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Ann Arbor Paperbacks (Series)

Beginning in 1954, the University of Michigan Press under the direction of legendary publisher Fred Wieck began its long commitment to keeping a select group of worthy titles in print for use by students and scholars. As a result, the Ann Arbor Paperbacks series became home to some of the most influential and hotly-debated writings in Western intellectual history, in addition to titles of exceptional importance to teaching and research in certain newly emerging fields of scholarly inquiry. While the series is not currently active, University of Michigan Press remains keenly interested in hearing from faculty members about titles which, though currently out of print, remain of central importance to teaching and learning in the various disciplines. Our hope is to continue to provide students and teachers with inexpensive editions of foundational texts for use both in and out of the college and university classroom.

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La Partera

Story of a Midwife

New Edition

By Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Health & Medicine, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Anthropology
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The story of one woman's life in rural New Mexico and of her emergence as a community leader

The Moral Economy

By John P. Powelson
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, Political Economy, Religion
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A new society is being born out of technological and social change. How will it work? Will it solve our problems?

9226 Kercheval

The Storefront that Did Not Burn, With a New Preface

By Nancy Milio
Subjects: Sociology, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The story of the Mom and Tots Center, a storefront health center in Detroit

The Rope of God

By James T. Siegel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Anthropology, Religion, History, Asian History
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

An ethnography of Aceh, Indonesia, by a master anthropologist

Documents on the Rape of Nanking

Edited by Timothy Brook
Subjects: Asian Studies, History
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Newly revised resources for understanding the Rape of Nanking

Early Greek Lyric Poetry

Translated by David Mulroy
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

New approach to translating the Greek lyric poets

Crashing Thunder

The Autobiography of an American Indian

By Paul Radin
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Race and Ethnicity, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Anthropology, Biography
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A brotherly companion to Nancy Lurie's Mountain Wolf Woman

The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System

Detroit, 1907-81, Second Edition

By Jeffrey Mirel
Subjects: Education, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, History, American History
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The updated edition of the difficulties faced by the Detroit public schools and the historical reasons that led to the present situation

Poems from the Greek Anthology

Expanded Edition

Translated by Kenneth Rexroth
Introduction by David Mulroy
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Classic Greek poetry with a touch of the Beat

When the Rainbow Goddess Wept

By Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Subjects: Asian Studies, Fiction
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A novel of epic proportions that chronicles recent Philippine history and culture

The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830

Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society

By Todd M. Endelman
Subjects: History, Religion, Cultural Studies, German Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A landmark study of the rise of Anglo-Jewish society in eighteenth century England

The Bamboo Grove

An Introduction to Sijo

Edited by Richard Rutt
Subjects: Asian Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A collection of short, introspective poems known as sijo--a form unique to Korea. They are skillfully translated by Korean scholar, Richard Rutt

Almost a Revolution

The Story of a Chinese Student's Journey from Boyhood to Leadership in Tiananmen Square

By Tong Shen
Subjects: Asian Studies, History, Biography
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

An eyewitness account of Tiananmen Spring, available once again to commemorate the ten year anniversary of these historic events of China's recent past

Multiparty Government

The Politics of Coalition in Europe

Ann Arbor Paperback Edition

By Michael Laver & Norman Schofield
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The seminal text for understanding European coalition politics

You Alone Are Dancing

By Brenda Flanagan
Subjects: Caribbean Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Fiction
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

This prize-winning novel looks beyond Caribbean beaches and into the heart of a people and their struggle

Out of Time

History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse

Second Edition

By Nicholas Thomas
Subjects: Anthropology, History, Cultural Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A lucid theoretical reflection on the intersection of anthropology and history

The Walls of Jericho

By Rudolph Fisher
Subjects: African American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Sociology, Fiction
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Lifted Masks and Other Works

By Susan Glaspell
Edited by Eric S. Rabkin
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The Heavenly Twins

By Sarah Grand
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Fiction
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Galileo, Science and the Church

Third Edition

By Jerome J. Langford
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Religion, Philosophy
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Vision and Violence

By Arthur P. Mendel
Subjects: History, Religion, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Just in time for the millennium—apocalyptic thinking, from ancient Greece to modern political philosophers

The Albigensian Crusades

By Joseph Strayer
Subjects: History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

In the Castle of My Skin

By George Lamming
Subjects: African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Diaspora Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

An autobiographical novel of race and class by one of the leading Black writers of the 20th century

Period Piece

By Gwen Raverat
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Memories of a turn-of-the-century childhood by the granddaughter of Charles Darwin

The Works and Days; Theogony; The Shield of Herakles

By Hesiod
Translated by Richmond Lattimore
Subjects: Classical Studies, Philosophy
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks
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