University of Minnesota Press
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The Parasite: Volume 1
$19.95 Add to cartInfluential 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
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The Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition
$34.95 Read moreAs many in the north country can attest, one of life’s great pleasures resides in the tradition of sauna-sitting in 180-plus-degree heat and throwing cool water on oven-hot stones to create a blast of… [more below]
- Author: Nordskog, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0816656827
- Language: English
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Rafferty’s Last Case: A Minnesota Mystery Featuring Sherlock Holmes
$14.95 Read moreThe ninth and final Minnesota mystery, in which Shadwell Rafferty, with the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, may have solved his own murder
Like many mysteries, this one begins with a murder. But
- Author: Millett, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1517913128
- Language: English
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The Shared Room
$16.95 Read moreA family gradually moves forward after the loss of a child–a story for readers of all ages
When someone you love dies, you know what doesn’t die? Love. On the hot beach, among colorful umbrellas blo- Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1517907942
- Language: English
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The Best Casserole Cookbook Ever
$29.95 Read more500 casseroles for every occasion–sweet and savory, hearty and light, homey and festive–from beloved James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer Beatrice Ojakangas
A good cook once said that a casserole is- Author: Ojakangas, Beatrice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1517913438
- Language: English
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What Is Posthumanism?: Volume 8
$24.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, socie
- Series: PostHumanities (Paperback) #8
- Author: Wolfe, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0816666156
- Language: English
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Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method
$39.95 Read moreStarting in the mid-1960s, a group of Korean artists began to push paint, soak canvas, drag pencils, rip paper, and otherwise manipulate the materials of painting in ways that prompted critics to desc
- Author: Kee, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 18 2013
- ISBN10: 0816679886
- Language: English
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Noah’s Arkive
$29.95 Read moreA timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose
Most people know the story of Noah from a children’s bible or a play set with a colorf- Author: Cohen, Jeffrey J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1517904242
- Language: English
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The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant Story
$9.95 Read moreA portrait of the Finnish immigrant experience in Minnesota during the early twentieth century–now in paperback
After journeying across the Atlantic with his mother and two sisters, young Otto Pelto- Author: Durbin, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1517910463
- Language: English
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Walleye: A Beautiful Fish of the Dark
$24.95 Read moreWalleye, the holy grail of game fish: on catching them, understanding their biology and history, and ensuring their survival
Among the more than 34,000 species of fish, few have the walleye’s followi
- Author: Radomski, Paul J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1517913632
- Language: English
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One Winter Up North
$17.95 Read moreA picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in winter, snowshoeing the frozen lakes and silent forest with family, encountering the wonders of northern wildlife in the col
- Author: Owens, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 151791292X
- Language: English
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In the Company of Radical Women Writers
$24.95 Read moreRecovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s–a decade unnervingly similar to our own
In the Company of Radical Wom
- Author: Hennessy, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1517914906
- Language: English
