Books Briefly.Byline: The Register-Guard In Search of Ancient Oregon: A Geological and Natural History By Ellen Morris Bishop (Timber Press, 288 pages, $39.95) If every Ph.D. geologist could write and use a camera as well as Ellen Morris Bishop, rock science would be a very popular subject. When was the last time you picked up a geology text that started like this? ``Once upon a time, when dinosaurs roamed Montana and pterosaurs This list of pterosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Pterosauria, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (nomen dubium ruled the skies, there was no Oregon. In those days, more than 100 million years ago, Pacific waves broke on Idaho shores. ... The oldest rocks of Oregon lay far offshore, gathering as coral-fringed islands in a shallow tropical sea.'' Morris received her Ph.D. in geology from Oregon State University Oregon State University, at Corvallis; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1858 as Corvallis College, opened 1865. In 1868 it was designated Oregon's land-grant agricultural college and was taken over completely by the state in 1885. . She's taught at Eastern Oregon University Eastern Oregon University (or "EOU") is one of seven state-funded, four-year universities of higher education in the State of Oregon and belongs to the Oregon University System. , Lewis and Clark College Clark College: see Atlanta Univ. Center. and Marylhurst University Marylhurst University is a private Catholic university located in Marylhurst, Oregon 20 minutes south of Portland on the Willamette River. The University's adjunct instructors are comprised of working professionals recognized in their fields – leaders, managers, marketers, and has worked as a newspaper columnist Noun 1. newspaper columnist - a columnist who writes for newspapers agony aunt - a newspaper columnist who answers questions and offers advice on personal problems to people who write in columnist, editorialist - a journalist who writes editorials and science writer. All that experience shows in this appealing large-format book. The text is enhanced by more than 200 color photographs taken by Bishop, using large- and medium-format cameras, and sometimes panoramic and 35 mm cameras. Many are downright stunning, and all are informative. "In addition to a meaningful and thought-provoking balance of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color and form," Bishop writes, "geological images should evoke time that exceeds our experience, and scales that dwarf our imagination." Hers do. Pick this book up off the coffee table, and it will be hard to put down. The author will give a lecture and slide show at 7 p.m. Monday at Tsunami Books, 2585 Willamette St. Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War Edited by Kim Stafford (Milkweed Editions, 168 pages, $16) Raising Our Voices: An Anthology of Oregon Poets Against the War Edited by Duane Poncy and Patricia McLean (the habit of rainy nights press, 158 pages, $10) Tuesday is Veterans Day, a good day for thinking about war and peace. Poet and pacifist William Stafford, a conscientious objector conscientious objector, person who, on the grounds of conscience, resists the authority of the state to compel military service. Such resistance, emerging in time of war, may be based on membership in a pacifistic religious sect, such as the Society of Friends during World War II, did just that all his life. Kim Stafford shares some of his father's insights in "Every War Has Two Losers." It includes some previously unpublished daily musings along with published poems: "If you don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. the kind of person I am / and I don't know the kind of person you are / a pattern others have made may prevail in the world / and following the wrong god home we may miss our star." The poems collected in "Raising Our Voices" are more urgent but rougher and less powerful. This year, Oregon Poets Against War invited people to sound off and send in. More than 135 poets, ranging widely in age and ability, contributed to this anthology. Some of the poems would come across better from a soap box or at a poetry slam than in print; many are good, but few are likely to last as long as Stafford's. One good one is "Frogs of War" by Barbara LaMorticella: "So now the frogs of war are croaking / from their pond of fire / and all the haters of peace, emboldened em·bold·en tr.v. em·bold·ened, em·bold·en·ing, em·bold·ens To foster boldness or courage in; encourage. See Synonyms at encourage. Adj. 1. / croak back / they have only two notes: Kill Take / Kill Take." Road Kill in the Closet By Jan Eliot (Four Panel Press, 190 pages, $13.95) Hey, we can say we knew her when. Eugene cartoonist Jan Eliot tried her wings in The Register-Guard, and now she's nationally syndicated. The condition seems chronic, because this is "Book Four of the Syndicated Cartoon Stone Soup." Her cartoon vignettes about "an extended family living in a household where uproar rules" usually have more than one panel. But here's one that stands by itself: |
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