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Published by Brand: Univ of Michigan, 1999
ISBN 10: 0912303522ISBN 13: 9780912303529
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Presents three essays and 12 color plates published to accompany a 1998 exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. The exhibition and text focus on the period of Monet's career which he spent at Vetheuil, a small town along the Seine, from 1878 to 1881. The essays examine: love, money, and Monet's debacle paintings of 1880; the site and subject of Monet's Vetheuil paintings; and the marketing of Monet in the context of the exhibition at La Vie Moderne. Contains a number of b&w drawings and a few color reproductions in addition to the color plates. Includes extensive notes and a bibliography, but no subject index. Distributed by U. of Washington Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Michigan Center for, 1993
ISBN 10: 0939512610ISBN 13: 9780939512614
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Tales of Times Now Past is a translation of 62 outstanding tales freshly selected from Konjaku monogatari shu, a Japanese anthology dating from the early twelfth century. The original work, unique in world literature, contains more than one thousand systematically arranged tales from India, China, and Japan. It is the most important example of a genre of collections of brief tales which, because of their informality and unpretentious style, were neglected by Japanese critics until recent years but which are now acknowledged to be among the most significant prose literature of premodern Japan. Konjaku in particular has aroused the enthusiasm of such leading 20th-century writers as Akutagawa Ryunosuke and Tanizaki Junichiro.The stories, with sources in both traditional lore and contemporary gossip, cover an astonishing range-homiletic, sentimental, terrifying, practical-minded, humorous, ribald. Their topics include the life of the Buddha, descriptions of Heaven and Hell, feats of warriors, craftsmen, and musicians, unsuspected vice, virtue, and ingenuity, and the ways and wiles of bandits, ogres, and proverbially greedy provincial governors, to name just a few. Composed perhaps a century after the refined, allusive, aristocratic Tale of Genji, Konjaku represents a masculine outlook and comparatively plebeian social orientation, standing in piquant contrast to the earlier masterpiece. The unknown compiler was interested less in exploring psychological subtleties than in presenting vivid portraits of human foibles and eccentricities. The stories in the present selection have been chosen to provide an idea of the scope and structure of the book as a whole, and also for their appeal to the modern reader. And the translation is based on the premise that the most faithful rendering is also the liveliest.
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Published by Brand: Western Michigan Univ Medieval, 1997
ISBN 10: 1879288885ISBN 13: 9781879288881
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. ntroductory chapter and page 114 have underlining. Otherwise good. Moderate cover wear. Inv.# C0243.
Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0472031627ISBN 13: 9780472031627
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Softcover. Condition: Good. "In this small book David Hemenway has produced a masterwork. He has dissected the various aspects of the gun violence epidemic in the United States into its component parts and considered them separately. He has produced a scientifically based analysis of the data and indeed the microdata of the over 30,000 deaths and 75,000 injuries which occur each year. Consideration and adoption of the policy lessons he recommends would strengthen the Constitutional protections that all of our citizens have to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."-Richard F. Corlin, Past President, American Medical Association"This lucid and penetrating study is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the tragedy of gun violence in America and-even more important-what we can do to stop it. David Hemenway cuts through the cant and rhetoric in a way that no fair-minded person can dismiss, and no sane society can afford to ignore."-Richard North Patterson, novelist"The rate of gun-related homicide, suicide, and accidental injury has reached epidemic proportions in American society. Diagnosing and treating the gun violence epidemic demands the development of public health solutions in conjunction with legislative and law enforcement strategies."-Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO of NAACP"In scholarly, sober analytic assessments, including rigorous critiques of NRA-popularized pseudoscience, David Hemenway constructs a convincing case that firearm availability is a critical and proximal cause of unparalleled carnage. By formulating such violence as a public health issue, he proposes workable policies analogous to ones that reduced injuries from tobacco, alcohol, and automobiles."-Jerome P. Kassirer, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, New England Journal of Medicine, and Distinguished Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine"As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic."-Scott Harshbarger, Former Attorney General of Massachusetts, President and CEO of Common CauseOn an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill almost eighty people, and to wound nearly three hundred more. If any other consumer product had this sort of disastrous effect, the public outcry would be deafening; yet when it comes to guns such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence.Private Guns, Public Health explodes that myth and many more, revealing the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem. David Hemenway fair-mindedly and authoritatively demonstrates how a public-health approach-which emphasizes prevention over punishment, and which has been so successful in reducing the rates of injury and death from infectious disease, car accidents, and tobacco consumption-can be applied to gun violence.Hemenway uncovers the complex connections between guns and self-defense, gun violence and schools, gun prevalence and homicide, and more. Finally, he outlines a policy course that would significantly reduce gun-related injury and death.With its bold new public-health approach to guns, Private Guns, Public Health marks a shift in our understanding of guns that will-finally-point us toward a solution.
