University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
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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...
The Folklore of the Freeway
Race and Revolt in the Modernist City
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded “freeway revolt,” saving such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich Village and...
Shopping Town
Designing the City in Suburban America
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Victor Gruen was one of the twentieth century’s most influential architects and is regarded as the father of the U.S. shopping mall. In spring 1979, less than a year before his death, he began reconstructing his life story. Now available in English for the first time, Shopping Town is the long overdue...
Bronze Screen
Chicana and Chicano Film Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1993
Explores Chicana and Chicano popular culture through contemporary representations in both Hollywood commercial and independent cinema.Rosa Linda Fregoso’s The Bronze Screen opens the way for international debate on the new critical field of Chicano/a cinema. Fregoso provides an incisive articulation...
Mechademia 6
User Enhanced
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Manga and anime inspire a wide range of creative activities for fans: blogging and contributing to databases, making elaborate cosplay costumes, producing dôjinshi (amateur) manga and scanlations, and engaging in fansubbing and DIY animation. Indeed, fans can no longer be considered passive consumers...
Once in a Blue Moon Lodge
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Set adrift when her mother sells the salon that has been a neighborhood institution for decades, Nora Rolvaag takes a camping trip, intending to do nothing more than roast marshmallows over an open fire and under a starry sky. Two chance encounters, however, will have enormous consequences, and her...
by Linda LeGarde Grover
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Set in northern Minnesota, The Road Back to Sweetgrass follows Dale Ann, Theresa, and Margie, a trio of American Indian women, from the 1970s to the present, observing their coming of age and the intersection of their lives as they navigate love, economic hardship, loss, and changing family dynamics...
by Sarah Stonich
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
On a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge—only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. And there you might meet Meg, or the ghost of the girl she was, growing up under her grandfather’s care in a world apart and a lifetime ago. Now an artist,...
X-Marks
Native Signatures of Assent
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, North American Indian leaders commonly signed treaties with the European powers and the American and Canadian governments with an X, signifying their presence and assent to the terms. These x-marks indicated coercion (because the treaties were made under...