Spring 2014 books
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Affirmation of Poetry Judith Balso 2014 Spring
- Reestablishing the importance of poetry’s place as a site of thought
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Gestures Vilém Flusser 2014 Spring
- An analysis of gestures great and small, from a renowned media theorist—available in English for the first time
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Reading Writing Interfaces From the Digital to the Bookbound 2014 Spring
- Uncovers a lineage of writers and thinkers who have rebelled against the means of production
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Settler Common Sense Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance Mark Rifkin 2014 Spring
- Tracing the unacknowledged effects of colonialism in the canon of nineteenth-century American literature
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Amphibians and Reptiles in Minnesota John J. Moriarty and Carol D. Hall 2014 Spring
- The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Minnesota’s reptiles and amphibians
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The Bohemian Flats A Novel Mary Relindes Ellis 2014 Spring
- The story of a man caught up in the immigrant culture of a river village in Minnesota, and in the throes of World War I
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The Folklore of the Freeway Race and Revolt in the Modernist City Eric Avila 2014 Spring
- How urban minority communities devastated by the construction of the interstate highway reclaimed their place through cultural expression
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The Essential Ellen Willis Ellen Willis Nona Willis Aronowitz, Editor 2014 Spring
- From pioneering rock music critic Ellen Willis, iconoclastic essays on politics and culture
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Becoming Human The Matter of the Medieval Child J. Allan Mitchell 2014 Spring
- Can early concepts of being and becoming broaden our understanding of the human?
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Thought in the Act Passages in the Ecology of Experience Erin Manning and Brian Massumi 2014 Spring
- Explores the intimate connections between thinking and creative practice
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More Than Shelter Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing Amy L. Howard 2014 Spring
- Public housing projects in San Francisco reveal the power of community action
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Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century Claire Zimmerman 2014 Spring
- How photography shaped modern architecture
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Voices of Fire Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hiʻiaka kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui 2014 Spring
- Restoring the literature of Pele and Hi‘iaka to its rightful place in Native culture and identity
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The Nearness of Others Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of HIV David Caron 2014 Spring
- An intimate look at the experience, meanings, and politics of HIV disclosure
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Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment Henri Lefebvre Lukasz Stanek, Editor 2014 Spring
- The relationship between bodily pleasure, space, and architecture—from one of the twentieth century’s most important urban theorists
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The History of the Devil Vilém Flusser 2014 Spring
- A fascinating exploration into the early work of the celebrated philosopher of media culture and technology, Vilém Flusser
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Fashioning the Nineteenth Century Habits of Being 3 Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, Editors 2014 Spring
- How fashion in nineteenth-century art, literature, and life came to define—and defy—class
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Dispatches from Pakistan Madiha R. Tahir, Qalandar Bux Memon and Vijay Prashad, Editors 2014 Spring
- Urgent essays about contemporary Pakistan that go behind the headlines
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Cinders Jacques Derrida 2014 Spring
- A haunting work of poetic self-analysis that finds in the fragility and resilience of ashes a paradigm for the relation of language to the living and the dead
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Plant a Pocket of Prairie Phyllis Root 2014 Spring
- An inspiring children’s book about the endangered prairie ecosystem and how we can help restore it
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Lake Superior Flavors A Field Guide to Food and Drink along the Circle Tour James Norton 2014 Spring
- Embark on a culinary tour of Lake Superior with the founders of the Heavy Table
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Reinventing Citizenship Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation Kazuyo Tsuchiya 2014 Spring
- A study of race, welfare, and citizenship in the United States and Japan during the 1960s and 1970s
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City Choreographer Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America Alison Bick Hirsch 2014 Spring
- How Lawrence Halprin’s choreographic design method mitigated the alienating effects of urban renewal and enriched contemporary urban design
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Zenith City Stories from Duluth Michael Fedo 2014 Spring
- Tales of Duluth from, if not its favorite son, then perhaps its best storyteller
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The Three-Minute Outdoorsman Wild Science from Magnetic Deer to Mumbling Carp Robert M. Zink 2014 Spring
- Curious facts and fascinating insights into nature from scientist outdoorsman Bob Zink
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Fighting for Peace Veterans and Military Families in the Anti–Iraq War Movement Lisa Leitz 2014 Spring
- The story of the “military peace movement” that opposed the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
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The Imperial University Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira, Editors 2014 Spring
- From the front lines of the war on academic freedom, linking the policing of knowledge to the relationship between universities, militarism, and neoliberalism
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Sexuality in School The Limits of Education Jen Gilbert 2014 Spring
- Explores and expands on the role of sexuality in teaching and learning
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Health Rights Are Civil Rights Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978 Jenna M. Loyd 2014 Spring
- How demands for dignified medical care and healthy living conditions brought together social justice advocates
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Negotiating Sex Work Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism Carisa R. Showden and Samantha Majic, Editors 2014 Spring
- Illustrates how the politics surrounding sex work shape individual and collective agency
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No Saints around Here A Caregiver’s Days Susan Allen Toth 2014 Spring
- A moment-by-moment memoir of the difficulty and dedication of caregiving
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The Social Project Housing Postwar France Kenny Cupers 2014 Spring
- Maps the architectural, cultural, and intellectual history of suburbanization in postwar France
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The Durable Slum Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai Liza Weinstein 2014 Spring
- How Dharavi, Mumbai’s megaslum, has escaped eradication for decades
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Eugenic Feminism Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India Asha Nadkarni 2014 Spring
- This surprising examination uncovers the eugenic impulse in a nation’s desire for “founding mothers”
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Nauman Reiterated Janet Kraynak 2014 Spring
- What unifies the work of Bruce Nauman?