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0472067257ISBN 13: 9780472067251
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. At once handbook, reader, and guide to the literary tastes and wisdom of poets, An Exaltation of Forms is an indispensable resource certain to find a dedicated audience among poetry lovers. The editors invited over fifty contemporary poets to select a poetic meter, stanza, or form, describe it, recount its history, and provide favorite examples. The essays represent a remarkably diverse range of literary styles and approaches, and show how the forms of contemporary English-language poetry derive from a wealth of different traditions.The forms range from hendecasyllabics to prose poetry, haiku to procedural poetry, sonnets to blues, rap to fractal verse. The range of poets included is equally impressive--from Amiri Baraka to John Frederick Nims, from Maxine Kumin to Marilyn Hacker, from Agha Shahid Ali to Pat Mora, from W. D. Snodgrass to Charles Bernstein. Achieving this level of eclecticism is a remarkable feat, especially given the strong opinions held by members of the various camps (e.g., the New Formalists, LANGUAGE poets, feminist and multicultural poets) that exist within today's poetry community. Poets who might never occupy the same room here occupy the same pages, perhaps for the first time. The net effect is a book that will surprise, inform, and delight a wide range of readers, whether as reference book, pleasure reading, or classroom text.Poet, translator, and critic Annie Finch is director of the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. She is author of The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse, Eve, and Calendars. She is the winner of the eleventh annual Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award for scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification.Kathrine Varnes teaches English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the author of the book of poems, The Paragon. Her poems and essays have appeared in many books and journals.
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press, 1958
ISBN 10: 047206018XISBN 13: 9780472060184
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Chambers, R. W. 1st edition as an Ann Arbor Paperback 3rd Printing 1965.
Published by Brand: The University of Michigan Press, 1973
ISBN 10: 0472061909ISBN 13: 9780472061907
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Very slightest of wear to the cover, pages nice and clean, no writing or highlighting. Spine faded. A very nice copy. All our books are individually inspected, rated and described. Never EX-LIB unless specifically listed as such.
Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0472114050ISBN 13: 9780472114054
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. "In this small book David Hemenway has produced a masterwork. He has dissected the various aspects of the gun violence epidemic in the United States into its component parts and considered them separately. He has produced a scientifically based analysis of the data and indeed the microdata of the over 30,000 deaths and 75,000 injuries which occur each year. Consideration and adoption of the policy lessons he recommends would strengthen the Constitutional protections that all of our citizens have to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."-Richard F. Corlin, Past President, American Medical Association"This lucid and penetrating study is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the tragedy of gun violence in America and-even more important-what we can do to stop it. David Hemenway cuts through the cant and rhetoric in a way that no fair-minded person can dismiss, and no sane society can afford to ignore."-Richard North Patterson, novelist"The rate of gun-related homicide, suicide, and accidental injury has reached epidemic proportions in American society. Diagnosing and treating the gun violence epidemic demands the development of public health solutions in conjunction with legislative and law enforcement strategies."-Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO of NAACP"In scholarly, sober analytic assessments, including rigorous critiques of NRA-popularized pseudoscience, David Hemenway constructs a convincing case that firearm availability is a critical and proximal cause of unparalleled carnage. By formulating such violence as a public health issue, he proposes workable policies analogous to ones that reduced injuries from tobacco, alcohol, and automobiles."-Jerome P. Kassirer, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, New England Journal of Medicine, and Distinguished Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine"As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic."-Scott Harshbarger, Former Attorney General of Massachusetts, President and CEO of Common CauseOn an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill almost eighty people, and to wound nearly three hundred more. If any other consumer product had this sort of disastrous effect, the public outcry would be deafening; yet when it comes to guns such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence.Private Guns, Public Health explodes that myth and many more, revealing the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem. David Hemenway fair-mindedly and authoritatively demonstrates how a public-health approach-which emphasizes prevention over punishment, and which has been so successful in reducing the rates of injury and death from infectious disease, car accidents, and tobacco consumption-can be applied to gun violence.Hemenway uncovers the complex connections between guns and self-defense, gun violence and schools, gun prevalence and homicide, and more. Finally, he outlines a policy course that would significantly reduce gun-related injury and death.With its bold new public-health approach to guns, Private Guns, Public Health marks a shift in our understanding of guns that will-finally-point us toward a solution.
Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0870136755ISBN 13: 9780870136757
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by.
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press, 1968
ISBN 10: 0472070312ISBN 13: 9780472070312
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book by Peffer, Nathaniel.
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0472086073ISBN 13: 9780472086078
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Published by Brand: Univ of Michigan Center for, 2001
ISBN 10: 1929280017ISBN 13: 9781929280018
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Published serially between 1928 and 1931, Shanghai tells the story of a group of Japanese expatriates living in the International Settlement at the time of the May 30th Incident of 1925. The personal lives and desires of the main characters play out against a historical backdrop of labor unrest, factional intrigue, colonialist ambitions, and racial politics.The author, Yokomitsu Riichi (1898-1947), was an essayist, writer, and critical theorist who became one of the most powerful and influential literary figures in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1924 Yokomitsu joined with Kataoka Teppei and Kawabata Yasunari to found the Shinkankaku-ha (New Sensation School), artists who looked to contemporary avant-garde movements in Europe-Dadaism, futurism, surrealism, expressionism-for inspiration in their effort to explode the conventions of literary language and to break free of what they saw as the prisonhouse of modern culture. A key feature of the schools experiments was the use of jarring imagery that originated in the visual effects of cinema.Yokomitsu incorporated the striking visuality of his early experimental style into a realistic mode that presents a disturbing picture of a city in turmoil. The result is a brilliant evocation of Shanghai as a gritty ideological battleground where dreams of sexual and economic domination are nurtured.
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Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 2009
ISBN 10: 087013857XISBN 13: 9780870138577
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry.Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased global trade in the Great Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes in ocean freighters' ballast water tanks unleashed a biological shift that reconfigured the world's largest freshwater ecosystems.Pandora's Locks is the story of politicians and engineers who, driven by hubris and handicapped by ignorance, demanded that the Seaway be built at any cost. It is the tragic tale of government agencies that could have prevented ocean freighters from laying waste to the Great Lakes ecosystems, but failed to act until it was too late. Blending science with compelling personal accounts, this book is the first comprehensive account of how inviting transoceanic freighters into North America's freshwater seas transformed these wondrous lakes.
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Dept Near Eastern Studies, 1981
ISBN 10: 0916798550ISBN 13: 9780916798550
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No binding. Condition: Good. Book by Gernot Windfuhr, Hassan Tehranisa.
Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0870135201ISBN 13: 9780870135200
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by Brand: Michigan State Univ Bulletin Office, 1999
ISBN 10: 1565250044ISBN 13: 9781565250048
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Revised. Book by Holman, J. Alan.
