Search results for ""LUP - University of Michigan Press""
LUP - University of Michigan Press Reading JeanJacques Rousseau through the Prism of Chess
Argues that Rousseau’s political theory, though allegedly inspired by Nature, found a perfect model in a game created by mankind; chess thus became a reference for his philosophical discourse and practice as well as a method to systematize Nature and organize society.
£58.47
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Earth Is Our Book Geographical Knowledge in the Latin West ca. 4001000
£70.07
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Courteous Power
Examining the pivotal relationship between Japan and Southeast Asia, as it has changed and endured into the Indo-Pacific Era
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press Triumph of the Fatherland German Unification and the Marginalization of Women
£29.95
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.
£62.34
LUP - University of Michigan Press AntiHeimat Cinema The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape
Studies an overlooked yet fundamental element of German popular culture in the twentieth century. In tracing Jewish filmmakers' contemplations of “Heimat” - a provincial German landscape associated with belonging and authenticity – this book analyses their distinctive contribution to the German identity discourse between 1918 and 1968.
£69.00
LUP - University of Michigan Press Reading Virgil and His Texts
£77.80
LUP - University of Michigan Press Administering Justice
Examines the leadership role of chief justices in the American states, including how those duties require chief justices to be part of the broader state political environment. Vining and Wilhelm focus extensively on the power of chief justices as public spokespersons, legislative liaisons, and reform leaders.
£58.47
LUP - University of Michigan Press Climate Change Solutions
Examines proposed solutions to climate change. Drawing from Marx's negative conception of ideology, the authors illustrate how ideology continues to conceal the capital-climate contradiction or the fundamental incompatibility between growth-dependent capitalism and effectively and justly mitigating climate change.
£58.47
LUP - University of Michigan Press The View from the Helm Leading the American University during an Era of Change
Under James Duderstadt's stewardship, Michigan reaffirmed its reputation as a trailblazer among universities. This work extracts lessons from his experiences at the forefront of change in higher education, offering administrators a primer on academic leadership and gives ideas on how higher education should be steered in the twenty-first century.
£42.99
LUP - University of Michigan Press African Students in East Germany 19491975
£62.34
LUP - University of Michigan Press Performance in the Z243calo Constructing History Race and Identity in Mexicos Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present
For more than five centuries, the Plaza Mayor (or Zócalo) in Mexico City has been the site of performances for a public spectatorship. Performance in the Zócalo examines the ways that this city square has achieved symbolic significance over the centuries, and how national, ethnic, and racial identity has been performed there.
£62.34
LUP - University of Michigan Press Hallowed Stewards
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press In Defense of Free Speech in Universities A Study of Three Jurisdictions
In this book, Amy Lai examines the current free speech crisis in Western universities. She studies the origin, history, and importance of freedom of speech in the university setting, and addresses the relevance and pitfalls of political correctness and microaggressions on campuses.
£28.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Managing Modernity Work Community and Authority in LateIndustrializing Japan and Russia
Compares industrial management in two late-industrializers—Japan and Russia—as a basis for an original theory of institution-building
£81.68
LUP - University of Michigan Press Parity and War Evaluations and Extensions of The War Ledger
£32.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Business Arabic Advanced Level
This second volume in the series Business Arabic is intended for high-intermediate and advanced learners. It contains seven units that cover a wide variety of authentic materials, including commercial advertisements, business correspondence, banking documents and transactions, economic reports, contracts, and agreements.
£39.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Rosa Bonheur
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press Body Parts of Empire Visual Abjection Filipino Images and the American Archive
£62.34
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Fundamentals of Campaign Finance in the U.S.
£77.80
LUP - University of Michigan Press Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews
This study adds to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. Through a series of case studies, the authors analyse the historical and discursive junctures that mark the central paradigm shifts in the Jewish self-image.
£50.73
LUP - University of Michigan Press Choice Readings
£17.73
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Best of Technology Writing 2007
Includes essays that aim to capture the versatility and verve of technology writing. This work explores a wide range of topics - from ""crowdsourcing"" to the online habits of urban moms to the digital future of movie production.
£17.73
LUP - University of Michigan Press Domitians Rome and the Augustan Legacy
This volume represents the first book-length treatment of the reception of Augustus and his age during the reign of Domitian. Its thirteen chapters, authored by an international group of scholars, offer readers a glimpse into the fascinating history and culture of Domitian’s Rome and its multifaceted engagement with the Augustan past.
