books by Wayne State Univ Pr     books:       Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Study of German National Character Through Folklore Alan Dundes Wayne State Univ Pr, 1989 A study of scatology in German folklore and its contribution to an understanding of national character.             The Detroit Tigers: A Pictorial Celebration of the Greatest Players and Moments in Tigers History (Great ... William M. Anderson Wayne State Univ Pr, 2008 The Detroit Tigers covers the history of major league baseball in Detroit from its beginnings in 1881 through the 2007 season. With over 500 carefully selected photographs, most of which have not been published before, William M. Anderson presents the highlights and lowlights of each season and gives a context for appreciating the Detroit careers of the players whose images grace the pages of the book.             Reimagining Detroit: Opportunities for Redefining an American City (Painted Turtle) John Gallagher Wayne State Univ Pr, 2010 Suggests ways for Detroit to become a smaller but better city in the twenty first century and proposes productive uses for the city’s vacant spaces.             Allegiance (Made in Michigan Writers) (Made in Michigan Writers Series) francine j. harris Wayne State Univ Pr, 2012 The full-length debut from francine j. harris, allegiance is about Detroit, sort of. Although many of the poems are inspired by and dwell in the spaces of the city, this collection does not revel in any of the cliché cultural tropes normally associated with Detroit. Instead, these poems artfully explore life in a city where order coexists with chaos and much is lost in social and physical breakdown. Narrative poems on the hazards, betrayals, ...             Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television) ... Wayne State Univ Pr, 2010 This title illustrates the rich relationship between film history and feminist theory. Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History brings together a diverse group of international feminist scholars to examine the intersections of feminism, history, and feminist theory in film. Editor Vicki Callahan has assembled essays that reflect a range of methodological approaches - including archival work, visual culture, reception studies, biography, ...             Workbook for Cognitive Skills: Exercises for Thought-processing and Word Retrieval, 2nd Edition (William ... Susan Howell Brubaker Wayne State Univ Pr, 2008 The rich variety of activities for word retrieval and problem solving in the Workbook for Cognitive Skills has made it a favorite of clinicians over the past twenty years. The second edition of the red book builds on the original by adding 70 pages of entirely new exercises and 1,000 rewritten questions. Responding to the comments and suggestions of longtime users, the second edition of the Workbook for Cognitive Skills also features a sturdy ...             The Glory Years of the Detroit Tigers 1920-1950 (Painted Turtle) William M. Anderson Wayne State Univ Pr, 2012 and 1950, the Detroit Tigers won four American League pennants, the first world championship in team history in 1935, and a second world crown ten years later. Star players of this era including Ty Cobb, Harry Heilmann, Charlie Gehringer, Hank Greenberg, Mickey Cochrane, George Kell, and Hal Newhouser represent the majority of Tigers players inducted into the Hall of Fame. Sports writers followed the team feverishly, and fans packed Navin Field ...             Michigan's Historic Railroad Stations (Painted Turtle) Michael H. Hodges Wayne State Univ Pr (T), 2012 When the railroad revolutionized passenger travel in the nineteenth century, architects were forced to create from scratch a building to accommodate the train's sudden centrality in social and civic life. The resulting depots, particularly those built in the glory days from 1890 to 1925, epitomize the era's optimism and serve as physical anchors to both the past and the surrounding urban fabric. In Michigan's Historic Railroad Stations writer ...             Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 Daniel Soyer Wayne State Univ Pr, 2002 An award-winning study of a vital immigrant institution and the formation of American ethnic identity.             The World of a Few Minutes Ago (Made in Michigan Writers) (Made in Michigan Writers Series) Jack Driscoll Wayne State Univ Pr, 2012 In The World of a Few Minutes Ago, award-winning author Jack Driscoll renders ten stories from the point of view of characters aged fourteen to seventy-seven with a consistently deep understanding of each character s internal world and emotional struggles. All of the stories are set against the quiet, powerful northern Michigan landscape and share a sense of longing, amplified by the beautiful but often unforgiving surroundings. With keen ...             Genius Loci: Cranbrook Wayne State Univ Pr, 2005 Just as Cranbrook an estate that became a set of schools and cultural institutions does not fit into any neat category, Balthazar Korab does not fit into any neat category of photographer. He is an architectural photographer with a passionate interest in nature, a natural photographer who produces compelling images of such man-made aspects of the world as automobiles, a lover of contemporary form who takes exquisite photographs of older ...             