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Cover Image for Amazing Stories from History, Intermediate Level


Amazing Stories from History, Intermediate Level

Carl W. Hart

8 x 10. 184 pgs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03349-2     $26.95S     Available

 
 
 
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An Angle of Vision
Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots

Edited by Lorraine M. López

Uncommon perspectives by prominent women writers on class, money, family, and home

6 x 9. 216 pgs. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-07078-7     $60.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05078-9     $22.95T     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for Bridging the Cross-Cultural Gap


Bridging the Cross-Cultural Gap
Listening and Speaking Tasks for Developing Fluency in English

Russell Arent

8 x 10. 152 pgs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03357-7     $26.50S     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for Building Academic Reading Skills, Book 1


Building Academic Reading Skills, Book 1

Dorothy Zemach

8 x 10. 128 pgs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03369-0     $25.95S     Available

 
 
 
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Changing the Subject
Marvin Carlson and Theatre Studies 1959-2009

Edited and with an Introduction by Joseph Roach

Leading theater scholars on the major developments in their field over the past 50 years

6 x 9. 368 pgs. 37 B&W photographs. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-11707-9     $75.00S     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina


Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina

Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez, editors

6 x 9. 256 pgs. 12 B&W photographs. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-11698-0     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03352-2     $32.50S     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for A Critic's Journey


A Critic's Journey

Ilan Stavans

One of the leading voices in Latino literature writes about his life and work

6 x 9. 208 pgs. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-11706-2     $60.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03382-9     $24.95T     Available

 
 
 
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Cross Purposes
Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education

Paula Abrams

Do parents have the right to determine how their children should be educated?

6 x 9. 296 pgs. 5 B&W photographs and 4 drawings. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-11700-0     $65.00S     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for Cultures in Contrast, 2nd Edition


Cultures in Contrast, 2nd Edition
Student Life at U.S. Colleges and Universities
2nd Edition

Myra Shulman

8.5 x 11. 264 pgs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03298-3     $26.95S     Available

 
 
 
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Curbing Bailouts
Bank Crises and Democratic Accountability in Comparative Perspective

Guillermo Rosas

Do democratic governments and authoritarian regimes respond to banking crises in the same way?

6 x 9. 224 pgs. numerous tables, charts and formulas. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-11713-0     $60.00S     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for Dilemmas in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages


Dilemmas in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
40 Cases

Dorothy S. Messerschmitt and Johnnie Johnson Hafernik

6 x 9. 232 pgs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03378-2     $27.50S     Available

 
 
 
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The Echoes of L'Arbre Croche

Donald A. Johnston

Mystery, intrigue, romance, and history in a novel set on the Great Lakes

6 x 9. 344 pgs. 3 maps. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03396-6     $16.95T     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for English for Specific Purposes in Theory and Practice


English for Specific Purposes in Theory and Practice

Diane Belcher, Editor

6 x 9. 312 pgs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03384-3     $34.50S     Available

 
 
 
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Extreme Pursuits
Travel/Writing in an Age of Globalization

Graham Huggan

A provocative look at travel—both voluntary and otherwise—in an uncertain world

6 x 9. 224 pgs. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-07072-5     $65.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05072-7     $24.95S     Available

 
 
 
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Good for the Jews

Debra Spark

A funny, sexy novel about Jewish families in the Midwest

6 x 9. 284 pgs. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-11711-6     $24.00T     Available

 
 
 
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Grassroots at the Gateway
Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75

Clarence Lang

Offers a new conceptualization of black workingclass participation in the civil rights movement

6.125 x 9.25. 344 pgs. 11 B&W photographs. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-07065-7     $85.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05065-9     $28.95S     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for Incidents in an Educational Life


Incidents in an Educational Life
A Memoir (of Sorts)

John M. Swales

The memoir of a prominent applied linguist

6 x 9. 224 pgs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03358-4     $19.95T     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for Interrogating Privilege


Interrogating Privilege
Reflections of a Second Language Educator

Stephanie Vandrick

6 x 9. 192 pgs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03394-2     $23.95S     Available

 
 
