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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A Philosophy of Global Pluralism: Multicultural Approaches to Political Theory
Jacqueline Marie Vieceli
Taking a multi-cultural approach to political theory, this book explores a sample of Western and non-western thinkers’ positions on key questions of normative political philosophy. The author includes thinkers from Confucian, Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, African, and Western traditions to synthesize a new approach to political theory. Her thesis is that there are very few scholars employing a multicultural approach to political theory, and that engaging in dialogue with other cultural traditions can bring a superior
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Tell My Sons
Mark M. Weber and David Murray
At the high point of a soaring career in the US Army, Lt. Col. Mark Weber was tapped by General David Petraeus to serve in a high profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Within weeks a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three. When Mark realized he was not going to survive this final tour of combat, he began to write a letter to his
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Follow the Blackbirds
Gwen Nell Westerman
In language as perceptive as it is poignant, poet Gwen Nell Westerman builds a world in words that reflects the past, present, and future of the Dakota people. An intricate balance between the singularity of personal experience and the unity of collective longing, Follow the Blackbirds speaks to the affection and appreciation a contemporary poet feels for her family, community, and environment. With touches of humor and the occasional sharp cultural criticism, the voice that
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Our Chapters: CELEBRATING 50 YEARS of Leadership, Scholarship, Service and Friendship
Portra Ashley and John Bulcock
Our Chapters: CELEBRATING 50 YEARS of Leadership, Scholarship, Service and Friendship knits together the history of Minnesota State Mankato with the history of the Greek community on campus. The entertaining and insightful narrative takes an in-depth and honest look at Greek Life at Minnesota State Mankato from before the first national chapter was chartered in 1961 through today. The book recognizes historical events and perseverance culminating in 50 years of growth within the Minnesota State
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The Cambridge Guide to Second Language Assessment
Christine A. Coombe, Peter Davidson, Barry O'Sullivan, and Stephen Stoynoff
This collection of original articles provides language teachers with a theoretical background of key issues associated with language testing as well as practical advice on how to improve the effectiveness of the tests they develop and implement. Written by internationally prominent researchers and educators, the chapters are organized into five sections: key issues in the field, assessment purposes and approaches, assessment of second language skills, technology in assessment, and administrative issues. Chapters assume no particular
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Functional Behavioral Assessment: A Three-Tiered Prevention Model
Kevin J. Filter and Michelle E. Alvarez
Functional behavioral assessment (FBA) is an important element in developing effective behavior interventions in schools. By understanding how the environment predicts and maintains problem behavior, school social workers can change those environmental conditions and facilitate positive behavior. Although FBA is traditionally applied within the context of special education, it is relevant to supporting behavior of all students in a school. In this book, the authors explore how FBA can be applied in a three-tiered model
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Declaring War Against Schooling: Personalizing Learning Now
Don E. Glines
Declaring War Against Schooling documents 100 years of educational wars between Visionary learning leaders and Traditional school people. Ironically, to win the existing war, both opposing groups must unify to overthrow the control of education by politicians.
The script cites the eras when education was in the hands of flexible educators with support, not opposition, from many politicians. President Lyndon Johnson called for “Tomorrow’s Schools”—a vision not yet achieved. The Reagan, Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations...Read More
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Calvin Many Wolves Potter
Elaine Brooks Held
This is the true story of my great-great grandfather, Calvin Potter who ran away from home at the age of 12 from Beaver, Pennsylvania. He made it as far as
the Minnesota area where he was found near death by a Sisseton Sioux hunting party. They took great pains nursing him back to health and he chose to stay
with them. As a young man he was asked by his Sioux father to go back to the...Read More
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Nothing Special
Geoff Herbach
Continues the story of Wisconsin teenager and high school football player Felton Reinstein, how he relates to his friends Gus and Aleah and what he does when his little brother Andrew runs away on his way to orchestra camp.
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A Short Guide to Action Research
Andrew P. Johnson
This user-friendly text provides students with everything a pre-service or in-service teacher needs to know to conduct an action research project in a clear, step-by-step presentation.
