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Debates in the Digital Humanities
Matthew K. Gold, Editor
2012 Spring
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Leading figures in the digital humanities explore the field’s rapid revolution
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Sergio Leone
Something to Do with Death
Christopher Frayling
2012 Spring
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The landmark biography of one of the twentieth century’s most recognizable directors—now back in print
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Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery
Larry Millett
2012 Spring
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson come to Minnesota, on the trail of the famous Kensington Rune Stone
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Diane Arbus’s 1960s
Auguries of Experience
Frederick Gross
2012 Spring
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Looking past the myth of Diane Arbus to the depth of her achievement within the artistic, intellectual, and social currents of the 1960s
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Saint Genet
Actor and Martyr
Jean-Paul Sartre
2012 Spring
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The remarkable and controversial study of the mind, life, and legend of Jean Genet
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Island of the Doomed
Stig Dagerman
2012 Spring
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A haunting masterpiece of Scandinavian literature—now published for the first time in the United States
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The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes
Larry Millett
2012 Spring
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Nonstop suspense unfolds as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel from London to New York to Chicago in pursuit of a vicious and cunning killer
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance
Larry Millett
2012 Spring
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Shadwell Rafferty crosses the river to Minneapolis to investigate murder and corruption with the help of Holmes and Watson
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Afterimage of Empire
Photography in Nineteenth-Century India
Zahid R. Chaudhary
2012 Spring
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How the colonial photograph revolutionized the very nature of perception
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A Chosen People, a Promised Land
Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i
Hokulani K. Aikau
2012 Spring
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How Native Hawaiians’ experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditions
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Everyday Environmentalism
Creating an Urban Political Ecology
Alex Loftus
2012 Spring
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A bold rethinking of urban political ecology
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The Sports Show
Athletics as Image and Spectacle
David E. Little
2012 Spring
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Documenting the role of photographers and filmmakers in transforming sports from leisure activities to modern-day spectacle
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Speculative Security
The Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies
Marieke de Goede
2012 Spring
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Does following the money create security or undermine it?
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White Gypsies
Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals
Eva Woods Peiró
2012 Spring
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Reveals how Spanish film musicals, long dismissed as unworthy of critical scrutiny, illuminate Spain’s relationship to modernity
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Families Apart
Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love
Geraldine Pratt
2012 Spring
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How temporary migration programs haunt the lives of families long after they have reunited
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A Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle
The Life of Harry Haywood
Harry Haywood
2012 Spring
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An extraordinary life story that encompasses the fight for African American freedom throughout the twentieth century
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Denise Green
An Artist’s Odyssey
Denise Green
2012 Spring
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Reflecting on an internationally recognized Australian American artist and writer
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Wilderness Days
Sigurd F. Olson
2012 Spring
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A selection of Sigurd F. Olson’s finest writing on the splendor of the great outdoors, hand-picked by the master himself
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Anime’s Media Mix
Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan
Marc Steinberg
2012 Spring
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Untangles the web of commodity, capitalism, and art that is anime
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Brutal Vision
The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema
Karl Schoonover
2012 Spring
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How spectacular visions of physical suffering in post–World War II Italian neorealist films redefined moviegoing as a form of political action
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Gay Rights at the Ballot Box
Amy Stone
2012 Spring
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From Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement’s fight against anti-gay ballot measures
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Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
Erica R. Edwards
2012 Spring
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How a preoccupation with charismatic leadership in African American culture has influenced literature from World War I to the present
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Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados
Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism
Megan C. Thomas
2012 Spring
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A study of Filipino intellectuals that reevaluates the political uses of colonial Orientalism and anthropology
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Death Sentences
Kawamata Chiaki
2012 Spring
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Japanese science fiction meets the European avant-garde—available for the first time in English
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Scream from the Shadows
The Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan
Setsu Shigematsu
2012 Spring
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The first sustained analysis of the Japanese women’s liberation movement of the ’70s, with its lessons for contemporary politics
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Does Local Government Matter?
How Urban Policies Shape Civic Engagement
Elaine B. Sharp
2012 Spring
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Asks and answers hard questions about the consequences of local government programs for democracy
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CIFERAE
A Bestiary in Five Fingers
Thomas R.J. Tyler
2012 Spring
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A provocative investigation into animals, hands, and human identity in Western philosophy
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Samurai among Panthers
Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life
Diane C. Fujino
2012 Spring
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The first biography of Asian American activist and Black Panther Party member Richard Aoki
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From Fields to Fairways
Classic Golf Clubs of Minnesota
Rick Shefchik
2012 Spring
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The first history of Minnesota’s celebrated golf clubs and courses, including rarely seen photographs and long-lost details about the game’s most famous architects
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The Spoonriver Cookbook
Brenda Langton and Margaret Stuart
2012 Spring
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A celebration of Brenda Langton’s award-winning Spoonriver restaurant and the local farms and vendors of the neighboring Mill City Farmers Market