books about: minnesota     books:       Red Knife: A Cork O'Connor Mystery4 reviews William Kent Krueger Atria, 2008 Red Knife is the best so far Ahoy Kent I signed up on Amazon to get Red Knife in hard cover when it became available. This is a nice arrangement. I got the hard cover at a good price (for a hard cover), and they got a chance to take orders instead of guessing on the volume. The book came just before my birthday, so I think of it as a present. In my opinion this was your best book yet, better than Thunder Bay in ...             Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport Mysteries)97 reviews John Sandford Putnam Adult, 2008 John Sandford is the best I don't care what he writes, Sandford is my absolute favorite author. His characters are totally real. Lucas is a superhero but human. I know JS said he wished he hadn't married him to Weather, but in my view, it hasn't hurt him at all. Virgil Flowers, Kidd, whatever. Just keep writing!             Facing Your Giants: A David and Goliath Story for Everyday People46 reviews Max Lucado Thomas Nelson, 2006 Facing Your Giants by Max Lucado This is an extremely well written, uplifting book based on Biblical principals. It explains Christian concepts in a very clear and easily understandable way and is very encouraging and useful for dealing with everyday life. I highly recommend it.             Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel (Lake Wobegon Novels) Garrison Keillor Viking Adult, 2008 A national holiday in Lake Wobegon is always gaudy and joyful. But what is going on between Clint Bunsen and Miss Liberty? Clint Bunsen is one of the old reliables in Lake Wobegon— the treasurer of the Lutheran church and the auto mechanic who starts your car on below-zero mornings. For six years he has run the Fourth of July parade, turning what was once a line of pickup trucks and girls pushing baby carriages that hold their cats into an ...             Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!51 reviews Jesse Ventura Skyhorse Publishing, 2008 AWESOME!!! I heard him on Howard Stern and I wanted to read the book since that is what he was talking about. It is great. Best book that I have read all year. He talks about his life and his views on politics which I agree with everything he has to say on it. GIVE IT A READ, ITS REALLY GOOD!             Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers) John Sandford Putnam Adult, 2008 Fresh from his “spectacular” (Cleveland Plain Dealer ) debut in Dark of the Moon , investigator Virgil Flowers takes on a puzzling—and most alarming—case, in the new book from the #1 bestselling author . John Sandford’s introduction of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers was an immediate critical and popular success: “laser-sharp characters and a plot that’s fast and surprising” (Cleveland Plain Dealer ); ...             MMPI-2: Assessing Personality and Psychopathology7 reviews John R. Graham Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 Gold Standard I used this book in grad school--it is the gold standard in MMPI coverage, clinical uses, etc.             Neuropsychological Assessment6 reviews Muriel D. Lezak; Diane B. Howieson; David W. Loring; H. Julia Hannay; Jill S. Fischer Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 New edition out soon This is a fantastic reference book. I can't count how many times I have opened it. HOWEVER, there is a new edition coming out in June 2004, so the interested yet frugal buyer might want to hold off for a few months             A Million Little Pieces1828 reviews James Frey Anchor, 2005 Good Writing I first ready Frey's Bright Shiny Morning. I took in all 500+ pages as fast as I could. I gulped them down. I've never encountered such a modern voice. A voice of our time. I picked up A Million Little Pieces knowing full well that components of it were made up. I'm torn as to whether it is a high crime to embellish a memoir. Oprah's indignation is a bunch of show business hype. I feel for those ...             Introduction to the Practice of Statistics w/CD-ROM14 reviews David S. Moore, George P. McCabe W. H. Freeman, 2005 another well-written and popular text by David Moore David Moore is a Professor of Statistics at Purdue University. He is both a great teacjer and a scholar. In addition to one or two well-written advanced books he has written a number of high quality introductory statistics books and has led the movement toward AP statistics in the high schools and active learning methods for tesching statistics at the elementary, middle and high school levels ...             Dark of the Moon82 reviews John Sandford Putnam Adult, 2007 A great Sandford novel. Dark of the Moon is the latest book published by John Sandford, the author of the Prey Series featuring Lucas Davenport. In this case Virgil Flowers, one of Davenport's investigators, takes center stage. In investigational styles, Virgil and Lucas are polar opposites. While Lucas is edgy, with an in-your-face attitude, Vigil is laid back. Vigil understands the small town psyche and uses it to ...             Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Public Worlds, V. 1)10 reviews Arjun Appadurai University of Minnesota Press, 1996 An ambitious attempt, and some provocative thinking Appadurai's book, Modernity at Large, offers quite a few tools to help us think about that big fuzzy thing called "globalization." He coins quite a few words to describe multiply-constituted networks of culture - ethnoscapes, mediascapes, ideoscapes, financescapes, and technoscapes. All are different ways of looking at the global cultural flows that we're trying to describe, and all are ...             Hot Dish Heaven: Classic Casseroles from Midwest Kitchens4 reviews Ann L. Burckhardt Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2006 It's "pretty good." Contrary to the reviewer from Boxford, MA, I assert that this book is classic Minnesotan. As a native Minnesotan, I can attest to the authenticity of these recipe selections; indeed, all the hot dish classics are here: brunch casserole, tater tot hot dish, chicken and rice, tuna and noodles, and more. The aforementioned reviewer may have read past the definition of "hot dish" at the beginning of ...             The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory and History of Literature, Volume 10)15 reviews Jean-Francois Lyotard University of Minnesota Press, 1984 Post-Nuclear Philosophical Fallout If, as William Barrett once remarked, existentialism is "philosophy for the atomic age," then the atomic age's look into the future - by way of Jean-Francois Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition - is nothing short of a nightmarish vision of what post-nuclear philosophy would be like. If the Cold War was ultimately the product of two totalizing visions - the two remaining totalizing visions of the ...             Peach Cobbler Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries)34 reviews Joanne Fluke Kensington, 2006 Mystery Lover When I started with the Hannah Swensen Series I was just looking for a new author I started with cherry cheesecake Murder and then found the ordeer of books and am currently on key lime pie. I think this series is one of the most amusing I have read in a long time. I love the mystery I love the humor it is the best of both worlds. On top of that my husband loves the cookies. I hope Joanne ...             Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change16 reviews Martin Silberberg McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2004 Excellent College-Level Introductory Chemistry Book Although this book essentially starts from scratch, I'd recommend it to people who have already had high school chemistry. If you haven't had that, you should still do okay, but you may have to spend some extra time and effort since some of the most basic concepts are only skimmed over. They spend much more time on the material that you probably didn't cover in depth in high school chemistry. ...             Stalking Susan: A Novel15 reviews Julie Kramer Doubleday, 2008 A VERY good Read This is a fun, smart read. If you're from the Twin Cities you will appreciate all of the local landmarks and history of the area. I heard about this on the Lori & Julia show and gave it a go. It is a page turner and you won't be able to put it down.             Minnesota Vikings: The Complete Illustrated History Patrick Reusse Voyageur Press, 2008 They started play as an expansion team in 1961, and within a decade, the Minnesota Vikings were among the NFL’s elite---and most popular---franchises. From the formative years under Norm Van Brocklin to the Super Bowl squads of Bud Grant, to the ups and downs under Jerry Burns and Dennis Green, Minnesota’s football team has had its share of dramatic triumphs and heart-wrenching defeats. Through it all, the fans have come out in ...             Carrot Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries)28 reviews Joanne Fluke Kensington, 2008 Pure Fun ! ! I love the series - each one seems to be better than the last - and the recipes - I've tried many of them from the different books in the system - so far they have all recieved raves from not only family but from fellow teachers. Thanks for the wonderful recipes! ! !             Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience4 reviews Yi-Fu Tuan, Steven Hoelscher University of Minnesota Press, 2001 The phenomenology of space and place In "Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience," Tuan provides a descriptive account of the concepts "space" and "place," drawing on the work of phenomenologists, anthropologists, psychologists, geographers, and others. He grounds his analysis in a structuralist framework, using anthropological research to illustrate how our experiences of space and place can "transcend cultural ...              search for books assessing, assessment, casseroles, chemistry, complete, condition, cultural, davenport, dimensions, everyday, experience, globalization, illustrated, introduction, kitchens, knowledge, lightning, literature, minnesota, modernity, molecular, mysteries, neuropsychological, personality, perspective, postmodern, practice, psychopathology, revolution, statistics books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends - Feature Lenght Movie -DVD home  impressum - about us