Search results for ""LUP - University of Michigan Press""
LUP - University of Michigan Press Narrative Prosthesis Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse
Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Developing States Shaping Citizenship
At the nexus of political science, development studies, and public policy, Developing States, Shaping Citizenship analyses an overlooked driver of political behaviour: citizens' past experience with the government through service provision.
£21.11
LUP - University of Michigan Press Incarceration Games
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Calculus of Consent
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Transcribing Class and Gender Masculinity and Femininity in NineteenthCentury Courts and Offices
Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status.
£29.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Tony Kushner in Conversation
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Legal Stories
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Aid Imperium United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in PostCold War Southeast Asia
Deploying global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America’s post-Cold War foreign policies in Southeast Asia, Aid Imperium provides the most comprehensive explanation that links US strategic assistance to physical integrity rights outcomes in recipient countries.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Cosmopolitan Love
Examines the writings of D.H. Lawrence, a British writer whose literature focused primarily on interpersonal relationships in domestic settings, and Eileen Chang, a Chinese writer who migrated to the US and explored Chinese heterosexual love in her writing.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Prometheus Reimagined
Instead of treating technology, health, and the environment as discrete issues, Albert C. Lin argues that laws must acknowledge their fundamental relationship, anticipating both future technological developments and their potential adverse effects. Laws should encourage international cooperation and the development of common global standards, while allowing for flexibility and reassessment.
£28.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Lawyers Beyond Borders
How American human rights lawyers fight for justice in U.S. Courts for international victims of violence
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Queer Chimerica A Speculative AutoEthnography of the Cool Child
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Uncle Toms Cabins
As Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin travelled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom's journey.
£28.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Sounding Dissent
Draws on original in-depth interviews with Irish republican musicians, contemporary audiences, and former paramilitaries, as well as diverse historical and archival material, including songbooks, prison records, and newspaper articles, to understand the history of political violence in Ireland.
£28.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Treasure Map A Guide to the Delian Inventories
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Pride Not Prejudice National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia
Numerous studies have suggested that more peaceful relations are likely only if countries submerge or paper over existing national identities by promoting universalism. Pride, Not Prejudice argues, to the contrary, that affirmation of national identities may be a more effective way to build international cooperation.
£32.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press My Life as a Filmmaker
In his posthumous autobiography, Watakushi no eiga jinsei (1984), Yamamoto reflects on his career and legacy: beginning in the prewar days as an assistant director under the master Naruse Mikio, to his wide-ranging experiences as a filmmaker, including his struggles as an independent filmmaker in the 1950s and 1960s before returning to work within the mainstream industry.
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press In Concert
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Heavenly Twins
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LUP - University of Michigan Press A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents
Presents a carefully reasoned discussion of how existing philosophy and legal theory can accommodate increasingly sophisticated AI technology. Arguing for the legal personhood of an artificial agent, the authors discuss what it means to say it has knowledge and the ability to make a decision.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Assessment Myths
This volume was conceived as a “best practices” resource for assessment in the way that Vocabulary Myths by Keith S. Folse is one for reading and vocabulary teachers. Like others in the Myths series, this book combines research with good pedagogical practices.
£20.27
LUP - University of Michigan Press How to Draw a Circle On Reading and Writing
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Negative Capability Contemporary American Poetry
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Treatment of Error in Second Language Student Writing Second Edition
Offers a realistic, well-reasoned account of what teachers of multilingual writers need to know about error and how to put what they know to use. As in the first edition, Ferris persuasively addresses the fundamental error treatment questions that plague novice and expert writing specialists alike.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press A Good Quarrel
Courtroom proceedings offer the thrill of a sporting event and the drama of a stage production as lawyers match wits, grill witnesses, and introduce eleventh-hour elements that may upend the course of a trial. This title features the nation's best court reporters who discuss the most memorable cases over the years.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Collateral Damage
Provides an overview of how political communication influences the process of incorporation with the broad society as well as its political parties. Sean Richey shows that how politicians talk about immigrants affects how their children perceive America and their feelings about the nation.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Why They Die Civilian Devastation in Violent Conflict
Why do civilians suffer most during times of violent conflict? Why are civilian fatalities as much as eight times higher, calculated globally for current conflicts, than military fatalities? In Why They Die, Daniel Rothbart and Karina V. Korostelina address these questions through a systematic study of civilian devastation in violent conflicts.
