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Power And City Governance - Alan Digaetano - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Power And City Governance - Alan Digaetano - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Case studies of four major cities reveal the politics of governing today. Case studies of four major cities reveal the politics of governing today. This book develops a new way of comparing and understanding urban politics across national borders. The authors’ approach, called “modes of governance,” emphasizes governing alignments and their agendas. Applying this perspective to four cities in England and the United States, Alan DiGaetano and John S. Klemanski compare the effects of postindustrial and urban political transformations, and link these to trends in the wider political economy. Economics, demographics, and state structure influence the choices that ruling alliances face in urban politics. Power and City Governance examines the role of these forces, then evaluates urban development in Boston and Detroit and in the English cities Birmingham and Bristol. The book compares the origins and development of pro-growth, growth-management, and social-reform governing alignments and, drawing on over 200 interviews with local leaders, provides a clear perspective on the power structure in each city. Unusual in its integration of comparative theory and practical analysis, Power and City Governance contributes significantly to the long-standing debate over the structure of community power. ISBN 0-8166-3218-9£40.00$57.95xxISBN 0-8166-3219-7£16.00$22.95x256 Pages7 black-and-white photos, 8 charts, 18 tables5 7/8 x 9NovemberGlobalization and Community Series, volume 4Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

DKK 246.00
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Militant Nationalism - Cynthia L. Irvin - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Militant Nationalism - Cynthia L. Irvin - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A comparative analysis of two militant nationalist groups. Why do some militant nationalists turn to electoral politics while others resist-and even seek to destroy-that arena? Cynthia L. Irvin examines two cases of electoral interventions by nationalist organizations engaged in violent political competition: in Northern Ireland and in the Basque provinces of Spain. Based on her findings, she offers insights into the circumstances that lead such groups to abandon violence in favor of institutional political struggle. Using fieldwork done in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country, Irvin develops a model linking the internal dynamics of Sinn Fein and Herri Batasuna (the electoral arm of the militant Basque separatists) to changes in their external environments. In this unusual comparative analysis, she draws on interviews with more than 100 Sinn Fein and Herri Batasuna activists and on a unique survey of 140 Herri Batasuna activists. This approach moves Irvin’s work beyond previous analyses, which have relied on either descriptive and historical accounts or formal models of insurgent violence. This detailed account has broad implications for the study of social movements and ethnic identity, providing a valuable new perspective into the strategic interactions and often conflict-ridden relationship between social movements and political parties. ISBN 0-8166-3114-X Cloth £00.00 $49.95xxISBN 0-8166-3115-8 Paper £00.00 $19.95x304 Pages 26 Tables 5 7/8 x 9 MaySocial Movements, Protest, and Contention Series, volume 9Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

DKK 237.00
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Counseling Use of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank - Wilbur Layton - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Counseling Use of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank - Wilbur Layton - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Counseling Use of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank was first published in 1958. The Strong Vocational Interest Blank is a test designed to measure or inventory an individual’s vocational interests. This booklet provides an introduction and a practical guide to help vocational counselors understand and use the Blank. Dr. Layton explains how the Blank is scored, how resulting profiles should be interpreted, what is the significance of various patterns of response, what is the relation of interests to other pertinent factors in vocational counseling, and how the Blank may be used in either individual or group counseling. High school counselors will find this an especially helpful resource. This publication is No. 8 in the Minnesota Studies in Student Personnel Work Series.

DKK 220.00
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Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations - William Anderson - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations - William Anderson - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations was first published in 1956. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.This volume is number 8 in a series of monographs edited by William Anderson and Edward W. Weidner on intergovernmental relations in the United States as observed in the state of Minnesota. Topics discussed include: the financial problems of a federal system; Minnesota’s place and rank in the union; the financial relationship between Minnesota and the nation from 1783 to 1953; the respective financial powers of Minnesota and the nation; national and state taxes in Minnesota; federal grants-in-aid as a revenue source; the national-state fiscal balance; state-local revenue relations; and state payments to local governments.

