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Modernity At Large - Arjun Appadurai - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Modernity At Large - Arjun Appadurai - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Examines the role of imagination in the cultural development of our shrinking world. The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in our lives-through the people we meet, the products we buy, the foods we eat, and the movies we watch. In this bold look at the cultural effects of a shrinking world, leading cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai places these challenges and pleasures of contemporary life in a broad global perspective. Offering a new framework for the cultural study of globalization, Modernity at Large shows how the imagination works as a social force in today''s world, providing new resources for identity and energies for creating alternatives to the nation-state, whose era some see as coming to an end. Appadurai examines the current epoch of globalization, which is characterized by the twin forces of mass migration and electronic mediation, and provides fresh ways of looking at popular consumption patterns, debates about multiculturalism, and ethnic violence. He considers the way images-of lifestyles, popular culture, and self-representation-circulate internationally through the media and are often borrowed in surprising (to their originators) and inventive fashions. Appadurai simultaneously explores and explodes boundaries-between how we imagine the world and how that imagination influences our self-understanding, between social institutions and their effects on the people who participate in them, between nations and peoples that seem to be ever more homogeneous and yet ever more filled with differences. Modernity at Large offers a path to move beyond traditional oppositions between culture and power, tradition and modernity, global and local, pointing out the vital role imagination plays in our construction of the world of today-and tomorrow.

DKK 229.00
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Chaucer At Large - Steve Ellis - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Chaucer At Large - Steve Ellis - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A spirited look at the uses and abuses of Chaucer’s work in modern culture. Medieval StudiesA spirited look at the uses and abuses of Chaucer’s work in modern culture. In this learned, lively, and wide-ranging book, Steve Ellis conducts us on a tour of the appearances that the greatest writer of Middle English has made throughout English-speaking culture in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Surveying the uses to which Chaucer has been put in modern times, Ellis presents a compelling picture that goes beyond the figure and work of this eminent writer to show us the reach of his imaginative power. In novelists’ and poets’ responses to Chaucer, children’s versions of his work, modern translations, adaptations for stage, television, radio, and film, and the marketing of Chaucer’s "heritage," Ellis traces Chaucer’s presence among us-from the permutations of his writings in the work of such authors as William Morris, W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Henry James, and D. H. Lawrence to its presentation in the Canterbury Tales Experience museum in Canterbury, England. Animated, witty, as critically acute as it is far-reaching, this work, appearing in the sixth centenary of Chaucer’s death, tells us much about a writer at the heart of our cultural tradition and, perhaps, more about that tradition itself. Medieval Cultures Series, volume 24Translation Inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

DKK 287.00
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Class Size in High School English, Methods and Results - Dora V. Smith - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Class Size in High School English, Methods and Results - Dora V. Smith - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Class Size in High School English, Methods and Results was first published in 1931. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. More than half this book consists of concrete description of methods found useful in teaching classes of fifty or more pupils in ninth grade English. Subjects dealt with include the care of individual differences, assignment and motivation of work, stimulating pupil participation, insuring activity and variety in class work, and arranging for individual and group competition. Dr. Smith shows how different methods may be adapted to classes of different sizes, and also presents new data on relative opportunity and relative achievement of pupils in large and small classes, relative attitudes and character traits revealed by pupils, and comparative strain on the teacher in the different types of classes. The volume includes a complete account of all class size studies that appeared up to the middle of 1930, also analysis of trends in class size in high schools as revealed through published reports and through the hitherto unpublished study made by Dr. Earl Hudelson in 1929. Dr. Smith is specialist in secondary school English under the National Survey of Secondary Education. "It is rich in suggestion of methods of teaching to be used with large and small classes in English, and, by inference, in other fields of instruction," –Leonard V. Koos, University of Chicago. "Very useful and carefully work out techniques for handling large classes," –Allan Abbott, Teachers College, Columbia University.

DKK 472.00
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Mr. Basketball - Michael Schumacher - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Mr. Basketball - Michael Schumacher - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

The definitive biography of the Hall of FamerIn this fascinating biography of basketball superstar George Mikan, Michael Schumacher chronicles the life and career of a player so dominating that he literally changed the way the game was played and, in the process, helped launch the fledgling National Basketball Association. Mikan’s Hall of Fame career included numerous national titles—in college with DePaul and five times in the pros with the Minneapolis Lakers. Named the greatest basketball player of the first half of the twentieth century, “Mr. Basketball” cast such a large shadow that the Madison Square Garden marquee, in announcing an upcoming game, simply said, “George Mikan vs. the Knicks.”

