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Dear Department Chair

Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation

Edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, Stephanie Shonekan, and Stephanie G. Adams; Foreword by Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole

A wellspring of wisdom from Black women leaders in higher education for the next generation.

Paperback
Available September 2023
ISBN: 9780814350744
$24.99
eBOOK
Available September 2023
ISBN: 9780814350751

Detroit's Wayne State University Law School

Future Leaders in the Legal Community

Alan Schenk

Account of the critical role students played in the history of an urban public law school.

Hardback
Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814347614
$39.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814347621
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The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough

An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship

Edited with an Introduction by Michele Valerie Ronnick
Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist and African American icon.

Paperback
Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814332252
$26.99
Hardback
Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814332245
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814348895

Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Edited by Rachel S. Harris

Pedagogical resource to help faculty prepare courses on the Arab-Israeli conflict in any discipline.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814346761
$84.99
Paperback
Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814346778
$39.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814346785

Teaching Fairy Tales

Edited by Nancy L. Canepa

Pedagogical models and methodologies for engaging with fairy tales in the classroom.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: March 2019
ISBN: 9780814345696
$99.99
Paperback
Published: March 2019
ISBN: 9780814339350
$49.99
eBOOK
Published: March 2019
ISBN: 9780814339367

A History of Wayne State University in Photographs, Second Edition

Evelyn Aschenbrenner
With a Foreword by M. Roy Wilson

Celebrating the growth of a premier university in the heart of Detroit.

Hardback
Published: October 2018
ISBN: 9780814345849
$39.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2018
ISBN: 9780814345955

Going Greek

Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945

Marianne R. Sanua

A history of Jewish fraternities and sororities in the early twentieth-century United States.

Paperback
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344194
$22.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344187

A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States

Compiled and Edited by Norman Drachler

Entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343500
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343494

Constructing Modern Identities

Jewish University Students in Germany, 1815-1914

Keith H. Pickus

By examining the lives and social dynamics of Jewish university students, Pickus shows how German Jews rearranged their self-images and redefined what it meant to be Jewish.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343524
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343517
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To Light a Fire

20 Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project

Edited by Terry Blackhawk and Peter Markus

Twenty-three writers reflect on their experiences working with public school students as part of Detroit’s innovative InsideOut Literary Arts Project.

Paperback
Published: August 2015
ISBN: 9780814341179
$25.99
eBOOK
Published: August 2015
ISBN: 9780814341186

The New Life

Jewish Students of Postwar Germany

Jeremy Varon

Investigates the Jewish Displaced Persons who studied in German universities in the U.S. Occupied Zone of Germany immediately following World War II.

Paperback
Published: June 2014
ISBN: 9780814339619
$35.99
eBOOK
Published: June 2014
ISBN: 9780814339626

In Her Hands

The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia

Eliyana R. Adler

Illuminates the role that private schools for Jewish girls played in Russian Jewish society and documents their influence on contemporary political discourse and educational innovation.

Hardback
Published: December 2010
ISBN: 9780814334928
$46.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2010
ISBN: 9780814336854

Let's Read

A Linguistic Approach

Cynthia A. Barnhart and Robert K Barnhart
Based on the original work of Leonard Bloomfield and Clarence L. Barnhart

A classic reading-instruction text, updated to be more contemporary and teacher- and user-friendly.

Paperback
Published: June 2010
ISBN: 9780814334553
$36.99
eBOOK
Published: June 2010
ISBN: 9780814336861

Challenges of Equality

Judaism, State, and Education in Nineteenth-Century France

Jeffrey Haus

Explores the relationship between Judaism, state, and education in France from the establishment of the Jewish Consistory in 1808 until the separation of church and state in 1905.

Hardback
Published: February 2009
ISBN: 9780814333808
$52.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2009
ISBN: 9780814335499

Back to School

Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews

Alex Pomson & Randal F. Schnoor
With a Foreword by Jack Wertheimer

A groundbreaking study on the impact of Jewish day schools in the lives of parents and children.

Paperback
Published: March 2008
ISBN: 9780814333839
$27.99
eBOOK
Published: March 2008
ISBN: 9780814335475

Remapping the Humanities

Identity, Community, Memory, (Post)Modernity

Edited by Mary Garrett, Heidi Gottfried, and Sandra F. VanBurkleo
with the assistance of Walter Edwards

An innovative collection demonstrating the rich potential for interdisciplinary learning found within the network of university-based humanities centers.

Paperback
Published: January 2008
ISBN: 9780814333693
$37.99
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Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages

Ephraim Kanarfogel

Paperback edition of a favorite text on the literary creativity and communal involvement in the production of the Tosafist corpus.

Paperback
Published: June 2007
ISBN: 9780814333686
$26.99
eBOOK
Published: June 2007
ISBN: 9780814336533

Next Year I Will Know More

Literacy and Identity among Young Orthodox Women in Israel

By Tamar El-Or
Translated by Haim Watzman

An investigation into the education of women in the religious Zionist community and its influence on Orthodox Judaism.

Hardback
Published: May 2002
ISBN: 9780814327722
$44.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2002
ISBN: 9780814337783

Children's Special Places

Exploring the Role of Forts, Dens, and Bush Houses in Middle Childhood

David Sobel

An examination of the secret world of children that shows how important special places are to a child's development.

Paperback
Published: December 2001
ISBN: 9780814330265
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2001
ISBN: 9780814337622

Let's Flip the Script

An African American Discourse on Language, Literature, and Learning

Keith Gilyard

An inspiring collection of personal essays about education, literacy, and freedom.

eBOOK
Published: October 1996
ISBN: 9780814336793

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