DKK 321.00
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Citadel In The Wilderness - Evan Jones - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Citadel In The Wilderness - Evan Jones - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

The lively history of this frontier fort. History/Regional The lively history of this frontier fort, now back in print! In 1824 Colonel Josiah Snelling erected a stone fortress at the point where the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers merged, on territory secured by Lieutenant Zebulon Pike in a treaty with the Sioux chief Little Crow. Evan Jones describes the intriguing history of Fort Snelling, the Gibraltar of the West, its effect on the Native Americans of the region, and its role in the westward movement. “A story of bitter and complex rivalries. . . . With massive towers and walls capping a limestone cliff, [Fort Snelling] defied attack. But it influenced movements and events hundreds of miles away. The Sioux opposed the Chippewa, the North West Company contended with the Hudson’s Bay outfit, and Astor’s American Fur Company fought them both. . . . This book unfolds a forty-year struggle in the wilderness.” --New York Times Book Review “The author offers here a rollicking tale of high adventure and low shenanigans in and around Fort Snelling. As much the story of the Indians of the region as of the hardy Americans (famous and infamous) who walked inside this fort’s impressive walls, Citadel relays its message of courage and chicanery with a minimum of ‘undying prose’ but a maximum of straightforward and incisive storytelling.” --Library Journal Evan Jones (1915–1996) was born in Le Sueur, Minnesota. A writer of American history and cookbooks, he is the author of The Minnesota (also published in paperback by University of Minnesota Press), Trappers and Mountain Men, Epicurean Delight: The Life and Times of James Beard, and The L. L. Bean Book of New New England Cookery. ISBN 0-8166-3879-9 Paper £10.95 $14.95 256 Pages 23 black-and-white photos 5 3/8 x 8 1/2 May Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Series Translation Inquiries: Penguin Putnam, Inc.

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Autobiography in Early Modern Spain - - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Autobiography in Early Modern Spain - - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Autobiography in Early Modern Spain was first published in 1991. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Autobiography in Early Modern Spain Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens, Editors Introduction. The Construction of the Self: Notes on Autobiography in Early Modern Spain Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens Chapter 1. Narration and Argumentation in Autobiographical Discourse Antonio Gomez-Moriana Chapter 2. A Clown at Court: Francesillo de Zuniga''s Cronica burlesca George Mariscal Chapter 3. A Methodological Prolegomenon to a Post-Modernist Reading of Santa Teresa''s Autobiography Patrick Dust Chapter 4. Golden Age Autobiography: The Soldiers Margarita Levisi Chapter 5. The Picaresque as Autobiography: Story and History Edward Friedman Chapter 6. The Historical Function of Picaresque Autobiographies: Toward a History of Social Offenders Anthony N. Zahareas Chapter 7. Fortune''s Monster and the Monarchy in Las relaciones de Antonio Perez Helen H. Reed Chapter 8. The Woman at the Border: Some Thoughts on Cervantes and Autobiography Ruth El Saffar Chapter 9. Poetry as Autobiography: Theory and Poetic Practice in Cervantes Jenaro Talens Appendix Curriculum vitae Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

DKK 380.00
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European Painting in the Tweed Museum of Art - David Stark - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

European Painting in the Tweed Museum of Art - David Stark - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A fiftieth anniversary guide to the museum’s stunning European collection. Art/Regional A fiftieth anniversary guide to the museum’s stunning European collection. This new catalog is the first complete guide to the European paintings of the Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota Duluth and highlights its ninety-one most prominent works. Renaissance and baroque works such as the Caravaggesque Scourging of Saint Blaise and Denys Calvaert’s Flight into Egypt begin the collection that is perhaps at its best in its representation of nineteenth-century French art, including four works by Jean-François Millet and others by Théodore Rousseau, Charles-François Daubigny, and Camille Corot. Each is described not only in relation to its subject matter and artist’s vision, but also in relation to the Tweed collection as a whole. What emerges from this catalog is not only a memorable guide to an amazing group of paintings, but a fascinating glimpse into the process of art collection during the past century. Distributed for the Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth. ISBN 0-8166-3910-8 Paper £21.00 $29.95x 160 Pages 137 black-and-white photos, 21 color photos 9 x 12 January Translation Inquiries: The Tweed Museum of Art

