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Eco Soma Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters Petra Kuppers 2021 Fall

An autoethnographic discussion of the speculative and fantastical elements of performance

A Natural Curiosity The Story of the Bell Museum Lansing Shepard, Don Luce, Barbara Coffin and Gwen Schagrin 2021 Fall

A richly illustrated tour of Minnesota’s premier natural history museum after 150 years

Art and Posthumanism Essays, Encounters, Conversations Cary Wolfe 2021 Fall

A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world

Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Caren Irr, Editor 2021 Fall

A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age

Building on Borrowed Time Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang Lukas Ley 2021 Fall

A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disaster

Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods 2021 Fall

What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?

A Love Affair with Birds The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts Sue Leaf 2021 Fall

The father of Minnesota ornithology, whose life story opens a window on a lost world of nature and conservation in the state’s early days

The Three Sustainabilities Energy, Economy, Time Allan Stoekl 2021 Fall

Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliché—to a substantive, truly sustainable future

Assuming the Ecosexual Position The Earth as Lover Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens 2021 Spring

The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth

Skiing into the Bright Open My Solo Journey to the South Pole Liv Arnesen 2021 Spring

The first woman to ski solo to the South Pole tells the story of what it took to get there

Loon Lessons Uncommon Encounters with the Great Northern Diver James D. Paruk 2021 Spring

The nature of the common loon, from biology to behavior, from one of the world’s foremost observers of the revered waterbird

Watershed Attending to Body and Earth in Distress Ranae Lenor Hanson 2021 Spring

A personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees, and our climate in danger prompt a meditation on intimate connections between the health of the body and the health of the ecosystem

Saving Animals Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care Elan Abrell 2021 Spring

A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States

Minnesota’s Natural Heritage Second Edition John R. Tester, Susan M. Galatowitsch, Rebecca A. Montgomery and John J. Moriarty 2021 Spring

The definitive work on Minnesota’s natural history and ecology—updated, expanded, and copiously illustrated to account for profound changes to the state’s natural landscape over the past twenty-five years

The Probiotic Planet Using Life to Manage Life Jamie Lorimer 2020 Fall

Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet

Radioactive Ghosts Gabriele Schwab 2020 Fall

A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate

Wolf Island Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal L. David Mech 2020 Fall

The world’s leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of nature’s most iconic creatures

Gaian Systems Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene Bruce Clarke 2020 Fall

A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory’s intersections with neocybernetic systems theory

Thinking Plant Animal Human Encounters with Communities of Difference David Wood 2020 Spring

Collected essays by a leading philosopher situating the question of the animal in the broader context of a relational ontology

Minnesota’s Geologist The Life of Newton Horace Winchell Sue Leaf 2020 Spring

The story of the scientist who first mapped Minnesota’s geology, set against the backdrop of early scientific inquiry in the state

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