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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Lost Outpost

Patrick A. Tebbe

Tenzen Cote is a nightmare from Sebastian’s past worse than any of his ex-girlfriends. She was the most irascible and grumpiest of his Taoist school teachers. Not only is he surprised to find she’s still alive, but she needs his help. And she isn’t taking no for an answer.

Pursued by several unknown parties, Sebastian takes the Star Sloth into a dangerous and unexplored region of the solar system. There they discover a long-lost outpost of
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Sisters of the Leviathan

Patrick A. Tebbe

Sebastian Rogers isn’t known for his people skills. Which makes his current cargo…problematic. Three sisters with varying negative opinions of him. The fact they essentially hijack the Star Sloth to go on an alien treasure hunt brings even more joy to Sebastian’s life.

On a distant moon they find a long-buried alien spaceship that isn’t nearly as dead as they thought. Worse, the ship is still being hunted by an enemy that possesses and enslaves its
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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.

The book is organized into three main parts: fundamental science, advanced science, and expert knowledge covering specific flight physics areas. Dedicated chapters and appendices cover atmospheric and space flight, various categories and classes of aircraft, terrestrial atmosphere, and many special topics. Readers learn about air properties and measurements; the basic laws of classical mechanics, including
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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.
Understanding Communication Research Methods: A Theoretical and Practical Approach

Stephen Michael 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 third edition, offers students practical reasons why they should care about research methods and offers a practical guide to actually conducting research themselves.

Examining quantitative, qualitative, and critical research methods, this new edition helps undergraduate students better grasp the theoretical and practical uses of method by clearly illustrating practical applications. The book features all the main
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Technical Communication Essentials: Foundational Communication Strategies for Everyday Writing

Ashley N. Flitter

The strategies provided in this book build the foundational skills necessary to be both efficient and effective, the ultimate achievement in technical communication. The text covers why it is important to build your timelines in a way that allows for time away from you are working on, and why it is important review and revise everything, even emails. It also digs into strategies and tools that can help build a space to gain clarity during
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Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Path from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army

Rachael Hanel

The mystery of how an ordinary Minnesota girl came to be, briefly, one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States

During this time of mounting unrest and violence, Camilla Hall’s story is of urgent interest for what it reveals about the forces of radicalization. But as Rachael Hanel ventures further into Camilla’s past, searching out the critical points where character and cause intersect, her book becomes an intriguing, disturbing, and deeply moving
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MLK 11.12.61 [Film]

Jameel Haque

On Nov. 12, 1961, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Mankato, Minnesota. While here, he gave two sermons at Centenary United Methodist Church and a speech at Mankato High School. To explore this history, the Kessel Peace Institute of Minnesota State University, Mankato and True Façade Pictures collaborated to make a 40-minute documentary. The film explores the history, context and legacy of Dr. King’s visit to Mankato and reflects on where we have
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Losing Sleep: Risk, Responsibility and Infant Sleep Safety

Laura Harrison

New parents are inundated with warnings about the fatal risks of “co-sleeping,” or sharing a bed with a newborn, from medical brochures and website forums, to billboard advertisements and the evening news. In Losing Sleep, Laura Harrison uncovers the origins of the infant sleep safety debate, providing a window into the unprecedented anxieties of modern parenthood.

Exploring widespread rhetoric from doctors, public health experts, and the media, Harrison explains why our panic has reached an all-time
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The Social Science of Same-Sex Marriage: LGBT People and Their Relationships in the Era of Marriage Equality

Aaron Hoy

Showcasing research from across the social sciences, this edited volume seeks to provide readers with an empirically grounded sense of how many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people marry in the US and Canada, what their marriages look like, and how LGBT people themselves are impacted by marriage and marriage equality.

Prior to marriage equality, lawmakers and activists across the political spectrum debated whether same-sex couples should have the legal right to marry, and
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Mothers, Families or Children? Family Policy in Poland, Hungary and Romania, 1945-2020

Tomasz Inglot, Dorottya Szikra, and Cristina Raț

Mothers, Families, or Children? is the first comparative-historical study of family policies in Poland, Hungary, and Romania from 1945 until the eve of the global pandemic in 2020. The book highlights the emergence, consolidation, and perseverance of three types of family policies based on “mother-orientation” in Poland, “family orientation” in Hungary, and “child-orientation” in Romania. It uses a new theoretical framework to identify core and contingent clusters of benefits and services in each country and
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The Human Dimension in Education: Essential Learning Theories and Their Impact on Teaching and Learning

Andrew P. Johnson

This is an educational psychology book that focuses on human development, the human being, teaching, and learning. It is appropriate for preservice teachers who are seeking to comprehend essential theories and concepts in educational psychology. It is also appropriate for practicing teachers who want to understand and apply these theories and concepts at increasingly higher levels. As well, it can be used by decision-makers or anybody else who wants to better understand human development, human
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Mujer y naturaleza: Una colección de textos para el debate

Ana M. López-Aguilera and Adriana Gordillo

Una compilación de textos escritos por autoras (latinoamericanas, españolas y latinas) que manifiestan un interés especial por la cuestión medioambiental. Estos textos y las actividades de comprensión y reflexión que los acompañan contribuyen: i) a familiarizarse con varias categorías relevantes del feminismo y del ecofeminismo y ii) a explorar, desde una perspectiva ecofeminista, algunos temas recurrentes en la literatura escrita por mujeres.

A compilation of texts written by Latin American, Spanish, and Latina authors with
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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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