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Island Farming: History and Landscape of Agriculture in the San Juan Islands
ISBN: 9781734235128 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,15 |
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Stomp and Shout: R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll
ISBN: 9780295751252 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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154,40 |
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Fear No Man: Don James, the '91 Huskies, and the Seven-Year Quest for a National Football Championship
ISBN: 9780295751214 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1984 the University of Washington Huskies won every game but one, ranking second in national polls. For most coaches, such a season would be a career pinnacle. But for Don James second place motivated him to set aside what he knew about football and rethink the game. James made radical changes to his coaching philosophy, from recruitment to becoming one of the first college teams willing to blitz on any down and in any situation. His new approach initially failed, yet it finally culminated in one of the most explosive teams in college football history. In Fear No Man, Mike... In 1984 the University of Washington Huskies won every game but one, ranking second in national polls. For most coaches, such a season would be a c... |
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102,85 |
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Wandering Woman: Oregon: The Ultimate Road Trip: One Woman's Journey Across the United States by Car
ISBN: 9798986028491 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,03 |
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Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in Seattle
ISBN: 9780295751542 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Affluent Seattle has one of the highest numbers of unhoused people in the United States. In 2021 an estimated 40,800 people experienced homelessness in Seattle and King County during the year, not counting the significant number of "hidden" homeless people doubled up with friends or living in and out of cheap hotels. In Skid Road Josephine Ensign uncovers the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who have lived on the margins of society throughout Seattle’s history. How, Ensign asks, has a large, socially progressive city like Seattle responded to the health and social needs of...
Affluent Seattle has one of the highest numbers of unhoused people in the United States. In 2021 an estimated 40,800 people experienced homelessness i...
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76,88 |
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Lime: Quarrying and Limemaking in the San Juan Islands
ISBN: 9781734235135 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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57,61 |
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The Making of the Northwest Forest Plan: The Wild Science of Saving Old Growth Ecosystems
ISBN: 9780870712241 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tree sitters. Logger protests. Dying timber towns. An iconic species on the brink. The Timber Wars consumed the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s and early1990s and led political leaders to ask scientists for a solution. The Northwest Forest Plan was the result. For most of the twentieth century, the central theme of federal forest management in the Pacific Northwest had been logging old-growth forests to provide a sustained yield of timber. During the 1970s and 1980s, however, a series of studies by young scientists highlighted the destructive impact of that logging on northern spotted...
Tree sitters. Logger protests. Dying timber towns. An iconic species on the brink. The Timber Wars consumed the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s an...
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156,72 |
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Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, 1792: Juan Francisco de la Bodega Y Quadra and the Nootka Sound Controversy
ISBN: 9780806192239 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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97,90 |
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Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America's Deadliest Waterway
ISBN: 9780802162403 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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110,67 |
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Surviving the Sand: My Family\'s Struggle to Farm the Pasco Desert
ISBN: 9781638640042 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dad's eyes danced. His grin held happiness…hope. 'We're home!' he announced. Mom stared out the pickup window. Silent. Lifeless…Tufts of skinny grass and small grayish green bushes surrounded us. The land lay flat in every direction as far as I could see."Helen Lingscheit Heavirland spent her early years in western Oregon's beautiful woods, where her father Wayne Lingscheit's work as a logger provided a comfortable home. But Wayne dreamed of farming, and Columbia Basin Project irrigation opened a new opportunity. In 1954 he and his wife Gladys moved their family--seven-year-old Helen,...
Dad's eyes danced. His grin held happiness…hope. 'We're home!' he announced. Mom stared out the pickup window. Silent. Lifeless…Tufts of skinny gr...
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73,03 |
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Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley
ISBN: 9781947845404 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,15 |
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Ancient Secrets of the Rogue Valley
ISBN: 9780974146850 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,48 |
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Haight-Ashbury, Psychedelics, and the Birth of Acid Rock
ISBN: 9781438493367 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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113,42 |
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Man of Treacherous Charm: Territorial Justice Edmund C. Fitzhugh
ISBN: 9780874224221 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1857, coal mine manager Edmund C. Fitzhugh killed a drunken trespasser in his garden. Though Fitzhugh was under indictment for murder and only marginally qualified for the position, U.S. president James Buchanan made the stunning decision to appoint him to Washington Territory's District and Supreme Courts.The blue blood Virginian lawyer migrated to the California gold rush in 1849. After Fitzhugh's San Francisco law partner and others invested in a new Bellingham Bay coal mine, he moved north to open it. During the next ten years--including a few as Democratic Party chairman--he built and...
In 1857, coal mine manager Edmund C. Fitzhugh killed a drunken trespasser in his garden. Though Fitzhugh was under indictment for murder and only marg...
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127,29 |
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Cashup Davis: The Inspiring Life of a Secret Mentor
ISBN: 9781638640059 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Enamored by the western frontier, British immigrant Cashup Davis, his wife Mary Ann, and nine children became one of the first white families to settle on the Palouse's spectacular rolling hills in eastern Washington Territory. Living at first in a simple sod house, they turn their bunchgrass acreage into a farm, befriend Native Americans during a war ignited by the U.S. government's treaty violations, and eventually open an immensely popular and prosperous stagecoach stop. But Cashup has another dream: he is resolutely determined to build a grand luxury hotel on one of the region's highest...
Enamored by the western frontier, British immigrant Cashup Davis, his wife Mary Ann, and nine children became one of the first white families to settl...
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73,42 |
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Boyhood Among the Woolies: Growing Up on a Basque Sheep Ranch
ISBN: 9781638640073 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like many Pacific Northwest sheep herders, Sebastian Etulain emigrated from Europe's Basque country. He arrived in Yakima in May of 1921, convinced that hard work could overcome a lack of formal education and other shortcomings. It became his doctrine, and he advanced to ranch owner before marrying Mary Gillard Foster.The Etulain sheep ranch lay among rock ridges, carved out coulees, rounded hills, and rich grasslands twenty miles east of Ritzville and almost seventy miles south of Spokane. Isolated and sprawling across nearly ten thousand acres, it included a sturdy ranch house surrounded by...
Like many Pacific Northwest sheep herders, Sebastian Etulain emigrated from Europe's Basque country. He arrived in Yakima in May of 1921, convinced th...
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78,32 |
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The Call of the Last Frontier: The True Story of a Woman's Twenty-Year Alaska Adventure
ISBN: 9781956413076 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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135,91 |
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David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work: An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest
ISBN: 9780874224276 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,15 |
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A Will to Serve: Stories of Patience, Persistence, and Friends Made Along the Way
ISBN: 9781933245706 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,42 |
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Forest Under Siege: The Story of Old Growth After Gifford Pinchot
ISBN: 9781638640257 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,15 |
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