Coronavirus Politics
Coronavirus Politics

Author: Scott L Greer

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2021-04-19

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0472902466

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COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economic consequences of shutdown. Coronavirus Politics identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for scholarship in health and comparative politics. Editors Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, and André Peralta-Santos bring together over 30 authors versed in politics and the health issues in order to understand the health policy decisions, the public health interventions, the social policy decisions, their interactions, and the reasons. The book’s coverage is global, with a wide range of key and exemplary countries, and contains a mixture of comparative, thematic, and templated country studies. All go beyond reporting and monitoring to develop explanations that draw on the authors' expertise while engaging in structured conversations across the book.

State of Empowerment
State of Empowerment

Author: Carolyn Barnes

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2020-02-21

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 0472126202

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On weekday afternoons, dismissal bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important activity: the federally funded after-school programs that offer tutoring, homework help, and basic supervision to millions of American children. Nearly one in four low-income families enroll a child in an after-school program. Beyond sharpening students’ math and reading skills, these programs also have a profound impact on parents. In a surprising turn—especially given the long history of social policies that leave recipients feeling policed, distrusted, and alienated—government-funded after-school programs have quietly become powerful forces for political and civic engagement by shifting power away from bureaucrats and putting it back into the hands of parents. In State of Empowerment Carolyn Barnes uses ethnographic accounts of three organizations to reveal how interacting with government-funded after-school programs can enhance the civic and political lives of low-income citizens.

Defending Diversity
Defending Diversity

Author: Patricia Gurin

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2004-02-27

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780472113071

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DIVThe first major book to argue in favor of affirmative action in higher education since Bowen and Bok's The Shape of the River /div

Music on the Move
Music on the Move

Author: Danielle Fosler-Lussier

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2020-06-10

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0472126784

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Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups; it can encourage curiosity and foster understanding; and it can preserve a sense of identity and comfort in an unfamiliar or hostile environment. As music crosses cultural, linguistic, and political boundaries, it continually changes. While human mobility and mediation have always shaped music-making, our current era of digital connectedness introduces new creative opportunities and inspiration even as it extends concerns about issues such as copyright infringement and cultural appropriation. With its innovative multimodal approach, Music on the Move invites readers to listen and engage with many different types of music as they read. The text introduces a variety of concepts related to music’s travels—with or without its makers—including colonialism, migration, diaspora, mediation, propaganda, copyright, and hybridity. The case studies represent a variety of musical genres and styles, Western and non-Western, concert music, traditional music, and popular music. Highly accessible, jargon-free, and media-rich, Music on the Move is suitable for students as well as general-interest readers.

Open Access
Open Access

Author: Peter Suber

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2012-07-20

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0262517639

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A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access without losing revenue. In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.

Day of Days
Day of Days

Author: John Smolens

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2020-10-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1628954167

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In the spring of 1927, Andrew Kehoe, the treasurer for the school board in Bath, Michigan, spent weeks surreptitiously wiring the public school, as well as his farm, with hundreds of pounds of dynamite. The explosions on May 18, the day before graduation, killed and maimed dozens of children, as well as teachers, administrators, and village residents, including Kehoe’s wife, Nellie. A respected member of the community, Kehoe himself died when he ignited his truck, which he had loaded with crates of explosives and scrap metal. Decades later, one survivor, Beatrice Marie Turcott, recalls the spring of 1927 and how this haunting experience leads her to the conviction that one does not survive the present without reconciling hard truths about the past. In its portrayal of several Bath school children, Day of Days examines how such traumatic events scar one’s life long after the dead are laid to rest and physical wounds heal, and how an anguished but resilient American village copes with the bombing, which at the time seemed incomprehensible, and yet now may be considered a harbinger of the future.

The Official Met Practice Test Book, Classroom Edition
The Official Met Practice Test Book, Classroom Edition

Author: Michigan Language Assessment

Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780472037612

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The Michigan English Test (MET) is a standardized international examination designed by Michigan Language Assessment and aimed at upper-beginner to advanced levels--A2 to C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The test assesses general English language proficiency in educational, social, and workplace contexts. The MET is intended for adults and adolescents at or above a secondary level of education who want to measure their general English language proficiency in a variety of linguistic contexts. The test results can be used for educational purposes, such as when finishing an English language course, or for employment purposes, like when applying for a job or pursuing a promotion that requires an English language qualification. The Official MET Practice Test Book is the first book to provide specific test-preparation materials for the MET. The Classroom Edition, designed for school use (the self-study version can be found at https: //www.press.umich.edu/11390380/official_met_practice_test_book_with_answers), includes: 4 complete practice tests (Listening, Reading and Grammar, Writing) 4 sets of Speaking test prompts tips for preparing for the different sections of the tests a progress tracking log for recording practice test scores selected practice test vocabulary lists actual test form instructions and a sample answer sheet The audio for the Listening section can be accessed online at https: //umichigan.pressbooks.pub/metpracticeclassroom/. For more information about the MET, go to www.michiganassessment.org

Global Storytelling, Vol. 1, No. 1
Global Storytelling, Vol. 1, No. 1

Author: Ying Zhu

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781607857488

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In this issue Letter from the Editor Ying Zhu Hong Kong and Social Movements Hong Kong Unraveled: Social Media and the 2019 Protest Movement Anonymous Unleashing the Sounds of Silence: Hong Kong's Story in Troubled Times Andrea Riemenschnitter Tragedy of Errors at Warp Speed Sam Ho Imagining a City-Based Democracy: Review of The Appearing Demos: Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement by Laikwan Pang, University of Michigan Press, 2020 Enoch Tam Building and Documenting National and Transnational Cinema China and the Film Festival Richard Peña Nationalism from Below: State Failures, Nollywood, and Nigerian Pidgin Jonathan Haynes Collective Memory and the Rhetorical Power of the Historical Fiction Film Carl Plantinga From Nations to Worlds: Chris Marker's Si j'avais quatre dromadaires Michael Walsh Sino-US Relations American Factory and the Difficulties of Documenting Neoliberalism Peter Hitchcock R.I.P. Soft Power: China's Story Meets the Reset Button: Review of Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China's Campaign for Hearts and Minds edited by Kingsley Edney, Stanley Rosen, and Ying Zhu, Routledge, 2019 Robert A. Kapp The Narrative of Virus Review: On Epidemics, Epidemiology, and Global Storytelling Carlos Rojas