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Reducere. In the spring of 1927, Andrew Kehoe, the treasurer for the school board in Bath, Michigan, spent weeks surreptitiously wiring the public school, as...

The northern white-cedar's future is uncertain. Here scientists Gerald L. Storm and Laura S. Kenefic describe the threats to this modest yet essent...

Reducere. While there have been countless books written about Detroit, none have captured its incredible musical history like this one. This collection of po...

Inspired by a 1968 US Commission on Civil Rights six-day hearing in San Antonio that introduced the Mexican American people to the rest of the nati...

Reducere. This new volume of Rumi s works, the first-ever English translation of his Arabic poems, will be exciting for the newcomer to Rumi s verses as well...

Reducere. When Consumers Power's plan to build a nuclear power plant in Midland, Michigan, was announced in 1967, it promised to free Michigan residents from...

Reducere. A Clan Mother story for the twenty-first century, "Sacred Wilderness "explores the lives of four women of different eras and backgrounds who come t...

Louise Erdrich is one of the most important, prolific, and widely read contemporary Indigenous writers. Here leading scholars analyse the three cri...

Reducere. In 1944 Italian officer Captain Francesco Verdi is captured by Allied forces in North Africa and shipped to a POW camp in Michigan's Upper Peninsul...

People avoid speaking about race in the presence of another racial group for fear of saying something wrong. This was not the situation at JB's, a ...

Reducere. A comic masterpiece of medieval French literature, Aucassin and Nicolette is categorized by its anonymous author as a "chantefable, " or "song-stor...

A comprehensive look at Michigan amphibians and reptiles, spanning both recent and ancient times.

Heid E. Erdrich writes from the present into the future where human anxiety lives. Many of her poems engage ekphrasis around the visual work of con...

Reducere. The against-all-odds story of a World War II era steam locomotive and the determination of two generations of volunteers to keep it running comes a...

Remix is not an exclusively digital practice, nor is it even a new one, as there is evidence of remix in the speeches of classical Greek and Roman ...

Reducere. Awards🏆Winner (2016) - Michigan Notable Books - (Notable Book)Contributor(s): Author: Patricia MajherA deep-sea diver, a dancer, an activist, an av...

From 1940 to 1970, mid-Michigan had an extensive legacy of modernist architecture. While this book explores buildings by renowned architects such a...

Reducere. The first novel to be translated from Wolof to English, Doomi Golo The Hidden Notebooks is a masterful work that conveys the story of Nguirane Faye...

Provides incomparable insights into women's lives during America's Civil War era. Marilyn Mayer Culpepper's respect for these nineteenth-century wo...

In this rich exploration of Rene Girard's insights, his French editor and longtime collaborator Benoit Chantre brings Saint Paul's Letter to the Ro...

Paying due attention to China's rise as an innovative platform society and AI powerhouse, this essays in this volume address the broader question o...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Drawing on a wide array of historical sources, Theresa L. Weller provides a comprehensive history of the lineage of the seventy-four members of the...

Reducere. DescriptionElemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction comes to us from twenty-three of Michigan's most well-known essayists. A celebra...

Reducere. Bold Boys in Michigan History-a companion to Great Girls in Michigan History-explores the stories of twenty boys who did some amazing things before...

Compares welfare state politics before and after the Great Recession arguing that a new and lasting post-crisis dynamic has emerged where political...

Reducere. Why do totalitarian propagandas such as those created in Nazi Germany and the former German Democratic Republic initially succeed, and why do they ...

Why do police officers turn against the people they are hired to protect? This question seems all the more urgent in the wake of recent global prot...

Reducere. DescriptionWith roots in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad--nicknamed "The Fishing Line" for its connections to attractive M...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sheryl JamesOver the course of its history, the state of Michigan has produced its share of folktales and lore. Many are fa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anne-Marie OomenAuthor: Linda Nemec FosterThe Lake Michigan Mermaid is a new tale that feels familiar. The breeze off the l...

The United States, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan have danced on the knife's edge of war for more than seventy years. By mapping the hi...

Never before translated in English, this 1973 discussion between Rene Girard (1923-2015) and other prominent scholars represents one of the most si...

Reducere. Northern Harvest: Twenty Michigan Women in Food and Farming looks at the female culinary pioneers who have put northern Michigan on the map for foo...

A valuable storehouse of information and the first translation of the work into English

Reducere. It was 1831 when Father Frederic Baraga arrived in this country from his native Slovenia. He had come to bring Christianity to the Ottawa and Chipp...

Provides a politics-based explanation for the post-1980 transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which poor relief policies have replaced e...

Provides an in-depth study of parts of Central Asia and Afghanistan that remain marginalized from the larger region. Suzanne Levi-Sanchez provides ...

Reducere. In Deep Woods Frontier, Theodore J. Karamanski examines the interplay between men and technology in the lumbering of Michigan's rugged Upper Penins...

Brings together leading and emerging scholars of multiculturalism in Korean media culture to examine mediated constructions of the 'other', taking ...

Illustrates how states appeal to popular morality to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats. In an era where st...