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The Great Scandinavian Baking Book15 reviews
Beatrice A. Ojakangas

University of Minnesota Press, 1999

Nana's Recipes Made Better
I was another one who bought this on its first release, only my copy was lost to me during a move. While I regret the loss of the hardcover, I bought this paperback as soon as it was again available (only to give it away and buy it again - yes, it really is THAT good!) Beatrice Ojakangas has never steared me wrong in a recipe - ever. While I've tweaked and changed, I have never landed a ... 		  
  







  
  
Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 14)4 reviews
Georges Bataille

University of Minnesota Press, 1985

Brilliant
Im so impresed with this mans work I am obsessed. He is a rare breed of intelligence. He has a piece in this called 'Mouth" which refers tothe position our heads take well being thrown back in a scream as that of an extension to our spines, inother words that we assume an animal architecture to our bones in the most extreme pains. Batailles constant opinions detailed here in wonderful totaly ... 		  
  







  
  
The Practice of Everyday Life: Vol. 27 reviews
Luce Giard, Pierre Mayol, ...

University of Minnesota Press, 1998

Enigmatic and enlightening
Sometimes I am simply proud that I have read a book. This slim volume falls into that category. The fourteen short chapters explode with new ideas, fresh perspectives, and tantalizing viewpoints. To summarize these riches is unlikely to do them justice, yet I will try. De Certeau inverts social values and cultural hierarchies. His hero metaphor is not the exemplar, but rather the ant. Wisdom ... 		  
  







  
  
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 ... 		  
  







  
  
A Place in the Woods9 reviews
Helen Hoover

University of Minnesota Press, 1999

Helen Hoover was a gifted writer
Anyone who has ever experienced the damp cool of forest shadows, heard the russle of leaves as a wild occupant gathers food, or stood in awe while listening to the forest breath high in the tree tops upon a gentle breeze, will immediately be transported back to that magical place through the words of Helen Hoover and the wonderful illustrations of her artist husband Ade. Fleeing the city of ... 		  
  







  
  
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 ... 		  
  







  
  
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 ... 		  
  







  
  
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 ... 		  
  







  
  
The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda (Minnesota)24 reviews
Paul David Wellstone

University of Minnesota Press, 2002

10 stars Buy for every Democrat elected or running for office and for yourself!
Great book that begins where he was in college and how he and his wife met and how they became the activists they were and what a real progressive is or at least should be. And that being a liberal is nothing to be ashamed of! Sadly the Senator died in 2002 just before he would have been reelected to the Senate. Some of us still believe it wasn't the innocent accident some say that killed him ... 		  
  







  
  
A Single Man16 reviews
Christopher Isherwood

University of Minnesota Press, 2001

Read this book!
This short novel follows one day in the life of George, a 58-year-old English professor at San Tomas State College in Los Angeles, CA. From the moment he wakes up and shuffles to the bathroom, we are immediately thrust into his perception of life both as a gay man in the 1960s, and without his partner Jim who died in a car accident. His views are based upon both of these events, sometimes ... 		  
  







  
  
Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 16)8 reviews
Jacques Attali

University of Minnesota Press, 1985

Such a wonderful book, I read it twice.
A musicology professor of mine recommended I use this book in a presentation I gave on aesthetics. I compared Attali's approach to that of Benjamin and Adorno and found myself highlighting and smiling and nodding. I found this book to be so brilliant and hopeful (where Adorno was so pessimistic) that I used it again in a presentation for another graduate musicology seminar. If you don't like ... 		  
  







  
  
Louise Brooks: A Biography16 reviews
Barry Paris

University of Minnesota Press, 2000

Singhandedly brought the Cult of Brooks afront
Barry Paris's bio is a wonderful read and in my opinion did more for the recent increase of interest in Brooks than anything other book. At the time of it's publishing in the mid 90's the internet was a mere flicker of info, photos bios and trivia about obscure stars like Louise Brooks were very hard to come by. After this book was published, I was one of several people who started fledgling ... 		  
  







  
  
Lulu in Hollywood: Expanded Edition12 reviews
Louise Brooks

University of Minnesota Press, 2000

Musings Of A Rebel.
I remember when this book came out, but, unfortunately, it took me over twenty years to read it. Though Louise Brooks is far from a household name, in film scholar circles, she is an icon. Her rememberances here of certain individuals and events from her years in the "Dream Factory" are brilliant. Aside from the fact that these are names that most are familiar with, Bogart, Hearst, Pabst...it is ... 		  
  







  
  
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 ... 		  
  







  
  
Starting and Running a Nonprofit Organization8 reviews
Joan M. Hummel

University of Minnesota Press, 1996

A useful introduction for the dreamer...
I thought this was a great book for introducing the basic steps involved in starting a non-profit organization. It clarified some simple issues for me. I have ZERO experience in starting a non-profit organization and wanted to get an idea of what it takes to do so, and this book was a great starting point, although you will clearly want to move on to more "meaty" books if you actually get your ... 		  
  







  
  
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 ... 		  
  







  
  
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image3 reviews
Gilles Deleuze

University of Minnesota Press, 1986

The finest reflection on cinema.
Gilles Delueze creates in his books on cinema a taxonomy, an attempt at the classification of cinematic images and signs. This classification is an insightful elaboration on Bergson's theses on movement and on Pierce's signs system. If this taxonomy is the core of the "movement-image" book, its heart is a brilliant and systematic history of aesthetic forms of the classical cinema. Some of the ... 		  
  







  
  
In Their Own Words: Letters from Norwegian Immigrants1 review

University of Minnesota Press, 1991

A Tribute to the Norwegian Experience
Zempel's work in compiling and translating this book of letters is a tribute to the Norwegian immigrant experience. Through these letters one discovers the great hardship and great joy brought to these individuals who in many circumstances travelled great distances on their own. Thank you for bringing insight to my own families experience through the voices of those who had the courage to ... 		  
  







  
  
Infinite Variety: The Life & Legend of the Marchesa Casati, The Definitive Edition11 reviews
Scot D. Ryersson, Michael Orlando Yaccarino

University of Minnesota Press, 2004

Elegance Supreme!
'This book about the Marchesa Casati (1881-1957) is called "The Definitive Edition" about a lady of extravagant leisures. It is an excellent book reviving the roaring twenties in Europe and gives you a fairly good insight of the lifestyle of the truly rich and famous through to the 1940s. Part of this set was the Marchesa Casati, who is a source of inspiration to this very day for fashion ... 		  
  







  
  
The Urban Revolution
Henri Lefebvre

University of Minnesota Press, 2003

Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city, The Urban Revolution has never been translated into English-until now. This first ... 		  
  







  




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