Historic Highway Bridges of Michigan (Great Lakes Books) Charles K. Hyde Wayne State Univ Pr (T), 1993 Michigan's historic highway bridges are rapidly being torn down and replaced as they deteriorate or become unable to support increased traffic volumes and loads. While the state has the responsibility of providing safe bridges, historian Charles K. Hyde maintains that the state must also preserve many of these remaining historic structures to insure that future generations will have them to view and appreciate. In Historic Highway Bridges ...             Geology and Landscape of Michigan's Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and Vicinity (Great Lakes Books) (Great ... William L. Blewett Wayne State Univ Pr, 2012 Michigan s Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore was established in 1966 to preserve one of the most exquisite freshwater coastal landscapes in North America. Located between Munising and Grand Marais on Lake Superior, the rugged coastline is anchored by the Pictured Rocks cliffs soaring sandstone fortresses awash with natural pink, green, and brown pigments. While the Pictured Rocks geologic history is generally well understood by scientists, much ...             Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series) (Contemporary ... Wayne State Univ Pr, 2007 Providing a refreshing aesthetic and ideological contrast to mainstream Hollywood films, neorealist filmmakers demonstrated not only how an engaging narrative technique could be brought to bear upon social issues, but how cinema could shape and redefine national identity. The fourteen essays in Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema consider films from Italy, India, Brazil, Africa, the Czech Republic, postwar Germany, Hong Kong, the United States, ...             American Salvage (Made in Michigan Writers Series) Bonnie Jo Campbell Wayne State Univ Pr, 2009 These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence. National Book Award citation American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to cook up methamphetamine, but ...             Jews of the American West (Jewish Civilization Series) Moses Rischin Wayne State Univ Pr, 1991 In a series of nine original essays, the editors and other leading American historians bring dramatically new perspectives to bear on our understanding of the West, its Jews, and other Americans, both old and new. Whether comparing the history of the Jews of the West with the Jewish experience in the older regions of the country or bringing attention to the uniquely local aspects of the western experience, the contributors to this landmark ...             Coney Detroit (Painted Turtle) Katherine Yung, Joe Grimm Wayne State Univ Pr, 2012 Detroit is the world capital of the coney island hot dog a natural-casing hot dog topped with an all-meat beanless chili, chopped white onions, and yellow mustard. In Coney Detroit, authors Katherine Yung and Joe Grimm investigate all aspects of the beloved regional delicacy, which was created by Greek immigrants in the early 1900s. Coney Detroit traces the history of the coney island restaurant, which existed in many cities but thrived nowhere ...             Children's Special Places: Exploring the Role of Forts, Dens, and Bush Houses in Middle Childhood (The Child ... David Sobel Wayne State Univ Pr, 2001 From the ages of five to twelve, the middle years of childhood, young people explore their surroundings and find or construct private spaces. In these secret places, children develop and control environments of their own and enjoy freedom from the rules of the adult world. Children's Special Places enters these hidden worlds, reveals their importance to children's development and emotional health, and shows educators, parents, and other adults ...             An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays (Culture of Jewish Modernity) Leo Strauss Wayne State Univ Pr, 1989 A reissue of the 1975 edition, with four added essays, this collection offers a clear introduction to Strauss' views regarding the nature of political philosophy, its chief contemporary antagonists, its classical forms, and its modern version. It gives the reader Strauss' thoughts on what political philosophy has been and should be again. Selected for their general interest and their accessibility, the essays in the book provide a solid ...             His Very Silence Speaks: Comanche--The Horse Who Survived Custer's Last Stand Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence Wayne State Univ Pr, 1989 The mount of Captain Miles W. Keogh, Comanche was the legendary sole survivor of Custer's Last Stand. As such, the horse makes an electric connection between history and memory. In exploring the deeper meaning of the Comanche saga, His Very Silence Speaks addresses larger issues such as the human relationship to animals and nature, cross-cultural differences in the ways animals are perceived, and the symbolic use of living and legendary animals ...              search for books 1880-1939, 1920-1950, allegiance, approaches, associations, celebration, character, childhood, civilization, contemporary, exercises, exploring, immigrant, introduction, lakeshore, landscapes, modernity, neorealism, opportunities, pathology, philosophy, pictorial, political, processing, reclaiming, redefining, reimagining, retrieval, television, thought-processing books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen Assessment Centers in Human Resource Management: Strategies for ... home  impressum - about us