42 títulos para "Wayne State University Press"
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BETTINA BRENTANO VON ARNIM : GENDER AND POLITICS
FREDERIKSEN , ELKE P.
978-0-8143-2516-2Precio desconocido -
Weweni
Margaret Noodin
978-0-8143-4038-7Depending on dialect, the Anishinaabemowin word "weweni" expresses thanks, exactitude, ease, and sincerity. In addition, the word for "relatives" is "nindenwemaaganag": those whose "enewewe," or voices, sound familiar. In Weweni, poet Margaret Noodin brings all of these meanings to bear in a unique...
20.33€ (19.55€ sin IVA) -
Sister Water
NANCY WILLARD
978-0-8143-3244-3The widowed Jessie Woolman, now in her seventies, her two married daughters, Ellen and Martha, and two grandchildren live in Ann Arbor, where the family owns a museum that harbors a meandering stream and historical artifacts of the region bounded by the rivers. Just as Jessie’s aging mind begi...
26.73€ (25.70€ sin IVA) -
The Humor Prism in 20th Century American Society
978-0-8143-2597-1Why do some jokes evaporate after the telling while others are transmitted to subsequent generations? Just what property of humor allows it to touch diverse members of a culture at a given time? As a penetrating and refracting angle of history, humor illuminates the expectations and contradictions o...
38.36€ (36.88€ sin IVA) -
From Left to Right
Sinkoff, Nancy
978-0-8143-4510-8From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History is the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called Holocaust studies. Dawidowicz was a household name in the postwar years, not only...
36.83€ (35.41€ sin IVA) -
Brewed in Detroit
Blum, Peter H.
978-0-8143-2661-9Brewed in Detroitdescribes the history of the brewing industry in the Detroit metropolitan area (including Ann Arbor, Mt. Clemens, Pontiac, Windsor, Wyandotte, and Ypsilanti) from its beginning in the 1830s to the present revival by microbrewers and brewpubs. A historian and trained veteran o...
67.01€ (64.43€ sin IVA) -
Saving Arcadia
Shumaker, Heather
978-0-8143-4204-6Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes is a suspenseful and intimate land conservation adventure story set in the Great Lakes heartland. The story spans more than forty years, following the fate of a magnificent sand dune on Lake Michigan and the people who care abo...
27.62€ (26.56€ sin IVA) -
My Dura-Europos
Goldman, Bernard M. / Goldman, Norma W.
978-0-8143-3588-8Dura-Europos, founded by the Greeks in 300 BCE, became a remote outpost of the Roman Empire in western Asia until it was finally destroyed by a Persian army in the third century CE. It lay buried until it was rediscovered by British troops in the aftermath of World War I, at which time its intact re...
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Forgetting Tree
Paris, Rae
978-0-8143-4426-2Rae Paris began writing The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory in 2010, while traveling the United States, visiting sites of racial trauma, horror, and defiance. The desire to do this work came from being a child of parents born and raised in New Orleans during segregation, who ultimately left for Californ...
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Talkin and Testifyin
Geneva Smitherman
978-0-8143-1805-8In her book, Geneva Smitherman makes a substantial contribution to an understanding of Black English by setting it in the larger context of Black culture and life style. In addition to defining Black English, by its distinctive structure and special lexicon, Smitherman argues that the Black dialect...
38.06€ (36.60€ sin IVA) -
Imitations of Life
978-0-8143-2065-5Marcia Landy has gathered thirty-seven important essays on film and melodrama that have appeared in books and journals over the last two decades. In her introduction to the book, Landy explores the recent interest in the genre in relation to theoretical work in psychoanalysis and semiotics, setting...
45.69€ (43.93€ sin IVA)