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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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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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
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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