Books

We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger’s Daughter We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down Memoir of a Gravedigger’s Daughter Rachael Hanel 2013 Spring
Growing up among cemeteries and finding faith and resilience amid sorrowful loss
We’re Gonna Win, Twins! We’re Gonna Win, Twins! Doug Grow 2010 Spring
From open air to the Dome to blue sky again in 2010, a half century of Twins baseball
Webbed Connectivities: The Imperial Sociology of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Webbed Connectivities The Imperial Sociology of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Vrushali Patil 2022 Fall
Constructing a new approach for centering empire in productions of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference
Weekly Newspaper Makeup and Typography Weekly Newspaper Makeup and Typography Thomas F. Barnhart None None
Weisman Art Museum: The Collection Weisman Art Museum The Collection Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum 2004 Spring
An impressive, beautifully designed review of the significant art collection of the University of Minnesota
Welfare Welfare Norman P. Barry 1998 Fall
A look at the most controversial concept in social theory.
West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977 West of Center Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977 Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner, Editors 2011 Fall
Recovering the art and lifestyle of the counterculture in the American West in the 1960s and ’70s
Western Stock Ranching Western Stock Ranching Mont H. Saunderson None None
Westhope: Life as a Former Farm Boy Westhope Life as a Former Farm Boy Dean Hulse 2009 Spring
An evocative and inspiring memoir of a vibrant rural North Dakota
Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living Wetwares Experiments in Postvital Living Richard Doyle 2003 Spring
A dizzying tour of the ways technologies, both real and imagined, can transform humanity
Whale! Whale! Kim Evans 2003 Fall
An entirely fresh approach to Moby Dick, by way of Ludwig Wittgenstein
What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books What a Library Means to a Woman Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books Sheila Liming 2020 Spring
Examining the personal library and the making of self
What Gender Is, What Gender Does What Gender Is, What Gender Does Judith Roof 2016 Spring
A truly new conceptualization of “genders”
What God Is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, Editors 2019 Fall
Native women and women of color poignantly share their pain, revelations, and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage and infant loss
What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar González 2006 Fall
Reassesses the landmark Cold War film, from Kennedy to Reagan to Halliburton
What If?: Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images What If? Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images Vilém Flusser 2022 Spring
An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter
What Is Africa’s Problem? What Is Africa’s Problem? Yoweri K. Museveni Elizabeth Kanyogonya, Editor 2000 Spring
The president of Uganda addresses key questions about Africa’s future.
What Is Information? What Is Information? Peter Janich 2018 Spring
A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinker
What Is Posthumanism? What Is Posthumanism? Cary Wolfe 2009 Fall
Beyond humanism and anthropocentrism
What the Body Cost: Desire, History, and Performance What the Body Cost Desire, History, and Performance Jane Blocker 2004 Spring
Reexamines rebelliousness and desire in the history of performance art