University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
The View from the Helm
Leading the American University during an Era of Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Widely regarded as one of the most active and publicly engaged university presidents in modern academia, Duderstadt— who led the University of Michigan from 1988 to 1996— presided over a period of enormous change, not only for his institution, but for universities across the country. His presidency...
Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University
A University President's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
After decades of domination on campus, college sports' supremacy has begun to weaken. "Enough, already!" detractors cry. College is about learning, not chasing a ball around to the whir of TV cameras.
In Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University James Duderstadt agrees,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Representatives of industry, government, caregivers, and consumers join scholars and policy analysts in comparing market forces to regulation as potential means for righting what is wrong with managed care. The contributors that John E. Billi and Gail B. Agrawal have gathered here quickly move the...
by James J. Duderstadt
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
From the former president of one of America's leading universities comes a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing higher education in America as we enter the twenty-first century. In A University for the Twenty-first Century, James J. Duderstadt discusses the array of powerful...
The Cult of Statistical Significance
How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
“McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to.”
—Thomas...
by Ted Burczak
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Socialism after Hayek recasts and reinvigorates the socialist quest for class justice by rendering it compatible with Hayek's social and economic theories. Theodore A. Burczak puts forth a conception of socialism from a postmodern perspective, drawing from the apparently opposing ideas of Marx and...
Beyond Busing
Reflections on Urban Segregation, the Courts, and Equal Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
A compelling insider's account of the fight for educational desegregation, from one of its most dedicated and outspoken heroes. A new afterword explains the author's controversial belief that the moment for litigating educational equality has passed, clear-sightedly critiquing his own courtroom strategies...
by Ronald F. Inglehart, Paul R. Abramson
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2009
In this pioneering work, Paul R. Abramson and Ronald Inglehart show that the gradual shift
from Materialist values (such as the desire for economic and physical security) to Post-materialist values (such as the desire for freedom, self-expression, and the quality of life) is in all likelihood a global...
The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey
Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
President of the Archaeological Institute of America, professor at the University of Michigan from 1889 to 1927, and president of the American Philological Association, Francis Kelsey was crucially involved in the founding or growth of major educational institutions. He came to maturity in a period...
Social Science and Policy-Making
A Search for Relevance in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
This collection of essays examines how the social sciences in America were developed as a means of social reform and later, especially after World War II, as a tool in federal policymaking and policy analysis. It also uses arenas of policymaking, such as early childhood education and welfare and its...
by Dennis P. Kehoe
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The economy of the Roman Empire was predominantly agrarian: Roman landowners, agricultural laborers, and small tenant farmers were highly dependent upon one another for assuring stability. By examining the property rights established by the Roman government, in particular the laws concerning land...
Coping With Poverty
The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Conservatives often condemn the poor, particularly African-Americans, for having children out of wedlock, joblessness, dropping out of school, or tolerating crime. Liberals counter that, with more economic opportunity, the poor differ little from the nonpoor in these areas. In answer to both, Coping...
Globalizations and Social Movements
Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Globalization is a set of processes that are weakening national boundaries. Both transnational and local social movements develop to resist the processes of globalization--migration, economic interdependence, global media coverage of events and issues, and intergovernmental relations. Globalization...
State Trading in the Twenty-First Century
The World Trade Forum, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
The University of Michigan Press is pleased to announce the first volume in an annual series, The World Trade Forum. The Forum's members include scholars, lawyers, and government and business practitioners working in the area of international trade, law, and policy. They meet annually and discuss...