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American Homes

American Homes

Ryan Ridge

The University of Michigan Press
2014
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American Homes by Ryan Ridge is a satirical exploration of the modern American home and its symbolic role in culture, identity, and society. Blending humor, wit, and sharp social commentary, the book dissects domestic spaces—attics, basements, kitchens, windows, doors, and more—while reflecting on the American dream, materialism, and suburban life. Through Ridge's playful and often absurd prose, everyday household elements become metaphors for larger societal issues, revealing the quirks, contradictions, and anxieties of contemporary life. From the nostalgia of front porches to the hidden mysteries of basements, Ridge turns ordinary spaces into insightful meditations on homeownership, personal identity, and cultural expectations. American Homes is as much an architectural guidebook as it is a critique of consumerism, presenting a vivid portrait of how we live and the structures that define us. The result is a thought-provoking, humorous, and occasionally surreal commentary on what it means to call a place "home" in America.
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In the Lurch

In the Lurch

Ryan Claycomb

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
2023
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Some of theater’s most powerful works in the past thirty years fall into the category of "verbatim theater," socially engaged performances whose texts rely on word-for-word testimony. Performances such as Fires in the Mirror, The Laramie Project, and The Vagina Monologues have at their best demonstrated how to hold hard conversations about explosive subjects in a liberal democracy. But in this moment of what author Ryan Claycomb terms the “rightward lurch” of western democracies, does this idealized space of democratic deliberation remain effective? In the Lurch asks that question in a pointed and self-reflexive way, tracing the history of this branch of documentary theater with particular attention to the political outcomes and stances these performances seem to seek. But this is not just a disinterested history—Claycomb reflects on his own participation in that political fantasy, including earlier scholarly writing that articulated with breathless hopefulness the potential of verbatim theater, and on his own theatrical attendance, imbued with a belief that witnessing this idealized public sphere was a substitute for actual public participation. In the Lurch also recounts the bumpy path towards its completion, two years marked by presidential impeachments, an insurrection, a national reckoning with racism, and a global pandemic. At the heart of the book is a central question: is verbatim theater any longer an effective cultural response to what can look like the possible end of democracy?
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Teamsters Metropolis

Teamsters Metropolis

Ryan Patrick Murphy

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
2025
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In the 1950s, The International Brotherhood of Teamsters empowered poor immigrants who had grown up in the crowded blocks of the central city to move upward and outward to comfortable suburbs. It delivered unprecedented benefits to workers—especially to those in retail, services, and light manufacturing—locking in hourly pay that bought the patio furniture sets, the pontoon boats, and the station wagons that defined the consumer culture of the decade. Yet suburban comfort came with strict, new institutions that defined the middle-class culture of the era: the nuclear family, heterosexual monogamy, the husband breadwinner, and the dependent wife. Many workers yearned for the pleasures they left behind in the core of the industrial city, even as poor people, people of color, and queer people were locked out of the suburbs.Teamsters Metropolis argues that the union achieved unprecedented organizing success in the immediate postwar period precisely because its members defied bourgeois cultural standards. They wore overly flamboyant clothes, instigated jarringly violent confrontations, used aliases, extorted money, flouted the law, and often blended friendship, sex, and love in a way that challenged the boundaries of heteronormativity. Perhaps no one exemplified this freedom more than Jimmy Hoffa, who delivered better pay and worker conditions to marginal workers while also using coercive tactics, embezzling money, and colluding with the Mafia. Rather than impeding the union’s growth, unruly organizing, illicit business techniques, and dissident cultural practices appealed to prospective members and offered an opportunity to circumvent some of the suburban regulations, helping the International Brotherhood of Teamsters become the largest U.S. union of the mid-twentieth century.
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American Homes

