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Reducere. How It Happens follows the story of author Jean Alicia Elster's maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Jackson. Born in Tennessee in 1890, Dorothy May w...

Reducere. Mortality, With Friends is a collection of lyrical essays from Fleda Brown, a writer and caretaker, of her father and sometimes her husband, who li...

Reducere. Over the course of two decades and six books, Peter Markus has been making fiction out of a lexicon shaped by the words brother and fish and mud. I...

Reducere. The poems in Gun/Shy deal with the emotional weight of making do. Tinged with both the regrets and wisdom of aging, Jim Daniels's poems measure the...

Reducere. Renowned for its unique visual style, Homicide: Life on the Street fundamentally changed the police procedural genre. The show broke records, featu...

Reducere. Breaking Bad (2008-2013), a remarkable synthesis of the crime film, the sitcom, the western, and the family melodrama, is a foundational example of...

Presents essays mapping the history of relief parcels sent to Jewish prisoners during World War II. More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi...

Reducere. Hawaii Five-O, created by Leonard Freeman in 1968, is an American police procedural drama series that was produced by CBS Productions and aired for...

The struggles and victories of the UAW form an important episode in the story of American democracy and economics. This work presents the history o...

Reducere. Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century anthologizes contemporary stories, comics, and visual texts that intervene in a ra...

Reducere. Representing Michigan for thirty-six years in the U.S. Senate, Carl Levin, the longest-serving senator in Michigan history, was known for his dogge...

Reducere. In How Other People Make Love, Thisbe Nissen chronicles the lives and choices of people questioning the heteronormative institution of marriage. No...

Reducere. One of the most successful series of its time, Have Gun--Will Travel became a cultural phenomenon in the late 1950s and made its star, Richard Boon...

Reducere. In February 2017, Rochelle Riley was reading Twitter posts and came across a series of black-and-white photos of four-year-old Lola dressed up as d...

Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In...

Argues that humour performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. David Slucki, Gabriel Finder and Avinoam Patt have ass...

This is the history of Detroit's African American community told by the men and women who lived it.

Michigan's Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore was established in 1966 to preserve one of the most exquisite freshwater coastal landscapes in North A...

Reducere. In My Forty Years with Ford, Charles Sorensen-sometimes known as "Henry Ford's man, " sometimes as "Cast-iron Charlie"-tells his own story, and it ...

Reducere. Despite the availability of several eloquent gender studies of fairy tales, a popular reference on men and fairy tales has so far been nonexistent....

Reducere. The 20, 000 German Jews who fled Hitler's Germany and settled in Washington Heights were unusual in many ways. They preserved their Jewish identity...

Looks at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptati...

An intimate history of the Holocaust that casts new light on our understanding of victimhood and survival.

Stella Adler (1901-92) trained many well-known American actors yet throughout much of her career, her influence was overshadowed by Lee Strasberg, ...

Reducere. tool designed to achieve proficiency at Latin in one year at the college level, two years at the high school or intermediate level. The volume prov...

Reducere. African American Cinema through Black Lives Consciousness uses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of r...

Reducere. Winner of the 2018 Exemplary Research in Social Studies Award presented by the National Council for the Social Studies Many social studies teachers...

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...

Reducere. If you thought the suburbs were boring, think again. Kelly Fordon's I Have the Answer artfully mixes the fabulist with the workaday and illuminates...

Reducere. Words like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers is a collection of poetry by award-winning Ojibwe author Lois Beardslee. Much of the book cent...

Reducere. Magic culture is certainly fascinating. But what is it? What, in fact, are magic writings, magic artifacts? Originally published in Hebrew in 2010,...

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...

After the Holocaust's near complete destruction of European Yiddish cultural centres, the Yiddish language was largely viewed as a remnant of the p...

A translation and critical edition that fills a current gap in fairy-tale scholarship by making accessible texts written by nineteenth-century Brit...

Translated into English for the first time from Hebrew, this bok analyses how food and foodways are the major agents generating the plots of severa...

Traces Scarborough's path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce Unive...

Defiantly claims that ""all films are adaptations"". The wide-ranging chapters included in this book highlight the growing and evolving relevance o...

Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust argues that humor performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. Co-editors Davi...

Reducere. Margaret Noodin explains in the preface of her new poetry collection, What the Chickadee Knows (Gijigijigaaneshiinh Gikendaan), "Whether we hear gi...

Victor Perkins was a foundational figure for the study of film both as a writer and as an educationalist and teacher who played a key role in estab...

Offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker ...

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

Reducere. Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documentary responded to a scholarly landscape in which documentary film was largely understudied and ...

With a total span length of 8, 344 feet from anchor block to anchor block, the Mackinac Bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the world. It su...

There are more than 180 exotic species in the Great Lakes. Some, such as green algae, the Asian tapeworm, and the suckermouth minnow, have had litt...

Reducere. As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a b...

Reducere. Award NameMichigan Notable BooksAward categoryNotable BookLocated twenty miles south of Detroit where the Detroit River meets Lake Erie, Bob-lo Isl...

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...

Reducere. The Golden Girls made its prime-time debut in 1985 on NBC, and the critically acclaimed show has been a constant television companion through cable...

Reducere. Gail Griffin had only been married for four months when her husband's body was found in the Manistee River, just a few yards from their cabin door....

DescriptionRobin Wood-one of the foremost critics of cinema-has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-centu...

Reducere. First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux ...

Studies the works of Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995), an author, documentary filmmaker, social activist, and professor. Thabiti Lewis's analysis serv...

Reducere. In a thrilling interconnected narrative, You're in the Wrong Place presents characters reaching for transcendence from a place they cannot escape. ...

Reducere. Invisible Ink is the story of Guy Stern's remarkable life. This is not a Holocaust memoir; however, Stern makes it clear that the horrors of the Ho...

Reducere. Exhibiting the same clarity as Latin via Ovid, this student workbook parallels the text's forty lessons and is the ideal supplement to classroom re...

Award NameMichigan Notable BooksAward categoryNotable BookDescriptionPulling Down the Barn eloquently recalls author Anne-Marie Oomen's personal jo...

Reducere. DescriptionFor the first time, a historian and seasoned mariner looks beyond the specific circumstances of individual shipwrecks in an effort to re...

Reducere. DescriptionCharles Perrault published Histoires ou Contes du temps pass ("Stories or Tales of the Past") in France in 1697 during what scholars cal...

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

Reducere. In her book, Geneva Smitherman makes a substantial contribution to an understanding of Black English by setting it in the larger context of Black c...

Reducere. The Hebrew Goddess demonstrates that the Jewish religion, far from being pure monotheism, contained from earliest times strong polytheistic element...

Looks at the work of Jesus "Jess" Franco (1930-2013), one of the most prolific and madly inventive filmmakers in the history of cinema. Editors Ant...

In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular and highly profitable theatrical form known as "pantomime" was part of a shared cultural repertoire ...

Reducere. In Hollowed Ground, author Larry Lankton tells the story of two copper industries on Lake Superior-native copper mining, which produced about 11 bi...

Reducere. Depending on dialect, the Anishinaabemowin word "weweni" expresses thanks, exactitude, ease, and sincerity. In addition, the word for "relatives" i...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gail GriffinOn a Sunday night during Homecoming weekend in 1999, Neenef Odah lured his ex-girlfriend, Maggie Wardle, to his...

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...

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

Provides the first full-length exploration of Carrie Fisher's career as actress, writer, and advocate. Fisher's entangled relationship with the ico...