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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Documents in World History: The Modern Centuries: From 1500 to the Present
Peter N. Stearns, Stephen S. Gosch, and Erwin P. Grieshaber
This book offers a range of documents to illustrate characteristic features of key civilizations during major stages of world history.
Revised and updated with fourteen new documents and four new visual sources, the fifth edition of Documents in World History retains its global emphasis while improving its standard selections and political coverage, as well as expanding its coverage of Africa and the Middle East, including Persia.
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Outside the Box: A Novel
Dan Allosso
A new Wii console and simulation game appear in his rec room, so bored and alienated teenager Reid Anderson tries them out. When a demon from inside the game threatens him in reality, Reid is forced into a world of troubled teens that he never new existed, where he is exposed to other outsiders like himself, and where he discovers true friends among those society has labeled defective.
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State Teachers College, Mankato, Minn.: All Class Years Reunion Memory Book
Minnesoat State University, Mankato Alumni Asssoication
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O Nata Lux: SATB Chorus a Cappella
David C. Dickau
This straightforward, accessible setting of a Latin hymn text ("O born light of light") works well for festival, concert, and worship functions and would be especially appropriate during the advent season. Contained ranges, limited divisi, and no key changes make this suitable for high school choirs.
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Awake My Heart: SATB Chorus and Piano
David C. Dickau and Robert Bridges
From the suite "Of Life and Love" this setting of Robert Bridges' poetry brims with passion and anticipation and requires a very capable choir for maximum effect. A challenging piano accompaniment supports the divisi choir creating a powerful work for festival or concert.
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What Sweeter Music Can We Bring?: SATB Chorus a Cappella
David C. Dickau and Robert Herrick
Another gorgeous composition for strong choirs this work from David Dickau allows larger ensembles to demonstrate their full sound and expressiveness. Although the text is most suited to the Christmas season this would be an excellent concert or festival choice at any time of year.
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Footprints
David C. Dickau and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The composer has chosen stanzas from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, A PSALM OF LIFE, creating a piece perfect for graduation or for celebrations honoring significant leaders. In addition to the octavo with piano, David Dickau has a version with symphonic band accompaniment; the latter is available directly from him.
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Laughing Song
David C. Dickau and Blake William
William Blake’s poem dances with joy. A dramatic piano, a lofty flute, along with a rhythmic tambourine, join the voices to bring this text to brilliant life. A children’s chorus could partake singing the unison laughing theme that opens the piece and reoccurs along the way amidst the story telling of the SATB choir.
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Stardust and fate: The blueroad reader: New writing
John Gaterud and Abbey Gaterud
Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader is the first volume in a collected series of new writing and art from the road, featuring the works of nearly four dozen established and emerging writers, poets, and printmakers from North America.
The stories, essays, and poems in Stardust and Fate tour some of many routes -- seen and otherwise -- running through people's lives, in real and imagined journeys, literal and figurative, past and present. Pieces include fiction, literary journalism, verse, and memoir: offbeat, quirky, surprising, deep.
Handsomely printed and illustrated with original wood engravings, the collection explores some of the intersections and side roads of landscape, history, people, places, curiosity, wanderlust, memory, moment, chance, and change.
Neither travelogue nor guidebook, Stardust and Fate instead features pieces traversing a range of personal and political territories, where motion drives the narrative and people find themselves facing scenes sometimes unsettled, yet often sublime. In part tribute to William Least Heat Moon's Blue Highways -- where, as he noted, the back roads on the old gas station maps were blue -- these stories and poems seek the unknown while celebrating a quiet restlessness running through us all. -
Cross-Disciplinary Essays on Don Quixote: The Minnesota Conference Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Its Publication
James A. (Jim) Grabowska and Kimberly E. Contag
This collection of essays is the product of a conference celebrating 400 years of "Don Quixote" readership, criticism, and cultural productions which explores the enduring appeal of this literary masterpiece, along with additional articles and artistic representations.
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A Graphical Approach to Precalculus with Limits
John Hornsby, Margaret L. Lial, and Gary K. Rockswold
This edition has evolved to address the needs of today's student. While maintaining its unique table of contents and functions-based approach, the text now includes additional components to build skill, address critical thinking, solve applications, and apply technology to support traditional algebraic solutions. It continues to incorporate an open design, helpful features, careful explanations of topics, and a comprehensive package of supplements and study aids to provide new and relevant opportunities for learning and teaching.
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A Mirthful Spirit: Embracing Laughter for Wellness
Mary Huntley and Edna Thayer
A self-help resource for people in their journey through life using a balance of thought-provoking quotes, anecdotes and acronyms, research and practical tips to underline the link between laughter and wellness in life and work.
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The Inner Curriculum: Activities to Develop Emotional Intelligence in General Education Classrooms
Andrew P. Johnson
As schools focus increasingly on testing, they are paring down classroom teaching. The result is that students are not getting opportunities to develop their emotional intelligence, which they need to develop wholeness in their lives. The Inner Curriculum is a practical book designed to help teachers infuse affective content into classrooms that have become heavy with cognitive emphasis.
The book provides a wide variety of activities, together with charts and examples, so that teachers can begin implementation into the regular curriculum immediately. The activities can be incorporated into classes on writing, reading, social studies, science, and the arts. There are also time-related activities and critical thinking activities. These activities can be adapted for use in varying forms for students from kindergarten through graduate school.
The author writes: "I want to demonstrate that the inner curriculum is not an either/or proposition. Students can learn in the traditional sense of acquiring a designated body of knowledge and a set of skills, and at the same time they can begin to understand themselves and others by making personal connections to topics, skills, and other human beings. Indeed, the latter enhances the former to a great degree. That is, students learn more when there is a meaningful connection to what is to be learned."
The Inner Curriculum includes the following domains in the general education curriculum: self-awareness, managing emotions, motivating oneself, empathy, and handling relationships.
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The Night Birds
Thomas James Maltman
For Asa the summer of 1876 was a time of fear and uncertainty, when his mysterious aunt, Hazel, arrives and turns his entire life upside-down with her tales and secrets from the past.
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Christian Insight Meditation: Following in the Footsteps of John of the Cross
Mary Jo Meadow, Kevin G. Culligan, and Daniel Chowning
The practice of Christian insight meditation can enliven one’s entire prayer life. It can prepare our hearts to hear God’s word in new ways, set the stage for new insight into the deeper meaning of the words and symbols we celebrate in Christian worship and practice, and help us to grow in the purity of heart, poverty of spirit, and emptiness of self that dispose us for God’s work in our lives. The practice is particularly valuable for taking prayer beyond discursiveness, petition, and thinking. Christian insight meditation is nothing short of a powerful way to “pray always” and practice loving presence to God.
Drawing heavily on the teachings of St. John of the Cross, and also drawing from the illuminating writings of Teresa of Avila, the authors here offer a masterful explication of a practice and path firmly grounded in the meditative technology of Eastern wisdom, yet wholly and vividly Christian in spirit.
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The Revenge of Little Crow
Steven Merrill Ulmen
"The Revenge of Little Crow" is the first book of the Toby Ryker trilogy of historical fiction.
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Ice Climbing
Scott D. Wurdinger and Leslie Rapparlie
Describes how ice climbing is performed and discusses the equipment, competitions, and other events.
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Kayaking
Scott D. Wurdinger and Leslie Rapparlie
Examines many aspects of kayaking, including equipment, fundamental skills, and ways to get started.
