Search results for ""lup - university of michigan press""
LUP - University of Michigan Press Discourse Intonation A DiscoursePragmatic Approach to Teaching the Pronunciation of English
Provides an accessible introduction to discourse intonation for ESL/EFL instructors, whether practicing or in pre-service graduate programs. This textbook relies heavily on the Brazil model; chapters are organised around different parts of that model and how they can be most effectively taught.
£22.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Price of Racial Reconciliation
Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for reparations in the United States.
£23.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Beyond the Makerspace Making and Relational Rhetorics
Examining acts of making with objects, tools, words, and relationships, Beyond the Makerspace reads making as a kind of rhetoric, or meaning-making work, and argues that acts of making things are rhetorical in the sense that they are culturally situated and that they mark boundaries of what counts as making and who counts as maker.
£17.73
LUP - University of Michigan Press Cutting Performances
£27.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Fanfiction Reader Folk Tales for the Digital Age
Showcases the extent to which the archetypical storytelling exemplified by fanfiction has continuities with older forms: the communal tale-telling cultures of the past and the remix cultures of the present have much in common. Short stories that draw on franchises such as Star Trek are accompanied by short contextual and analytical essays.
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Open the Door
£16.89
LUP - University of Michigan Press Queer Livability
Brings together an exciting new archive of queer and trans voices from the history of sexual sciences in the German-speaking world. The book shows that individual voices of trans and queer writers had a significant impact on the production of knowledge about gender and sexuality and introduces lesser known texts to a new readership.
£21.11
LUP - University of Michigan Press Out of the Closets and into the Courts Legal Opportunity Structure and Gay Rights Litigation
Analyzes the gay rights cases, and explores the complex relationship between litigation and social change. This work describes what happens when these cases enter the courtroom, and explains why they have met with mixed success. It explores both the promise and the limits of using legal mobilization to effect social change.
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Pompeiis Living Statues Ancient Roman Lives Stolen from Death
£23.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Exploring Options in Academic Writing Effective Vocabulary and Grammar Use
This text is designed to help student writers develop their knowledge and use of academic language to meet the demands of college- and university-level writing assignments. It draws on the research identifying lexical and grammatical patterns across academic contexts and provides authentic reading contexts for structured vocabulary learning.
£21.11
LUP - University of Michigan Press Michigan Shrubs and Vines A Guide to Species of the Great Lakes Region
Shrubs 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.
£23.96
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson
Examines Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson's published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation. This book finds that each of Wilson's plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided.
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Defending the Holy Land
Presents an analysis of the history of Israel's defense and foreign policies and a fundamental reassessment of its security doctrine.
£33.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa
Examines the ways that accountability offers an effective interpretive lens to the social, cultural, and institutional struggles of both the elites and ordinary citizens in Africa. Each chapter investigates questions of power, its public deliberation, and its negotiation in Africa by studying elites through the framework of accountability.
£28.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Paradosis and Survival
£70.07
LUP - University of Michigan Press Not Straight from Germany
Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science was founded in Berlin in 1919 as a place of research, political advocacy, counselling, and public education. It was destroyed in 1933 as the first target of the Nazi book burnings. Not Straight from Germany examines its legacy, combining essays and a lavish array of visual materials.
£74.84
LUP - University of Michigan Press When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans A Study of Identity in PreNationalist Croatia Dalmatia and Slavonia in the Medieval and EarlyM
£82.58
LUP - University of Michigan Press Roman Siege Warfare
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Languages of Politics
Multilingualism depoliticizes policymaking in the EU
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press Winged Words The Life and Work of the Poet H.D.
H.D.’s friends and lovers were a veritable Who’s Who of modernism. Hollenberg gives us a glimpse into H.D.’s relationships with them. With rich detail, this biography follows H.D. from her early years in America with her family to her later years in England during both world wars to Switzerland, which would eventually become her home base.
£76.32
LUP - University of Michigan Press Amor Belli Love and Strife in Lucans Bellum Civile
Compelled by Nero to commit suicide at age 25 after writing uncomplimentary poems, Latin poet Lucan nevertheless left behind a significant body of work, including the Bellum Civile. Giulio Celotto provides an interpretation of this civil war based on the examination of Lucan's literary adaptation of the cosmological dialectic of Love and Strife.
£62.34
LUP - University of Michigan Press Plautus Poenulus A Student Commentary
£62.34
LUP - University of Michigan Press Narrative Violence and the Law
£31.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Barack Obamas America How New Conceptions of Race Family and Religion Ended the Reagan Era
States that Barack Obama's inauguration was a defining moment in the political destiny of this country, based largely on demographic shifts. This book tells about contemporary politics, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and about the changes happening in America, the ones that we live day in and day out as part of our personal lives.
