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Item Gross Anatomy for Physical Therapy Student Dissector Manual, Edition 2021(2021) Glasoe, Ward M; Carey, James R; Dougherty, Brendan JItem Illustrated Moss Flora of Minnesota(2017) Janssens, Joannes (Jan) A.Item The Jewel Beetles of Minnesota(2021-03) Hallinen, Marie J; Steffens, Wayne P; Schultz, Jennifer L; Wittman, Jacob T; Aukema, Brian HA photo guide to the jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of Minnesota, including beetle distribution by county, host information, and notes on biology. This guide is based on specimens housed in the University of Minnesota Insect Collection (UMSP), including buprestids collected from Cerceris fumipennis nest monitoring from 2014 to 2018.Item Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles(University of California Press, 2021) Savelsberg, Joachim J.How do victim and perpetrator peoples generate conflicting knowledge about genocide? Using a sociology of knowledge approach, Joachim J. Savelsberg answers this question in the context of the Armenian genocide committed during the First World War. Focusing on Armenians and Turks, Savelsberg examines strategies of silencing, denial, and acknowledgment in everyday interactions, public rituals, law, and politics. He draws on interviews, ethnographic accounts, documents, and eyewitness testimony to illuminate the social processes that drive dueling versions of history. Ultimately, this study reveals the counterproductive consequences of denial in an age of human rights hegemony, demonstrating the implications for populist disinformation campaigns against overwhelming evidence.Item Minnesota Harvester Handbook, First Edition(University of Minnesota Extension, 2013) Wilsey, David; Miedtke, JulieThis resource -- developed by the University of Minnesota Extension with the help of a broad network of contributors -- demonstrates the breadth and diversity of useful natural resources found in and around the state's woodlands and forests throughout the year. Book features information divided into seasons: Spring (maple syrup, fiddlehead ferns, yellow morels), Summer (birch bark, multiple mushroom species, wild rice), Fall (balsam boughs, tree cones & seeds, pine, dogwood and fall mushrooms) and Winter (Basswood, Chaga and firewood). Book includes basic tenets of harvesting and helpful fact sheets on each species. Provides a point of entry to the world of natural resource gathering that can be used in conjunction with other plant identification resources.Item Nuclear Reactions: How Nuclear-Armed States Behave(Cornell University Press, 2021) Bell, Mark S.Mark S. Bell argues that nuclear weapons are useful for more than deterrence. They are leveraged to pursue a wide range of goals in international politics, and the nations that acquire them significantly change their foreign policies as a result. Closely examining how these effects vary and what those variations have meant in the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Africa, Bell shows that countries are not generically "emboldened"—they change their foreign policies in different ways based on their priorities. This has huge policy implications: What would Iran do if it were to acquire nuclear weapons? Would Japanese policy toward the United States change if Japan were to obtain nuclear weapons? And what does the looming threat of nuclear weapons mean for the future of foreign policy? Far from being a relic of the Cold War, Bell argues, nuclear weapons are as important in international politics today as they ever were.Item On the Causes of War (third edition)(Ground Zero Minnesota, 2007) Andregg, Michael M.On the Causes of War is a book that covers over 40 causes of wars that recur in history often enough that the author thought they should be considered. It won the National Peace Writing Award for 1999 (the first edition) for reasons that will be described by a couple of blurbs from colleagues on the back cover. In lieu of a real abstract, I will put the Table of Contents here. Table of Contents On the Causes of War page Ch# Chapter Title by Michael Andregg ii. Dedication iii. Acknowledgements iv. List of Figures and Tables v. Introduction 1. Part I - Background 2. 1. The Essence of War and Peace 4. 2. Interviews With People Who Have Studied War and Peace 6. 3. Brief Review of Relevant Literature 9. 4. Relationships Between Genocide and War 11. 5. Review of Wars, Genocides and Flashpoints, 1990 - 1995 22. 6. Causation is Complex: Ultimate versus Proximate Causes, and Triggering Events 26. 7. Human Nature, Nurture, Free Will and War 30. 8. Two Models: Earthquake, and Three Green Lights 37. 9. If Present Trends Continue, the Probability of General War Will Peak Between 1997 and 2002, and How Such Estimates May Be Obtained 46. Part II - Select Causes: How They Work, and How to Solve Them 47. 10. Competition for Resources, and Inequalities of Wealth Within and Between Nations 52. 11. Competition for Power: International and Domestic Politics 62. 12. Population Pressure 74. 13. Authoritarian Law and Militant Religion 84. 14. Corruption of Governance 95. 15. Legalism 102. 16. Justice, Injustice, and Lack of Effective International Conflict Resolution Systems 110. 17. Nationalism and Militarism 116. 18. Forces of Evil 126. 19. Spies, Cults and Secret Power Systems 145. 20. Weapons Companies, Military Bureaucracy, Propaganda and Warmongers 153. 21. In vs. Out Groups: The Universal Double Standard of Justice 156. 22. Ethnicity, Nepotism and Racism 163. 23. Historical Grievances, Scapegoating, Demagoguery and “Parallel Realities” 167. 24. Revenge 172. 