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Riding the Roller Coaster

A History of the Chrysler Corporation

Charles K. Hyde

The first comprehensive history of the Chrysler Corporation, this book is intended for readers interested in the history of automobiles and of American business, and for fans and critics of Chrysler’s products.

Hardback
Published: February 2003
ISBN: 9780814330913
$36.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2003
ISBN: 9780814337813

Abandon Automobile

Detroit City Poetry 2001

Edited by Melba Joyce Boyd and M. L. Liebler

A multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry from the 1930s to the present.

Paperback
Published: September 2001
ISBN: 9780814328101
$24.99

Ideology and Change

The Transformation of the Caribbean Left

Perry Mars

Leftist political movements, organizations, and trends in the English-speaking Caribbean.

Paperback
Published: December 1998
ISBN: 9780814327692
$25.99
eBOOK
Published: December 1998
ISBN: 9780814338513

Confronting Change

Auto Labor and Lean Production in North America

Edited by Huberto Juarez Nunez and Steve Babson

A path-breaking analysis of the forces reshaping the global automobile industry.

Paperback
Published: September 1998
ISBN: 9780814328194
$24.95
Published: September 1998
ISBN: 9789688632987
$24.95

Bertolucci's The Last Emperor

Multiple Takes

Edited by Bruce H. Sklarew, Bonnie S. Kaufman, Ellen Handler Spitz, and Diane Borden

In this anthology, filmmakers, psychoanalysts, film scholars, and cultural historians use a psychoanalytical approach to examine Bernardo Bertolucci's epic film The Last Emperor (1988).

Paperback
Published: April 1998
ISBN: 9780814327005
$29.99

New Latin American Cinema, Volume 2

Studies of National Cinemas

Edited by Michael T. Martin

This volume comprises essays on the development of the New Latin American Cinema as a comparative national project.

Paperback
Published: June 1997
ISBN: 9780814325865
$29.99
Hardback
Published: June 1997
ISBN: 9780814327067
$54.95

New Latin American Cinema, Volume 1

Theories, Practices, and Transcontinental Articulations

Edited by Michael T. Martin

Volume One explores the formation of the New Latin American Cinema movement, its national and continental implications (including the diasporic/exilic experience) and transcontinental articulations through the writings of pioneer filmmakers and scholars.

Paperback
Published: April 1997
ISBN: 9780814325858
$29.99
Hardback
Published: April 1997
ISBN: 9780814327050
$44.95

Cinemas of the Black Diaspora

Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality

Edited by Michael T. Martin

This is a study of the cinematic traditions and film practices in the black Diaspora.

Paperback
Published: January 1996
ISBN: 9780814325889
$34.99

Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties

Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway

Philip P. Mason

A fascinating look at the excesses and failures of Prohibition in the United States, and specifically in Michigan.

Hardback
Published: December 1995
ISBN: 9780814325834
$39.99

The Northern Lights

Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes

Charles K. Hyde
Color Photographs by Ann and John Mahan

The Northern Lights captures the beauty, history, and significance of lighthouses on the Great Lakes, and illuminates the rich maritime history of the region.

Hardback
Published: May 1995
ISBN: 9780814325544
$34.99

Discarded Legacy

Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911

By Melba Joyce Boyd

In this important study, poet Melba Joyce Boyd analyzes Harper not simply as a feminist and an activist, but as a writer.

Paperback
Published: June 1994
ISBN: 9780814324899
$23.99

Copper Country Journal

The Diary of Schoolmaster Henry Hobart, 1863-1864

Edited with an Introductory Essay by Philip P. Mason

Hobart centered his narrative on Cliff Mine, one of the leading producers of copper in the world and the primary employer in the town of Clifton.

Paperback
Published: April 1991
ISBN: 9780814323427
$34.99

Interdisciplinarity

History, Theory, & Practice

Julie Thompson Klein

In this volume, Julie Klein provides the first comprehensive study of the modern concept of interdisciplinarity, supplementing her discussion with the most complete bibliography yet compiled on the subject.

Paperback
Published: March 1990
ISBN: 9780814320884
$25.95
Hardback
Published: March 1990
ISBN: 9780814320877
$44.95

Introduction to the Human Sciences

An Attempt to Lay a Foundation for the Study of Society and History

Wilhelm Dilthey
Translated with an Introductory Essay by Ramon J. Betanzos

As a contribution to the issue of the methodologies of the humanities and social sciences, the Introduction works to address issues of the human sciences and their place in relations to natural sciences.

Paperback
Published: December 1988
ISBN: 9780814318980
$35.99

Italian Folktales in America

The Verbal Art of an Immigrant Woman

By Elizabeth Mathias and Richard Raspa

A collection that greatly enriches our understanding of who told (and tells) märchen (Italian folktales) to whom, why and how they are told, and, perhaps most important, under what conditions.

Paperback
Published: October 1988
ISBN: 9780814321225
$24.99
eBOOK
Published: October 1988
ISBN: 9780814338360

Discourse and Discrimination

Edited by Geneva Smitherman-Donaldson and Teun A. van Dijk

Lingusitic and communicative dimensions of the propagation of racism through the media, everyday language, and the educational curriculum.

Paperback
Published: April 1988
ISBN: 9780814319581
$24.99

Talkin and Testifyin

The Language of Black America

by Geneva Smitherman

In this book, Smitherman makes a substantial contribution to an understanding of Black English by setting it in the larger context of Black culture and life style.

Paperback
Published: January 1986
ISBN: 9780814318058
$26.99

O City of Byzantium

Annals of Niketas Choniates

Translated by Harry J. Magoulias

One of the most important accounts of the Middle Ages, the history of Niketas Choniates describes the Byzantine Empire from 1118 to 1207. Niketas provides an eyewitness account of the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade.

Hardback
Published: September 1984
ISBN: 9780814317648
$84.99

Architecture in Michigan

Revised and Enlarged Edition

Wayne Andrews

A pictorial survey of Michigan architecture from 1831 to the present.

Paperback
Published: September 1982
ISBN: 9780814317198
$29.99
Hardback
Published: September 1982
ISBN: 9780814317181
$34.95

Greek Realities

Life and Thought in Ancient Greece

Finley Hooper

A history of ancient Greek life and thought from the Mycenaean kings to Alexander, Aristotle and Diogenes.

Paperback
Published: August 1978
ISBN: 9780814315972
$29.99

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