Spring 2012 Books
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Debates in the Digital Humanities Matthew K. Gold, Editor 2012 Spring
- Leading figures in the digital humanities explore the field’s rapid revolution
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Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery Larry Millett 2012 Spring
- 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
- 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
- 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
- A haunting masterpiece of Scandinavian literature—now published for the first time in the United States
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance Larry Millett 2012 Spring
- Shadwell Rafferty crosses the river to Minneapolis to investigate murder and corruption with the help of Holmes and Watson
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A Chosen People, a Promised Land Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i Hokulani K. Aikau 2012 Spring
- 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
- A bold rethinking of urban political ecology
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Sergio Leone Something to Do with Death Christopher Frayling 2012 Spring
- The landmark biography of one of the twentieth century’s most recognizable directors—now back in print
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The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes Larry Millett 2012 Spring
- 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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Afterimage of Empire Photography in Nineteenth-Century India Zahid R. Chaudhary 2012 Spring
- How the colonial photograph revolutionized the very nature of perception
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The Sports Show Athletics as Image and Spectacle David E. Little 2012 Spring
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- An extraordinary life story that encompasses the fight for African American freedom throughout the twentieth century
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Wilderness Days Sigurd F. Olson 2012 Spring
- 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
- Untangles the web of commodity, capitalism, and art that is anime
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Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership Erica R. Edwards 2012 Spring
- How a preoccupation with charismatic leadership in African American culture has influenced literature from World War I to the present
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Gay Rights at the Ballot Box Amy Stone 2012 Spring
- 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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Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism Megan C. Thomas 2012 Spring
- A study of Filipino intellectuals that reevaluates the political uses of colonial Orientalism and anthropology
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Denise Green An Artist’s Odyssey Denise Green 2012 Spring
- Reflecting on an internationally recognized Australian American artist and writer
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Brutal Vision The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema Karl Schoonover 2012 Spring
- 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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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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Scream from the Shadows The Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan Setsu Shigematsu 2012 Spring
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing Ian Bogost 2012 Spring
- A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one another
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