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This Contested Land The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments McKenzie Long 2022 Spring

One woman’s enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii

The Breeding Birds of Minnesota History, Ecology, and Conservation Lee A. Pfannmuller, Gerald J. Niemi and Janet C. Green 2022 Spring

A comprehensive, detailed, illustrated history of Minnesota’s breeding birds—the first in nearly a century

Architecture and Objects Graham Harman 2022 Spring

Thinking through object-oriented ontology—and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid—to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function

Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth The Gothic Anthropocene Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Höglund, Editors 2022 Spring

An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era

The Horror of Police Travis Linnemann 2022 Spring

Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police

Finding Turtle Farm My Twenty-Acre Adventure in Community Supported Agriculture Angela Tedesco 2022 Spring

The story of starting and running an organic farm—told by the woman who owned one of the first Community Supported Agriculture operations in the Upper Midwest

On Posthuman War Computation and Military Violence Mike Hill 2022 Spring

Tracing war’s expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself

Sensory Futures Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India Michele Ilana Friedner 2022 Spring

Revealing inequalities and sensory hierarchies embedded in the latest medical technologies and global biotechnical markets

Walleye A Beautiful Fish of the Dark Paul J. Radomski 2022 Spring

Walleye, the holy grail of game fish: on catching them, understanding their biology and history, and ensuring their survival

Exceptionally Queer Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism K. Mohrman 2022 Spring

How perceptions of Mormonism from 1830 to the present reveal the exclusionary, racialized practices of the U.S. nation-state

Technopharmacology Joshua Neves, Aleena Chia, Susanna Paasonen and Ravi Sundaram 2022 Spring

Exploring networked technologies and bioeconomy and their links to biotechnologies, pharmacology, and pharmaceuticals

Architecture of Life Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences Alla Vronskaya 2022 Spring

Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences

Seven Aunts Staci Lola Drouillard 2022 Spring

Part memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth century

Red and Black A Chronicle of 1830 Stendhal 2022 Spring

A masterpiece of nineteenth-century literature in a fresh translation that fully captures the language, psychology, and social reach of Stendhal’s original

Strike! Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law William D. Green 2022 Spring

The complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics

Troll Magic Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway Theodor Kittelsen 2022 Spring

A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the “godfather” of the Norwegian troll

Showroom City Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World John Joe Schlichtman 2021 Fall

A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world

Game Animals, Videogames, and Humanity Thomas R.J. Tyler 2022 Spring

A playful reflection on animals and videogames, and what each can teach us about the other

Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring

How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants

Mediating Alzheimer’s Cognition and Personhood Scott Selberg 2022 Spring

An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging

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