DKK 178.00
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A Program for Land Use in Northern Minnesota - Reynolds Nowell - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A Program for Land Use in Northern Minnesota - Reynolds Nowell - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A Program for Land Use in Northern Minnesota was first published in 1935. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.With half of its privately owned lands tax delinquent, millions of acres returning to public ownership, a per capita debt twice as large as that for the rest of the state, and large areas in no economic use whatsoever, northeastern Minnesota, like many other cut-over regions of the country, faces a serious situation.These fourteen counties, as the authors show, are suffering from the unwise land policies of the past – policies not peculiar to Minnesota. Is there a solution to the problem, or must Minnesota and other states continue to pay the price for their past mistakes?The authors of this volume believe there is a remedy. From a first-hand investigation and careful analysis of conditions in this area, they have arrived at definite conclusions and a specific program. They describe concretely how desirable shifts in land use and changes in government can be accomplished: what legislation should be enacted; how the cooperation of local officers, the settlers, and the general public can be won, and how in the process of readjustment the farmer can be saved from undue hardship and embarrassment.A volume for the legislator, the public official, the landowner, the agricultural economist, and every taxpayer in the state.

DKK 472.00
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Suzanne Lacy - Sharon Irish - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Suzanne Lacy - Sharon Irish - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Often controversial and sometimes even shocking to audiences, the work of California-based artist Suzanne Lacy has challenged viewers and participants with personal accounts of traumatic events, settings that require people to assume uncomfortable positions, multisensory productions that evoke emotional as well as intellectual responses, and even flayed lambs and beef kidneys. Lacy has experimented with ways to claim the power of mass media, to use women’s consciousness-raising groups as a performance structure, and to connect her projects to lived experiences. The body and large groups of bodies are the locations for her lifelike art, revealing the aesthetics of relationships among people. In this critical examination of Suzanne Lacy, Sharon Irish surveys Lacy’s art from 1972 to the present, demonstrating the pivotal roles that Lacy has had in public art, feminist theory, and community organizing. Lacy initially used her own body—or animal organs—to visually depict psychological states or social conditions in photographs, collages, and installations. In the late 1970s she turned to organizing large groups of people into art events—including her most famous work, The Crystal Quilt, a 1987 performance broadcast live on PBS and featuring hundreds of women in Minneapolis—and pioneered a new genre of public art. Irish investigates the spaces between art and life, self and other, and the body and physical structures in Lacy’s multifaceted artistic projects, showing how throughout her influential career Lacy has created art that resists racism, promotes feminism, and explores challenging human relationships.

DKK 573.00
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A Bibliography on South American Economic Affairs - Anne Kingsley - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A Bibliography on South American Economic Affairs - Anne Kingsley - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A Bibliography on South American Economic Affairs was first published in 1955. This bibliography covers articles in 229 nineteenth-century periodicals in Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch. The bibliographical entries total 9,939, of which more than 6,200 are original entries and the remainder, cross references. The entries are grouped under 11 major geographic headings, with nine subheadings on such subjects as agriculture, commerce, and communications under each. The bibliography provides a reference key to a large and important class of source materials for the economic history of South America. Since the period covered precedes the first publication of the Poole Index and the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature, the material is not to be found in these standard indexes.

DKK 321.00
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Everyday Ecofascism - Alexander Menrisky - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Everyday Ecofascism - Alexander Menrisky - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A timely look into how fascist ideas permeate contemporary culture well beyond the far right As challenges posed by climate change have intensified in the twenty-first century, right-wing figures in the United States and abroad have increasingly framed anti-immigrant, anti-Indigenous, and white-supremacist sentiments in terms of environmental survival. Everyday Ecofascism explores the insidious nature of this tendency, revealing how permutations of these perspectives in fact resonate across the political spectrum. Drawing on comparative studies of fascism writ large, Alexander Menrisky demonstrates that ecofascism is best understood not as a uniquely right-wing ideology but as a political genre that reinforces white supremacy and other forms of domination. Presenting a view of fascism as a complex power network that plays out on scales both large and small, Menrisky shows how extremist sentiments have crept into everyday language, stories, and ideas. Through a literary and cultural studies lens, he illuminates ecofascism’s narrative patterns and their easy permeation of environmentalist discourses, from back-to-the-land movements to the resurgence of psychedelic drugs, food localism, and pandemic politics. Opposite his analysis of ecofascism in action, Menrisky sheds important light on narrative resistances to dominant conceptions of race, nation, and territory by Native, queer, and women-of-color writers who have countered ethnonationalism for generations. Bridging past and present, Menrisky powerfully nails down the emergent concept of ecofascism and forms a basis for understanding phenomena like Covid-19, ecological utopianism, and psychedelic environmentalism that detangles ecofascist tendencies from justice-oriented visions of place-based belonging. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.

