University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Billy Durant
Creator of General Motors
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Praise for the first edition:
"A fascinating book [and] a sympathetic look at the man who glued General Motors together and in the process made Flint one of the great industrial centers of America."
---Detroit Free Press
"It is refreshing to report that Billy Durant is...
Gerald R. Ford
An Honorable Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
“Not since Harry Truman succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt twenty-nine years earlier had the American people known so little about a man who had stepped forward from obscurity to take the oath of office as President of the United States.”
—from Chapter 4
This is a comprehensive narrative...
What Matters in Medicine
Lessons from a Life in Primary Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Primary care has come into the limelight with the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the unchecked and unsustainable rise in American health care expenditures, and the crest of Baby Boomers who are now Medicare-eligible and entering the most health care–intensive period of...
by Harlan D. Platt
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Since its publication in 1998, this indispensable text has been the only systematic examination of corporate renewal, offering a rational approach for dealing with financially distressed companies. It contains the first logical and orderly discussion of a number of modern business issues including...
Having Once Paused
Poems of Zen Master Ikkyu (1394-1481)
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
The influence of Zen Master Ikkyu (1394-1481) permeates the full field of medieval Japanese aesthetics. Though best known as a poet, he was central to the shaping and reshaping of practices in calligraphy, Noh theater, tea ceremony, and rock gardening, all of which now define Japan’s sense of its...
Sounding Like a No-No
Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012
Sounding Like a No-No traces a rebellious spirit in post–civil rights black music by focusing on a range of offbeat, eccentric, queer, or slippery performances by leading musicians influenced by the cultural changes brought about by the civil rights, black nationalist, feminist, and LGBTQ movements,...
Negotiating Disability
Disclosure and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Disability is not always central to claims about diversity and inclusion in higher education, but should be. This collection reveals the pervasiveness of disability issues and considerations within many higher education populations and settings, from classrooms to physical environments to policy impacts...
Bad Boys
Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Statistics show that black males are disproportionately getting in trouble and being suspended from the nation's school systems. Based on three years of participant observation research at an elementary school, Bad Boys offers a richly textured account of daily interactions between teachers and students...
Black Cultural Traffic
Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
"A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together...
Louie Louie
The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'n Roll Song; Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at the Hands of the Kingsmen, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, and a Cast of Millions; and Introducing for the First Time Anywhere
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
A new edition of Dave Marsh's classic work on the three-chord song that rocked the world
"A tale as compelling as any John Grisham thriller."
-Rolling Stone
"Dave Marsh's Louie Louie is part rant, part rock criticism and part cultural analysis, with a good dose of Ripley's...
The Martian's Daughter
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
One of the five Hungarian scientific geniuses dubbed "the Martians" by their colleagues, John von Neumann is often hailed as the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century and even as the greatest scientist after Einstein. He was a key figure in the Manhattan Project; the inventor of...
A New England Prison Diary
Slander, Religion, and Markets in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In 1812, New Hampshire shopkeeper Timothy M. Joy abandoned his young family, fleeing the creditors who threatened to imprison him. Within days, he found himself in a Massachusetts jailhouse, charged with defamation of a prominent politician. During the months of his incarceration, Joy kept a remarkable...
The Game Changed
Essays and Other Prose
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Praise for Lawrence Joseph:
"Poetry of great dignity, grace, and unrelenting persuasiveness… Joseph gives us new hope for the resourcefulness of humanity, and of poetry."
---John Ashbery
"Like Henry Adams, Joseph seems to be writing ahead of actual events, and that makes...
Poetry Los Angeles
Reading the Essential Poems of the City
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Is there such a thing as Los Angeles poetry? How do we assess a poem about a city as elusive of identity as Los Angeles? What features do poems about this unique urban landscape of diverse peoples and terrains have in common? Poetry Los Angeles is the first book to gather and analyze poems about...