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University of Washington Press New Lives in Anand
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sanderien Verstappen’s wonderful new book New Lives in Anand tells us that the story of Gujarati Muslims does not end with violence and displacement...[T]he book shows us how new lives and connections are made by communities who have deep ties to a region and a way of life that cannot be reduced to the word 'Muslim.'" -- Moyukh Chatterjee * The Wire *"Verstappen...holds herself accountable to the often-contradictory stories that her interlocutors tell about their relationship to communal violence. The threat of violence is still present as a binding force, but processes of social change are made livable by a new aesthetics of mobility and connectedness." -- Nikita Simpson * Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology *"The book is instrumental in charting a new paradigm to theorize segregated Muslim spaces and Muslim middle-class formations." * South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies *
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University of Washington Press The Swedish Theory of Love
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University of Washington Press Inside the World of Climate Change Skeptics
Book SynopsisAn extraordinary look into doubt, denial, and distrustAs wildfires rip across the western United States and sea levels rise along coastal cities from Louisiana to Alaska, some people nevertheless reject the mainstream scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. What leads people to doubt or outright denial? What leads skeptics to change their minds? Drawing from a rich collection of interviews and surveys with self-identified climate change skeptics (and some former ones), sociologists Kristin Haltinner and Dilshani Sarathchandra delve into the underlying dynamics of climate skepticism in the United States. In probing how ideas about science, religion, politics, and media affect perceptions of climate change, they find a far greater diversity of attitudes and beliefs than one might expectincluding some pro-environmental views. With this nuanced understanding of climate change skepticism, Inside the World of Climate Change Skeptics offers m
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University of Washington Press Taiwan Lives
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MV - University of Washington Press From Forest Farm to Sawmill
Book SynopsisA worker-centered, woman-centered history of China's economic transformationSocialist China's state forestry and timber industries employed men as state workers and women as family dependents and collective workers who, beginning in the 1950s, turned rural land into urban-industrial space. These features make forestry a unique case with which to investigate how state policies constructed and reinforced intertwined and co-constitutive dualisms between humanity and nature, urban and rural places, production and reproduction, and male and female labor. Centering on oral histories in Fujian, Shuxuan Zhou situates firsthand accounts of labor and resistance in forestry and wood processing within the larger context of postrevolutionary socialist reforms through China's rapid economic development after the 1990s. Zhou shows how, in response to state development projects that exploited female labor, immigrants, rurality, and forests, workers created a space for their personal and political dema
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MV - University of Washington Press The Dong World and Imperial Chinas Southwest Silk
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MV - University of Washington Press The Xi Jinping Effect
Book SynopsisAssesses the broad impact of China''s influential leaderThe Xi Jinping Effect explores the relationship between the People''s Republic of China''s current paramount leaderarguably the most powerful figure since Mao Zedong (18931976)and multiple areas of political and social transformation. It illuminates not just policy arenas in which his leadership of China has had an outsized impact but also areas where his initiatives have faltered due to unintended consequences, international pushback, or the divergence of local priorities from those of the central government. Collectively, the book''s chapters document the ways in which Xi''s neo-totalitarianism has dismantled Reform Era legacies, while reconfiguring governance and rewiring China''s global connections. Contributions by anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists consider such issues as Xi''s anticorruption campaign and obsession with ideological governance, state surveillance, th
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MV - University of Washington Press Chinese Characters across Asia
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MV - University of Washington Press The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun
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MV - University of Washington Press The NotQuite Child
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MV - University of Washington Press Contested Taiwan
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MV - University of Washington Press The Beach Cure
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MV - University of Washington Press Remaking the Earth Exhausting the People
