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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Lifespan Development: Telling the Human Story

Heather Von Bank

Writing a textbook that covers the events of the entire span of human life is a daunting task, believe me; in the nine months that it has taken me to research, write, edit, and re-write this text a human baby could have been born, learned to crawl, and would be eating solid foods by now! However, the real task is now ahead of you, the student, who has chosen to take a lifespan development course,
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The Supernatural in Society, Culture and History

Dennis D. Waskul and Marc Eaton

In the twenty-first century, as in centuries past, stories of the supernatural thrill and terrify us. But despite their popularity, scholars often dismiss such beliefs in the uncanny as inconsequential, or even embarrassing. The editors and contributors to The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History have made a concerted effort to understand encounters with ghosts and the supernatural that have persisted and flourished. Featuring folkloric researchers examining the cultural value of such beliefs and practices,
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Changing the Status Quo: Courage to Challenge the Education System

Scott D. Wurdinger

Have you ever wondered where the ever expanding layers of bureaucracy are taking us in the field of education? This book challenges us to think carefully about this question. The status quo in education consists of policies, practices, and power structures impacting the way we teach, and prevent students from learning in meaningful and significant ways. Assessment techniques drive our teaching practices resulting in a learning process that students strongly dislike. Technology like PowerPoint presentations
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The Final Paladin

T.J. Akers

Life for Peg Bowman is rough in the infamous slums of Five Points, New York, but her brother's murder changes everything. Thrust into incredible worlds beyond any story she's ever heard, Peg meets Sir Godfrey, an eleven-hundred-year-old knight from Charlemagne's court, trainer of Paladins. He reveals to Peg her family's ancient obligation to protect the Key of Apollyon, a relic of immense power. She is the last descendant of the Paladins and his only hope
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Two Weeks in May: Revisiting Minnesota State University, Mankato's Past [Motion Picture]

Monika Antonelli; Ryan Neil; Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library Services; and Minnesota State University, Mankato

When James F. Nickerson took the reins as the new president of Mankato State College in July 1966, the college was rapidly expanding. It was also a time of social unrest in the United States and in Mankato. "Two Weeks in May," uses historic photos, documents, newspapers, film footage, and recorded interviews, to tell the story of the 1972 Vietnam Was student protests at Mankato State College. Years after the events Nickerson would reminisce on
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Stealing History: Art Theft, Looting, and Other Crimes Against Our Cultural Heritage

Colleen Margaret Clarke and Eli Jacob Szydlo

"When compared to terrorism, drugs and violent crimes that occupy the news today art is not considered as important. But, as it turns out, art and cultural crime is currently ranked as the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world. What exactly is art crime? Why does art matter? And what is law enforcement doing to prevent this crime today? Due to the misleading portrayal of art crime in the entertainment industry people have the flawed
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Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership

Kirsti Cole and Holly Hassel

This edited collection contends that if women are to enter into leadership positions at equal levels with their male colleagues, then sexism in all its forms must be acknowledged, attended to, and actively addressed. This interdisciplinary collection—Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership—is part storytelling, part autoethnography, part action plan. The chapters document and analyze everyday sexism in the academy and offer up strategies for survival, ultimately 'lifting the veil" from the good old
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Enlightenment and History: Theory and Praxis in Contemporary Buddhism

Hyun-Eung, Chang-Seong Hong, and Sun Kyeong Yu
Teaching Strategies for All Teachers: Enhancing the Most Significant Variable

Andrew P. Johnson

This book is designed to be a professional development tool for both preservice and practicing teachers. It provides descriptions, explanations, and examples of a variety of research-based teaching strategies that will enhance your ability to teach effectively. These strategies are appropriate for all teachers (general education, special education, and content area specialists), at all levels (kindergarten through graduate school).

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Beyond Grit: Ten Powerful Practices to Gain the High-Performance Edge

Cindra Kamphoff

In Beyond Grit, Cindra Kamphoff reveals the ten practices that the world's best use to gain the high performance edge. Kamphoff shares the tools and strategies she's taught executives, entrepreneurs, NFL ProBowl athletes, Olympians, college athletes, and championship teams. Based on almost twenty years of research and consulting with the world's best, she provides a practical, inspiring, and easy-to-use guide to radically accelerating your performance and improving your happiness. You'll also discover 52 life-altering strategies
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Out of Chaos: Reflections of a University President and His Contemporaries on Vietnam-Era Unrest in Mankato and Its Relevance Today

James F. Nickerson

Out of Chaos: Reflections of a University President and his Contemporaries on Vietnam-era Unrest in Mankato and its Relevance Today is a collection of personal reminiscences that provide a glimpse into what Mankato was like during the 1960s and 1970s. The book was created by Dr. James F. Nickerson, former Mankato State College president, with input from a variety of graduates, faculty, administrators and citizens who were witnesses to these local events. It is by
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Body Turn to Rain: New & Selected Poems

Richard Robbins

Body Turn to Rain brings together work from Robbins five previous collections, plus forty new poemsthat continue his wise meditation upon the American experience in this time, with all its variation, expanse, history, clownishness, beauty, and uncertainty. The book represents a way station in the life work of a thoughtful and finely tuned sensibility such as come among us all too rarely. And it is comprised of poems that walk out to meet you as
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Working With Kids Who bully: New Perspectives on Prevention and Intervention

