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Mahan and Baekje
The Complex Origins of Korean Kingdoms
Rory Walsh
Michigan Publishing Services, 2020

Mahan and Baekje is a pioneering study of the Korean past from the perspective of everyday objects: ceramics made, used, and left behind by ancient Koreans themselves. Focusing on the third to fifth centuries CE in southwestern Korea, this book reexamines the social, political, and economic construction of the interconnected societies known as Mahan and the kingdom of Baekje. Pottery, which played central roles in Mahan’s and Baekje’s culinary practices, community gatherings, trade, and ritual, now sheds new light on the origins of Korean civilization. 

Using advanced archaeological and geochemical techniques, this book traces the production, exchange, and use of pottery from Mahan and Baekje. The patterns reveal the shared underpinnings of Mahan and Baekje political economy, showing that the Baekje kingdom developed locally and not as the result of outside forces. Long-distance trade in Mahan and Baekje suggest a cosmopolitan ethos with roots in the deep past, while smaller scale exchanges hint at the complex web of social interactions that typified early Korean societies. Mahan and Baekje provides exciting new details of life at an epochal moment in ancient Korea.
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Making in School and Public Libraries
Edited by Kristin Fontichiaro, Caroline Wack, Tori Culler, and Nicole Sype
Michigan Publishing Services, 2020
Whether you are just beginning your library’s maker efforts or are recalibrating a few years into your work, Making in School and Public Libraries is designed to help you grow your makerspace in a way that is engaging, affordable, and sustainable. Building on eight years of makerspace activities in the Michigan Makers and Making in Michigan Libraries project, the authors share their experiences creating or co-creating makerspace spaces and activities with for a wide band of interests, materials, tools, age groups, communities, budgets, and needs.

Readers will gain practical insights about how to

  • Define goals and target audiences
  • Customize programs to meet community needs
  • Equip a makerspace
  • Document activities
  • Assess achievements and areas for growth
  • Engage makers in a variety of technology and hands-on activities, including robots, 3D printing, sewing, cardboard challenges, knitting and crochet, design thinking, and zines

The authors’ experiences include co-creating one of the nation’s first school library makerspaces; establishing after-school maker programs with elementary and middle school learners; co-designing one-off and ongoing maker events for community-building in diverse public libraries; engaging with senior citizens in a low-income Senior Summer Camp pilot; and state, national, and international workshops for teachers, librarians, and youth mentors.

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Mandy's Prairie Home
Gillian Moore
Michigan Publishing Services, 2023
This book was created for the course titled “Restoration Ecology” taught by Sara Adlerstein at the University of Michigan School for Environment & Sustainability. The objective was to create a book that uses the topics learned in class to teach young readers about the importance of environmental stewardship—respecting and caring for Earth and the diversity of life it sustains.
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Man-Made
The Evolutionary Influence of Humans
Lynn Carpenter
Michigan Publishing Services, 2023
Humans have altered our environment in countless ways, yet we don’t always notice the finer details or even understand the long-term implications of our actions. Throughout Man-Made: The Evolutionary Influence of Humans, we explore the role of humans in nature from an evolutionary perspective—with a twist. Rather than focusing on the process of evolution in nature, we examine the ways in which humans have altered the evolutionary trajectory of almost every species we have encountered. From artificial selection, to altering the course of natural selection, to tolerating the new world we are creating, to investigating whether we have eliminated species entirely through overhunting or exploitation, we examine how humans have created a new evolutionary path. That path is now moving development in a new direction, and the ramifications will most certainly be staggering.
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Meaning, Decision, and Norms
Themes from the Work of Allan Gibbard
Eds. Billy Dunaway and David Plunkett
Michigan Publishing Services, 2021
It is not an exaggeration to say that Allan Gibbard is one of the most significant contributors to philosophy over the last five decades. Gibbard’s work covers an impressive number of subfields within philosophy, including ethics, philosophy of language, decision theory, epistemology, and metaphysics. It also engages with, and makes significant contributions to, work from the natural and social sciences.

