University of Minnesota Press
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Rise to the Challenge: A Memoir of Politics, Leadership, and Love
$24.95 Read moreThe inspiring life story of Minnesota’s first woman lieutenant governor: breaking political ground, navigating patriarchal tradition, and persevering through great personal loss
Marking a milestone fo
- Author: Johnson, Marlene M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1517917611
- Language: English
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Seven Ways to Trick a Troll
$19.95 Read moreTrolls They are huge and ugly and very, very dangerous. But luckily, their brains are no bigger than a walnut, so even small children can trick them. First, though, you need to know their weaknesses-
- Author: Lunge-Larsen, Lise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0816699771
- Language: English
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Plant a Pocket of Prairie
$17.95 Read moreAuthor Phyllis Root and illustrator Betsy Bowen last explored the vast, boggy peatlands of northern Minnesota in their book Big Belching Bog. Now, in Plant a Pocket of Prairie, Root and Bowen take you
- Author: Root, Phyllis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0816679800
- Language: English
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Johnny’s Pheasant
$16.95 Read moreAn encounter with a pheasant (which may or may not be sleeping) takes a surprising turn in this sweetly serious and funny story of a Native American boy and his grandma
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- Author: Minnema, Cheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 151790501X
- Language: English
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November’s Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
$16.95 Add to cartOn Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings be
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 081668720X
- Language: English
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Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic
$16.95 Read moreThe remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay
Unrelenting winds, carnivorous polar bears, snake nests, sweltering heat, and
- Author: Warren, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1517913748
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Minnesota Cookie Book: 100 Best Recipes from the Star Tribune’s Holiday Cookie Contest
$29.95 Add to cartA fresh batch of deliciously distinctive recipes from the Star Tribune‘s beloved annual cookie contest–with even more recipes, enticing photographs, and bakers’ stories
Cold winters call for warm ki- Author: Dean, Lee Svitak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1517918170
- Language: English
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Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover
$29.95 Read moreThe story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth
What’s sexy about saving the planet? Funny you should ask. Because tha
- Author: Sprinkle, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1517900190
- Language: English
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The Perennial Kitchen: Simple Recipes for a Healthy Future
$27.95 Read moreRecipes and resources connect thoughtfully grown, gathered, and prepared ingredients to a healthy future–for food, farming, and humankind
Knowing how and where food is grown can add depth and richne- Author: Dooley, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 151790949X
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartThe 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
