This book focusing on an ambitious new body of work by American artist Alexis Rockman (b. 1962) e...

When Natascha Wodin's mother died, Natascha was only ten years old--too young to find out what he...

The contributions of the first female delegates to the 1961-1962 Michigan Constitutional Conventi...

'When the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, more than a ...

'The Paradox of Protection: The Making of Indirect Rule in Southern Sierra Leone 1850-1915 uncove...

'This book examines the post WWII relationship between the US and China, particularly focusing on...

Urban Saniscapes demonstrates that the slum-like conditions found in high-density neighborhoods w...

Intersectional Activism in Environmental Communication explores global environmental activism aro...

Informed by transdisciplinary research in social and environmental justice, Race and Environmenta...

'The Straits of Mackinac have been a tourist destination for more than 150 years. The story of ho...

A University Turns to the World examines the growth of Michigan State University's pacesetting In...

Merging art and religion with science, these largely autobiographical essays delve deeply into th...

In a fascinating analysis of critical themes in Feodor Dostoevsky's work, René Girard explores th...

'Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes' is a collection of nonfiction works by women writ...

Discovering the Peoples of Michigan, a series from Michigan State University Press, examines the ...

The Anishinaubae (Chippewa Ojibwe) language has a beauty in the spoken word, a deliberate rhythm,...

Van Rensselaer Potter created and defined the term 'bioethics' in 1970, to describe a new philoso...

The Progressive Era witnessed a rhetorical renaissance that changed how Americans talked about po...

On a cold winter's morning more than a century ago, the U.S. Seventh Cavalry attacked and killed ...

Muskegon is a derivation of a Native American word meaning 'river with marshes.' Four of the five...

The contributions to this book address the role that the U.S. Department of Education Title VI an...

Unknown Tongues examines the social and economic factors of northern industrialization, social re...

If he hadn't fouled out, maybe Washington State University's center, James McKean, might have hel...

Water quality concerns are now new to the Great Lakes. They emerged early in the 20th century. In...

Contends that US fears after World War II led the nation into military domination of the Pacific ...

Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of A...

'The Haywire,' more properly known as the Manistique and Lake Superior Railroad for much of its e...

Explores how Michigan's black population has changed, how its interactions with the white communi...

This first volume is a rhetorical history of public debates about crime, violence, and capital pu...

This historical work in its various forms is representative of a living historical tradition deve...

Selzer's first collection of stories (published in 1974) weaves together the fantastic and grotes...

This two-volume work by historian Robert Quimby presents a comprehensive and detailed analysis of...

Images of the California Gold Rush ignite imaginations with visions of hearty minors clad in flop...

The Invisible World portrays how a remarkable family is indelibly marred by one of the darkest ev...

A Clan Mother story for the twenty-first century, Sacred Wilderness explores the lives of four wo...

Necessarily Black is an ethnographic account of second-generation Cape Verdean youth identity in ...

In 1944 Italian officer Captain Francesco Verdi is captured by Allied forces in North Africa and ...

In the frozen reaches of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, fierce winter storms can hit without notice....

In Winterkill, Todd Davis, who Gray's Sporting Journal describes as an observer of nature 'in the...

Enigmas of Sacrifice is the first critical study of the religious poet and militarist Joseph M. P...

Now available in English for the first time, translated by the poet Jack Hirschman, this beautifu...

The first book of its kind, Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult Li...

Indigenous people and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been affec...

In this book, excerpts from a wide range of sources--from period cookbooks to advice manuals to d...

How can traditions be subversive? The kinship between African traditions and novels has been unde...

Since the mid-1990s, when the technology was first introduced, the cultivation of genetically eng...

Oughourlian, who pioneered an 'interdividual' psychology with René Girard, reveals how all people...

The Lieutenant of Kouta is the first novel in Massa Makan Diabaté's award-winning trilogy. It tel...