American Homes

Ryan Ridge

The University of Michigan Press
2014
sidottu
American Homes by Ryan Ridge is a satirical exploration of the modern American home and its symbolic role in culture, identity, and society. Blending humor, wit, and sharp social commentary, the book dissects domestic spaces—attics, basements, kitchens, windows, doors, and more—while reflecting on the American dream, materialism, and suburban life. Through Ridge's playful and often absurd prose, everyday household elements become metaphors for larger societal issues, revealing the quirks, contradictions, and anxieties of contemporary life. From the nostalgia of front porches to the hidden mysteries of basements, Ridge turns ordinary spaces into insightful meditations on homeownership, personal identity, and cultural expectations. American Homes is as much an architectural guidebook as it is a critique of consumerism, presenting a vivid portrait of how we live and the structures that define us. The result is a thought-provoking, humorous, and occasionally surreal commentary on what it means to call a place "home" in America.
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In the Lurch

In the Lurch

Ryan Claycomb

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
2023
sidottu
Some of theater’s most powerful works in the past thirty years fall into the category of "verbatim theater," socially engaged performances whose texts rely on word-for-word testimony. Performances such as Fires in the Mirror, The Laramie Project, and The Vagina Monologues have at their best demonstrated how to hold hard conversations about explosive subjects in a liberal democracy. But in this moment of what author Ryan Claycomb terms the “rightward lurch” of western democracies, does this idealized space of democratic deliberation remain effective? In the Lurch asks that question in a pointed and self-reflexive way, tracing the history of this branch of documentary theater with particular attention to the political outcomes and stances these performances seem to seek. But this is not just a disinterested history—Claycomb reflects on his own participation in that political fantasy, including earlier scholarly writing that articulated with breathless hopefulness the potential of verbatim theater, and on his own theatrical attendance, imbued with a belief that witnessing this idealized public sphere was a substitute for actual public participation. In the Lurch also recounts the bumpy path towards its completion, two years marked by presidential impeachments, an insurrection, a national reckoning with racism, and a global pandemic. At the heart of the book is a central question: is verbatim theater any longer an effective cultural response to what can look like the possible end of democracy?
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Teamsters Metropolis

Teamsters Metropolis

Ryan Patrick Murphy

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
2025
sidottu
In the 1950s, The International Brotherhood of Teamsters empowered poor immigrants who had grown up in the crowded blocks of the central city to move upward and outward to comfortable suburbs. It delivered unprecedented benefits to workers—especially to those in retail, services, and light manufacturing—locking in hourly pay that bought the patio furniture sets, the pontoon boats, and the station wagons that defined the consumer culture of the decade. Yet suburban comfort came with strict, new institutions that defined the middle-class culture of the era: the nuclear family, heterosexual monogamy, the husband breadwinner, and the dependent wife. Many workers yearned for the pleasures they left behind in the core of the industrial city, even as poor people, people of color, and queer people were locked out of the suburbs.Teamsters Metropolis argues that the union achieved unprecedented organizing success in the immediate postwar period precisely because its members defied bourgeois cultural standards. They wore overly flamboyant clothes, instigated jarringly violent confrontations, used aliases, extorted money, flouted the law, and often blended friendship, sex, and love in a way that challenged the boundaries of heteronormativity. Perhaps no one exemplified this freedom more than Jimmy Hoffa, who delivered better pay and worker conditions to marginal workers while also using coercive tactics, embezzling money, and colluding with the Mafia. Rather than impeding the union’s growth, unruly organizing, illicit business techniques, and dissident cultural practices appealed to prospective members and offered an opportunity to circumvent some of the suburban regulations, helping the International Brotherhood of Teamsters become the largest U.S. union of the mid-twentieth century.
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Lives in Play

Lives in Play

Ryan Claycomb

The University of Michigan Press
2012
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Lives in Play explores the centrality of life narratives to women’s drama and performance from the 1970s to the present moment. In the early days of second-wave feminism, the slogan was “The personal is the political.” These autobiographical and biographical “true stories” have the political impact of the real and have also helped a range of feminists tease out the more complicated aspects of gender, sex, and sexuality in a Western culture that now imagines itself as “postfeminist.” The book’s scope is broad, from performance artists like Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and Bobby Baker to playwrights like Suzan-Lori Parks, Maria Irene Fornes, and Sarah Kane. The book links the narrative tactics and theatrical approaches of biography and autobiography and shows how theater artists use life writing strategies to advance women’s rights and remake women’s representations. Lives in Play will appeal to scholars in performance studies, women’s studies, and literature, including those in the growing field of auto/biography studies. “ A fresh perspective and wide-ranging analysis of changes in feminist theater for the past thirty years . . . a most welcome addition to the literature on theater, in particular scholarship on feminist practices.” —Choice “Helps sustain an important history by reviving works of feminist theater and performance and giving them a new and refreshing context and theorical underpinning . . . considering 1970s performance art alongside more conventional play production.” —Lesley Ferris, The Ohio State University
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Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court

Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court

Ryan C. Black; Timothy R. B. Johnson; Justin Wedeking

The University of Michigan Press
2012
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The U.S. Supreme Court, with its controlled, highly institutionalized decision-making practices, provides an ideal environment for studying coalition formation. The process begins during the oral argument stage, which provides the justices with their first opportunity to hear one another's attitudes and concerns specific to a case. This information gathering allows them eventually to form a coalition.In order to uncover the workings of this process, the authors analyze oral argument transcripts from every case decided from 1998 through 2007 as well as the complete collection of notes kept during oral arguments by Justice Lewis F. Powell and Justice Harry A. Blackmun. Both justices clearly monitored their fellow justices' participation in the discussion and used their observations to craft opinions their colleagues would be likely to support. This study represents a major step forward in the understanding of coalition formation, which is a crucial aspect of many areas of political debate and decision making.
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Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt

Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt

Ryan McConnell

The University of Michigan Press
2017
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Papyrologists and historians have taken a lively interest in the Apion family (fifth through seventh centuries), who rose from local prominence in rural Middle Egypt to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the Eastern Roman Empire. The focus of most scholarly debate has been whether the Apion estate—and estates like it—aimed for a marketable surplus or for self-sufficiency. Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt shifts the discussion to precisely how the Apions’ wealth was generated and what role their Egyptian estate played in that growth by engaging directly with broader questions of the relationship between public and private economic actors in Late Antiquity, rational management in ancient economies, the size of estates in Byzantine Egypt, and the role of rural estates in the Byzantine economy. Ryan E. McConnell connects the family’s rise in wealth and status to its role in tax collection on behalf of the Byzantine state, rather than a reliance on productive surpluses. Close analysis of low- and high-level accounts from the Apion estate, as well as documentation from comparable Roman and Byzantine Egyptian estates, corroborate this conclusion. Additionally, McConnell offers a third way into the ongoing debate over whether the Apions’ relationship with the state was antagonistic or cooperative, concluding that the relationship was that of parties in a negotiation, with each side seeking to maximize its own benefit. The application of modern economic concepts—as well as comparisons to the economies of Athens, Rome, Ptolemaic Egypt, and Early Modern France—further illuminate the structure and function of the estate in Late Antique Egypt.Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt will be a valuable resource for philologists, archaeologists, papyrologists, and scholars of Late Antiquity. It will also interest scholars of agricultural, social, and economic history.
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100% Kiwi Business

100% Kiwi Business

Ryan L. Jennings

UmPrint Publishing
2018
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In the 100% Kiwi Business book you will receive: A vision for New Zealand's future. Insights and lessons from 100 Kiwi Business Owners and CEOs across almost every conceivable industry. 9 business success navigators for every business stage. 3 ways to restructure your marketing capability into a media publishing powerhouse. BONUS: Includes Over 200+ question prompts you can use to drive your business forward. Learn what's working for Kiwi business owners, and the questions to ask, to unlock your own professional and personal success.
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The Kiwi and The Boy

