U of MN Press Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Architecture and Objects
Graham Harman
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
Red and Black: A Chronicle of 1830
Stendhal
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
Eastcliff: History of a Home
Karen Fults Kaler
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
The Big Sugar: A Brigid Reardon Mystery
Mary Logue
"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
Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms
Anatoly Liberman
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
The Comic Self: Toward Dispossession
Timothy C. Campbell
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
Rough Metaphysics: The Speculative Thought and Mediumship of Jane Roberts
Peter Skafish
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
The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information
Craig Robertson
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
White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
Naa Oyo a. Kwate
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
In the Company of Grace: A Veterinarian's Memoir of Trauma and Healing
Jody Lulich
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