Michigan State University Press
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Dead Moose on Isle Royale: Off Trail with the Citizen Scientists of the Wolf-Moose Project
$24.95 Read moreIsle Royale in Michigan is one of the most remote and pristine of all the U.S. national parks, and it is the site of the world’s longest-running predator-prey study. Every summer, Jeffrey M. Holden le… [more below]
- Author: Holden, Jeffrey M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1611865395
- Language: English
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Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy
$29.95 Add to cartWrecked links the story of America’s most infamous shipwreck to the story of an even larger disaster–the wreck of the American industrial economy. When the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in a Lake Super… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Thomas M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1611865417
- Language: English
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This Magnetic North: Candid Conversations on a Changing Northern Michigan
$34.95 Add to cartWhat happens when a place is so beautiful that everyone wants to go there–and then they stay?
This book explores a phenomenon occurring around Michigan’s Great Lakes and other high-demand scenic loc… [more below]- Author: Mulherin, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1611865360
- Language: English
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Sail, Steam, and Diesel: Moving Cargo on the Great Lakes
$79.95 Read moreWater transportation has played a key role in the Great Lakes region’s settlement and economic growth, from providing entry into the new lake states to offering cheap transportation for the goods they… [more below]
- Author: Hirsimaki, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1611864445
- Language: English
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Deadly Voyage: The S.S. Daniel J. Morrell Tragedy
$22.80 Read moreThis is the harrowing story of one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history. In the early morning hours of November 29, 1966, the S.S. Daniel J. Morrell was caught in a deadly storm on Lake Hur
- Author: Kantar, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 109
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0870138634
- Language: English
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The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes
$27.95 Read more2022 NAUTILUS SILVER WINNER FOR LYRIC PROSE–In The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes, Lynne Heasley illuminates an underwater world that, despite a ferocious industrial… [more below]
- Author: Heasley, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1611864070
- Language: English
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Mid-Michigan Modern, Expanded Edition: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Googie
$39.95 Read moreFrom 1940 to 1970, mid‐Michigan had an extensive and varied legacy of modernist architecture by well‐known architects and regional firms. Through Susan Bandes’s archival research and oral … [more below]
- Author: Bandes, Susan J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1611862175
- Language: English
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The Great Water: A Documentary History of Michigan
$26.95 Add to cartMichigan’s location among the Great Lakes has positioned it at the crossroads of many worlds. Its first hunters arrived ten thousand years ago, its first farmers arrived about six thousand years after… [more below]
- Author: Thick, Matthew R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: January 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1611862671
- Language: English
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The War of 1812 in the Old Northwest
$24.95 Read moreThis engaging narrative history deftly illustrates the War of 1812 as it played out in the Old Northwest — Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and bordering parts of Canada. From the stirrings of conf
- Author: Gilpin, Alec R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1611860385
- Language: English
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René Girard’s Mimetic Theory
$29.95 Add to cartA systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist Ren Girard, this essential text explains its three main pillars (mimetic de… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
- Author: Palaver, Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1611860776
- Language: English
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Manoomin: The Story of Wild Rice in Michigan
$29.95 Read moreThis is the first book of its kind to bring forward the rich tradition of wild rice in Michigan and its importance to the Anishinaabek people who live there. Manoomin: The Story of Wild Rice in Michig… [more below]
- Author: Barton, Barbara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1611862809
- Language: English
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29 Missing: The True and Tragic Story of the Disappearance of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald
$16.95 Read moreOn November 10, 1975, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a giant freighter, sank with its entire crew of 29 aboard, in one of the most violent storms ever witnessed on Lake Superior. In 29 Missing, Kantar tells th
- Author: Kantar, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 50
- Publish Date: June 30 1998
- ISBN10: 0870134469
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to the Natural Communities of Michigan
$34.95 Read moreThe culmination of three decades of work by Michigan Natural Features Inventory ecologists, this essential guidebook to the natural communities of Michigan introduces the diverse terrain of a unique s… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Joshua G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: December 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1611861349
- Language: English
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Reconciliation in a Michigan Watershed: Restoring Ken-O-Sha
$29.95 Read moreLike many American urban waterways, Ken-O-Sha has been in decline for nearly two hundred years. Once life-supporting, the waterway now known as Plaster Creek is life-threatening. In this provocative b… [more below]
- Author: Heffner, Gail Gunst
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1611864933
- Language: English
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Famine Pots: The Choctaw-Irish Gift Exchange, 1847-Present
$29.95 Add to cartThe remarkable story of the money sent by the Choctaw to the Irish in 1847 is one that is often told and remembered by people in both nations. This gift was sent to the Irish from the Choctaw at the h… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Studies
- Author: Howe, Leanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1611863694
- Language: English
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Tragedy and Triumph on the Great Lakes
$29.95 Read moreRichard Gebhart traces little-known voyages of Great Lakes ships that sailed the Atlantic beginning in the 1850s. They bore cargoes to and from the lakes and as far as Constantinople. Gebhart recovers… [more below]
- Author: Gebhart, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1611864836
- Language: English
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Great Women of Mackinac, 1800-1950
$37.95 Add to cartGreat Women of Mackinac, 1800-1950 tells the dramatic history of thirteen women leaders on Mackinac Island in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their linked visions of family and community… [more below]
- Author: Croghan, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1611864534
- Language: English
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Laughing Whitefish
$19.95 Add to cartLaughing Whitefish is an engrossing trail drama of ethnic hostility and the legal defense of Indian treaties. Young Lawyer William (Willy) Poe puts out a shingle in Marquette, Michigan, in 1873, hopin… [more below]
- Author: Traver, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: May 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1611860148
- Language: English
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The Luck of the Fall
$24.95 Read moreIn The Luck of the Fall, characters get lost; they fall, but the falls shape their lives in ways that might even be called “lucky”–if luck is defined as survival, despite the scars left behind. They … [more below]
- Author: Daniels, Jim Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1611864674
- Language: English
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Ottawa Stories from the Springs: Anishinaabe Dibaadjimowinan Wodi Gaa Binjibaamigak Wodi Mookodjiwong E Zhinikaadek
$24.95 Add to cartSometimes things come to people out of the blue and seemingly for a reason. The Anishinaabe word for this is nigika. The stories contained in this collection reached Howard Webkamigad nearly eighty ye… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Studies
- Author: Webkamigad, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1611861373
- Language: English
