Minnesota Books

I was forced to buy this book for a culture awareness class in college. It turned into one of the best purchases of my life. Asian, hispanic, African-American and Indian stories are the content, and each story is touching. Real insight is gained and an understanding is found as you turn the last page. Buy it for your children, the hispanic section makes wonderful bedtime stories! I can't comment on the usual specifics .. dialouge,scenes, etc ...since each section is so different. But the book will fulfill you, guaranteed!

This book is well worth the time for anyone who cares about philosophy, who does film studies, or who simply wants to understand Deleuze. The opening introduction to Deleuze's film-philosophy is the best I've come across; the essays are superb (see, especially, those by Lambert, Marks, Canning, Martin, Alliez, and Conley); and the concluding interview with Deleuze is surprisingly lucid. This ought to be required reading.

"In a word: Brilliant. In a sentence: This book has changed (and continues to change) the trajectory and velocity of "art history".

I have an original copy of this wonderful book. You will find pinches and dashes and teacups for measurements in this volume. It even tells how to stoke the fire! I make the bread pudding recipe and it is a favorite with my family. In using this book you might have to do some trial and error for the degrees and the measurments for the recipes. For example Tea cups usually hold 4oz and not 8oz. It true fun for the kitchen, and the housekeeping is an interesting look at yesteryear. And we think that housework is hard now...NO WAY!!!!

I am the author. This booklet, free on the Minnesota Sea Grant website, discusses issues relating to how communities around Lake Superior can protect water quality and other local natural resources through community-level planning and re-thinking community development patterns. The booklet introduces concepts on development that many communities have not considered, and discusses how development can impair local streams and lakes, if not done with care.

Heywood and Dworkin draw on a variety of sources in this thoughtful examination of female athletes, including content and textual analysis and critical and gender theory. Their writing is scholarly and thouroughly researched, yet will also be interesting to non-academic readers. The commentary on various advertisements and other cultural artifacts such as the movie "Fight Club" are very good, as are their explorations of the conumdrums and contradictions encountered by women athletes over how they represent themselves and are represented by others. They also touch more generally on how gender roles and images have changed, not just for women but for men as well.

This is a must-read for women athletes, those who support them, and anyone interested in the topics of sports and gender.

--Vince Prygoski, author of "Worst to First, or, a 'Shock'ing tale of Women's Basketball in Motown" (available from Amazon.com)

Peter Leschak certainly knows his stuff, and others can learn from his experience. I really enjoy bumming a lot and found this book a rare treat.

This was an impulse purchase, but I am very pleased with this guide to butterflies. Great photos make identification easy and I love that every entry provides information about lifecycle and host plants.
If you live in the North Central U.S. and enjoy butterflies I highly recommend this book!

This is the best camping cook book I ever read "terrific" says me "spectacular" says my family

This is a fun book to read along the trail or to curl up with in front of the fire on a long winter's night. All of these camping stories are true, ranging from heart-stopping encounters with grizzly bears to delinquent teens on the run (with no place "civilized" to go!) and of course, park rangers never get lost (ahem.) Then there's the wilderness wedding, complete with an aiklifted dress and the gift of a toaster (yes, folks, a real TOASTER -- can you imagine anything more useless on a canoe trip?) Whether you are a veteran camper of just dreaming about it, this book will tickle your innards.