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Teaching Undergraduates with Archives

Nancy Bartlett

Michigan Publishing Services, 2019

Teaching Undergraduates with Archives mirrors the evolving practice and academic research on primary sources in the classroom. The result of a national symposium at the University of Michigan in 2018, the volume features case studies, reflections, and forecasts concerning critical thinking, active learning, and archival evidence. The chapters describe collaborations between faculty, archivists, librarians, and students. Ideas behind new assignments and syllabi provide an immediate utility for those who teach with primary sources. Testimonies to the challenges and benefits of robust programs speak to the emerging prioritization of teaching and learning across disciplines with archives and special collections.

"The contributions to this volume capture exceptionally well the passion and the creativity that archivists and special collections librarians who teach and do outreach with primary sources are bringing to their work in this increasingly important activity domain."
-- Martha O’Hara Conway, Director, Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library

"As teaching with archival materials has moved to the foreground of the archival mission for many institutions, this timely, inspiring, and practical volume, which comes out of the multi-day symposium solely devoted to teaching undergraduates with archival materials, is a required reading for anyone who teaches with archival materials, or who would like to. It really captures the spirit and enthusiasm that these authors brought to that symposium."
-- Josué Hurtado, Coordinator of Public Services & Outreach, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries

"Reflecting the increasing priority of teaching in archives and special collections libraries, this book captures a variety of perspectives, insights, approaches, and prognostications that will enlighten, challenge, and inspire a growing community of practitioners."
-- Bill Landis, Head of Public Services, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library

"Building on the momentum generated at the symposium, this book is a treasure trove for professionals in the field who are eager for innovative ideas regarding collaboration and experimentation in teaching with archival material."
-- Elizabeth Williams-Clymer, Special Collections Librarian, Kenyon College

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Telemorphosis

Theory in the Era of Climate Change

Tom Cohen

Michigan Publishing Services, 2012

This volume gathers notable critics and philosophers to engage the predominant impasse of an emerging era of climate change and ecocatastrophic acceleration: that is, how to conceptual and critical practices inherited from 20th century master-thinkers—who took no account of these emergences and logics—alter, adapt, mutate, or undergo translation at the current moment. Rather than assume that the humanities and philosophic practices of the past routed in the rethinking of language and power are suspended as irrelevant before mutations of the biosphere itself, Telemorphosis asks how, in fact, the latter have always been imbricated in these cognitive and linguistic practices and remain so, which is also to ask how a certain violence returns, today, to entirely different fields of reference. The writers in the volume ask, implicitly, how the 21st century horizons that exceed any political, economic, or conceptual models alters or redefines a series of key topoi. These range through figures of sexual difference, bioethics, care, species invasion, war, post-carbon thought, ecotechnics, time, and so on. As such, the volume is also a dossier on what metamorphoses await the legacies of “humanistic” thought in adapting to, or rethinking, the other materialities that impinge on contemporary “life as we know it.”

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Terror, Theory and the Humanities

Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Uppinder Mehan, editors

Michigan Publishing Services, 2012

The events of September 11, 2001, have had a strong impact on theory and the humanities. They call for a new philosophy, as the old philosophy is inadequate to account for them. They also call for reflection on theory, philosophy, and the humanities in general. While the recent location and killing of Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, in Pakistan on May 2, 2011—almost ten years after he and his confederates carried out the 9/11 attacks—may have ended the “war on terror,” it has not ended the journey to understand what it means to be a theorist in the age of phobos nor the effort to create a new philosophy that measures up with life in the new millennium. It is in the spirit of hope—the hope that theory will help us to understand the age of terror—that the essays in this collection are presented.

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Thirty Rules for Healthcare Leaders

Illustrated by Danny Suárez

Sanjay Saint

Michigan Publishing Services, 2019

Thirty Rules for Healthcare Leaders is the essential guide for everyone in healthcare, from those just starting their careers to those who are established leaders. The authors have been in leadership roles within healthcare systems for several years, and have carefully studied healthcare leadership during site visits to hospitals around the world. The book presents practical and timely advice packaged in pithy “pearls” that can be used by time-pressured professionals. Original artwork makes each rule memorable. Meant to be read in one sitting, or one at a time, Thirty Rules for Healthcare Leaders speaks to a broad range of healthcare professionals, regardless of title or experience. If you work in healthcare, this is your new must-read book.

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Thirty Rules for Healthcare Leaders

Illustrated by Gina Kim

Sanjay Saint

Michigan Publishing Services, 2019

Thirty Rules for Healthcare Leaders is the essential guide for everyone in healthcare, from those just starting their careers to those who are established leaders. The authors have been in leadership roles within healthcare systems for several years, and have carefully studied healthcare leadership during site visits to hospitals around the world. The book presents practical and timely advice packaged in pithy “pearls” that can be used by time-pressured professionals. Original artwork makes each rule memorable. Meant to be read in one sitting, or one at a time, Thirty Rules for Healthcare Leaders speaks to a broad range of healthcare professionals, regardless of title or experience. If you work in healthcare, this is your new must-read book.

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Thirty Rules for Healthcare Leaders

Illustrated by Victoria Bornstein

Sanjay Saint

Michigan Publishing Services, 2019

Thirty Rules for Healthcare Leaders is the essential guide for everyone in healthcare, from those just starting their careers to those who are established leaders. The authors have been in leadership roles within healthcare systems for several years, and have carefully studied healthcare leadership during site visits to hospitals around the world. The book presents practical and timely advice packaged in pithy “pearls” that can be used by time-pressured professionals. Original artwork makes each rule memorable. Meant to be read in one sitting, or one at a time, Thirty Rules for Healthcare Leaders speaks to a broad range of healthcare professionals, regardless of title or experience. If you work in healthcare, this is your new must-read book.

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Thump! Ouch!

Marcus Gets Hurt

The University of Michigan Medicine C. S. Mott Children's Hospital Pediatric Trauma Program; Illustrated by Billy Phillips

Michigan Publishing Services, 2021

Marcus loves playing with his friends Olivia and Nora. One day while they are swinging at the playground, he falls and gets hurt. He has to go to the hospital! At the hospital, Marcus meets a dog named Denver. Denver teaches Marcus about pain, how to help the pain, and how to take medicine safely so he feels better and can play with his friends again.

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Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age

C. Jon Delogu

Michigan Publishing Services, 2014

Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age is a general introduction to Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) and his monumental two-volume study Democracy in America (1835, 1840) that pays particular attention to the critical conversation around Tocqueville and democracy since the end of the Cold War during the Internet Age; i.e., post-1989. The book is addressed broadly to students, specialists, and ordinary citizens who wonder if democracy is still possible today and under what conditions.

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