University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
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Real Life with Spinal Cord Injury
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
"This project fits into the larger picture of excellence that we wish to accomplish in all dimensions of our health system: groundbreaking and dedicated research, compassionate clinical care, progressive education, and a welcoming environment that includes community with people with disabilities....
Wicked Takes the Witness Stand
A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
On a bitterly cold afternoon in December 1986, a Michigan State trooper found the frozen body of Jerry Tobias in the bed of his pickup truck. The 31-year-old oil field worker and small-time drug dealer was curled up on his side on the truck’s bare metal, pressed against the tailgate, clad only in...
Acceptable Risks
Politics, Policy, and Risky Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Complex and risky technologies--technologies such as new drugs for the treatment of AIDS that promise great benefits to our society but carry significant risks--pose many problems for political leaders and the policy makers responsible for overseeing them. Public agencies such as the Food and Drug...
by Charles Cleland, Bruce R Greene
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Faith in Paper is about the reinstitution of Indian treaty rights in the Upper Great Lakes region during the last quarter of the 20th century. The book focuses on the treaties and legal cases that together
have awakened a new day in Native American sovereignty and established the place of Indian...
Natural Coincidence
The Trip from Kalamazoo
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Bil Gilbert is one of America's most preeminent and popular essayists and nature writers. If you've ever opened a copy of Smithsonian, Audubon, or Sports Illustrated magazines, you've likely come across an article by Gilbert. In the past four decades, more than 350 of his articles and essays have...
by John R. Knott
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
At a time when the idea of wilderness is being challenged by both politicians and intellectuals, Imagining Wild America examines writing about wilderness and wildness and makes a case for its continuing value. The book focuses on works by John James Audubon, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Edward...
Secret Witness
The Untold Story of the 1967 Bombing in Marshall, Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Every small town has a moment when the real world abruptly intrudes, shattering the town's notions of itself and its people. For citizens of Marshall, Michigan, that moment came August 18, 1967. Nola Puyear was working downtown at the Tasty Cafe that morning when she received a package. She opened...
Intellectual Empathy
Critical Thinking for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Intellectual Empathy provides a step-by-step method for facilitating discussions of socially divisive issues. Maureen Linker, a philosophy professor at the University of Michigan–Dearborn, developed Intellectual Empathy after more than a decade of teaching critical thinking in metropolitan Detroit,...
The Causes of Human Behavior
Implications for Theory and Method in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Acknowledging that though the disciplines are supposed to be cumulative, there is little in the way of accumulated, general theory, this work opens a dialogue about the appropriate means and ends of social research based in analysis of fundamental issues.
This book examines two root issues...
Standing Your Ground
Territorial Disputes and International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Through an examination of 129 territorial disputes between 1950 and 1990, Paul Huth presents a new theoretical approach for analyzing the foreign policy behavior of states, one that integrates insights from traditional realist as well as domestic political approaches to the study of foreign policy....
Handbook of War Studies III
The Intrastate Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2009
Handbook of War Studies III is a follow-up to Handbook of War Studies I (1993) and II (2000). This new volume collects original work from leading international relations scholars on domestic strife, ethnic conflict, genocide, and other timely topics. Special attention is given to civil war, which...
Putting Faith in Partnerships
Welfare-to-Work in Four Cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Putting Faith in Partnerships addresses a major conceptual change in American domestic policy, begun by Reagan and now fully realized by the Bush administration: the shift of responsibility for social services from the federal government to states and communities.
In this groundbreaking study...
Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew
Minority Rights and Procedural Change in Legislative Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
The use of filibusters in the U.S. Senate by small numbers of members to prevent legislative action apparently desired by a majority of the members--as evidenced by the battles over civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s--is legendary. Similar situations have existed in other legislative...
The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830
Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
The movement from tradition to modernity engulfed all of the Jewish communities in the West, but hitherto historians have concentrated on the intellectual revolution in Germany by Moses Mendelssohn in the second half of the eighteenth century as the decisive event in the origins of Jewish modernity....