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MV - University of Washington Press The Predicament of Privilege
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University of Washington Press What Is Art For
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the most intellectually enriching interdisciplinary studies of art that has ever been written. It combines breadth of learning with lucidity of thought and expression, in a way that should engage the interest of anyone with a systematic interest in the arts—be it scientific, or from the viewpoint of the humanities." * Nature *
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University of Washington Press Homo Aestheticus
Book SynopsisDiscusses the place of art in human evolution and in the futureTrade Review"Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being. In her view, art is intimately linked to the origins of religious practices and to ceremonies of birth, death, transition, and transcendence. Drawing on her years in Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Papua New Guinea, she gives examples of painting, song, dance, and drama as behaviors that enable participants to grasp and reinforce what is important to their cognitive world." * Publishers Weekly *"Ellen Dissanayake’s book is the most forceful rejoinder I’ve read so far to the trivializing pessimism of postmodernist art theory." -- Kenneth Baker * San Francisco Chronicle *"Affirm[s] the idea that art is for life’s sake, for the fulfillment of fundamental human needs, and for human survival. . . . She gives us a coherent rationale for funding broadly based arts programs." * Art Therapy *"Homo Aestheticus offers a wealth of original and critical thinking. It will inform and irritate specialist, student, and lay reader alike." * American Anthropologist *"Homo Aestheticus calls for a counterrevolution in our thinking about art. It is timely, provocative, and immensely valuable." * Philosophy and Literature *Table of ContentsPreface to the 1995 Edition Preface to the Original Edition Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Why Species-Centrism? 2. Biology and Art: The Implications of Feeling Good 3. The Core of Art: Making Special 4. Dromena, or "Things Done": Reconciling Culture and Nature 5. The Arts as Means of Enhancement 6. "Empathy Theory" Reconsidered: The Psychobiology of Aesthetic Responses 7. Does Writing Erase Art? Notes References Index of Names Index of Subjects Credits
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University of Washington Press Zakhor
Book SynopsisDiscusses the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish memory and Jewish historiography.Trade Review"A remarkable book that discusses the millennial tension between the age-old Jewish commandment - and tradition - of remembrance and the relatively new Jewish interest in history." * American Historical Review *"Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi is an exemplary Jewish historian of the Jews, and with Zakhor he becomes an exemplary theorist of the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish memory and Jewish historiography. . . [Zakhor] may well be a permanent contribution to Jewish speculation upon the dilemmas of Jewishness, and so it may join the canon of Jewish wisdom literature." * New York Review of Books *"Mr. Yerushalmi’s previous writings, on the Spanish and Portuguese Jews . . . established him as one of the Jewish community’s most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order —- mature speculation based on massive scholarship." * New York Times Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword by Harold Bloom Preface to the 1996 Edition Preface to the 1989 Edition Prologue to the Original Edition 1. Biblical and Rabbinic Foundations - Meaning in History, Memory, and the Writing of History 2. The Middle Ages - Vessels and Vehicles of Jewish Memory 3. In the Wake of the Spanish Expulsion 4. Modern Dilemas - Historiography and Its Discontents Postscript - Reflections on Forgetting Notes Index
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University of Washington Press The Gelede Spectacle
Book SynopsisThis remarkable study explores the use of the visual and performing arts to promote nonviolence and social harmony in sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on Gelede, a popular community festival of masquerade, dance, and song, held several times a year by the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria and the Republic of Benin. Babatunde Lawal, an art historian and African scholar who has taught in Nigeria, Brazil, and the United States, is himself a Yoruba and has taken an active part in Gelede. He writes from the perspective of an informed participant/observer of his own culture.Lawal bases his book on extensive field researchobservations and interviewsconducted over more than two decades as well as on numerous published and unpublished scholarly sources. He casts significant new light on many previously obscure aspects of Gelede, and he demonstrates a useful methodological approach to the study of non-Western art.The book systematically covers the major aspects of the Gelede sp
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University of Washington Press Glenn Murcutt University of Washington Master
