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University of Minnesota Press publishes a wide variety of trade, regional, and scholarly books in various subject areas. Browse our special theme, search books by series, explore our new releases, or check out our upcoming events, new blog posts, and subject catalogs.

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CRITICAL RACE THEORY

  • Universal Emancipation
  • The White Possessive
  • Slaves of the State
  • Physics of Blackness
  • European Others

GENDER AND SEXUALITY

  • Ambivalent Childhoods
  • Visibility Interrupted
  • Histories of the Transgender Child
  • The Wedding Heard 'Round the World
  • Eating Fire

 

LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

  • Solo Viola
  • Lost Illusions
  • The Book of the Dead
  • Hybrid Child
  • Italian Chronicles

 

RACE AND HEALTH

  • Black Food Matters (cover)
  • Sweetness in the Blood (cover)
  • Breathing Race into the Machine (cover)
  • Sickening
  • Body and Soul (cover)

ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND EDUCATION

  • Begin with a Bee
  • The Lost Forest
  • Loon Lessons
  • Searching for Minnesota's Native Wildflowers
  • Creekfinding

 

COOKBOOKS

  • The Perennial Kitchen
  • The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen
  • The Soup and Bread Cookbook
  • Savory Sweet
  • Sweet Nature

 

INDIGENOUS STORIES AND CULTURE

  • Noopiming (cover)
  • As We Have Always Done (cover)
  • In the Night of Memory (cover)
  • Le Maya Q'atzij/Our Maya Word
  • Voices of Fire (cover)

 

MATERIAL HISTORY AND CULTURE

  • The Filing Cabinet
  • Archaeologies of Touch
  • Code and Clay, Data and Dirt
  • Mechanization Takes Command
  • What a Library Means to a Woman

 

COLD WEATHER AND SPORTS

  • Skiing into the Bright Open
  • No Horizon Is So Far
  • Brave Enough (cover)
  • Winter's Children
  • The Right to Be Cold

 

NEW AND NOTABLE FORERUNNERS

  • Virtue Hoarders
  • Grounded (cover)
  • Theory for the World to Come
  • The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender (cover)
  • Cruelty as Citizenship

 

ON CURIOSITY

  • Curiosity and Power
  • Curiosity Studies
  • Outsider Theory
  • Designing the Creative Child
  • Happiness by Design

 

GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT

  • Batman Saves the Congo
  • The Global Shelter Imaginary
  • Brand Aid
  • The Idea of Haiti
  • The Copyright Thing Doesn't Work Here

 

HYPEROBJECTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

  • Hyperobjects
  • Watershed
  • Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
  • An Ecotopian Lexicon
  • Timescales

 

ART, AESTHETICS, DESIGN

  • Art and Cosmotechnics
  • Superhumanity
  • Avant-Garde Museology
  • Design, Nature, and Revolution
  • Aesthesis and Perceptronium

 

ANIMALS AND SOCIETY

  • Saving Animals
  • Capture
  • Thinking Plant Animal Human
  • Dialogues on the Human Ape
  • What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?

 

DEATH AND GRIEF

  • After Effects
  • Our Grateful Dead
  • What God Is Honored Here?
  • Jack and the Ghost
  • We Know How This Ends

 

NEW BOOK DISCUSSION GUIDES

  • Gichigami Hearts
  • American Gospel
  • Hudson Bay Bound
  • Waterfall
  • Reeling