books by University of Minnesota Press     books:       Nothing At All (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series)6 reviews Wanda Gag University of Minnesota Press, 2004 Yes! This wonderful book is back in print at last! This dear book about three homeless little dogs is clever and original. I agree that this is Gag's best book and I am delighted that another generation of children will get to know it. This new beautiful oversized edition is even more wonderful than the old(loved to tatters)one I already own. I have bought a copy for my little grandson and another one for my own collection.             The Great Scandinavian Baking Book17 reviews Beatrice A. Ojakangas University of Minnesota Press, 1999 Moujthwatering Recipes...You Will Read This Book For Hours and Use Its Recipes For Years Here you will find mouthwatering recipes I know you will want to try. This book makes a good read and you'll be baking with it for years. This is a book to hand down to your children. I love it.             Reflections from the North Country (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series)9 reviews Sigurd F. Olson University of Minnesota Press, 1998 Timeless This book compiles some of Olson's best writings. In it, his last book, Olson further explores the concept of self-reflection and self-discovery through wilderness solace. His writing will be of interest to anyone who enjoys the outdoors (especially canoeing), but also readers who enjoy general contemporary philosophy.             The Lonely Land (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series)6 reviews Sigurd F. Olson University of Minnesota Press, 1997 One of the best books I have ever read I was looking on information on old canoe routes of the voyageurs and I came upon this book. It tells the experiences of Olson, a famous naturalist of the 50's and 60's, and 5 of his friends, as they paddle three wood and canvas canoes down 500 miles of the Churchhill River in Saskatchewan in 1960. Olson describes the setting and experience so completely, including diary entries of famous fur ...             The Gift of the Deer (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series)12 reviews Helen Hoover University of Minnesota Press, 1998 This touched my heart. Helen Hoover's beautifully vivid prose makes this memoir read like a fantasy piece. I felt I was sharing the precious moments that she and her husband Ade spent with the wild whitetail deer family who visited them at their log cabin deep in the Minnesota woods. Helen's richly descriptive style of writing draws you into their enchanting lifestyle, filled with peace, and the quiet mystery of virgin ...             Staying the Course: A Runner's Toughest Race13 reviews Dick Beardsley, Maureen Anderson University of Minnesota Press, 2002 5 Stars as a running/marathon book Yessiree, I give it 5 stars as a running book. I was finding I was docking some books and CDs; because I approached it like, is it perfect enough to get the highest rating like a Shakespeare play or a symphony? I go with the genre it belongs too; and too, I'd say those who have had substance abuse/alcohol problems would find it inspiring too; cause Dick became addicted to pain killers; and ...             The Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets10 reviews Jim Northrup University of Minnesota Press, 1999 Good Writing Too I picked this book up at random while browsing the "Native American studies" shelf at my local book megastore, and I was quickly drawn in, reading it cover-to-cover in a day. Jim Northrop is an Anishinaabe who lives on the Fond du Lac Reservation in Northern Minnesota, and in this book he writes about reservation life, about Native American political issues, and about his own travels and ...             Louise Brooks: A Biography17 reviews Barry Paris University of Minnesota Press, 2000 An exemplary biography worthy of its subject This is what a biography should be: insightful, understanding, offering a measured & complex view of its beloved subject. And what a subject Barry Paris has in Louise Brooks! Her beauty, her intelligence, her compelling charisma all shine in these pages, giving us a multi-faceted view of this ravishing star. For someone who had never heard of Louise Brooks, this biography will send him or her in ...             The Funny Thing7 reviews Wanda Gag University of Minnesota Press, 2003 Three Generations of Jumjills Imagine my feelings when I couldn't locate my "over 50" years old copy of The Funny Thing! Not only can I repeat the whole story but also my children and their children. Problem is I can't find my copy and without the pictures, I feel a little lost. This book is a tradition in our family and the uncountable times I have served the children "jumjills" has become a family joke. An invaluable book ...             My Last Sigh13 reviews Luis Bunuel University of Minnesota Press, 2003 A beautiful little book Bunuel gave some interviews towards the end of his life discussing his long list of movies. That's why I was delighted to find that his autobiography--which is one of the greatest, if not the greatest by a filmmaker--does not dwell on them. Instead Don Luis chronicles his childhood and upbringing, the relationships he cultivated, and meditates on life, love, death, art, alcohol and cigarettes. ...             Rosa5 reviews Marie Hall Ets University of Minnesota Press, 1970 Rosa's life is unforgetable, as is Rosa herself First we need to thank Helen Barolini for resurrecting this precious book from obscurity. And for all those who complain there are no uplifting, inspiring tales about Italians, here in Rosa The Life Of An Italian Immigrant, is the proof that there certainly is. Rosa would be the first to say she was no one special, just an ordinary peasant orphan who kept herself from starvation and worse by the ...             