This volume is not a collection of artifacts from past decades of philosophy. Instead, it is a collection of essays that each make a significant contribution to contemporary work in philosophy. This reflects the fact that Gibbard’s work has not only had a massive influence on past discussion in philosophy but also continues to influence new directions of philosophical research.

With contributions from:
Sara Aronowitz, Simon Blackburn, Paul Boghossian, David Braddon-Mitchell, Nate Charlow, Stephen Darwall, Jamie Dreier, Billy Dunaway, Melissa Fusco, Sona Ghosh, Allan Gibbard, Bill Harper, Paul Horwich, Zoë Johnson King, Tristram McPherson, Howard Nye, Lauren Olin, Caleb Perl, David Plunkett, Peter Railton, Connie Rosati, Mark Schroeder, Alex Silk, Daniel J. Singer, Brian Skyrms, and Seth Yalcin.

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A Meeting at the Mighty Mac
Alia Kirsch
Michigan Publishing Services, 2023
This book was an assignment for the Winter 2022 course "Nature, Culture & Landscape" offered by Dr. Sara Adlerstein at the University of Michigan's School for Environment & Sustainability. The charge was to create a children's book related to the theme of the Great Lakes with the goal of inspiring children to care and make environmentally sound choices.
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Meg
Jenni Fuller
Michigan Publishing Services, 2021

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Memoirs of a Black Psychiatrist
A Life of Advocacy for Social Change
Dr. James L. Curtis
Michigan Publishing Services, 2017
Born during the Great Migration, pursuing an education during World War II, and beginning a career during the Civil Rights movement, Dr. James L. Curtis has surmounted many racial hurdles to rise to the top of academic medicine. Memoirs of a Black Psychiatrist tells Dr. Curtis’s story of working toward his life goal of improving the quality of life and full citizenship of his people, with the help of mentors both black and white. He shows that in only a few decades of his life was it possible for his parents—later, for him and other family members, the whole black community, and eventually the world—to step up a little higher, or be forced back again to the back of the bus.
 
In his two previous books, Dr. Curtis illustrated the leadership role he played in changing how medicine is practiced for the better. His first book, Blacks, Medical Schools and Society (University of Michigan Press, 1971), was written when he was an associate dean of the Cornell University Medical College. As dean in the beginning years of Affirmative Action in Medicine, Dr. Curtis took action in this movement by desegregating medical school admissions not only at Cornell, but also in all US medical schools. After his retirement, his second book, Affirmative Action in Medicine: Improving Health Care for All (University of Michigan Press, 2003), was published: a twenty-five-year progress report on the social benefit of these programs in the American practice of medicine.
 
Dr. Curtis retired in 2000 as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, having been a faculty member for eighteen years. During his tenure at Columbia he was also Director of Psychiatry at Harlem Hospital Center, serving one of the most economically deprived neighborhoods of New York City. Since 2003, he has lived in his hometown of Albion, Michigan, one of the formerly vibrant and prosperous cities devastated by the collapse of the automobile industry. With a small group of others, he is developing new social service programs to benefit Albion.
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The Mentoring Guide
Helping Mentors and Mentees Succeed
Vineet Chopra
Michigan Publishing Services, 2019
The Mentoring Guide is the go-to resource for mentors and mentees. Written by authors with decades of experience in both roles, it compiles a wide array of stories and data providing concrete, actionable advice to make the most of any mentoring relationship. From getting started as a mentee, to the importance of being a standout mentor, The Mentoring Guide will help avoid pitfalls, address challenges, and develop longlasting, productive, and successful mentoring relationships.
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The Michigan Guidelines on the International Protection of Refugees
James C. Hathaway
Michigan Publishing Services, 2019
The Michigan Guidelines on the International Protection of Refugees are the result of a collective endeavor of hundreds of scholars, advocates, judges, and international officials to tackle some of the most important and challenging questions in international refugee law. This volume presents 20 years of the Guidelines — the consensus work of senior Michigan Law students and experts from around the world on cutting-edge refugee law concerns — in five languages (English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Russian).  

