The MSU Authors Collection is an important part of the University Archives' holdings because the works in this collection document the intellectual heritage of the university and the contributions of MSU faculty, staff, students, and alumni to contemporary scholarship.
Beginning in 2008, the University Archives has hosted a biennial reception honoring MSU faculty, staff and emeriti faculty authors who had written and/or edited monographs, musical scores or recordings, films or videos. This digital collection showcases the books, scores, recordings, films or videos created by faculty and staff at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Where appropriate and where copyright allows, full-text versions are made available of certain MSU Authors' works.
For more information about the MSU Authors Collection, visit https://library.mnsu.edu/archives/collections/university-archives/msu-authors/ .
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The Turtle Catcher
Nicole Lea Helget
In the tumultuous days after World War I, Herman Richter returns from the front to find his only sister, Liesel, allied with Lester Sutter, the "slow" son of a rival clan who spends his days expertly trapping lake turtles. Liesel has sought Lester’s friendship in the wake of her parents’ deaths and in the shadow of her own dark secret. But what begins as yearning for something of a human touch quickly unwinds into a
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I'm Sorry You Feel that Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and Dog
Diana Joseph
Surrounded by dysfunctional men-from her fourteen-year-old son to her high-maintenance boss-Diana Joseph did what she had to do: survive. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way is an honest, hilarious, and instantly recognizable memoir of a truly modern woman. Funny, fearless, and warmhearted, it is a portrait of a woman in all her endless complexities and contradictions, and of the people she has come to love in spite of-or rather because of-theirs.
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Portraits from the Prairies
Michael L. Larson
A collection of word portraits about real people such as Hubert H. Humphrey, Sven and Ole, and Harry Carrey who demonstrates positive thinking.
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New Woman Writers, Authority and the Body
Melissa Purdue and Stacey Floyd
This collection of essays contributes to scholarship on the emerging voices of women writers during the fin de siècle. These “New Woman” writers created a distinctly different body of literature that reflected their concerns about women’s limited role in society. The essays cover a range of authors, shedding light on the ways New Woman texts also often offer new and progressive portrayals of women’s authority as connected to strong physical bodies. These scholars highlight how
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Radioactive City
Richard Robbins
Radioactive City is the latest book of poetry by the prominent contemporary American poet, Richard Robbins. The distinguished poet Linda Gregerson, selected Radioactive City as the winner of the 2009 Bellday Poetry Prize. About the winning entry, Professor Gregerson said, It is conceptual freshness, and a beautiful instinct for emergent shape, that makes this poetry radioactive. Robbins can spin a hitherto undiscovered cosmos out of a single, wayward proposition, but he never loses footing in
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Beginning Algebra with Applications and Visualization
Gary K. Rockswold and Terry A. Krieger
The Rockswold/Krieger algebra series fosters conceptual understanding by using relevant applications and visualization to show students why math matters. It answers the common question “When will I ever use this?” Rockswold teaches students the math in context, rather than including the applications at the end of the presentation. By seamlessly integrating meaningful applications that include real data and supporting visuals (graphs, tables, charts, colors, and diagrams), students are able to see how math impacts their
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Intermediate Algebra with Applications & Visualization
Gary K. Rockswold and Terry A. Krieger
The Rockswold/Krieger algebra series fosters conceptual understanding by using relevant applications and visualization to show students why math matters. It answers the common question “When will I ever use this?” Rockswold teaches students the math in context, rather than including the applications at the end of the presentation. By seamlessly integrating meaningful applications that include real data and supporting visuals (graphs, tables, charts, colors, and diagrams), students are able to see how math impacts their
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Feisty Lydia: Memoirs of a German War Bride
Edna Thayer
Feisty Lydia is the personal story of a woman born in 1925 in Neuotting, Germany. Her remarkable spirit helped her to survive a premature birth, the Great Depression, death-defying experiences, the Nazi regime, and war in her country. The story continues when this German war bride journeyed with her young son Johnny aboard an American troop ship to America in 1948 to join her husband John. Read how Lydia used her feisty and optimistic spirit
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Emergency Management: A Reference Handbook
Jeffrey B. Bumgarner,
The monumental natural and humanmade disasters of the 20th century, which killed 25 million people in Asia alone, have underscored the need for professional and coordinated disaster response worldwide. This book examines the profession and practice of emergency management in the United States, at the United Nations, and around the globe.
