Minnesota Books

Ever wonder why you or someone you know fears something for no particular reason. Well wonder no longer because Yi-Fu Tuan has applied his geographical mapping skills to the cultural origins of fear. The result is a fascinating reconstruction of how fear originates in humans from our first days as a child to our last days of life. Tuan uses examples from cultures all over the world to help his readers fully understand the similarities/differences of cultural fears and how we express them in our vast and varied, mental and material constructions.

Tuan also examines how fear has led to many of the human race's greater advancements and accomplishments. Perhaps the most stunning and interesting facts contained in this book will be the discussions of the rate of crime/violence in earlier ages and how rural/agrarian life was never as quiet and peaceful as we would like to think. This work raises a definite challenge to those who believe that contemporary societies are mired in a moral collapse.

This is a must read not only for its brilliant look at the phenomenon of fear, but also for its accessibility to all levels of readers. If you have any interest in cultural studies, crime/justice, psychology, cultural geography, or horror literature then this book demands a spot of honor on your bookcase.

Actress Lara Croft has been a celebrity since the 1996 movie Tomb Raider, and has enjoyed a line of appearances in everything from film to comic books and novels, since. Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky's Lara Croft: Cyber Heroine takes a different approach from the usual biographical sketch, examining her image of female strength and tracking marketing strategies which have supported this image. Cultural and social analysis contribute to a study not just of Croft's achievement and image, but of the new media's representation of the powerful yet sexual woman figure as a whole.

This is a pathbreaking work in both urban theory and Chicano studies. The homeboy authors - who deftly combine theoretical acumen with journalist ingenuity - provide exciting new perspectives on the supernova of Latino Los Angeles. Unlike other contributors to the debate on globalization and postmodernity, moreover, they write with real style and verve. I can't wait for volume two.

This book is the winner of Outstanding Book Awards from the History of Education Society (1998-1999) and American Education Research Association (1999).

This is a good book. I had a lot of fun reading it, and learned a lot. Author gets inside the heads of many of these great coaches.

está escrito con mucho amor y ternura. me identifiqué con el libro porque tiene mucho que ver con mi experiencia como madre y pienso que todas las madres y los PEDIATRAS deben leerlo. es magnífico.

License to Cook Minnesota Style, in the popular recipe-card file size Stocking Stuffer format, is chock-full of the best recipes and notes about the best of Minnesota in the heart of the Midwest. The recipes were compiled by Gerry Kangas of Aurora, Minnesota. She has been an avid cook since she was a girl. With her husband she owned and managed a board and lodging home for over twenty years. The front cover depicts a Minnesota license plate depicting a lake and forest scene, illustrated by Diane Heusinkveld and designed by Dana Lumby.

License to Cook Minnesota Style also includes a information on the state history and a section titled "Marvelous Minnesota." This "land of lakes" has drawn many to its water for fishing, boating, and vacation fun! It is a valuable guide for anyone interested in touring the area. The section includes information on state parks and public preserves, sporting on the Great Lakes, local dining and much more! License to Cook Minnesota Style is a must for tourists and chefs alike!

The Wild Rice and Fish specialties included in this book are wonderful! Try a meal of Spinach-Wild Rice Quiche and Baked Stuffed Lake Superior Trout. Use the Gooseberry Jelly recipe on Finnish Flat Bread! The Meatball Soup is a great way to warm up on those chilly Midwestern days! The Apple Cake with Rum Sauce is sure to have family and friends coming back for more!

License to Cook Minnesota Style is excellent for personal collections and as a memento of Minnesota.

Light in the Dark Room: Photography and Loss by Jay Prosser (University of Minnesota Press) (Hardcover) Photographs are not conduits for the return of memory, but memento mori: reminders of the fact of death itself. And in this, Jay Prosser tells us, we find the gift of photography.
Engaging the photographic reflections of figures as different as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gordon Parks and Elizabeth Bishop, Light in the Dark Room offers a vision of photography as real¬ization of loss-and a revelation of how photographs can shed light on the dark rooms of our lives. The grief this book recalls is poignant yet universal: a son loses his mother; an anthropologist, his culture; a photographer, his youth; a poet, her lover. Among these losses and the remarkable photographs that accompany them, Prosser weaves his own meditations on photography, on the interdependence of loss and enlightenment, on the emergence of our technologized society-and the world we have lost in the process.
Excerpt: We treat photographs as if they had a kind of presence. Photography is the commonest way for us to record our own and our loved ones' lives. And we arrange photographs in our rooms of our beloved, often because they cannot be with us there-often (and eventually) because they are dead. Photography is the medium in which we unconsciously encounter the dead. Yet herein lies photography's hidden truth. Photographs are not signs of presence but evidence of absence. Or rather the presence of a photo-graph indicates its subject's absence. Photographs contain a realization of loss. This book on photography enters into that loss."

If you like Louise Erdrich's Tracks or Love Medicine, you'lladore this little novel by Gordon Henry. Like many Native American writers, finding a niche in the publishing world is difficult. With the publication of this one, publishers may be knocking on Henry's door for more. I hope so! Pay attention when you read this one, it isn't escapist fluff, there's meat on these bones (an insider's chuckle, for those who've already ready the book).

This is sort of a novelization of Isherwood's years as a student and the between the wars era in England. I find that era fascinating and this book is filled with details about how life was lived back then.

The book is very readable. Isherwood has a distinct, clear writing style that I love. He makes everything interesting. If you liked Berlin Stories I'd expect you'll like this as well. (That's how I came to this book). Highly recommended.