May 2009

Fall 2009 Catalog Now Available

by The University of Michigan Press May 29, 2009

Our Fall 2009 catalog is hot off the press. Browse through the PDF, or search on the UMP site to view all of our great new titles. Some highlights this season include Barack Obama’s America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era; The Accidental Teacher, a touching memoir about the life lessons learned from a son with autism; Grand River and Joy, a novel about the race riots in Detroit in the 1960s. Later this fall be on the lookout for Orville Brims’ Look at Me! examining why some people seek out fame – and [...]

University Press 2.0 by Phil Pochoda

by The University of Michigan Press May 27, 2009

The following essay by Phil Pochoda, Director of University of Michigan Press, was presented recently at a symposium on “Bookishness” organized by the Michigan Quarterly Review. The essay will appear in a somewhat different form in a forthcoming issue of the MQR.

Beef up your Supreme Court knowledge with these UMP titles

by The University of Michigan Press May 26, 2009

Today, President Obama has announced his pick for the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Judge Sotomayor is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law and has served as a federal judge the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit since 1998 following a 1992 appointment as a federal judge in the U.S. District Court in New York. View President Obama’s Nomination on CNN.com HERE If you want to learn more about the Supreme Court here are some notable UMP books: A Good Quarrel: America’s Top Legal Reporters Share Stories from Inside the Supreme Court Edited by Timothy R. Johnson and [...]

Petoskey Library Heats Up Cold Case

by The University of Michigan Press May 19, 2009

For the first time that librarian Barbara Cook can remember, she had to turn people away from a library event. Not because the event was cancelled, not because it was by invitation only, but rather because she has a healthy respect for fire codes.

Cold Case Investigation – Library Style

by The University of Michigan Press May 18, 2009

Can bookworms solve a crime? That’s the question that will be considered at the Petoskey Public Library tonight. In June of 1968 all five members of the Detroit-based Richard Robison family were ambushed inside their Good Hart cottage. The investigation is chronicled in my book, When Evil Came to Good Hart.

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