Environment

What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? Vinciane Despret 2016 Spring

A provocative challenge to the marginalization of “humanlike” aspects of animal life

If Bees Are Few A Hive of Bee Poems 2016 Spring

An anthology of 2,500 years of poetry, from Sappho to Sherman Alexie, humming with bees, at a moment when the beloved honey makers and pollinators are in danger of disappearing

Let’s Go Fishing! Fish Tales from the North Woods Eric Dregni 2016 Spring

An illustrated compendium of the lore and legacy of fishing in the northland

Program Earth Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet Jennifer Gabrys 2016 Spring

How sensors are changing our environmental relationships

Elemental Ecocriticism Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert, Editors 2015 Fall

Brings to ecotheory and the environmental humanities the challenges and possibilities offered by thinking in elemental terms

Militarizing the Environment Climate Change and the Security State Robert P. Marzec 2016 Spring

How ideas of coexisting with the planet are being replaced by a militarized vision of adaptation

Portage A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good Life Sue Leaf 2015 Fall

North American waterways by canoe: a memoir of family and nature, history and culture, along the rivers

Jewels of the Plains Wildflowers of the Great Plains Grasslands and Hills Claude A. Barr 2015 Fall

A revised edition of the classic guide to the wildflowers of the Great Plains

Hope at Sea Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature Teresa Shewry 2015 Fall

Hope is a lifeline running through the work of literary writers in and surrounding the Pacific Ocean

The Meaning of Wilderness Essential Articles and Speeches Sigurd F. Olson David Backes, Editor 2015 Fall

An indispensable collection of Olson’s rarest writings—at last in paperback

Roots of Our Renewal Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance Clint Carroll 2015 Spring

Highlights the complexities for indigenous Americans of governing a state while caring for the environment

Stone An Ecology of the Inhuman Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 2015 Spring

A beautifully written account of stone’s intimacy to what it means to be human

North Shore A Natural History of Minnesota’s Superior Coast Chel Anderson and Adelheid Fischer 2015 Spring

The environmental history of Minnesota’s spectacular North Shore

Landscape of Discontent Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris Andrew Newman 2015 Spring

Understanding the interplay of urban green politics and neighborhood activism

Zoo Renewal White Flight and the Animal Ghetto Lisa Uddin 2015 Spring

Race, urban life, and the postwar revitalization of American zoos

Wildlife in the Anthropocene Conservation after Nature Jamie Lorimer 2015 Spring

Considers the effects of the Anthropocene era on approaches to conservation

Counting Species Biodiversity in Global Environmental Politics Rafi Youatt 2015 Spring

How has the idea of biodiversity reconstructed political realities?

Oil Culture Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden, Editors 2014 Fall

The cultural life of oil—from aesthetics and politics to economy and ecology

The Price of Thirst Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos Karen Piper 2014 Fall

Imagine a world where water is only for those who can afford it. We’re already there.

Amphibians and Reptiles in Minnesota John J. Moriarty and Carol D. Hall 2014 Spring

The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Minnesota’s reptiles and amphibians

Coming soon

University of Minnesota Press

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