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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Libraries and Sustainability: Programs and Practices for Community Impact

René Tanner, Adrian K. Ho, Monika Antonelli, and Rebekkah Smith Aldrich

Library workers at all types of organizations, as well as LIS students learning about this newest Core Value of Librarianship, will find this book an easy-to-digest introduction to what staff at a range of libraries have accomplished in incorporating sustainability into their decision making and professional practices. In addition, a discussion about the role of economics and sustainability will challenge readers to stretch in new ways to positively impact their communities.

As a core value
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Essentially: Essays

Richard Terrill

"Here's the thing," Richard Terrill writes. "There's always the thing, isn't there, and most often, not just one?" Terrill, an award-winning poet and memoirist, asks through this series of wide-ranging, funny, and sometimes gut-punchingly vulnerable essays, what "is" essential? Maybe trout fishing, the music of Bill Evans, or the whys of dog ownership. Maybe Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, We Chat, a musician's early hearing loss, and spying on the neighbors. Or maybe the coming apocalypse,
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The Great Reboot: Succeeding in a Complex Digital World Under Attack from Systemic Risk

Bob Zukis, Paul Ferrillo, and Christophe Veltsos

War, Covid and systemic cyber risk is actively threatening the digital future.

Over 60% of the global economy is already powered by digital systems. However, this reality and the digital future are at risk from the systemic risks facing the complex digital systems powering businesses and world economies.

As with the first edition, the heart of this story remains the complex digital business systems powering much of the global economy. The second edition brings an
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Donde las nubes se unen al mar = Where the Clouds Meet the Water

Kimberly E. Contag

Donde las nubes se unen al mar (2021) es la traducción de la narrativa histórica Where the Clouds Meet the Water (2004), un libro que explica la saga de Ernesto Contag Ziehe y su familia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ernesto y su familia fueron deportados de su patria ecuatoriana a la Alemania de los Nazis en 1942. La narrativa histórica que se lee casi como novela se basa en la investigación en bibliotecas, hemerotecas
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Maverick Learning and Educational Applied Research Nexus

Elizabeth Harsma, Michael Manderfeld, and Carrie Lewis Miller

MavLEARN is the Maverick Learning and Educational Applied Research Nexus. Learn research-based strategies for student engagement, teaching practice, assessment and feedback, learning theories, course design, and more.
Transformations: Change Work across Writing Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices

Holly Hassel and Kirsti Cole

As teaching practices adapt to changing technologies, budgetary constraints, new student populations, and changing employment practices, writing programs remain full of people dedicated to helping students improve their writing. This edited volume offers strategies for implementing large- and small-scale changes in writing programs by focusing on transformations—the institutional, programmatic, curricular, and labor practices that work together to shape our teaching and learning experiences of writing and rhetoric in higher education.

The collection includes chapters from
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Designing Meaning-Based Interventions for Struggling Readers

Andrew P. Johnson

This highly practical book helps K–8 teachers implement effective reading interventions that support meaningful comprehension and engage students with interesting, age-appropriate texts. Andrew P. Johnson presents a range of strategies for addressing difficulties in the core areas of word identification, fluency, and comprehension. Packed with illustrative figures, the book provides guidance and tools for assessing reading problems, combining and adapting interventions for particular students, planning writing activities to enhance reading, aligning efforts within a response-to-intervention
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Policing and Human Behavior

Carl Lafata

Recognizing that peace officers have become this nation’s first responders for calls involving those experiencing mental health crises, Policing and Human Behavior provides readers with information that will help them gain a better understanding of those living with mental illness, and people in general. The textbook uses theoretical concepts in sociology, social psychology, psychology, and criminology to explain the factors that influence human behavior in a variety of situations. It also uses those same concepts
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Psychological Myths, Mistruths, and Misconceptions: Curriculum-Based Strategies for Knowledge Change

Karla A. Lassonde and Melissa Birkett
Faster than Speed

JP Mackey

Getting a job done quickly is important, but not as important as getting it done right. Join Emberly and his flurf, Fuzzball, on their quest to save their village. Is Emberly fast enough to make it home before the first frost? Or will his concern for a helpless baby sonde slow him down and seal the fate of his family?
Game-Based and Adaptive Learning Strategies

Carrie Lewis Miller and Odbayar Batsaikhan

This book is designed to accompany a graduate-level instructional design course: Game-Based and Adaptive Learning, but could also be used for undergraduate teacher education or instructional design courses.

The original texts and material for this book came from the development of a course for Brandeis University as part of their MS in Learner Experience Design program. This material can be used to teach pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and instructional designers about game-based and adaptive learning.
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Just Work for All: The American Dream in the 21st Century

Joshua Preiss

This is a book about the American Dream: how to understand this central principle of American public philosophy, the ways in which it is threatened by a number of winner-take-all economic trends, and how to make it a reality for workers and their families in the 21st century. Integrating political philosophy and the history of political thought with recent work in economics, political science, and sociology, this book calls for renewed political and policy commitment
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Crow's Reveal: A Near Future Technothriller

Patrick Tebbe

For the first time since the Sylph appeared, humanity cautiously shares the skies around Earth with the alien spheres. Cassie and her team have successfully given a rebirth to flight. Now they must reluctantly take on the burden of finding a way to get humanity off the planet before the Sylph finish their slow destruction of the world. An uneasy alliance of nations is supporting their efforts at Starlifter Command, but few of them know
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Antología de la literatura española del Romanticismo: desde sus precedentes en la poesía trovadoresca provenzal hasta el Posromanticismo

