Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
In the Night of Memory
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
**Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation **
When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country’s long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter...
by Vidar Sundstøl
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Winner of the Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime novel and named by Dagbladet as one of the top twenty-five Norwegian crime novels of all time, The Land of Dreams is the chilling first installment in Vidar Sundstøl’s critically acclaimed Minnesota Trilogy, set on the rugged north shore of Lake...
Saint John's Abbey Church
Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In the 1950s the brethren at the Benedictine Abbey of Saint John the Baptist in Collegeville, Minnesota—the largest Benedictine abbey in the world—decided to expand their campus, including building a new church. From a who’s who of architectural stars—such as Walter Gropius, Richard Neutra, Pietro...
Extravagances
Habits of Being 4
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This final volume in the four-volume series Habits of Being shows how the dialectic between everyday appearance and outrageous acts is mediated through clothing and accessories. It considers how clothing and accessories can move quickly from the ordinary to the extravagant. Employing many different approaches,...
Woman Of The Boundary Waters
Canoeing, Guiding, Mushing, and Surviving
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1994
The Boundary Waters region of Minnesota and Ontario is a vast wilderness of quiet beauty, visited and loved by many, but home to only a rugged few. In 1928, Justine Kerfoot arrived, a Northwestern University graduate student headed for medical school until her family lost both their Illinois homes in...
Homemade
Finnish Rye, Feed Sack Fashion, and Other Simple Ingredients from My Life in Food
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Beatrice Ojakangas, the oldest of ten children, came by it naturally—the cooking but also the pluck and perseverance that she's served up with her renowned Scandinavian dishes over the years. In the wake of the Moose Lake fires and famine of 1918, Ojakangas tells us in this delightful memoir-cum-cookbook,...
Got to Be Something Here
The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Beginning in the year of Prince’s birth, 1958, with the recording of Minnesota’s first R&B record by a North Minneapolis band called the Big Ms, Got to Be Something Here traces the rise of that distinctive sound through two generations of political upheaval, rebellion, and artistic passion.
Funk...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Novelist, memoirist, diarist, and gay pioneer Christopher Isherwood left a wealth of writings. Known for his crisp style and his camera-like precision with detail, Isherwood gained fame for his Berlin Stories, which served as source material for the hit stage musical and Academy Award–winning film...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Film and philosophy have much in common, and books have been written on film and philosophy. But can films be, or do, philosophy? Can they “think”? Film as Philosophy is the first book to explore this fascinating question historically, thematically, and methodically.Bringing together leading scholars...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Pairing full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces drawn from scholarly blogs and conference presentations, as well as commissioned interviews and position statements, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 reveals a dynamic view of a field in negotiation with its identity, methods, and reach....
It Won't Be Easy
An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Tom Rademacher wishes someone had handed him this sort of book along with his teaching degree: a clear-eyed, frank, boots-on-the ground account of what he was getting into. But first he had to write it. And as 2014’s Minnesota Teacher of the Year, Rademacher knows what he’s talking about. Less...
In Their Own Words
Letters from Norwegian Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
For most Norwegians in the nineteenth century, America was a remote and exotic place until the first immigrants began to write home. Their letters were among the most valuable, accessible, and reliable sources of information about the new world and the journey to it. For many immigrants, writing letters...
Wild Mares
My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s
Dianna Hunter was a softball-loving, working-class tomboy in North Dakota, surviving the threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Mutually Assured Destruction in...
We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down
Memoir of a Gravedigger’s Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Rachael Hanel’s name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasn’t at all unusual in her world: her father was a gravedigger in the small Minnesota town of Waseca, and death was her family’s business. Her parents were forty-two years old and in good health when they...