 
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Isadore's Secret
Sin, Murder, and Confession in a Northern Michigan Town

Mardi Link

A gripping account of the mysterious disappearance of a young nun in a northern Michigan town and the national controversy that followed when she turned up dead and buried in the basement of the church

6 x 9. 280 pgs. 26 halftones. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-07079-4     $45.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05079-6     $22.95T     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for The Kims' Journey to Harmony


The Kims' Journey to Harmony

Barbara Vaille and Jennifer QuinnWilliams

6 x 8. 104 pgs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03395-9     $9.95N     Available

 
 
 
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Life in the USA
An Immigrant's Guide to Understanding Americans

Planaria J. Price and Euphronia Awakuni

5.5 x 6.5. 160 pgs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03304-1     $21.95S     Available

 
 
 
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Look at Me!
The Fame Motive from Childhood to Death

Orville Gilbert Brim

A unique study of the desire for fame, its origins, and its consequences from one of the leading scholars in the field of human and child development

6 x 9. 208 pgs. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-07070-1     $65.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05070-3     $24.95T     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for M Is for Michigan Football


M Is for Michigan Football
Celebrating the Tradition of Michigan Football

Greg Nelson

A collection of photographs, historical facts, and trivia from University of Michigan football

8.5 x 5.5. 72 pgs. 26 color photographs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03387-4     $12.95T     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for Meeting the Needs of Students with Limited or Interrupted Schooling


Meeting the Needs of Students with Limited or Interrupted Schooling
A Guide for Educators

Andrea DeCapua, William Smathers, and Lixing Frank Tang

7 x 10. 128 pgs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03351-5     $25.95S     Available

 
 
 
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Natural Acts
Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music

Pamela Fox

Hillbilly, honky-tonk, Nashville glitz, or alt.country: what makes music authentically country?

6 x 9. 280 pgs. 8 B&W photographs. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-07068-8     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05068-0     $26.95S     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for One on One with Second Language Writers


One on One with Second Language Writers
A Guide for Writing Tutors, Teachers, and Consultants

Dudley W. Reynolds

6.0 x 9.0. 168 pgs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03282-2     $21.95S     Available

 
 
 
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The Phantom Respondents
Opinion Surveys and Political Representation

John Brehm

Examines a fundamental problem for opinion polls and those who use them

280 pgs. tables, figures. 2009

Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02296-0          Available

 
 
 
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Research Confidential
Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have

Eszter Hargittai, editor

A new guide for a new generation of social science researchers

6 x 9. 312 pgs. 2 tables, 2 B&W photographs. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-07026-8     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05026-0     $27.95S     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for Research on ESL in U.S. Community Colleges


Research on ESL in U.S. Community Colleges
People, Programs, and Potential

Kathleen M. Bailey and Maricel G. Santos, Editors

6 x 9. 240 pgs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03312-6     $32.50S     Available

 
 
 
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Signifying Bodies
Disability in Contemporary Life Writing

G. Thomas Couser

Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?

6 x 9. 216 pgs. 5 B&W photographs. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-07069-5     $65.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05069-7     $27.95S     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for Teaching College Writing to Diverse Student Populations


Teaching College Writing to Diverse Student Populations

Dana R. Ferris

6 x 9. 184 pgs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03337-9     $27.50S     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for The President Electric


The President Electric
Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance

Timothy Raphael

How Reagan's immersion in an electronic media culture of performance shaped his political career

6 x 9. 288 pgs. 10 B&W photographs. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-07073-2     $65.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05073-4     $26.95S     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for The Songs of Blind Folk


The Songs of Blind Folk
African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness

Terry Rowden

How America has constructed the figure of the visually impaired black performer over the last 150 years

6 x 9. 184 pgs. 13 B&W photographs. 2009

Cloth     978-0-472-07064-0     $65.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05064-2     $22.95S     Available

 
 
 
Cover Image for What's Up? Book 3


What's Up? Book 3
Integrated Skills and Culture for Adults

Kathleen Olson

8.5 x 11. 128 pgs. 2009

Paper     978-0-472-03293-8     $20.95S     Available

 
 
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