Authors:John A. Dorr, Donald F. Eschman,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Keywords: michigan, geology
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 1970-06-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0472082809
ISBN-13: 9780472082803

Studies the land and waters of Michigan.

Author: Ronald Fernandez
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: contemporary, divide, political, social, issues, racial, overcome, black, immigrants, fusions, helping, america
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-08-29
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0472116096
ISBN-13: 9780472116096

“This book is both powerful and important. Powerful for the testimony it provides from Americans of many different (and even mixed races) about their experiences. And important because there is a racial revolution underway that will upend race as we know it during the twenty-first century.”—John Kenneth White, Catholic University of America America Beyond Black and White is a call for a new way of imagining race in America. For the first time in U.S. history, the black-white dichotomy that has historically defined race and ethnicity is being challenged, not by a small mino

Author: Keally McBride
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: meaning, violence, law, order, political, punishment
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-06-08
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0472069829
ISBN-13: 9780472069828

Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident in its own legitimacy and sovereignty. Punishment and Political Order examines the questions raised by the state’s exercise of punitive power—from what it is about human psychology that desires sanction and order to how the state can administer pain while calling for justice. Keally McBride’s book demonstrates punishment’s place at the core of political ad

Author: Prof. Kerry A. Chase
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: economy, michigan, studies, international, political, world, blocs, states, firms, regions, trading
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2005-11-04
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 047209906X
ISBN-13: 9780472099061

Global commerce is rapidly organizing around regional trading blocs in North America, Western Europe, Pacific Asia, and elsewhere--with potentially dangerous consequences for the world trading system. Professor Kerry Chase examines how domestic politics has driven the emergence of these trading blocs, arguing that businesses today are more favorably inclined to global trade liberalization than in the past because recent regional trading arrangements have created opportunities to restructure manufacturing more efficiently. Trading Blocs is the first book to systematically demonstrate the theore

Author: John Francis McDermott
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: economics, advances, heterodox, reconstruction, theoretical, real, time
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2003-12-16
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0472113577
ISBN-13: 9780472113576

By incorporating real time into the analysis of sales and purchases, the phenomena of product innovation, advertising and distribution, the provision of consumer credit, and, ultimately, the production of a changing workforce all become intrinsic to microeconomic analysis.In mainstream economics the series of purchases, say, of a personal computer, then of software upgrades, peripherals, on-line services, and so on are analyzed as discrete transactions. McDermott instead links such purchases withing a "sale/purchase state" occupying the period beginning with the initial purchase of the PC and

Authors:Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Umphrey,
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: law, social, thought, jurisprudence, series, madness, amherst
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2003-10-21
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0472113291
ISBN-13: 9780472113293

Why join the categories of law and madness? After all, madness is outside the law -- indeed is the opposite of it -- and, in principle, legal institutions struggle to keep these slippery terms separate. Law’s Madness links these terms to see what that linkage generates, and explores the gray area between the realms of reason and madness. The very title, Law’s Madness, suggests a relationship that is both possessive (a madness defined by legal discourse) and constitutive (a madness that resides in law).This provocative collection of essays reveals the ways in which the law takes its

Authors:Karol Soltan, Virginia Haufler, Eric M. Uslaner,
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: order, social, institutions
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0472108689
ISBN-13: 9780472108688

"Institutionalism" is the buzzword of the 1980s and 1990s in the social sciences. What is new in the contemporary analysis of institutions and what does it offer to the study of social order? In this book a distinguished group of social scientists drawn from political science, economics, and sociology, explore this question and show us how different theoretical approaches to institutional analysis can be joined to build a more thorough understanding of institutions. The modern analysis of institutions has taken two separate paths. Rational choice theories identified institutions as a strategic