The Kiwi and The Boy

Ryan L Jennings

Umprint Publishing
2018
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This children's book series The Rainbow Travellers, puts children in control of the world they will grow up in as their decisions decide what happens next. What kind of world will they grow up in? Let our children decide As an adult you may remember the Pick-A-Path franchise of books of the late 80's and early 90's. The Rainbow Travellers also lets children choose their next adventure empowering them to make decisions, show courage and lead at every step of the way.I'm proud to have written these books with my own son Joseph in mind because I want him to grow up having the best possible head on his shoulders and know that there is more than one way to carve your own path forward.The book is written for 8 - 10 years which means it includes a selection of words from the UK National Curriculum for English. For many advanced young readers, they will easily pick this up at 7 years old and even 6 years old. At any age, The Kiwi and The Boy makes a superb bedtime read where each night you can take them to a different ending.This book sets the scene for the second book The Electric Eel and The Girl that see a girl visit Brazil on a mission that even she is not sure is possible. The girls mission in Brazil was clear, until Gustavo appeared on the jetty to warn her. Will she return home in time?If this is the first book you've discovered in the series, make sure to pick up the next two in the series, The Electric Eel and The Girl and The Polar Bear and The Boy.
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The Electric Eel and The Girl

The Electric Eel and The Girl

Ryan L Jennings

Umprint Publishing
2018
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This children's book series The Rainbow Travellers, puts children in control of the world they will grow up in as their decisions decide what happens next. What kind of world will they grow up in? Let our children decide As an adult you may remember the Pick-A-Path franchise of books of the late 80's and early 90's. The Rainbow Travellers also lets children choose their next adventure empowering them to make decisions, show courage and lead at every step of the way. I'm proud to have written these books with my own son Joseph in mind because I want him to grow up having the best possible head on his shoulders and know that there is more than one way to carve your own path forward. The book is written for 8 - 10 years which means it includes a selection of words from the UK National Curriculum for English. For many advanced young readers, they will easily pick this up at 7 years old and even 6 years old. At any age, The Electric Eel and The Girl makes a superb bedtime read where each night you can take them to a different ending. This book is one of the shortest of the series as it sets up The Polar Bear and The Boy which is a larger format 6 x 9 paperbook where multiple plots and sub plots take root. If this is the first book you've discovered, make sure to go back and read where it all began with the first book in the series, The Kiwi and The Boy.
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The Polar Bear and The Boy

The Polar Bear and The Boy

Ryan L Jennings

Umprint Publishing
2018
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The boy discovers his courage in Iceland, but will it be enough for the challenges he must face? You decide.This children's book series The Rainbow Travellers, puts children in control of the world they will grow up in as their decisions decide what happens next. What kind of world will they grow up in? Let our children decide As an adult you may remember the Pick-A-Path franchise of books of the late 80's and early 90's. The Rainbow Travellers also lets children choose their next adventure empowering them to make decisions, show courage and lead at every step of the way. I'm proud to have written these books with my own son Joseph in mind because I want him to grow up having the best possible head on his shoulders and know that there is more than one way to carve your own path forward. The book is written for 8 - 10 years which means it includes a selection of words from the UK National Curriculum for English. For many advanced young readers, they will easily pick this up at 7 years old and even 6 years old. At any age, The Polar Bear and The Boy makes a superb bedtime read where each night you can take them to a different ending. This book is longest one of the series so far as the boy and the girl meet up and explore Iceland. The Polar Bear and The Boy is a larger format 6 x 9 paperbook where multiple plots and sub plots take root. If this is the first book you've discovered, make sure to go back and read the last two in the series, The Kiwi and The Boy and The Electric Eel and The Girl.
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The Greek Tortoise and The Girl

The Greek Tortoise and The Girl

Ryan L Jennings

Umprint Publishing
2018
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Ryan L. Jennings enjoys playing on the edge of business and technology, and is curious about what happens next. The Greek Tortoise and The Girl speaks to his desire to empower children with the insight and knowledge of what challenges and opportunities are available to them on a planet with a changing climate. The children's book series The Rainbow Travellers, puts children in control of the world they will grow up in as their decisions decide what happens next. What kind of world will they grow up in? Let our children decide Jennings has also written non-fiction with the book 100% Kiwi Business. This book captures the insights of how New Zealanders are doing business in the 21st century. You can listen to them on his podcast the Ryan Marketing Show where he interviews 100 business owners from almost every conceivable industry. Jennings is a New Zealand Business Mentor, Adviser, Speaker and Top Writer on Climate Change for the United States Medium Publication. From The Author I hope you enjoy this three.word.adventure journey through Greece. This is the fourth book in the series where the might of the animals and the origins of new rainbow colour recipes are revealed. Plus, the girl shows that she is committed to making her actions count, even when she is tempted away to the Greek island of Mykonos. This is the first book I introduce the reader to why the animals are -co-ordinating their actions, what that could mean for humans if they're successful and who is trying to stop the shift to renewable colour pouches. If you haven't read the previous three books, The Kiwi and The Boy The Electric Eel and The Girl and The Polar Bear and The Boy, then I suggest you do as they are well worth it for their individual stories. The Polar Bear and The Boy in particular sets the scene for this book as it is based nearby in Iceland where the girl meets up with her Dad. Enjoy your rainbow travelling Ryan
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The Filth of Progress

