Forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press

Remain Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka and Rebecca Schneider 2019 Spring

Engaging with remains and remainders of media cultures

Back to the Sandbox Art and Radical Pedagogy Jaroslav Anděl, Editor 2019 Spring

An international group of artists and scholars reflects on the nature and significance of education in contemporary society, introducing new perspectives on learning and creativity

The Art of Protest Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present, Second Edition T. V. Reed 2019 Spring

A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance

The Tomb of the Artisan God On Plato’s Timaeus Serge Margel 2019 Spring

A far-reaching reinterpretation of Plato’s Timaeus and its engagement with time, eternity, body, and soul that in its original French edition profoundly influenced Derrida

Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma Larry Millett 2019 Spring

A murderer who eluded him in Munich draws an aging Sherlock Holmes into a monstrous mystery in small-town Minnesota in 1920

The ABC of It Why Children’s Books Matter Leonard S. Marcus and Leonard S. Marcus 2019 Spring

Original artwork and materials explore children’s literature and its impact in society and culture over time

Machine Thomas Pringle, Bernard Stiegler and Gertrud Koch 2019 Spring

On the social consequences of machines

Learning versus the Common Core Nicholas Tampio 2019 Spring

An open challenge to Common Core’s drive for uniformity

No Horizon Is So Far Two Women and Their Historic Journey across Antarctica Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft 2019 Spring

The extraordinary story of the first two women to cross Antarctica

The Platform Economy How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet Marc Steinberg 2019 Spring

Offering a deeper understanding of today’s internet media and the management theory behind it

The Technique of Thought Nancy, Laruelle, Malabou, and Stiegler after Naturalism Ian James 2019 Spring

Interrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy’s relationship to science and science’s relationship to reality

Reading for Reform The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era Laura R. Fisher 2019 Spring

An unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century

Whatever Normal Is Jane St. Anthony 2019 Spring

In the fourth volume of a series set in Minneapolis in the 1960s, three friends navigate relationships and new questions about love and identity

Cyberwar and Revolution Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism Nick Dyer-Witheford and Svitlana Matviyenko 2019 Spring

Uncovering the class conflicts, geopolitical dynamics, and aggressive capitalism propelling the militarization of the internet

The Devil’s Wedding Ring Vidar Sundstøl 2019 Spring

A mysterious disappearance at a 13th-century church in his native Norway draws detective Max Fjellanger into an old case—and a world of ancient ritual, superstition, and present-day danger

Dead Labor Toward a Political Economy of Premature Death James Tyner 2019 Spring

A groundbreaking consideration of death from capitalism, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century

Metaphysical Experiments Physics and the Invention of the Universe Bjørn Ekeberg 2019 Spring

An engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe

Star Wars after Lucas A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy Dan Golding 2019 Spring

Politics, craft, and cultural nostalgia in the remaking of Star Wars for a new age

The Politics of Annihilation A Genealogy of Genocide Benjamin Meiches 2019 Spring

How did a powerful concept in international justice evolve into an inequitable response to mass suffering?

A Contest without Winners How Students Experience Competitive School Choice Kate Phillippo 2019 Spring

Seeing the consequences of competitive school choice policy through students’ eyes

Fighting for NOW Diversity and Discord in the National Organization for Women Kelsy Kretschmer 2019 Spring

An unparalleled exploration of NOW’s trajectory, from its founding to the present—and its future

Hope in the Struggle A Memoir Josie R. Johnson 2019 Spring

How a Black woman from Texas became one of the most well-known civil rights activists in Minnesota, detailing seven remarkable decades of fighting for fairness in voting, housing, education, and employment

Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field Notes from the Field Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir, Editors 2019 Spring

An interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global South

Reimagining Livelihoods Life beyond Economy, Society, and Environment Ethan Miller 2019 Spring

A provocative reassessment of the concepts underlying the struggle for sustainable development

Cyclescapes of the Unequal City Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development John G. Stehlin 2019 Spring

A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United States

Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes) A Novel Lorna Landvik 2019 Spring

A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist’s half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world

Prison Land Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America Brett Story 2019 Spring

From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life

Living on Campus An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Carla Yanni 2019 Spring

An exploration of the architecture of dormitories that exposes deeply held American beliefs about education, youth, and citizenship

The Lost Forest Phyllis Root 2019 Spring

The story of a forest “lost” by a surveying error—and all the flora and fauna to be found there

In the Night of Memory A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2019 Spring

Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation

Design, Nature, and Revolution Toward a Critical Ecology Tomás Maldonado 2019 Spring

A landmark text in design discourse for a world desperately in need of redesign—back in print

Producers, Parasites, Patriots Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes 2019 Spring

The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump

Avant-Garde in the Cornfields Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony Ben Nicholson and Michelangelo Sabatino, Editors 2019 Spring

A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy

The Clue in the Trees An Enchantment Lake Mystery Margi Preus 2019 Spring

Francie returns to Enchantment Lake looking for answers, only to get dragged into a murder mystery she might not survive

By the Fire Sami Folktales and Legends Emilie Demant Hatt 2019 Spring

The first English publication of Sami folktales from Scandinavia collected and illustrated in the early twentieth century

Magical Realism for Non-Believers A Memoir of Finding Family Anika Fajardo 2019 Spring

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

The Decorated Tenement How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age Zachary J. Violette 2019 Spring

A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America

Sweet Nature A Cook's Guide to Using Honey and Maple Syrup Beth Dooley and Mette Nielsen 2019 Spring

A beautiful, delicious celebration of two natural sweeteners in irresistible recipes

Silent Cells The Secret Drugging of Captive America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2019 Spring

A critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and welfare systems

Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring

The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether

Playing with the Book Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader Hannah Field 2019 Spring

A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Victorian novelty picture books reshape the ways children read and interact with texts

Anti-Electra The Radical Totem of the Girl Elisabeth von Samsonow 2019 Spring

A close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex”

Gunflint Burning Fire in the Boundary Waters Cary J. Griffith 2019 Spring

The story of the Ham Lake fire, at the time the most destructive wildfire in modern Minnesota history—the blaze, the firefighters’ battle, the human toll

Clearing Out A Novel Helene Uri 2019 Spring

In a masterful blend of fiction and autobiography, a Norwegian novelist sends her character to the far north to learn what she can about their Sami ancestry

Architectures of the Unforeseen Essays in the Occurrent Arts Brian Massumi 2019 Spring

A beautifully written study of three pioneering artists, entwining their work and our understanding of creativity

Archives of Infamy Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens Nancy Luxon, Editor 2019 Spring

Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life

Translated Nation Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte Christopher Pexa 2019 Spring

How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state

The Collected Poems of Édouard Glissant Édouard Glissant Jeff Humphries, Editor 2019 Spring

The complete poems of the finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature—now in paper

The Eloquent Screen A Rhetoric of Film Gilberto Perez 2019 Spring

A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film’s unique ability to move us

Glissant and the Middle Passage Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss John E. Drabinski 2019 Spring

A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness

Standing with Standing Rock Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, Editors 2019 Spring

Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline

The Drink That Made Wisconsin Famous Beer and Brewing in the Badger State Doug Hoverson 2019 Spring

From grain to glass—a complete illustrated history of brewing and breweries in the state more famous for beer than any other

Beyond the Meme Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution Alan C. Love and William C. Wimsatt, Editors 2019 Spring

Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time

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