Minnesota Books

This book is hard to set down once you get started.

If you have connections with this community you will want to look up your friends, school, church and neighborhood.

Highly recommended for history buffs.

In the State of MINNESOTA, within HENNEPIN County, a BROOKLYN Township attracted farmers for the excellent soil and POTATOES became a major crop. Two major cities, BROOKLYN PARK and BROOKLYN CENTER were formed and this book gives the history of settlers for both towns. Farms, founding settlers, MAPS and more. When it was produced in 2001, about 40-50% of the 600 page volume was held for notes by more recent farm families with an emphasis on those that had roots to the 1800's. A great genealogy resource!

This new book discusses in depth the building of the 1933-4 Chicago World's Fair. With astute attention to detail, the managers succeeded in making a profit while presenting both a science show and avant garde architectural display during the depths of the depression. From the breathing dome of the Travel and Transport Building to the all glass block Libbey Owens pavilion, all kinds of innovations in architecture were presented. Ms. Schrenk does an excellent job in describing the numerous innovations in addition to providing good illustrations. One is also informed of why Frank Lloyd Wright was not repesented and his campaign in response. From pre-fabrication to Fuller's dymaxion car (which could move sideways!), all the new construction and technical innovations of the time are here. In sum, a fascinating read for all those interested in Chicago history, architecture, and the "Can Do" spirit of America during the depression.

This book is that rare combination of first class photographs and illustrations surrounding a first rate work of historical scholarship.

Although I have not read this book yet, It must be worth reading. I have seen Chon Noriega in at least 2 videos of Latin American people in film and he is fantastic! He projects a very professional, truthfull and honest take on historical Latino experiences and events.

I cannot wait to buy this book!

and Thank You Chon for being such a positive influence to millions! We need you here in Texas!

Chon Noriega, Editor of Chicanos in Film, dares to create a book that reveals the culture, philosophy, corazon, affirmation, sangre, and issues of contemporary Chicano Films. Pues, what are you waiting for? Buy it and learn how Richard "Cheech" Marin threw stereotypes on their head and how Frances Salome Espana creates films on her own terms.

well:i happen to be going thruogh the internet looking some things up.ran across this.if i had a chance to buy it right now i would,i think it sounds,like a wonderful book to own and read at your own pace.i am writting a story on the settlers known as pioneers,or pilgrims.and i hope to publish it someday.i have been a writter for 39 years this year sept 22sd.my birthday.i love to read all the montana history on all this kind of stuff,to me its so interesting i can close my eyes picture everything.i say buy this book everyone.i am a cowboy poet,and a roundup rodeo Queen from gardiner,were always through there going to my uncle bills,out at roy.the bill davis ranch.saddle-up.

I had reviewed this book for another medium, and articles in July 12, 1998 Minneapolis Star Tribune demanded that I use this medium to point out the importance of seeing the realities of Native Americans on White Earth reservation at this period of time.

One article touted Minneapolis mayor, Hubert Humphrey, making reference to his earlier days as a graduate student in the state of Louisiana, and his horror at seeing how badly people treated minorities.

Another article related the commotion caused at THIS time concerning the clash of White Earth organized native police forces, created with government funds, and police of the state of Minnesota over potential problems of jurisdiction.

One wonders what conditions existed at White Earth reservation about the same time that Humphrey pointed out his disgust with treatment of minorities in the state of Louisiana? Well, the book on hand would give a graphic picture of those realities. Highly recommend! ed for any person of any state who has the urge to cast stones at other places where people hate this and that.

And highly recommended during a campaign year when the race for Minnesota governor includes one Mondale, Humphrey and Freeman, vying for the democratic slot.

Maud and Jeff are two teenagers, thrown together by protesting the Vietnam war. They feel a special connection over both having lost a sibling because of the war -- Maud's sister, Lucy, in an explosion of a science lab at the University of Minnesota, and Jeff's brother in Vietnam.

These events cause them to forge a bond and lead them to a commune where they try to come to terms with their losses and the war around them.

Strong, a little controversial, and wholly authentic, COME IN FROM THE COLD candidly captures life in America circa 1969 -- all of the tension, apprehension, hope, and love.

Ms. Qualey has crafted a read that is not only inspiring but also historically educational. It's so entertaining, though, you won't even realize it. The novel accurately mirrors all of the passion, urgency, and even violence of the times.

Reviewed by: The Compulsive Reader

Come in from the Cold vividly portrays the turmoil of life in the 1960s, during the Vietnam War. Teenagers are fascinated by the war, draft dodgers, and protesters, but there's not much good fiction for them. Come in from the Cold is excellent. Another good YA novel about the war, from a different perspective, is Ellen Emerson White's The Road Home.

for the Olympics. This is an excellent pre-travel reference for anyone planning to attend the Summer Olympics in Sydney this year. The historical background will help to bring the city to life, from its beginnings as a penal colony to its growth into one of the world's truly great cities.

Sydney started out as a landing place for convicts from Great Britain. But from those humble beginnings, it has grown into one of the world's great cities. This is a "must read" for anyone planning a trip Down Under any time soon. The insights provided by the author will help the Australian visitor have a much better understanding of the city before him. With the Olympics coming soon to Sydney, the timing of this release couldn't have been better. This is a book worth the investment of time and money. You'll enjoy it.

It was a simple ordinary day for Cass Kennedy when his family was forced to move to North Minnesota. He never wished to be alive. His new house was very nice. He really liked that it snowed there everyday, and he missed school a lot. Cass loved to visit Lake Superior often. Cass loved to play football near the lake. His house was close to a forest, and the forest was called Indian Deep. One day Cass went into the forest, and he heard strange sounds. He saw a boat's emergency lights on. What could he do with his dog in the middle of a blizzard, and he was the only one around to help the survivors? This book was an exciting and thrilling adventure. You should buy this book.

Cass Kennedy is used to the fast pace of Minneapolis. When his family moves the North Shore of Lake Superior, many transitions ensue. He no longer has the time he would like with his dad, all of his friends are far away, and the class leader/bully, Ansel, picks on him but never gets caught. A shared love for a secret hideaway and a crisis bring the two boys together. Cass and Ansel realize that they have more in common than they realized. This is a great story for children on the move. The transitions experienced are dealt with in a realistic manner. The boy's feelings of abandonment by his father and his subsequent hiding from his family is typical of how many children retreat into themselves during times of change and stress. Whether a read-a-loud or read-alone, this quality book is highly recommended for children 8-13, boys and girls alike. The timeless cycle of chaos, confusion, and lonliness during a move is realistically depicted in this book.

These Jake Hines mysteries are THE BEST. The characters are real, the crimes believable, the setting well-described. They aren't "cozy," but they are definitely warm. Jake and Trudy are really cute couple with a real life together. I loved this one and am eager to read the next, and the next, etc.

Rutherford, Minnesota Chief of Detectives Captain Jake Hines watches the trial of Benny Niemeyer, accused of carjacking, kidnapping, and killing Shelley Gleason. Benny's partner Dale Trogstad was already found guilty of the crimes. Benny informed the police where they could find the corpse, but that information is not admissible as evidence due to a technicality. There is no other link connecting Benny to the murder and the witness who put away Dale is missing. Not surprisingly, the jury states "not guilty".

The next day a freed Benny is dead; the medical examiner declares he was murdered. Although Jake wanted this vermin put away for life and commiserates with the killer, he searches for the culprit. His inquiries lead to the town's richest family who has done so much for the community.

This author is a top Gunn when it comes to providing some of the best police procedurals on the market today. There is enough romance in CRAZY EIGHTS to satisfy fans of that genre, but it is clearly the investigation that readers will appreciate. The story line is brilliantly filled with false leads, red herrings, and misinformation that take the audience down wrong trails (sounds like the political parties). Readers will like the ethical Jake, a mixed racial person who usually ignores the ignorance of racists; the news from his live-in lover sets up a freshness for his next appearance and giving his fans plenty to look forward to.

Harriet Klausner

I must say that the work of the author is impressive in the way that it gives a wide and in-depth overview of the foundations of geopolitics in a way of interesting, narrative story. The part on French geopolitics is well-written.
Interesting and well-written.

The present work, undertaken by a energetic and committed group of scholars, is an effort to subject one of the sturdiest pillars of political discourse to the analysis developed by the "cultural studies revolution," many of the important repercussions of which have yet to be completely digested by mainstream political science. The bulk of the contemporary literature is still dominated by scholars who, if they have bothered to give the matter any thought at all, have reexamined the history of their fields in only the most cursory manner. Theirs is an effort to smooth the feathers of the new academic order's more vocal partisans, so that the old business of authoritative theorizing and the development of grand schemata might proceed apace. Brandishing their newly minted PC credentials, they excuse themselves and retire to the map room with their compasses and toy soldiers.

Not so Professors Tuathail, Dalby, and Routledge. They are well aware of the historical role of their discipline (geography) in shaping political relations between nations in the last century, of its complicity in two world wars and the U.S.-Soviet detente. Now, at a time when the heirs of Karl Haushofer and George Kennan are all making bids on the new geopolitical "paradigm," Tuathail et al. arrive on the scene with a profound and damning history of the whole avocation. It is to their immense credit that after being exposed to these volumes, one finds it impossible to read Foreign Affairs in quite the same light. As if by magic, the latest pronouncements of the Kissengers, the Fukuyamas, and the Huntingtons that grace the pages of that august journal strain, crack, and shatter. Turn the issue over and give it a good shake; the unexamined assumptions and base prejudices of the great statesmen fall to the floor like so many loose subscription-cards.

But lest fears of the jargon-filled, swampy postmodern style scare away potential customers, let them be assured that The Geopolitics Reader is clearly argued and immediately accessible to the interested general reader. The book, a selection of key 20th century geopolitical texts annotated and introduced by the editors, can be usefully employed in introductory courses on international relations, political theory, and political geography. Meanwhile, the novelty and import of the approach (called "critical geopolitics" by the authors) makes both the Reader and its companion volume, Rethinking Geopolitics, required reading for all advanced students of these subjects.

What makes this book so good is that it is equal parts intellectual history and literary criticism. Elliott has a provocative way of thinking about "culture," and he shows how foundational the culture concept has been to American literature. He also has a lot to say about the history of African American and Native American writing, and it is much more interesting than talking about those works as being completely separate form each other.

This is a great book about the history of the culture concept -- and especially about all the different kinds of literature related to it.