Book SynopsisCombines examples of studio work with edited transcripts of Murcutt's public lectures and sessions with students, professionals, and Finnish architect Juhanni Pallasamaa.Trade Review"A slim but elegantly designed book of essays." * Seattle Times *Table of ContentsSTUDIOS Glenn Murcutt + Peter Cohan 2004 Environmental Research & Learning Center Shaw Island, Washington Glenn Murcutt + Peter Cohan 2005 Nisqually Environmental Education Center Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, Washington Glenn Murcutt + Rick Mohler 2006 Kenmore Air Terminal Seattle, Washington Glenn Murcutt + Jim Nicholls 2007 Pilchuk Glass School Stanwood, Washington Glenn Murcutt + Peter Cohan 2008 Tula Young Hastings Farm Pullman, Washington Juror's Comment / Carlos Jiminez TRANSCRIPTS Conversation with Students / Glenn Murcutt 12 April 2004 Callison Noon Hour Lecture / Glenn Murcutt 17 May 2007 A Conversation Between Friends / Murcutt + Pallasmaa 11 April 2008 NOTES Observation and Exchange / Jim Nicholls Glenn Time / Peter Cohan How Glenn Murcutt came to teach at UW / Dr. Vikramaditya Prakash The Master Class / David Miller Glenn Murcutt DVP / Callison Architects
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University of Washington Press Return to the Land of the Head Hunters
Book SynopsisInfluential but often neglected in historical accounts, this spectacular melodrama was an intercultural product of Curtis' encounter and collaboration with the Kwakwaka'wakw of British Columbia. This book offers Kwakwaka'wakw perspectives on the film, and accounts of its production and subsequent circulation.Trade Review"Richly illustrated, multivocal, and altogether remarkable. . . . This book does us all a service by ushering Curtis’s In the Land of the Head Hunters into the 21st century." * American Ethnologist *"Offers a stunning range of perspectives and visual materials drawing from the original production to the present. . . . Ambitious not only in its scope but in its commitment to understanding and presenting the film in its multiple indigenous contexts." * American Literary History *"A detailed and thoughtful book that brings together scholars, artists, and Kwakwaka’wakw community members in a wide-ranging discourse on the film." * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"The essays provide a rare look at both the tremendous amount of planning, negotiation, and artistic work that goes into this kind of production, but also the diversity of reactions it necessarily inspires—from sturdy appreciation to charges of romanticism and exploitation." * Pacific Historical Review *"[An] accomplished critical engagement with the complicated and tumultuous nature of the place of the film in academia and in First Nations communities. . . . The volume is also testimony to the fact that 100 years after the original production, the film can still capture the imaginations and minds of scholars and the broad public." * BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly *"[This] generously illustrated anthology of essays—some decidedly academic, others more personal and anecdotal—address the film from every angle while also placing Curtis (1868–1952) and his First Nations collaborators on the film in their historical context." * Seattle Times *Table of ContentsU'mista Cultural Society Statement of Participation / William T. CranmerForeword / Bill HolmPreface / Brad Evans and Aaron GlassAcknowledgmentsIntroduction PART ONE. Mediating Indians / Complicating Curtis1. Edward Curtis and In the Land of the Head Hunters: Four Contexts / Micky Gidley2. Images of Time: Portraiture in The North American Indian / Shamoon Zamir3. Indian Landscapes: Pauline Johnson and Edward Curtis / Kate Flint4. A Chamber of Echoing Songs: Edward Curtis as a Musical Ethnographer / Ira JacknisPhoto Essay 1. "At the Kitchen Table with Edward Curtis"/ Jeff Thomas PART TWO. Head Hunters Across Two Centuries5. Consuming the Head Hunters: A Century of Film REception / Aaron Glass and Brad Evans6. Unmasking the Documentary: Notes on the Anxiety of Edward Curtis / Colin Browne7. Indian Movies and the Vernacular of Modernism / Brad Evans8. Musical Intertextuality in Indigenous Film: Making and Remaking In the Land of the Head Hunters / Klisala Harrison9. Reflections on Working with Edward Curtis / Barbara Cranmer (Tlakwagila'ogwa)Photo Essay 2. "Old Images / New Views: Indigenous Perspectives on Edward Curtis" / Dr. E. Richard Atleo, Pam Brown, Marie Clements, Karrmen Crey, Mique'l Icesis Dangeli, Andy Everson, Linc Kesler, David Neel, Evelyn Vanderhoop, and William Wasden Jr. PART THREE. Reimaging Curtis Today10. In the Land of the Head Hunters: Reconstruction, not Restoration . Jere Guldin11. In the Land of the Head Hunters and the History of Silent Film Music / David Gilbert12. Performing Braham, Interpreting Curtis: A Conversation on Conducting / Neal Stulberg, Owen Underhill, Timothy Long, and Laura Ortman13. "What the Creator Gave to Us": An Interview with William Wasden Jr. (Waxawidi)14. Cultural Interpretation / Dave Hunsaker15. The Kwakwakka'wakw Business of Showing: Tradition Meets Modernity on the Silver Screen and the World Stage / Aaron Glass Afterword. Twentieth Century Fox / Paul Chaat SmithAppendix 1. Promotional Images for In the Land of the Head HuntersAppendix 2. The Kwakwaka'wakw Cast and Crew of In the Land of the Head HuntersAppendix 3. Curtis Film Props in the Collection of the Burke Musem of Natural History and CultureAppendix 4. Title Cards from the 2008 Reconstruction of In the Land of the Head HuntersReferencesContributorsIndex
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University of Wisconsin Press Teaching U.S. History through Sports
Book SynopsisProvides strategies for incorporating sports into any US history curriculum. Drawing on their own classroom experiences, the authors suggest creative ways to use sports as a lens to examine a broad range of historical subjects, including Puritan culture, the rise of Jim Crow, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the women’s movement.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Using Sports History to Teach American History Brad Austin and Pamela Grundy Part One: Modernization and Globalization Organized, Team, Sport: Teaching a Powerful American Idea Marc Horger Teaching Sports Scandals Chris Elzey “Ambassadors in Short Pants”: Sport and the Cold Warriors Rita Liberti The Shifting Geography of Professional Sports Brad Austin The Globalization of American Sport Lars Dzikus and Adam Love Part Two: Gender and Sexuality Issues of Sexuality in Sport Sarah K. Fields The Shaping of “Women’s Sport” Pamela Grundy Teaching Sports and Women’s History through “The Babe” Susan E. Cayleff Black Women Face Obstacles and Opportunities Pamela Grundy and Rita Liberti Title IX: Contested Terrain Bobbi A. Knapp Part Three: Race and Ethnicity Jim Crow at Play Pamela Grundy Race and Rebellion in the Progressive Era Matthew Andrews Teaching Black College Athletics: Challenges and Opportunities Derrick E. White Sports, Civil Rights, and Black Power Lauren Morimoto Diverse Experiences of Latino/a Athletes and Their Role in U.S. Sport History Jorge Iber What’s in a Name? Teaching the History of American Indian Mascots Andrew Frank Part Four: Case Studies Colonial Sporting Cultures Brad Austin Baseball and American Exceptionalism Leslie Heaphy NASCAR 101: Moonshine, Fast Cars, and Southern Working-Class Agency Daniel Pierce The Political Olympics Derek Charles Catsam Lights, Camera, Action: Teaching American Sport through Film Ron Briley Resources and Suggestions Brad Austin and Pamela Grundy Contributors Index
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University of Wisconsin Press Dancing Spirit Love and War Performing the
Book SynopsisMeke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Evadne Kelly performs close readings of the dance in relation to an evolving landscape, following the postcolonial reclamation that provided dancers with political agency and a strong sense of community.
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University of Wisconsin Press Keep the Wretches in Order Americas Biggest Mass
Book SynopsisIn the first legal history of the federal trial of the Industrial Workers of the World, Dean Strang shows how the case laid the groundwork for a fundamentally different strategy to stifle radical threats in the US, and had a major role in shaping the modern American Justice Department.Trade Review“Dean Strang tells a great story of America’s struggle with fear and injustice a century ago while asking us to consider, ‘What is the story of ourselves that we write today?’ American workers still fight what the Wobblies fought in 1918, as the Justice Department during WWI overreached in ways similar to our current ‘war on terror.’ Dean is a great attorney and a gifted writer, borrowing lessons from the past to help guide our future.” —Alec Baldwin“Strang humanizes this shameful chapter in our nation’s history. With empathy and verve, he tells the story of abuse of executive power, a partial and wacky federal judge (and autocratic first baseball commissioner), and many ruined lives of working men and women.”—Brad Snyder, author of The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism
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University of Wisconsin Press Alien Miss
Book SynopsisIn her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen ‘spangling with light’. Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants.Trade ReviewA vivid and electric collection that ranges from surrealist alter-ego poems that vivisect the fetishization of Asian femininity to narrative poems that recount the absurd and tender contradictions of a Chinese childhood in the Midwest. Duan offers poetry that is outsized with lyrical rage and heart." - Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings"Duan's lyric emerges out of a community's collective will to live and insists that poems are made of such legacies of loss, invention, memory, tatter. She finds an utterance that is perhaps vital to her, and is, yes, certainly vital to me. Such a work is a reminding, and such a re-minding is enormous." - Aracelis Girmay, author of Kingdom Animalia"This is a stunning book of family histories and family portraits, belonging and unbelonging. These poems are a world I can't wait to return to, over and over again." - Safia Elhillo, author of The January Children
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University of Wisconsin Press Legacy on Ice Blake Geoffrion and the Fastest
