Environment

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

Things Worth Keeping The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World Christine Harold 2020 Spring

A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste

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

Birds in Minnesota Revised and Expanded Edition Robert B. Janssen 2019 Fall

A comprehensive update of the classic from the state’s foremost expert

Bleak Joys Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova 2019 Fall

A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today’s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life

An Ecotopian Lexicon Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, Editors 2019 Fall

Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation

Homesickness Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment Ryan Hediger 2019 Fall

Introducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S. literature after 1945

How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys 2019 Fall

An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies

Beyond the Meme Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution Alan C. Love and William C. Wimsatt, Editors 2019 Spring

Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time

Break Up the Anthropocene Steve Mentz 2019 Fall

Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epoch

Gunflint Burning Fire in the Boundary Waters Cary J. Griffith 2019 Spring

The story of the Ham Lake fire, at the time the most destructive wildfire in modern Minnesota history—the blaze, the firefighters’ battle, the human toll

No Horizon Is So Far Two Women and Their Historic Journey across Antarctica Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft 2019 Spring

The extraordinary story of the first two women to cross Antarctica

Anthropocene Poetics Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction David Farrier 2019 Spring

How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time

A Field Guide to the Natural World of the Twin Cities John J. Moriarty 2018 Fall

An illustrated guide to the natural habitats and rich diversity of wildlife in the greater Minneapolis and St. Paul metro area

Sedges and Rushes of Minnesota The Complete Guide to Species Identification Welby R. Smith 2018 Spring

The first comprehensive, fully illustrated field guide to Minnesota’s nearly 250 species of sedges and rushes

The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring

Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes

Veer Ecology A Companion for Environmental Thinking Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert, Editors 2017 Fall

An innovative toolkit designed to prompt new awareness of the risk and potential of living on—and with—an alarmingly dynamic planet

Bioaesthetics Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts Carsten Strathausen 2017 Fall

A comprehensive critique of the ideas behind bioaesthetics, and a necessary, methodical account of both its insights and its deficiencies

Deep Woods, Wild Waters A Memoir Douglas Wood 2017 Spring

The author of Old Turtle and a longtime wilderness guide charts a journey through the wilds of nature and the twists and turns of daily life

Anthropocene Feminism Richard Grusin, Editor 2017 Spring

A stunning experiment in thinking of the Anthropocene through feminism and queer theory

Coming soon

University of Minnesota Press

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