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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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.
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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.
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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?
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Whereabouts
Candace Black
Whereabouts is a map of the Midwest, America, of European beginnings and meanderings, of the universe, the universal and the personal.
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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.
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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.
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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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Academic Writing: Process and Product
Andrew P. Johnson
This book provides a foundation and framework to enhance your understanding of the various processes involved in academic writing. The term, academic writing, here refers to the types of writing used in college level writing courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. However, this book was not written simply to help you pass another English class or to get you through the next writing intensive course (although it will certainly do that). At some
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Gender Politics in US College Athletic Departments: The Case of the University of Minnesota Merger
Lisa A. Kihl, Vicki D. Schull, and Sally A. Shaw
This book examines the gendered politics in the context of a merger of the women's and men's athletic departments at the University of Minnesota over a ten year plus span. Examining the athletic department merger helps us understand women's continual under-representation in University athletics despite Title IX legislation passing 40 years ago. Using interview with organizational stakeholders and archival document data, the book explores how organizational change in the form of a merger is gendered
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Bernie and the Deadbeats
James Paul Mackey
It's tough starting over at a new school and Bernard Mullens has gotten off to a bad start. First he humiliates himself in front of his homeroom class, then he manages to get on the bad side of the seniors. Now he's kept up every night by the world's worst neighbors. Despite their manners, Bernard is thrilled to live in the same apartment complex as a rock n roll group, especially one as talented as
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Desert Boys
Chris McCormick
"In the tradition of startling debuts such as We, the Animals by Justin Torres, Desert Boys follows the life of Daley Kushner, growing up, coming out, and grappling with the remnants of his childhood in California's Mojave Desert. This series of powerful, linked stories illuminates Daley's world--the family, friends, and community that have both formed and constrained him, and his new life in San Francisco. Back home, the desert preys on those who cannot conform:
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Real World, Real Challenges: Adolescent Issues in Contemporary Society
Sarah K. Sifers, Julene Nolan, and Daniel Houlihan
Real World, Real Challenges: Adolescent Issues in Contemporary Society provides a comprehensive overview of adolescent psychology. The book uses a problem-based learning format to engage students, facilitate learning and retention, and foster critical thinking skills. The introduction explains how biological, psychological, and social factors have redefined adolescence over the past century. Specific chapters are devoted to issues such as school and dating violence, mood and eating disorders, sexuality, and the impact of technology and social
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Ghostly Encounters: The Hauntings of Everyday Life
Dennis Waskul and Michele Waskul
“In the top corner of the window a pale, milky-white wisp is rising almost to the top of our ten-foot ceiling…. I am startled but not afraid…. Mostly, I am engrossed; I have never seen anything like this before (or since) and it fascinates me.”
Dennis Waskul writes these lines—about his first-hand experience with the supernatural—in the introduction to his beguiling book Ghostly Encounters. Based on two years of fieldwork and interviews with 71 midwestern
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The Power of Project-Based Learning: Helping Students Develop Important Life Skills
Scott D. Wurdinger
Project-based learning is a teaching approach that motivates and inspires students to learn and helps them to become self-directed learners over time. Students learn not only the content surrounding their projects, but also important life skills such as problem-solving, creativity, collaboration, communication, time management, and responsibility. Author Scott Wurdinger has implemented this approach over the past ten years in his own classrooms, has conducted numerous research studies on this topic, and has seen the effectiveness
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To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South
Anglea Jill Cooley
This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, and gender contributed to the development and maintenance of racial segregation in public eating places. Focusing primarily on the 1900s to the 1960s, Angela Jilly Cooley identifies the cultural differences between activists who saw public eating places such as urban lunch counters as sites of political participation and believed access to such
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Understanding Communication Research Methods: A Theoretical and Practical Approach
Stephen Michael Croucher and Daniel Cronn-Mills
"Understanding Communication Research Methods helps students better grasp the theoretical and practical uses of method. While many texts describe methods only from a theoretical perspective, this book clearly illustrates practical applications and offers students an engaging how-to approach that draws from scholarship, real-life, and popular culture. The book defines all the main research traditions, illustrates key methods used in communication research, and provides level-appropriate applications of the methods through theoretical and practical examples and exercises.
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The Power of Playful Learning
Joyce Hemphill and Laura Scheinholtz
Collection of play activities that support classroom curriculum. Games and activities can be made from common household recyclables. Activities are organized based on applied skills including estimating, measuring, and graphing, planning and development, putting things together, sequencing, making connections, and spatial relations, and developing an understanding of objects in motion.
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A Murder in Mundelein
Michael Larson
Our father is gone. And as for Monica, if she is out there somewhere, I can only imagine how she must have been haunted all along, maybe even daily, by all of this.
Benjamin and I, I don’t believe either of us has any burning desire to find Monica and bring her to justice. Deep down, I guess I think that she probably has served her life sentence for her crimes several times over –
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Linear Algebra
Sang-Gu Lee, Jon-Lark Kim, In-Jae Kim, Namyong Lee, Ajit Kumar, Quoc Phong Vu, Victoria Lang, and Jae Hwa Lee
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Man-Made Vacuum
Roy C. Booth and Nicholas Johnson
Steampunk Victorian England is brought to life in this rousing tale of murder and intrigue featuring literature's greatest detective: Sherlock Holmes. In an era of boilers and coal, inventor Samuel Brown finds himself persecuted for daring to apply his genius to the development of a kerosene powered internal combustion engine. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are tasked with uncovering the source of the conspiracy, and quickly find themselves in the web of a mysterious network
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