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Voices of Rondo Oral Histories of Saint Paul’s Historic Black Community 2017 Fall

A look at the historic Rondo neighborhood of Saint Paul through the eyes of thirty-three former residents—back in print

Subprime Health Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine 2017 Fall

Moving beyond discussions of racial genomics, an interdisciplinary exploration of race-based medicine

The Microbial State Global Thriving and the Body Politic 2017 Fall

An innovative exploration of the metaphorical power of bodies on global politics and the potential for the planet’s future

Inheriting Possibility Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education 2017 Fall

From the SAT to social mobility statistics, examining quantitative measurements of human learning and development while rethinking their possibilities

Transhumanism Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia Andrew Pilsch 2017 Fall

Exploring the rich history and utopian potential of transhumanism’s belief that humanity is on the cusp of radical evolutionary transformation

Along the Journey River A Mystery 2017 Fall

When tribal traditions run strong, is it possible to love an “other”?

A Shadow over Palestine The Imperial Life of Race in America Keith P. Feldman 2017 Fall

How Israel and Palestine shaped the post–World War II politics of race in the United States

Evil Dead Center A Mystery Carole laFavor 2017 Fall

Renee is back at it, this time uncovering a dark web with far reaches and implications

Ice-Out Mary Casanova 2017 Fall

A young man’s future—and a budding romance—get caught up in bootlegging, blackmail, corruption, and murder along the U.S.–Canadian border in the 1920s

Enchantment Lake A Northwoods Mystery Margi Preus 2017 Fall

What’s wild in the northwoods turns out to be mostly human, when seventeen-year-old Francie is drawn into the strange mysteries threatening her great aunts’ Minnesota Up North world

Pothole Confidential My Life as Mayor of Minneapolis R.T. Rybak 2017 Fall

A clear-eyed look inside the life and times of Minneapolis and its dynamic three-term mayor

Scenarios Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo Werner Herzog 2017 Fall

The first in a series: Urtexts of the quintessential early films of Werner Herzog

Language and Reality Vilém Flusser 2017 Fall

The first book by this astounding philosopher asserts that the universe, knowledge, truth, and reality are linguistic aspects

We Know How This Ends Living while Dying Bruce H. Kramer 2017 Fall

Surprising lessons in finding joy and personal growth in the last months of life

The Clue in the Trees An Enchantment Lake Mystery Margi Preus 2017 Fall

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

Infinite Variety The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati, The Ultimate Edition Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino 2017 Fall

The biography of the most dazzling artistic and fashion muse of the twentieth century—in a fully revised and spectacularly illustrated edition

The Devil’s Wedding Ring Vidar Sundstøl 2017 Fall

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

Hard Bodies Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture 2017 Fall

It’s an art nearly as old as civilization itself—with a twenty-first century attitude

Ready Player Two Women Gamers and Designed Identity 2017 Fall

A timely look at the implicit biases in video games as they construct and define feminine identity

Seven Ways to Trick a Troll Lise Lunge-Larsen 2017 Fall

In seven whimsical, entertaining folktales, children discover trolls’ weaknesses, as well as their own strengths

Officially Indian Symbols that Define the United States Cécile Ganteaume 2017 Fall

A wide-ranging exploration of the symbolic importance of American Indians in the visual language of U.S. democracy

Postcolonial Automobility Car Culture in West Africa 2017 Fall

Globalizing the car’s role in modern culture

Tales of Wonder Retelling Fairy Tales through Picture Postcards Jack Zipes 2017 Fall

A pictorial history of fairy-tale postcards throughout the world over two hundred years

Onigamiising Seasons of an Ojibwe Year Linda LeGarde Grover 2017 Fall

Fifty short essays evoke the four seasons of the year, and of life, for the Ojibwe in northeastern Minnesota

The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen Sean Sherman 2017 Fall

Award-winning recipes, stories, and wisdom from the celebrated indigenous chef and his team

Got to Be Something Here The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound Andrea Swensson 2017 Fall

The story, from start to superstardom, of the musicians who shaped the Minneapolis Sound

Stomping the Blues Albert Murray 2017 Fall

The 40th anniversary edition of a landmark study of blues and jazz by one of America’s premier essayists and novelists

Lewd Looks American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s Elena Gorfinkel 2017 Fall

