Search results for ""LUP - University of Michigan Press""
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Infrastructures of Security Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg
Focuses on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based) surveillance and automated information systems, but also the introduction of somewhat bizarre and fly-by-night experimental ‘answers’ to perceived risk and danger.
£32.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Kingship and Justice in the Ottonian Empire
Challenges traditional views of the Ottonian Empire's rulership. Drawing from a broad array of sources including royal diplomas, manuscript illuminations, Ottonian kingship and the administration of justice are investigated using traditional historical and comparative methodologies as well as through the application of modern systems theories.
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Media Welfare State
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Dictators Dilemma at the Ballot Box Electoral Manipulation Economic Maneuvering and Political Order in Autocracies
Explores how dictators design elections and what consequences those elections have on political order. The book argues that strong autocrats who can effectively garner popular support through extensive economic distribution become less dependent on coercive electioneering strategies.
£36.14
LUP - University of Michigan Press Blue Ice The Story of Michigan Hockey
£35.26
LUP - University of Michigan Press Performing Commemoration
£28.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Toward a Gameic World
Bridges the gap between Japanese popular culture studies and game studies by encouraging a dialogue centered around Japanese-designed video games and social issues. The book examines four contemporary Japanese video games in terms of how they engage with some of Japan’s biggest social and personal issues.
£17.73
LUP - University of Michigan Press Citizenship in the American Republic
While there are a number of survey textbooks in American politics, Citizenship in the American Republic is based on a fundamental premise that many have contended for the last century - a more informed, participatory citizenry is required for a more effective democratic republic.
£62.34
LUP - University of Michigan Press Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution
These collected essays provide a comparative historical investigation of gender and political culture as they explore eighteenth-century revolutionary movements. The contributors bring a rich variety of sources, methods, and perspectives to the investigation, making this anthology a useful contribution to the study of comparative history.
£23.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Late Sophocles The Heros Evolution in Electra Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus
Only a few plays by Sophocles have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. Sophocles’ treatment evokes issues that were vividly contemporary for Athenian. Late Sophocles traces the evolution of the Sophoclean hero through the final three plays, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus.
£42.99
LUP - University of Michigan Press Contemporary German Editorial Theory
£77.80
LUP - University of Michigan Press Catherine A Story
The Thackeray Edition proudly announces two additions to its collection: Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. The Thackeray Edition is the first full-scale scholarly edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's works to appear in over seventy years, and the only one ever to be based on an examination of manuscripts and relevant printed texts.
£85.55
LUP - University of Michigan Press Laws of the Postcolonial
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Say Word Voices from Hip Hop Theater
£33.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Carrots Sticks and Ethnic Conflict Rethinking Development Assistance
£27.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Disorienting Politics
£73.94
LUP - University of Michigan Press Foucault and the Government of Disability
£28.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Medieval Constitution of Liberty
Focuses on the constitutional order that characterized the High Middle Ages. The authors provide a historical account of how this constitutional order evolved following the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press Cheap Talk
Flips the script on communication disability, positioning the unruly, disabled speaker at the centre of analysis to challenge the belief that more communication is unquestionably good. Joshua St Pierre brings together the dysfluent speaker, the talking head, and the troll to show how speech is made cheap to meet the inhuman needs of capital.
£21.11
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Gourmet Club
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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
£31.95
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.
£54.59
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Martians Daughter A Memoir
£21.11
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
£88.17
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Congressional Black Caucus Minority Voting Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court
£25.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Turbulence Across the Sea
£24.95
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.
£30.58
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
£17.73
LUP - University of Michigan Press Arboretum Borealis A Lifeline of the Planet
£29.25
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.
£24.95
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.
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press I Dont Sound Like Nobody Remaking Music in 1950s America
£23.95
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.
£24.95
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.
£17.73
