University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
by Ken Hyland
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Second language students not only need strategies for drafting and revising to write effectively, but also a clear understanding of genre so that they can appropriately structure their writing for various contexts. Over that last decade, increasing attention has been paid to the notion of genre and...
Intellectual Property
Trade, Competition, and Sustainable Development The World Trade Forum, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
The incorporation of intellectual property protection into the WTO international trading system has been a milestone in international economic law and has added a new dimension to trade regulation — new rights and obligations and new challenges alike. The contributors, leading scholars and practitioners...
Defensive Internationalism
Providing Public Goods in an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
"The authors' carefully crafted analysis will influence thought and the policy debate on the tradeoff between unilateralism and multilateralism for decades to come."
-Todd Sandler, Robert R. and Katheryn A. Dockson Professor of International Relations & Economics, University of Southern...
Changing Paths
International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
After two decades of marketizing, an array of national and international actors have become concerned with growing global inequality, the failure to reduce the numbers of very poor people in the world, and a perceived global backlash against international economic institutions. This new concern with...
Punishing Schools
Fear and Citizenship in American Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
In a society increasingly dominated by zero-tolerance thinking, Punishing Schools argues that our educational system has become both the subject of legislative punishment and an instrument for the punishment of children. William Lyons and Julie Drew analyze the connections between state sanctions...
by Elaine Ford
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
“Elaine Ford’s collection roams the territory between the intellect and the heart. She writes of the human condition with precision, in language that is both grave and conversational. Her characters step out of the real world onto the page, where she develops them quietly, but with compassionate...
Predators and Parasites
Persistent Agents of Transnational Harm and Great Power Authority
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
What explains variance in the policy of Great Powers toward drug traffickers, pirates, and terrorists? Does counterharm policy depend just on the degree of material harm caused to a powerful state by such nonstate actors, or do normative, moral, and emotional factors also play a role? Why did the...
by Godfrey Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is as relevant today as he was when he led civil rights campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s. He was an agent and a prophet of political change in this country, and the election of President Barack Obama is his direct legacy.
Now from one of Britain's most experienced...
Liberating Economics
Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Liberating Economics draws on central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles of families, caring labor, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty, the feminization of labor, and the consequences of globalization. Barker and Feiner consistently...
Unsportsmanlike Conduct
Exploiting College Athletes
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Walter Byers, who served as NCAA executive director from 1951 to 1987, was charged with the dual mission of keeping intercollegiate sports clean while generating millions of dollars each year as income for the colleges. Here Byers exposes, as only he can, the history and present-day state of college...
Publishing The Prince
History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
As new ideas arose during the Enlightenment, many political thinkers published their own versions of popular early modern "absolutist" texts and transformed them into manuals of political resistance. As a result, these works never achieved a fixed and stable edition. Publishing The Prince...
Devils and Rebels
The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
"An outstanding combination of literary interpretation and cultural and historical context that will be an important addition to the critical literature on Hawthorne."
---Nina Baym, University of Illinois
"It is difficult to imagine a more timely book than Devils and Rebels....
Concerto for the Left Hand
Disability and the Defamiliar Body
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
"Professor Davidson---an accomplished literary critic---offers a focused and balanced analysis of poetry, film, and the arts honed with his excellent knowledge of the latest advances in disability studies. He is brilliant at reading texts in a sophisticated and aesthetically pleasurable way,...
Illusive Utopia
Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
"North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized way."
---Charles...