Collections
- Fair Trade Rebels Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas Lindsay Naylor 2019 Fall
- Reassessing interpretations of development with a new approach to fair trade
- Schizogenesis The Art of Rosemarie Trockel Katherine Guinness 2019 Fall
- A deep analysis of an enigmatic artist whose oeuvre opens new spaces for understanding feminism, the body, and identity
- Re-Enchanted The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century Maria Sachiko Cecire 2019 Fall
- From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world
- Deadly Biocultures The Ethics of Life-Making Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh R. Krupar 2019 Fall
- A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today
- Afrotopia Felwine Sarr 2019 Fall
- A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century
- Resisting Dialogue Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent Juan Meneses 2019 Fall
- A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent
- Medical Necessity Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making Daniel Skinner 2019 Fall
- How the politics of “medical necessity” complicates American health care
- How Not to Make a Human Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters Karl Steel 2019 Fall
- From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts
- Playing Nature Ecology in Video Games Alenda Y. Chang 2019 Fall
- A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games
- Asemic The Art of Writing Peter Schwenger 2019 Fall
- The first critical study of writing without language
- Birds in Minnesota Revised and Expanded Edition Robert B. Janssen 2019 Fall
- A comprehensive update of the classic from the state’s foremost expert
- Degrees of Freedom The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912 William D. Green 2020 Spring
- The true story, and the black citizens, behind the evolution of racial equality in Minnesota
- The Monster Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editor 2020 Spring
- A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions
- Furious Feminisms Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill and Barbara Gurr 2020 Spring
- A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative power
- Class Action Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools Rand Quinn 2019 Fall
- A compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco
- The Responsive Environment Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s Larry D. Busbea 2019 Fall
- How new conceptions of human–environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s
- Design Technics Archaeologies of Architectural Practice Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May, Editors 2019 Fall
- Leading scholars historicize and theorize technology’s role in architectural design
- Curating as Ethics Jean-Paul Martinon 2020 Spring
- A new ethics for the global practice of curating
- Museums Inside Out Artist Collaborations and New Exhibition Ecologies Mark W. Rectanus 2020 Spring
- An ambitious study of what it means to be a museum in the twenty-first century
- Happiness by Design Modernism and Media in the Eames Era Justus Nieland 2019 Spring
- A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames
- Harriet Bart Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection Laura Wertheim Joseph, Editor 2019 Fall
- A retrospective and creatively collaborative review of this international feminist conceptual artist
- The Decision of Desire Silvia Lippi 2020 Spring
- A unique rereading of Lacan’s theory of desire and its link to masochism, joy, mysticism, death, and feminine jouissance
- Postcinematic Vision The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator Roger F. Cook 2020 Spring
- A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience
- Perpetual Motion Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common Harmony Bench 2020 Spring
- A new exploration of how digital media assert the relevance of dance in a wired world
- Clocking Out The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema Karen Pinkus 2020 Spring
- An original reflection on Italy’s postwar boom considers potentials for resistance in today’s neoliberal (dis)order
- Circuit Listening Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s Andrew F. Jones 2020 Spring
- How the Chinese pop of the 1960s participated in a global musical revolution
- Urbanism without Guarantees The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood Christian M. Anderson 2020 Spring
- A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics
- Hacked Transmissions Technology and Connective Activism in Italy Alessandra Renzi 2020 Spring
- Mapping the transformation of media activism from the seventies to the present day
- Fishing! A Novel Sarah Stonich 2020 Spring
- A hilarious saga of fishing, family, and three generations of tough, independent women—the first in a trilogy
- Border Thinking Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship Andrea Dyrness 2020 Spring
- Rich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders
- Grocery Activism The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota Craig B. Upright 2020 Spring
- A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today
- Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
- Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
- Elizabeth Scheu Close A Life in Modern Architecture Jane King Hession 2020 Spring
- An in-depth account of the life and career of Minnesota’s first modern architect
- Curiosity Studies A New Ecology of Knowledge Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar, Editors 2020 Spring
- The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field
- The Metabolist Imagination Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction William O. Gardner 2020 Spring
- Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors
- Pipers at the Gates of Dawn The Wisdom of Children’s Literature Jonathan Cott 2020 Spring
- Jonathan Cott’s reflections and conversations with six celebrated children’s authors—now in a new edition
- Modern Housing Catherine Bauer 2020 Spring
- The original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement
- On Not Dying Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman 2020 Spring
- An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality
- What a Library Means to a Woman Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books Sheila Liming 2020 Spring
- Examining the personal library and the making of self
- Red Gold The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna Jennifer E. Telesca 2020 Spring
- Illuminating the conditions for global governance to have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean’s most majestic creatures
- The Shapes of Fancy Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature Christine Varnado 2020 Spring
- Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality
- Hungry Listening Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies Dylan Robinson 2020 Spring
- Reimagining how we understand and write about the Indigenous listening experience
- An Archive of Taste Race and Eating in the Early United States Lauren F. Klein 2020 Spring
- A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature
- Synthesis Lost and Found in America: The Art of Vesna Kittelson Vesna Kittelson 2020 Fall
- A vibrant review of the international career and passionate spirit of a longtime Twin Cities artist
- 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
- News Parade The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle Joseph Clark 2020 Spring
- A fascinating look at the United States’ conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel
- Decarcerating Disability Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition Liat Ben-Moshe 2020 Spring
- This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration
- The Elements of Foucault Gregg Lambert 2020 Spring
- A new conceptual diagram of Foucault’s original vision of the biopolitical order
- Bring That Beat Back How Sampling Built Hip-Hop Nate Patrin 2020 Spring
- How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib
- Lost Illusions Honoré de Balzac 2020 Spring
- A new annotated translation of the keystone of Balzac’s Comédie Humaine—a sweeping narrative of corrupted idealism in a cynical urban milieu