Shaun Manning

Wall Street Journal Praises Lipsey’s ‘Hammarskjöld’

by Shaun Manning March 25, 2013

In a review essay encompassing the history of the United Nations, the Wall Street Journal’s George Melloan highly praises Roger Lipsey’s new biography of  the UN’s second secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld, saying ”no one has sketched his life and peacekeeping endeavors with such depth and breadth as Mr. Lipsey.” “Mr. Lipsey sees two Hammarskjölds, one a man of ...

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New Year, new look for the University of Michigan Press website!

by Shaun Manning January 9, 2013

If you’ve been shopping our site through the holiday season and into the new year, you may have noticed a few changes. We recently completed a relaunch of the University of Michigan Press website, with a new design, improved features, and additional search and browsing options that will help you find just the book you’re ...

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LA Weekly Spotlights ‘International Relations of Middle-earth’

by Shaun Manning December 11, 2012

With The Hobbit hitting theatres this week, LA Weekly, part of the Village Voice family of free papers, interviewed International Relations of Middle-earth co-author Patrick James about the book’s origins and using Tolkien to teach real-world multinational conflict. In the interview, James credited Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy with creating a “pop culture touchstone,” making the situations ...

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Rackham Centennial Lectures Feature UM Press Authors

by Shaun Manning October 1, 2012

This Fall, University of Michigan’s Rackham Graduate School will feature three University Press authors in its Centennial Alumni Lectures series. The lecture series is a showcase for U-M graduates to present on a topic in their fields, highlighting the university’s diversity and intellectual legacy. More than 6o lectures, each hosted by a graduate department, will ...

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Dan Rather interviews ‘Baghdad Bulletin’ author David Enders on the Syrian crisis

by Shaun Manning July 9, 2012

David Enders, author of Baghdad Bulletin and the forthcoming Death of a Nation, appeared on Dan Rather Reports Tuesday evening to discuss the ongoing conflict in Syria between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and opposition forces seeking to drive his regime from power. After showing Enders’ devastating footage from villages decimated by the brutality ...

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Jentery Sayers and Sheila Brennan awarded University of Michigan Press/HASTAC prize

by Shaun Manning June 18, 2012

The University of Michigan Press and HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advance Collaboratory) are pleased to announce the selection of Jentery Sayers and Sheila Brennan as recipients of the UM Press/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize. Each Prize carries $5,000 in subvention funds and an advance contract with the Press series DigitalHumanities@digitalculturebooks.

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Ellen Handler Spitz remembers Maurice Sendak on NPR and The New Republic

by Shaun Manning May 14, 2012

Maurice Sendak (photo: Federico Novaro/flickr cc) Maurice Sendak, the renowned children’s book author best known for Where the Wild Things Are, passed away last Tuesday morning at the age of 83. On a day that included many remembrances and tributes across the literary world, U-M Press author Ellen Handler Spitz (Illuminating Childhood) was a guest on NPR’s ...

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Pascoe ponders the index in the Chronicle of Higher Education

by Shaun Manning May 1, 2012

Judith Pascoe, author of The Sarah Siddons Audio Files, dedicated a recent column in The Chronicle of Higher Education to the sometimes vexing subject of indexing, in particular the question of whether authors should index their own books or hire a professional.

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"Africa in Translation" author discusses ongoing stereotypes

by Shaun Manning February 16, 2012

Sara Pugach, author of Africa in Translation: A History of Colonial Linguistics in Germany and Beyond, 1814-1945, guest blogs about the stereotypes that continue to pervade discussions about Africa and the conflicts taking place on the continent. In today’s world, people often like to believe that we have gotten beyond the racial stereotyping and prejudices ...

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Beer and Stats: Chicago Magazine covers Ziliak’s Guiness Experiment

by Shaun Manning February 10, 2012

Stephen T. Ziliak, co-author with Deirdre n. McCloskey of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives, is the subject of a Chicago Magazine blog post on “Guinness beer and Guinnessometrics.” The Chicago piece summarizes Ziliak’s paper in the Journal of Wine Economics, which focuses on the work ...

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