Minnesota Books

This book was published approx. 30 yrs. ago. Most of the factual information is current in todays energy enviroment.Property issues vs.energy/economics is somewhat the "David & Golieth"of twenty first century.

The essays in the book are wonderful. The photographs are superb. The author takes note of James Agee and Walker Evans and this seems to be a similar enterprise. The subject matter here is the author's home state and region, western Minnesota. The prairie is endless. It suffices to spread out the Icelanders and Norwegians and other immigrants in Minnesota. Holm was born on a farm eight miles north of Minneota, Minnesota. His Icelandic grandfather homesteaded there in 1880. Holm left the farm and made his way East to a teaching job next to the Atlantic Ocean. Minneota was a jumble of accents, Norwegian, Polish, German, Swedish, Flemish. Holm writes that north Europe's cast-offs moved to Minnesota. In western Minnesota brick is Catholic and wood is Lutheran. Minneota was a community born out of failure. No one arrived there who had been a success elsewhere. People came to farm. The language of power and success is false. Although Iceland had a history of losing, it made a great civilization. Bravo Bill Holm! Your book of essays, (along with the photographs in it), is magnificent.

This book is simply amazing.

Walter Ong focuses on an epistemology of hearing, contra Plato. Simply amazing. If you want to know what covenantal epistemology is, and what it means to "hear" God in the person and work of Jesus Christ, then pick this book up and read it, pen in one hand, coffee in the other. There is a lot of good stuff here for anyone interested in Luther's theology as well, even though the author is a Jesuit. There is a lot here for Protestants to appreciate.

Ms. Heywood has written a compelling story of a female athlete (runner) coming of age. She presents her memoir in a straight forward manner and does not hold back. She had a sexual relationship with her high school coach. She presents her story with all the emotional ambiguity I'm sure it carried. Ms. Heywood later struggled with an eating disorder. Again, this is presented in a very real manner. Ms. Heywood is also a very gifted writer. I found this book a compelling read and it should have a wide audience.

This set of dictionaries has helped tremendously with my translation of Swedish text. I'm studying Swedish political documents and this dictionary has been invaluable.

Why is contemporary African American literature -- particularly that produced by black women -- continually concerned with issues of respectability and propriety? Her first book, Private Lives, Proper Relations, Candace M. Jenkins looks at how African American writers express the political consequences of intimacy for the susceptible black subject. Jenkins argues that this fascination grew from recurrent beliefs about African American sexuality, and that it expresses a basic aspect of the racial self: an often unexpressed link between the intimate and the political in black culture.

Jenkins's analysis of black women's narratives -- including Ann Petry's The Street, Toni Morrison's Sula and Paradise, Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Gayl Jones's Eva's Man -- offers a theory of black subjectivity. Here Jenkins describes how the middle-class tries to save the black community from accusations of sexual and domestic oddity by embracing traditionally "normal" values and behavior. Unfortunately behind those efforts there is the implied "doubled vulnerability" of the black intimate subject: racial scrutiny and the proximity of human intimacy.

This book was not an easy read for me. I had a very hard time getting into it. I must say, however, that the content is illuminating and definitely worth the time invested if you stick with it. For anyone interested in Women's Studies and studies of gender, sexuality and class in African American literature, particularly that of the 20th century, this book is for you. Private Lives, Proper Relations is a powerful contribution to the crucial effort to end the distortion still surrounding black intimacy in the United States.

The Privilege For Which We Struggled surveys the fifty-five year epic struggle of Minnesota women to win the right to vote. Showcasing twenty five women who lead the political fight to enfranchise women, the informative text is enhanced with rare historical photographs and the reproduction of a little-known article from the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune from April 4, 1915, featuring a cartoon of Minnesota suffragists planting their gardens with the yellow flowers symbolic off the suffrage movement. The Privilege For Which We Struggled is an important, seminal, scholarly, highly recommended and welcome contribution to women's studies in general, and the history of the women's suffrage movement in particular.

I find this book to be very well written, researched and valuable. It tells the immigrant story with grace and compassion, delving into the motivations, disappointments and successes of the generations. Not only those of Norwegian descent will understand the challenges and victories of immigrant people. It is a book that addresses common fears and the ways the community rises up to overcome adversity. It is worth rereading several times.

I am using this book for a graduate class, and I can only say that it has been invaluable. This book is a must-have for any aspiring clinician that plans to use the MMPI-2 for assessment. It has everything you need and more, and breaks down the scales in a comprehensible manner.

This book is a detailed analysis of some philosophycal questions about Carnap's philosophy. Only interesting for specialists. But if you are reallly interested in Carnap, then it is a good book for you.