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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More than a Mountain: One's Woman's Everest
T. A. Loeffler
Writing with remarkable openness and passion, T.A. Loeffler recounts her powerful story of preparing for, and attempting to scale, the mighty summit of Mount Everest. With gripping descriptions and spectacular photos, she invites readers into the extreme world of high-altitude climbing. More than a Mountain is also a deeply moving account of how one woman overcame adversity to reach out to young people and show them the power of big dreams and big goals. We
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Burnout and Job Satisfaction Among Rural and Urban Social Workers: An Investigation of Differences Between Groups
Paul Mackie
Questions and concerns about burnout and job satisfaction among social workers has been expressed for decades. Evidence suggests that to varying degrees, burnout and job dissatisfaction can have serious, broad-reaching negative impacts on a social worker's ability to effectively do the job." However past research in this area typically did not compare burnout and job satisfaction differences between rural and urban social workers. As such much less is known about these concerns among the rural
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Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: Best Practices and Principles for Instructors
Kara L. Orvis and Andrea L. R. Lassiter
Decades of research have shown that student collaboration in groups doesn't just happen; rather it needs to be a deliberate process facilitated by the instructor. Promoting collaboration in virtual learning environments presents a variety of challenges.
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: Best Practices & Principles for Instructors answers the demand for a thorough resource on techniques to facilitate effective collaborative learning in virtual environments. This book provides must-have information on the role of the instructor in computer-supported
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Slave Revolts
Johannes Postma
Since the days of antiquity, people have been forced into servitude because of differences in gender, race, class, religion, or level of power. For just as long, those under subjugation have rebelled against it. From the Palmares in Brazil to pre-Civil War slave revolts to the modern-day Hutu/Tutsi conflict, this volume discusses age and gender, caste and class, and origin and ethnicity as the factors, effects and legacy of one of the oldest and most
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Before Windrush: Recovering an Asian and Black Literary Heritage Within Britain
Pallavi Rastogi and Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
Before Windrush: Recovering an Asian and Black Literary Heritage within Britain is an important intervention in the growing field of Black British literary studies. Composed of essays on non-white writers living in, or writing about, Britain in the period before the post-WW II wave of immigration, the anthology testifies to the existence of a British nation that has been multiracial and multicultural for centuries. Through an analysis of well-known figures such as Mary Prince, Mary
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The Untested Hand
Richard Robbins
About the Book Richard Robbins’ The Untested Hand is the kind of book in which birds at a window feeder are seen as “changing all the indoor lives to sky.” That is to say, this collection of poems investigates, celebrates, and practices transformation, particularly that of the quotidian into the marvelous, as if any day were the first. In “The Answering Machine,” for example, the eponymous device, which a lesser poet would treat with smug
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Working with Parents of Bullies and Victims
Walter B. Roberts
Provides practical strategies for educators to expand their communication skills with parents of victims and bullies.
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Essentials of College Algebra with Modeling and Visualization
Gary K. Rockswold
Today's algebra students want to know the why behind what they are learning and it is this that motivates them to succeed in the course. By focusing on algebra in a real-world context, Gary Rockswold gracefully and succinctly answers this need. As many topics taught in today's college algebra course aren't as crucial to students as they once were, Gary has developed this streamlined text, covering linear, quadratic, nonlinear, exponential, and logarithmic functions and systems
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Beginning and 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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Documents in World History: The Great Traditions: From Ancient Times to 1500
Peter N. Stearns, Stephen S. Gosch, and Erwin P. Grieshaber
This book offers a range of documents to illustrate characteristic features of key civilizations during major stages of world history - from the beginnings of written records to the start of the modern age around 1500 C.E. - including contrasts and comparisons among major societies.
Revised and updated with fourteen new documents and four new visual sources, the fifth edition of Documents in World History retains its global emphasis while improving its standard selections and
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Documents in World History: The Modern Centuries: From 1500 to the Present
Peter N. Stearns, Stephen S. Gosch, and Erwin P. Grieshaber
This book offers a range of documents to illustrate characteristic features of key civilizations during major stages of world history.
Revised and updated with fourteen new documents and four new visual sources, the fifth edition of Documents in World History retains its global emphasis while improving its standard selections and political coverage, as well as expanding its coverage of Africa and the Middle East, including Persia.
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Outside the Box: A Novel
Dan Allosso
A new Wii console and simulation game appear in his rec room, so bored and alienated teenager Reid Anderson tries them out. When a demon from inside the game threatens him in reality, Reid is forced into a world of troubled teens that he never new existed, where he is exposed to other outsiders like himself, and where he discovers true friends among those society has labeled defective.
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O Nata Lux: SATB Chorus a Cappella
David C. Dickau
This straightforward, accessible setting of a Latin hymn text ("O born light of light") works well for festival, concert, and worship functions and would be especially appropriate during the advent season. Contained ranges, limited divisi, and no key changes make this suitable for high school choirs.
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Awake My Heart: SATB Chorus and Piano
David C. Dickau and Robert Bridges
From the suite "Of Life and Love" this setting of Robert Bridges' poetry brims with passion and anticipation and requires a very capable choir for maximum effect. A challenging piano accompaniment supports the divisi choir creating a powerful work for festival or concert.
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What Sweeter Music Can We Bring?: SATB Chorus a Cappella
David C. Dickau and Robert Herrick
Another gorgeous composition for strong choirs this work from David Dickau allows larger ensembles to demonstrate their full sound and expressiveness. Although the text is most suited to the Christmas season this would be an excellent concert or festival choice at any time of year.
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Footprints
David C. Dickau and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The composer has chosen stanzas from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, A PSALM OF LIFE, creating a piece perfect for graduation or for celebrations honoring significant leaders. In addition to the octavo with piano, David Dickau has a version with symphonic band accompaniment; the latter is available directly from him.
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Laughing Song
David C. Dickau and Blake William
William Blake’s poem dances with joy. A dramatic piano, a lofty flute, along with a rhythmic tambourine, join the voices to bring this text to brilliant life. A children’s chorus could partake singing the unison laughing theme that opens the piece and reoccurs along the way amidst the story telling of the SATB choir.
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Stardust and fate: The blueroad reader: New writing
John Gaterud and Abbey Gaterud
Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader is the first volume in a collected series of new writing and art from the road, featuring the works of nearly four dozen established and emerging writers, poets, and printmakers from North America.
The stories, essays, and poems in Stardust and Fate tour some of many routes -- seen and otherwise -- running through people's lives, in real and imagined journeys, literal and figurative, past and present. Pieces include fiction,...Read More
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Cross-Disciplinary Essays on Don Quixote: The Minnesota Conference Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Its Publication
James A. (Jim) Grabowska and Kimberly E. Contag
This collection of essays is the product of a conference celebrating 400 years of "Don Quixote" readership, criticism, and cultural productions which explores the enduring appeal of this literary masterpiece, along with additional articles and artistic representations.
