Emily S Michael: 8 books

“The apple shall damn you and curiosity kill you” is the lesson little girls are taught while boys are busy outside climbing trees and digging up worms…but Eleanor Adams simply could not help herself. The open-ended question was always there –alive and pulsating- Innocence or knowledge? And...

Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied...

Issue framing is the way that people, especially politicians, get other people to view a particular problem or issue. By framing the issue in a particular way, the goal is to get people to think about the issue, to believe that an action is required and, most importantly, to believe that a particular...

The number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the student population. However, classroom material often does not include their version of the American experience. Teaching about Asian...

Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...

An Weihnachten machen wir uns alle Jahre wieder auf, um unsere Liebsten zu sehen. Meist ist schon die Anreise nervenzehrend, wenn zeitgleich gefühlt die halbe Republik unterwegs ist. Daheim angekommen, wird es nicht besser – davon erzählen diese Geschichten. Wir begegnen einer genervten Mutter,...

Das beste Geschenk für die bucklige Verwandtschaft? Geschichten über die bucklige Verwandtschaft! Denn mit schwarzem Humor kommt man besser durch die Feiertage. Die Familie wird immer anspruchsvoller: Oma lehnt den fair gehandelten Seitanbraten ab. Die papierdünne Cousine akzeptiert die Mousse...

In Edith Wharton’s works, references to architecture, interior decoration, painting, sculpture, and fashion abound. As these essays demonstrate, art and objects are for Wharton evidence of cultural belief and reflect the values, assumptions, and customs of the burgeoning consumer culture in which...