University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Miles Lord
The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
This is the story of Miles Lord (1919–2016), who rose from humble beginnings on Minnesota’s Iron Range to become one of the most colorful and powerful judges in the country, described as “an unabashed Prairie populist” and “a live-wire slayer of corporate behemoths.” He cut a wide swath through...
by Bill Holm
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
“The ground bass is failure; America is the key signature; Pauline Bardal is the lyrical tune that sings at the center; Minneota, Minnesota, is the staff on which the tunes are written.” So begins the masterful title piece from Bill Holm’s first book of essays, The Music of Failure. This collection...
The Fighting Frenchman
Minnesota’s Boxing Legend Scott LeDoux
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Scott LeDoux’s face read like a roadmap of boxing’s last golden era—eye thumbed by Larry Holmes, brow gashed by Mike Tyson, ears stung by none other than Muhammad Ali. “George Foreman hit me so hard,” LeDoux said, “my ancestors in France felt it.” The only man to step into the ring with...
Like Clockwork
Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Once a small subculture, the steampunk phenomenon exploded in visibility during the first years of the twenty-first century, its influence and prominence increasing ever since. From its Victorian and literary roots to film and television, video games, music, and even fashion, this subgenre of science...
Shopping Our Way to Safety
How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
“Not long ago, people did not worry about the food they ate. They did not worry about the water they drank or the air they breathed. It never occurred to them that eating, drinking water, satisfying basic, mundane bodily needs might be a dangerous thing to do. Parents thought it was good for their...
by Larry Millett
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Sherlock Holmes is bored between cases at 221B Baker Street. So when King Oskar II of Sweden—who has heard of the discovery of the Kensington Rune Stone by a farmer in Minnesota—asks to engage his services, Holmes jumps at the chance to decipher the runes and determine whether the find is real or...
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...
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...
White Birch, Red Hawthorn
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
“This is conquered land.” The Dakota woman’s words, spoken at a community meeting in St. Paul, struck Nora Murphy forcefully. Her own Irish great-great grandparents, fleeing the potato famine, had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota. That her dispossessed ancestors’ homestead,...
Best to Laugh
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
No one steps up to life’s banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, “Grief, please!” But as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. Every buffet line has a dessert section, however, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems as though Candy is finally...
The End Of Capitalism (As We Knew It)
A Feminist Critique of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2006
In the mid-1990s, at the height of academic discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking and controversial argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical...
Playing With Fire
Feminist Thought And Activism Through Seven Lives In India
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2006
Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is based on diaries, interviews, and conversations...
The Clue in the Trees
An Enchantment Lake Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Francie’s brother Theo has secrets—secrets Francie thinks she wants to know. But what if one of those secrets is that Theo is a murderer? To avoid considering that possibility, Francie plunges into her senior year at a small-town high school near Enchantment Lake in northern Minnesota. It’s...
by Larry Millett
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Dogged by depression, doubt, and—as a trip to the Mayo Clinic has revealed—emphysema, 66-year-old Sherlock Holmes is preparing to return to England when he receives a shock: a note slipped under his hotel room door, from a vicious murderer he’d nearly captured in Munich in 1892. The murderer,...