Books published by University of Minnesota Press

A fascinating look at the role of animals in human love through the ages

A frank and funny behind-the-scenes look at teaching from a hard-working and highly entertaining Teacher of the Year

Making sense of public identities, online and offline

Refocusing our lens on literature and history to lives beyond the human

A stunning experiment in thinking of the Anthropocene through feminism and queer theory

A brilliant work of speculative fiction, blending science and metaphysics, by a Japanese master of the 1970s New Wave

A rare, in-depth critique of federal land claims policy in Canada

A bold new approach to heritage conservation that embraces change and accommodates decay

How can cinema make us live time?

Proposes a vision of survival and flourishing in the face of economic and environmental catastrophe

The stock market is the background of how we begin to deal with the complex imbrication of humans, machines, and noise

The first architectural history of post-1967 Jerusalem, revealing the ways architectural modernism and Zionism have intertwined to imagine and reshape the city

Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, and many others. He was also a true casting couch agent, brokering sex for opportunity on the silver screen. While this practice was rampant across Hollywood, for gay actors and film professionals the casting couch was a dangerous cliff: a public revelation could and would ruin a career. The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson is an incredible biography as well as a harrowing look into Hollywood at a time of great sexual oppression, roaming vice squads searching for gay and/or communist activity, and the impossibilities for gay actors of the era.

Anime and manga have longproposed alternative worlds-some created after catastrophe. Mechademia 10revolves around Japan's 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor crisesand considers a propensity for "world renewal."