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LUP - University of Michigan Press Early Film Culture in Hong Kong Taiwan and Republican China
Features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema’s relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution.
£54.59
LUP - University of Michigan Press Middle English Dictionary
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Courteous Power Japan and Southeast Asia in the IndoPacific Era
Examining the pivotal relationship between Japan and Southeast Asia, as it has changed and endured into the Indo-Pacific Era
£28.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press American Dove
Argues that the US is overly reliant on the active use of force and should employ more peaceful foreign policy tools. Rather than relying on loose analogies or common sense, American Dove bases its argument directly on an eclectic mix of academic literature, including realist, liberal, and constructivist theory as well as psychology.
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Mediterranean in Disorder
Highlights and interrogates the link between space and politics and explores the spatial dimensions of insurgencies, conflicts, uprisings, and mobilities in the Mediterranean region. The book offers an innovative scheme to rethink the relation between space and power.
£73.94
LUP - University of Michigan Press Uncanny Creatures Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Hearing Harmony Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era
Offers a listener-based, philosophical-psychological theory of harmonic effects for Anglophone popular music since the 1950s. It begins with chords, their functions and characteristic hierarchies, then identifies the most common and salient harmonic-progression classes, or harmonic schemas.
£32.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Classical Myth An Introduction
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Distinction of Peace A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding
Investigates the genesis of peacebuilding as a professional field of expertise since the 1960s, its increasing influence, and the ways it reflects global power structures. Catherine Goetze describes how the peacebuilding field came into being, how it defines who belongs to it and who does not, and what kind of group culture it has generated.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Martians Daughter A Memoir
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LUP - University of Michigan Press How the Workers Became Muslims Immigration Culture and Hegemonic Transformation in Europe
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Study Skills for Success
Major topics covered in the book include: organising informatio; reading and interpreting illustrated information; skills for better reading; research strategies. A list of the many skills taught is provided in the front of the book.
£20.27
LUP - University of Michigan Press Topographies of Class
Explores the question of why Weimar Berlin has such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. This book examines the way in which architectural projects, debates, and representations in literature, photography, and film played a key role in establishing the terms under which contemporaries made sense of the rise of white-collar society.
£81.68
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Postcolonial Animal
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Congressional Black Caucus Minority Voting Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Turbulence Across the Sea
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Disability Theory
Since the 1970s the ascendancy of minority identities based on gender, race, and sexuality has transformed the landscape of cultural theory, embracing greater political urgency and relevance. This book provides evidence of the value and utility that a disability studies perspective can bring to these and other key questions.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Opposition and Intimidation
The abortion fight has long been a crucible of political tactics, with both sides employing strategies ranging from litigation to civil disobedience to outright violence. This book looks at how anti-abortion activists' use of political harassment fits - or doesn't - with more conventional political efforts in the struggle over abortion.
£21.96
LUP - University of Michigan Press Teaching about Religions
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Jackie Ormes The First African American Woman Cartoonist
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China 16441840
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Arboretum Borealis A Lifeline of the Planet
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Rogues and Early Modern English Culture
A collection of essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue. Under various names - rogues, vagrants, molls, doxies, vagabonds, cony-catchers, masterless men - this group of marginal figures, poor men and women with no clear social place or identity, exploded onto the scene in 16th century English history and culture.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Stephanie Dinkins
Brings together renowned curators and theorists who draw from methodologies of art criticism, social practice, new media theory, and critical studies to offer an in-depth analysis of key installations in Stephanie Dinkins’s survey exhibition. The book also includes an important essay by Stephanie Dinkins on her concept of Afro-now-ism.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press I Dont Sound Like Nobody Remaking Music in 1950s America
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Lives in the Law
Examines how the lives of individuals, social groups, and nations are fashioned by their engagement with the law.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature
A widely accepted truism says that luxury corrupts, and in both popular and scholarly treatments, the ancient city of Sybaris remains the model for destructive opulence. This volume demonstrates the scarcity of evidence for Sybarite luxury, and examines the vocabulary of luxury used by the Hellenic world.