DKK 304.00
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Portage Into The Past - J. Arnold Bolz - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Portage Into The Past - J. Arnold Bolz - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A Minnesota canoe enthusiast retraces the routes of the voyageurs. The wilderness of the Boundary Waters is as rich in history as it is in natural beauty. Almost three hundred years ago, French Canadian voyageurs traveled through this area, which straddles the border of the United States and Canada, paddling birch-bark canoes along the St. Lawrence-Superior route to northwestern Canada. In this work of travel and adventure, Bolz recounts a journey he took in 1958, retracing the voyageurs’ route from Grand Portage on Lake Superior through the Quetico-Superior country to Rainy Lake. His canoe and paddle served as a time machine as he re-created a trip first taken centuries ago. Beautifully illustrated by Francis Lee Jaques, Portage into the Past draws from the journals and maps of the early explorers of the region. Today’s adventurers of the north country will treasure this classic, an ideal guidebook to the region’s remarkable past. “At times, the transition is so smooth that it is with a start that we realize we have suddenly been carried two hundred years into the past.” Canoeing ISBN 0-8166-0919-5 Paper £00.00 $14.95 192 Pages 6 x 8 1/4 April Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

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Tradition And Belief - Clara A. Lees - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Tradition And Belief - Clara A. Lees - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Looks at early religious texts and their influence on medieval literature and culture. Looks at early religious texts and their influence on medieval literature and culture. In this major study of Anglo-Saxon religious texts-sermons, homilies, and saints’ lives written in Old English-Clare A. Lees reveals how the invention of preaching transformed the early medieval church, and thus the culture of medieval England. By placing Anglo-Saxon prose within a social matrix, her work offers a new way of seeing medieval literature through the lens of culture. To show how the preaching mission of the later Anglo-Saxon church was constructed and received, Lees explores the emergence of preaching from the traditional structures of the early medieval church-its institutional knowledge, genres, and beliefs. Understood as a powerful rhetorical, social, and epistemological process, preaching is shown to have helped define the sociocultural concerns specific to late Anglo-Saxon England. The first detailed study of traditionality in medieval culture, Tradition and Belief is also a case study of one cultural phenomenon from the past. As such-and by concentrating on the theoretically problematic areas of history, religious belief, and aesthetics-the book contributes to debates about the evolving meaning of culture. ISBN 0-8166-3002-XCloth£34.50$49.95xxISBN 0-8166-3003-8Paper£14.00$19.95x232 Pages5 7/8 x 9NovemberMedieval Cultures Series, volume 19Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

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Something Completely Different - Jeffrey S. Miller - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Something Completely Different - Jeffrey S. Miller - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

The first comprehensive study of the influence British programming had on American television. The first comprehensive study of the influence British programming had on American television. Between Emma Peel and the Ministry of Silly Walks, British television had a significant impact on American popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s. In Something Completely Different, Jeffrey Miller offers the first comprehensive study of British programming on American television, discussing why the American networks imported such series as The Avengers and Monty Python’s Flying Circus; how American audiences received these uniquely British shows; and how the shows’ success reshaped American television. Miller’s lively analysis covers three genres: spy shows, costume dramas, and sketch comedies. In addition to providing his close readings of the series themselves, Miller considers the networks’ packaging of the programs for American viewers and the influences that led to their acceptance, including the American television industry’s search for new advertising revenue and the creation of PBS. Something Completely Different concludes with a discussion of the American programs and genres that owed their existence to British progenitors. Miller convincingly argues that much of what came to define American television by 1980 was in fact British in origin, a contention that casts a new light on traditional discussions of American cultural imperialism. ISBN 0-8166-3240-5Cloth£31.00$44.95xxISBN 0-8166-3241-3Paper£12.50$17.95x208 Pages17 black-and-white photos5 7/8 x 9JanuaryTranslation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

DKK 556.00
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Something Completely Different - Jeffrey S. Miller - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Something Completely Different - Jeffrey S. Miller - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

The first comprehensive study of the influence British programming had on American television. The first comprehensive study of the influence British programming had on American television. Between Emma Peel and the Ministry of Silly Walks, British television had a significant impact on American popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s. In Something Completely Different, Jeffrey Miller offers the first comprehensive study of British programming on American television, discussing why the American networks imported such series as The Avengers and Monty Python’s Flying Circus; how American audiences received these uniquely British shows; and how the shows’ success reshaped American television. Miller’s lively analysis covers three genres: spy shows, costume dramas, and sketch comedies. In addition to providing his close readings of the series themselves, Miller considers the networks’ packaging of the programs for American viewers and the influences that led to their acceptance, including the American television industry’s search for new advertising revenue and the creation of PBS. Something Completely Different concludes with a discussion of the American programs and genres that owed their existence to British progenitors. Miller convincingly argues that much of what came to define American television by 1980 was in fact British in origin, a contention that casts a new light on traditional discussions of American cultural imperialism. ISBN 0-8166-3240-5Cloth£31.00$44.95xxISBN 0-8166-3241-3Paper£12.50$17.95x208 Pages17 black-and-white photos5 7/8 x 9JanuaryTranslation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

