Kids love candy, and so do bears. When you have kids in the woods with lots of candy sometimes fireworks are the explosive solution. They also love wedding cake, and when a bear arrives uninvited to a wedding the bear becomes the life of the party. Another thing that bears love is trash, but mama bears tend to get upset when you hit a bunch of cubs on the head with a trash bag. When people discuss forests, mountains, and wild places, the topic often turns to bears. Most people are afraid o...

From the author of the award-winning Visions of Linus Pauling comes this riveting sequel that chronicles four pivotal but under-studied aspects of Pauling's epic life:Drawing on years of archival investigation, hours of interviews and hundreds of source materials, Chris Petersen offers readers an extraordinarily unvarnished view of Linus Pauling as never before — a young man, a bold division chair, and an intrepid explorer whose unorthodox ideas and fiery activism drew stormy inter...

His life thrown into chaos by the death of his father in his youth, Linus Pauling persevered through an impoverished childhood to become one of the great scientists and humanitarians of the 20th century. In a stunningly original examination of the two-time Nobel Laureate, Oregon State University archivist Chris Petersen touches upon the major eras of Pauling's life and dials into specific episodes, themes, accomplishments, and failures at a level of detail that has not been put forth elsew...

A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric, and fieldworkA variety of research areas within rhetorical studies—including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches, environmental communication, technical communication, and critical and participatory action research, among others—have increasingly called for ethnographic fieldwork that grounds the study of rhetoric with...