Featured catalogs collection for Books Division page
- Empire in an age of robots and drones
- BY IAN G. R. SHAW Lecturer in human geography at the University of Glasgow On July 7, 2016, police forces in Dallas attached a small explosive devic ...
- The Most Dangerous Book in the World
- BY SETH PERLOW Georgetown University One book, written by a computer, could have killed us all. What do you do when you’re the only country in th ...
- Jane St. Anthony: What, after all, is normal?
- BY JANE ST. ANTHONY In seventh grade, Patrick handed a note to me. It didn’t travel far. Patrick and I sat side by side, our desks aligned. Sandra ...
- American xenophobia and the roots of the housing crisis
- Harris Fine Block, Broome and Orchard Streets, New York (1898 and 1901). Hornberger & Straub, architects. These facades are typical of many immigrant ...
- Mauna Kea: "More than just a list of physical attributes."
- Recent events on Hawai’i’s Big Island represent the latest in a nearly decade-long dispute between Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) and settler col ...
- The Value of University Presses, Then and Now
- Press Director Douglas Armato has been a leader in scholarly publishing long enough that the Association of University Presses has asked him to help d ...
- This key point in US history urgently calls for peaceful, art-filled protest.
- Teachers strike in Oakland. Photo credit: Brooke Anderson Photography. Published on Common Dreams. Used with permission. T. V. ...
- Finding the human and the posthuman in the Anthropocene.
- Vanessa Daws, #pluralizetheanthropocene STEVE MENTZ St. John's University A few weeks ago in late July, a tropical rainstorm cascaded onto my h ...
- Standing Rock and the eternal fight for decolonization and freedom across the world.
- EDITORS' STATEMENT BY NICK ESTES AND JASKIRAN DHILLON Standing Rock marked a turning point for Indigenous resistance on Turtle Island. And although ...
- Meet Leah Pennywark, our new humanities editor!
- The University of Minnesota Press is delighted to welcome its new humanities editor, Leah Pennywark, to the fold this month. She was selected from mor ...