The Guidelines address five of the most difficult issues of refugee status: what is the meaning of a “well-founded fear”; when may refugee status be denied on grounds of an “internal protection alternative”; how is the causal connection to a Convention ground to be assessed; when is a risk fairly said to be for reasons of “political opinion”; and under what circumstances are persons believed to have violated rules of international criminal law to be excluded from refugee status?  Additionally, this volume also addresses three critical aspects of refugee rights – when may a refugee be required to seek protection in a country not of his or her choosing; to what extent is a refugee entitled to undertake employment or other economic activity; and what is the scope of a refugee’s right to freedom of movement, both between states and within the asylum country?
 
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Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
Volume 23 Number 1 - Fall 2016
Jeffrey Howard, editor
Michigan Publishing Services, 2017
Launched in 1994, the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) is an international, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary academic journal for college and university faculty and administrators, with an editorial board and cadre of peer reviewers representing faculty from many higher education disciplines and professional fields. It is a publication of the University of Michigan’s Ginsberg Center.
 
Each issue consists of articles at the cutting edge of research, theory, pedagogy, and other matters related to academic service-learning, campus-community partnerships, and engaged, public scholarship in higher education that extend the knowledge base and support and strengthen researchers’ and practitioners’ work. We also publish review essays of newly-released books pertinent to service-learning and community engagement.
 
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Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
Volume 23 Number 2 - Spring 2017
Jeffrey Howard, editor
Michigan Publishing Services, 2017
Launched in 1994, the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) is an international, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary academic journal for college and university faculty and administrators, with an editorial board and cadre of peer reviewers representing faculty from many higher education disciplines and professional fields. It is a publication of the University of Michigan’s Ginsberg Center.
 
Each issue consists of articles at the cutting edge of research, theory, pedagogy, and other matters related to academic service-learning, campus-community partnerships, and engaged, public scholarship in higher education that extend the knowledge base and support and strengthen researchers’ and practitioners’ work. We also publish review essays of newly-released books pertinent to service-learning and community engagement.
 
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Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
Volume 24 Number 1 - Winter 2017
Jeffrey Howard
Michigan Publishing Services, 2017

Launched in 1994, the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) is an international, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary academic journal for college and university faculty and administrators, with an editorial board and cadre of peer reviewers representing faculty from many higher education disciplines and professional fields. It is a publication of the University of Michigan’s Ginsberg Center.

Each issue consists of articles at the cutting edge of research, theory, pedagogy, and other matters related to academic service-learning, campus-community partnerships, and engaged, public scholarship in higher education that extend the knowledge base and support and strengthen researchers’ and practitioners’ work. We also publish review essays of newly-released books pertinent to service-learning and community engagement. 

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Michigan Quarterly Review
Vol. 57, No. 1
Khaled Mattawa
Michigan Publishing Services, 2018

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Michigan Quarterly Review
Vol. 57, No. 3
Khaled Mattawa
Michigan Publishing Services, 2018

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Michigan Quarterly Review
Vol. 58, No. 2
Khaled Mattawa
Michigan Publishing Services, 2019

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Michigan Quarterly Review
Volume 58, Issue 3: Summer 2019
Khaled Mattawa
Michigan Publishing Services, 2019

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Migraciones raciales
La ciudad de Nueva York y la política revolucionaria en el Caribe hispánico
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Michigan Publishing Services, 2019
Una historia apasionante de los migrantes afro-latinos que lucharon en el destierro para derrocar la monarquía colonial, acabar con la esclavitud, y asegurar la ciudadanía plena en su patria lejana.
 
A fines del siglo XIX, un grupo pequeño de cubanos y puertorriqueños de ascendencia africana se instaló en las viviendas segregadas de la ciudad de Nueva York. En una sociedad de instrucción y recreo que fundaron en Greenwich Village, estos primeros neoyorquinos afrolatinos aprendieron a ser poetas, periodistas y revolucionarios. Al mismo tiempo, estos individuos—liderados por Rafael Serra, tabaquero, escritor y político; Sotero Figueroa, tipógrafo y editor; y Gertrudis Heredia, una de las primeras mujeres afrodescendientes que estudió en la Clínica de Partos de la Universidad de La Habana--construyeron una red política y articularon un ideal de nacionalismo revolucionario centrado en los proyectos de justicia racial y social. Sus esfuerzos tuvieron una profunda influencia en los escritos del poeta y diplomático José Martí sobre raza y en su apuesta por el liderazgo entre los exiliados cubanos.  Desde Nueva York, este grupo también luchó en años posteriores por crear espacios para la participación política negra en la República de Cuba.

