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Elinor Ostrom, University of Michigan Press Author, Wins 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics - First Woman to Win

The University of Michigan Press congratulates Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics for her "analyis of economic governance, especially the commons"! She is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in this category.

Dr. Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of UMP title RULES, GAMES, AND COMMON-POOL RESOURCES and a contributor to three UMP collections from the Workshop in Political Theory and Analysis: POLYCENTRIC GAMES AND INSTITUTIONS, POLYCENTRICITY AND LOCAL PUBLIC ECONOMIES, and POLYCENTRIC GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT.

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2009 University of Michigan Press Book Award winners honored

A ceremony last night honored the two recipients of the University of Michigan Press Book Award: Joanne Leonard, author of Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir; and Tobin Siebers, author of Disability Theory.

       

Leonard and Siebers mark the second time in a row the awards committee has chosen to honor two authors.

The Press Book Award is given to the best work published by the University Press in the prior two calendar years and written by a member, or members, of the University of Michigan faculty.

"Racial Union" Wins American Political Science Association Award

CONGRATULATIONS to Julie Novkov, author of Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954, a stunning exploration of America's attitudes toward interracial marriage and winner of this year's Ralph J. Bunche Award given by the American Political Science Association. The Ralph J. Bunche Award is awarded for the best scholarly work in political science published in the previous calendar year that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism.

Attending the American Political Science Association meeting in Toronto Sept 3-6? Check out Professor Novkov's book and many others at the UMP Booths, #418-420.

Michigan Author Award goes to UMP writer

The Michigan Center for the Book announced Monday that Dave Dempsey is the recipient of this year's Michigan Author Award.  Dempsey has authored three books published by the University of Michigan Press:  Ruin and Recovery: Michigan's Rise as a Conservation Leader (2001), William G. Milliken: Michigan’s Passionate Moderate (2006, paperback published in 2009), and Great Lakes for Sale:  From Whitecaps to Bottlecaps (2008, paperback published in 2009).

 

The award honors a Michigan writer for his or her contributions to literature based on an outstanding published body of work.

 

"I'm glad that writing about Michigan conservation is considered worthy of the award," said Dempsey.  "To me, the water, wildlife and land of Michigan are a fundamental part of its history and character.  And how we protect all of these today will have a lot to do with Michigan's future."

 

This year's award, sponsored jointly by the Center for the Book, the Michigan Library Association, and Sleeping Bear Press will be presented Nov. 6 at the Michigan Library Association's "Ready Set Go!" conference at the Lansing Center and Radisson Hotel in Lansing. Tickets ($25) are available to hear Dempsey speak at the award presentation luncheon. For more information, visit http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/events/annual.

 

For more information about the award, visit:  http://michigan.gov/printerFriendly/0,1687,7-160--220472--,00.html.

The Accidental Teacher is a "Book of the Year" Finalist!

The University of Michigan Press would like to congratulate Annie Lubliner Lehmann on her book, The Accidental Teacher, for being selected as a "Book of the Year" Finalist in the Family & Relationships category by ForeWord Magazine.  A heart-felt memoir about the life lessons Lehmann has learned from her autistic son, is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press. More information can be found about the book here.

We also would like to applaud Annie Lubliner Lehmann for being a named 2009 Silver Recipient in Special & Exceptional Needs by Mom's Choice Awards.

UMP Titles Named 2009 Michigan Notable Books

The following titles have been named Library of Michigan's 2009 Michigan Notable Books.

	Looking for Hickories: The Forgotten Wildness of the Rural Midwest by Tom Springer A masterfully written collection that establishes a new voice for the spirit of the upper Midwest and Michigan and offers a fresh look at the landscape as well as the everyday lives of the people who make up the region's small communities.
	Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan: The History of the Ann Arbor Car Ferries by Grant Brown, Jr. An illustrated book about the visionary, risky, and influential business of transporting loaded railroad cars across Lake Michigan.
	The Toledo War: The First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry by Don Faber How a thin strip of land between the state of Ohio and Michigan started a war.
	"Jiffy" A Family Tradition: Mixing Business and Old-Fashioned Values by Cynthia Furlong Reynolds (distributed by the University of Michigan Press) The story of the internationally renowned Chelsea Milling Company---a trailblazer in the packaged-food industry.

From the State of Michigan website:
"The Michigan Notable Books program annually selects 20 of the most notable books published in the year. The selections are reflective of Michigan's diverse ethnic, historical, literary, and cultural experience."

Jackie Ormes Named Best Book by Village Voice

Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist by Nancy Goldstein has been named a Best Book of 2008 by the Village Voice.

"Jackie (nee Zelda) Ormes created four different newspaper-cartoon series that were nationally syndicated in Black American newspapers from 1937 to 1956. Her politically astute, elegantly drawn, and predominantly female characters were a bracing collective to the "coon and mammy" caricatures promulgated by many white cartoonists during those years. Ormes's hitherto underexposed work is celebrated in this lavishly illustrated career biography." Carol Cooper

Jackie Ormes has also been named an American Library Association Booklist Top 10 Biography of the Year.

Read more about the book at www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=150236

Where Do the Children Play? Named Best Film

Congratulations to the producers of Where Do the Children Play? who won the Eugene International Film Festival Best Film in Social Issues/Family Values.

With over 800 entries, EIFF selected 72 films that were shown over the four day festival. Winners of the five best film categories were announced on Sunday.

Where Do the Children Play?, a multiple Emmy winner, is a one-hour documentary for public television that examines how restrictive patterns of sprawl, congestion, and endless suburban development across America are impacting children's mental and physical health and development.

The documentary was produced by Michigan Television and distributed in the United States by the University of Michigan Press.

To read more about the documentary, visit www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=360473

Disability in Twentieth-Century Germany Wins Awards

Congratulations to Carol Poore, author of Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture (2007), who was recently awarded two prizes: the German Studies Association's prize for Best Book of 2007 and the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the Modern Language Association.

About the Book:

Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture covers the entire scope of Germany's most tragic and tumultuous century—from the Weimar Republic to the current administration—revealing how central the notion of disability is to modern German cultural history. By examining a wide range of literary and visual depictions of disability, Carol Poore explores the contradictions of a nation renowned for its social services programs yet notorious for its history of compulsory sterilization and eugenic dogma. This comprehensive volume focuses particular attention on the horrors of the Nazi era, when those with disabilities were considered "unworthy of life," but also investigates other previously overlooked topics including the exile community's response to disability, socialism and disability in East Germany, current bioethical  debates, and the rise and gains of Germany's disability rights movement.

Read more at www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=223254.

2008 University of Michigan Press Book Award Winners Announced

This year proved to be a very good year for Michigan faculty-produced publishing. The book committee was unable to select one winner, deciding instead that two books (three, really, when you consider that one of the winners won for a two volume publication), deserved to be honored.

Chun-shu Chang and Rudi Paul Lindner have both been selected as this year's winners of the University of Michigan Press Book Award.

Chang was selected for his two volumes of The Rise of the Chinese Empire (The Rise of the Chinese Empire: Nation, State, and Imperialism in Early China, ca. 1600 B.C.-A.D. 8, Volume 1 and The Rise of the Chinese Empire: Frontier, Immigration, and Empire in Han China, 130 B.C.-A.D. 157, Volume 2).

Lindner was selected for his work Explorations in Ottoman Prehistory.

The Press Book Award is given to the best work published by the University Press in the prior two calendar years and written by a member, or members, of the University of Michigan faculty.