Spring & Summer 2023 Books
Announcing our Spring/Summer 2023 season of exciting new books, including Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood (Charlotte Wrigley); White Burgers, Black Cash (Naa Oyo A. Kwate); Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight (Shannon Gibney and Charly Palmer); Trauma Sponges (Jeremy Norton); The Lichen Museum (A. Laurie Palmer); Noah's Arkive (Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates); and Making Sense in Common (Isabelle Stengers). Browse all books below or select an option to view the catalog online.
SPRING & SUMMER 2023
Announcing our Spring/Summer 2023 season of exciting new books, including Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood (Charlotte Wrigley); White Burgers, Black Cash (Naa Oyo A. Kwate); Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight (Shannon Gibney and Charly Palmer); Trauma Sponges (Jeremy Norton); The Lichen Museum (A. Laurie Palmer); Noah's Arkive (Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates); and Making Sense in Common (Isabelle Stengers).
Browse all books below, in alphabetical order by title, or select an option for alternate online viewing.
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All through the Town The School Bus as Educational Technology Antero Garcia 2023 Spring
- The role of the humble school bus in transforming education in America
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American Indians and the American Dream Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota Kasey R. Keeler 2023 Spring
- Understanding the processes and policies of urbanization and suburbanization in American Indian communities
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Betting on Macau Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution Tim Simpson 2023 Spring
- A comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planet
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Big Belching Bog Phyllis Root 2023 Spring
- A quirky romp through the peat bogs of northern Minnesota for young readers
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Blood in the Tracks The Minnesota Musicians behind Dylan's Masterpiece Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik 2023 Spring
- The story of the Minneapolis musicians unexpectedly summoned to re-record half of the songs on Bob Dylan's most acclaimed album
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Blue Guitar Highway Paul Metsa 2023 Spring
- The singular Minnesota musician tells his story of making music, from folk outpost to pop paradise to stages shared with stars from Seeger to Springsteen
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Cooking from the Heart The Hmong Kitchen in America Sami Scripter and Sheng Yang 2023 Spring
- The first cookbook of Hmong-American cuisine, filled with unique recipes and stories
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Crip Negativity J. Logan Smilges 2023 Spring
- Imagining anti-ableist liberation beyond the rubrics of access and inclusion
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2023 Spring
- A cutting-edge view of the digital humanities at a time of global pandemic, catastrophe, and uncertainty
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Don’t Count Your Chicks Ingri d’Aulaire and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire 2023 Spring
- This delightful storybook by the incomparable d’Aulaires, based on a poem by Hans Christian Andersen, will charm a new generation of little readers
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Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic Charlotte Wrigley 2023 Spring
- Exploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change—thawing permafrost—and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet
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Endlings Fables for the Anthropocene Lydia Pyne 2023 Spring
- Amid the historical decimation of species around the globe, a new way into the language of loss
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Expelling Public Schools How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark John Arena 2023 Spring
- Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newark’s public school system
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Fantasies of Precision American Modern Art, 1908–1947 Ashley Lazevnick 2023 Spring
- Redefining the artistic movement that helped shape American modernism
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Ferns and Lycophytes of Minnesota The Complete Guide to Species Identification Welby R. Smith 2023 Spring
- The definitive field guide for understanding and identifying ferns and lycophytes in Minnesota
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For the Love of Cod A Father and Son’s Search for Norwegian Happiness Eric Dregni 2023 Spring
- What makes Norwegians so damn happy—and does it translate?
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Gut Anthro An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes Amber Benezra 2023 Spring
- A fascinating ethnography of microbes that opens up new spaces for anthropological inquiry
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In the Company of Radical Women Writers Rosemary Hennessy 2023 Spring
- Recovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s—a decade unnervingly similar to our own
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Latin Art in Minnesota Conversations and What’s Next William G. Franklin, Editor 2023 Spring
- A richly illustrated and personal presentation of the lives and careers of twelve Latin American artists in Minnesota
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Lively Cities Reconfiguring Urban Ecology Maan Barua 2023 Spring
- A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban
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Making Sense in Common A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse Isabelle Stengers 2023 Spring
- A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy
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Natives against Nativism Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France Olivia C. Harrison 2023 Spring
- Examining the intersection of Palestine solidarity movements and antiracist activism in France from the 1970s to the present
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Noah’s Arkive Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates 2023 Spring
- A timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose
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Nonhuman Humanitarians Animal Interventions in Global Politics Benjamin Meiches 2023 Spring
- Examining the appearance of nonhuman animals laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations
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Nothing Permanent Modern Architecture in California Todd Cronan 2023 Spring
- A critical look at the competing motivations behind one of modern architecture’s most widely known and misunderstood movements
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Operational Images From the Visual to the Invisual Jussi Parikka 2023 Spring
- An in-depth look into the transformation of visual culture and digital aesthetics
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Rescue Me On Dogs and Their Humans Margret Grebowicz 2023 Spring
- What exactly is it we want from dogs today?
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Rough Metaphysics The Speculative Thought and Mediumship of Jane Roberts Peter Skafish 2023 Spring
- A powerful case for why anthropology should study outsiders of thought and their speculative ideas
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Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight Shannon Gibney 2023 Spring
- Six-year-old Sam, with his Liberian dad and African American mom, finds a way to bring everyone in his cross-cultural family together at the dinner table
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Settling Nature The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel 2023 Spring
- Studying nature conservation in Palestine-Israel through the lens of settler colonialism
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Star Wars after Lucas A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy Dan Golding 2023 Spring
- Politics, craft, and cultural nostalgia in the remaking of Star Wars
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Stories from Jonestown Leigh Fondakowski 2023 Spring
- The story of Jonestown and Peoples Temple told through extensive interviews with the survivors
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Subsurface Karen Pinkus 2023 Spring
- A bold new consideration of climate change between narratives of the Earth’s layers and policy of the present
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The Big Sugar A Brigid Reardon Mystery Mary Logue 2023 Spring
- A grisly death near her new homestead draws Brigid Reardon into a complicated mystery soon after her arrival in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1881
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The Birth of Computer Vision James E. Dobson 2023 Spring
- A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies
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The Comic Self Toward Dispossession Timothy C. Campbell and Grant Farred 2023 Spring
- A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of itself
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The Environmental Unconscious Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton Steven Swarbrick 2023 Spring
- Bringing psychoanalysis to bear on the diagnosis of ecological crisis
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The Frankfurt School in Exile Thomas Wheatland 2023 Spring
- An examination of the influence of German intellectuals on postwar American thought
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The Lichen Museum A. Laurie Palmer 2023 Spring
- A radical proposal for how a tiny organism can transform our understanding of human relations
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The Quiet Violence of Empire How USAID Waged Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan Wesley Attewell 2023 Spring
- How the U.S. empire-state transformed post-1945 Afghanistan into a key site for reimagining development
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The Solidarity Economy Jean-Louis Laville 2023 Spring
- Questioning the boundaries between politics and economics
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Too Much Sea for Their Decks Shipwrecks of Minnesota’s North Shore and Isle Royale Michael Schumacher 2023 Spring
- Shipwreck stories from along Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale
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Trauma Sponges Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response Jeremy Norton 2023 Spring
- Beyond an adrenaline ride or a chronicle of bravura heroics, this unflinching view of a Minneapolis firefighter reveals the significant toll of emergency response
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White Burgers, Black Cash Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation Naa Oyo A. Kwate 2023 Spring
- The long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community