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Consumers And Citizens - Nestor Garcia Canclini - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Consumers And Citizens - Nestor Garcia Canclini - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

An essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power. Social Theory/Latin American StudiesAn essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power. In Consumers and Citizens, Néstor García Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the same time that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of certain traditional rights (particularly those of the welfare or client state) but also new openings for expanding citizenship. García Canclini focuses on the diverse ways in which democratic societies recognize markets of citizen opinions, however heterogeneous and dissonant, as in the fashion and entertainment industries. He shows how identity issues, brought to the fore by the aligning of citizenship and consumption, can no longer be understood strictly within the purview of territory or nation. Rather, the postmodern citizen-consumer inhabits a transterritorial and multilingual space, structured more along the lines of markets than states. Defining this space, García Canclini seeks to formulate a participatory and critical approach to consumption in which national culture, far from being extinguished, is reconstituted in transnational, cultural interactions. ISBN 0-8166-2986-2 Cloth £34.50 $49.95xxISBN 0-8166-2987-0 Paper £14.00 $19.95x256 Pages 5 7/8 x 9 AprilCultural Studies of the Americas Series, volume 6Translation Inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

DKK 220.00
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Reflections from the North Country - Sigurd F. Olson - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Reflections from the North Country - Sigurd F. Olson - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Olson’s wilderness philosophy, now in paperback for the first time. Written in the last years of his life, Reflections from the North Country is often considered Sigurd Olson’s most intellectually significant work. In an account alive with anecdote and insight, Olson outlines the wilderness philosophy he developed while working as an outspoken advocate for the conservation of America’s natural heritage. Based on speeches delivered at town meetings and government hearings, this book joins The Singing Wilderness and Listening Point as the core of Olson’s work. Upon its initial publication in 1976, Reflections from the North Country, with Olson’s unique combination of lyrical nature writing and activism, became an inspiration to the burgeoning environmental movement, selling over 46,000 copies in hardcover. In this wide-ranging work, Olson evokes the soaring grace of raven, osprey, and eagle, the call of the loon, and the song of the hermit thrush. He challenges the reader to loosen the grasp of technology and the rush of contemporary life and make room for a sense of wonder heightened by being in nature. From evolution to the meaning and power of solitude, Olson meditates on the human condition, offering eloquent testimony to the joys and truths he discovered in his beloved north-country wilderness. ISBN 0-8166-2993-5 Paper $14.95 COBE 192 pages 12 line drawings 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 September Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series Translation inquiries: Knopf

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States And Strangers - Nevzat Soguk - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

States And Strangers - Nevzat Soguk - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Looks at the role of refugees in international relations. Refugees may flee their country, but can they escape the confining, defining logic of all the voices that speak for them? As refugees multiply in our troubled world, more and more scholars, studies, and pundits focus on their plight. Most of these analyses, says Nevzat Soguk, start from a model that shares the assumptions manifested in traditional definitions of citizen, nation, and state. Within this hierarchy, he argues, a refugee has no place to go. States and Strangers questions this paradigm, particularly its vision of the territoriality of life. A radical retheorization of the refugee from a Foucauldian perspective, the book views the international refugee regime not as a simple tertiary response, arising from the practice of states regarding refugee problems, but as itself an aspect of the regimentation of statecraft. The attendant discourse negates the multiplicity of refugee events and experience; by assigning the refugee an identity-someone without the citizen’s grounding within a territorial space-the state renders him voiceless and deprives him of representation and protection. States and Strangers asks how this happens and how it can be avoided. Using historical, archival research and interpretive strategies drawn from a genealogical approach, Soguk considers the role of the refugee in the emergence and maintenance of the sovereign territorial state from the late seventeenth century to contemporary times. ISBN 0-8166-3166-2 Cloth/jacket £00.00 $62.95x340 Pages 5 7/8 x 9 MarchBorderlines Series, volume 11Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

