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Esophageal Cancer
Real life stories from patients and families
Ellen Abramson
Michigan Publishing Services, 2015
This book presents the stories of eleven patients and family members who received the diagnosis of esophageal cancer. The stories, provided by esophageal cancer survivors, illustrate some of the setbacks and some of the triumphs, that these individuals and their families encountered. All of these patients underwent a remarkable surgical procedure known as an esophagectomy. During this operation, the majority of the esophagus is removed. In order to restore swallowing, the stomach is reconfigured into a tube that is repositioned in the chest and neck and sutured to the remaining esophagus. The stories convey courage and strength in the face of a major life-changing event and its consequences. The authors describe in detail what the experience was like for themselves and their loved ones. Their stories are inspiring and offer hope to others facing this illness. Book sales support patient and family education in the Thoracic Surgery section of the University of Michigan Health System.
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Super Creatures of the Huron River
Sara Adlerstein-Gonzalez
Michigan Publishing Services, 2021

Super Creatures of the Huron River aims to teach children about stream ecology, with a focus on the fascinating “bugs” that can be found in the Huron River. State and national inventories record one hundred dams on the Huron River system, which is typical of rivers and tributaries in the Great Lakes Basin. What was once a free-flowing system is now interrupted by dams on both the river’s main stem and its tributaries. Although dams can provide some benefits, they produce severe negative impacts on the rivers they harness. Dams alter a river’s chemical, physical, and biological processes, including fragmenting and blocking the natural movement of fish and other aquatic species. Although these negative impacts have become more obvious over the past two decades, the environmental costs of dams have only recently captured scientific attention.

Super Creatures of the Huron River is a project conducted by a team of University of Michigan (UM) faculty and students, in collaboration with Huron River Watershed Council (HRWC) researchers. Sara Adlerstein developed the project. Working closely with her were Carolyn Berge, Jeffrey Evans, and Mike Wiley from UM and Paul Steen and Pam Labadie from HRWC. Illustrations for the book were created by master of science student Jennifer Fuller. The picture book will be used as a tool to support streamside activities led by the HRWC.

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Dialogue
Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences: Decipher, Vol. 1
Kelly M. AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC)
Michigan Publishing Services, 2019

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Dialogue
Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences: Decipher, Vol. 2
Kelly M. AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC)
Michigan Publishing Services, 2019

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Dialogue
Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences: SHIFT
Liese AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC)
Michigan Publishing Services, 2022

Dialogue is the ongoing series of fully open access proceedings of the conferences and national symposia of the AIGA Design Educators Committee.

Although each conference varies in theme, issues of Dialogue contain papers from DEC conferences which focus on topics that affect design education, research, and professional practice.

Michigan Publishing, the hub of scholarly publishing at the University of Michigan, publishes Dialogue on behalf of the AIGA DEC.

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Dialogue
Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences: MAKE
Alberto AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC)
Michigan Publishing Services, 2019
Dialogue is the ongoing series of fully open-access proceedings of the conferences and national symposia of the AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC). Issues of Dialogue contain papers from DEC conferences that focus on topics affecting design education, research, and professional practice, although each conference varies in theme. Michigan Publishing, the hub of scholarly publishing at the University of Michigan, publishes Dialogue on behalf of the AIGA DEC. 
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Discourses in African Musicology
J.H. Kwabena Nketia Festschrift
Kwasi Ampene
Michigan Publishing Services, 2015
Discourses in African Musicology: J.H. Kwabena Nketia Festschrift highlights the proceedings of a 2011 conference at the University of Ghana in honor of Professor J.H. Kwabena Nketia on his 90th birthday. Professor Nketia was instrumental in shaping the field of ethnomusicology and providing the foundation for an African Musicology. The conference gave scholars and performers an occasion to explore the multi-faceted subject of African music studies, and provided its many attendees the opportunity to extend the scholarly discourse on African music.
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Engaging Modernity
Asante in the Twenty-First Century
Kwasi Ampene
Michigan Publishing Services, 2016
Engaging Modernity is the definitive history of Asante royal regalia and music ensembles. This second edition includes an ethnographical account of the 2014 Asanteman Grand Adae festival that prominently features the complex heritage of the visual and the performing arts in motion. Ampene’s contextual account illuminates the historical narratives the regalia objects render as they move through space and time, as well as the metalanguage embodied in the objects and the symbolic language they convey in Akanland. The book combines text with over three hundred color photographs to construct subtle and nuanced views of the material culture associated with Asante royal court in the twenty-first century. Engaging Modernity is an essential and a vast transdisciplinary resource for the humanities and beyond.

