Dan Gerber's Trying to Catch the Horses is his first full-length collection since his highly acclaimed selected poems, A Last Bridge Home, published in 1992. Many of these fifty-eight poems have appea
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
In Sacrifice, Rene Girard interrogates the Brahmanas of Vedic India, exploring coincidences with mimetic theory that are too numerous and striking to be accidental. Even that which appears to be dissi
Although the picture of the Ku Klux Klan as a small, fanatical organization bent on racial violence and based primarily in the American South is certainly accurate in terms of the organization's histo
Author Palaver, a board member of a nonprofit organization dedicated to Girard's mimetic theory, is uniquely placed to examine the main components of Girard's mimetic cycle: mimetic rivalry, Girard's
Aerobiology is the study of factors and processes that influence the movement of biota in the atmosphere. This introduction to aerobiology focuses on predicting events that destabilize relationships a
Encourages a self-teaching approach to elementary science, in which critical thinking and problem solving skills are used to enhance what is learned in the classroom.
Written in the 1930s but not published in the author's lifetime, Arnow's second work tells the story of the marriage of independent and inquisitive Delph Costello and Appalachian subsistence farmer an
Crystal Williams’ new collection, Lunatic, courageously roots out the underbelly of the human condition with humor, irony, and unflinching directness. Williams confronts large-scale social and cultura
Selzer's first collection of short stories (originally published in 1974) weaves together the fantastic and grotesque with surgical precision. The sense that death lurks around every corner is heighte
As Brian C. Wilson describes them in this highly readable and entertaining book, Yankees?defined by their shared culture and sense of identity?had a number of distinctive traits and sought to impose t
Kazuko Kuramoto was born and raised in Dairen, Manchuria, in 1927, at the peak of Japanese expansionism in Asia. Manchurian Legacy is the story of her family's life in Dairen, their survival as a forg
One of the most vibrant and influential ethnic groups in Michigan, Poles have a long history of migration and settlement in the Great Lakes State. From Michigan’s earliest Polish marriage (in 1762) to
The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade examines the changing worldviews of the Huron and the Iroquois in the first half of the seventeenth century, during a period of increasing European contact.
Jim Harrison’s fiction is diverse in its genres, protagonists, and settings: from novel to novella—from comically masculine rogue to the psychically scarred female—from wilderness to city. This study
Race in 21st Century America tackles the problematic and emotionally laden idea of race in the United States: it brings together intellectuals and scholar activists-representing genuine racial, ethnic
This new collection of poetry from Maurice Kenny explores identity, honors nature, and celebrates everyday life. Modern life is described, while Native American culture is glimpsed, ghost-like, on the
The first work of fiction published in the MSU Press American Indian Studies Series, Indian Summers concerns issues of identity for Native Americans. Set against the backdrop of a contemporary reserva
Clifford Trafzer's disturbing new work, Death Stalks the Yakama, examines life, death, and the shockingly high mortality rates that have persisted among the fourteen tribes and bands living on the Yak
