University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
State Trading in the Twenty-First Century
The World Trade Forum, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
The University of Michigan Press is pleased to announce the first volume in an annual series, The World Trade Forum. The Forum's members include scholars, lawyers, and government and business practitioners working in the area of international trade, law, and policy. They meet annually and discuss...
Formative Years
Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Alexandra Minna Stern is Associate Director of the Center for the History of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and American Culture at the University of Michigan. Howard Markel is the George Edward Wantz Professor of the History of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics and...
Narrative Prosthesis
Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting...
Incidents in an Educational Life
A Memoir (of Sorts)
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Incidents in an Educational Life chronicles the educational journey of John M. Swales. A leading scholar in the field of Applied Linguistics and its subfield of English for Specific Purposes, Swales has taught across the globe in places such as Italy, Sweden, Libya, the United Kingdom, and the University...
Beyond Sputnik
U.S. Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Science and technology are responsible for almost every advance in our modern quality of life. Yet science isn't just about laboratories, telescopes and particle accelerators. Public policy exerts a huge impact on how the scientific community conducts its work. Beyond Sputnik is a comprehensive survey...
Elly Peterson
"Mother" of the Moderates
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
"A magisterially written, well-researched, informative, and entertaining biography of a woman who helped throw open the doors to broader participation and power for women in the Republican Party and American politics."
---Dave Dempsey, author of William G. Milliken: Michigan's Passionate...
Michigan
A History of Explorers, Entrepreneurs, and Everyday People
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
The history of Michigan is a fascinating story of breathtaking geography enriched by an abundant water supply, of bold fur traders and missionaries who developed settlements that grew into major cities, of ingenious entrepreneurs who established thriving industries, and of celebrated cultural icons...
Michigan Legends
Folktales and Lore from the Great Lakes State
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Over the course of its history, the state of Michigan has produced its share of folktales and lore. Many are familiar with the Ojibwa legend of Sleeping Bear Dunes, and most have heard a yarn or two told of Michigan’s herculean lumberjack, Paul Bunyan.
But what about Detroit’s Nain Rouge,...
As If
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
"From his childhood in the 'Jewish heart' of Brooklyn to his memorable production of Endgame in the 1960s, Herbert Blau's autobiography provides not only more of Blau's penetrating insights into dramatists like Beckett and into the complex cross-currents of the American experimental theatre of...
Susan Glaspell in Context
American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915-48
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Susan Glaspell in Context not only discusses the dramatic work of this key American author -- perhaps best known for her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" and its dramatic counterpart, Trifles -- but also places it within the theatrical, cultural, political, social, historical, and biographical...
The Supreme Court on Trial
How the American Justice System Sacrifices Innocent Defendants
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
The chief mandate of the criminal justice system is not to prosecute the guilty but to safeguard the innocent from wrongful convictions; with this startling assertion, legal scholar George Thomas launches his critique of the U.S. system and its emphasis on procedure at the expense of true justice.
Thomas...
Out of the Closets and into the Courts
Legal Opportunity Structure and Gay Rights Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Over the past 30 years, the gay rights movement has moved from the margins to the center of American politics, sparking debate from bedroom to boardroom to battlefield. Out of the Closets and into the Courts analyzes recent gay rights cases and explores the complex relationship between litigation...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
The State of Michigan has experienced both tremendous growth and great decline in its history. After many decades of growth up to the 1950s, a wide variety of challenges had to be confronted by citizens and all levels of government in Michigan. The late 20th and early 21st centuries have seen pockets...
Making Waves
Michigan’s Boat-Building Industry, 1865-2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Michigan will always be known as the automobile capital of the world, but the Great Lakes State boasts a similarly rich heritage in the development of boat building in America. By the late nineteenth century, Michigan had emerged as the industry’s hub, drawing together the most talented designers,...