£58.47
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Land between the Rivers
£35.26
LUP - University of Michigan Press Conflict Resolution in the Twentyfirst Century
In the face of terrorism, intrastate wars, and the multitude of other threats in the post-Cold War era, the conflict resolution tool kit must include preventive diplomacy, humanitarian intervention, regional task-sharing, and truth commissions. This book examines each one of these conflict resolution tools and describes how it works.
£27.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Learning to Love
£62.34
LUP - University of Michigan Press Law and Transaction Costs in the Ancient Economy
£77.80
LUP - University of Michigan Press Corporeal Politics Dancing East Asia
Investigates the development of dance as a deeply meaningful and complex cultural practice across time, placing special focus on the intertwining of East Asia dance and politics and the role of dance as a medium of transcultural interaction and communication across borders.
£32.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Adoption Memory and Cold War Greece
Presents a committed quest to unravel and document the postwar adoption networks that placed more than 3,000 Greek children in the United States, in a movement accelerated by the aftermath of the Greek Civil War and by the new conditions of the global Cold War.
£32.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Dancing with the Modernist City
£62.34
LUP - University of Michigan Press Geographies of Relation Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas
£34.27
LUP - University of Michigan Press Friendship in Islamic Ethics and World Politics
Examines shared moral concepts, philosophical paradigms, and political experiences that can develop and expand multidisciplinary conversations between the Christian West and the Muslim East. By advancing multicultural and interreligious discourses on friendship, this book helps promote actual friendships among diverse cultures and peoples.
£73.94
LUP - University of Michigan Press Teaching Difficult Topics Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom
£73.94
LUP - University of Michigan Press Microdramas
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press A Biogeography of Reptiles and Amphibians in the Gomez Farias Region Tamaulipas Mexico
Analyses the ecological distributions of reptiles and amphibians in southern Tamaulipas of northeastern Mexico. Observations are confined to a small, though topographically complex, section of the Sierra Madre Oriental to enable a more careful definition of zonal distribution than would be possible had the same amount of fieldwork been expended in a larger geographical unit.
£21.11
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Madisonian Turn
£81.68
LUP - University of Michigan Press Uncharted Creativity and the Expert Drummer
Offers a study of creativity in the context of expert popular music instrumental performance. Applying ideas from cultural psychology to findings from research into the creative behaviors of a specific subset of popular music instrumentalists, Bill Bruford demonstrates the ways in which expert drummers experience creativity in music performance.
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Sound Streams
£73.94
LUP - University of Michigan Press Dueling Students Conflict Masculinity and Politics in German Universities 18901914
£70.07
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Limits of Heroism Homer and the Ethics of Reading
£73.94
LUP - University of Michigan Press Transforming Gender and Emotion
The Butterfly Lovers Story, sometimes called the Chinese Romeo and Juliet, has been enduringly popular in China and Korea. In Transforming Gender and Emotion, Sookja Cho demonstrates why The Butterfly Lovers Story is more than just a popular love story.
£50.73
LUP - University of Michigan Press Parlor Ponds
Examines the myriad cultural meanings of the American home aquarium during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and argues that the home aquarium provided its enthusiasts with a potent tool for managing the challenges of historical change, from urbanization to globalization.
£29.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Best of the Grammarians
A founding father of the ""art of philology"", Aristarchus of Samothrace (216-144 BCE) developed a sound, almost scientific method of literary exegesis. This book offers a systematic study of the most famous grammarian in Alexandria, places Aristarchus and his Iliadic scholia within the context and cultural environment of his own time.
£125.13
LUP - University of Michigan Press Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
By combining the work of Michel Foucault, the insights of philosophy of disability and feminist philosophy, and data derived from empirical research, Shelley L. Tremain compellingly argues that the conception of disability that currently predominates in the discipline of philosophy is inextricably intertwined with the underrepresentation of disabled philosophers in the profession of philosophy.
£26.77
LUP - University of Michigan Press Radical Poetics
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Gendered Missions Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice
£81.68
LUP - University of Michigan Press Cinema Ann Arbor How Campus Rebels Forged a Singular Film Culture
Delving into almost one hundred years of rarely glimpsed history, Cinema Ann Arbor melds interviews, deep archival research, and over four hundred images into a vivid history of film in one extraordinary town. These stories, told in exquisite detail, are firsthand accounts of the people who created Ann Arbor’s twentieth-century film scene.
£32.95
