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U of MN Press Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Architecture and Objects, Graham Harman

Architecture and Objects

Graham Harman
U of MN PressU of MN Press

Two very powerful titles release today! #PubDay -Architecture and Objects by Graham Harman: How architecture can employ #OOO to reconsider form and function. -Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth, eds. Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund, Johan Höglund: on the Gothic Anthropocene. https://t.co/xig3rVO0iV

Paperback, 2022

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Red and Black: A Chronicle of 1830, Stendhal

Red and Black: A Chronicle of 1830

Stendhal
U of MN PressU of MN Press

It's #PubDay Tuesday & we've got SIX great titles releasing! -Afro-Sweden by @perceivedspace -One Winter Up North by John Owens -Walleye by Paul Radomski -Red and Black by Stendhal -Against the Commons by @multipliciudad -Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy by Nicholas de Villiers https://t.co/uWdbAIezp0

Paperback, 2022

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Eastcliff: History of a Home, Karen Fults Kaler

Eastcliff: History of a Home

Karen Fults Kaler
U of MN PressU of MN Press

Happy #PubDay to these excellent books: -Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight, children's picture book by @GibneyShannon and Charly Palmer -Eastcliff, a tour of the most-visited public residence in MN, by Karen Fults Kaler -Rough Metaphysics by Peter Skafish https://t.co/VI66aoPjv7

Hardcover, 2023

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Big Sugar: A Brigid Reardon Mystery, Mary Logue

The Big Sugar: A Brigid Reardon Mystery

Mary Logue
U of MN PressU of MN Press

"The glimpse of what life might have been like for women in the West is fascinating." Mary Logue's THE BIG SUGAR included in this @nytimesbooks roundup of summer crime novels: https://t.co/BVZAhNsA2g

Hardcover, 2023

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms, Anatoly Liberman

Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms

Anatoly Liberman
U of MN PressU of MN Press

Clean as a whistle. Coarse as bean-straw. If English idioms are your cup of tea, we've got the ticket for you: Anatoly Liberman, author of Take My Word for It, talking etymology on the Press podcast. https://t.co/Dc90zmBbsX

Paperback, 2023

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Comic Self: Toward Dispossession, Timothy C. Campbell

The Comic Self: Toward Dispossession

Timothy C. Campbell
U of MN PressU of MN Press

Fantastic new books (and recommended #EarthDay reads!) releasing today: -Settling Nature by Irus Braverman. -Subsurface by Karen Pinkus. -The Comic Self by Timothy Campbell and Grant Farred. #environment #NewReleases #philosophy https://t.co/WGrU9E0F43

Paperback, 2023

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Rough Metaphysics: The Speculative Thought and Mediumship of Jane Roberts, Peter Skafish

Rough Metaphysics: The Speculative Thought and Mediumship of Jane Roberts

Peter Skafish
U of MN PressU of MN Press

Happy #PubDay to these excellent books: -Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight, children's picture book by @GibneyShannon and Charly Palmer -Eastcliff, a tour of the most-visited public residence in MN, by Karen Fults Kaler -Rough Metaphysics by Peter Skafish https://t.co/VI66aoPjv7

Paperback, 2023

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information, Craig Robertson

The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information

Craig Robertson
U of MN PressU of MN Press

The filing cabinet "worked to blur the past into the present with active storage; and the future into the present by encouraging forethought." Great, thorough review of @craig2robertson's THE FILING CABINET in @LSEReviewBooks: https://t.co/BK7CZWmD3O

Paperback, 2021

$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation, Naa Oyo a. Kwate

White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation

Naa Oyo a. Kwate
U of MN PressU of MN Press

White Burgers, Black Cash by @professahKwate is Book of the Week at The Syllabus: https://t.co/MNcoPrsDId @syllabus_tweets

Hardcover, 2023

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: In the Company of Grace: A Veterinarian's Memoir of Trauma and Healing, Jody Lulich

In the Company of Grace: A Veterinarian's Memoir of Trauma and Healing

Jody Lulich
U of MN PressU of MN Press

Five incredible books release today: -White Burgers, Black Cash / @professahKwate -Inside the Spiral / @NatrCultr -In the Company of Grace / Jody Lulich -Betting on Macau / Tim Simpson -The Quiet Violence of Empire / Wesley Attewell #PubDay #NewReleases https://t.co/Ffku2zQBpQ

Paperback, 2023

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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