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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Precalculus with Modeling and Visualization
Gary K. Rockswold
Gary Rockswold focuses on teaching algebra in context, answering the question, “Why am I learning this?” and ultimately motivating the students to succeed in this class. In addition, the author's understanding of what instructors need from a text (great 'real' examples and lots of exercises) makes this book fun and easy to teach from. Integrating this textbook into your course will be a worthwhile endeavor.
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Battle Cry
Jan Neubert Schultz
In 1862, two best friends, one white and one half Dakota Indian, find themselves involved in a bloody war when the Dakotas, fed up with being mistreated by the federal government and local citizens, erupt with violence.
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From Shank's Ponies to Space Travel: Some Memories of My Life from Muscatine County, Iowa to Mankato, Minnesota
Marjorie May Longstreth Oelerich
Digitized version of Marjorie L. Oelerich's 2005 book detailing her family and educational history, from birth to arrival at MSU in 1969.
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Using Experiential Learning in the Classroom: Practical Ideas for All Educators
Scott D. Wurdinger
While research and common sense tells us that experiential learning is more effective than the more traditional process of information assimilation (where teachers lecture, test, and grade), high school, college, and university teachers continue to use paper-and-pencil tests as their primary grading and assessment tool. Many students fail to see the relevance of these sort of tests and are bored with passive methods of learning. Using Experiential Learning in the Classroom: Practical Ideas for All
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Profiling and Criminal Justice in America: A Reference Handbook
Jeffrey B. Bumgarner
This unique handbook examines the history behind racial, gender, and religious profiling, charts its guiding philosophies, surveys supporting legal doctrines and legislation, and presents the arguments pro and con. It focuses on profiling by police, prosecutors, and judges; federal and state civil rights laws; key legal cases and studies; and more. Whether one wishes to explore racial profiling by state troopers in New Jersey, the identification of serial killers by the FBI, or the screening
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Flowers of the Dinh Ba Forest: A Novel
Robert David Clark
In this novel of war, love, camaraderie, and betrayal Vietnam veteran Clark centers his plot around a search for a rare orchid in the height of the Vietnam War. As novelist and veteran Tim O'Brien has pointed out, the telling element in any true war story is that it doesn't make sense. Clark's characters--both Vietnamese and American, both men and women--are painfully aware that nothing seems to make sense in the war, that one might
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Where the Clouds Meet the Water
Kimberly E. Contag and James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Where the Clouds Meet the Water follows the historical journey of the German Ecuadorian widower, Ernst Contag, and his four young children from their home in the South American Andes to Nazi Germany in 1942. Blacklisted as an enemy alien, Ernst Contag and his children are forcibly repatriated to the country of Ernst's grandparents as part of a diplomatic exchange arranged by the United States' State Department and cooperating countries. In Nazi Germany, Ernst and
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The Psychology of Ethnic and Cultural Conflict
Yueh-Ting Lee, Clark McCauley, Fathali Moghaddam, and Stephen Worchel
Peace-makers, experts in conflict resolution, researchers and teachers are among the contributors here focused on ethnic and cultural conflict around the world. The volume first addresses elements such as identity and difference, both conceptually and historically. Text that follows describes issues and experiences associated with conflict and war in countries including Africa, China, Iran, Israel, Palestine, and New Zealand. The role of immigration, three major cultures (Islamic, Christian, and Confucian) are examined. Finally, innovative programs
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A Graphical Approach to Algebra & Trigonometry
John Hornsby, Margaret L. Lial, and Gary K. Rockswold
This series is the culmination of many years of teaching experience with the graphing calculator. The books were written from the beginning for use with the graphing calculator. Throughout the text, the authors emphasize the power of technology but provide numerous warnings of its limitations: they stress that only through understanding the mathematical concepts can students fully appreciate the power of graphing calculators and use technology appropriately.Additionally, the authors consistently use the same four-step process
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A Graphical Approach to Precalculus with Limits
John Hornsby, Margaret L. Lial, and Gary K. Rockswold
This series is the culmination of many years of teaching experience with the graphing calculator. The books were written from the beginning for use with the graphing calculator. Throughout the text, the authors emphasize the power of technology but provide numerous warnings of its limitations: they stress that only through understanding the mathematical concepts can students fully appreciate the power of graphing calculators and use technology appropriately. Additionally, the authors consistently use the same four-step
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Celebrating the First Fifty Years: An Interpretive Essay
Mary Huntley, Edna Thayer, and Linda Beer
This book lists all the nursing graduates from the School of Nursing from the School's beginnings in 1953 until June 2003. The history of the School of Nursing was thoroughly researched using available School of Nursing files and documents, as well as the archived collection at the MSU Library.
The book is comprised of 10 chapters and over 90 photos describing student life and activities, faculty life, curriculum development, administrative leaders and assistants, learning spaces
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Data Mining: A Tutorial-Based Primer
Richard J. Roiger and Michael Geatz
Primer on data mining provides an introduction to the principles and techniques for extracting information, from a business-minded executive. Data sets from the CD-ROM are used in examples and exercises.
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Wonderful Things I Scarcely Understand: Twenty Years of Robert Wright Award Winners
Roger Sheffer
"This book celebrates twenty years of writing by students at Minnesota State University, Mankato, all of them first-place winners in the annual Robert Wright Award competition."
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Coming Late to Rachmaninoff: Poems
Richard Terrill
Winner of the 2004 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. The poet’s Midwestern roots and rich perspectives enrich this first collection by a widely published poet and prize-winning author of creative nonfiction. Terrill has an eye for the ironic and the beautiful, an ear for music and the music of language. As poet Peggy Shumaker says, these are “edgy” and “tender” poems of “music, family, grief, the possibility of love—they’re all here.
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Mysterious Ways
Terry Davis
Orphaned at sixteen, Karl Russel keeps a journal of his inner life during the chaotic sixties in the United States, and on to the political terrorism of Rio de Janeiro and its "invisible" population of the disfigured.
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Vision Quest: A Novel
Terry Davis
A high school wrestler endures rights of passage in Spokane, Washington in the 1960s.
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The Computer as an Educational Tool: Productivity and Problem Solving
Richard C. Forcier and Don E. Descy
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A Graphical Approach to College Algebra
John Hornsby, Margaret L. Lial, and Gary K. Rockswold
This series is the culmination of many years of teaching experience with the graphing calculator. The books were written from the beginning for use with the graphing calculator. Throughout the text, the authors emphasize the power of technology but provide numerous warnings of its limitations: they stress that only through understanding the mathematical concepts can students fully appreciate the power of graphing calculators and use technology appropriately. Additionally, the authors consistently use the same four-step
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Regina's Record
James Anthony Van Amber
Regina's Record is a psychiatric horror story based on the treatment of my mother in one state and two Veterans Administration hospitals from 1951 to 1983 based on 13,000 government documents. Regina's Record is adult nonfiction.
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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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