£48.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Shattering Hamlets Mirror Theatre and Reality
Examines recent and contemporary work by such groups as Rimini Protokoll, Societas Raffaelo Sanzio, the Gob Squad, Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, and Foundry Theatre, while revealing the deep antecedents of today’s theatre, placing it in useful historical perspective. While many may consider it a post-postmodern phenomenon, the “theatre of the real”, as it turns out, has very deep roots.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Poems of the Five Mountains
This second, revised edition of a pioneering volume, long out of print, presents translations of Japanese Zen poems on sorrow, old age, homesickness, the seasons, the ravages of time, solitude, the scenic beauty of the landscape of Japan, and monastic life.
£10.96
LUP - University of Michigan Press TV LandDetroit
Based on actual interviews with the people who made Detroit TV, the author reawakens the emotional attachment and nostalgia our community has for the shows, bringing the characters and the programs back to life. He describes a quintessentially American folk celebrity that's been replaced by slick productions, big budgets, and gargantuan egos.
£19.43
LUP - University of Michigan Press Academic Word Lists
Explains how various lists like the Academic Word List (AWL) have become popular tools in the ESL classroom for teaching vocabulary. Following a discussion on the importance of teaching vocabulary, Keith Folse explains why word lists are useful in language learning and how they can help address the lexical gap.
£14.34
LUP - University of Michigan Press Genre Explained Frequently Asked Questions and Answers about GenreBased Instruction
The idea of teaching writing through genres - rather than through prescriptive forms, templates, and rhetorical modes - is intuitively appealing. Yet many teachers have questions. This book tackles some of the most common questions that teachers, teacher educators, and administrators may have when moving toward a genre-based teaching approach.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Guns Democracy and the Insurrectionist Idea
Gun enthusiasts argue that the only way to keep federal authority in check is to arm individual citizens who can, if necessary, defend themselves from an aggressive government. This title reveals that the proponents of this view base their argument on a deliberate misreading of history.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press In Contempt
Offers a faithful, factual testament to the enduring quality of patriotic dissent in America’s evolving democracy - and a loving reconstruction of what it meant to be labelled ‘unAmerican’ for defending the Constitution.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet
Provides a critical cultural history of net neutrality that reveals how this intentionally ‘boring’ world of internet infrastructure and regulation hides a fascinating and pivotal sphere of power, with lessons for communication and media scholars, activists, and anyone interested in technology and politics.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Feeling of Reading Affective Experience and Victorian Literature
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Deep Real Life with Spinal Cord Injury
People with spinal cord injuries experience life beyond their medical and rehabilitative journeys, but these stories are rarely told. This work includes the stories of ten men and women whose lives have been transformed by spinal cord injury (SCI). Each essay challenges the stereotypes and misconceptions about SCI.
£18.58
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Committee
A deftly crafted insider account of how congressional committees really work, updated for 2021
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The South Korean Film Industry
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Fantasies of Ito Michio
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Monstrous Kinds Body Space and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability
Explores textual representations of disability in the global Renaissance. Elizabeth B. Bearden contends that monstrosity, as a precursor to modern concepts of disability, has much to teach about our tendency to inscribe disability with meaning.
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press Ottoman Eurasia in Early Modern German Literatur Cultural Translations Francisci Happel Speer
Explores the variety of cultural and commercial conversations between Europe and Ottoman Eurasia as they negotiated their competing economic and hegemonic interests. Brought about by travel, trade, diplomacy, and wars, these conversations were, by definition, ‘cross-cultural’ and diverse.
£62.34
LUP - University of Michigan Press None of the Above
Why do citizens choose to cast blank and spoiled votes? And how do campaigns mobilizing the invalid vote influence this decision? None of the Above answers these questions using evidence from elections in eighteen Latin American democracies.
£70.07
LUP - University of Michigan Press Upholding Justice
Tamar Herzog studies the judiciary in Quito, during 17th and 18th centuries, and shows that in this remote Spanish colony, order was a communal enterprise. The dominant rules were social and theological rather than legal. She reveals the intimacy of relations between the state and this early modern society.
£77.80
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic
To exercise their rights, voters had to come in person to Rome and to meet in the Forum. Fergus Millar takes the period from the dictatorship of Sulla to Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon and shows how the politics of the crowd was central to the great changes that took place year after year.
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Beatles through a Glass Onion Reconsidering the White Album
The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known as the White Album, has always been viewed as an oddity in the group's oeuvre. Many have found it to be inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The Beatles through a Glass Onion is the first-ever scholarly volume to explore this seminal recording at length.
£70.07
