הוצאת University of Michigan Press
הספרים של הוצאת University of Michigan Press
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No Boundaries is a former journalist's disturbing account of what many consider the "next Mafia"---Latino crime gangs. Like the Mafia, these gangs operate an international network; consider violence a routine matter of business; and defy U.S. law enforcement at every level, from ... |
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Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)
מאת Jean Baudrillard
The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought....
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"Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the 'social model' of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdepende... |
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Highbrow/Lowdown explores the twentieth century's first culture war and the forces that permanently transformed American theater into the art form we know today. The arrival of jazz in the 1920s sparked a cultural revolution that was impossible to contain. The music affected every s...
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Barbara Myerhoff's groundbreaking work in reflexivity and narrative ethnography broke with tradition by focusing not on the raw ethnographic data, but on her interaction with those she studied. Myerhoff's unfinished projects, including her final talks on storytelling, ritual, and the "c... |
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Judges and Unjust Laws: Common Law Constitutionalism and the Foundations of Judicial Review
מאת Douglas Edlin "With keen insight into the common law mind, Edlin argues that there are rich resources within the law for judges to ground their opposition to morally outrageous laws, and a legal obligation on them to overturn it, consequent on the general common law obligation to develop the law. Thus, se... |
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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (Economics, Cognition, and Society)
מאת Deirdre Nansen McCloskey “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 t... |
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Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C. (Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome)
מאת Nancy A. Winter Although initially intended for the innovative, if prosaic, purpose of providing waterproof and fireproof cover for earlier thatch-roofed homes, fired clay tiles, in seventh- and sixth-century Etruria and Central Italy, combined with Etruscan love of adornment to create exceptional dome... |
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The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System (Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World)
מאת Dr. Jacob Soll "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University o... |
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Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1990 book Le Contrat Naturel, Serres calls for a natural contract to be negotiated between Earth and its inhabitants.World history is often referre...
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Treaty Politics and the Rise of Executive Agreements: International Commitments in a System of Shared Powers
מאת Glen S Krutz In foreign relations, U.S. presidents have exercised a growing independence through the use of executive agreements. The U.S. Constitution specifies that two-thirds of the Senate must ratify a proposed treaty but makes no provision for other forms of international agreements. In 1942 th... |
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"[Looks] at adoption from all sides of the triangle: adoptee, birth mother, adoptive parents . . . A provocative, comprehensive inquiry." ---Kirkus Reviews "Honest and moving."---New York Times "Important and powerful . . . [the author] is concerned not just with ad... |
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After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
מאת Rita Chin "After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the fie... |
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Props have often been taken for granted in our notions of the theater, yet they've helped alter the course of dramatic history by providing playwrights with a concrete way to keep theatrical meaning in motion.In The Stage Life of Props, Andrew Sofer aims to restore to certain props the performance d...
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In Latin Grammar, Dirk Panhuis has created an innovative reference that makes use of many of the advances that have taken place in linguistics during the last half century. Using a syntactic—instead of the traditional morphological—approach to syntax, Panhuis explains linguistic...
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New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History (Jazz Perspectives)
מאת Bruce Boyd Raeburn New Orleans Style tells the tale of the recognition of New Orleans jazz as a discrete style and how that recognition affected the writing of American jazz history. The men and women who participated in the awakening of American jazz scholarship were partisans of a community of "hot" re... |
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A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation. Elizabeth Alexander is considered one of the country's most gi... |
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Every once in a while a book comes along that combines both art and research so completely, so intuitively, that it becomes a classic, offering the reader not only a wealth of information, but an escape into the life of the subject covered. Polar Bears is such a book.Here, you will learn from...
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Four million adults in the United States say that becoming famous is the most important goal in their lives. In any random sampling of one hundred American adults, two will have fame as their consuming desire. What motivates those who set fame as their priority, where did the desire come fro... |
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Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
מאת Carol Poore "Comprehensively researched, abundantly illustrated and written in accessible and engaging prose . . . With great skill, Poore weaves diverse types of evidence, including historical sources, art, literature, journalism, film, philosophy, and personal narratives into a tapestry which illumi... |
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“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 Kul... |
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Someone to Watch Over Me: The Life and Music of Ben Webster (Jazz Perspectives)
מאת Frank Buchmann-Moller For a half century, Ben Webster, one of the "big three" of swing tenors-along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young-was one of the best-known and most popular saxophonists.Early in his career, Webster worked with many of the greatest orchestras of the time, including those led by Willie Br...
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Alfred Corn is one of the most learned and, at the same time, one of the most accessible contemporary poets. His work often displays a Whitman-like embrace of the many facets of contemporary life while demonstrating a dexterous mastery of received and invented forms and meters. Corn i... |
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Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
מאת Katrin Sieg ". . . a rich and important scholarly work, clearing promising new territory for cultural historians and identity theorists."---Theatre Research International ". . . an enticing, superbly documented, and exceptionally well-written account of the phantasmatic s...
