University of Minnesota Press
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The Steger Homestead Kitchen: Simple Recipes for an Abundant Life
$27.95 Read morePersonal and simple, earthy and warm–recipes and stories from the Steger Wilderness Center in Minnesota’s north woods
The Steger Homestead Kitchen is an inspiring and down-to-earth collection of mea
- Author: Steger, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1517909740
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to the Natural World of the Twin Cities
$29.95 Add to cartAn illustrated guide to the natural habitats and rich diversity of wildlife in the greater Minneapolis and St. Paul metro area
Though the Twin Cities and environs have proven a fine habitat for one p- Author: Moriarty, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1517905494
- Language: English
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Listening Point
$15.95 Read moreMany people have a special place where they go to experience nature. Perhaps it is a cabin, or a campsite, or a favorite hiking trail. For Sigurd Olson it was a bare glaciated spit of rock in the magn… [more below]
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Books (Paperback)
- Author: Olson, Sigurd F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 13 1997
- ISBN10: 081662996X
- Language: English
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Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade
$21.95 Add to cartThe journals of two clerks of the American Fur Company recall a lost moment in the history of the fur trade and the Anishinaabeg along Lake Superior’s North Shore
Long after the Anishinaabeg first i
- Author: Cochrane, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1517905931
- Language: English
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The Switch: An Off and on History of Digital Humans
$34.95 Read moreFrom the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency
The Switch traces the sudden rise of a technology that h
- Author: Puskar, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1517915406
- Language: English
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Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
$16.95 Read moreThe Edmund Fitzgerald, a colossal ore carrier, had been fighting her way through a pounding November storm on Lake Superior. Then the Fitz‘s radar went out, and she started to take on water. Despite g
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0816680817
- Language: English
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Impermanence: Life and Loss on Superior’s South Shore
$19.95 Add to cartA personal journey through the ever-changing natural and cultural history of Lake Superior’s South Shore
Lake Superior’s South Shore is as malleable as it is enduring, its red sandstone cliffs, clay b
- Author: Leaf, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1517915252
- Language: English
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Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year
$14.95 Add to cartLong before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, “the place of the small portage.” There the Ojibwe lived in keeping wit
- Author: Grover, Linda Legarde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1517903440
- Language: English
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When Species Meet: Volume 3
$24.95 Read more“When Species Meet is a breathtaking meditation on the intersection between humankind and dog, philosophy and science, and macro and micro cultures.” –Cameron Woo, Publisher of Bark magazine
In 2006,
- Series: PostHumanities (Paperback) #3
- Author: Haraway, Donna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0816650462
- Language: English
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Cooking from the Heart: The Hmong Kitchen in America
$24.95 Read moreThe first cookbook of Hmong-American cuisine, filled with unique recipes and stories
Simple, earthy, fiery, and fresh, Hmong food is an exciting but still little-known South Asian cuisine. In traditio
- Author: Scripter, Sami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0816653275
- Language: English
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By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends
$17.95 Read moreThe first English publication of Sami folktales from Scandinavia collected and illustrated in the early twentieth century
Although versions of tales about wizards and magical reindeer from northern Sc
- Author: Demant Hatt, Emilie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1517904587
- Language: English
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White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
$29.95 Read moreThe long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community
Today, fast food is disproportionately located in Black neighborhoods and marketed to Black Ameri- Author: Kwate, Naa Oyo a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1517911095
- Language: English
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Minnesota’s Natural Heritage: Second Edition
$49.95 Read moreThe definitive work on Minnesota’s natural history and ecology–updated, expanded, and copiously illustrated to account for profound changes to the state’s natural landscape over the past twenty-five
- Author: Tester, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1517903572
- Language: English
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The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland and Sápmi
$18.95 Add to cartAn exploration of the winter wonders and entangled histories of Scandinavia’s northernmost landscapes–now back in print with a new afterword by the author
After many years of travel in the Nordic c
- Author: Sjoholm, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1517915147
- Language: English
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Vacationland
$16.95 Read moreOn 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 sh
- Author: Stonich, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 25 2013
- ISBN10: 816687668
- Language: English
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The Streel: A Deadwood Mystery
$15.95 Read moreWomen Writing the West WILLA Award Finalist
From “the reigning royalty of Minnesota murder mysteries” (The Rake) comes a striking new heroine: a young Irish immigrant caught up in a deadly plot in nin- Author: Logue, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1517908604
- Language: English
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Marguerite Duras: Writing
$16.95 Add to cartWriting, one of Marguerite Duras’s last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0816677530
- Language: English
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Troll Magic: Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway
$21.95 Add to cartA collection of macabre and magical folklore from the “godfather” of the Norwegian troll
Across the stillness of the sprawling mountain heath, the shadow of the mighty forest falls, its wildness calli
- Author: Kittelsen, Theodor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1517911397
- Language: English
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Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man
$19.95 Add to cartA fresh and vivid translation of Flaubert’s influential bildungsroman
Gustave Flaubert conceived Sentimental Education, his final complete novel, as the history of his own generation, one that failed
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1517914132
- Language: English
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Olav Audunssøn: II. Providence
$17.95 Add to cartThe second volume in the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s epic of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset’s fluid, natural style in a new English translation, the first in nearly a century
As Norway mov- Author: Undset, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1517911605
- Language: English