Enrique Torner

This is a digital interactive anthology of texts devoted to Spanish Romanticism especially designed for university non-Spanish speakers that are enrolled in Spanish majors or minors and are at least in their third year of study. This anthology may be used as textbook for any course by any instructor who might desire to use it without any written permission from the author. It may be used as a whole for a course on Spanish Romanticism
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The Political Economy of Uneven Rural Development: Case of the Nonfarm Sector in Kerala, India

Sudarshana Bordoloi

The book shows how class relations develop and is a consequence of capitalist development of the rural nonagricultural/nonfarm sector (RNFS)---seen as the dialectical relation between the forces and relations of production---as mediated by the state, which produces uneven social and spatial outcomes. Central to the framework for this book are four interrelated conceptual building blocks or themes: social relations of production, productive forces, role of the state and concrete development outcomes of capitalist production in
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Fantasy and Realism in Contemporary Ecuadorian Literature (1976-2006)

Kimberly E. Contag

My purpose in this book is not to assess how well Ecuadorian literature fits into the broad Latin American literary scene or the global scene in particular, but instead to read and analyze how Ecuadorian writers communicate ideas about the world they live in through realism and fantasy. It is the nature of Ecuadorians to express their experience in these terms to portray a unique and multifaceted voice. To that end, I propose a model
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Contemporary Perspectives on Ethnic Studies

Kebba Darboe, Wayne E. Allen, Mary C. Dowd, Hamdi Elnuzahi, Megan R. Heutmaker, Kelly S. Meier, and Lu (Lu Wendy) Yan

A collection of articles that introduces students to the substance, relevance, and practice of contemporary ethnic studies.
General, Organic, and Biochemistry

Katherine Denniston, Joesph Topping, Danae Quirk Dorr, and Robert Caret
Making the DEC Recommended Practices "Come to Life": Using Case Method of Instruction in Early Childhood Special Education

Aaron R. Deris and Cynthia F. DiCarlo

Presents the use of case method instruction and realistic cases that align with current recommended practices (RP) from the Division of Early Childhood (DEC) for children from birth to age 5. The benefits, debates, usage, barriers, framework, recommended practice, and case study rubrics of Case Method Instruction (CMI) are explored, creating guidelines for analysis and the implementation of plans. An appendix contains research support for the interventions outlined in the case studies.

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Behind the Bullet Points: The Surprising Secrets of Powerful Presentations

Don E. Descy

This is not your regular "how to' presentation book. And if you have read some of them or taken a speech class, Don Descy will challenge many of the ideas and concepts you have learned. If you have never read or taken a class, you are in luck. This is your one stop shop. Written by someone who would do whatever he could to avoid talking in front of a group to someone who enjoys
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A.S.P.I.R.E. to Ethics: An Analytical Approach to Solving Ethical Dilemmas

Jon Gallop

While no book can magically turn a morally bankrupt individual into a paragon of ethical virtue, this text provides the tools to improve decision-making and formulate the best ethical responses to issues that will arise throughout an individual’s career.

The acronym ASPIRE encompasses a step by step guide to ensure a thorough examination of issues. It is impossible to cover every scenario that will arise in the course of a career, but understanding the elements
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Academic Labor Beyond the College Classroom: Working for Our Values

Holly Hassel and Kirsti Cole

Academic Labor beyond the College Classroom initiates a scholarly and professional conversation, calling upon faculty to participate in, reimagine, and transform their institutional and professional work to look beyond just teaching and research. Chapters in this contributed volume offer case studies, strategies, and exemplars of how faculty can re-engage in institutional service, mentoring, governance, and administrative duties to advance equity efforts at all levels of the university, calling for what Dr. Nancy Chick names in
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Critical Social Justice Education and the Assault on Truth in White Public Pedagogy: The US-Dakota War Re-Examined

Rick Lybeck

This book explores tensions between critical social justice and what the author terms white justice as fairness in public commemoration of Minnesota’s US-Dakota War of 1862. First, the book examines a regional white public pedagogy demanding “objectivity” and “balance” in teaching-and-learning activities on 1862 with the purpose of promoting fairness toward white settlers and the extermination campaign they once carried out against Dakota people. The book then explores dilemmas this public pedagogy created for a
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The Gimmicks

Chris McCormick

"Set in the waning years of the Cold War, a stunning debut novel about a trio of young Armenians that moves from the Soviet Union, across Europe, to Southern California, and at its center, one of the most tragic cataclysms in twentieth-century history - the Armenian Genocide - whose traumatic reverberations will have unexpected consequences on all three lives. This exuberant, wholly original novel begins in Kirovakan, Armenia, in 1971. Ruben Petrosian is a serious,
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Geraldine Chaplin: The Gift of Film Performance

Steven Rybin
Explores the film performances of Geraldine Chaplin across various transnational and historical contexts
- Examines the distinctive screen performances of Geraldine Chaplin, a unique and underappreciated international star
- Offers new readings of Chaplin’s presence in important films by key film directors across various international cinemas, including Carlos Saura (Spain), Jacques Rivette (France), David Lean (Britain), Robert Altman (America), Alain Resnais (France)
- Offers a unique approach to film performance studies, showing how performative moments created by
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