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This participatory approach actively engages students in their own American history education. Arranged chronologically, these 24 readers theatre scripts put students in roles of selected historical figures, giving them a you are there perspective on the unfolding of critical milestones, memorable circumstances, and colorful venues that have shaped the American experience. Students can travel w...

In her witty, wry, insightful new novel, Roz Bailey follows the adventures of one woman whos discovering a new state-and a whole new state of mind

Some signs are hard to ignore

When Ruby Dixons car is stolen-again-on the day her husband is offered a job in Portland, Oregon, the message seems clear. Its time to give up stressful New York living in favor of bucolic bliss in th...

A new threat is stalking nations, as terrorist organizations and rogue states alike appear intent on acquiring and using the poor mans nuclear weapon: biological agents such as anthrax, smallpox, and plague. Attacks against Americans during the past dozen years may be an indication of more worrisome events to come. U.S. military forces in Japan were attacked in April of 1990 with botulinum toxi...

In the bestselling tradition of The Wealthy Barber, a nuts-and-bolts financial planning guide for the rest of us

Five years ago, a butcher from Portland, Oregon, named Paul Petillo was frustrated by the lack of financial planning insights available to working stiffs like himself. To fill this gap, he created The BlueCollar Dollar.com, a website offering straight, simple mone...

The ocean gives up many prizes, just setting them on our beaches for us to find. From rubber ducks that started out somewhere in Indonesia to land Venice Beach, to an intact refrigerator makes it way to the Jersey Shore. Chunks of beeswax found on the Oregon coast are the packing remnants of 18th century Spanish gold. And then theres the naturally occurring flotsam: ambergris, from sperm whales...

Dying Right provides an overview of the Death With Dignity movement, a history of how and why Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide, and an analysis of the future of physician-assisted suicide. Engaging the question of how to balance a patients sense about the right way to die, a physicians role as a healer, and the states interest in preventing killing, Dying Right capt...

This is the book that started it all that launched a best-selling regional guidebook series, put stars in the eyes of thousands of establishments, and defined what it means to create a real insiders guide. Best Places Northwest, now in its incredible 17th edition, is back, doling out stars for the best restaurants and lodgings throughout Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. From Can...

For a runaway boy who goes by the name Punkzilla, kicking a meth habit and a life of petty crime in Portland, Oregon, is a prelude to a mission: reconnecting with his older brother, a gay man dying of cancer in Memphis. Against a backdrop of seedy motels, dicey bus stations, and hitched rides, the desperate fourteen-year-old meets a colorful, sometimes dangerous cast of characters. And in lette...

With four young daughters and a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves halfway across the country to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her daughters. The two oldest, Amanda, 15, and Stephanie, 13, have a symbiotic relationship so intense they barely know where one begins and the other leaves off. They come to blame their mother for thei...

Once upon a time in the little town on the Oregon coast, there were four Lindas all in the same first-grade classroom. So they decided to go by their middle names. And form a club. And be friends forever. But that was 47 years and four lives ago. Now a class reunion has brought them all the New York lawyer, the empty nester, the frustrated artist, and the aging starlet together again in their o...