A Short Guide in Action Research, fourth Edition, guides the learner through both qualitative and quantitative techniques in educational research methods and then describes all phases of the process, including selecting a topic; collecting, analyzing, and reporting data; reviewing the literature; and presenting the report. Data collection techniques reflecting
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The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture: A Sociology of the Senses
Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, and Simon Gottschalk
"The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical review of classical, recent, and emerging scholarship and grounded in original empirical data that deepens the review and analysis. By bridging cultural/qualitative sociology and cultural/humanistic anthropology The Senses in Self, Culture,
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Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota
Gwen Westerman and Bruce White
Much of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U.S.–Dakota War and the resulting exile that sent the majority of the Dakota to prisons and reservations beyond the state’s boundaries. But the true depth of the devastation of removal cannot be understood without a closer examination of the history of the Dakota people and their deep cultural connection to the land that is Minnesota. Drawing on
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The School Counselor's Mental Health Sourcebook: Strategies to Help Students
Richard Auger
"The ASCA National Model urges school counselors to know every student and broaden their knowledge of mental health disorders. With more students in need of mental health services than ever before, the timing is ideal for a guide that equips staff to meet these challenges. The School Counselor's Mental Health Sourcebook provides tools for keeping students on track, including: Methods for addressing many disorders, including anxiety and autism Intervention strategies that work Effective ways to
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Norwegian American Women: Migration, Communities, and Identities
Betty A. Bergland and LoriAnn Lahlum
The history of Norwegian settlement in the United States has often been told through the eyes of prominent men, while the women are imagined in the form of O. E. Rølvaag’s fictionalized heroine Beret Holm, who made the best of life on the frontier but whose gaze seemed ever fixed on her long-lost home. The true picture is more complex. In an area spanning the Midwest and rural West and urban areas such as Seattle,
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Listening and Note-Taking
Gwen C. Berry, Donald D. Deshler, and Jean B. Schumaker
Describes a strategy to help students identify and record important information during a lecture in core subject courses as well as skill-based classes
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Critical Conversations in Co-Teaching: A Problem-Solving Approach
Carrie Chapman
This practitioner's guide to building quality collaborative relationships through critical conversations explores three co-teaching models and how co-teaching fits within school-improvement initiatives. In Critical Conversations in Co-Teaching, the authors describe four sets of proven protocols that foster dramatic improvements in the way educators communicate with their colleagues for the benefit of student learning. These protocols fit into three categories--nonnegotiable conversations (recommended for all partners), special occasion protocols (to use in specific situations), and 'in a
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Critical Conversations in Co-teaching: A Problem-Solving Approach
Carrie Chapman and Cate Hart Hyatt
This practitioner's guide to building quality collaborative relationships through critical conversations explores three co-teaching models and how co-teaching fits within school-improvement initiatives. In Critical Conversations in Co-Teaching, the authors describe four sets of proven protocols that foster dramatic improvements in the way educators communicate with their colleagues for the benefit of student learning. These protocols fit into three categories--nonnegotiable conversations (recommended for all partners), special occasion protocols (to use in specific situations), and 'in a
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Religious Misperceptions: The Case of Musims and Christians in France
Stephen Michael Croucher and Daniel Cronn-Mills
In the wake of numerous historical and current geopolitical, social and economic events/tragedies, misunderstandings have emerged and proliferated about Islam and Christianity. Inadequate media coverage, lack of interpersonal understanding/knowledge, and deep-seeded prejudices have led to the communication of various misconceptions. These misconceptions have ranged from how Islam and Christianity began, to confusion over how and even if governments and society should protect the rights of religious groups.
This book provides a glimpse into how misperceptions between...Read More
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Stupid Fast
Geoff Herbach
Just before his sixteenth birthday, Felton Reinstein has a sudden growth spurt that turns him from a small, jumpy, picked-on boy with the nickname of "Squirrel Nut" to a powerful athlete, leading to new friends, his first love, and the courage to confront his family's past and current problems.
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A Graphical Approach to Algebra and Trigonometry
John Hornsby, Margaret L. Lial, and Gary K. Rockswold
A Graphical Approach to Algebra and Trigonometry illustrates how the graph of a function can be used to support the solutions of equations and inequalities involving the function. Beginning with linear functions in Chapter 1, the text uses a four-part process to analyze each type of function, starting first with the graph of the function, then the equation, the associated inequality of that equation, and ending with applications. The text covers all of the topics
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A Graphical Approach to Precalculus with Limits: A Unit Circle Approach
John Hornsby, Margaret L. Lial, and Gary K. Rockswold
A Graphical Approach to Precalculus with Limits: A Unit Circle Approach illustrates how the graph of a function can be used to support the solutions of equations and inequalities involving the function. Beginning with linear functions in Chapter 1, the text uses a four-part process to analyze each type of function, starting first with the graph of the function, then the equation, the associated inequality of that equation, and ending with applications. The text covers
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