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Car safety wars : one hundred years of technology, politics, and death
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Love and death on the open road -- Voices in the wilderness -- Just a congressman from a small state -- Safety doesn't sell -- General Motors meets Ralph Nader -- A federal law -- Dr. Haddon, Detroit, and the new safety agency -- Dragon lady -- The birth and near death of the air bag -- Elizabeth Dole, State Farm, and how America got the air bag -- Rough road for recalls : Ford Pinto gas tanks to GM ignition switches -- Forcing technology : safety standards in the new century.…”
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Pursuit of Profit and Preferment in Colonial North America : John Bradstreet's Quest.
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- I: The Bradstreets of Nova Scotia -- II: Emergence at Louisbourg -- III: Disappointment and Readjustment -- IV: Reunited with Shirley -- V: Success with Lord Loudoun -- VI: Triumph Despite Abercromby -- VII: Prosperity but Little Progress -- VIII: Preparations for Detroit -- IX: The Great Lakes Campaign -- X: The Last Decade -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W…”
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United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan : people, law, and politics
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Iron will : Cleveland-Cliffs and the mining of iron ore, 1847-2006
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The amphibians and reptiles of Michigan : a Quaternary and Recent faunal adventure
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The En Yaaqov : Jacob ibn Abib's search for faith in the talmudic corpus
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Children's special places : exploring the role of forts, dens, and bush houses in middle childhood
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The women were leaving the men : stories
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Iron will : Cleveland-Cliffs and the mining of iron ore, 1847-2006
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The origins of the modern Jew Jewish identity and European culture in Germany, 1749-1824
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Ideology and change : the transformation of the Caribbean left
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Peering through the lattices : mystical, magical, and pietistic dimensions in the Tosafist period
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Ex-Soviets in Israel : from personal narratives to a group portrait
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Children's special places : exploring the role of forts, dens, and bush houses in middle childhood
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Our Exodus : Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel's founding story
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The War of 1812 in the old Northwest
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Invasion of Upper Canada; V.A Problem in Logistics; VI. The Surrender of Detroit; VII. The Second North Western Army; VIII. …”
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The Urban Apparatus : Mediapolitics and the City.
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Broken Windows; 9. Beijing in Detroit; 10. Infrastructure and Mediapolitics; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.…”
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The store in the hood : a century of ethnic business and conflict
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Black entrepreneurship from 1900 until 1935 -- Immigrant entrepreneurs: relations with customers in the early 20th century -- The fate of minority merchants during depression and war -- Government policy, ghettos, and merchant/customer conflict after WWII -- Demographic change and urban transformation: interactions between immigrant business owners and customers, 1970 to 2005 -- The informal economy as a site of competition between disadvantaged populations and ethnic merchants -- Ethnic merchants in a Black majority city: the case of Detroit -- Social inequality and merchant-customer conflicts.…”
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Michigan Literary Luminaries : From Elmore Leonard to Robert Hayden.
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Poets of the City: Robert Hayden and Dudley Randall; 4. The Detroit Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates; 5. Jim Harrison's True North; 6. …”
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The War of 1812 in the old Northwest
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Invasion of Upper Canada; V.A Problem in Logistics; VI. The Surrender of Detroit; VII. The Second North Western Army; VIII. …”
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Anticommunism and the African American freedom movement : "another side of the story"
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Quieting the chorus : progressive women's race and peace politics in postwar New York / Jacqueline Castledine -- The march of young southern Black women : Esther Cooper Jackson, Black left feminism, and the personal and political costs of Cold War repression / Erik McDuffie -- Correspondence : journalism, anticommunism and Marxism in 1950s Detroit / Rachel Peterson -- Freedom train derailed : the National Negro Labor Council and the nadir of Black radicalism, 1950-1956 / Clarence Lang -- Challenges to solidarity : the Mexican American fight for social and economic justice, 1946-1963 / Zaragosa Vargas.…”
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Principles of ecology and management : international challenges for future practitioners
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Preface; 1Introduction to Ecology and Management; The ecological mindset; Basic science for managers; The estrangement of management and ecology; Case study: Detroit focuses on SUVs not survival; 2Resource Depletion; Energy inputs; Non-energy inputs; Case study: Peak oil; 3Pollution; Pollution sources; Environmental impacts; Sectoral factors; Case study: Steeling South Africans against pollution; 4Environmental Economics and Politics; Environmental economics; Environmental politics; Case study: Making Britain's green and sceptr'd isle; 5Corporate Greening Strategies.…”
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A Feminist Legacy : the Rhetoric and Pedagogy of Gertrude Buck.