The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years6 reviews Norman G. Finkelstein University of Minnesota Press, 1996 Jewish but not Zionist As a Jewish woman living in the U.S. it was difficult for me to hear but one side of the story in the Israeli-Arab conflict. That side was the Zionist perspective. It wasn't until I spent time in Israel (ironic as this is) that I began to understand the fallacies in the arguments I grew up hearing. I read this book after picking it up at a friend's house, and now I'm feeling brave enough to buy ...             Canoe Country Wildlife: A Field Guide to the North Woods and Boundary Waters4 reviews Mark Stensaas University of Minnesota Press, 1992 Excellent! An excellent overview of wildlife of the Northern Minnesota area. There are interesting and informative descriptions of everything from birds to insects to fish. The scope of the book is so broad that only a few of each type of creature can be listed, but he has chosen the ones, such as loons, herons, and otters, that are so special to the North woods. Highly recommended.             Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Theory & History of Literature)5 reviews M. M. Bakhtin University of Minnesota Press, 1984 Intense Revelations Bakhtin's critique of Dostoevsky's work has revealed so much more to me about the form of this great author's novels than I would have ever been able to understand for myself. What makes Bakhtin such a masterful theorist is his methodical approach to understanding an author's work discussing the historical influence of form and the critical misinterpretations that have preceded the work. He is so ...             The Abc Bunny (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series)5 reviews Wanda Gag University of Minnesota Press, 2004 A Great Rhyming Story A TERRIFIC BOOK FOR YOUNG CHILDREN!!!! THIS LOVELY LITTLE BOOK TELLS THE STORY OF A BUNNY FINDING ITS WAY HOME AFTER IT WAS RUDELY AWAKENED BY AN, QUOTE, "APPLE, BIG AND RED". IT MEETS UP WITH A FROG, A, QUOTE, "KITTEN, CATNIP CRAZY" AND A LIZARD. THE BOOK CAN BE ENJOYED BY ALL, 1-YEAR-OLDS THROUGH 100-YEAR-OLDS. IN SOME EDITIONS, IT ALSO HAS A NICE LITTLE SONG. HERE IS A LITTLE SOMETHING FROM ...             The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho4 reviews James Ferguson University of Minnesota Press, 1994 A dose of realism Ferguson's study of development projects in Lesotho brings a much needed dose of reality to the subject of modernization and aid. While others might stress the need for appropriate technology or bog the reader down in economic formulae, Ferguson examines the ways in which local and global politics influence the success of even the most carefully planned and well-meaning of projects. A ...             Critique of Cynical Reason (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 40)4 reviews Peter Sloterdijk University of Minnesota Press, 1988 Sloterdijk confronts nihilism--and has a better idea "Mistrust is the intelligence of the disadvantaged," or "In any form of erudition, intelligence risks its life" or "emigration has become a fact of mass psychology"--these are among hundreds of aphoristic statements that make Sloterdijk's wide-ranging studies and well-reasoned observations on cynicism, Diogenes and the search for truth, Nietzsche, Marx, and the contemporary human situation so ...             Politics the Wellstone Way: How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues5 reviews Wellstone Action University Of Minnesota Press, 2005 Progressive Democrats unite, Stand up and fight...using this book! This book is a tribute to the late Senator Paul Wellstone (D MN) and his wife Shelia, who died in a plane accident. Before his untimely demise, Wellstone was one of the most dynamic examples that liberalism was not dead in the Democratic Party and was not dead in America either. I loved his floor speeches and sponsored legislation because they intentionally sought an America where people ...             Patty's Journey: From Orphanage to Adoption and Reunion5 reviews Donna Scott Norling University of Minnesota Press, 1996 Important and enlightening I've now read several nonfiction works by adults who were adopted as children and later reunited with their birth parents. Patty's Journey is very good. The book is well-written, though not Donna Scott Nordling's prose is not nearly as compelling or literary in quality as that of Betty Jean Lifton's Twice Born. Nor does this book offer the same insight into an adopted child's sense of being ...             Deathwork: Defending the Condemned4 reviews Michael Mello University of Minnesota Press, 2002 More Florida Post-Conviction History: From 1986 - 1992 I was employed as an investigator at the Office of Capital Collateral Representative (CCR) in Tallahassee, Florida, where Scharlette Holdman worked as the supervisor of the investigators from October 1985 - March 1988. Scharlette Holdman is cited in approving comments by Mello in at least two of his books. I have known Scharlette since the mid-1970s death penalty debates at ...              search for books adoption, anti-politics, biography, boundary, bureaucratic, candidates, computers, condemned, critique, deathwork, defending, depoliticization, development, dostoevsky, fesler-lampert, heritage, intifada, literature, minnesota, orphanage, palestine, personal, politics, problems, progressive, reflections, scandinavian, toughest, wellstone, wildlife books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen camera & photo: Lowepro SlingShot 100 All-Weather Digital Camera Backpack (Black) we recommend Moujthwatering Recipes...You Will Read This Book For Hours and Use Its Recipes For Years home  impressum - about us