Pedaling Revolution
Updated Edition includes a new epilogue by the author In a world of increasing traffic congestion, a grassroots movement is carving out a niche for...
Planning a New West
With the recent decline of natural resource industries in the American West, a new economic future has dawned for the region, focused on tourism, service...
The Environmental Justice
From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, American conservation politics underwent a transformation — and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was at the heart...
With Grit and By Grace
In the 1950s, Betty Roberts did what most of her contemporaries considered audacious and inappropriate when she returned to college as a 32-year-old wife and...
Work, Welfare, and Politics
This book sheds much-needed light on the ideology and impacts of recent welfare reform legislation. Noted scholars, advocates, and policy makers explore the issues currently...
Facing the World
Before the Second World War, the states of Washington and Oregon were thinly populated economic backwaters of the United States. Even the major cities of...
The Environmental Politics & Policy of Western Public Lands
The management of public lands in the West is a matter of long-standing and often contentious debates. The government must balance the interests of a...
Bearing Witness
Fracking, the practice of shattering underground rock to release oil and natural gas, is a major driver of climate change. The 300,000 fracking facilities in...