DKK 245.00
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Everyday Ecofascism - Alexander Menrisky - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Everyday Ecofascism - Alexander Menrisky - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A timely look into how fascist ideas permeate contemporary culture well beyond the far right As challenges posed by climate change have intensified in the twenty-first century, right-wing figures in the United States and abroad have increasingly framed anti-immigrant, anti-Indigenous, and white-supremacist sentiments in terms of environmental survival. Everyday Ecofascism explores the insidious nature of this tendency, revealing how permutations of these perspectives in fact resonate across the political spectrum. Drawing on comparative studies of fascism writ large, Alexander Menrisky demonstrates that ecofascism is best understood not as a uniquely right-wing ideology but as a political genre that reinforces white supremacy and other forms of domination. Presenting a view of fascism as a complex power network that plays out on scales both large and small, Menrisky shows how extremist sentiments have crept into everyday language, stories, and ideas. Through a literary and cultural studies lens, he illuminates ecofascism’s narrative patterns and their easy permeation of environmentalist discourses, from back-to-the-land movements to the resurgence of psychedelic drugs, food localism, and pandemic politics. Opposite his analysis of ecofascism in action, Menrisky sheds important light on narrative resistances to dominant conceptions of race, nation, and territory by Native, queer, and women-of-color writers who have countered ethnonationalism for generations. Bridging past and present, Menrisky powerfully nails down the emergent concept of ecofascism and forms a basis for understanding phenomena like Covid-19, ecological utopianism, and psychedelic environmentalism that detangles ecofascist tendencies from justice-oriented visions of place-based belonging. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.

DKK 1054.00
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Hard Bodies - Andreas Marks - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Hard Bodies - Andreas Marks - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Since the Neolithic era, artisans in East Asia have coated bowls, cups, boxes, baskets, and other utilitarian objects with a natural polymer distilled from the sap of the Rhus verniciflua, known as the lacquer tree. Lacquerware was, and still is, prized for its sheen—a lustrous beauty that artists learned to accentuate over the centuries with inlaid gold, silver, mother-of-pearl, and other precious materials. This tradition has undergone challenges over the past thirty years. A small but enterprising circle of lacquer artists has pushed the medium in entirely new and dynamic directions by creating large-scale sculptures—works that are both conceptually innovative and superbly exploitive of lacquer’s natural virtues. Featuring thirty works by sixteen artists, this handsome publication details the first-ever exhibition of contemporary Japanese lacquer sculpture in the United States, shown at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

DKK 312.00
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MMPI-2 Correlates for Outpatient Community Mental Health Settings - Yossef S. Ben Porath - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

MMPI-2 Correlates for Outpatient Community Mental Health Settings - Yossef S. Ben Porath - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

With the introduction of managed care to mental health treatment, patients increasingly are being seen in outpatient settings. Although the MMPI-2 and its predecessor, the MMPI have long been used for outpatient assessment, the bulk of research on the test has been done at inpatient psychiatric hospitals. This volume provides the first extensive set of correlates for the MMPI-2 in outpatient settings, showing the relationship of MMPI-2 scores to clinically relevant behavior.Reporting the results of a large-scale research project on the use of the MMPI-2 in community mental health centers, this study presents clinically useful information concerning the interpretation of MMPI-2 scores and code types. Because the research found that the correlates in outpatient mental health settings are essentially the same as those in other settings, this book will be a standard reference for clinicians who use the MMPI-2, regardless of where they work.

DKK 556.00
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Snippy and Snappy - Wanda Gag - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Snippy and Snappy - Wanda Gag - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A charming tale of two little field mice and their adventure in the big, wide world In Snippy and Snappy, we are introduced to brother and sister field mice living with their mother and father in a cozy nook in a hay field. Their father enthralls them with stories about gardens in big fields, houses in big gardens, kitchen cupboards in big houses, and big yellow cheeses in big kitchen cupboards. One day Snippy and Snappy wander away from home while playing with their mother’s yarn ball. Their journey takes them to a large house full of mysterious things, including cupboards full of wonderful-smelling cheese. Just as Snappy begins to nibble at a piece of cheese in a mousetrap, their father jumps down to rescue them and lead them safely back home. Gág’s delightfully detailed illustrations capture the coziness, wonder, and playfulness of Snippy and Snappy’s adventures.

