University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
by Maura Stanton
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
In Cities in the Sea, Maura Stanton taps into the mysterious force of the fairy tale, with its fantastic images and magical narrative patterns. Her stories blur the boundaries between fairy tale and verité, and comment on the art of storytelling. A range of characters -- from a business man to a...
by Sheila O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Winner 2003 Michigan Literary Fiction Award for original novel
"Written with precision and perception, this is a highly recommended work from a writer to watch."
---Library Journal
"O'Connor . . . remains a consummate artist, true to her vision of a work that is bleak,...
Miranda's Waning Protections
Police Interrogation Practices after Dickerson
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Did the Supreme Court's upholding of Miranda in 2000 adversely impact law enforcement, as conservatives have complained, or was it a reaffirmation of individual rights?
Welsh S. White looks at both sides of the issue, emphasizing that Miranda represents just one stage in the Court's ongoing...
by Gregory Wawro
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
When members are elected to the House of Representatives they have a certain freedom to decide how they will act as members and how they will build their reputations. Just as in the market place entrepreneurs build businesses, so in the House of Representatives members have the freedom to choose to...
The Politics of Preference
Democratic Institutions and Affirmative Action in the United States and India
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Sunita Parikh examines the history and fate of affirmative action programs in two ethnically heterogeneous democracies, the United States and India. Affirmative action programs in the United States represent a controversial policy about which the American public feel at best ambivalence and at worst...
From Revolution to War
State Relations in a World of Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In the history of international relations, few events command as much attention as revolution and war. Over the centuries, revolutionary transformations have produced some of the most ruinous and bloody wars. Nevertheless, the breakdown of peace in time of revolution is poorly understood. Patrick...
Transformative Justice
Israeli Identity on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?
Transformative Justice, Leora Bilsky's landmark study of Israeli political trials, poses this deceptively simple question. The four trials that she analyzes focus on identity, the nature of pluralism, human rights, and the rule of law-issues whose importance...
by Liza Wieland
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
A modest, quiet woman, Mara Raynor never dreamed she'd one day find herself in charge of the small private school in Washington, D.C., where for many years she taught music and choir. But after the unexpected death of her husband, the school's headmaster, Mara finds herself thrust into the public...
Party Competition and Responsible Party Government
A Theory of Spatial Competition Based Upon Insights from Behavioral Voting Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
In countries with multiparty political systems, we assume--if the system is going to work--that parties have relatively stable positions on policy, that these positions diverge, and that voters make choices based on policy preferences. Yet much of the research on voter behavior and party competition...
Melancholy, Love, and Time
Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Ancient literature features many powerful narratives of madness, depression, melancholy, lovesickness, simple boredom, and the effects of such psychological states upon individual sufferers. Peter Toohey turns his attention to representations of these emotional states in the Classical, Hellenistic,...
Organizing for Foreign Policy Crises
Presidents, Advisers, and the Management of Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Presidents often assemble ad hoc groups of advisers to help them make decisions during foreign policy crises. These advisers may include the holders of the traditional foreign policy positions--secretaries of state and defense--as well as others from within and without the executive branch. It has...
Locating the Proper Authorities
The Interaction of Domestic and International Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
In an era of democratization and globalization, the number of decision makers has multiplied exponentially. Parliamentarians, bureaucrats, international secretariats, regional governors, and nongovernmental organizations have all gained influence at the expense of heads of state. How do these competing...
The Politics of the Trail
Reflexive Mountain Biking along the Frontier of Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Each day, as Oded Löwenheim commutes by mountain bike along dirt trails and wadis in the hills of Jerusalem to Hebrew University, he feels a strong emotional connection to his surroundings. But for him this connection also generates, paradoxically, feelings and emotions of confusion and estrangement.
In...
Recycling Land
Understanding the Legal Landscape of Brownfield Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Older--and often economically depressed--industrial cities generally have a number of well located but abandoned industrial sites. Too frequently these sites are heavily polluted by the residue of toxic wastes dumped when old factories were still in use. These "brownfield" sites must be...