The Filth of Progress

Ryan Dearinger

University of California Press
2015
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The Filth of Progress explores the untold side of a well-known American story. For more than a century, accounts of progress in the West foregrounded the technological feats performed while canals and rail roads were built and lionized the capitalists who financed the projects. This book salvages stories often omitted from the triumphant narrative of progress by focusing on the suffering and survival of the workers who were treated as outsiders. Ryan Dearinger examines the moving frontiers of canal and railroad construction workers in the tumultuous years of American expansion, from the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 to the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads in 1869. He tells the story of the immigrants and Americans-the Irish, Chinese, Mormons, and native-born citizens-whose labor created the West's infrastructure and turned the nation's dreams of a continental empire into a reality. Dearinger reveals that canals and railroads were not static monuments to progress but moving spaces of conflict and contestation.
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The Filth of Progress

The Filth of Progress

Ryan Dearinger

University of California Press
2015
pokkari
The Filth of Progress explores the untold side of a well-known American story. For more than a century, accounts of progress in the West foregrounded the technological feats performed while canals and railroads were built and lionized the capitalists who financed the projects. This book salvages stories often omitted from the triumphant narrative of progress by focusing on the suffering and survival of the workers who were treated as outsiders. Ryan Dearinger examines the moving frontiers of canal and railroad construction workers in the tumultuous years of American expansion, from the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 to the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads in 1869. He tells the story of the immigrants and Americans-the Irish, Chinese, Mormons, and native-born citizens-whose labor created the West's infrastructure and turned the nation's dreams of a continental empire into a reality. Dearinger reveals that canals and railroads were not static monuments to progress but moving spaces of conflict and contestation.
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City and Empire in the Age of the Successors

City and Empire in the Age of the Successors

Ryan Boehm

University of California Press
2018
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In the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled in the political struggles and unremitting violence of his successors’ contest for supremacy. As these presumptive rulers turned to the practical reality of administering the disparate territories under their control, they increasingly developed new cities by merging smaller settlements into large urban agglomerations. This practice of synoikism gave rise to many of the most important cities of the age, initiated major shifts in patterns of settlement, and consolidated numerous previously independent polities. The result was the increasing transformation of the fragmented world of the small Greek polis into an urbanized network of cities. Drawing on a wide array of archaeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence, City and Empire in the Age of the Successors reinterprets the role of urbanization in the creation of the Hellenistic kingdoms and argues for the agency of local actors in the formation of these new imperial cities.
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A Carceral Ecology

A Carceral Ecology

Ryan C. Edwards

University of California Press
2021
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Closer to Antarctica than to Buenos Aires, the port town of Ushuaia, Argentina is home to a national park as well as a museum that is housed in the world’s southernmost prison. Ushuaia’s radial panopticon operated as an experimental hybrid penal colony and penitentiary from 1902 to 1947, designed to revolutionize modern prisons globally. A Carceral Ecology offers the first comprehensive study of this notorious prison and its afterlife, documenting how the Patagonian frontier and timber economy became central to ideas about labor, rehabilitation, and resource management. Mining the records of penologists, naturalists, and inmates, Ryan C. Edwards shows how discipline was tied to forest management, but also how inmates gained situated geographical knowledge and reframed debates on the regeneration of the land and the self. Bringing a new imperative to global prison studies, Edwards asks us to rethink the role of the environment in carceral practices as well as the impact of incarceration on the natural world.
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