MSU Authors Collection

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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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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Case Studies in Early Childhood Special Education

Aaron R. Deris and Cynthia DiCarlo
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
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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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Google

Nell Musolf and Sara Gilbert Frederick

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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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.
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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Managerial Communication: Strategies and Applications

Jennifer Veltsos and Geraldine E. Hunes

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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Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology

Kirsti Cole and Valerie Renegar

This book unpacks and interrogates dominant constructions of mothering, making use of interdisciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives to investigate how new rhetorics of mothering can expand the realm of maternal care-givers beyond the biological definitions of motherhood.

This diverse collection is at the cutting-edge of rhetoric, feminism, and motherhood studies, and the chapters challenge the confines of biological parenting as heteronormative within the neo-liberal nuclear family. The contributors examine, how despite the diversity of parental
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Introduction to Theory of Flight

Nihad E. Daidzic

Introduction to Theory of Flight equips students with critical and foundational knowledge in fundamental science principles that make flight possible.
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Implementing Tootling Interventions: A Practitioner’s Guide to Increasing Peer Prosocial Behaviors

Alexandra Hilt-Panahon and Kennedi J. Alstead

This book is a comprehensive guide to the history and implementation of the tootling intervention that was designed to increase prosocial behaviors in school-aged children.

Implementing Tootling Interventions provides practitioners with the resources and information needed to implement tootling effectively and successfully in their desired setting to increase prosocial behavior, decrease disruptive behavior, and increase academic engaged time for students. To address individuals of all abilities and ages, modifications are provided for early childhood education,
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Leadership in Star Trek: Lessons from the Captain's Chair

Jason A. Kaufman and Aaron M. Peterson

What are the skills necessary for effective leadership? How can we learn to lead toward a better tomorrow? For six decades, the captains of Star Trek have demonstrated the potential for leaders to leverage reason and compassion in the service of others. Grounded in science yet focused on practical application, this book uses case studies from more than 40 episodes and films to explore how Captains Archer, Burnham, Pike, Kirk, Picard, Sisko, and Janeway relied
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Holistic Nursing and Healing Environments

Nancyruth Leibold

The text intends to communicate information about holistic nursing and healing environments. The holistic nursing knowledge and skill base are vast. There are many areas of holistic health and nursing! Holistic nurses should acknowledge the wide breadth of content by using multiple resources to advance expertise as a holistic nurse.
Bridging Leadership and School Improvement: Advice from the Field

Leslie Ann Locke and Sonya D. Hayes

Principals wear many hats, but the most significant role they have is improving teaching and learning so all students are successful. Bridging Leadership and School Improvement: Advice from the Field features narratives of successful principals across multiple states in the US, who have not only improved their schools but have created supportive and inclusive learning communities for both teachers and students. Each practitioner-author discusses an improvement practice that they successfully implemented in their school and
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The Thompson Twins: The Minnesota Mysteries

Michael David MacBride and Heidi Wall Burns

Who are the Thompson Twins? Tina and Tony preteens from Minnesota who are known for being friendly, clever, and particularly good at solving puzzles. They are also very good at solving mysteries, which means people often turn to them for help when something is missing.

When people first meet Tony and Tina, they often ask, “How are you twins? You look nothing alike!” Depending on whose turn it is, Tony or Tina explains about fraternal twins
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Ichabod Strange Bounces Back

JP Mackey

Owls! Space aliens! Contractural obligations! Ichabod Strange returns as a custodian who lives in a creepy old mansion with his cat, Wheelbarrow. These eight short stories tell the tales of his day-to-day adventures.
The Viking Battalion: Norwegian American Ski Troops in World War II

Olaf Minge, Kyle Ward, and Erik Brun

Hidden in the crevasses of World War II history is the story of the 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate). A small unit that rarely gets any attention, it is part of a fascinating story. Alongside battalions of Austrian, Greek, Filipino and Japanese Americans, the Army decided to create an all Norwegian American battalion, originally trained at Camp Hale, Colorado, along with the 10th Mountain Division, with the original mission of liberating Norway. Their exploits during training
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TOCCA: Task-Oriented Community Centered Acquisition: A Guidebook for Use in World Language Courses

Sarah Tahtinen-Pacheco, Matthew Hanson, and Becky Skogen

The TOCCA guidebook will introduce you to the best new way to learn a language. Using current research from the fields of Linguistics, World Languages, and Education, this new method was created for teachers to increase language acquisition and retention while honoring the rich cultural perspectives of native speakers. The TOCCA method shifts learning away from pre-created, text-centered curriculum to co-created, student-centered experiences within the classroom, local community, and beyond. We have found this to
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Songs, Blood Deep

Gwen Nell Westerman

As graceful and intricately rooted as prairie grass, Gwen Nell Westerman’s poetry honors and nourishes traditional ways of being, 'the sustained symmetry of songs,' a lifeblood that runs through generations of women, from grandmothers of long ago to granddaughters of a yet-to-be-seen future as real as the present and past. Songs, Blood Deep weaves English and Dakota language and spirit with personal memories and tribal histories in a collection that is lyrical and profound, a
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Insatiable: A Nation's Unappeasable Hunger

David Bissonnette

Insatiable: A Nation’s Unappeasable Hunger is a book that dives into the struggle between nutrition and man’s medical, psychological, and spiritual values. The book broadly reviews the obesity epidemic, but it also delves deeply into its origins, empowering the reader with a social, cultural, and spiritual understanding of the true origins of this epidemic, but also defining, in the process, life’s purpose, and its profound meaning. From poor nutrition to weight loss struggles, this book
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Science Methods for Elementary Teachers

Ron Browne and David Kimori

Complete Digitized Text of Science Methods for Elementary Teachers by Ron Browne and David Kimori, Minnesota State University, Mankato, 2022.