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Latin Americanism - Roman De La Campa - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Latin Americanism - Roman De La Campa - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Analyzes the way North American academics have constructed Latin America. In this timely book, Román de la Campa asks to what degree the Latin America studied in U.S. academies is actually an entity “made in the U.S.A.” He argues that there is an ever-increasing gap between the political, theoretical, and financial pressures affecting the U.S. academy and Latin America’s own cultural, political, and literary practices, and considers what this new Latin Americanism has to say about the claims of poststructuralism, postmodern theory, and deconstruction. De la Campa focuses on the conduct of Latin American literary criticism in U.S. universities and compares this with the “Latin Americanism” of Latin America itself. He examines the translation of Latin American works into English, the careerism of U.S. intellectuals, the conduct of Latin American literary criticism in English, and the diaspora of Third World intellectuals. In a reconsideration of the vogue in Latin American literature and magical realism in light of new work by theorists residing in Latin America, he contrasts this work with critiques of Latin American discourses in the United States. A critique of postmodern and postcolonial constructions as articulated differently in the United States and Latin America, this hard-hitting but fair-minded book provides a postdeconstructive perspective on culture and literature. ISBN 0-8166-3116-6 Cloth £00.00 $47.95xx ISBN 0-8166-3117-4 Paper £00.00 $18.95x 224 Pages 5 7/8 x 9 June Cultural Studies of the Americas Series, volume 3 Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

DKK 237.00
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Book Of The Incipit - D. Vance Smith - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Book Of The Incipit - D. Vance Smith - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

An intriguing evaluation of the concept of beginnings in the medieval period. Medieval Studies/Literary TheoryAn intriguing evaluation of the concept of beginnings in the medieval period. In the first book to examine one of the most peculiar features of one of the greatest and most perplexing poems of England’s late Middle Ages-the successive attempts of Piers Plowman to begin, and to keep beginning-D. Vance Smith compels us to rethink beginning, as concept and practice, in both medieval and contemporary terms. The problem of beginning was invested with increasing urgency in the fourteenth century, imagined and grappled with in the courts, the churches, the universities, the workshops, the fields, and the streets of England. The Book of the Incipit reveals how Langland’s poem exemplifies a widespread interest in beginning in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, an interest that appears in such divergent fields as the physics of motion, the measurement of time, logic, grammar, rhetoric, theology, book production, and insurrection. Smith offers a theoretical understanding of beginning that departs from the structuralisms of Edward Said and the traditional formalisms of A. D. Nuttall and most medievalist and modernist treatments of closure. Instead, he conceives a work’s beginning as a figure of the beginning of the work itself, the inception of language as the problem of beginning to which we continue to return. ISBN 0-8166-3760-1 Cloth/jacket £24.50 $34.95x296 Pages 5 7/8 x 9 MayMedieval Cultures Series, volume 28Translation Inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

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Open Horizons - Sigurd F. Olson - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Open Horizons - Sigurd F. Olson - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Olson’s inspirational life story, told in his own words, now available in paperback. Sigurd Olson’s love affair with the wilderness began in a stream near his house in Wisconsin-he caught his first trout there with a tamarack wand, black thread, and a grasshopper as bait. Open Horizons is his autobiography, and in it he recounts a life lived on and for the land, from the wonder of boyhood fishing expeditions to decades-long conservation battles. Writing always with the sensitive, lyric prose that characterizes his works, Olson recalls his pioneering youth on a remote Wisconsin farm, his summers as a wilderness canoe guide, and his thousands of miles of travel through the wilds of this country and Canada. “Open Horizons is the story of the unknowns I have discovered, and gone through,” he writes. While telling his story, Olson makes a compelling case for preserving the wilderness. He puts forth his own life as an example of how nature can have a spiritual effect on the human soul, and proposes diligence on behalf of those who fight to conserve our forests, wetlands, and dunes. “If we can move into an open horizon where we can live in our modern world with ancient dreams that have always stirred us, then our work will have been done.” ISBN 0-8166-3037-2 Paper $14.95 256 pages 12 line drawings 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 September Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

