Author: David Lyon
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
Keywords: society, surveillance, rise, eye, electronic
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 1994-03
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0816625131
ISBN-13: 9780816625130

The author of The Information Society looks into the mediated nature of modern society, in which every transaction, phone call, vote, border-crossing, and application registers into some computer. Simultaneous.

Author: Gary L. Phillips
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
Keywords: region, minnesota, fishes
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1982-03
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0816609799
ISBN-13: 9780816609796

From Northern Pike to the Walleye, this is the definitive guide to all of Minnesota’s 149 kinds of fishes. Illustrated with over 80 color photographs, this book will appeal to enthusiastic anglers as well as curious naturalists.Along with a guide to identification, the authors cover habitat, distribution, conservation, and even some recipes. If you catch a fish from one of Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes you’ll find a description of it in this book. From Northern Pike to the Walleye, this is the definitive guide to all of Minnesota’s 149 kinds of fishes. Illustrated with over

Author: Peter Reed
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
Keywords: roots, ecology, norwegian, air, open, wisdom
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1993-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0816621500
ISBN-13: 9780816621507

Author: John Friedma
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Pre
Keywords: transition, urban, china’s
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2005-03-23
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0816646147
ISBN-13: 9780816646142

Though China’s urban history reaches back over five thousand years, it is only in the last quarter century that urbanization has emerged as a force of widespread social transformation while a massive population shift from country to city has brought about a dramatic revolution in China’s culture, politics, and economy. Employing a historical perspective, John Friedmann presents a succinct, readable account and interpretation of how this transition - one of the most momentous phenomena in contemporary history - has occurred. China’s Urban Transition synthesizes a broad array o

Author: Yi-Fu Tua
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Pre
Keywords: posthumanities, china, home, coming
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2007-04-06
List price: $55.50
ISBN-10: 081664991X
ISBN-13: 9780816649914

In the summer of 2005, distinguished geographer Yi-Fu Tuan ventured to China to speak at an international architectural conference, returning for the first time to the place he had left as a child sixty-four years before. He traveled from Beijing to Shanghai, addressing college audiences, floating down the Yangtze River on a riverboat, and visiting his former home in Chongqing.   In this enchanting volume, Tuan’s childhood memories and musings on the places encountered during this homecoming are interspersed with new lectures, engaging overarching principles of human geography a

Author: Grace M. Cho
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Pre
Keywords: forgotten, war, secrecy, shame, korean, diaspora, haunting
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2008-11-11
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0816652759
ISBN-13: 9780816652754

Book DescriptionSince the Korean War—the forgotten war—more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through intellectual vigor and personal recollection, Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the repressed history of emotional and physical violence between the United States and Korea and the unexamined reverberations of sexual relationships between Korean women and American soldiers. Grace M. Cho exposes how Koreans in the United States have been profoundly affected by the forgotten war

Authors:Yi-Fu Tuan, Editors, Karen E. Till, Steven Hoelsche
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Pre
Keywords: experience, perspective, place, space
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2001-02-08
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0816638772
ISBN-13: 9780816638772

Geography On the 25th anniversary of its publication, a new edition of this foundational work on human geography. In the twenty years since its original publication, Space and Place has not only established the discipline of human geography, but it has proven influential in such diverse fields as theatre, literature, anthropology, psychology, and theology. Eminent geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time. He suggests t