Since the earliest days of the British fur trade, Jewish pioneers have made Michigan their home. Judith Levin Cantor's Jews in Michigan captures the struggles and triumphs of Michigan's Jews as they w
Wise Leadership breaks from the formulas offered up in traditional self-help or management and leadership books. Rather than providing a set of quick-fix recipes for success, McLyman invites leaders i
This collection, by an international array of historians, examines agrarian radicalism in comparative context from 1500 to the present. What unifies the studies is a shared interest in the ways in whi
A clear and compelling, front-row narrative of politics and change in Ethiopia, written by an Ethiopian who describes his life and long government career and gives his perspective on what the future h
The end of the Cold War encourages new perspectives on international relations. Beer and Hariman provide a comprehensive set of essays that challenge and reinterpret the tradition of realism which has
The documentary biography of Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, an officer in the Troupes de la Marine, who served throughout New France, sheds new light on the business activity of French colonial of
The former surgeon writes of his own near-death experience after being diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease and lapsing into a coma. The fragility of health and robustness of imagination merge when th
Arboriculture—the emphasis on keeping trees alive and healthy—has emerged only recently as a profession, however, the practices in use today are the culmination of decades of development. The first bo
In this stunning collection — the first since the American invasion — Iraqis themselves vividly depict the bombing of Baghdad, the fall of Saddam Hussein, the invaders (on both sides), the sectarian v
This book presents Michigan's greatest resource through the lens of a camera. One cannot think of Michigan without the image of water.Water as vast as the Great Lakes, as serene as the inland lakes, a
In the decade that followed the Civil War, two questions dominated political debate: To what degree were African Americans now “equal” to white Americans, and how should this equality be implemented i
In 1961, Senator Philip Hart of Michigan introduced legislation to add Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes and 77,000 surrounding acres to America's National Park system. The 1,600 people who lived in the
Today, almost two decades after her death, Margaret Laurence remains one of Canada’s best-known and most beloved writers. Lyall Powers is both a respected scholar of literature and a lifelong friend o
Between the Flowers is Harriette Simpson Arnow's second novel. Written in the late 1930s, but unpublished until 1997, this early work shows the development of social and cultural themes that would con
That Claude Wilkinson is bonded to the southern landscape and deeply in love with it is evident in the forty-four poems that make up Reading the Earth. These poems demonstrate a rare sensitivity to th
Leholm (cooperative extension, U. of Wisconsin) and Vlasin (Michigan State U.) assemble eight chapters by contributors based in the US and India who present techniques they use in a variety of team se
Slightly surrealistic, meditative, elegiac, this collection of poetry from author James Sallis is concerned with aging, relationships, loss, and love. It is poetry written and read late at night and i
Even before the publication of Progress and Poverty in 1879, San Francisco political economist and publisher Henry George (1839-1897) had written extensively about what he considered to be the causes
The Tahquamenon River wanders through woods, big woods, deep woods, full of the sorts of animals that look good in woods and people who generally do not mind they are there. With a long past, thanks t
