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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Gender and the Archaeology of Death
Bettina Arnold and Nancy L. Wicker
Burials are places where archaeologists reasonably expect gendered ideologies and practices to play out in the archaeological record. Yet only modest progress has been made in teasing out gender from these mortuary contexts. In this volume, methods for doing so are presented, cases of successful gender theorizing from mortuary data presented, and comparisons made between European and Americanist traditions in this kind of work. Cases are broad in temporal and geographic scope—from Inuit burials in
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Diaries of Girls and Women a Midwestern American Sampler
Suzanne L. Bunkers
Diaries of Girls and Women captures and preserves the diverse lives of forty-seven girls and women who lived in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin between 1837 and 1999. A compelling work of living history, it brings together both diaries from historical society archives and diaries still in possession of the diarists or their descendants.
Editor Suzanne L. Bunkers has selected these excerpts from more than 450 diaries she examined. Some diaries were kept only briefly, others
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Hernani
Victor Hugo and John J. Janc
This critical edition of Victor Hugo's theatrical masterpiece Hernani presents for the first time, the text as the author wanted it to appear. The vast majority of the existing versions of the play are based on editions that were flawed because they did not take into account all of the corrections made by the author. Through the use of different fonts, the reader sees which lines were censored in the first edition and all textual
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Intelligent Multimedia, Computing and Communcations: Technologies and Applications of the Future
Mahbubur Rahman Syed and Orlando R. Baiocchi
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Advances in Educational Technologies: Multimedia, WWW, and Distance Education
Mahbubur Rahman Syed and Val Tareski
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Rape on the Public Agenda: Feminism and the Politics of Sexual Assault
Maria Bevacqua
Women's responses to rape have taken many forms over the past three decades, from guerrilla actions targeting individual assailants to the founding of rape crisis centers. This timely book examines the history, development, and impact of the feminist anti-rape movement, illuminating its importance to the broader women's movement and discussing the public policy implications of this activism. Maria Bevacqua locates the roots of rape consciousness, traces the evolution of an anti-rape ideology on the feminist
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Grad Rule 101Website in Support Of Minnesota Graduation Rule Standards: A Preservice Teacher Education Project
Leroy A. Kemp and Peggy Ballard
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Atlas of Minnesota: Social and Economic Characteristics of the North Star State
Jose Javier Lopez, Martin D. Mitchell, Cynthia Miller, and Pamela Schmutz
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Famous Persons We Have Known
Richards Robbins
In this collection of poems we indeed meet the famous persons promised in the title: Lon Chaney, Jr. buying eggs and bananas at a Capistrano Beach supermarket; Elvis slipping out / with raccoons and owls to buy pink / Cadillacs for anyone that moved him; Marshal Dillon, his head split by a surfing mishap; even Geronimo, galloping back toward nature, ruined for love. But this books is about more than famous people. From the car
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Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz
Richard Terrill
Writes Richard Terrill, “The name fakebook derives from recognition that a jazz musician who is improvising over a set of chord changes is “faking,” making up his or her own melody. The fakebook then is a place to start, the structure upon which music is completed.” For this Fakebook, with its “improvisations” that pay homage to various greats like Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, and John Coltrane, and with its exploration of how jazz works, jazz
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A Qualitative Analysis of the Jehovah's Witnesses: The Rhetoric, reality, and religion in the Watchtower Society
Daniel Cronn-Mills
Jehovah’s Witnesses are one of the most persecuted religious groups in the world and the most persecuted Christian organization in the 20th century. How the Witnesses shape their response to persecution is invariably associated with the social reality they construct in their rhetorical practices. This is a descriptive analysis and interpretation of the social reality constructed by the discourse of the Jehovah'’ Witnesses, utilizing a qualitative-interpretive approach for exploration into a social reality. The purpose
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Space Image Processing
Julio Sanchez and Maria P. Canton
Space Image Processing covers the design and coding of PC software for processing and manipulating imagery obtained by satellites and other spacecraft. Although the contents relate to several scientific and technological fields, it serves as a programming book, providing readers with essential technical information for developing PC applications. The material focuses on images of the planet and other celestial bodies obtained by orbiting and non-orbiting spacecraft. This book is not about raster graphics in general,
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From the Ground Up: Beyond Gender Theory in Archaeology: Proceedings of the Fifth Gender and Archaeology Conference
Nancy L. Wicker and Bettina Arnold
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Controversial Issues in Adventure Education: A Critical Examination
Scott D. Wurdinger and Tom G. Potter
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Minnesota: A History
William E. Lass
In this volume, William Lass tells the story of Minnesota, a state that evolved from many cultures, from its beginnings to the present. This history not only provides descriptions of the essential events of Minnesota's past but also offers an interpretation of major trends and characteristics of the state and its distinctiveness within the context of the nation's story. Illustrated with photographs
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Common ground: Feminist Collaboration in the Academy
Elizabeth G. Peck and JoAnna Stephens Mink
Placed within the context of the academic environment, this multi-focused book identifies students as active contributors and learners; faculty as researchers, teachers, and learners; and administrators as a synthesis of all three modes of collaboration. While focusing on the mutuality of educational enterprises, Common Ground raises provocative questions about the dynamics of gender and cooperation at various levels of academia. It reveals the transformative power of collaboration by challenging traditional notions of single authorship and
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Faisons des Progrès!: Manuel de Conversation
John J. Janc
This all-French conversation text is designed to bring students from intermediate to advanced language proficiency. The text combines culture, grammar, vocabulary, acquisition, and conversation in an original and challenging fashion. It is designed with a number of goals in mind. The first is to help students strengthen their linguistic abilities at the intermediate level as defined by the ACTFL proficiency guidelines. The second is to provide them with ample opportunity to progress from the intermediate
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Computer-Assisted Writing and Research: Using PALS and the Internet
Anne Brown O'Meara and Roland Nord
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Introducing Educational Reconstruction: The Philosophy and Practice of Transforming Society Through Education
Angela Raffel and Susan Roberts
As the authors of this volume explain, the philosophy of educational reconstruction has strong roots in the Twentieth Century and significant promise for the Twenty-First Century and beyond.
