University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Grassroots at the Gateway
Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
"This is a theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly documented historical case study of the movements for African American liberation in St. Louis. Through detailed analysis of black working class mobilization from the depression years to the advent of Black Power, award-winning historian Clarence...
Living the Faith
A Life of Tom Monaghan
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Who is Tom Monaghan?
Is he the four-year-old kid whose father died on Christmas Eve and whose mother sent him to an orphanage and then a juvenile detention home?
Is he the entrepreneurial genius who built Domino's Pizza from a hole-in-the-wall pizzeria in Michigan into an American brand...
Litigating in the Shadow of Death
Defense Attorneys in Capital Cases
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
"Anyone who cares about capital punishment should read this compelling, lucid account of the obstacles defense attorneys face and the strategies they adopt."
--John Parry, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
"With its compelling narratives of cases, strategies, and ethical...
I Want to Be Ready
Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
"Danielle Goldman's contribution to the theory and history of improvisation in dance is rich, beautiful and extraordinary. In her careful, rigorously imaginative analysis of the discipline of choreography in real time, Goldman both compels and allows us to become initiates in the mysteries of...
This Gaming Life
Travels in Three Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
"In May 2000 I was fired from my job as a reporter on a finance newsletter because of an obsession with a video game.
It was the best thing that ever happened to me.”
So begins this story of personal redemption through the unlikely medium of electronic games. Quake*, World of...
Inside/Outside
A Physician's Journey with Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
To doctors, cancer means cells growing out of control; to patients, cancer means a life spinning out of control. Janet R. Gilsdorf, who writes with quiet but devastating honesty about her experience with breast cancer, offers an eye-opening glimpse, through her unique dual perspective as physician...
The Lone Wolverine
Tracking Michigan's Most Elusive Animal
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
It began in late winter of 2004. Almost 100 years had passed since the last spotting of a wild wolverine in Michigan when coyote hunters caught a glimpse of one of the animals in a frozen farm field in the northern thumb region. For the next six years, Jeff Ford, a local science teacher...
Research Confidential
Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
"We all know that the actual process of empirical research is a messy, complicated business that at best only approximates the models we impart to students. Research Confidential pulls back the curtain on this process, laying bare the sordid details of the research process, but doing so in a...
Czecho/Slovakia
Ethnic Conflict, Constitutional Fissure, Negotiated Breakup
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
As the clock struck midnight on December 31, 1992, Czechoslovakia, the only genuine democracy in post-World War I Central-Eastern Europe, broke up into two independent successor states. This book explores the failed search for a postcommunist constitution and it records in a lively style a singular...
Dying Inside
The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
"The HIV+ men incarcerated in Limestone Prison's Dorm 16 were put there to be forgotten. Not only do Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Carla Crowder bring these men to life, Fleury-Steiner and Crowder also insist on placing these men in the middle of critical conversations about health policy, mass...
Is Social Security Broke?
A Cartoon Guide to the Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
A funny, smart, and engaging book on Social Security? You bet! Let Bill and Betty Boomer, their parents Ed and Ethel Elderly, and the young married Steve and Sue Sprout take you through the thickets of this thorny issue. You will come to understand why people are so worried about Social Security,...
by Francis Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Francis M. Dunn's Present Shock in Late Fifth-Century Greece examines the widespread social and cultural disorientation experienced by Athenians in a period that witnessed the revolution of 411 B.C.E. and the military misadventures in 413 and 404---a disturbance as powerful as that described in Alvin...
The Information Master
Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
"Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."
---Peter Burke, University...
Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders
Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
"The authors have done a commendable and impressive job of addressing a topic of long-lasting and increasing significance in U.S. politics."
---F. Chris Garcia, University of New Mexico
"This is a path-breaking book that will be read across disciplines beyond political science."
---James...