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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0472031627ISBN 13: 9780472031627
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Softcover. Condition: used. "In this small book David Hemenway has produced a masterwork. He has dissected the various aspects of the gun violence epidemic in the United States into its component parts and considered them separately. He has produced a scientifically based analysis of the data and indeed the microdata of the over 30,000 deaths and 75,000 injuries which occur each year. Consideration and adoption of the policy lessons he recommends would strengthen the Constitutional protections that all of our citizens have to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."-Richard F. Corlin, Past President, American Medical Association"This lucid and penetrating study is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the tragedy of gun violence in America and-even more important-what we can do to stop it. David Hemenway cuts through the cant and rhetoric in a way that no fair-minded person can dismiss, and no sane society can afford to ignore."-Richard North Patterson, novelist"The rate of gun-related homicide, suicide, and accidental injury has reached epidemic proportions in American society. Diagnosing and treating the gun violence epidemic demands the development of public health solutions in conjunction with legislative and law enforcement strategies."-Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO of NAACP"In scholarly, sober analytic assessments, including rigorous critiques of NRA-popularized pseudoscience, David Hemenway constructs a convincing case that firearm availability is a critical and proximal cause of unparalleled carnage. By formulating such violence as a public health issue, he proposes workable policies analogous to ones that reduced injuries from tobacco, alcohol, and automobiles."-Jerome P. Kassirer, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, New England Journal of Medicine, and Distinguished Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine"As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic."-Scott Harshbarger, Former Attorney General of Massachusetts, President and CEO of Common CauseOn an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill almost eighty people, and to wound nearly three hundred more. If any other consumer product had this sort of disastrous effect, the public outcry would be deafening; yet when it comes to guns such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence.Private Guns, Public Health explodes that myth and many more, revealing the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem. David Hemenway fair-mindedly and authoritatively demonstrates how a public-health approach-which emphasizes prevention over punishment, and which has been so successful in reducing the rates of injury and death from infectious disease, car accidents, and tobacco consumption-can be applied to gun violence.Hemenway uncovers the complex connections between guns and self-defense, gun violence and schools, gun prevalence and homicide, and more. Finally, he outlines a policy course that would significantly reduce gun-related injury and death.With its bold new public-health approach to guns, Private Guns, Public Health marks a shift in our understanding of guns that will-finally-point us toward a solution.
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Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0870136755ISBN 13: 9780870136757
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0472067257ISBN 13: 9780472067251
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. At once handbook, reader, and guide to the literary tastes and wisdom of poets, An Exaltation of Forms is an indispensable resource certain to find a dedicated audience among poetry lovers. The editors invited over fifty contemporary poets to select a poetic meter, stanza, or form, describe it, recount its history, and provide favorite examples. The essays represent a remarkably diverse range of literary styles and approaches, and show how the forms of contemporary English-language poetry derive from a wealth of different traditions.The forms range from hendecasyllabics to prose poetry, haiku to procedural poetry, sonnets to blues, rap to fractal verse. The range of poets included is equally impressive--from Amiri Baraka to John Frederick Nims, from Maxine Kumin to Marilyn Hacker, from Agha Shahid Ali to Pat Mora, from W. D. Snodgrass to Charles Bernstein. Achieving this level of eclecticism is a remarkable feat, especially given the strong opinions held by members of the various camps (e.g., the New Formalists, LANGUAGE poets, feminist and multicultural poets) that exist within today's poetry community. Poets who might never occupy the same room here occupy the same pages, perhaps for the first time. The net effect is a book that will surprise, inform, and delight a wide range of readers, whether as reference book, pleasure reading, or classroom text.Poet, translator, and critic Annie Finch is director of the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. She is author of The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse, Eve, and Calendars. She is the winner of the eleventh annual Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award for scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification.Kathrine Varnes teaches English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the author of the book of poems, The Paragon. Her poems and essays have appeared in many books and journals.
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press, 1958
ISBN 10: 047206018XISBN 13: 9780472060184
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Chambers, R. W. 1st edition as an Ann Arbor Paperback 3rd Printing 1965.
Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0472114050ISBN 13: 9780472114054
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Hardcover. Condition: used. "In this small book David Hemenway has produced a masterwork. He has dissected the various aspects of the gun violence epidemic in the United States into its component parts and considered them separately. He has produced a scientifically based analysis of the data and indeed the microdata of the over 30,000 deaths and 75,000 injuries which occur each year. Consideration and adoption of the policy lessons he recommends would strengthen the Constitutional protections that all of our citizens have to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."-Richard F. Corlin, Past President, American Medical Association"This lucid and penetrating study is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the tragedy of gun violence in America and-even more important-what we can do to stop it. David Hemenway cuts through the cant and rhetoric in a way that no fair-minded person can dismiss, and no sane society can afford to ignore."-Richard North Patterson, novelist"The rate of gun-related homicide, suicide, and accidental injury has reached epidemic proportions in American society. Diagnosing and treating the gun violence epidemic demands the development of public health solutions in conjunction with legislative and law enforcement strategies."-Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO of NAACP"In scholarly, sober analytic assessments, including rigorous critiques of NRA-popularized pseudoscience, David Hemenway constructs a convincing case that firearm availability is a critical and proximal cause of unparalleled carnage. By formulating such violence as a public health issue, he proposes workable policies analogous to ones that reduced injuries from tobacco, alcohol, and automobiles."-Jerome P. Kassirer, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, New England Journal of Medicine, and Distinguished Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine"As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic."-Scott Harshbarger, Former Attorney General of Massachusetts, President and CEO of Common CauseOn an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill almost eighty people, and to wound nearly three hundred more. If any other consumer product had this sort of disastrous effect, the public outcry would be deafening; yet when it comes to guns such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence.Private Guns, Public Health explodes that myth and many more, revealing the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem. David Hemenway fair-mindedly and authoritatively demonstrates how a public-health approach-which emphasizes prevention over punishment, and which has been so successful in reducing the rates of injury and death from infectious disease, car accidents, and tobacco consumption-can be applied to gun violence.Hemenway uncovers the complex connections between guns and self-defense, gun violence and schools, gun prevalence and homicide, and more. Finally, he outlines a policy course that would significantly reduce gun-related injury and death.With its bold new public-health approach to guns, Private Guns, Public Health marks a shift in our understanding of guns that will-finally-point us toward a solution.
Published by Brand: The University of Michigan Press, 1973
ISBN 10: 0472061909ISBN 13: 9780472061907
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Very slightest of wear to the cover, pages nice and clean, no writing or highlighting. Spine faded. A very nice copy. All our books are individually inspected, rated and described. Never EX-LIB unless specifically listed as such.
Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press, 1968
ISBN 10: 0472070312ISBN 13: 9780472070312
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Book by Peffer, Nathaniel.
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Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 2009
ISBN 10: 087013857XISBN 13: 9780870138577
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry.Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased global trade in the Great Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes in ocean freighters' ballast water tanks unleashed a biological shift that reconfigured the world's largest freshwater ecosystems.Pandora's Locks is the story of politicians and engineers who, driven by hubris and handicapped by ignorance, demanded that the Seaway be built at any cost. It is the tragic tale of government agencies that could have prevented ocean freighters from laying waste to the Great Lakes ecosystems, but failed to act until it was too late. Blending science with compelling personal accounts, this book is the first comprehensive account of how inviting transoceanic freighters into North America's freshwater seas transformed these wondrous lakes.
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0472086073ISBN 13: 9780472086078
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Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0870135201ISBN 13: 9780870135200
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press/Regional, 2012
ISBN 10: 0472034871ISBN 13: 9780472034871
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0870136127ISBN 13: 9780870136122
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Softcover. Condition: used. Few twentieth-century writers are as revered as William Faulkner. This collection brings together the best literary criticism on Faulkner from the last six decades, detailing the imaginative and passionate responses to his still-controversial novels. By focusing on the criticism rather than the works, Linda Wagner-Martin shows the primary directions in Faulkners influence on critics, writers, and students of American literature today. This invaluable volume reveals the patterns of change in literary criticism over time, while exploring the various critical streams-language theory, feminism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis-that have elevated Faulkners work to the highest rank of the American literary pantheon.
Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0870136712ISBN 13: 9780870136719
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press/Regional, 2013
ISBN 10: 0472035487ISBN 13: 9780472035489
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Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0870131885ISBN 13: 9780870131882
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Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0911872868ISBN 13: 9780911872866
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Michigan State Univ Pr, 1994
ISBN 10: 0870133470ISBN 13: 9780870133473
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Michigan State Univ Pr, 1975
ISBN 10: 0870131850ISBN 13: 9780870131851
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Published by Brand: Michigan State Univ Pr, 1970
ISBN 10: 0870132059ISBN 13: 9780870132056
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Published by Brand: Michigan State Univ Pr, 1988
ISBN 10: 0870132660ISBN 13: 9780870132667
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0472101064ISBN 13: 9780472101061
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Published by Brand: Michigan State Univ Pr, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870133276ISBN 13: 9780870133275
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press, 1961
ISBN 10: 0472091093ISBN 13: 9780472091096
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Published by Brand: University of Michigan Press / Hammond, 1976
ISBN 10: 0843731257ISBN 13: 9780843731255
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Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0870135104ISBN 13: 9780870135101
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Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0870135694ISBN 13: 9780870135699
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Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0870132202ISBN 13: 9780870132209
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Published by Brand: Michigan State Univ Pr, 2009
ISBN 10: 0870138553ISBN 13: 9780870138553
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Published by Brand: Michigan State University Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0870132555ISBN 13: 9780870132551
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Published by Brand: Univ of Michigan Pr, 1995
ISBN 10: 0472105329ISBN 13: 9780472105328
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