Walter B. Roberts

We all know bullying impacts the academic and emotional lives of our young people. We see it in our schools and hear about it in the news. If we know it's a problem, why is it still happening? Often it's because we fail to address the individuals at the heart of the problem-the kids who engage in the behavior. In Working With Kids Who Sully, Walter B. Roberts, Jr. challenges us to shift our thinking
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The Cinema of Hal Hartley: Flirting with Formalism

Steven Rybin

Over the course of nearly thirty years, Hal Hartley has cultivated a reputation as one of America's most steadfastly independent film directors. From his breakthrough films – The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990), and Simple Men (1992) – to his recently completed 'Henry Fool' trilogy, Hartley has honed a rigorous, deadpan, and instantly recognizable film style informed by both European modernism and playful revisions of Classical Hollywood genres. Featuring new essays on this important director
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Minnesota State University, Mankato 1868 - 2018: From Normal School to University: Celebrating 150 Years

Daardi Sizemore Mixon, Heidi Southworth, Anne Stenzel, and Mee Xiong

Postcards made from images of University Archives with perforations for removal. This postcard book was designed to complement the sesquicentennial exhibit, "From Normal School to University: Celebrating 150 Years." The exhibit highlights the history of the University through the topics of Heritage, Academics, Student Life, and Athletics.
Prairie Flora Guide to Blue Earth County

Addeline R. Theis and Matthew A. Kaproth

Illustrates and describes 28 native species of prairie flora that grow in Blue Earth County, Minnesota.
Dusty's Adventures: The Beginning

T.J. Akers

Dusty has his hooves full protecting the feral kitten who seems to be a natural at getting into trouble and riling up all sorts of evil creatures. But that's not all, there's something about Kitten the creatures secretly know! Who will help Dusty keep Kitten safe? Who will keep Dusty safe?
Whereabouts

Candace Black

Whereabouts is a map of the Midwest, America, of European beginnings and meanderings, of the universe, the universal and the personal.
Switching Sides

Marilyn Janice Bos

While searching for a wayward music student, PI Wendy Winkworth is assaulted by a savage police sergeant. Escaping bruised and battered, she seeks refuge with two low-life teens who seem headed for tragedy. With the vengeful cop in hot pursuit, Wendy is about to learn what truth and justice really mean.
Intellectual Creativity in First-Year Composition Classes: Building a Case for the Multigenre Research Project

Heidi Wall Burns and Michael McBride

"Today's first year composition classrooms are largely reflective of the writing pedagogy that has been used for the last 200 years. Unfortunately, this methodology does not meet the research or writing needs of today's college and university students. Burns and MacBride were determined to make their first year composition courses more relevant to their students and sought a way to revolutionize their syllabus to do so. Building on the work of Tom Romono, Nancy Mack,
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The Collective Works of Lloyd Burgess Sharp: Pioneer of the Outdoor Education Movement in the United States

Julie A. Carlson

Dr. Lloyd Burgess Sharp, pre-eminent pioneer of outdoor education, was a prolific writer, speechmaker, poet, interviewee, radio guest, and tenacious advocate of outdoor education. This edited volume, The Collective Works of Lloyd Burgess Sharp, contains dozens of his publications and transcripts from his many speaking appearances. These works span the years throughout his career, from the completion of his doctoral dissertation in 1929 through to his unexpected passing in 1963. The Collective Works eBook is
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Branding Hoover's FBI: How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America

Matthew Cecil

Hunting down America’s public enemies was just one of the FBI’s jobs. Another—perhaps more vital and certainly more covert—was the job of promoting the importance and power of the FBI, a process that Matthew Cecil unfolds clearly for the first time in this eye-opening book. The story of the PR men who fashioned the Hoover era, Branding Hoover’s FBI reveals precisely how the Bureau became a monolithic organization of thousands of agents who lived and
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The Ballad of Ben and Stella Mae: Great Plains Outlaws Who Became FBI Public Enemies Nos. 1 and 2

Matthew Cecil

"On August 25, 1938, twenty-five-year-old Ben Dickson and his fifteen-year-old wife Stella Mae robbed the Corn Exchange Bank in Elkton, South Dakota, making off with $2,187.64. Two months later they hit a bank in nearby Brookings for $17,593--after waiting two hours for the vault's time-lock to open while the bank's manager went on processing loans for customers. Unfortunately for these two small-time outlaws, the FBI was in short supply of public enemies at the time,
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Anything You Want

Geoff Herbach

When Taco's longtime crush, Maggie, not only goes to junior prom with him but ends up pregnant Taco sees it as a fresh start but her parents have other plans.
10 Essential Instructional Elements for Students with Reading Difficulties: A Brain-Friendly Approach

Andrew P. Johnson
This book is the definitive resource on how the brain creates meaning from print. Drawing from five key areas of neurocognitive research, Andrew Johnson provides a ten-point teaching strategy that encompasses vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, writing and more. A key resource for creating intervention plans for struggling readers, features include:
- Information on the importance of emotions in the process of overcoming reading struggles
- Strategies to promote voluntary reading, even for the most reluctant students
- Useful
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