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Two UMP Titles Named 2013 Michigan Notable Books

by Emily January 2, 2013

Last week, the Library of Michigan announced the 2013 Michigan Notable Books. Two of the twenty Notables were published by the University of Michigan Press: The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It by William Rapai, and The Boy Governor: Stevens T. Mason and the Birth of ...

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Fifty reasons to look forward to fall

by Emily June 11, 2012

If you’ve visited the Press website in the past three weeks you’ve probably noticed that the Fall 2012 e-Catalog is live. (And if you haven’t been to our homepage lately, what are you waiting for?!) Featuring 50 titles and spanning a range of categories, the e-Catalog provides an interesting – and interactive – peek at ...

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The Press congratulates Peter Jeffreys, winner of the 2011 State Literary Translation Award from the Greek Ministry of Culture

by Emily April 10, 2012

Peter Jeffreys has earned a major translation award from the Greek Ministry of Culture for Selected Prose Works (2010), a collection of prose pieces by acclaimed poet C. P. Cavafy published by the University of Michigan Press.

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Sandhill Cranes: Tastes Like Pork?

by Emily March 23, 2012

Guest blogger Dennis Wild is the author of the newly published The Double-Crested Cormorant: Symbol of Ecological Conflict, which tells how, after cormorant populations rebounded from near-extinction driven by DDT contamination, these amazing birds were persecuted throughout their entire range  because of their perceived threat to American fishing interests. Today’s double-crested cormorants face the challenge of ...

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Press author Sara Fitzgerald and the subject of her award-winning biography, Elly Peterson, offer insights into how Mitt Romney’s mother’s 1970 Senate run influenced him in today’s New York Times

by Emily February 28, 2012

In a front-page article, The New York Times examines Lenore Romney—former First Lady of Michigan, and mother to Mitt—and explores how her experiences, views, and personality traits helped shape the current candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. In doing so, the Times looks to Elly Peterson, one of the highest-ranking women in the Republican Party ...

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