Emergency Management explores the history and development of the discipline from the first federal disaster relief proclamation in 1803 to the present day. It
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Icons of Crime Fighting: Relentless Pursuers of Justice Volume 1
Jeffrey B. Bumgarner
Notorious criminals have captured our imaginations for years and years. But we don't forget, either, the many people and organizations who fight back. J. Edgar Hoover and Eliot Ness have entered into the American psyche as two of our most aggressive and successful crime fighters. Still, there are others who have risen to the occasion, combating crime in all its manifestations. From the U.S. Marshals, FBI agents, and Secret Service to Rudy Giuliani, John Walsh—
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Icons of Crime Fighting: Relentless Pursuers of Justice, Volume 2
Jeffrey B. Bumgarner
Notorious criminals have captured our imaginations for years and years. But we don't forget, either, the many people and organizations who fight back. J. Edgar Hoover and Eliot Ness have entered into the American psyche as two of our most aggressive and successful crime fighters. Still, there are others who have risen to the occasion, combating crime in all its manifestations. From the U.S. Marshals, FBI agents, and Secret Service to Rudy Giuliani, John
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I Love My Love: SATB Chorus, B♭ Clarinet & Piano
David C. Dickau
Features a gracious text by Coleridge appropriate for Valentine's Day or spring concerts. The musical interplay of the piano, vocal lines, and marvelous clarinet part requires some work to master but is well worth it. An exquisite concert gem. Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series.
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Silent Noon
David C. Dickau and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A sophisticated poem is met with sophisticated music. The piece provides lots of room for expressive interpretation, and is recommended for the more mature choir.
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Calm on the Listening Ear of Night
David C. Dickau and Edmund R. Sears
The flute adds to the beauty of the piece, with its introduction setting the mood, and interludes that lend an elegant touch. Limited divisi in the choral parts makes the piece quite accessible.
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The Boreal Owl Murder: A Bob White Birder Murder Mystery
Jan Dunlap
"Birding, the gentle pastime of watching birds, can at times become a competitive sport. Even at its worst, though, when birders don't give out information of their sightings and try to sidetrack other birders, it seldom rises to the level of serious harm ... as a rule. But when Bob White, mild mannered school counselor and dedicated weekend birder, finds a body on a birding trip, the fact that there's an exception to every rule
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Professional Learning Communities: An Implementation Guide and Toolkit
Kathleen A. Foord and Jean M. Haar
This book demonstrates how a professional learning community can increase teacher growth and student achievement. The authors provide detailed examples along with innovation maps to help school leaders implement the eight key elements of an effective PLC.
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Welfare States in East Central Europe, 1919-2004
Tomasz Inglot
A comparative-historical study of welfare states in the former communist region of East Central Europe. Inglot analyzes almost one hundred years of expansion of social insurance programs across different political regimes. He places these programs in a larger political and socioeconomic context, which includes the most recent developments since the advent of democracy. Based on this research, he argues that despite apparent similarities the welfare states of East Central Europe, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic and Slovakia
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A Short Guide to Action Research
Andrew P. Johnson
This compact, user-friendly book provides everything a teacher needs to know to conduct an action research project, in a clear, step-by-step presentation. This book guides the learner through comprehension and interpretation of both qualitative and quantitative techniques in action research methods and then describes all phases of the process, including selecting a topic; collecting, analyzing, and reporting data; reviewing the literature; and presenting the report. There are many new strategies and examples of projects that
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Teaching Reading and Writing: A Guidebook for Tutoring and Remediating Students
Andrew P. Johnson
Providing a wealth of simple, research-based strategies for teaching reading and writing, this book is designed for each chapter to be accessible to teachers, tutors, parents, and paraprofessionals. Teaching Reading and Writing demonstrates that effective literacy instruction does not have to be complicated or expensive. Each chapter provides easy-to use techniques and with Internet search terms. This guide presents teaching methods that can be implemented without having to acquire additional books, packages, or other instructional
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Heroes: A Year in Vietnam with the First Air Cavalry Division
Mike Larson
Even today, my thoughts of Vietnam are positive. I have incredibly fond memories of spending one year in that theater with some incredible people.
My feelings about the Vietnam War mesh exactly with what Michael Norman wrote in his book These Good Men: Friendships Forged From War-even though Norman's heroes served in the U.S. Marine Corps and mine served in the First Air Cav.
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