University of Minnesota Press
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Architecture and Objects
$24.95 Read moreThinking 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
Object-oriented ontolo- Author: Harman, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1517908531
- Language: English
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One North Star: A Counting Book
$16.95 Read moreFive toads hop, four brook trout swim, three elk graze, two loons call, and one beaver gnaws on a paper birch tree, all under one North Star. Through bog and marsh, along river and lake, across prairi
- Series: PostHumanities
- Author: Root, Phyllis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: August 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0816650632
- Language: English
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Tracks in the Wild
$19.95 Read moreAnimal tracks always tell a story. You just have to recognize the signs. As you follow the marks an animal left behind, you get to know it: where it goes, what it likes to eat, when it runs, and why.
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage
- Author: Bowen, Betsy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 081669883X
- Language: English
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For the Love of Cod: A Father and Son’s Search for Norwegian Happiness
$15.95 Read moreA journey to find Norway’s supposed bliss makes for a comic travelogue that asks, seriously, what makes Norwegians so damn happy–and does it translate?
Norway is usually near or at the top of the Wo- Author: Dregni, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1517915724
- Language: English
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One Summer Up North
$17.95 Read moreA wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters, canoeing and camping with a family as they encounter the northwoods wilderness in all its spectacular beauty
It’s a place of wordless wond- Author: Owens, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1517909503
- Language: English
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American Gospel
$16.95 Read moreRadically personal and quintessentially American, an intimate drama at the heart of an apocalyptic vision
On a small farm beside a lake in Minnesota’s north woods an old man is waiting for the Raptur
- Author: Enger, Lin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1517912741
- Language: English
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Strike!: Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law
$19.95 Read moreThe complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics
When viewed from our turbulent times, the Minneapolis of fifty years ago mi
- Author: Green, William D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1517912954
- Language: English
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Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX
$19.95 Read moreHow two teenage girls in Minnesota jump-started a revolution in high school athletics
Peggy Brenden, a senior, played tennis. Toni St. Pierre, a junior, was a cross country runner and skier. All thes- Author: Brenden, Sheri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1517914582
- Language: English
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Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene: Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds
$34.95 Read moreA methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
The environmental and climatic crises of our time are fundamentally multispecies crises. And the Anthropocene, a time of “human-made”
- Author: Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1517911656
- Language: English
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Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic
$22.95 Read moreExploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change–thawing permafrost–and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet
Climate scientists point to permafrost as a
- Author: Wrigley, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1517911826
- Language: English
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Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma
$16.95 Read moreDogged 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
- Author: Millett, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1517907608
- Language: English
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The Parasite: Volume 1
$19.95 Read moreInfluential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pe
- Series: PostHumanities (Paperback) #1
- Author: Serres, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0816648816
- Language: English
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Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong
$21.95 Read moreIn this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life in “the Indian business.”
Raised in subu- Series: Indigenous Americas
- Author: Smith, Paul Chaat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0816656010
- Language: English
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Big Belching Bog
$9.95 Read moreCold, wet, and acidic, bogs appear to be extremely hostile to life, yet numerous plants and animals have adapted in fascinating ways in order to survive there. In Big Belching Bog, Phyllis Root lets u… [more below]
- Author: Root, Phyllis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0816666822
- Language: English
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The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis
$16.95 Read moreThe story of a much different Minneapolis, through the words and photographs of one of its most colorful characters–now in paperback
City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers–hard-dr
- Author: Shiffer, James Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1517916593
- Language: English
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Poems of a Penisist
$19.95 Read more“In the name of / Man, member, / and the holy fluid, / Amen,” begins Mutsuo Takahashi’s epic one-thousand-line erotic fantasy poem, “Ode,” the centerpiece of his groundbreaking collection of queer poe
- Author: Takahashi, Mutsuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 29 2012
- ISBN10: 081667972X
- Language: English
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Chroma: A Book of Color
$18.95 Add to cartChroma: A Book of Color is a meditation on the color spectrum by Britain’s most controversial filmmaker. From the explosions of image and color in Edward II, The Last of England, The Garden, and Wittg… [more below]
- Author: Jarman, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0816665931
- Language: English
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Nothing Permanent: Modern Architecture in California
$39.95 Read moreA critical look at the competing motivations behind one of modern architecture’s most widely known and misunderstood movements
Although “mid-century modern” has evolved into a highly popular and ubiq
- Author: Cronan, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1517915201
- Language: English
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The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change
$22.95 Read moreA “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate
For the first ten years of her life, Sheila Watt-- Author: Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1517904978
- Language: English
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Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop
$22.95 Read moreHow sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib
Sampling–incorporating found sound and manipulati
- Author: Patrin, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1517906288
- Language: English
