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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Believe Again: A Journey Back to Faith
Andrew Johnson
This book was written for those who have left their Christian faith or who have become what Bishop John Shelby Spong calls, “believers in exile.” It also speaks to those who are questioning their current Christian faith. It describes a mystical view of Christianity that incorporates Gnosticism, quantum physics, shamanism, cognitive psychology, Jungian psychology, and biblical scholarship. At the end of each chapter are prompts, questions, and activities that invite readers to make personal connections with the ideas presented. These are designed to be recorded in a journal. This book can be used with a book club, a study group, or individually. It will be a tool for your spiritual growth and renewal.
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Making Connections in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies
Andrew P. Johnson
This comprehensive, reader-friendly text demonstrates how personal connections can be incorporated into social studies education while meeting standards of the National Council for the Social Studies. Praised for its wealth of strategies that go beyond social studies content teaching—including classroom strategies, pedagogical techniques, activities, and lesson plan ideas—this book presents a variety of methods for new and experienced teachers.
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North Dakota's Best Hiking Trails
Scott R. Kudelka
A guide to hiking trails in North Dakota; includes information about 35 trails.
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The Story of the Minnesota Vikings
Nate LeBoutillier
The history of the Minnesota Vikings professional football team from its first season in 1961 to today, spotlighting the team's greatest players and most dramatic moments --Provided by publisher.
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The Story of the Chicago Bears
Nick LeBoutillier
Presents the history of the Chicago Bears professional football team from its first season in 1919 to today, spotlighting the team's greatest players and most dramatic moments.
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Other Americas
Richard Robbins
Traversing hidden landscapes of memory and the American West, Other Americas, by noted Minnesota poet Richard Robbins, explores back roads and intersections of private history and public life--set against a vast terrain of rugged beauty and mystery. In evocative, haunting language, Robbins summons a cast of visionaries and ghosts seeking promises of the country's past while scanning uncharted, uncertain horizons ahead.
From beaches and streets of Southern California across empty desert pans to lost mountain lakes high in the Rockies, Other Americas features a series of poems by a wonderful writer, illuminating shadowlands across an expanse of time and space.
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Algebra and Trigonometry with Modeling & Visualization
Gary K. Rockswold
Gary Rockswold teaches algebra in context, answering the question, “Why am I learning this?” By experiencing math through applications, students see how it fits into their lives, and they become motivated to succeed. Rockswold’s focus on conceptual understanding helps students make connections between the concepts and as a result, students see the bigger picture of math and are prepared for future courses.
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Almost Dark: Poems
Richard Terrill
A new collection of poems from Richard Terrill, winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. Robert Dana says, “the rich weight of Richard Terrill’s poems is unmatched in the poems of any of his contemporaries. Empires of food, luxury, and time spring forth question after lush question after wise question.”
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Teaching for Experiential Learning: Five Approaches that Work
Scott D. Wurdinger and Julie A. Carlson
This book describes how to change the way in which educators conduct business in the classroom. Our current educational systems lack ways to reach today's learners in relevant, meaningful ways. The five approaches in this book inspire and motivate students to learn. The authors provide in-depth descriptions into these overlapping approaches for experiential learning: active learning, problem-based learning, project-based learning, service learning, and place-based education. Each of these five approaches includes an element of student involvement and attempts to engage students in solving problems. The chapters are presented in a consistent, easy-to-read format that provides descriptions, history, research, ways to use the approach, and resources. This book will help educators transform their classrooms into dynamic learning environments.
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Amazing Attributes of Aging: Silly & Sacred Stories of Blue Garter Friends
Judy Appel and Mary Huntley
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Women, Girls, and Addiction : Celebrating the Feminine in Counseling Treatment and Recovery
Cynthia A. Briggs and Jennifer L. Pepperell
Women, Girls, and Addiction is the first book on the efficacy of treatment approaches and interventions that are tailored to working with addicted women, and the first publication of any kind to provide a feminist approach to understanding addiction from the female perspective. Part one provides an overview of feminist theory and addiction counseling, followed by an historical look at women and addiction. Part two gives an in-depth look at the biological, psychological, and social factors. The final section presents a series of chapters spanning the lifespan, which each feature age-specific special issues, treatment strategies, interventions, and commonly encountered topics.
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Never Finished-- Just Begun: A narrative History of L.B. Sharp and Outdoor Education
Julie Carlson
Llyod Burgess, Sharp, affectionately called L. B. by those who knew him best, was a pioneer in outdoor education long before the term became commonly known (and coined by Sharp himself). Beginning his career with Life Magazine's Fresh Air Farms in the early 1900s, L. B. transformed youth camping programs from what had previously been militaristic, oppressive, and punitive to a focus on providing educational, nurturing, and small group camping experiences for youth across the United States. Spanning the decades from his birth in 1895 to his passing in 1963, this book presents L. B'.s remarkable career accomplishments, as told by his friends and associates, and the many ways in which his leadership inspired them all.
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Combating Violence & Abuse of People with Disabilities: A Call to Action
Nancy M. Fitzsimons
"Violence and abuse of people with disabilities is a widespread problem. This is the one book that empowers everyone - professionals, families, and self-advocates alike - to stop abuse before it starts and empower people with disabilities to fight back. In clear and straightforward language, abuse prevention educator Nancy Fitzsimons calls readers to action and gives them the no-nonsense guidance they need to help people with a wide range of disabilities learn concrete ways to arm themselves against violence and abuse; identify situations that might make a person vulnerable to violence or abuse; recognize the indicators of physical assault, sexual assault, neglect, psychological abuse, and financial exploitation; take appropriate action if they suspect or know someone is being abused; and make the most of supportive services and systems."--Jacket.
