Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: cultural, materialism, histories, theory, simulation, simulacra
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 1995-02-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0472065211
ISBN-13: 9780472065219

The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought.

Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: science, latour, studies, literature, bruno, michel, culture, time, conversations, serres
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1995-05-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0472065483
ISBN-13: 9780472065486

Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these five lively interviews with sociologist Bruno Latour, this increasingly important cultural figure sheds light on the ideas that inspire his highly original, challenging, and transdisciplinary essays.Serres begins by discussing the intellectual context and historical events-- including the impact of World War II and Hiroshima, which for him marke

Author: Ronald Schleifer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: language, collaboration, interpretation, understanding, enlightenment, thinking, post, analogical
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-01-31
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0472110888
ISBN-13: 9780472110889

Analogical Thinking argues that sometime around the turn of the twentieth century, a new mode of comprehension arose, supplementing received Enlightenment ideas concerning the nature of understanding and explanation. Focusing on the innovations of structural linguistics and its poststructural legacy, the individualism of Enlightenment knowledge and the collaborations of post-Enlightenment information, and practices of reading and interpretation across the arts and sciences, Analogical Thinking examines the ways in which analogical presentations of similarities respond to the experiences of twe

Author: Edna Amir Coffin
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: level, hebrew, modern, encounters
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1992-09-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0472082213
ISBN-13: 9780472082216

A new text for the teaching of modern Hebrew

Author: Tom Cole
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/ESL
Keywords: mastering, practice, book, article
Number of Pages: 114
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0472086391
ISBN-13: 9780472086399

A comprehensive guide and workbook for improving ESL/EFL students’ understanding of English articles, The Article Book can be used as either a supplement to any ESL/EFL core text or as a self-study tool for intermediate through advanced learners. Cole involves students in "learning by doing" through an integrated approach to skill acquisition that includes other grammar structures, reading, vocabulary, and speaking.Each chapter of the book is organized into teachable units or lessons and includes presentation of a grammatical rule with examples, exercises, quizzes, and a comprehensive te

Author: Lisa Perfetti
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: literature, comic, medieval, laughter, women
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0472113216
ISBN-13: 9780472113217

Exploring literary representations of women’s laughter from the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries, this volume offers an intriguing look into a culture of women’s laughter, illustrating the many contexts that shaped the way women told jokes, as well as the ways their joking reflected their limited position in a society dominated by men. The book also considers the uses male authors made of the laughter of their fictional creations and the pleasures offered to both male and female audiences. This study is the first to investigate women’s laughter as a particular kind

Author: Mark Perlman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: economic, essays, mark, perlman, selected, institutions, thought, characters, character
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0472107119
ISBN-13: 9780472107117

Mark Perlman has made significant contributions to the field of economics and to the life of the discipline of economics. His creation of the Journal of Economic Literature is both an example of his contribution to the discipline and a symbol of the connecting threads of literateness, breadth of interest, and learning that run through his work. Born, raised, and largely educated in Madison, Wisconsin, where his father was one of the principal figures of the Wisconsin Institutionalist tradition, Perlman decided early that he would be a professor. He first worked in labor economics and industria