher : Dixon Price Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781929516186
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Down the Columbia written by Lewis R. Freeman and published by Dixon Price Pub. This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1921, Freeman's account of his journey down the Columbia river depicts in detail the natural beauty of the area and provides a glimpse at life along the river during the 1920's. The narrative traces his voyage from the headwaters of the Columbia to the run past Palisade Rock
Author : Peter J. Marina
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545193
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Down and Out in New Orleans written by Peter J. Marina and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since Hurricane Katrina, the modern-day bohemians of New Orleans have found themselves forced to the edges of poverty by the new tourist economy. Modeling his work after George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, the sociologist and ethnographer Peter J. Marina explores this unfamiliar side of the gentrifying “new” New Orleans. In 1920s Paris, Orwell witnessed an influx of locals and outsiders seeking authenticity while struggling to live with bourgeois society. Marina finds a similar ambivalence in New Orleans: a tourism-dependent city whose commerce caters largely to well-heeled natives and upper-class travelers, where many creative locals and wanderers have remained outsiders, willingly or otherwise. Marina does not merely interview these spirited urban misfits—he lives among them. Down and Out in New Orleans follows their journeys, depicting the lives of those on the social fringes of a resilient city. Marina finds work as a bartender, street mime, and poet. Along the way, he visits homeless shelters, squats in abandoned buildings, attends rituals in cemeteries, and befriends writers, musicians, occultists, and artists as they look for creative solutions to the contradictory demands of late capitalism. Marina does for New Orleans what Orwell did for Paris a century earlier, providing a rigorous, unrelenting, and original glimpse into the subcultures of a city in rapid change.
Author : Valerie Sweeney Prince
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231134401
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Burnin' Down the House written by Valerie Sweeney Prince and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Cheryl A. Wall, Rutgers University
Author : Blaine Harden
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393316902
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)
Download or read book River Lost written by Blaine Harden and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997-11-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the destruction of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest by well-intentioned Americans who saw only the benefits of the dam-building, power plant and irrigation projects, not realizing the longterm effects of killing the river.
Author : Paul Cronin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544332
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book A Time to Stir written by Paul Cronin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For seven days in April 1968, students occupied five buildings on the campus of Columbia University to protest a planned gymnasium in a nearby Harlem park, links between the university and the Vietnam War, and what they saw as the university’s unresponsive attitude toward their concerns. Exhilarating to some and deeply troubling to others, the student protests paralyzed the university, grabbed the world’s attention, and inspired other uprisings. Fifty years after the events, A Time to Stir captures the reflections of those who participated in and witnessed the Columbia rebellion. With more than sixty essays from members of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the Students’ Afro-American Society, faculty, undergraduates who opposed the protests, “outside agitators,” and members of the New York Police Department, A Time to Stir sheds light on the politics, passions, and ideals of the 1960s. Moving beyond accounts from the student movement’s white leadership, this book presents the perspectives of black students, who were grappling with their uneasy integration into a supposedly liberal campus, as well as the views of women, who began to question their second-class status within the protest movement and society at large. A Time to Stir also speaks to the complicated legacy of the uprising. For many, the events at Columbia inspired a lifelong dedication to social causes, while for others they signaled the beginning of the chaos that would soon engulf the left. Taken together, these reflections present a nuanced and moving portrait that reflects the sense of possibility and excess that characterized the 1960s.
Author : Craig Romano
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 159485369X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (948 download)
Download or read book Day Hiking Columbia River Gorge written by Craig Romano and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **UPDATE** We have a correction regarding Hike #39, Grassy Knoll and Big Huckleberry Mountain (page 137) To download the updated driving directions for the trailhead please click HERE CLICK HERE to download the "Hardy Ridge" hike as well as the hike up "Mount Defiance" from Day Hiking Columbia River Gorge The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area is the single biggest visitor destination in Oregon 25 of these hikes are published here for the first time Caters to the greater Portland, Oregon–Vancouver, Washington metro area The Columbia River Gorge forms much of the long border between Washington and Oregon, offering hikers a multitude of beautiful trails. Famous for its cascading waterfalls, the region offers spectacular views of the mighty river and its windswept bluffs, as well as stunning panoramas of the surrounding landscape and peaks including Mount Hood, Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams, and the Sisters. Day Hiking Columbia River Gorge, by well-known hiking author Craig Romano, features: 100 day hikes on both sides of the river extensive year-round hiking options trails in the National Scenic Area, Silver Star Scenic Area, Trapper Creek, Clark County, and beyond easy-to-read icons for waterfalls, views, dog-friendly trails, and more detailed driving directions and trail maps info on flora and fauna, the unusual Gorge winds, and its abundance of waterfalls Learn more about author Craig Romano at his website or connect with him one step further by "liking" his page on Facebook. **Mountaineers Books designates 1 percent of the sales of select guidebooks in our Day Hiking series toward volunteer trail maintenance. . For this book, our 1 percent of sales is going to Washington Trails Association (WTA). WTA hosts more than 750 work parties throughout Washington’s Cascades and Olympics each year, with volunteers clearing downed logs after spring snowmelt, cutting away brush, retreading worn stretches of trail, and building bridges and turnpikes. Their efforts are essential to the land managers who maintain thousands of acres on shoestring budgets.
