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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Famous Persons We Have Known
Richard 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.
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Geografía Esperpéntica: El Espacio Literario en los Esperpentos de Valle-Inclán
Enrique Torner
This book is the first work devoted to a comprehensive study of literary space in the works of Valle- Inclán. The author looks at Valle- Inclán's esperpentos from a semiotic perspective. He explains the symbolism of the writer's locations and of other pertinent "esperpentic" patterns. Torner argues that literary space is fundamental for the structuring of the esperpentos and for most of Valle- Inclán's works. Written in Spanish, the book is comprised of five chapters.
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Hope, Intolerance, and Greed: A Reality Check for Teachers
Debra J. Anderson, Robert L. Major, and Richard R. Mitchell
In many ways America is in worse shape than before the first Watts riots occurred over 25 years ago. Intolerance is still abundant; greed is very much alive; and hope held by many at the bottom has been dimmed, if not extinguished. For our country to become everything it is capable of becoming and everything our ancestors dreamed, education cannot continue as usual. Ours is a great country, but when even one of its citizens
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Collaborative Leadership: School Improvement Through Collaborative Leadership Program (ColeaP)
Brian Edward Boettcher and Kuo-Hw Lin
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Mankato State University: The Second Century: The First Twenty-Five Years, 1968-1992: An Interpretative Essay
Claire E. Faust
Donald Youel, in Mankato State College - An Interpretative Essay, commented on the development of this institution for its first one hundred years. He did not chronicle each event, but rather provided the reader with an understanding of what happened and what it meant for the College and for society. He organized this essay from different perspectives: "the developing program, the enrollment, students, the state governing board, administration and faculty." He made the point well
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The Significance of Sibling Relationships in Literature
JoAnna Stephens Mink and Janet Doubler Ward
Examines the significance of sibling relationships, or the lack of them, as portrayed in literature. Many of the 13 essays compare two or more novels, most of which are from the Victorian era or the 20th century.
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Communication and Women's Friendships: Parallels and Intersections in Literature and Life
Janet Doubler Ward and JoAnna Stephens Mink
Today, women need once again to develop the bonds of "sisterhood" which can provide the support which our families, our "significant other" relationships, and our social institutions have left void. One important way of doing this is to turn to examples of literary friendships. Eleven original essays offer a variety of perspectives on the changing ways in which women's friendships have been viewed. The contributors discuss the fundamental values of women's friendships and communication in
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Teacher Supervision that Works: A Guide for University Supervisors
Debra J. Anderson, Robert L. Major, and Richard R. Mitchell
