University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
by Amy Koritz, George J Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
"Civic engagement has been underrated and overlooked. Koritz and Sanchez illuminate the power of what community engagement through art and culture revitalization can do to give voice to the voiceless and a sense of being to those displaced."
---Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, Wesleyan University
"This...
The Powers that Punish
Prison and Politics in the Era of the "Big House", 1920-1955
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
In a pathbreaking study of a major state prison, Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary during the middle years of this century, Charles Bright addresses several aspects of the history and theory of punishment. The study is an institutional history of an American penitentiary, concerned with how a...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Capturing Campaign Effects is the definitive study to date of the influence of campaigns on political culture. Comprising a broad exploration of campaign factors (debates, news coverage, advertising, and polls) and their effects (priming, learning, and persuasion), as well as an impressive survey...
Striving to Save
Creating Policies for Financial Security of Low-Income Families
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
"Striving to Save will inform and inspire social policy with its breakthrough approach in understanding how low-income families make ends meet while striving to make a better life for themselves and their families. Scholarly work in savings, debt, household finance, and behavior economics will...
Regulatory Barriers and the Principle of Non-discrimination in World Trade Law
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
The University of Michigan Press is pleased to announce the second volume in an annual series, the World Trade Forum. The Forum's members include scholars, lawyers, and government and business practitioners working in the area of international trade, law, and policy. They meet annually to discuss...
Michigan Ferns and Lycophytes
A Guide to Species of the Great Lakes Region
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Michigan’s ferns and lycophytes are among the state’s most fascinating plants. The species in these groups exhibit incredibly diverse life cycles and an amazing array of morphology. Some species such as the Bracken fern are widespread and aggressive, dominating forest understories throughout much...
Civilizing the Enemy
German Reconstruction and the Invention of the West
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
For the past century, politicians have claimed that "Western Civilization" epitomizes democratic values and international stability. But who is a member of "Western Civilization"? Germany, for example, was a sworn enemy of the United States and much of Western Europe in the first...
Framed
The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Framed uses fin de siècle British crime narrative to pose a highly interesting question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era are unsympathetic or even grotesque?
In this elegantly argued study, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller...
The German Patient
Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
The German Patient takes an original look at fascist constructions of health and illness, arguing that the idea of a healthy "national body"---propagated by the Nazis as justification for the brutal elimination of various unwanted populations---continued to shape post-1945 discussions about...
The Accidental Teacher
Life Lessons from My Silent Son
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
"Jonah Lehmann is an accidental teacher of others, including his family and friends. This personal and touching account of Jonah's life is enlightening, especially to those coming to terms with similar challenges with autism and other cognitive disabilities. It was written with love to support...
Market Dreams
Gender, Class, and Capitalism in the Czech Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Drawing on a rich trove of focus group data, interviews, and textual sources, Elaine Weiner's Market Dreams powerfully captures the varied responses of female managers and factory workers in the Czech Republic to their country's transition from socialism to capitalism. Her work, rooted in sociology...
Wiki Writing
Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
When most people think of wikis, the first---and usually the only---thing that comes to mind is Wikipedia. The editors of Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, have assembled a collection of essays that challenges this common misconception,...
Africa in Translation
A History of Colonial Linguistics in Germany and Beyond, 1814-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
"Africa in Translation is a thoughtful contribution to the literature on colonialism and culture in Germany and will find readers in the fields of German history and German studies as well as appealing to audiences in the large and interdisciplinary fields of colonialism and postcolonialism."
---Jennifer...
by Harry J. Elam
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic...