University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
by Duffy Graham
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
"An important and thought-provoking addition to the literature on the ethics of lawyers."
---Kimberly Kirkland, Franklin Pierce Law Center
The Consciousness of the Litigator investigates the role of the lawyer in modern American political and social life and in the judicial process,...
Vocabulary Myths
Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
In Vocabulary Myths, Keith S. Folse breaks down the teaching of second language vocabulary into eight commonly held myths. In debunking each myth, he introduces the myth with a story based on his 25 years of teaching experience (in the United States and abroad), continues with a presentation of what...
Listening Myths
Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This volume was conceived as a "best practices" resource for teachers of ESL listening courses in the way that Vocabulary Myths by Keith S. Folse (and Writing Myths by Joy Reid) is one for reading and vocabulary teachers. It was written to help ensure that teachers of listening are not perpetuating...
How the Workers Became Muslims
Immigration, Culture, and Hegemonic Transformation in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Writing in the beginning of the 1980s, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe explored possibilities for a new socialist strategy to capitalize on the period’s fragmented political and social conditions. Two and a half decades later, Ferruh Yilmaz acknowledges that the populist Far Right—not the socialist...
Democratic Peace
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
The Democratic Peace Thesis holds that democracies rarely make war on other democracies. Political scientists have advanced numerous theories attempting to identify precisely which elements of democracy promote this mutual peace, often hoping that Democratic Peace could be the final and ultimate antidote...
The U.S. Army Stability Operations Field Manual
U.S. Army Field Manual No. 3-07
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Field Manual 3-07, Stability Operations, represents a milestone in Army doctrine.
With a focus on transforming conflict, managing violence when it does occur and maintaining stable peace, The U.S. Army Stability Operations Field Manual (otherwise known as FM 3-07) signals a stark departure...
Unleashing Rights
Law, Meaning, and the Animal Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Unleashing Rights is a study of the animal rights movement's efforts to advance social reform through the deployment of legal language and practices. The study looks at how prevailing understandings of rights language have shaped the attempt to put forth the idea that animals have rights, and how...
by Nathan Jensen, Glen Biglaiser, Quan Li
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
For decades, free trade was advocated as the vehicle for peace, prosperity, and democracy in an increasingly globalized market. More recently, the proliferation of foreign direct investment has raised questions about its impact upon local economies and politics. Here, seven scholars bring together...
Fragments of Development
Nation, Gender, and the Space of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
By tracing out the intersection between the imagined space of the national economy and the gendered construction of "expert" knowledge in development thought, Suzanne Bergeron provides a provocative analysis of development discourse and practice. By elaborating a framework of including/excluding...
by Linda Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
In Candidates, Congress, and the American Democracy Linda L. Fowler provides a wide-ranging examination of candidacy as a source of both stability and change in U.S. politics. An expert on political candidates, she brings a novel perspective to the topic by emphasizing that candidates are necessary...
Getting Primaried
The Changing Politics of Congressional Primary Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Each of the past few election cycles has featured at least one instance of "primarying," a challenge to an incumbent on the grounds that he or she is not sufficiently partisan. For many observers, such races signify an increasingly polarized electorate and an increasing threat to moderates...
by Erik Engstrom
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Erik J. Engstrom offers a historical perspective on the effects of gerrymandering on elections and party control of the U.S. national legislature. Aside from the requirements that districts be continuous and, after 1842, that each select only one representative, there were few restrictions on congressional...
Snarl
In Defense of Stalled Traffic and Faulty Networks
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Ruth A. Miller excavates a centuries-old history of nonhuman and nonbiological constitutional engagement and outlines a robust mechanical democracy that challenges existing theories of liberal and human political participation. Drawing on an eclectic set of legal, political, and automotive texts from...
Latin Numbers
Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
*Latin Numbers *is a work of performance history, examining the way in which Latino actors on the twentieth-century stage and screen communicated and influenced American ideas about race and ethnicity. Brian Eugenio Herrera looks at how these performances and performers contributed to American popular...