Book SynopsisIn swift-moving prose, Sam Jefferies tells Blake Geoffrion’s story against the backdrop of modern North American hockey. Thorough research and scores of interviews fuel this tale of soaring success and terrible tragedy, offering insight into one man’s athletic journey and the rise of American hockey on the national and international stage.Trade Review“A wonderful book about the fastest, meanest, greatest sport in the world and a man who lived it to the core.”—Rich Cohen, New York Times bestselling author of Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent“Jefferies captures Blake’s essence both on and off the ice, providing glimpses of a sport’s transformative journey and of a family-rooted individual, wonderful teammate, determined athlete, and passionate competitor. Although Blake has many more chapters to live, this book encapsulates his story, highlighting his passion, his sacrifice, and how he found strength in overcoming adversity.”—Hilary Knight, Olympic Medal-winning American ice hockey forwardTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword by John Buccigross Prologue: One Night in Montreal Chapter 1: Williamson County Chapter 2: USA Hockey Chapter 3: Finding Wisconsin Chapter 4: Chasing the Hobey Chapter 5: The Pros, and the End Epilogue Index
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University of Wisconsin Press The Blameless
Book SynopsisUnflinching, compassionate, and gripping, this bold novel evocatively examines the ambiguities wrought by both violence and redemption.Trade ReviewUnflinching, compassionate, and gripping, The Blameless is a gem of a novel by a master storyteller. It challenges us to rethink everything we thought we knew about crime and punishment, guilt and forgiveness. This gorgeous and moving novel of ideas also bears witness to the human potential to completely remake ourselves." - Sharon Harrigan, author of Half"A suspenseful and beautiful tale of two haunted characters on a collision course. In The Blameless, Ryan Kenedy writes acutely about the arid landscape, the hard labor, the unceasing economic pressures—and the complex, tangled history of his dual protagonists. With utmost precision, he chronicles lives in poignant disarray. He has crafted an immersive and aching narrative of guilt, retribution, and restoration." - Stephen Schottenfeld, author of This Room Is Made of Noise
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University of Wisconsin Press Cravings
Book SynopsisOpening with ‘Hors d’oeuvres’ and closing with a ‘Feast’, the stories in Cravings pulse with longing, missed opportunities, recriminations, and joy. Garnett Kilberg Cohen leads readers through acutely crafted explorations of the way events shape and change our lives, sometimes for the better and sometimes in ways that haunt us forever.Trade ReviewThe characters in Cravings demanded my full attention and my full empathy. Cohen crafts their circumstances brilliantly, revealing the moments around which the rest of their lives are tangled. Each yearns for something different, but as I turned the last page, I knew what I wanted: one more story." - Jeff Hoffmann, author of Other People's Children"Each story in Garnett Kilberg Cohen’s gorgeous new collection is a tour de force in subtlety and indirection. Everyday narratives become profound meditations upon how we process trauma, the indelible imprint of past experience upon the present, and the paradoxically fixed and fluid nature of memory. Philosophical, reflective, and attuned to the human spirit, these powerful tales will win your heart, and then ask you to wonder why." - Elizabeth Kadetsky, author of The Memory EatersTable of Contents Hors d’oeuvres Slow Dance Ogden, Ohio NoirHer Life in Parties Wheels Breaking News Maternal Instinct Jump My Practice Life The Goodbye Party Feast Acknowledgments
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Yale University Press The Frederick Douglass Papers
Book SynopsisThe selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer dating from the immediate post–Civil War years
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Yale University Press The Archive of Empire
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Yale University Press The Sublime Post
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Yale University Press Marital Privilege
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WW Norton & Co Elysian Kitchens
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Michigan Shrubs and Vines A Guide to Species of
Book SynopsisShrubs and vines are some of the most diverse and widespread plants in the Great Lakes Region. Michigan Shrubs and Vines is the must-have book for anyone who wishes to identify and learn about these fascinating plants. The book gives detailed descriptions of 132 species, providing concise information on key characters, habitat, distribution, and growth pattern.
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The University of Michigan Press ProcessTracing Methods
Book SynopsisProcess-tracing in social science is a method for studying causal mechanisms linking causes with outcomes. This enables the researcher to make inferences about how a cause contributes to producing an outcome. Derek Beach and Rasmus Brun Pedersen introduce a refined definition of process-tracing, differentiating it into four distinct variants.
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The University of Michigan Press A Casebook of Decolonizing Pedagogical Practices
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The University of Michigan Press Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender Performance and
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The University of Michigan Press The Bodies of Others Drag Dances and Their
Book SynopsisExplores the politics of gender in motion. From drag ballerinas to faux queens, and from butoh divas to the club mothers of modern dance, this book delves into four decades of drag dances on American stages, tracing the ways in which bodies can be imagined otherwise.
