Authors:David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, Alexander Tabarrok,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: society, economics, cognition, civil, community, city, choice, voluntary
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2002-05-10
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0472088378
ISBN-13: 9780472088379

The rise and decline of American civic life has provoked wide-ranging responses from all quarters of society. Unfortunately, many proposals for improving our communities rely on renewed governmental efforts without a similar recognition that the inflexibility and poor accountability of governments have often worsened society’s ills. The Voluntary City investigates the history of large-scale, private provision of social services, the for-profit provision of urban infrastructure and community governance, and the growing privatization of residential life in the United States to argue that m

Authors:Yuichi Shionoya, Mark Perlman,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: schumpeter, series, society, ideas, history, international
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1995-02-15
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0472105485
ISBN-13: 9780472105489

Authors:Edward Dorn, Joseph Richey,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: poets, poetry, outtakes, interviews, live, lectures, dorn
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2007-10-22
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0472068628
ISBN-13: 9780472068623

“Ed Dorn’s achievement has been to create single-handedly a language of public reference, and to have brought within the sphere of expressive language and poetic experience objects and feelings which had been, literally, unimaginable in those terms. It is in this context that he is one of the masters of our contemporary language.”—Peter Ackroyd“Ed was one of the most thoughtful but penetrating thinkers. There was no PollyAnna in him at all. And that’s what I liked about him.”—Amiri BarakaAlong with Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, William Carlos Willi

Author: James A.R. Miles
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: disarray, china, tiananmen, legacy
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0472084518
ISBN-13: 9780472084517

Author: Mary C. Spaa
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/ESL
Keywords: melab, guide, student
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2008-09-04
List price: $33.50
ISBN-10: 0472032968
ISBN-13: 9780472032969

This self-study guidebook, now packaged with an audio CD, is designed to help students anticipate the types of tasks they will face in the actual MELAB testing situation. Since the MELAB measures proficiency in the four basic language skill areas—writing, listening, reading, and speaking—A Student’s Guide to the MELAB, 2nd Edition, offers practice tests in each of these areas to help students become familiar with test formats, timing, and directions. The practice tests, scoring keys, scripts, commentary, and score interpretation information provide a valuable opportunity for self-ass

Author: Bradley E. Lewis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: postpsychiatry, corporealities, discourses, disability, birth, psychiatry, prozac, dsm, new, moving
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-02-02
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0472031171
ISBN-13: 9780472031177

"Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead."--Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine"Remarkable in its breadth-an interesting and valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature of the philosophy of psychiatry."--Christian Perring, Dowling CollegeMoving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry looks at contemporary psychiatric practice from a variety of critical perspectives ranging from Michel Foucault to Donna Haraway. This contr

Author: Linda Ben-Zvi
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: theater, performance, text, theory, israel
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1996-05-15
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0472106074
ISBN-13: 9780472106073

The first volume of its kind in English or Hebrew, Theater in Israel gathers original essays, interviews, and commentaries by leading international theater practitioners and critics. The book explores the rich history and diversity of Israel’s theater and illustrates the ways in which this politically committed theater mirrors the historical and cultural forces that have shaped Israeli-Arab relations, the events in the Middle East, and the post-Holocaust Jewish experience. The collection provides a thorough and engaging survey of the playwrights, directors, actors, and productions that c