University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Is William Martinez Not Our Brother?
Twenty Years of the Prison Creative Arts Project
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Praise for the Prison Creative Arts Project:
"I cannot overstate how profoundly my experience with the Prison Creative Arts Project has shaped my life. It began my engagement with prison issues, developed both my passion and my understanding of them, and I continue to draw on both as I...
by James J. Duderstadt
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
From the former president of one of America's leading universities comes a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing higher education in America as we enter the twenty-first century. In A University for the Twenty-first Century, James J. Duderstadt discusses the array of powerful...
The Boy Governor
Stevens T. Mason and the Birth of Michigan Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
In 1831, Stevens T. Mason was named Secretary of the Michigan Territory at the tender age of 19, two years before he could even vote. The youngest presidential appointee in American history, Mason quickly stamped his persona on Michigan life in large letters. After championing the territory's successful...
The Cult of Statistical Significance
How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
“McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to.”
—Thomas...
by Ted Burczak
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Socialism after Hayek recasts and reinvigorates the socialist quest for class justice by rendering it compatible with Hayek's social and economic theories. Theodore A. Burczak puts forth a conception of socialism from a postmodern perspective, drawing from the apparently opposing ideas of Marx and...
Beyond Busing
Reflections on Urban Segregation, the Courts, and Equal Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
A compelling insider's account of the fight for educational desegregation, from one of its most dedicated and outspoken heroes. A new afterword explains the author's controversial belief that the moment for litigating educational equality has passed, clear-sightedly critiquing his own courtroom strategies...
by Ronald F. Inglehart, Paul R. Abramson
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2009
In this pioneering work, Paul R. Abramson and Ronald Inglehart show that the gradual shift
from Materialist values (such as the desire for economic and physical security) to Post-materialist values (such as the desire for freedom, self-expression, and the quality of life) is in all likelihood a global...
Ann Arbor Observed
Selections from Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Twenty-five years ago Grace Shackman began to document the history of Ann Arbor’s buildings, events, and people in the Ann Arbor Observer. Soon Shackman’s articles, which depicted every aspect of life in Ann Arbor during the city’s earlier eras, became much-anticipated regular stories. Readers...
The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey
Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
President of the Archaeological Institute of America, professor at the University of Michigan from 1889 to 1927, and president of the American Philological Association, Francis Kelsey was crucially involved in the founding or growth of major educational institutions. He came to maturity in a period...
Social Science and Policy-Making
A Search for Relevance in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
This collection of essays examines how the social sciences in America were developed as a means of social reform and later, especially after World War II, as a tool in federal policymaking and policy analysis. It also uses arenas of policymaking, such as early childhood education and welfare and its...
by Dennis P. Kehoe
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The economy of the Roman Empire was predominantly agrarian: Roman landowners, agricultural laborers, and small tenant farmers were highly dependent upon one another for assuring stability. By examining the property rights established by the Roman government, in particular the laws concerning land...
Poetry's Afterlife
Verse in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
"The great pleasure of this book is the writing itself. Not only is it free of academic and ‘lit-crit' jargon, it is lively prose, often deliciously witty or humorous, and utterly contemporary. Poetry's Afterlife has terrific classroom potential, from elementary school teachers seeking to inspire...
Coping With Poverty
The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Conservatives often condemn the poor, particularly African-Americans, for having children out of wedlock, joblessness, dropping out of school, or tolerating crime. Liberals counter that, with more economic opportunity, the poor differ little from the nonpoor in these areas. In answer to both, Coping...
Globalizations and Social Movements
Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Globalization is a set of processes that are weakening national boundaries. Both transnational and local social movements develop to resist the processes of globalization--migration, economic interdependence, global media coverage of events and issues, and intergovernmental relations. Globalization...