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A Natural Curiosity The Story of the Bell Museum Lansing Shepard, Don Luce, Barbara Coffin and Gwen Schagrin 2021 Fall

A richly illustrated tour of Minnesota’s premier natural history museum after 150 years

Eco Soma Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters Petra Kuppers 2021 Fall

Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures

The Steger Homestead Kitchen Simple Recipes for an Abundant Life Will Steger and Rita Mae Steger 2021 Fall

Personal and simple, earthy and warm—recipes and stories from the Steger Wilderness Center in Minnesota’s north woods

Showroom City Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World John Joe Schlichtman 2021 Fall

A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world

Cut/Copy/Paste Fragments from the History of Bookwork Whitney Trettien 2021 Fall

How do early modern media underlie today’s digital creativity?

Art and Posthumanism Essays, Encounters, Conversations Cary Wolfe 2021 Fall

A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world

The Big No Kennan Ferguson, Editor 2021 Fall

What it means to celebrate the potential and the power of no

The Big Island A Story of Isle Royale Julian May 2021 Fall

First published in 1968, this engrossing and beautiful picture book about wildlife on Isle Royale is available again

People, Practice, Power Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier, Editors 2021 Fall

An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship

The Digital Is Kid Stuff Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy 2021 Fall

How popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America

Black Pulp Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Brooks E. Hefner 2021 Fall

A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice

Spent behind the Wheel Drivers' Labor in the Uber Economy Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray 2021 Fall

Exploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor

Snowshoe Country Florence Page Jaques 2021 Fall

The classic and gorgeous accounts of two legendary naturalists’ journeys through summer and winter in the north country—in two new stand-alone paperback editions

Disorderly Families Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault 2021 Fall

The first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth century France held in the archives of the Bastille

Language, Madness, and Desire On Literature Michel Foucault 2021 Fall

Insight into the importance of literature for Michel Foucault—published in English for the first time

Canoe Country Florence Page Jaques 2021 Fall

The classic and gorgeous accounts of two legendary naturalists’ journeys through summer and winter in the north country—in two new stand-alone paperback editions

Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower, Editors 2021 Fall

How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigm

Case Studies for Interpreting the MMPI-A-RF Daniel L. Davis and Yossef S. Ben-Porath 2021 Fall

A collection of illustrative adolescent case studies to aid clinicians in problem identification, diagnosis, and treatment planning—the only casebook for the MMPI-A-RF

Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Caren Irr, Editor 2021 Fall

A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age

Scale Theory A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio 2021 Fall

A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities

The Burden of Representation Essays on Photographies and Histories John Tagg 2021 Fall

A powerhouse in photographic theory—updated and with a new essay

Building on Borrowed Time Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang Lukas Ley 2021 Fall

A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disaster

We Are Meant to Rise Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura, Editors 2021 Fall

A brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota

The Last Bookseller A Life in the Rare Book Trade Gary Goodman 2021 Fall

A wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade during its last Golden Age

Magical Realism for Non-Believers A Memoir of Finding Family Anika Fajardo 2021 Fall

A young woman from Minnesota searches out the Colombian father she’s never known in this powerful exploration of what family really means

An Essay for Ezra Racial Terror in America Grant Farred 2021 Fall

An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconscious

Settler Colonial City Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis David Hugill 2021 Fall

Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern Minneapolis

Practicing Cooperation Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism Andrew Zitcer 2021 Fall

A powerful new understanding of cooperation as an antidote to alienation and inequality

Commodities of Care The Business of HIV Testing in China Elsa L. Fan 2021 Fall

How global health practices can end up reorganizing practices of care for the people and communities they seek to serve

Anime's Identity Performativity and Form beyond Japan 2021 Fall

A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism

How We Became Sensorimotor Movement, Measurement, Sensation Mark Paterson 2021 Fall

An engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge of the body’s inner senses

Opioid Reckoning Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State Amy C. Sullivan 2021 Fall

Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic

Modelwork The Material Culture of Making and Knowing Martin Brückner, Sandy Isenstadt and Sarah Wasserman, Editors 2021 Fall

How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be

The Silver Box An Enchantment Lake Mystery Margi Preus 2021 Fall

In the final Enchantment Lake mystery, Francie’s search for the truth about her mother—and herself—plunges her into danger during a North Woods winter

American Gospel A Novel Lin Enger 2021 Fall

Radically personal and quintessentially American, an intimate drama at the heart of an apocalyptic vision

Raising Ollie How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Tom Rademacher 2021 Fall

The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child

Gichigami Hearts Stories and Histories from Misaabekong Linda LeGarde Grover 2021 Fall

Award-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior

Talkin’ Up to the White Woman Indigenous Women and Feminism Aileen Moreton-Robinson 2021 Fall

A twentieth-anniversary edition of this tour de force in feminism and Indigenous studies, now with a new preface

Olav Audunssøn II II. Providence Sigrid Undset 2021 Fall

The second volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset’s fluid, natural style in a new English translation, the first in nearly a century

Therapy Tech The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare Emma Bedor Hiland 2021 Fall

A pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it

A Love Affair with Birds The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts Sue Leaf 2021 Fall

The father of Minnesota ornithology, whose life story opens a window on a lost world of nature and conservation in the state’s early days

Remembering Our Intimacies Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2021 Fall

Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i

Reeling A Novel Sarah Stonich 2021 Fall

RayAnne’s next adventure takes our intrepid heroine, haunted by her beloved grandmother’s death, to New Zealand to film a new season of her all-women fishing talk show

Profit over Privacy How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet Matthew Crain 2021 Fall

A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet

The Three Sustainabilities Energy, Economy, Time Allan Stoekl 2021 Fall

Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliché—to a substantive, truly sustainable future

Grandmother’s Pigeon Louise Erdrich 2021 Fall

A grandmother’s sudden departure leaves her family with an even more puzzling, and wondrous, surprise in this enchanting story from the National Book Award–winning author—at last back in print

Tolerance and Risk How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims Mitra Rastegar 2021 Fall

How apparently positive representations in U.S. media cast Muslims as a racial population

Days Like Smoke A Minnesota Boyhood Jon Hassler 2021 Fall

The memoir of a small-town childhood by one of Minnesota’s favorite writers, now published for the first time

Louis Sullivan’s Idea Tim Samuelson 2021 Fall

A visual compendium revealing the philosophy and life of America’s renowned architect

Reconstructing the Garrick Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece John Vinci, Editor 2021 Fall

A beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated biography of one of Chicago’s greatest lost buildings

Written by the Body Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities Lisa Tatonetti 2021 Fall

Examining the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history, literature, and film

The Editor Function Literary Publishing in Postwar America Abram Foley 2021 Fall

Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history

Sickening Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States Anne Pollock 2021 Fall

An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century

Brave Enough Jessie Diggins 2021 Fall

Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America’s heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter