Featured catalogs collection for Books Division page
- F. Scott Fitzgerald in MN snippets: Thanksgiving, a football captain, and Crocus Hill Pharmacy
- In these three snippets, we meet the childhood and teen-aged friends of F. Scott Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota. The first piece appears in the boo ...
- Give to the Max Day: Making our books a reality.
- Dear Reader, This week, in preparation for Give to the Max Day on Thursday, we’re celebrating some of our favorite moments this past year. This mes ...
- #UPWeek: Knowing the Facts.
- The theme of University Press Week 2017 is #LookItUP: Knowledge Matters. In today’s political climate—where “fake news” and “alternate fa ...
- Judge Miles Lord: Our Brothers' and Sisters' Keeper
- Miles Lord: Minnesota's Maverick Judge will air on TPT/Twin Cities PBS on Sunday, Nov. 19. Here's a preview. More about the book. BY ROBERTA ...
- Linda LeGarde Grover: "Everything that we experience, no matter how small, is a story."
- BY LINDA LeGARDE GROVER Here in Duluth, not long after my seventh grandchild was born, I began to write short essays about aspects of Ojibwe contemp ...
- On Being and algorithmic clouds.
- BY MARK JARZOMBEK Massachusetts Institute of Technology BEFORE BUDDHA INVENTED RENUNCIATION; before Christians invented martyrdom; before Mohammed ...
- Discovering Fairy-Tale Postcards: The Adventures of a Scholarly Scavenger
- BY JACK ZIPES University of Minnesota Once upon a time, when the famous scientist Albert Einstein was teaching at Princeton University, a tiny old w ...
- Trumping transparency.
- BY CLARE BIRCHALL King's College London The words “Trump” and “transparency” don’t often appear together. Administrative transparency isn ...
- What's the deal with Elon Musk? A transhumanist's perspective.
- BY ANDREW PILSCH Assistant professor of English, Texas A&M University In my timeline on Twitter , I get a lot of updates about Elon Musk ...
- The Coming Storm
- BY CEDRIC JOHNSON ( The Neoliberal Deluge and Revolutionaries to Race Leaders ) AND THOMAS JESSEN ADAMS Excerpt from article published in Jacobin: ...