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Ahab Unbound Melville and the Materialist Turn Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, Editors 2021 Fall

Why Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear—and our compassion

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

An autoethnographic discussion of the speculative and fantastical elements of performance

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

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

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

Allotment Stories Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien, Editors 2021 Fall

More than two dozen essays of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands

The Lab Book Situated Practices in Media Studies Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson and Jussi Parikka 2021 Fall

An important new approach to the study of laboratories, presenting a practical method for understanding labs in all walks of life

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

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 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

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

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

Winter’s Children A Celebration of Nordic Skiing Ryan Rodgers 2021 Fall

The story of Nordic skiing in the Midwest—its origins and history, its star athletes and races, and its place in the region’s social fabric and the nation’s winter recreation

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

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

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

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

The Dylan Tapes Friends, Players, and Lovers Talkin’ Early Bob Dylan Anthony Scaduto 2021 Fall

The raw material and interviews behind Anthony Scaduto’s iconic biography of Bob Dylan draw an intimate and multifaceted portrait of the singer-songwriter who defined his era

After Effects A Memoir of Complicated Grief Andrea Gilats 2021 Fall

An intensely moving and revelatory memoir of enduring and emerging from exceptional grief

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

For a New Geography Milton Santos 2021 Fall

For the first time in English, a key work of critical geography

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