Books published by The University of Michigan Press

Examines acts of showing, a particular species of performance that relies on competition and judgment, active spectatorship, embodied excess, and exposure of core values and hidden truths. The book's theoretical introduction and essays reveal how diverse, particularly efficacious genres of showing are theoretically connected and why they merit more concerted attention.

Explores the research related to the use of authentic materials and the ways that authentic materials may be used successfully in the classroom. Like others books in the Myths series, this book combines research with good pedagogical practices.

Combining social history with interdisciplinary approaches to the study of consumption and symbolic space, Middle Class Union illustrates how acts of consumption, representations of the middle class in literary and artistic discourses, and ground-level organising combined to enable white-collar activists to establish themselves as both the middle class and the backbone of America.

Analysing literary texts and films, White Rebels in Black shows how German authors have since the 1950s appropriated black popular culture, particularly music, to distance themselves from the legacy of Nazi Germany, authoritarianism, and racism, and how such appropriation changes over time.

Within popular music there are entire genres, styles, techniques, and practices that rely heavily on musical intertextuality and references between music of different styles and genres. This interdisciplinary collection of essays covers a wide range of musical styles and artists to investigate intertextuality - the shaping of one text by another - in popular music.

The Butterfly Lovers Story, sometimes called the Chinese Romeo and Juliet, has been enduringly popular in China and Korea. In Transforming Gender and Emotion, Sookja Cho demonstrates why The Butterfly Lovers Story is more than just a popular love story.

Examines the cultural, technological, economic, and rhetorical logics that shape the ""voice of the patient"" in digital health, arguing that digital technologies rely on assumptions that reflect dominant ideologies of health, disability, gender, and race.

By combining the work of Michel Foucault, the insights of philosophy of disability and feminist philosophy, and data derived from empirical research, Shelley L. Tremain compellingly argues that the conception of disability that currently predominates in the discipline of philosophy is inextricably intertwined with the underrepresentation of disabled philosophers in the profession of philosophy.

Analyzes the impacts of partisanship, polarization, and institutional reforms on how the U.S. Congress resolves inter-cameral differences

Introduces the main characteristics of research misconduct, portrays how the characteristics are distributed, and identifies the elements of the organisational context and the practice of scientific research which enable or deter misconduct. The authors suggest ways in which efforts to expose and prevent misconduct can further change the work of scientists, universities, and scientific research.

Papyrologists and historians have taken a lively interest in the Apion family, which rose from local prominence in rural Middle Egypt to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the Eastern Roman Empire. Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt discusses how the Apions' wealth was generated and what role their Egyptian estate played in that growth.

Explores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted dominant conventions and expectations about learners to navigate cultural differences.

In this wide-ranging study, Sean Molloy proposes that texts such as Idea for a Universal History with Cosmopolitan Intent and Toward Perpetual Peace cannot be fully understood without reference to Kant's wider philosophical projects, and in particular, the role that belief in God plays within critical philosophy and Kant's inquiries into anthropology, politics, and theology.

Esteemed scholar and theater aficionado Marvin Carlson has seen an unsurpassed number of theatrical productions in his long and distinguished career. Ten Thousand Nights is a lively chronicle of a half-century of theatre-going, in which Carlson recalls one memorable production for each year from 1960 to 2010.

Presents a nuanced look at questions of identity in Muslim Spain under the Umayyads, an Arab dynasty that ruled from 756 to 1031. With a social historical emphasis on relations among different religious and ethnic groups, and between men and women, Jessica A. Coope considers the ways in which personal and cultural identity in al-Andalus could be alternately fluid and contentious.