Published January, 2023
By Harlan D. Platt
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
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Since its publication in 1998, this text has offered the only systematic examination of corporate renewal, offering a rational approach for dealing with financially distressed companies. It contains the first logical and orderly discussion of a number of modern business issues including outsourcing, turnaround management and quality management.

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Published September, 2022
By Wei Yu Wayne Tan
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While the loss of sight may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) could thrive because of disability. The blind of the era were prominent across a wide range of professions. Blind in Early Modern Japan illustrates the breadth and depth of those occupations.

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Published September, 2022
By Wei Yu Wayne Tan
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The blind of Tokugawa period Japan were prominent across a wide range of professions, and through a strong guild structure were able to exert contractual monopolies over certain trades. Blind in Early Modern Japan illustrates the breadth and depth of those occupations, and the power and respect that accrued to the guild members.

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Published May, 2022
By Jessi Lee Jackson
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Explores emotions and US policing. Utilizing a mix of clinical case studies, autotheory, and ethnographic research, Jessi Lee Jackson examines the emotional and psychological forces that shape US police power.

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Published May, 2022
By Jessi Lee Jackson
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Sheds light on the emotional dynamics behind policing with an eye toward its abolition.

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Published November, 2021
By Kristin Hass
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Documents the first year of the pandemic in real time, bringing together humanities scholars from the University of Michigan to address what it feels like to be human during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Published May, 2021
By Eric Porter and Daniel Fischlin
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Responds to a need in improvisation studies for more work that addresses the diversity of global improvisatory practices and argues that by beginning to understand the particular, material experiences of sonic realities that are different from our own, we can address the host of other factors that are imparted or sublimated in performance.

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Published April, 2021
By Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Andre Peralta-Santos and Elize Massard
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Identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for scholarship in health and comparative politics. The book's coverage is global, with a wide range of key and exemplary countries, and contains a mixture of comparative, thematic, and templated country studies.

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Published August, 2020
By Svenja Goltermann and Philip Schmitz
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Historians are increasingly looking at the sacrifices Germans had to make during World War II. In this context, Svenja Goltermann has taken up a particularly delicate topic, German soldiers' experience of violence during the war, and repercussions of this experience after their return home.

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Published April, 2019
By Harlan D. Platt
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Now in its second edition, Harlan Platt has revised, updated, and expanded this classic text to include a new chapter on bankruptcy law, a profile of the turnaround manager, and an overview of the typical turnaround engagement. This book cuts to the heart of the patterns, procedures, and pitfalls of bringing a corporation back to life and health.

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