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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Microsoft
Sara Gilbert Frederick
A business survey for young adults of the computer software giant Microsoft, covering the global products and technology, company’s history, and founders, Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Includes sidebars, a glossary, and further resources.
Part of the Odysseys in Business series
Ages 12 - 15
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Mount Vinson
Sara Gilbert Frederick
On the continent of Antarctica, Mount Vinson is the top of the world. It’s the tallest peak in the Ellsworth Mountains and one of Earth’s ultimate mountaineering challenges: the Seven Summits. For kids age 12 and up, this science and social studies guide takes readers to the mountain’s slopes and examines its geology, plant and animal life, and the climbers and cultures throughout history who’ve attempted its summit or lived in its shadow. Special climbing
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Ninjas
Sara Gilbert Frederick
In the 14th and 15th centuries, while Japan’s samurai fought high-profile battles in the open, stealthy ninjas fought in the shadows. Serving variously as mercenaries, spies, and guards, the highly trained, secretive warriors carried out guerilla operations under the cover of darkness at the service of warlords. This title for readers age 12 and up surveys the history of the ultra-quiet martial arts masters. It covers key fighters, weapons, combat skills, and rules of warfare.
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Spotify
Sara Gilbert Frederick
A business survey for young adults of the audio streaming giant Spotify, covering the global company’s apps and online products, technology, history, and founders, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. Includes sidebars, a glossary, and further resources.
Part of the Odysseys in Business series
Ages 12 - 15
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El tiempo al revés
Adriana Gordillo
El tiempo al revés es una colección de poemas que explora la naturaleza del tiempo y el espacio a partir de hilvanar en sus versos la cotidianidad y el quehacer del escritor. Este es un poemario que invita a la pausa, al encuentro con el espíritu juguetón que se esconde tras el proceso creativo tanto del escritor como de la naturaleza.
Time Backwards is a collection of poems that explores the nature of time and
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Baghdad Dispatches: The City of Peace in World War One
Jameel Haque
Framing the U.S. consulate as a central point of analysis, Baghdad Dispatches highlights the experiences of refugees, prisoners of war, and foreign nationals stranded in Ottoman Baghdad.
Jameel Haque examines the history of Ottoman Baghdad during the First World War, drawing on U.S. archival sources to explore the economic, political, and social transformations that shaped the city. It details the humanitarian efforts of Charles Brissel, the U.S. consul who worked between 1914 and 1916 to distribute...Read More
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Buddhism for Thinkers
Chang-Seong Hong and Sun Kyeong Yu
This book is an introduction to Buddhist philosophy. It uses the methods of analytic philosophy to approach the major topics of Buddhism.
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Second Star to the Right: Essays on Leadership in Star Trek
Jason A. Kaufman and Aaron M. Peterson
'Star Trek' provides an opportunity to explore the final frontier of leadership through its nearly six decades of series and films. With its basis in Enlightenment thinking (reason coupled to compassion) and its encouragement of diversity in its myriad forms, 'Star Trek' offers guidance on how to improve the human condition that has application in leadership across academic and professional fields. Leaders are constantly called upon to solve problems, direct institutional growth, and, on occasion,
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Spooktacular Halloween 2025: A Randomly Generated Story
JP Mackey
What's more fun than an October drawing challenge? How about a drawing challenge that tells a story! Throughout the month of October, JP Mackey created daily illustrations based on a random prompt generator and wove them into a story about a witch trying to help her next-door neighbor find his wallet.
(This book contains depictions of gambling, drinking; smoking, and cats dancing)
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100 Queer Films Since Stonewall
Chelsea McCracken and Matt Connolly
100 Queer Films identifies 100 films that shaped the trajectory of queer cinema, connected with larger movements, and showcased the artistry of queer filmmaking. In addition to those films that already hold significant places in queer film canons, this volume examines often-overlooked titles. By highlighting hidden gems alongside well known classics, this book makes a valuable, accessible contribution to queer film studies.
While queer films have existed since the beginning of cinema, this book focuses on...Read More
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Google
Nell Musolf
A business survey for young adults of the Web-based technology giant Google, covering the global products and services, company’s history, and founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Includes sidebars, a glossary, and further resources.
Part of the Odysseys in Business series
Ages 12 - 15
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Methodological Issues and Reflexivity Practices in Qualitative Language Teacher Education Research
Gloria Park, Oksana Moroz, Sarah Henderson Lee, and Bedrettin Yazan
This volume brings together researchers from around the world, including Mexico, USA, China, Japan, Iran, Turkiye, Indonesia and the UAE, conducting qualitative research in the field of language teacher education.
Each chapter highlights cutting-edge research in language teacher education with particular emphasis on non-traditional research methods, including autoethnography, narrative inquiry, participatory action research, and video-cued multivocal ethnography. The contributors discuss the methodological challenges experienced by the researcher(s) and participants in each study and share their
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Paul Verhoeven's Cinema of Violence
Steven Rybin
The first English-language critical study of the films of Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch director of provocative and vividly imagined films such as Turkish Delight (1973), Robocop (1987), Basic Instinct (1992), Showgirls (1995), Starship Troopers (1997), Black Book (2006), and Elle (2016).
