Editor’s Note: The following books have been published by the U-M Press.
Human Adaptation and Accommodation, Enlarged and Revised Edition of Human Adaptation, by A. Roberto Frisancho, research scientist, Center for Human Growth and Development, and professor of anthropology. Human Adaptation: A Functional Interpretation has long been the standard for understanding the mechanisms of human adaptation to environmental stress, widely employed across a spectrum of disciplines. Following the conceptual framework of its previous edition, Human Adaptation and Accommodation has been brought up to date with significant developments in the expanding body of scientific knowledge. New sections integrate basic concepts and relevant information to provide a more complete foundation for understanding how human beings have adapted to a wide range of stressful environments.
Integrated Lessons: Pronunciation and Grammar, by Brenda Prouser Imber and Maria Guttentag Parker, both lecturers at the English Language Institute. Integrated Lessons features a unique integrative educational approach to teaching pronunciation to intermediate and advanced students of English as a second language. This volume builds up students’ reading, writing, and communication skills by incorporating pronunciation elements in exercises that address the real-life oral communication needs of the students.
Roots, by Kamau Brathwaite, professor of comparative literature, New York University, and director, Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of the West Indies. An award-winning poet, historian, and cultural critic, Brathwaite supports his provocative assertions that “the African season” permeates the literature of the English-speaking Caribbean with careful readings of V. S. Naipaul, Derek Wolcott and George Lamming, among many others, while also offering the insights of writers not ordinarily associated with the Caribbean—James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison and LeRoi Jones.
From Bundesrepublik to Deutschland: German Politics after Unification, edited by Michael G. Huelshoff, assistant professor, Department of Political Science, University of New Orleans; Andrei S. Markovits, chair and professor, Board of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz, and senior associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University; and Simon Reich, associate professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. The unification of Germany and the decline of superpower conflict in Europe has heightened interest in the “new” Germany. From Bundesrepublik to Deutschland examines how political scientists have historically treated Germany, and explores the issues and approaches needed to accommodate the increased importance of the country within Europe.
The Poetry of W.D. Snodgrass: Everything Human, edited by Stephen Haven, associate professor in the Creative Writing Program, Ashland College. The Poetry of W.D. Snodgrass gathers a rich selection of book reviews and critical essays and provides the first attempt to appraise the entire scope of this poet’s work. As the selections in this volume attest, almost every volume the poet has published since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Heart’s Needle appeared in 1959 represents a departure from earlier collections in terms of form and subject matter. Stephen Haven’s chronology of the poet’s life and work, and the reviews and essays that follow, trace Snodgrass’ evolution as an artist.