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Seeing The Raven - Peter M. Leschak - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Seeing The Raven - Peter M. Leschak - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Witty and reflective author Leschak recreates his experience of the northern Minnesota landscape. Paperback copy: The story of a life in Minnesota’s north woods-now in paperback! In Seeing the Raven, Peter M. Leschak blends humor, philosophy, and a keen sense of nature’s beauty and challenges. Drawing on his many interests-fly-fishing and wild-land fire fighting, backyard astronomy and ecology, chain saws and ice skates, turtles and timberwolves-he confronts questions that transcend the particulars of his experience. Rich with anecdotes and allusions, its moments of pathos and joy unfold against the beautiful, though often forbidding, landscape of northeastern Minnesota. It is a book about death, renewal, and a search for meaning in nature. "Leschak’s is a captivating vision." Publishers Weekly "This well-crafted work is a collection of often humorous, sometimes philosophical ruminations on the pleasures of living in an area where lakes outnumber residents and winters last for seven months or longer. Leschak does a superb job of connecting wide-ranging topics such as astronomy, wolves, gardening, and ice harvesting into a cohesive, thought-provoking book that celebrates life in the North Woods." Library Journal ISBN 0-8166-2430-5Paper£10.50$14.95 208 Pages5 3/8 x 8 15/16September Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press Cloth copy: "It''s astonishing that you can live thirty-some years on this planet, and hear a common sound for the first time." That''s what Peter Leschak thought when, standing on Secret Lake in northeastern Minnesota under the glow of the aurora borealis, he first heard the snow. Seeing the Raven is filled with this sense of awakening to a world that seems well known. At once humorous and philosophical, rich with anecdotes and allusions, this is a book about death and renewal and a search for meaning along nature''s myriad byways. Blending contemporary science and keen firsthand observation, Leschak''s narrative encompasses a wide range of topics and experiences-fly- fishing and wildland firefighting, backyard astronomy and ecology, chain saws and ice skates, turtles and timberwolves. Its moments of pathos and joy unfold against the forbidding and beautiful landscape of northeastern Minnesota, as the author confronts questions that transcend the particulars of his experience. Provocative and deeply thoughtful, witty and always engaging, Seeing the Raven provides readers with a fresh perspective on timeless human concerns and conditions. Peter M. Leschak is a freelance writer who lives in northeastern Minnesota. His collection of essays, Letters from Side Lake, is published in paperback by the University of Minnesota Press (1992). His other books include Bumming with the Furies (1993) and The Bear Guardian (1990), which won a Minnesota Book Award. (Excerpt) The howling was so loud I flinched. I spun around to face west, fully expecting to see a wolfpack across the lake. That''s what I wished-to glimpse black shapes sprinting across the ice in the moonlight. For an instant my heart surged when I imagined it was true. But no, the cluster of shapes on the far shore were only humps of sphagnum. The timberwolves were back in the trees, or perhaps on the neighboring lake. But their baying and wailing charged my body to an electric pitch of acuity. I was hearing the music of wilderness-a song of sinew, blood, and gray fur. If there''s a Creator, then this was one of the voices of God. •National publicity campaign •Regional author tour •Advance reviewer galleys •Electronic media interviews

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In Near Ruins - Nicholas B. Dirks - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

In Near Ruins - Nicholas B. Dirks - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A group of leading scholars considers the current state of cultural analysis. If culture is suspect, what of cultural theory? At a moment when culture’s traditional caretakers-humanism, philosophy, anthropology, and the nation-state-are undergoing crisis and mutation, this volume charts the tensions and contradictions in the development and deployment of the concept of culture. Skeptical of the concept of culture but fascinated with cultural forms, the authors take up diverse topics, from debates over sexuality in the contemporary United States to relations between empire, capitalism, and gender in nineteenth-century Britain; from poverty in U.S. inner cities to violence in war-torn Sri Lanka; from the operation of nostalgia on cultural practices in Japan to anthropological forms of state power in Indonesia and the writing of history in India. Linked by a common urge to think through the aesthetics and politics of particular social relations amid a variety of globalizing forces-revolution, colonialism, nationalism, and the disciplinary institutions of the academy itself-these writers contribute to the ongoing work of remapping the terrain of cultural analysis and reevaluating the stakes in such a daunting effort. Contributors: Lauren Berlant, U of Chicago; E. Valentine Daniel, Columbia U; Marilyn Ivy, Columbia U; Robin D. G. Kelley, New York U; Laura Kipnis, Northwestern U; Marjorie Levinson, U of Michigan; Gyanendra Pandey, U of Delhi; John Pemberton, Columbia U; Adela Pinch, U of Michigan; Michael Taussig, Columbia U. ISBN 0-8166-3122-0 Cloth $49.95xxISBN 0-8166-3123-9 Paper $19.95x320 pages 4 black-and-white photos, 3 figures 5 7/8 x 9 DecemberTranslation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

