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Authors discuss ‘The Chief Concern of Medicine’ on the Jefferson Exchange

by Phillip Witteveen January 11, 2013

“Every patient has a story, and every doctor has to know it” said the host of the Jefferson Exchange as he announced his guests, doctors and authors of The Chief Concern of Medicine, Ron Schleifer Ph. D. and Jerry Vanatta, M.D. The book, as they explained, was a product of the collaboration they had been doing teaching a class about the medical humanities. ” I had a remarkable experience in my office”, explained Jerry, “which led me to wonder, if we could put together a course on literature and teach it to medical students.” He went on to tell a story [...]

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Marketplace Morning Report Interviews ‘Martian’s Daughter’ Marina von Neumann Whitman

by Emily September 26, 2012

In an interview with Marketplace Morning Report’s Jeremy Hobson, Marina von Neumann Whitman, author of The Martian’s Daughter: A Memoir, discusses her struggle to emerge from the shadow of her larger-than-life parent, John von Neumann (one of the five Hungarian scientific geniuses dubbed “the Martians” by their colleagues) and describes the challenges of “a woman trying to climb the ranks of intellectual and corporate power.”  The interview delves into issues of discrimination in the workplace and its ongoing yet covert prevalency today. John von Neumann is often hailed as the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century and even as the greatest scientist [...]

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Back to School Sale

by Shaun Manning September 5, 2012

Save 30% on recently-released titles from the University of Michigan Press! Add any of the books below to your shopping cart and enter promotion code BTS at checkout to save. The discount applies to any edition of the book–cloth, paper, or ebook! (Prices listed refer to paperback edition when one exists.) The Wire: Race, Class, and Culture $29.95 $20.97 A New England Prison Diary: Slander, Religion, and Markets in Early America $35.00 $24.50 The International Relations of Middle-earth: Learning from The Lord of the Rings $19.95 $13.97 Japan and China as Charm Rivals: Soft Power in Regional Diplomacy $70.00 $49.00 The Congressional Black Caucus, Minority Voting Rights, and the U.S. Supreme [...]

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Guest blog: Press author William Rapai on not being able to close the book on his relationship with the Kirtland’s warbler

by Emily June 7, 2012

William Rapai is the author of The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It. Here, he writes about the people he met while researching the book, his recent trips to see the birds—which arrived in their Northern Michigan summer nesting grounds last month—and how he just can’t seem to say farewell to the rare and charming Kirtland’s warbler. It should have been good-bye, but it wasn’t. During the introductions of the attendees at the winter 2012 meeting of the Kirtland’s Warbler Recovery Team, I stood up, introduced myself and told the [...]

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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 4, 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. While Cavafy’s poems have been widely translated, prior to the publication of Selected Prose Works very few of his prose pieces had been printed. In fact, of the forty pieces Jeffreys includes in the book, only thirteen had previously appeared in print, and only a handful of those had ever appeared in English. Comprised of essays, “prose poems,” short stories, self-assessments, and considerations [...]

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