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Marta Oulie A Novel of Betrayal Sigrid Undset 2014 Spring
- The first English translation of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s scandalous debut novel
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Eating Fire My Life as a Lesbian Avenger Kelly Cogswell 2014 Spring
- An outsider American recounts two decades of radical lesbian life in this urgent, ferociously funny memoir
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Coproducing Asia Locating Japanese–Chinese Regional Film and Media Stephanie DeBoer 2014 Spring
- Reframes our understanding of regional coproduction and East Asian film and media
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Split Screen Korea Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema Steven Chung 2014 Spring
- How the career of Korea’s most important postwar film director reveals surprising continuities between South and North Korea
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Precarious Prescriptions Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González and Martin Summers, Editors 2014 Spring
- Explores the complex relations between the institutions and ideologies of health and people of color in America
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From Orphan to Adoptee U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption SooJin Pate 2014 Spring
- Korean adoption as the sine qua non of U.S. neocolonialism in South Korea
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Nobody Is Supposed to Know Black Sexuality on the Down Low C. Riley Snorton 2014 Spring
- How the “down low” media phenomenon reinforces troubling representations of black sexuality
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Educated in Whiteness Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools Angelina E. Castagno 2014 Spring
- How well-meaning educators shape and enact diversity-related policies and practices that strengthen whiteness rather than educational equity or justice
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Self-Projection The Director’s Image in Art Cinema Linda Haverty Rugg 2014 Spring
- An innovative argument for narrative art films as autobiographical acts
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Quotational Practices Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art Patrick Greaney 2014 Spring
- Resituates quotation as an aesthetic practice
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The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson Robert Hofler 2014 Spring
- The revealing—and often shocking—biography of legendary Hollywood agent Henry Willson
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In Motion, At Rest The Event of the Athletic Body Grant Farred 2014 Spring
- A penetrating new analysis of “the event” from a surprising source: sport
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Blackwater Ben William Durbin 2014 Spring
- A young boy discovers harsh realities, secrets, and adventure at a northern Minnesota logging camp in 1898
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Curse of a Winter Moon Mary Casanova 2014 Spring
- An intense tale of superstition and persecution in sixteenth-century France
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Riot Mary Casanova 2014 Spring
- The gripping story of a Minnesota milling town ripped apart by tension and violence
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The Intelligence of a Machine Jean Epstein 2014 Spring
- A groundbreaking early philosophy of cinema and the cinematographic apparatus
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Summa Technologiae Stanisław Lem 2014 Spring
- From the acclaimed author of the science fiction novel Solaris, a pre-Dawkins exposition of evolution as a blind and chaotic watchmaker
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The Good Fight A Life in Liberal Politics Walter F. Mondale 2014 Spring
- Reflections on a life in politics and a call for restoring civility to the nation’s political discourse
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Thirty Rooms to Hide In Insanity, Addiction, and Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic Luke Longstreet Sullivan 2014 Spring
- The remarkable story of six brothers growing up in the ’50s and ’60s as their father—a highly respected Mayo Clinic surgeon—slowly goes insane
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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