Michigan Books

In American Artifacts: Essays In Material Culture, Jules Prown and Ken Haltman have assembled thirteen superb commentaries by men and women who articulately explore the cultural and social meanings ascribed to a variety of common objects ranging from teapots, cart tables, and quilts, to cigarette lighters, telephones, and lava lamps. Here is an impressive and "reader friendly" collection of essays that are as informative and thought-provoking as they are erudite and challenging. American Artifacts is highly recommended reading for students of American popular culture and art.

I bought this book three years ago and haven't found a better book to teach business writing with. Ms. Bartell covers everything from from from pre-writing to writing long reports. The writing is clear and concise, as good writing should be, and presents old information in new and interesting ways. When I have grammar questions, I look here before I pull out my Strunk and White's, because Ms. Bartell's explantions are more reader friendly. I recommend it to all of my business English students. Not only can this book be used for business writing, it would benefit any student of English writing.

The title of the book is a little misleading. It doesn't deal with other business English topics, such as telephoning, meetings(except for minutes and agendas), negotiations, or social English. But it is The Best Book I've seen on business writing. If I could have given it more than five stars, I would have.

This is one of the finest ESP books I have used. The book provides not only a basic introduction to the American legal system but also a large number of advanced language exercises based on real cases and legal texts. The exercises are intellectually engaging and the presentation of language problems is thorough and honorable.

In the book "Painting the Black", Ryan Ward is a senior in high school. he had a love to play baseball until he broke his ankle. That all changed when Josh Daniels moved in the street. Ryan found that love for basball again. They started playing around down at the Community Center on the baseball diamonds. Then football season came around and Josh was going to try out for the team. Josh made the team and didn't want to throw the baseball around. He wanted to throw the football around cince he was the back up Quarterback. That was bad for Ryan because Ryan had just decided to tryout for the baseball team as a cather. Ryan needed all the practice he could get if he wanted to make the team. Josh was the star, when the starting Quater back was injured in the first game. Then, josh got in trouble at school for lifting a girls shirt up. His ponisment was he wasn't allowed to play in the next football game. That was the game that would allow them to go to state.I think this is one of the best books i have ever read. I recomend this book to any body that likes any kind of sport. Anybody would like this book.

This volume with its companion are a joy to behold and invaluable It is so wonderful to have these great works of American Art available to us and all together. I have been so moved by the great works created by American artists and have been collecting volume after volume of these paintings. This is among the finest.

Quality of the reproductions are excellent.

Crase, highly touted for his poetry book "The Revisionist", has given us what amounts to highlighted and underlined passages from authors "who have claimed" him. These include Emerson, Stevens, Gertrude Stein, Rachel Carson, W.E.B DuBois, William James, Thoreau, Whitman, Langston Hughes, Aldo Leopold, John Ashbery, etc. Most are poets. He has said that placing the passages side by side, arranging them, involves "choice and commitment" which he finds more interesting than reading one man's opinions.

He has arranged these selections under headings which are commentaries in themselves: Under the heading "Doing Your Thing" you find Emerson, Stein, and Ashbery, but then as a footnote, quotations from politicians, Bush and Reagan (and their wives), that set the prior, more profound reflections into greater relief.

Under "Majority Rule" Emily Dickinson: "Dear friends--we cannot believe for each other."

Under "Immortality" Emerson: "I think we may be sure that, whatever may come after death, no one will be disappointed."

Wallace Stevens under "Home": "Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me life is an affair of places and that is the trouble."

A particular favorite entry under "Comparative Literature": Gertrude Stein, b. 1874 Rainer Maria Rilke, b. 1875

There is so much here to return to again and again--and much of it is unknown as Crase chose to select passages from these authors' lesser known works--much to encourage a return to these American originals. Much to encourage rumination.

Amish in Michigan is an accessible and truly interesting history of Amish culture. More importantly, it discusses the reasons why Amish populations are growing. If you are at all interested in the Amish, read this book.

By far the best book on death row issues in Florida.

Only downside to this revised version is that extremely little has been revised. Thus the first version is just as good to purchase and read.

it arrived in a timely manner, which was important because i bought it for class work that i needed. thank you.

This book is one of the most impressive pieces of work i have seen regarding this topic. Being one of the most comprehensive works I have read on the subject, I was thoroughly impressed by Browne's work. I look forward to reading more from this impressive writer in the future.