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Winter Sign - Jim Dale Huot Vickery - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Winter Sign - Jim Dale Huot Vickery - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A journey into the soul of the coldest season. The locus of Jim dale Huot-Vickery’s life is a remote cabin in the northern wilderness of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters region. More often than not, it is winter here, a fierce, beautiful season that dominates all living things with its relentless cold grip. This is the inspiration for Winter Sign, the profound story of fifteen years of surviving the seven-month-long odyssey of winter in the far north. “We know parkas, mukluks, mittens, snowshoes, skis, and sled dogs,” Huot-Vickery writes. “Snow sparkles gold on cloudless winter mornings. There are shell-pink sunsets. Stars glimmer among northern lights. . . . For those of us who know this land, however, beauty is only part of the winter story. There are those long nights, those we rarely speak about, that surely and irrevocably shift the soul.” Against this backdrop, Huot-Vickery writes authoritatively on the ecology of the area and philosophically about winter’s probing of the human spirit. He explores the world of nature and the constant struggle for survival, including his own interactions with white-tailed deer and wolves. Huot-Vickery circles around paradoxes and themes that invade the land and his life: nature’s beauty and bounty pitted against danger and death; the challenge of self-reliance and the depths of isolation; loss and restoration. And always there is the unrelenting winter, filled with wonder and terror. At turns poignant and harrowing, Winter Sign explores the solitude of the dark night of the soul, and the sustenance and inspiration winter’s wild beauty provides. ISBN 0-8166-2969-2 Paper $15.95 192 pages 5 x 8 November Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

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M Is For Minnesota - Dori Hillestad Butler - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

M Is For Minnesota - Dori Hillestad Butler - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A delightful book about this remarkable state. There are plenty of alphabet books, but when you read about Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe you know you are in Minnesota. These characters are from just one entry in M is for Minnesota, a beautiful children’s book that will both entertain and delight readers of all ages. Author Dori Hillestad Butler has hand-picked the best of the state, from the northern tip (N is for Northwest Angle, the northern-most point in the lower 48 states) to the great Mississippi River. Illustrator Janice Lee Porter portrays the subject of each letter in original paintings, bringing facts and stories to life. From the blazing Hinckley fire to the serenity of a loon on a lake at sunset, Porter’s renderings are filled with rich colors and innovative perspectives. Her style is both thoughtful and charming, appealing to children and adults alike. Not only enjoyable to read, M is for Minnesota is enlightening as well. You’ll learn about places like Minnesota’s Iron Range, famous for producing high-quality iron ore, and people like “Lucky” Charles Lindbergh, who grew up in Little Falls. Entries feature animals, including timber wolves and eagles, that call Minnesota home, and events such as the first successful open-heart surgery, performed at the University of Minnesota. This book is a loving tribute to Minnesota. Residents past and present, tourists, educators, and book lovers will relish the opportunity to discover the history, stories, and natural beauty of the Gopher State. ISBN 0-8166-3041-0 Cloth/jacket $16.95 32 pages 27 full-color illustrations 10 x 8 September Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

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The Lost Brothers - Jack El Hai - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

The Lost Brothers - Jack El Hai - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