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The University of Michigan Press Disability and Social Justice in Kenya
Book SynopsisPresents the first interdisciplinary and multivocal study of its kind to review achievements and challenges related to the situation of persons with disabilities in Kenya today, in light of the country’s longer history of disability and the wide range of local practices and institutions.Table of Contents Table of Contents Preface (Kimani Njogu) “Kinga na kinga ndipo moto huwakapo”: Disability in Kenya (Rebecca Monteleone and Nina Berman) From Human Rights to Disability Rights Disability and Social Justice: Persons with Disabilities and the Quest for Inclusion and Constitutional Reforms in Kenya (Patrick “Paddy” Onyango) Access to Justice as a Tool for Social Inclusion: An Overview of Legal Frameworks for Persons with Disabilities in Kenya (Fredrick Collins Omondi) International and Domestic Legal Protection Against Violence for Girls and Women with Disabilities in Kenya (Arlene S. Kanter and Everlyn Milanoi Koiyiet) Disability Activism and Medical Genetics: Shaping the Emerging Landscape (Rebecca Monteleone) Access and Inclusion Claiming our Space: A Political Economy of the Dis-Citizenship of Disabled Kenyans (Theodoto Ressa) Disability and Poverty in Kenya (Samuel Odawo) Anayevaa kiatu, hujua kinapomfinya (The wearer of the shoe knows where it pinches) (Christopher Odinga) Education and the Media Special Needs Education in Kenya: Progress since Independence (Sheilah Mukholi Lutta) Girl Child Network’s Best Practices for Inclusive Education: Access to Education for Learners with Disabilities (Nathaniel Murungi and Collins Ombajo, with Mercy Musomi and Dennis Mutiso) Children with Disabilities in Kenyan Media: Lessons from the Abled Differently Programme (John Ndavula and Jackline Lidubwi) Reconceptualizing Advocacy Work Toward Improving Educational Provisions for Children with Disabilities (Lubna Mazrui and Margaret Murugami) Stigma and Culture Psychosocial-Economic Challenges of Parents of Children with Disabilities and Psychological Well-Being in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya (Prisca Kiptoo-Tarus, William Kurumei, and Stephen Ngososei) Heroin Addiction as Socially Induced Disability (Nina Berman) Changing Cultural Perceptions of Disability through Empowerment of Families and Local Leaders (Cynthia Rose Bauer and Leonard Mbonani, with Jessica Charles) Epilogue
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The University of Michigan Press Going to the Tigers
Book SynopsisIn this funny and perceptive collection, novelist and essayist Robert Cohen shares his thoughts on the writing process and then puts these prescriptions into practice - from how to rant effectively as an essayist and novelist, how to achieve your own style, to the use of reference and allusion in one’s work.Table of Contents 1. The Uncertainty Principle 2. Emblem, Essence 3. The Piano Has Been Drinking 4. Elkin 5. Ain’t That Pretty at All, or Going to the Tigers 6. Refer Madness 7. Living, Loving, Temple-Going 8. A Maker of Mirrors 9. C. and Sardinia 10. Kafka’s Budget Guide to Florence 11. Invisible Ink: A Mystery
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The University of Michigan Press Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature
Book SynopsisAn anthology of translated Japanese literature about men behaving lovingly, erotically, and intimately with other men. Covering more than 125 years of modern and contemporary Japanese history, this book introduces a diverse array of authors to an English-speaking audience and provide further context for their works.Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: “A Portrait of Young Sangorō” [Shōnen sugata] by Yamada Bimyō (1886) - translated by Nick Albertson Chapter 2: “The Little Historian” [Shō rekishika] by Nishimura Suimu (1907) - translated by Kristin Sivak and Chelsea Bernard Chapter 3: “Is This Love?” [Ai ka] by Yi Kwangsu (1909) - translated by Janet Poole Chapter 4: “Whistle” [Kuchibue], by Orikuchi Shinobu (1914) - translated by Joseph Boxman Chapter 5: Three Stories by Inagaki Taruho - translated by Jeffrey Angles "Karl and the White Lamp" [Kāru to shiroi dentō] [1924, revised 1954] "Pince-Nez Glasses" [Hana megane] [1924, revised 1969] "The False Mustache" [Tsukihige] [1924, revised 1969] Chapter 6: Two essays by Hamao Shirō (1930) - translated by Steve Dodd “Thoughts on Homosexuality” [Dōseiai kō] “More Thoughts on Homosexuality” [Futatabi