Spring and Summer 2024 Books
Announcing our Spring/Summer 2024 lineup of exciting new books! Jonathan Cott on the Beatles; Jennifer Grenz and Teresa Peterson on the environment; fiction from Conor Kerr and Ashley Shelby; nonfiction from Taiyon J. Coleman, Michael Feola, Robert Rosenberger, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, and more; biographies of Tove Jansson and Cornbread Harris; and more.
SPRING AND SUMMER 2024
Announcing our Spring/Summer 2024 season of new books!
Featuring ...
* Beatles! (Let Me Take You Down: Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever by Jonathan Cott)
* Fiction! (Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr; Honeymoons in Temporary Locations by Ashley Shelby)
* Nonfiction! (Medicine Wheel for the Planet by Jennifer Grenz; Traveling without Moving by Taiyon J. Coleman; The Rage of Replacement by Michael Feola; Tove Jansson by Boel Westin; Perennial Ceremony by Teresa Peterson)
* Plus: Filmmaker Chris Marker, poetry by Marcie R. Rendon, a Cornbread Harris biography, a philosophy of distraction, and more!
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- A Private Wilderness The Journals of Sigurd F. Olson Sigurd F. Olson 2024 Spring
- The personal diaries of one of America’s best-loved naturalists, revealing his difficult and inspiring path to finding his voice and becoming a writer—now available in paperback
- American Disgust Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2024 Spring
- Examining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America
- Anime's Knowledge Cultures Geek, Otaku, Zhai Jinying Li 2024 Spring
- Unlocking the technosocial implications of global geek cultures
- Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium Marcie Rendon 2024 Spring
- Poem-songs summon the voices of Anishinaabe ancestors and sing to future generations
- Appetite for Change Soulful Recipes from a North Minneapolis Kitchen Appetite For Change 2024 Spring
- Delicious recipes and community spirit make Appetite For Change a force for good in North Minneapolis
- Architecture against Democracy Histories of the Nationalist International Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman, Editors 2024 Spring
- Examining architecture’s foundational role in the repression of democracy
- Assembly by Design The United Nations and Its Global Interior Olga Touloumi 2024 Spring
- How the United Nations headquarters became the architectural instrument and broadcast medium of global diplomacy
- Caring for Life A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant Hygiene Kelly Dombroski 2024 Spring
- The transformational possibilities of everyday hygiene and care practices
- Chaos and the Automaton Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi 2024 Spring
- Facing real threats of extinction and futurelessness, a search for new ground on which to build projects toward emancipation
- Chris Marker Early Film Writings Chris Marker 2024 Spring
- Formative writings by French avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker
- Cultivating Livability Food, Class, and the Urban Future in Bengaluru Camille Frazier 2024 Spring
- What urban food networks reveal about middle class livability in times of transformation
- Deeper Blues The Life, Songs, and Salvation of Cornbread Harris Andrea Swensson 2024 Spring
- The emotional, epic story of James “Cornbread” Harris—a self-proclaimed “blessed dude” and one of Minneapolis’s most influential musicians
- Distracted A Philosophy of Cars and Phones Robert Rosenberger 2024 Spring
- Applying insights from philosophy and cognitive science to address the urgent issue of smartphone-induced distracted driving
- Everything Is Police Tia Trafford 2024 Spring
- How institutional and interpersonal policing have been central to worldmaking
- Exploring the St. Croix River Valley Adventures on and off the Water Angie Hong 2024 Spring
- An authoritative, accessible, and entertaining nature recreation guide to one of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring areas in the Midwest
- Good Boys, Bad Hombres The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools Michael V. Singh 2024 Spring
- The unintended consequences of youth empowerment programs for Latino boys
- Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty Louise Siddons 2024 Spring
- What are the limits of political solidarity, and how can visual culture contribute to social change?
- Honeymoons in Temporary Locations Ashley Shelby 2024 Spring
- Eclectic, experimental, and wildly imaginative climate fictions from a familiar world hauntingly transformed
- Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism Lisa Diedrich 2024 Spring
- How illness on social media reveals the struggle against ableism and stigma for care and access
- Indigenous Archival Activism Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory Rose Miron 2024 Spring
- Who has the right to represent Native history?
- Interactive Cinema The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation Marina Hassapopoulou 2024 Spring
- Connecting interactive cinema to media ethics and global citizenship
- Knowing Silence How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School Ariana Mangual Figueroa 2024 Spring
- Learning from children about citizenship status and how it shapes their school experience
- Let Me Take You Down Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever Jonathan Cott 2024 Spring
- The conception, creation, recording, and significance of the Beatles’ “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry Fields Forever”
- Livestreaming An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter EL Putnam 2024 Spring
- An inquiry into how livestreaming can help us meaningfully connect
- Medicine Wheel for the Planet A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing Jennifer Grenz 2024 Spring
- A personal journey of bringing together Western science and Indigenous ecology to transform our understanding of the human role in healing our planet
- Mevlido’s Dreams A Post-Exotic Novel Antoine Volodine 2024 Spring
- A postapocalyptic noir that asks if love and political ideals can survive civilizational collapse
- Microbial Resolution Visualization and Security in the War against Emerging Microbes Gloria Chan-Sook Kim 2024 Spring
- Why the global health project to avert emerging microbes continually fails
- Movies under the Influence Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece 2024 Spring
- A cultural history of the enduring relationship between film spectatorship and intoxicating substances
- Never Trust a Thin Cook and Other Lessons from Italy’s Culinary Capital Eric Dregni 2024 Spring
- The food-obsessed chronicle of an American’s three years in Italy—now available in paperback
- No More Fossils Dominic Boyer 2024 Spring
- Explores ecological impasses and opportunities of our fossil-fueled civilization
- On the Appearance of the World A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture Mark Foster Gage 2024 Spring
- How can architecture develop better aesthetic directions for the twenty-first-century built environment?
- Perennial Ceremony Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden Teresa R. Peterson 2024 Spring
- Travel through a garden’s seasons toward healing, reclamation, and wholeness—for us, and for our beloved relative, the Earth
- Petroturfing Refining Canadian Oil through Social Media Jordan B. Kinder 2024 Spring
- How social media has become a critical tool for advancing the interests of the Canadian oil industry
- Prairie Edge Conor Kerr 2024 Spring
- Set loose a herd of bison in downtown Edmonton: what could go wrong?
- Producing Sovereignty The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada Karrmen Crey 2024 Spring
- Exploring how Indigenous media has flourished across Canada from the 1990s to the present
- Reading Autobiography Now An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Third Edition Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson 2024 Spring
- A user-friendly guide to reading, writing, and theorizing autobiographical texts and practices for students, scholars, and practitioners of life narrative
- Solar Adobe Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture Albert Narath 2024 Spring
- How a centuries-old architectural tradition reemerged as a potential solution to the political and environmental crises of the 1970s
- Stardust Cinematic Archives at the End of the World Hannah Goodwin 2024 Spring
- An exploration of the fundamental bond between cinema and the cosmos
- The Apathy of Empire Cambodia in American Geopolitics James A. Tyner 2024 Spring
- What America’s intervention in Cambodia during the Vietnam War tells us about Cold War–era U.S. national security strategy
- The Digital and Its Discontents Aden Evens 2024 Spring
- A groundbreaking critique of the digital world that analyzes its universal technological foundations
- The Flesh of Animation Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media Sandra Annett 2024 Spring
- How animation can reconnect us with bodily experiences
- The Memory of the World Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology Ted Toadvine 2024 Spring
- Advancing a phenomenological approach to deep time
- The Promise of Youth Anti-citizenship Race and Revolt in Education Kevin L. Clay and Kevin Lawrence Henry Jr., Editors 2024 Spring
- When inclusion into the fold of citizenship is conditioned by a social group’s conceit to ritual violence, humiliation, and exploitation, what can anti-citizenship offer us?
- The Rage of Replacement Far Right Politics and Demographic Fear Michael Feola 2024 Spring
- Tracing how the “Great Replacement” narrative has shaped far right extremism and propelled its dangerous political projects and acts of violence
- This Contested Land The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments McKenzie Long 2024 Spring
- One woman’s enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii—now available in paperback
- This Is Not My World Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb Adair Rounthwaite 2024 Spring
- A close-up history of the Yugoslav artists who broke down the boundaries between public and private
- Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words Boel Westin 2024 Spring
- An in-depth, perceptive account of the unconventional life of the Moomins’ beloved creator, now available in the United States
- Traveling without Moving Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America Taiyon Coleman 2024 Spring
- A stunning lyrical commentary on the constructions of race, gender, and class in the fraught nexus of a Black woman’s personal experience and cultural history
- Why We Left Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants Brooks 2024 Spring
- A grounded, tender, and mournful reckoning with the catastrophes that launched poor, white Anglos into their role as itinerant foot soldiers for modern imperialism—now in paperback with a new preface
- Worlds Built to Fall Apart Versions of Philip K. Dick David Lapoujade 2024 Spring
- Philosophically analyzing the work of one of the twentieth century’s most popular and peculiar science fiction authors