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Teaching and Learning with Digital Photography: Tips and Tools for Early Childhood
Linda Good
"Get hooked on digital photography as a creative instructional tool for the classroom! This all-in-one guide shows teachers how to use digital photography successfully to assess and instruct young children. The author targets two important early childhood themes: using technology to enhance children's cognitive and social-emotional abilities, and fostering a sense of belonging in young learners who experience a special delight in seeing themselves and their environment in photos. Written for early childhood educators, this comprehensive guide offers practical, theory-based ideas for using digital photos to achieve effective classroom management, nurture language and literacy skills, and promote self-esteem in preschool, kindergarten, and primary students. A hands-on resource, this book helps educators: Learn the basics about software, hardware, and photography; Integrate photos into PowerPoint presentations and assessment portfolios; Use digital photography effectively across the curriculum; Communicate with administrators and parents through practical applications of technology. A CD-ROM containing more than 40 user-friendly forms and templates helps busy educators quickly and easily implement the strategies presented in the book."--Publisher's website.
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The Turtle Catcher
Nicole Lea Helget
In the tumultuous days after World War I, Herman Richter returns from the front to find his only sister, Liesel, allied with Lester Sutter, the "slow" son of a rival clan who spends his days expertly trapping lake turtles. Liesel has sought Lester’s friendship in the wake of her parents’ deaths and in the shadow of her own dark secret. But what begins as yearning for something of a human touch quickly unwinds into a shocking, suspenseful tragedy that haunts the rural town of New Germany, Minnesota, for generations.
Woven into this remarkable story are the intense, illuminating experiences of German immigrants in America during the war and the terrible choices they were forced to make in service of their new country or in honor of the old. The Turtle Catcher is a lyrical, vibrant, beautifully wrought look at a fascinating piece of American history—and the echoing dangers of family secrets. -
I'm Sorry You Feel that Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and Dog
Diana Joseph
Surrounded by dysfunctional men-from her fourteen-year-old son to her high-maintenance boss-Diana Joseph did what she had to do: survive. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way is an honest, hilarious, and instantly recognizable memoir of a truly modern woman. Funny, fearless, and warmhearted, it is a portrait of a woman in all her endless complexities and contradictions, and of the people she has come to love in spite of-or rather because of-theirs.
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Portraits from the Prairies
Michael L. Larson
A collection of word portraits about real people such as Hubert H. Humphrey, Sven and Ole, and Harry Carrey who demonstrates positive thinking.
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New Women Writers, Authority and the Body
Melissa Purdue and Stacey Floyd
This collection of essays contributes to scholarship on the emerging voices of women writers during the fin de siècle. These “New Woman” writers created a distinctly different body of literature that reflected their concerns about women’s limited role in society. The essays cover a range of authors, shedding light on the ways New Woman texts also often offer new and progressive portrayals of women’s authority as connected to strong physical bodies. These scholars highlight how New Woman endings re-envision the marriage plot, self-destruction and even empowerment through pain. Additionally they help scholars, instructors and students contextualize the New Woman writers in terms of the Women’s Movement, nineteenth-century laws related to marriage, Darwinian theory, athletics for women, the New Woman’s navigation of urban life and even Jack the Ripper.
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Radioactive City
Richard Robbins
Radioactive City is the latest book of poetry by the prominent contemporary American poet, Richard Robbins. The distinguished poet Linda Gregerson, selected Radioactive City as the winner of the 2009 Bellday Poetry Prize. About the winning entry, Professor Gregerson said, It is conceptual freshness, and a beautiful instinct for emergent shape, that makes this poetry radioactive. Robbins can spin a hitherto undiscovered cosmos out of a single, wayward proposition, but he never loses footing in the radiant, mortal, given world. Richest invention is tempered by submission to the textures of material and social and ethical life. Vision and insight both, in other words: what more can one ask of a book of poems?
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Beginning Algebra with Applications and Visualization
Gary K. Rockswold and Terry A. Krieger
The Rockswold/Krieger algebra series fosters conceptual understanding by using relevant applications and visualization to show students why math matters. It answers the common question “When will I ever use this?” Rockswold teaches students the math in context, rather than including the applications at the end of the presentation. By seamlessly integrating meaningful applications that include real data and supporting visuals (graphs, tables, charts, colors, and diagrams), students are able to see how math impacts their lives as they learn the concepts. The authors believe this approach deepens conceptual understanding and better prepares students for future math courses and life.
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Intermediate Algebra with Applications & Visualization
Gary K. Rockswold and Terry A. Krieger
The Rockswold/Krieger algebra series fosters conceptual understanding by using relevant applications and visualization to show students why math matters. It answers the common question “When will I ever use this?” Rockswold teaches students the math in context, rather than including the applications at the end of the presentation. By seamlessly integrating meaningful applications that include real data and supporting visuals (graphs, tables, charts, colors, and diagrams), students are able to see how math impacts their lives as they learn the concepts. The authors believe this approach deepens conceptual understanding and better prepares students for future math courses and life.