£29.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Navigating the English Language Classroom
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Mabou Mines
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Joy Or Something Darker but Like It
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Fashion Nation Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century
In the late nineteenth century, the United States was known internationally as a place full of gaudiness and glitter. This book argues that this reputation was rooted in early nineteenth-century British and European ethnic nationalism, and the fashion of wearing colourful ethnic costuming that was adopted as part of these movements.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Helping People Help Themselves
Surveys the theoretical foundations for a philosophy of development - including the work of Albert Hirschman, Paolo Freire, John Dewey, and Soren Kierkegaard. The author offers a practical suggestion of how goals of development can be better set and met. He shifts the locus of initiative from the would-be helpers to the doers.
£25.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Staging Blackness Representations of Race in GermanSpeaking Drama and Theater
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Up North in Michigan A Portrait of Place in Four Seasons
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Between Military Rule and Democracy Regime Consolidation in Greece Turkey and Beyond
£70.07
LUP - University of Michigan Press Speaking Ruins
In this lavishly illustrated volume stemming from his Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures at the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome, distinguished architectural historian John Pinto offers case studies of important architectural and archaeological sites in and around Rome, such as the Trevi Fountain and the ancient Italian cities of Pompeii and Paestum.
£62.34
LUP - University of Michigan Press Ruins
Theorizing the effects of memory, absence, and disappearance in classical theatre - the aesthetics of ruins.
£70.07
LUP - University of Michigan Press Turkey and the Kurdish Peace Process Actors Issues and Context
Provides a historical and conceptual account of events in order to detail the key conditions, factors, and events that gave rise to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party conflict in Turkey
£54.59
LUP - University of Michigan Press Fascinating Rhythm
A full-scale examination of the amazing range of works resulting from the creative collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin.
£21.96
LUP - University of Michigan Press Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in Current Issues
Features interdisciplinary research about aggregate wealth levels, portfolio compositions, and asset-ownership patterns. This collection discusses several conceptual issues, including gender and class; the political, historical, and socio-economic contexts and consequences of wealth inequalities; intra-group inequality; and more.
£32.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Spaces of Honor Making German Civil Society 17001914
The common understanding is that honour belongs to a bygone era, whereas civil society belongs to the future and modern society. Heikki Lempa argues that honour was not gone or even in decline between 1700 and 1914, and that civil society was not new but had long roots that stretched into the Middle Ages.
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press Textures of Mourning
How does mourning emerge to reshape Japanese visual culture? Textures of Mourning addresses this question by examining engrossing literary and visual portrayals of death and its aftermath from The Tale of Genji and its adaptations.
£74.84
LUP - University of Michigan Press Partnering with Extremists
Builds on work on coalition formation to propose a theory that works across countries and over time. The evidence comes from case studies of coalition formation in Austria and the Netherlands, where far-right parties have been excluded when they could have been included and included when the mainstream right had other options.
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press Governing and Ruling
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Global Digital Cultures Perspectives from South Asia
From state-driven digital identity projects and YouTube censorship to Tinder and dating culture, from Twitter and primetime TV to Facebook and political rumours, this book focuses on concerns of representation, identity, and power while grappling with algorithmic curation and data-driven processes of production, circulation, and consumption.
£50.73
LUP - University of Michigan Press Writing on the Soil
Argues that representations of land and landscape perform metaphorical labour in African literatures, and this argument evolves across several geographical spaces. Each chapter’s analysis contributes to a deeper understanding of the aesthetic choices that authors make when deploying tropes revolving around land, landscape, and the environment.
£35.22
LUP - University of Michigan Press Competitiveness and Death
Provides a political companion to new trade theories in economics, questioning cleavage-based explanations of trade politics, demonstrating the underappreciated importance of activists, suggesting the limits of globalization, and providing in-depth examination of previously ignored trade negotiations.
£66.20