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Four million adults in the United States say that becoming famous is the most important goal in their lives. In any random sampling of one hundred American adults, two will have fame as their consuming desire. What motivates those who set fame as their priority, where did the desire come fro... |
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Praise for Nancy Willard "Willard's invention and lyricism, the splash of her wit, the glancing slyness of her dialogue, all have the fresh breath of a first-rate writer."---New York Times Book Review "Willard's gift for seamlessly mixing the magical and the mundane puts h... |
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Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class, and Reification (Class : Culture)
מאת Marcial Gonzalez
The field of Mexican American fiction has exploded since the 1990s, yet there has been relatively little critical assessment of this burgeoning area in American literature. "Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form" is a provocative and timely study of literary form that focuses on the fiction of fiv...
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War and the State exposes the invalid arguments employed in the unproductive debate about Realism among international relations scholars, as well as the common fallacy of sharply distinguishing between conflict among states and conflict within them. As R. Harrison Wagner demonstrates, any ... |
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"Richard Schur offers a provocative view of contemporary African American cultural politics and the relationship between African American cultural production and intellectual property law."---Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University "Whites used to own blacks. Now, they accomplish much the same t... |
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Good for the Jews is a smart, funny, sexy novel set in Madison, Wisconsin, during the Bush administration. Part mystery and part stranger-comes-to town story, Good for the Jews is loosely based on the biblical book of Esther. Like Esther, Debra Spark's characters deal with ant... |
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Today we are politically polarized as never before. The presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 will be remembered as two of the most contentious political events in American history. Yet despite the recent election upheaval, The American Voter Revisited discovers that voter behavior ... |
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Carbon Strategies: How Leading Companies Are Reducing Their Climate Change Footprint
מאת Andrew J. Hoffman “Climate change’s impacts cut across all functional areas of a business. The systematic approach proposed in this report will be very helpful to business managers concerned with integration of business activities in operations, marketing, finance, and hum... |
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The President Electric: Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
מאת Timothy Raphael "In this illuminating, multi-pronged cultural and performance history of such phenomena as Chautauqua and radio, movies, and electrical technology, Timothy Raphael puts together a compelling and sometimes revelatory narrative of how commandingly Reagan mastered the matrix of performance... |
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The highly esteemed literary critic and poet Sandra M. Gilbert is best known for her feminist literary collaborations with Susan Gubar, with whom she coauthored The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, as well as the three-volum... |
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The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
מאת Terry Rowden "Rowden has wedded ethnomusicology and disability studies to offer a fresh approach to the study of African American popular music. The Songs of Blind Folk undermines many of the defining mythologies and tropes of blind musicians, including the perception that they are succe... |
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“Meticulously researched, detailed and documented, this long awaited overview justly establishes Konitz as one of the most consistently brilliant, adventurous and original improvisers in the jazz tradition—a genius as rare as Bird himse... |
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Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821
מאת George Anthony Selgin Good Money tells the fascinating story of British manufacturers' challenge to the Crown's monopoly on coinage. In the 1780s, when the Industrial Revolution was gathering momentum, the Royal Mint failed to produce enough small-denomination coinage for factory owners to pay their worker... |
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A modest, quiet woman, Mara Raynor never dreamed she'd one day find herself in charge of the small private school in Washington, D.C., where for many years she taught music and choir. But after the unexpected death of her husband, the school's headmaster, Mara finds herself thrust into ... |
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"Displays the full range of informed, thoughtful opinion on the place of Jews in the American politics of identity."---David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History, University of California, Berkeley "A fascinating anthology whose...
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"Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea recasts the gun debate by showing its importance to the future of democracy and the modern regulatory state. Until now, gun rights advocates had effectively co-opted the language of liberty and democracy and made it their own. This book is a...
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"One of the most prominent figures in American Hellenistic poetry scholarship, Peter Bing has long served as a model for acute criticism and careful reading. He has a marvelous ability to make readers rethink their preconceptions; his work is always beautifully argued and documented a...
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“Joanne Leonard will play an important role in the history of 20th-century culture, art, and photo history for her daring and innovative subject matter . . . her complex and multi-layer... |
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"'All I gotta do is act naturally,' Buck Owens sang, and Pamela Fox knows where the acting comes in. From early hillbilly acts to alt.country, Natural Acts lays bare, with wide-ranging scholarship and incisive analysis, the ideologies of authenticity on which country mu... |
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Publishing The Prince: History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism (Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World)
מאת Dr. Jacob Soll "Jacob Soll traces the origins of Enlightenment criticism to the practices of learned humanists and hard-pressed literary entrepreneurs. This learned and lively book is also a tour de force of historical research and interpretation."---Anthony Grafton, author of Cardano's...
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Édouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers. Born in Martinique in 1928, Glissant earned a doctorate from the Sorbonne. When he returned to his nati...