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Center for Middle, 1971
ISBN 10: 0916798097ISBN 13: 9780916798093
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Published by Brand: Univ of Michigan Center for, 1990
ISBN 10: 0939512459ISBN 13: 9780939512454
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Grass on the Wayside is an autobiographical novel written by Soseki Natsume in 1915. It encompasses a short period in Natsumes life between 1903 and 1905, which corresponds to the later part of Japans Meiji era (1868-1912). By 1903, Japan had undergone a rapid transformation from a closed feudal society to an open free market democracy built on the European model. As the Japanese raced to assimilate Western ideas and concepts of liberty, individuality and the pursuit of happiness, their collective consciousness inevitably collided with their own traditional values, such as the deeply ingrained concept of filial piety and family duty, which were hard to die.<br /><br />It was a long-established custom in Japan at the time for parents to arrange for the adoption of one of their children by a relative, friend or acquaintance. Because such adoptions were strictly formal and upheld by the law, they had come to serve the practical needs of many people in a variety of circumstances, and they were considered a perfectly respectable social institution. Natsume himself was a foster child in such an adoption between the ages of two and nine, when he returned to live with his birth parents. The plot of Grass on the Wayside revolves around Natsumes adoption and his subsequent relationship with his stepparents several decades after the adoption was terminated.<br /><br />In the novel, Natsume portrays himself as the protagonist, Kenzoh, who is a mediocre university professor living in Tokyo with his wife and children. Although Kenzoh struggles to support his family on his meager salary, he is better off financially than anyone else in his extended family. Fairly cosmopolitan at this point in his life, he feels tied down by his job and his family, and he longs for independence and personal fulfillment. But even as he tries to pull free, a parade of family members approaches him from all sides to bind his conscience to the traditional Confucian concept of family duty, mercilessly using him for money in greedy, calculating and often coldhearted ways. As he struggles to find a way out, he explores his consciousness from his earliest childhood memories through premonitions of an uncertain future. He examines his childhood and emotionally distant parents and foster parents, his neurotic wife and their failing marriage, his financially struggling yet unambitious brother, and his asthmatic sister and her callous, unfaithful husband. At last, he is torn between his desire to break away and his sense of duty to his family, who he no longer loves but to whom he owes a debt of gratitude.<br /><br />If Natsumes view of life is decidedly on the dark side, his portrayal of it is entertaining and amusing, at times, even comical. And throughout he manages to convey a sense of faith and hope that is greater than the economic hardship and hopelessness that afflicted so many Japanese at the turn of the twentieth century. His natural storytelling ability, richly layered characterization, poignant reflections on human nature, and sheer relentlessness make Grass on the Wayside a literary masterpiece.<br /><br />The story has an old-fashioned charm, written in the days before electricity, telephones and cars, yet it is timeless, its characters as fresh and vivid as if they were alive today. Subtle and attentive to detail, it offers a snapshot of everyday life in Japan at the end of the Meiji era.<br /><br />Angel Ray Reilly.
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Published by Brand: Michigan State University Extension, 1992
ISBN 10: 1565250028ISBN 13: 9781565250024
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Published by Brand: Univ of Michigan Center for, 1988
ISBN 10: 0939512343ISBN 13: 9780939512348
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book by Kamens, Edward.
Published by Brand: Michigan State Univ Pr, 1994
ISBN 10: 0870133519ISBN 13: 9780870133510
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Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0870136127ISBN 13: 9780870136122
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Few twentieth-century writers are as revered as William Faulkner. This collection brings together the best literary criticism on Faulkner from the last six decades, detailing the imaginative and passionate responses to his still-controversial novels. By focusing on the criticism rather than the works, Linda Wagner-Martin shows the primary directions in Faulkners influence on critics, writers, and students of American literature today. This invaluable volume reveals the patterns of change in literary criticism over time, while exploring the various critical streams-language theory, feminism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis-that have elevated Faulkners work to the highest rank of the American literary pantheon.
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press/Regional, 2012
ISBN 10: 0472034871ISBN 13: 9780472034871
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press/Regional, 2013
ISBN 10: 0472035487ISBN 13: 9780472035489
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Published by Brand: Univ of Michigan Center for, 1990
ISBN 10: 0939512467ISBN 13: 9780939512461
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Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0870136712ISBN 13: 9780870136719
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Published by Brand: Michigan St Univ Cooperative, 1999
ISBN 10: 1565250125ISBN 13: 9781565250123
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Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0870131885ISBN 13: 9780870131882
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Published by Brand: Center for Research on Utilization of Scientific Knowledge, University of Michigan, 1971
ISBN 10: 0879440759ISBN 13: 9780879440756
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book by Havelock, Ronald G 4to Upper corners bumped, sunning to spine, small.
Published by Brand: Univ of Michigan Center for, 1990
ISBN 10: 0939512440ISBN 13: 9780939512447
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