Author : Bruce D. Haynes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543417
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Down the Up Staircase written by Bruce D. Haynes and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down the Up Staircase tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem over the past century. Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed blacks forward through the twentieth century—the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the early civil rights victories, the Black Power and Black Arts movements—as well as the many forces that ravaged black communities, including Haynes's own. As an authority on race and urban communities, Haynes brings unique sociological insights to the American mobility saga and the tenuous nature of status and success among the black middle class. In many ways, Haynes's family defied the odds. All four great-grandparents on his father's side owned land in the South as early as 1880. His grandfather, George Edmund Haynes, was the founder of the National Urban League and a protégé of eminent black sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois; his grandmother, Elizabeth Ross Haynes, was a noted children's author of the Harlem Renaissance and a prominent social scientist. Yet these early advances and gains provided little anchor to the succeeding generations. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling three-story brownstone in Sugar Hill that once hosted Harlem Renaissance elites and later became an embodiment of the family's rise and demise. Down the Up Staircase is a stirring portrait of this family, each generation walking a tightrope, one misstep from free fall.
Author : Michael D. Leinbach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628728523
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Bringing Columbia Home written by Michael D. Leinbach and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space Hipsters The dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle disaster. On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation’s eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center was a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal, state, and local agencies combed an area of rural east Texas the size of Rhode Island for every piece of the shuttle and her crew they could find. Assisted by hundreds of volunteers, it would become the largest ground search operation in US history. This comprehensive account is told in four parts: Parallel Confusion Courage, Compassion, and Commitment Picking Up the Pieces A Bittersweet Victory For the first time, here is the definitive inside story of the Columbia disaster and recovery and the inspiring message it ultimately holds. In the aftermath of tragedy, people and communities came together to help bring home the remains of the crew and nearly 40 percent of shuttle, an effort that was instrumental in piecing together what happened so the shuttle program could return to flight and complete the International Space Station. Bringing Columbia Home shares the deeply personal stories that emerged as NASA employees looked for lost colleagues and searchers overcame immense physical, logistical, and emotional challenges and worked together to accomplish the impossible. Featuring a foreword and epilogue by astronauts Robert Crippen and Eileen Collins, and dedicated to the astronauts and recovery search persons who lost their lives, this is an incredible, compelling narrative about the best of humanity in the darkest of times and about how a failure at the pinnacle of human achievement became a story of cooperation and hope.
Author : Sharlene P. Nelson
Publisher : Umbrella Books
ISBN 13 : 9780945397588
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Umbrella Guide to Exploring the Columbia-Snake River Inland Waterway written by Sharlene P. Nelson and published by Umbrella Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable reference for boaters and motorists.
Author : William Dietrich
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Northwest Passage written by William Dietrich and published by New York ; Toronto : Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1995 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . Native Americans clung to the Columbia as the root of their culture, colonizers came in search of productive land and an efficient trade route, and industrialists seeking energy transformed the region's wild beauty.
Author : Keith G. Hay
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
ISBN 13 : 9780881926200
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Lewis and Clark Columbia River Water Trail written by Keith G. Hay and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 2004 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel the lower Columbia on a history tour with this helpful guide, and imagine what this awesome, untamed terrain may have looked like to Lewis and Clark.
Author : Erin K. O'Connell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983608509
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Loowit's Legend written by Erin K. O'Connell and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loowit's Legend is the story of the Columbia River Gorge. It was first told by the native people of the region and passed down for many years. Now children can enjoy the tale in this new illustrated children's book, available in January 2012.With stunning watercolor illustrations to accompany this adapted tale, Loowit's Legend tells the story of two brothers, Pahtoe and Wy'East, who compete for the love of a beautiful maiden named Loowit. In doing so, they defy the Great Spirit's wishes and set the stage for the creation of the Cascades.
Author : Alexander Ross
Publisher : Westphalia Press
ISBN 13 : 9781633916746
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon Or Columbia River, 1810-1813 written by Alexander Ross and published by Westphalia Press. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after information from Lewis and Clark's expedition to chart the western region of the United States was shared, investors and explorers sought ways to capitalize on the information. In this work, Alexander Ross details the trials and tribulations of one such expedition, now known as the Astor Expedition. Ross was employed by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, and this led to the founding Fort Astoria, an American outpost near the Columbia River. Although the title suggests that members of Astoria were "the first settlers" of the region, it fails to consider the numerous indigenous tribes Ross encountered and described in great detail. For example, this work includes an appendix of Chinook vocabulary, highlighting how extensive and advanced the indigenous populations were that had already settled in that region. The fort itself was populated by a variety of people, including French-Canadians, Scots, Hawaiians, Americans, and a variety of indigenous North American peoples, such as Iroquois. Due to the War of 1812, the fort was bought out by the North West Company, which renamed it Fort George.
