America's
Nuclear Wastelands
Politics, Accountability, and Power
Max S. Power
By the end of the Cold War, 45 years of weapons production and nuclear research had generated a sobering legacy: an astounding 1.7 trillion gallons of contaminated groundwater; 40 million cubic meters of tainted soil and debris; over 2,000 tons of intensely radioactive spent nuclear fuel; more than 160,000 cubic meters of radioactive and hazardous waste; and over 100 million gallons of liquid, high-level radioactive waste.
In America’s Nuclear Wastelands, Max S. Power uses non-technical language to present to a general audience a brief overview of nuclear weapons history and contamination issues. He describes the institutional and political environment, provides a background for understanding the major value conflicts and associated political dynamics, and makes long-term stewardship recommendations. However, his key purpose is to demonstrate the critical role of public participation, and in so doing, encourage citizens to take action regarding local and national policies related to nuclear production and waste disposal.
Author Dr. Max S. Power is a government consultant with a long career in Pacific Northwest nuclear waste issues. He is a former Rhodes Scholar, Yale University Fellow, and Danforth Fellow.
Praise for America's Nuclear Wastelands
“Max Power provides the facts in an objective and non‐judgmental manner without diminishing the terrifying aspects of the crisis that faces this nation and future generations."—Tom Carpenter, Executive Director, Hanford Challenge
"The information Max Power provides in this book will be
very insightful in resolving technical and social aspects
of nuclear waste in the
future.”—John E. Till, Ph.D.,
President, Risk Assessment Corporation
Crooked River
Country
Wranglers, Rogues, and Barons
David Braly
Crooked River Country is a sweeping account of North Central Oregon’s thrilling history. Bordered by intimidating natural barriers, the rough country and harsh winters produced equally hardy inhabitants. Legends include Billy Chinook, Chief Paulina, Elisha Barnes, James M. Blakely, Newt Williamson, James J. Hill, Johnnie Hudspeth, and Les Schwab.
In the early 1800s, only Native Americans, fur trappers, military expeditions, and missionaries inhabited the expanse between the Cascades and the Blue Mountains. The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 spurred a homestead boom that sparked deadly Paiute raids and range wars. Native Americans were forced onto reservations. As land became increasingly precious, “Vigilante” ranchers terrorized settlers and gained a foothold in both local and state politics. “Moonshiners” fought back. Dishonest politicians and capitalists exploited road-building laws to acquire vast timber acreage.
As new steamship and railroad lines fostered continued development, citizens erected schools and libraries, and the territory gradually became less wild. Big eastern lumber companies arrived, harvesting trees and constructing the largest pine mills in the world. Then the Great Depression, coupled with a prolonged drought, devastated the region. New Deal programs and positive repercussions from World War II eventually rekindled growth. Today, although desolate corners and past mysteries still haunt Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson, and Wheeler counties, Crooked River Country presents a captivating and thoroughly-researched saga of Central Oregon’s astonishing transformation.
Prineville resident David Braly is a former journalist and popular author of numerous articles about the West. He was selected as a 2005 Spur Award finalist for best western short fiction.
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Africana Studies
Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Paradigms
Delores P. Aldridge and E. Lincoln James,
Editors
“The intellectual history of Africa has not been written. It is a history that is long, strong, and rich, and the holocaust of the slave trade did not destroy it. Contrary to misconceptions that still prevail, in spite of historical evidence that can dispel them, the Africans were producers of literature and art, and a philosophical way of life, long before contact with the Western world.”—John Henrik Clarke
The systematic study of the Africana/Black experience emerged in universities in the USA in the late 1960s. As an outgrowth of the Civil Rights and Black Conscious Movements, demonstrations occurred on campuses nationwide, giving birth to a new academic discipline.
Written by emerging and established scholars published in the Western Journal of Black Studies over a span of three decades beginning in 1977, the 27 essays included in Africana Studies provide an evolutionary trajectory of the discipline, including theoretical, ideological, and methodological perspectives and paradigms. The primary emphasis is the African American experience with emphasis on how theoretical and methodological approaches have changed over time as the discipline matured. Designed to be used in higher education classrooms, a study guide for each chapter also is included.
Topics include pre-colonial literacy and scholarship in West Africa, Black Nationalism, intellectual foundations of racism, and the ideology of European dominance. Articles also address African American personality development, gender relationships, self-identity, masculinity, crime, blueprints for economic development, and digitalization of the discipline. This provocative, fundamental collection challenges assumptions, misconceptions, and negative stereotypes within the behavioral sciences, social sciences, and liberal arts, and portrays the strength, resilience, and diversity of African and African American peoples.
Authors include prominent members of the field from prestigious institutions, including John Henrik Clarke, James E. Turner, Lansiné Kaba, Johnnella E. Butler, Joseph A. Baldwin, Clovis E. Semmes, Amuzie Chimezie, Richard A. Davis, Terry Kershaw, Robert L. Perry, Molefi Kete Asante, Gordon D. Morgan, Perry A. Hall, Robert E. Weems, Rudolph A. Cain, Victor Oguejiofor Okafor, Arthur Lewin, and James B. Stewart.
Editor Delores P. Aldridge is currently the Grace Towns Hamilton Professor of Sociology and African American Studies in the Department of Sociology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She has served as president of several national organizations and is widely published.
Editor E. Lincoln James serves as a Professor in the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. He also is the Managing Editor of the Western Journal of Black Studies.