dōseiai ni tsuite] Chapter 7: “Squalid Alleyways” [Rōkō] by Kataoka Teppei (1934) - translated by Mio Akasako and Amanda Seaman Chapter 8: Selected Tanka from Haku'u and Tomo no sho by Kasugai Ken (1960) - translated by Scott Mehl Chapter 9: “Worse for Love” [Ai no shōkei], by “Sakakiyama Tamotsu” (Mishima Yukio) (1960) - translated by Sam Bett Chapter 10: “I Am Not Going on Sunday” [Nichiyōbi ni wa boku wa ikanai] by Mori Mari (1961) - translated by Bob Tierney Chapter 11: “Sacred Headland” from Sacred Triangle (Seisan kakukei) by Takahashi Mutsuo (1972) - translated by Paul McCarthy Chapter 12: “Red Palm Leaves” [Ai no yashi no ha], by Medoruma Shun (1992) - translated by Davinder Bhowmik Chapter 13: Selections from Gay Poems [Gei poemuzu] by Tanaka Atsusuke (2014) - translated by Jeffrey Angles Chapter 14: “The Story of a Strange Belly” [Kifukutan] by Fukushima Jirō (2005) - translated by Bruce Suttmeier Chapter 15: “Time Differences” [Jisa] by Tawada Yōko (2006) - translated by Jeffrey Angles Chapter 16: “The Playroom” [Mikkusu rūmu], by Morii Ryō (2014) - translated by Stephen D. Miller Acknowledgements List of Contributors
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The University of Michigan Press Improvising Across Abilities Pauline Oliveros
Book SynopsisBrings together scholars, musicians, and family members of people with disabilities to collectively recount years of personal experiences, research, and perspectives on the societal and community impact of inclusive musical improvisation.Trade ReviewImprovising Across Abilities is perhaps the only manuscript of its kind: one that explores the applications of one adaptive music technology, AUMI, in extraordinary depth through multivalent perspectives and scenarios via the words and metaphors of an extraordinarily varied collective of writers, students, teachers, social justice workers, technologists, community activists, group home directors, and creatives. While most scholarly essay collections feature chapters by academics from a narrow range of fields (if not a single one), this volume’s editorial team has consciously drawn writing from members of the public community who might not ordinarily contribute to such a collection, as well as from artists, scientists, and professors who write as part of their profession. The variation in writers and voices not only adds to the value of the book, but reinforces its argument that everyone, no matter what shape, size, or ability, should have a voice." - Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Brooklyn College"The awe-inspiring creator and thinker Pauline Oliveros is recognized for her pioneering electronic compositions, the astonishing diversity of her musical creations, her multifaceted poetic and expository writing, and her dedicated teaching of Deep Listening over many years. Some of her best-known work, the Sonic Meditations and Deep Listening Pieces, offers brief verbal instructions to allow groups to create musical experiences together, regardless of the musical training or experience of the people involved. An extension of this inclusiveness came in her later years with the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI), now a freely downloadable app that allows users, including people with limited physical mobility, to participate in music making in new and provocative ways. This well-conceived book makes available a stunning wealth of information about AUMI by writers from many different backgrounds." - Fred Maus, University of VirginiaTable of Contents Introduction Section I: Dreaming of AUMI Chapter 1 Going Deep: AUMI Since Before the Beginning Leaf Miller Illustrations by Ty Dykema Chapter 2 From Punk Philosophy to Musical Accessibility Zane Van Dusen Chapter 3 My Transformation into a Masterpiece Musical Instrument and Musician Clara Tomaz Chapter 4 The Gift of Expression: Playing AUMI with My Son Julie Brocklehurst Chapter 5 AUMI as a Model for Social Justice George Lipsitz Chapter 6 The Dream of AUMI IONE Section II: Software for All People: Improvising AUMI’s Development Chapter 7 AUMI in the Context of Adaptive Music Alex Lubet Chapter 8 AUMI Among the ADMIs: The Adaptive Digital Context Grace Shih-en Leu Chapter 9 AUMI Development and Developers: The DLI Years (2007-2012) Sherrie Tucker Chapter 10 AUMI Technology Development at McGill (2012-2019) John Sullivan, Ivan Franco, Ian Hattwick, Thomas Ciufo, Eric Lewis Chapter 11 How Adaptive, How Useful? 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