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Rise to the Challenge: A Memoir of Politics, Leadership, and Love Rise to the Challenge A Memoir of Politics, Leadership, and Love Marlene M. Johnson 2024 Fall
The inspiring life story of Minnesota’s first woman lieutenant governor: breaking political ground, navigating patriarchal tradition, and persevering through great personal loss
Computational Humanities Computational Humanities Lauren Tilton, David Mimno and Jessica Marie Johnson, Editors 2024 Fall
The first book to intervene in debates on computation in the digital humanities
Prosthetic Immortalities: Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life Prosthetic Immortalities Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life Adam R. Rosenthal 2024 Fall
Examining the links between today’s ideas of radical life extension and age-old notions of immortality
The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction The Philosophy of Movement An Introduction Thomas Nail 2024 Fall
An influential thinker distills years of work on the philosophy of movement into one accessible account
Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor Deepwater Alchemy Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor Lisa Han 2024 Fall
How underwater mediation has transformed deep-sea spaces into resource-rich frontiers
Chris Marker: Early Film Writings Chris Marker Early Film Writings Chris Marker 2024 Spring
Formative writings by French avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker
Movies under the Influence Movies under the Influence Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece 2024 Spring
A cultural history of the enduring relationship between film spectatorship and intoxicating substances
Deeper Blues: The Life, Songs, and Salvation of Cornbread Harris Deeper Blues The Life, Songs, and Salvation of Cornbread Harris Andrea Swensson 2024 Spring
The emotional, epic story of James “Cornbread” Harris—a self-proclaimed “blessed dude” and one of Minneapolis’s most influential musicians
Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago Imperial Policing Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago Andy Clarno, Enrique Alvear Moreno, Janaé Bonsu-Love, Lydia Dana, Michael De Anda Muñiz, Ilā Ravichandran and Haley Volpintesta 2024 Fall
Exposing the carceral webs and weaponized data that shape Chicago’s police wars
The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood Shenila Khoja-Moolji 2024 Fall
How the construction of Muslim boys as proto-terrorists is integral to the story of American racial capitalism