University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
The Games of July
Explaining the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
"Frank C. Zagare combines a deep command of historical scholarship and the sophisticated skills of an applied game theorist to develop and test a theory of why deterrence failed, catastrophically, in July 1914. . . . Zagare concludes with sage advice on how to avoid even more cataclysmic breakdowns...
by Daniel Aaron
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
“ I have read all of Daniel Aaron’ s books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. His self-portrait is marked by personal tact and admirable restraint: he is and is not its subject. The Americanist...
Faith in the City
Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
“The dynamics of Black Theology were at the center of the ‘Long New Negro Renaissance,’ triggered by mass migrations to industrial hubs like Detroit. Finally, this crucial subject has found its match in the brilliant scholarship of Angela Dillard. No one has done a better job of tracing those...
Positive Political Theory I
Collective Preference
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Positive Political Theory I is concerned with the formal theory of preference aggregation for collective choice. The theory is developed as generally as possible, covering classes of aggregation methods that include such well-known examples as majority and unanimity rule and focusing in particular...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Entrepreneurship and globalization are two much-examined forces as we enter the new millennium--yet very little has been published on the intersection of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the global economy. To close the gap, this volume delves into the intricate roles and consequences...
The Resonance of Unseen Things
Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood...
Greetings from Cutler County
A Novella and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Greetings from Cutler County is both a nonstop ride of tragic hilarity, and a piercing look at the complexities of youth.
In one northern Michigan community the lives of desperate small-town dreamers are examined through an ensemble cast as earnest as they are outrageous, and as compelling...
by Louis L. Orlin
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Intended for readers seeking insight into the day-to-day life of some of the world's most ancient peoples, Life and Thought in the Ancient Near East presents brief, fascinating explorations of key aspects of the civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Asia Minor, and Iran. With vignettes on...
Owning the Olympics
Narratives of the New China
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
"A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. Owning the Olympics tests the possibilities and limits of the concept of 'media events' by analyzing the mega-event of the information age: the Beijing Olympics. . . . A good read from cover to cover."
—Guobin...
What Do Gay Men Want?
An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
“Compelling, timely, and provocative. The writing is sleek and exhilarating. It doesn’t waste time telling us what it will do or what it has just done—it just does it.”
—Don Kulick, Professor of Anthropology, New York University
How we can talk about sex and risk in the age of barebacking—or...
Games, Information, and Politics
Applying Game Theoretic Models to Political Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
To study the strategic interaction of individuals, we can use game theory. Despite the long history shared by game theory and political science, many political scientists remain unaware of the exciting game theoretic techniques that have been developed over the years. As a result they use overly simple...
A Woman's Place Is in the House
Campaigning for Congress in the Feminist Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
In this first comprehensive examination of women candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, Barbara Burrell argues that women are as successful at winning elections as men. Why, then, are there still so few women members of Congress? Compared to other democratically elected national parliaments,...
More Secure, Less Free?
Antiterrorism Policy & Civil Liberties after September 11
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
The first comprehensive analysis of the full range of antiterror initiatives undertaken in the United States after the 2001 terrorist attacks
Unlike earlier books published shortly after the September 11 attacks that focus on the Patriot Act, More Secure, Less Free? covers the Patriot Act but...
James Jesse Strang
The Rise and Fall of Michigan's Mormon King
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Few lives experience a meteoric rise and fall like that of James Jesse Strang’s. An unsuccessful lawyer from upstate New York, he converted to Mormonism in 1844 and quickly entered the inner circle of the controversial new faith’s founder, Joseph Smith Jr. Upon Smith’s assassination, Strang...