SLSA: Literature
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 20% OFF BOOKS + FREE SHIPPING
All books below are 40% off using code MNSLSA22. Code expires November 9, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS:
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // ART AND MEDIA // ENVIRONMENT
POLITICS AND ACTIVISM // ANIMALS AND SOCIETY // ANTHROPOLOGY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // DIGITAL CULTURE // ETHNOGRAPHY
RACE // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // GEOGRAPHY
LITERATURE // LITERARY CRITICISM // DISABILITY STUDIES
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Opioid Reckoning Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State Amy C. Sullivan 2022 Fall
- Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic
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On the Wandering Paths Sylvain Tesson 2022 Spring
- A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present—more than 425,000 copies sold in France
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Noopiming The Cure for White Ladies Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2022 Spring
- The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism
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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
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Solo Viola A Post-Exotic Novel Antoine Volodine 2021 Spring
- A harrowing early novel by one of France’s most unusual contemporary writers
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Watershed Attending to Body and Earth in Distress Ranae Lenor Hanson 2021 Spring
- A personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees, and our climate in danger prompt a meditation on intimate connections between the health of the body and the health of the ecosystem
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Outsiders Within Writing on Transracial Adoption Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin, Editors 2020 Fall
- Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system—now back in print
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Wolf Island Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal L. David Mech 2020 Fall
- The world’s leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of nature’s most iconic creatures
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Surgical Renaissance in the Heartland A Memoir of the Wangensteen Era Henry Buchwald 2020 Spring
- The golden era in American surgery, described by a young doctor practicing under innovator Owen Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota
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Scenarios III Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; Cobra Verde Werner Herzog 2019 Fall
- For the first time in English, and in his signature prose poetry, the film scripts of four of Werner Herzog’s early works
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The Alchemy of Meth A Decomposition Jason Pine 2019 Fall
- Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into gold
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Scenarios II Signs of Life; Even Dwarfs Started Small; Fata Morgana; Heart of Glass Werner Herzog 2018 Fall
- The second in a series: the master filmmaker’s prose scenarios for four of his notable films
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Hybrid Child A Novel Mariko Ōhara 2018 Spring
- A classic of Japanese speculative fiction that blurs the line between consumption and creation when a cyborg assumes the form and spirit of a murdered child
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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
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The Sacred Era A Novel Yoshio Aramaki 2017 Spring
- A brilliant work of speculative fiction, blending science and metaphysics, by a Japanese master of the 1970s New Wave
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring
- Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
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Of Walking in Ice Munich–Paris, 23 November—14 December 1974 Werner Herzog 2015 Spring
- Filmmaker Werner Herzog’s remarkable account of his journey on foot from Munich to Paris
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I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams Mark Dery 2014 Spring
- A head-spinning thrill ride through contemporary American culture
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Death Sentences Kawamata Chiaki 2012 Spring
- Japanese science fiction meets the European avant-garde—available for the first time in English
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remixthebook Mark Amerika 2011 Fall
- A model of contemporary remixing and a groundbreaking reflection on digital media