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Archaeologies of Touch Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing David Parisi 2018 Spring: A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media
Judith F. Baca Anna Indych-López 2018 Spring: Behind the fascinating public artist’s practice of collaboration
Double Visions, Double Fictions The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature Baryon Tensor Posadas 2018 Spring: A fresh take on the doppelgänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present
What Is Information? Peter Janich 2018 Spring: A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinker
The Anime Ecology A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media Thomas Lamarre 2018 Spring: A major work destined to change how scholars and students look at television and animation
The Undocumented Everyday Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility Rebecca M. Schreiber 2018 Spring: Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation
Homemade Finnish Rye, Feed Sack Fashion, and Other Simple Ingredients from My Life in Food Beatrice Ojakangas 2018 Spring: A celebrated cook’s recipes and reflections on growing up in a big Finnish family in northern Minnesota
Governance Feminism: An Introduction An Introduction Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir 2018 Spring: Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state
Carving Out the Commons Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. Amanda Huron 2018 Spring: An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities
The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring: Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring: A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
Globalized Authoritarianism Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco Koenraad Bogaert 2018 Spring: A rich investigation into Morocco’s urban politics
The User Unconscious On Affect, Media, and Measure Patricia Ticineto Clough 2018 Spring: Wide-ranging essays and experimental prose forcefully demonstrate how digital media and computational technologies have redefined what it is to be human
Renew Orleans? Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina Aaron Schneider 2018 Spring: Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification
Forensic Applications of the MMPI-2-RF A Case Book Martin Sellbom and Dustin B. Wygant 2018 Spring: An illustrative guide for using the MMPI-2-RF in forensic assessment
The Infamous Harry Hayward A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis Shawn Francis Peters 2018 Spring: A fascinating tale of seduction, murder, fraud, coercion—and the trial of the “Minneapolis Monster”
Modernism’s Visible Hand Architecture and Regulation in America Michael Osman 2018 Spring: A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States
Wild Mares My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life Dianna Hunter 2018 Spring: A wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s
Assessing Police and Other Public Safety Personnel Using the MMPI-2-RF A Practical Guide David M. Corey and Yossef S. Ben-Porath 2018 Spring: A hands-on guide for using the MMPI-3 when assessing suitability and fitness for duty of public safety personnel
The Crusade for Forgotten Souls Reforming Minnesota’s Mental Institutions, 1946-1954 Susan Bartlett Foote 2018 Spring: The stirring story of the reform movement that laid the groundwork for a modern mental health system in Minnesota
Once in a Blue Moon Lodge A Novel Lorna Landvik 2018 Spring: The long-awaited sequel to Lorna Landvik’s best-selling Patty Jane’s House of Curl: a story brimming with life, humor, and hope
Language and Reality Vilém Flusser 2017 Fall: The first book by this astounding philosopher asserts that the universe, knowledge, truth, and reality are linguistic aspects
Inside the Gate Sigrid Undset’s Life at Bjerkebæk Nan Bentzen Skille 2018 Spring: Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset’s life at Bjerkebæk, her retreat in Lillehammer, Norway
The Right to Be Cold One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change Sheila Watt-Cloutier 2018 Spring: A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate
Breakfast with Beatrice 250 Recipes from Sweet Cream Waffles to Swedish Farmer’s Omelets Beatrice Ojakangas 2018 Spring: Time-tested recipes for delectable breakfasts from around the world, especially Scandinavia
The Improvisatore A Novel of Italy Hans Christian Andersen 2018 Spring: A semi-autobiographical novel inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s travels in Italy—and one of the author’s best-known works in his native Denmark
Wild Child Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics Naomi Morgenstern 2018 Spring: Exploring how the figure of the “wild child” in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the future of humanity
There But for Fortune The Life of Phil Ochs Michael Schumacher 2018 Spring: The life and influence of singer Phil Ochs
Searching for Minnesota’s Native Wildflowers A Guide for Beginners, Botanists, and Everyone in Between Phyllis Root 2018 Spring: A beautifully illustrated, family-friendly guide to Minnesota’s native wildflowers and how to find them
Powers of Time Versions of Bergson David Lapoujade 2017 Fall: “The philosopher neither obeys, nor commands; he seeks to sympathize.” —Henri Bergson
With Stones in Our Hands Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana, Editors 2018 Spring: Bringing together scholars and activists, With Stones in Our Hands confronts the rampant anti-Muslim racism and imperialism across the globe today
Power and Progress on the Prairie Governing People on Rosebud Reservation Thomas Biolsi 2018 Spring: A critical exploration of how modernity and progress were imposed on the people and land of rural South Dakota
Isabelle Day Refuses to Die of a Broken Heart Jane St. Anthony 2018 Spring: How can Isabelle ever express to Margaret and Grace how grateful she is for their friendship, just when she needed it most?
Into the Extreme U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth Valerie Olson 2018 Spring: The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight
Nazi Exhibition Design and Modernism Michael Tymkiw 2018 Spring: A new and challenging perspective on Nazi exhibition design
Neurotechnology and the End of Finitude Michael Haworth 2018 Spring: A bold philosophical investigation into technology and the limits of the human
Iron and Water My Life Protecting Minnesota’s Environment Grant J. Merritt 2018 Spring: A memoir of family, mining pioneers and unscrupulous magnates, and the fight for Minnesota’s natural resources
Speaking of Indigenous Politics Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Editor 2018 Spring: “A lesson in how to practice recognizing the fundamental truth that every inch of the Americas is Indigenous territory.” —Robert Warrior, from the Foreword
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
Circulating Queerness Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Natasha Hurley 2018 Spring: A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives
Fearless Ivan and His Faithful Horse Double-Hump A Russian Folk Tale Pyotr Yershov and Jack Zipes 2018 Spring: A classic Russian tale retold for our time by an eminent folklorist
The Neocolonialism of the Global Village Ginger Nolan 2018 Fall: Uncovering a vast maze of realities in the media theories of Marshall McLuhan
Food Justice Now! Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle Joshua Sbicca 2018 Fall: A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates
Gay, Inc. The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics Myrl Beam 2018 Fall: A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere’s expansion has helped—and hindered—the LGBT cause
Black Boys Apart Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools Freeden Blume Oeur 2018 Fall: How neoliberalism and the politics of respectability are transforming African American manhood
Sedges and Rushes of Minnesota The Complete Guide to Species Identification Welby R. Smith 2018 Spring: The first comprehensive, fully illustrated field guide to Minnesota’s nearly 250 species of sedges and rushes
Critical Mass Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave Steven Ungar 2018 Fall: Thirty-five years of nonfiction films offer a unique lens on twentieth-century French social issues
The Denial of Antiblackness Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering João H. Costa Vargas 2018 Fall: An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society
Dead Man’s Rapids William Durbin and Barbara Durbin 2018 Fall: The further adventures of a boy discovering the challenges and the humor of a log drive in Minnesota’s north woods in 1899
Survival of the Fireflies Georges Didi-Huberman 2018 Fall: Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism