Minnesota Books

In the frontier days before the railroads penetrated the western plains, the Whoop-Up Trail was a high road of adventure and commerce. It led Indians, traders and cattlemen into a great interior market stratching northward from the Missouri River in MT to the Bow River valley in Alberta. From Fort Benton on the Great Muddy to Fort Macleod on the Oldman, the trail with the rowdy name wrote its history in whisky, guns, furs, and pioneer enterprise."

Connolly once again provokes and inspires. This leading political theorist and recent winner of the prestigious Lippincott Award for his classic Terms of Political Discourse shows in this book why the impasse between secularists and theistic thinking can best be overcome through a cultivation of a new kind of pluralist enagement with others. This is a breakthrough we've all been waiting for. "Heaven is a place, a place where nothing ever happens."

This book is an excellent resource for learning about what to feed most birds that will visit your garden. There are also ideas and instructions on how to build birdfeeders - from simple to more complex. A must-have for anyone who enjoys back-yard birdwatching.

You are what you grow. That is the message of this delightful volume about one woman with a horticultural vision that is a rare match in US lore. As told by Hellander, Eloise Butler brought a deep affinity for earth's pleasures to her work in studying plants, creating new gardens, and opening the world of plants and flowers to others through her writings. As a combination biography and gardening book, the reader finds new connections between the presonal and the petal. This is a great book for anyone with a love of gardening, of cultural anthropology, and of the curiousity to find out how a woman grows.

Richard has one of the best eyes for capturing beauty at unexpected times and places. Once you get to know Richards work, you will imediately pick it out of the crowd of the very best!

From a true pioneer outdoorsman...I love Calvin's tales interspersed in his readings with some opinions tossed about about politics, economics, and the state of his future and now, our past...Just very well written from an original. His stories that he chats about in between are short and enjoyable. I love his work.

His works will be remembered for a long time...if you like some dry humor tossed into full character...this is the ticket.

Frank Mayer's book not only gives us a written enthnographic view of the frontier life but also a "photographic" view of life on the frontier in North America. His book is a fingerprint in time for a place that will never be seen again.

If you've read the essay on Gay Man's English in "Queerly Phrased" and you want to read more, then come here to the source. Mr. Leap contributed his essay on cooperative discourse to OUP for inclusion in that anthology, and the choice was most felicitous. Here, Mr. Leap further que(e)ries the subject and adds a great deal more depth and nuance. Highly recommended!

In this book naturalist Paul Gruchow meditates on twelve sites among the many acquired over the past 25 years by the Minnesota Department of Natural resources "to provide sanctuary for rare plant and animal communities--in some cases the last representatives of their kind in Minnesota": the Prairie Coteau near Pipestone and the 3.6-billion-year-old rock near Granite Falls in southwestern Minnesota; Townshend Woods, Mound Prairie, and Kellogg-Weaver River Valley in southeastern Minnesota; Felton Prairie in the northwest; and Rush Lake Island, Ripley Esker, Black Lake Bog, Lost Lake Peatland, and Lutsen Woods in the forested northeastern part of the state. The essays are brief, perhaps 2,000 words, often accompanied by useful one-page field notes (Richel Burkey-Harris) and forty illustrative four-color photos from the Minnesota DNR magazine MINNESOTA CONSERVATION VOLUNTEER, where the essays first appeared. The book is a reduced coffee table size, short-side bound, printed on heavy coated stock, attractively designed (except for the irritatingly brittle semi-transparent dust jacket).(...)Gruchow has a prairie eye even when he's off of the prairie, and he focuses not just on sites, but on component parts of sites (in this respect his prose is much richer than the book's photographs) (...)In WORLDS WITHIN A WORLD, Gruchow's words have the upper hand: elegant, sometimes literary (Jim Wright's poem on a blue heron is quoted), always vivid and precise. This book won the 2000 Minnesota Book Award in the category of Nature and Minnesota, and the award was well deserved.

This is a collection of Flusser's writings which touches on the theme of the development of the new media, design and space, which can be read in the context of the philosophy of Heidegger, Deleuze and Levinas.

If there is an essential relationship between media and philosophy that is overlooked by many contemporary thinkers, artists and writers today, then this is an excellent text which provides essential insights.

The field of New Media Theory and Philosophy is fraught with innumerable pathways and traps. This book offers a safe passage out of labyrinth of thought, without jargon (Adorno) and confirms Flusser to be one of the most important and under-rated media thinker in this century.