En Migraciones raciales, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof presenta un vívido retrato de estos migrantes revolucionarios quienes habían sido, en gran parte, olvidados, entretejiendo sus experiencias de “migrar siendo negros,” sus relaciones con líderes afro-americanos en la lucha por la igualdad racial en Estados Unidos, y su participación en el desarrollo de los movimientos políticos nacionalistas antillanos. Destacando el papel fundamental de los neoyorquinos afrolatinos en la historia de la política revolucionaria del caribe hispánico, Hoffnung-Garskof ofrece una nueva interpretación del movimiento separatista y de su idea de que Cuba podría convertirse en una nación sin divisiones raciales.

Un modelo de investigación transnacional y comparativa, Migraciones raciales revela las complejidades de las formaciones raciales dentro de las comunidades migrantes y el poder de pequeños grupos de inmigrantes para transformar sus sociedades de origen.
 
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Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene
Joanna Zylinska
Michigan Publishing Services, 2014
Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene considers our human responsibility for the world, at a time when life finds itself under a unique threat. Its goal is to rethink “life” and what we can do with it, in whatever time we have left—as individuals and as a species. This speculative, poetic book also includes a photographic project by the author.
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The Missing Piece
A Collection of Kidney Transplant Stories
Edited by Megan Podschlne
Michigan Publishing Services, 2018
The Missing Piece is a window into the world of kidney transplant recipients and donors.  These powerful, first-hand accounts, written by patients at Michigan Medicine, provide frank glimpses into the highs and the lows experienced by those struggling with a life-altering illness.  The contributing authors discuss the coping techniques that worked and those that did not; how they knew when it was time to consider dialysis; and, how they shared their experiences and news with family, friends, and even complete strangers in a quest for a donation from a living donor. 
 
This uplifting book contains practical advice and a helpful list of resources for patients and family members.  It is a must-read for those who are facing dialysis and/or kidney transplant and for those considering becoming a living donor.  
 
The book’s editor has dedicated this book to new patients, understanding that patient-to-patient communication is a unique and effective way to improve patient and family education.  Proceeds from this book will be used to improve the patient experience at Michigan Medicine. 
 
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Mizhibizhu and the Black Snake
Esha Biswas
Michigan Publishing Services, 2022

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Modern Communications Systems
A First Course
Todor Cooklev
Michigan Publishing Services, 2024
Modern Communications Systems is a senior-level introduction to communications systems, although it can also serve as a reference for graduate students and practicing engineers. It includes treatments of wireless and cabled transmission, cellular systems, and analog and discrete modulation and coding techniques. Examples include Wi-Fi, 4G and 5G cellular systems and DSL. Multicarrier and MIMO communication systems are also covered. All of the mathematics needed is included where it is used rather than in an early introduction, which makes it easier to follow. An extensive number of end-of-chapter problems, along with summaries of concepts, formulas and terms presented in each chapter, are included. Solutions to the end-of-chapter problems are available to instructors teaching from the book.
 
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More than "First, Do No Harm"
Academic Global Health
Timothy R. B. Johnson
Michigan Publishing Services, 2023

Using personal experience and narrative, as well as the voices of students, trainees, and academic colleagues, this book illustrates how an initiative beginning over thirty years ago to train obstetrician-gynecologists in Ghana can serve as a model for global engagement by universities and learners at many levels. In addition to detailing a proven sustainable model for global health programs, this book highlights the ethical and moral imperatives participants should expect and demand of truly engaged academic global health. 

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My Trip with the Great Plants of Lake Michigan
Jacob Napier
Michigan Publishing Services, 2022


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