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Progressive Education, Feminism, and the Detroit Normal Training School; 3. The "Advance" toward Democratic Administration; Gallery; 4. …”
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Beyond busing : reflections on urban segregation, the courts, and equal opportunity
[Pbk. ed.].Published 2005Table of Contents: “…I: TO SPEAK AGAINST SEGREGATION: Black voices in White America: the Dayton School Case -- II: "OUR TROUBLED TIMED DEMAND SUCH SACRIFICES": THE DETROIT SCHOOL CASE, 1970-74: The NAACP challenge to segregation -- The trial of Judge Roth, April to September, 1971 -- Metropolitan conversion in the lower courts, October, 1971, to June, 1973 -- The Detroit Case in the Supreme Court, June, 1973, to July, 1974 -- III: "AVOIDING AN EDUCATION": THE FIRST ROUND IN THE DAYTON SCHOOL CASE, JULY, 1972, TO JUNE, 1977: The trial of Judge Rubin, July, 1972, to December, 1972 -- The skirmishes between the Sixth Circuit and Judge Rubin, January, 1973, to September, 1976 -- The Supreme Court sounds retreat, December, 1976, to June, 1977 -- IV: STANDING AND WAITING: THE FLOUNDERING OF THE LEGAL CHALLENGES TO HOUSING SEGREGATION IN THE 1970S: Open housing, closed court, 1970-79 -- Waiting for Gautreaux: the Chicago Public Housing Case, 1950-1979 -- V: THE LOWER COURTS ANSWER THE SUPREME COURT'S CALL TO RETREAT, 1976-78: Judge Duncan's Trial of the Columbus School Case, April, 1976, to October, 1977 -- The Sixth Circuit on trial: the Columbus and Dayton School Case on appeal, June, 1977, to July, 1978 -- VI: REPRISE AND PREVIEW: THE WILMINGTON SCHOOL CASE, 1971-78: Trial by three judges, 1971-75 -- The interdistrict remedy, 1976-78 -- VII: THE SUPREME COURT AND THE SCHOOL DESEGREGATION CASES, 1978-80: The briefs and arguments in the Supreme Court -- The decisions from the Supreme Court, 1979-80 -- Conclusion -- Retrospect -- Prospect.…”
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Come see about me, Marvin : poems
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 1. love that will shelter y ou -- distant lover #1 (my michigan bed remix-for ellen g) -- mardi gras in east lansing -- detroit airport, december 2009 (a sermon) -- distant lover #2 -- ontario, may 2012 (for elanna) -- michigan haiku #2 (for j.d. porter) -- red rooster bar, idlewild, michigan (for jeff amp -- tamm) -- winter -- 2. nowhere to hide -- distant lover #3 -- grand rapids (for k.k.) -- o canada -- chicago (for haki) -- "reach out,"-cooley high, version, final scene (for levi stubbs amp -- the four tops) -- portrait of black woman, exit 64, toledo, w/beautiful afro -- kalamazoo boogie -- the negro in minneapolis (for prince amp -- philando castile) -- view from paul laurence dunbar home, dayton, ohio -- denny mcclain, in garden city, michigan (for scott amp -- dan) -- the lansing negro -- ingham county -- 3. no ordinary pain -- distant lover #4 (for leon ware) -- inkster blues (for greg) -- detroit sketch #1 (for m.l.) -- the road to flint, michigan -- flint river blues -- mason, michigan, housing court (evictions #1) -- evictions #2 -- eviction #3 (a lawyer's solo) -- eviction #4 (lansing court) -- living for the city (for stevie wonder) -- children of the reagan democrats -- at malcolm x street, lansing, michigan (for earl little*) -- distant lover #5 -- grand rapids, civil war reenactment -- confederate flag, michigan #1 -- ann arbor (alpha poem) -- when i see the exit sign for cleveland on the ohio turnpike now (alpha poem) -- yellow school bus -- confederate flag #2 -- 4. let your love come shining through -- distant lover #6 -- small town folklore -- guns, bats amp -- books -- robert hayden, university of michigan campus (a skinny-for truth thomas) -- distant lover #7 -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author.…”
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Marketing identities : the invention of Jewish ethnicity in Ost und West
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Childhood diseases and disorders sourcebook
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Mystical bodies, mystical meals : eating and embodiment in medieval Kabbalah
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