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press Hallyu 2.0
£70.07
LUP - University of Michigan Press Unsportsmanlike Conduct Exploiting College Athletes
£27.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Markets States and Public Policy Privatization in Britain and France
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press Epiphanius of Cyprus Imagining an Orthodox World
Offers the first complete biography in English of Epiphanius, lead bishop of Cyprus in the late fourth century CE and author of the Panarion, a massive encyclopaedia of heresies. Young Richard Kim studies the bishop as a historical person and a self-constructed persona, as mediated within the pages of the Panarion.
£77.80
LUP - University of Michigan Press Aristophanes Clouds A Commentary
The first substantial commentary on Clouds since Dover's 1968 edition. Intended for intermediate Greek students at undergraduate and graduate levels, the commentary pays careful attention to the basic characteristics of ancient Greek syntax, as well as to how Greek words are formed and can be analysed.
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Minor Salvage The Korean War and Korean American Life Writings
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press Assassination of a Michigan King The Life of James Jesse Strang
£21.11
LUP - University of Michigan Press Words for Students of English Vol. 5
Consists of 25 units that present basewords with definitions, usage examples, and exercises. Each unit focuses on a specific topic, carefully selected for its relevance to students' lives, so that students can practice new words in meaningful contexts.
£19.43
LUP - University of Michigan Press Complex Rivalry The Dynamics of IndiaPakistan Conflict
A systematic and multivariate inquiry cutting across different IR paradigms to understand the India and Pakistan rivalry is rare or limited. Surinder Mohan contributes to the understanding of India and Pakistan’s rivalry by presenting a new type of framework, also termed as complex rivalry model.
£32.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Orpheus in the Bronx
A collection of essays which celebrate the liberatory and utopian possibilities that poetry's autonomy offers.
£70.07
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Darker Side of the Renaissance
Weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World. Exploring the connections among writing, social organisation, and political control, Walter Mignolo claims that European forms of literacy were at the heart of New World colonization.
£27.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Michigan Ferns and Lycophytes A Guide to Species of the Great Lakes Region
Unlike the well-studied flowering plants and gymnosperms, Michigan's ferns and lycophytes have long lacked a reliable, up-to-date guidebook, and this book fills that gap. Covering all 120 taxa found in the state, it features detailed keys, species descriptions, and range maps alongside precise illustrations that show a complete picture of species' morphology.
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Law and the Rural Economy in the Roman Empire
£73.94
LUP - University of Michigan Press Athens 415 The City in Crisis
Designed for classroom use, Athens 415 is a source-based presentation of ancient urban life ideal for the study of a people and their institutions and beliefs. Original texts are presented along with thoughtful discussion and analyses by Clara Shaw Hardy in an engaging narrative that draws students into Athens' crisis.
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press After Disruption
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Architexts of Memory
Offers a powerful model that uses literature to help fathom the nature of remembrance.
£29.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Revolutionary Stagecraft Theater Technology and Politics in Modern China
£32.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Anna Seghers
£73.94
LUP - University of Michigan Press Governing and Ruling
Studies how the Chinese Communist Party uses and reforms its taxation institution to promote economic growth and governance quality while limits the emerging capitalists' political demand.
£32.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Troubadour of Knowledge
In this wide-ranging meditation on learning and difference, Michel Serres explores numerous pathways in philosophy, science, and literature to argue that the best contemporary education requires knowledge of both science's general truths and literature's singular stories.
£21.11
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Lines Between the Lines How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment
Focuses on how playwrights have written stage directions that engage readers, production team members, and scholars in a process of embodied creation in order to determine meaning. Bess Rowen calls the products of this method ‘affective stage directions’ because they reach out from the page and affect the bodies of those who encounter them.
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press A Commentary on Cicero De Officiis
£86.45
LUP - University of Michigan Press Conversations with Shotetsu
The last project of the late Robert H. Brower, Conversations with Shôtetsu provides a translation of the complete Nihon koten bungaku taikei text, as edited by Hisamatsu Sen'ichi. Steven D. Carter has annotated the translation and provided an introduction.
£14.34
LUP - University of Michigan Press Transformative Justice
£25.95