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Skate Life: Re-Imagining White Masculinity (Technologies of the Imagination: New Media in Everyday Life)
מאת Dr. Emily Chivers Yochim PhD "Intellectually deft and lively to read, Skate Life is an important addition to the literature on youth cultures, contemporary masculinity, and the role of media in identity formation."---Janice A. Radway, Northwestern University, author of Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarc... |
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Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
מאת Carol Poore A groundbreaking exploration of disability in Germany, from the Weimar Republic to present-day reunified Germany ... |
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One of the leading voices in Latino literature writes about his life and work ... |
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"Midlarsky has done it again, another state-of-the art handbook on the most recent developments in the study of war. This volume is entirely new with a focus on internal war. It is a 'must-read' for scholars and students of conflict. Even the most knowledgeable will learn a gr... |
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A Good Quarrel: America's Top Legal Reporters Share Stories from Inside the Supreme Court
מאת Prof. Timothy R. Johnson While reading what top legal reporters say about some of the most important U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in recent history, go to www.goodquarrel.com to listen to audio and hear for yourself the very style and delivery of the oral arguments that have shaped the history of our natio... |
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The Strategy of Campaigning explores the political careers of Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin, two of the most galvanizing and often controversial political figures of our time. Both men overcame defeat early in their political caree... |
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One of the most individual stylists of his time, trumpeter Lee Morgan began his professional career in Philadelphia at age fifteen. At eighteen, after a short stint with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Morgan joined Dizzy Gillespie's orchestra, where he stayed until the group disbanded in 19... |
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Paradigms and Sand Castles: Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics (Analytical Perspectives on Politics)
מאת Barbara Geddes
Paradigms and Sand Castles describes in a lively and provocative manner the methodological pitfalls most characteristic of the study of developing countries. Although much of this book focuses on the concrete details of empirical research, its primary goal is to aid theory building. Its central mess...
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"No one covers technology with more insight or panache than Clive Thompson. I can't imagine anyone better qualified to curate this fascinating series."---Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired magazine and author of The Long Tail "Editor Clive Thompson suggests we are in a ... |
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Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
מאת Stephen J. Bottoms "Scrupulously researched, critically acute, and written with care, Playing Underground will become a classic account of an era of hard-won free expression."-William Coco"At last---a book documenting the beginnings of Off-Off Broadway theater. Playing Underground is an insightful, ...
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Recent figures suggest that there will be 1.6 billion arrivals at world airports by the year 2020. Extreme Pursuits looks at the new conditions of global travel and the unease, even paranoia, that underlies them---at the opportunities they offer for alternative identities and their os... |
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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (Economics, Cognition, and Society)
מאת Stephen T. Ziliak “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 t... |
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Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
מאת Martha Stoddard Holmes "Highly recommended . . . Holmes moves seamlessly from novelists like Charles Dickens to sociologists like Henry Mayhew to autobiographers like John Kitto."---Choice "An absolutely stunning book that will make a significant contribution to both Victorian liter...
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Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC
מאת Karen Chilton
The first biography of an important but overlooked African American pianist, singer, actor, and civil-rights advocate
In 1938, Café Society--New York City's first fully integrated nightclub--was all the rage, and Hazel Scott was its star. Still a teenager, she wowed audiences with her ja... |
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No Middle Ground: How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures
מאת Seth Masket Despite the debilitating effects of partisanship on democratic government, political parties have gained strength in state governments as well as in Washington in recent years. In many cases these parties function as machines, manipulating votes and determining which candidates c...
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A prominent poet brings the experience of the world to her struggles to find her place in America, and explores what the many cultures in this country mean for poets practicing their craft ... |
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In the United States at mid-century, in an era when there were few opportunities for women in general and even fewer for African American women, Jackie Ormes blazed a trail as a popular artist with the major black newspapers of the day. Jackie Ormes chronicles the life of this multip... |
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Set against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's brilliant novel weaves myth and legend together with the suffering and tragedies of the Filipino people. When nine-year-old Yvonne flees with her family into the jungle to join the resistance e...
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"Deployed is an important and deeply moving book. Here, in this story, the heroic tradition of the American citizen-soldier lives on."---Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor, Boston University, and author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War "Whatever... |
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"Manning the Margins is provocative, timely, and very original and makes a significant contribution to a variety of fields, including French literary studies, early modern history of ideas, women's and gender studies, and masculinity studies. There is no other work that... |
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The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America
מאת Susan B. A. Somers-Willett
Product Description The cultural phenomenon known as slam poetry was born some twenty years ago in white working-class Chicago barrooms. Since then, the raucous competitions have spread internationally, launching a number of annual tournaments, inspiring a generation of young poets, and spaw...
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Ilan Stavans has been a lightning rod for cultural discussion and criticism his entire career. In A Critic's Journey, he takes on his own Jewish and Hispanic upbringing with an autobiographical focus and his typical flair with words, exploring the relationship between the tw... |
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Framed uses fin de siècle British crime narrative to pose a highly interesting question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era are unsympathetic or even grotesque? In this elegantly argued study, Elizabeth ... |