The dread, the drama, and the hope of a break in one of the country’s oldest active missing-child investigations On a cold November afternoon in 1951, three young boys went out to play in Farview Park in north Minneapolis. The Klein brothers—Kenneth Jr., 8; David, 6; and Danny, 4—never came home. When two caps turned up on the ice of the Mississippi River, investigators concluded that the boys had drowned and closed the case. The boys’ parents were unconvinced, hoping against hope that their sons would still be found. Sixty long years would pass before two sheriff’s deputies, with new information in hand and the FBI on board, could convince the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to reopen the case. This is the story of that decades-long ordeal, one of the oldest known active missing-child investigations, told by a writer whose own research for an article in 1998 sparked new interest in the boys’ disappearance. Beginning in 2012, when deputies Jessica Miller and Lance Salls took up the Kleins’ cause, author Jack El-Hai returns to the mountain of clues amassed through the years, then follows the trail traced over time by the boys’ indefatigable parents, right back to those critical moments in 1951. Told in brisk, longform journalism style, The Lost Brothers captures the Kleins’ initial terror and confusion but also the unstinting effort, with its underlying faith, that carried them from psychics to reporters to private investigators and TV producers—and ultimately produced results that cast doubt on the drowning verdict and even suggested possible suspects in the boys’ abduction. An intimate portrait of a parent’s worst nightmare and its terrible toll on a family, the book is also a genuine mystery, spinning out suspense at every missed turn or potential lead, along with its hope for resolution in the end.

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Vampire Lectures - Laurence A. Rickels - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Vampire Lectures - Laurence A. Rickels - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A wild and wide-ranging “psycho-history” of the vampire. A wild and wide-ranging “psycho-history” of the vampire. Bela Lugosi may-as the eighties gothic rock band Bauhaus sang-be dead, but the vampire lives on. A nightmarish figure dwelling somewhere between genuine terror and high camp, a morbid repository for the psychic projections of diverse cultures, an endlessly recyclable mass-media icon, the vampire is an enduring object of fascination, fear, ridicule, and reverence. In The Vampire Lectures, Laurence A. Rickels sifts through the rich mythology of vampirism, from medieval folklore to Marilyn Manson, to explore the profound and unconscious appeal of the undead. Based on the course Rickels has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for several years (a course that is itself a cult phenomenon on campus), The Vampire Lectures reflects Rickels’s unique lecture style and provides a lively history of vampirism in legend, literature, and film. Rickels unearths a trove that includes eyewitness accounts of vampire attacks; burial rituals and sexual taboos devised to keep vampirism at bay; Hungarian countess Elisabeth Bathory’s use of girls’ blood in her sadistic beauty regimen; Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with its turn-of-the-century media technologies; F. W. Murnau’s haunting Nosferatu; and crude, though intense, straight-to-video horror films such as Subspecies. He makes intuitive, often unexpected connections among these sometimes wildly disparate sources. More than a compilation of vampire lore, however, The Vampire Lectures makes an original and intellectually rigorous contribution to literary and psychoanalytic theory, identifying the subconscious meanings, complex symbolism, and philosophical arguments-particularly those of Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche-embedded in vampirism and gothic literature. ISBN 0-8166-3391-6Cloth£34.50$49.95xx ISBN 0-8166-3392-4Paper£14.00$19.95 376 Pages5 7/8 x 9September Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

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After Exile - Amy Kaminsky - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

After Exile - Amy Kaminsky - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Considers the effect of exile on contemporary South American writers. Can an exiled writer ever really go home again? What of the writers of Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile, whose status as exiles in the 1970s and 1980s largely defined their identities and subject matter? After Exile takes a critical look at these writers, at the effect of exile on their work, and at the complexities of homecoming-a fraught possibility when democracy was restored to each of these countries. Both famous and lesser known writers people this story of dislocation and relocation, among them José Donoso, Ana Vásquez, Luisa Valenzuela, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Mario Benedetti. In their work-and their predicament-Amy K. Kaminsky considers the representation of both physical uprootedness and national identity-or, more precisely, an individual’s identity as a national subject. Here, national identity is not the double abstraction of “identity” and “nation,” but a person’s sense of being and belonging that derives from memories and experiences of a particular place. Because language is crucial to this connection, Kaminsky explores the linguistic isolation, miscommunication, and multilingualism that mark late-exile and post-exile writing. She also examines how gender difference affects the themes and rhetoric of exile-how, for example, traditional projections of femininity, such as the idea of a “mother country,” are used to allegorize exile. Describing exile as a process (sometimes of acculturation, sometimes of alienation), this work fosters a new understanding of how writers live and work in relation to space and place, particularly the place called home. ISBN 0-8166-3147-6 Cloth £00.00 $42.95xx ISBN 0-8166-3148-4 Paper £00.00 $16.95x208 Pages 5 7/8 x 9 JuneTranslation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

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