Where some audiences find in Paul Verhoeven little more than empty provocation (or, even worse, immoral scandal), Paul Verhoeven's Cinema of Violence takes a more careful and nuanced look at this director's body of work...Read More
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Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice
Kathryn Sorrells and Sachi Sekimoto
Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice introduces students to the study of communication among cultures within the broader context of globalization. Kathryn Sorrells and new co-author Sachi Sekimoto highlight history, power, and global institutions as central to understanding the relationships and contexts that shape intercultural communication. Based on a framework that promotes critical thinking, reflection, and action, this text takes a social justice approach that equips students with the skills and knowledge to create a
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Managerial Communication: Strategies and Applications
Jennifer Veltsos and Geraldine E. Hynes
Managerial Communication: Strategies and Applications focuses on communication skills and strategies that managers need to be successful in today’s workplace. Known for its holistic overview of communication, comprehensive research base, and focus on managerial competencies, this text continues to be the market leader in the field. In the Ninth Edition, authors Jennifer R. Veltsos and Geraldine E. Hynes provide coverage of current topics like managing hybrid and virtual teams, ChatGPT and artificial intelligence, and empathic
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Understanding Communication Research Methods: A Theoretical and Practical Approach
Stephen M. Croucher and Daniel Cronn-Mills
Using an engaging how-to approach that draws from scholarship, real life, and popular culture, this textbook, now in its fourth edition, offers students practical reasons why they should care about research methods and offers a practical guide for conducting research.
Explaining quantitative, qualitative, critical, and performance research methods, this new edition helps students better grasp the theoretical and applied uses of method by clearly illustrating practical applications. The book features all the main research traditions
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EFL Writing Teacher Education and Professional Development: Voices from Under-Represented Contexts
Estela Ene, Betsy Gilliland, Sarah Henderson Lee, Tanita Saenkhum, and Lisya Seloni
This book explores how EFL writing teacher education is theoretically, pedagogically, methodologically and sociopolitically shaped, given teachers' unique local contexts and circumstances. It showcases practitioners and researchers teaching in, or studying, geographic areas that have as yet been under-represented in international publications, and it focuses on ways that specific contexts create unique opportunities and constraints on what developing teachers know and do in their work. The chapters prioritize local voices and materials to build a
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Hereticum
Adriana Gordillo
Hereticum es una creación alternativa donde la simbología del bien y del mal se confunde entre plegarias, mitos y ecos de un lenguaje que se hace cuerpo. Estos versos hilvanan la esencia creadora del lenguaje, la violencia social, la desigualdad de género y el desastre ecológico, no sin dar una puntada de humor que invita al lector a convertirse en el sacerdote de una diosa olvidada.
Hereticum is an alternative creation where the symbolism of
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The Sociology of Families Reader: Issues, Perspectives, and Debates
Aaron Hoy and Emily M. Boyd
Through a carefully curated selection of readings highlighting important empirical research on family life in the U.S., The Sociology of Families Reader: Issues, Perspectives, and Debates introduces students to the major questions, influential findings, and contested interpretations that animate the sociology of families today.
The volume is organized into nine units, each dedicated to a unique aspect of family life. Units begin with a brief introduction, which situates the readings for that unit within broader patterns...Read More
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Being and Becoming Teachers of Writing: A Meaning-Based Approach to Authentic Writing Instruction
Andrew P. Johnson
This engaging, inviting textbook from a renowned expert in writing education provides all the knowledge, pedagogical strategies, and tools needed to enable any teacher to be an effective teacher of writing.
Using the five-step writing process as a foundation, the text describes how to teach the necessary skills related to grammar, spelling, punctuation, and other writing mechanics, and addresses all major genres and stages of writing. Written in an authentic voice that exemplifies good writing,
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The LEARN Method: An Interactive Guide for Effective Learning
Karla Lassonde
The LEARN Method is a program designed to teach students strategies to improve learning.
NOTE: Some of the interactive elements are not available in the PDF version. Please visit https://minnstate.pressbooks.pub/learnmethod/ to view the online version with full H5P elements.
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DIY: The Wonderfully Weird History and Science of Masturbation
Eric Sprankle
An approachable and humorous deep dive into the history, culture, and science behind masturbation.
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Living as LGBTQ+
Darcy Strode
A social studies title for young adults that examines the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and more (LGBTQ+) community in the United States of America. Includes sidebars, real-person profiles, a glossary, a timeline, and further resources.
Part of the Living in America series
Ages 10 - 14
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Design and Analysis in Quantitative Educational Research: Univariate Designs in SPSS
Kamden K. Strunk and Mwarumba Mwavita
Design and Analysis in Quantitative Educational Research: Univariate Designs in SPSS presents an integrated approach to learning about research design alongside statistical analysis concepts. The authors maintain a focus on applied educational research throughout the text, with practical tips and advice on how to do high-quality quantitative research.
This book teaches research design (including epistemology, research ethics, forming research questions, quantitative design, sampling methodologies, and design assumptions) and introductory statistical concepts (including descriptive statistics, probability
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