Books Division

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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AAPI READS

  • Outsiders Within
  • Yang Warriors
  • Living for Change
  • The Shared Room
  • Looking for Asian America

TRANS STUDIES

  • Trans Care (cover)
  • Histories of the Transgender Child (cover)
  • Black on Both Sides (cover)
  • Men in Place (cover)
  • Transgender Rights (cover)

 

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)
  • Blood Sugar (cover)
  • Body and Soul (cover)

ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND EDUCATION

  • Begin with a Bee
  • The Lost Forest
  • Plant a Pocket of Prairie
  • 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)
  • The Truth About Stories (cover)
  • 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

 

DISCUSSION GUIDES INCLUDED

  • Fix What You Can (cover)
  • Professor Berman (cover)
  • Brave Enough (cover)
  • Magical Realism for Non-Believers (cover)
  • Swede Hollow (cover)

 

NEW AND NOTABLE FORERUNNERS

  • Virtue Hoarders
  • Grounded (cover)
  • Wageless Life (cover)
  • 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

 

POETRY

  • This Wound Is a World
  • If Bees Are Few
  • The Songs of Antonio Botto
  • The Collected Poems of Edouard Glissant
  • Didactic Poetries

 

INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLANNING

  • The Speculative City
  • The Folklore of the Freeway
  • Manhattan Atmospheres
  • The Invention of Public Space
  • Beautiful Wasteland