DKK 156.00
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Great Whole Grain Breads - Beatrice Ojakangas - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Great Whole Grain Breads - Beatrice Ojakangas - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

“Possibly the best such bread book on the market. Every recipe a winner.” -Jane Brody The crust, the texture, the aroma, the taste-a hearty whole grain bread makes the meal or, in the case of the cheese breads, blinis, or calzone that Beatrice Ojakangas serves up, becomes the meal. The seasoned baker and the passionate amateur, the connoisseur and the simply famished will find plenty to celebrate in Ojakangas’s classic bread-making book. Whether it’s traditional Finnish rye, old-fashioned corn bread, scones, croissants, pretzels, or popovers, the perfect bread for any occasion can be found in this book, along with companionable advice for making it perfectly every time. For the baker with no time to spare, Ojakangas includes a large assortment of fast and easy breads. With more than 250 sweet-and-savory recipes, easy-to-follow, step-by-step techniques for mixing and kneading, and special hints for working with whole grains, Great Whole Grain Breads should find a place in every baker’s kitchen.

DKK 178.00
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Instrumentality - J. Allan Mitchell - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Instrumentality - J. Allan Mitchell - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

From medieval to modern, exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets, diagrams, concepts, methods, and disciplines Opening up the instrumental condition of the human for critical reflection and renewal, Instrumentality illuminates key moments in the intellectual history of the European Middle Ages. J. Allan Mitchell reveals how, in the predigital past, we can recognize many of the operative technics, analytics, and metaphorics that continue to shape human sense and cognition today. Exploring the diverse modalities of medieval instruments, Mitchell’s case studies encompass techniques as seemingly distinct as time-keeping mechanisms, mathematical diagrams, logical syllogisms, and the literary devices of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. A cultural and intellectual history, Mitchell’s work leads readers from three-dimensional objects (physical mechanisms) to two-dimensional inscriptions (maps and diagrams) and onward to overarching disciplinary norms in the early liberal and mechanical arts. Prying loose the subtle, adaptable, and generative concept of technical objects from limiting contemporary frameworks, he shows how these instruments are indispensable to the past—and the future—of the arts and culture at large.

DKK 800.00
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Handbook of Mammals of the North-Central States - J. Knox Jones - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Handbook of Mammals of the North-Central States - J. Knox Jones - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Scienti?c reference on the mammals of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. The forests and grasslands of the seven north-central states-Minnestoa, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio-support a large mammalian fauna, including at least 88 native species that have survived the profound impact of human settlement in both urban and rural environments. This handbook is a basic introduction and guide to the identification of the 99 native and five introduced species that either live in the region today or are known to have lived there at the time of initial European settlement. Designed by its authors for the field or laboratory, it provides a two-page spread for each species, with a concise biological summary, a photograph of the mammal, and-except for extirpated species-a map showing its current distribution in the seven-state area and an inset of its historically documented distribution in North America. Also included are an introduction to the region’s environments and zoogeography, dichotomous keys for the identification of species, and a glossary of terms.

DKK 228.00
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Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information - Gilbert Simondon - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information - Gilbert Simondon - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living From Democritus’s atomism to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, from Aristotle’s reflections on the individual to Husserl’s call for a focused return to things, from the philosophical advent of the Cartesian ego and the Leibnizian monad to Heidegger’s notion of Dasein, the question concerning the constitution of the individual has continued to loom large over the preoccupations of philosophers and scholars of scientific disciplines for thousands of years. Through conceptions in modern scientific areas of research such as thermodynamics, the fabrication of technical objects, gestalt theory, cybernetics, and the dynamic formation at work in the creation of crystals, Gilbert Simondon’s unique multifaceted philosophical and scholarly research will eventually lead to an astounding reevaluation and questioning of the historical methods for posing the very question and notion of the individual. More than fifty years after its original publication in French, this groundbreaking work of philosophical theory is now available in its first complete English language translation.

DKK 264.00
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Instrumentality - J. Allan Mitchell - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Instrumentality - J. Allan Mitchell - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

From medieval to modern, exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets, diagrams, concepts, methods, and disciplines Opening up the instrumental condition of the human for critical reflection and renewal, Instrumentality illuminates key moments in the intellectual history of the European Middle Ages. J. Allan Mitchell reveals how, in the predigital past, we can recognize many of the operative technics, analytics, and metaphorics that continue to shape human sense and cognition today. Exploring the diverse modalities of medieval instruments, Mitchell’s case studies encompass techniques as seemingly distinct as time-keeping mechanisms, mathematical diagrams, logical syllogisms, and the literary devices of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. A cultural and intellectual history, Mitchell’s work leads readers from three-dimensional objects (physical mechanisms) to two-dimensional inscriptions (maps and diagrams) and onward to overarching disciplinary norms in the early liberal and mechanical arts. Prying loose the subtle, adaptable, and generative concept of technical objects from limiting contemporary frameworks, he shows how these instruments are indispensable to the past-and the future-of the arts and culture at large.

DKK 251.00
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