The untold story of the American sexploitation film—a major development in screen sex in the decade before “porno chic”

Writing Human Rights The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color 2017 Fall

Reading works by American writers of color through the lens of human rights

Bioaesthetics Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts Carsten Strathausen 2017 Fall

A comprehensive critique of the ideas behind bioaesthetics, and a necessary, methodical account of both its insights and its deficiencies

Historic Capital Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C. Cameron Logan 2017 Fall

A chronicle of historic preservation’s profound impact on Washington, D.C., highlighting the major changes urban revitalization has made on American cities

Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires

As We Have Always Done Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance 2017 Fall

How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism

The Great Lakes at Ten Miles an Hour One Cyclist’s Journey along the Shores of the Inland Seas Thomas Shevory 2017 Fall

A chronicle of travels by bicycle around the Great Lakes, combining personal observations with reflections on the geology, ecology, history, and culture of the region

The Construction of Equality Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City 2017 Fall

A compelling case study of “urban design from below” that traces the transformation of a Swedish city by an active and engaged immigrant community.

When the Hills Are Gone Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community 2017 Fall

An overlooked part of fracking’s environmental impact becomes a window into the activists and industrial interests fighting for the future of energy production—and the fate of rural communities

Fictionalizing Anthropology Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human 2017 Fall

On anthropology, creativity, and becoming other

Being Together in Place Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World 2017 Fall

How place summons Native and non-Native people into dialogue to take up the challenging work of coexistence with each other and the nonhuman world

Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media Shannon Mattern 2017 Fall

A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities

The River Is in Us Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community Elizabeth Hoover 2017 Fall

The riveting story of the Mohawk community that fought back against the contamination of its lands

Building Access Universal Design and the Politics of Disability 2017 Fall

Rich with archival images, the first critical history of the Universal Design movement

A House of Prayer for All People Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church 2017 Fall

Revealing the underappreciated progressive contributions of a liberal LGBT church

Foucault on Painting Catherine M. Soussloff 2017 Fall

A timely exploration of Foucault’s art historical and philosophical engagement with painting as knowledge

Care of the Species Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity John Hartigan Jr. 2017 Fall

Darwin meets Foucault in this engrossing ethnography of plants, race, and biodiversity

New Lines Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map 2017 Fall

A provocative critique of Geographic Information Science

Veer Ecology A Companion for Environmental Thinking Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert, Editors 2017 Fall

An innovative toolkit designed to prompt new awareness of the risk and potential of living on—and with—an alarmingly dynamic planet

Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton 2017 Fall

Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day

Flames of Discontent The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike 2017 Fall

A working-class history of a 1916 miners’ strike in northern Minnesota, one of the most important events in organized labor of the early twentieth century

Ecology without Culture Aesthetics for a Toxic World Christine L. Marran 2017 Fall

Reconfiguring the intentions and parameters of ecocriticism

Life A Modern Invention 2017 Fall

A paradigm-shifting genealogy of biological life as metaphysical concept rather than a scientific category

The Long Take Art Cinema and the Wondrous 2017 Fall

An impassioned argument for the cinematic long take as a compelling source of wonder and a unifying force of contemporary art

Postcolonial Biology Psyche and Flesh after Empire Deepika Bahri 2017 Fall

Rethinking the body of the colonized and its ongoing transformation in today’s global order

Spectacle of Property The House in American Film John David Rhodes 2017 Fall

A fascinating and unprecedented look at our relationship with the house in cinema

Powers of Time Versions of Bergson 2017 Fall

“The philosopher neither obeys, nor commands; he seeks to sympathize.” —Henri Bergson

A Literature of Questions Nonfiction for the Critical Child 2017 Fall

A critical analysis of children’s nonfiction that focuses on the extent to which such works invite young readers to ask questions

Advances Jacques Derrida 2017 Fall

An unlimited prehistory of the world that opens up its unpredictable future

Making Things and Drawing Boundaries Experiments in the Digital Humanities 2017 Fall

A major new look at why art, digitization, and design are vital to “making” in the humanities

Youth Media Matters Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education 2017 Fall

How young people making media have potential to shape pedagogy, raise social awareness, and promote creative self-expression

Modernism as Memory Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany Kathleen James-Chakraborty 2017 Fall

Reexamining architecture and memory in postwar Berlin

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