University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
No American playwright is more revered on the international stage than Arthur Miller. In Arthur Miller’s Global Theater—a fascinating collection of new essays by leading international critics and scholars—readers learn how and why audiences around the world have responded to the work of the...
The Subject and Other Subjects
On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The Subject and Other Subjects theorizes the differences among ethical, aesthetic, and political conceptions of identity. When a person is called beautiful, why does it strike us as an objectification? Is a person whom we consider to be an exemplary person still a person, and not an example? Can one...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Whether it's real or imaginary, every child has a secret space, and this remarkable book explores them all. For some it's a treehouse or a hidden spot beneath a bush; for others it's a private psychic refuge--a favorite book, or a dollhouse that becomes a stage for a young imagination. As the more...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
As tariffs on imports of manufactures have been reduced as a result of multi-lateral trade negotiations, interest in the extent to which existing nontariff barriers may distort and restrict international trade is growing. Accurate and reliable measures are needed in order to address the issues involving...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The contributors to this volume include numerous members of the trade policy community who analyze and discuss the salient social dimensions of U.S. trade policies. These issues include the effects of trade on wage inequality; trade and immigration policy; U.S. trade adjustment assistance policies;...
Democracy without Associations
Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
India's party system has undergone a profound transformation over the last decade. The Congress Party, a catch-all party that brought independence in 1947 and governed India for much of the period since then, no longer dominates the electoral scene. Political parties which draw support from particular...
The Well-Being of the Elderly in Asia
A Four-Country Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
The past two decades have witnessed rapid social, economic, and demographic change in East and South-East Asia. The older populations in these regions have been increasing faster than in the West, and the proportions of people over sixty will more than double over the next thirty years. Increased...
by Alan Verne Deardorff, Robert Mitchell Stern
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The contributors to this volume, economists and political scientists from academic institutions, the private sector, and the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, came together to discuss an important topic in the formation of U.S. international trade policy: the representation...
Deep
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....
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...
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...
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...