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Wayne State University Press

Founded in 1941, Wayne State University Press is a leading publisher of Great Lakes books, Judaica, and African American studies, as well as a wide range of other scholarly and general interest titles.

2008 Spring/Summer Catalog
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In Babel's Shadow
Language, Philology, and the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Germany

by Tuska Benes

A comprehensive cultural history of the language sciences in nineteenth-century Germany.

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Art in Detroit Public Places
Third Edition

David Clements and Dennis Alan Nawrocki

Third edition of a favorite guide to major examples of public art in metropolitan Detroit, updated for the first time since 1999.

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Who's Jim Hines?

Jean Alicia Elster

A look at issues of racism in Depression-era Detroit for young readers, aged 8 through 12.

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Race and Remembrance
A Memoir

Arthur L. Johnson

Memoir of an important figure in Detroit civil rights history, Arthur L. Johnson.

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Yiddishlands
A Memoir

David G. Roskies

A renowned scholar looks back on his life and the life of his mother, tracing the Yiddish experience through major historical events of the last century.

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