University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Thirty Rooms to Hide In
Insanity, Addiction, and Rock 'n' Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Author Luke Longstreet Sullivan has a simple way of describing his new memoir: “It’s like The Shining . . . only funnier.” And as this astonishing account reveals, the comment is accurate. Thirty Rooms to Hide In tells the story of Sullivan’s father and his descent from being one of the world’s...
by Mary Casanova
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Six years ago, twelve-year-old Marius lost his mother during the birth of his brother, Jean-Pierre, and her dying wish was that he watch over his brother. But because Jean-Pierre was born on Christmas Eve, villagers believe he is marked with the curse of the loup garou—the werewolf. Protecting Jean-Pierre...
by Vidar Sundstøl
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
It's been a long, dark time since a gruesome discovery drew U.S. Forest Service ranger Lance Hansen into a murder investigation that is now approaching a resolution—although not to his satisfaction. In fact, the mysteries have been multiplying and getting uncomfortably close to home. On the run after...
by Eric Dregni Dregni
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
I simply want to live in the place with the best food in the world. This dream led Eric Dregni to Italy, first to Milan and eventually to a small, fog-covered town to the north: Modena, the birthplace of balsamic vinegar, Ferrari, and Luciano Pavarotti. Never Trust a Thin Cook is a classic American abroad...
Making Suburbia
New Histories of Everyday America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
What are the suburbs? The popular vision of monotonous streets curving into culs-de-sac and emerald lawns unfurling from nearly identical houses would have us believe that suburbia is a boring, homogeneous, and alienating place. But this stereotypical portrayal of the suburbs tells us very little about...
The Marrying Kind?
Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
As the fight for same-sex marriage rages across the United States and lesbian and gay couples rush to marriage license counters, the goal of marriage is still fiercely questioned within the LGBT movement. Rarely has an objective so central to a social movement’s political agenda been so controversial...
Lob Trees In The Wilderness
The Human and Natural History of the Boundary Waters
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Along the Minnesota-Ontario border, in the days of voyageurs, tall trees were used as guideposts in the uncharted wilderness to help fur traders and explorers find their way through the maze of lakes and portages. Branches were cut, leaving the middle of the trees bare with branches above and below....
Exploring the Boundary Waters
A Trip Planner and Guide to the BWCAW
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
With more than 200,000 visitors annually, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is among the most alluring wilderness areas in the country, unique because it is most often explored by canoe. Comprised of more than one million acres, the BWCAW is an exceptional combination of expansive wilderness,...
Ready for Air
A Journey through Premature Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
For Kate Hopper, pregnancy is downright unpleasant. She is tired and heavy and worried, and she wants her wine and caffeine back. But then, at a routine checkup, her doctor frowns at her chart and says, “I’m worried about a couple of things”—and unpleasant suddenly seems like paradise. What follows...
Torn in Two
The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell and One Man's Survival on the Open Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Dennis Hale reached the dock just in time to see the Daniel J. Morrell heading out to open waters, a 600-foot freighter that had plied the waters for sixty years, carrying ore from Minnesota’s Iron Range to steel firms around the Great Lakes. The twenty-six-year-old watchman had, quite literally, missed...
Corn Palaces and Butter Queens
A History of Crop Art and Dairy Sculpture
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Teddy Roosevelt’s head sculpted from butter. The Liberty Bell replicated in oranges. The Sioux City Corn Palace of 1891 encased with corn, grains, and grasses and stretching for two city blocks—with a trolley line running down its center. Between 1870 and 1930, from county and state fairs to the...
Mechademia 8
Tezuka’s Manga Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Known as the “Walt Disney of Japan” it is no surprise that Tezuka Osamu is still the best-known manga creator to Western fans. Current scholarship has uncovered the profound complexity and ambiguity not only of his work but of the man, the artist, and his life—dismantling his position as the god...
by Eric Dregni
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Lake Minnetonka is renowned for its natural beauty as well as the prominent people it has attracted to its shores as a historic site of grand hotels, steamboats, and wealthy visitors from around the world, and as the home of the legendary Excelsior Amusement Park. But did you know that early European...
Negotiating Sex Work
Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Globally, discussions about sex work focus on exploitation. The media regularly provides us with stories about teen girls coerced to perform sexual acts for money, frequently beaten and robbed by their pimps or traffickers. While one would have to be hard-pressed to deny that sex workers are victimized,...