 
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Man-Made
The Evolutionary Influence of Humans
Lynn Anderson-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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Building Academic Partnerships to Reduce Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
A Call to Action and Way Forward
Frank W.J. Anderson
Michigan Publishing Services, 2014

This book presents the collective wisdom of a group of Obstetrician/Gynecologists (OB/GYNs) from around the world brought together at the 2012 meeting of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) to contribute their ideas and expertise in an effort to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality and obstetric fistula in sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The discussions focused on how to increase human capacity in the field of obstetrics and gynecology. The meeting was hosted by the University of Michigan Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Global Initiatives program and was supported through a grant from the Flora Family Foundation.

Within the pages of this document, the current status of women’s health and OB/GYN training programs in 10 sub-Saharan African countries are described, with a Call to Action and Way Forward to training new OBGYNs in country. These are the words of obstetricians in the field, some who work as lone faculty in fledgling OB/GYN departments. These committed people are charged with the task of not only teaching the next generation, but may be the only OBGYN per 500,000 population or more. Their tireless pursuits are recognized, and their yearning for collegial support is palpable. 

Every country should have a cadre of highly trained OB/GYNs to teach the next generation, contribute to policy development and advocate for progressive legislation, conduct the research needed to solve local clinical problems, and contribute to the field of women’s health in general. But most of all, it must be recognized that women across the globe have the right to access a full scope and high quality obstetrical and gynecological care when and where they need it. These pages bring to light successes achieved and shared, and lessons learned that have already spurred new programs and given hope to those eager for a new way forward.

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Eliminating Preventable Maternal and Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality
A Plan to Deliver Critical Obstetric Care
Frank W.J. Anderson
Michigan Publishing Services, 2016
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called upon the global health community to “End Preventable Maternal Mortality by 2030”.  This book is the 2nd in a series that highlights issues and proposes solutions to maternal mortality by ending the dearth of expert capacity in Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN) for both clinical care and national leadership in Sub-Saharan Africa.
 
This volume follows the first, entitled Building Academic Partnerships to Reduce Maternal Morbidity and MortalityACall to Action and Way Forward (http://amzn.to/22pZ0Wd), which identified the critical components for capacity building in expert women’s health care.  Each chapter of this current edition is organized to address these critical components from multiple perspectives including African obstetrician/gynecologists, Ministries of Health and Education, American/European obstetrician/gynecologists and professional organizations.
 
Within the pages of this book, readers will encounter the tremendous passion African OBGYNs have for expanding their expertise to deal with the tragedies that befall women on a daily basis. The entire specialty of OBGYN is poised to mobilize the educational resources, experience and expertise to support African OBGYNs in their re-invention of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the African context, for the African continent.  A complete reading of this book will leave the reader with a deep understanding of the issues and solutions. 
 
The deficit of expert obstetric and gynecologic care in Sub-Saharan Africa leads to the silent suffering of millions of women and families due to unnecessary mortality and debilitating morbidity to women and girls of all ages.  Pregnancy and its consequences have significant effects on women and they deserve safe labor and delivery with the expectation of bearing a live-born infant. 
 
In 2016, we are rightly focused on maternal, perinatal and early neonatal mortality.  This urgent crisis must continue to be aggressively addressed, but a long-term view would demand that targeted interventions must not occur in a vacuum.  The same specialists who provide critical and lifesaving obstetric care are the same ones who can diagnose fetal problems, diagnose and treat ectopic pregnancy both medically and surgically, and treat the myriad medical and surgical issues that face women throughout their lifetime.  In essence, they provide the complex, evidence-based interventions that women in most parts of the world enjoy.  Current attempts to replace this expert and comprehensive clinical capacity with health workers trained to perform specific tasks has gained favor, and fills an urgent need.  But when done without also creating the cadre and institutions for supervision, long-term prospects for impact are poor.
 
The rich text presented herein will not only tell the story, but will also provide the concrete steps needed to replicate the successful Ghana experience – sustainably - in other African countries.  The 1000+ OBGYN Project (www.1000obgyns.org) has brought together a vast array of educational resources and a network of university programs, expert clinical organizations and professional societies to implement this collective wisdom.  The group is poised for action to end preventable maternal and neonatal mortality by 2030.  We welcome your interest and participation.
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