25. The Desire to Dominate, and Hubris 175. 26. The Desire for Adventure, Honor and Enemies, or Why Many Men Love War 181. 27. Greed, Hatred, Repression, Compulsion, Paranoia and Lesser Psychological Factors 188. 28. Balances of Power, and Equilibria 197. 29. The War on “Drugs” as a Model of Police-State Wars 206. Part III - How To Overcome War, and Survive 208. 30. Governance Without Governments 212. 31. Spirituality Without Churches 216. 32. Being A Warrior in the Third Millennium 223. 33. The Feminist Revolt and Masculinity 232. 34. The Biology of Survival: Economic and Political Consequences 238. 35. Freedom is Required; Justice is Desired 243. 36. The Body as a Metaphor for Social Organization 247. Appendix A: A version of the Prisoner’s Dilemma Exercise useful for teachers 250. Appendix B: Tables 1, 2, 3, and notes to each. 263. ReferencesItem Reconstruction Fiction: Housing and Realist Literature in Postwar Britain(The Ohio State University Press, 2021) Derdiger, PaulaItem Sex, Politics, and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch(Indiana University Press, 2020) McCormick, RickItem Sound, Image, Silence: Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World(University of Minnesota Press, 2019) Gaudio, Michael"Sound, Image, Silence" provides a groundbreaking examination of the colonial Americas by exploring the special role that aural imagination played in visible representations of the New World. It masterfully fuses a diversity of work across vast social, cultural, and spatial distances, giving us both a new way of understanding sound in art and a powerful new vision of the New World.Item Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music(University of Minnesota Press, 2020) Powell, Elliot H.From Beyoncé’s South Asian music-inspired Super Bowl Halftime performance, to jazz artists like John and Alice Coltrane’s use of Indian song structures and spirituality in their work, to Jay-Z and Missy Elliott’s high-profile collaborations with diasporic South Asian artists such as the Panjabi MC and MIA, African American musicians have frequently engaged South Asian cultural productions in the development of Black music culture. Sounds from the Other Side traces such engagements through an interdisciplinary analysis of the political implications of African American musicians’ South Asian influence since the 1960s. Elliott H. Powell asks, what happens when we consider Black musicians’ South Asian sonic explorations as distinct from those of their white counterparts? He looks to Black musical genres of jazz, funk, and hip hop and examines the work of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Rick James, OutKast, Timbaland, Beyoncé, and others, showing how Afro-South Asian music in the United States is a dynamic, complex, and contradictory cultural site where comparative racialization, transformative gender and queer politics, and coalition politics intertwine. Powell situates this cultural history within larger global and domestic sociohistorical junctures that link African American and South Asian diasporic communities in the United States. The long historical arc of Afro-South Asian music in Sounds from the Other Side interprets such music-making activities as highly political endeavors, offering an essential conversation about cross-cultural musical exchanges between racially marginalized musicians.Item Species-Habitat Associations: Spatial data, predictive models, and ecological insights, 2nd Edition(University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, 2023-01) Matthiopoulos, Jason; Fieberg, John R; Aarts, GeertEcologists develop species-habitat association (SHA) models to understand where species occur, why they are there and where else they might be. This knowledge can be used to designate protected areas, estimate anthropogenic impacts on living organisms and assess risks from invasive species or disease spill-over from wildlife to humans. Here, we describe the state of the art in SHA models, looking beyond the apparent correlations between the positions of organisms and their local environment. We highlight the importance of ecological mechanisms, synthesize diverse modelling frameworks and motivate the development of new analytical methods. Above all, we aim to be synthetic, bringing together several of the apparently disconnected pieces of ecological theory, taxonomy, spatiotemporal scales, and mathematical and statistical technique in our field. The first edition of this ebook reviews the ecology of species-habitat associations, the mechanistic interpretation of existing empirical models and their shared statistical foundations that can help us draw scientific insights from field data. It will be of interest to graduate students and professionals looking for an introduction to the ecological and statistical literature of SHAs, practitioners seeking to analyse their data on animal movements or species distributions and quantitative ecologists looking to contribute new methods addressing the limitations of the current incarnations of SHA models.Item The Story of the Suburbs in Anoka and Hennepin County(Anoka, Minn. : Anoka County Historical Society ; Minneapolis, Minn. : Hennepin History Museum, 2011) Larson, Jodi; Majewicz, Karen; Engelking, KyleThis report places suburban expansion in Anoka and Hennepin counties in a larger national context and highlights the factors that mark expansion in the Twin Cities as unique.Item Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory(Duke University Press, 2020) Nichols, RobertItem Uncle from America(University of Minnesota, 2010) Miller, Kenneth D