Outside Magazine: This Veteran Paddler Says Teenage Girls Need Adventure
Author Natalie Warren wants young women to disregard conventional rites of passage and get lost in the wilderness
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Washington Post: China's rapid urbanization will make another pandemic more likely — University of Minnesota Press
Nick R. Smith reads between the lines of the new World Health Organization report on the coronavirus
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Jezebel: The Visionary Organizer Who Offered Me a Model for Life
Grace Lee Boggs died in 2015 at the age of 100, having inspired generations of activists and organizers.
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Daily Dose of Architecture: Focusing on middle-class American houses.
By honing in on that substantial yet overlooked chunk of society between the rich and the poor, Hubka is setting his book apart from the hundreds, if not thousands, of books on American houses.
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New Books in European Studies: Conversation with Alison Mountz
The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) arrives at an extraordinarily consequential moment for the future of asylum protections.
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Disability Studies Quarterly: "A timely and provocative contribution to the rich literature on biopolitics from which it draws."
At its core, Deadly Biocultures is about challenging binaries using the inherent contradictions found within the myriad manifestations of those binaries in US biocultures.
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Taipei Times: How pirated records from Taiwan kept Asia rocking
By the mid-1960s, the nation was churning out around 350,000 of them a month, many of which were diffused to Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Thailand and the Philippines
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Curious Minnesota: Where did suburban streetcar lines run and why were they removed?
At its peak, Twin City Rapid Transit had 524 miles of track and carried 200 million riders each year.
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Native America Calling: Noopiming is Book of the Month
In “Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies,” seven beings within one entity named Mashkawaji help the narrative along through literary prose, dialogue and poetry.
United States Native America Calling White Ladies America Calling Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg
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Reading Through Life: "This is truly a book for anyone."
Recommendation: This is truly a book for anyone. It should find a place in any library and I am excited to have it available for my students in the near future.
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