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The Michigan Roadside Na...
Did you know . . . ? • Michigan is seventeenth in oil production in the United States. • The Great Lakes are said to be the only glacially produced structures that can be seen from the moon. • Michigan was once part of a coral reef. • The wood frog is one of the commonest true...
(2009)
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The Next Twenty-five Years
Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the United States and South Africa
by David Lee Fe... and Marvin Krislov
"Ambitious, provocative, and wide-ranging, this rich collection of essays from U.S. and South African perspectives reflects the thinking of thoughtful advocates of affirmative action." ---William G. Bowen, President Emeritus, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and President Emer...
(2009)
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The Pioneers of Judicial...
In The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior, prominent political scientists critically examine the contributions to the field of public law of the pioneering scholars of judicial behavior: C. Hermann Pritchett, Glendon Schubert, S. Sidney Ulmer, Harold J. Spaeth, Joseph Tanenhaus, Be...
(2009)
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The Playing Fields of Eton
Equality and Excellence in Modern Meritocracy
A very insightful and clearly written philosophical inquiry into the nature of sport. ---Marion Smiley, Brandeis University Can equality and excellence coexist? If we assert that no person stands above the rest, can we encourage and acknowledge athletic, artistic, and intellec...
(2009)
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The Political Economy of...
Information and Efficiency in American National Politics
The Political Economy of Expertise is a carefully argued examination of how legislatures use expert research and testimony. Kevin Esterling demonstrates that interest groups can actually help the legislative process by encouraging Congress to assess research and implement well...
(2009)
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The Secret Marriage of S...
The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes is about reading, a process that we take for granted. But Sherlock Holmes, the cultural icon to whose exploits Michael Atkinson gives new readings, became famous by taking nothing for granted. Holmes's adventures can be read in new ways, ...
(2009)
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The Street Porter and th...
Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism
by Sandra Peart and David M. Levy
Adam Smith, asserting the common humanity of the street porter and the philosopher, articulated the classical economists' model of social interactions as exchanges among equals. This model had largely fallen out of favor until, recently, a number of scholars in the avant-garde...
(2009)
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The Subject and Other Su...
On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity
The Subject and Other Subjects theorizes the differences among ethical, aesthetic, and political conceptions of identity. When a person is called beautiful, why does it strike us as an objectification? Is a person whom we consider to be an exemplary person still a person, and ...
(2009)
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The Vanity of the Philos...
From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics
by Sandra Peart and David M. Levy
The "Vanity of the Philosopher" continues the themes introduced in Levy's acclaimed book How the Dismal Science Got Its Name. Here, Peart and Levy tackle the issues of racism, eugenics, hierarchy, and egalitarianism in classical economics and take a broad view of classical eco...
(2009)
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The View from the Dugout
Somewhere, if they haven't been destroyed, there are hundreds of pages of typewritten notes about American League players of that era, notes which I would love to get my hands on. -Bill James, in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, on the journals of Red Rolfe "Re...
(2009)
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The View from the Helm
Leading the American University during an Era of Change
Widely regarded as one of the most active and publicly engaged university presidents in modern academia, Duderstadt—who led the University of Michigan from 1988 to 1996—presided over a period of enormous change, not only for his institution, but for universities across the cou...
(2009)
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The White Welfare State
The Racialization of U.S. Welfare Policy
by Deborah Ward
The White Welfare State challenges common misconceptions of the development of U.S. welfare policy. Arguing that race has always been central to welfare policy-making in the United States, Deborah Ward breaks new ground by showing that the Mothers' Pensions--the Progressive-Er...
(2009)
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These Days of Large Things
The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930
The United States at the turn of the twentieth century cultivated a passion for big. It witnessed the emergence of large-scale corporate capitalism; the beginnings of American imperialism on a global stage; record-level immigration; a rapid expansion of cities; and colossal ev...
(2009)
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This Is My Body
Representational Practices in the Early Middle Ages
The recipient of the annual Award for Outstanding Book in Theatre Practice and Pedagogy from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, This Is My Body realigns representational practices in the early Middle Ages with current debates on the nature of representation. Mich...
(2009)
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To See Ourselves as Othe...
How Publics Abroad View the United States after 9/11
"Holsti, the authority on American foreign policy attitudes, investigates others' views of us. It's not pretty. It matters. Read this." ---Bruce Russett, Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations, Yale University, and editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution "Clear...
(2009)
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Transformation and Trouble
Crime, Justice and Participation in Democratic South Africa
by Diana Gordon
Crime is one of the major challenges to any new democracy. Violence often increases after the lifting of authoritarian control, or in the aftermath of regime change. But how can a fledgling democracy fight crime without violating the fragile rights of its citizens? In Transfor...
(2009)
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Treaty Politics and the ...
International Commitments in a System of Shared Powers
by Glen S Krutz and Jeffrey S Peake
In foreign relations, U.S. presidents have exercised a growing independence through the use of executive agreements. The U.S. Constitution specifies that two-thirds of the Senate must ratify a proposed treaty but makes no provision for other forms of international agreements. ...
(2009)
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Value Change in Global P...
by Paul Abramson and Ronald Ingle...
In this pioneering work, Paul R. Abramson and Ronald Inglehart show that the gradual shift from Materialist values (such as the desire for economic and physical security) to Post-materialist values (such as the desire for freedom, self-expression, and the quality of life) is i...
(2009)
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Untimely Interventions
AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting
As atrocity has become characteristic of modern history, testimonial writing has become a major twentieth-century genre. Untimely Interventions relates testimonial writing, or witnessing, to the cultural situation of aftermath, exploring ways in which a culture can be haunted ...
(2009)
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Volatile States
Institutions, Policy, and the Performance of American State Economies
Why do American state economies grow at such vastly different rates and manifest such wide differences in living standards? Volatile States identifies the sources of rising living standards by examining the recent economic and fiscal history of the American states. With new in...
(2009)
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