The goal is to record most books written or edited by Western Michigan University faculty, staff and students. There is a WMU Authors section in Waldo Library, where most of these books can be found. With a few exceptions, we do not have the rights to put the full text of the book online, so there will be a link to a place where you can purchase the book or find it in a library.
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The Great Beginning of Cîteaux: A Narrative of the Beginning of the Cistercian Order: The Exordium Magnum of Conrad of Eberbach
Konrad Abbot of Eberbach, Benedicta Ward, Paul Savage, E. Rozanne Elder, and Brian Patrick McGuire
Conrad, a monk of Eberbach in Germany, weaves both documentary history and edifying exempla into a gentle exhortion to Cistercians of the early thirteenth century to remain true to their vocation and to the traditions of their Order. Benedicta Ward SLG, a member of the Sisters of the Love of God community, is a fellow of Harris Manchester College and teaches for the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University. She is the author of numerous books on early monasticism and medieval spirituality. Paul Savage received his Ph.D. in medieval history ...Read More
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Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture : A Philosophical Analysis
Fritz Allhoff
The general consensus among philosophers is that the use of torture is never justified. InTerrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture, Fritz Allhoff demonstrates the weakness of the case against torture; while allowing that torture constitutes a moral wrong, he nevertheless argues that, in exceptional cases, it represents the lesser of two evils. Allhoff does not take this position lightly. He begins by examining the way terrorism challenges traditional norms, discussing the morality of various practices of torture, and critically exploring the infamous ticking time-bomb scenario. After carefully considering these issues from ...Read More
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Counseling Adults in Transition : Linking Schlossberg's Theory with Practice in a Diverse World
Mary Louise Anderson, Jane Goodman, and Nancy K. Schlossberg
The only textbook explicitly designed to address counseling with adults who are coping with individual, relationship, and work transitions, this volume integrates the basic tenets of adult development with therapeutic practice. It is based on Schlossberg's theory of transitions, a new process and content model that offers effective techniques for helping adults to understand and successfully navigate normal life transitions.
This revised edition addresses contemporary societal ills that exacerbate adult life transitions, such as a tumultuous economy, increased unemployment, bankruptcies, and foreclosures, and focuses on our increasing racial and cultural ...Read More
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Twelve Views from the Distance
Jeffrey Angles and Mutsuo Takahashi
From one of the foremost poets in contemporary Japan comes this entrancing memoir that traces a boy’s childhood and its intersection with the rise of the Japanese empire and World War II. Originally published in 1970, this translation is the first available in English.
In twelve chapters that visit and revisit critical points in his boyhood, Twelve Views from the Distancepresents a vanished time and place through the eyes of an accomplished poet. Recounting memories from his youth, Mutsuo Takahashi captures the full range of his internal life as a ...Read More
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Communication in Health Organizations
Julie Apker
Communication in Health Organizations explores the communication processes, issues, and concepts that comprise the organization of health care, focusing on the interactions that influence the lives of patients, health professionals, and other members of health institutions. This book integrates scholarship from communication, medicine, nursing, public health, and allied health, to provide a comprehensive review of the research literature. The author explains the complexities and contingencies of communication in health settings using systems theory, an approach that enhances reader understanding of health organizing. The reader will gain greater familiarity with how ...Read More
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Voices from Silencee: A Loretto Patchwork
Sandy Ardoyno, Dianne Dignam Chowen, Marion Golden Curtis, Jackie Hartman Dear, Barbara Speas Havira, Sharon Kassing, Michele Minnis, Marion Veeneman Panyan, and Jane Peckham Stoever
"In 2008, 13 women who had entered the Loretto novitiate as postulants in 1961 gathered for a reunion at a rustic home in the Missouri Ozarks. Within that group, there were two members of the congregation. Among the remaining 11, some had left during training, others after several years of service. ... We determined to produce an informal, personal record of our Loretto novitiate memories. It would be a gift to the Loretto Community for the 2012 celebration of the bicentennial of the Sisters of Loretto and the 50th jubilee ...Read More
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Conditions in Occupational Therapy : Effect on Occupational Performance
Ben Atchison and Diane Dirette
Conditions in Occupational Therapy, 4th edition, is a title, focusing on chronic conditions and the impact that they have on the occupational performance of patients. Twenty-one chapters cover the most often diagnosed conditions such as autism spectrum disorders, dementia, diabetes, and muscular dystrophy, explaining them from the perspective of what occupational therapists need to know, without using medical jargon. For each condition, a leading expert has provided content on description and definition, etiology, incidence and prevalence, signs and symptoms, course and prognosis, and medical/surgical management, followed by the impact on ...Read More
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Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam : History, Religion, and Muslim Legitimacy in the Delhi Sultanate
Blain Auer
With the execution of the Abbasid caliph Al-Musta'sim in 1258, Sunni authority and legitimacy in Baghdad began to disintegrate. Amidst a global shift in Islamic authority, the recently established Delhi Sultanate became a new focal point for the development of Muslim societies. Here Blain Auer investigates the ways three historians living in India during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Minhaj Siraj Juzjani, Ziya' al-Din Barani and Shams al-Din Siraj 'Afif, narrated the religious values of Muslim sovereigns through the process of history writing. Aiding the project of empire building, these ...Read More
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A Companion to St. Paul in the Middle Ages
Steven Cartwright
This volume surveys the interpretation of St. Paul by patristic and medieval exegetes. It also examines the use of Paul by medieval reformers, canon lawyers, and spiritual teachers and Paul’s portrayal in medieval literature and art.
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Overcoming Bias : A Journalist's Guide to Culture & Context
Sue Ellen Christian
Journalists go out of their way to avoid purposeful bias in the news. But there is a more pervasive set of internal biases and flaws in thinking that can lead to unintentional inaccuracies and distortions in news coverage. This engaging book offers a fresh take on reporting without bias, targeting the way that we categorize people, filter information and default to rehearsed ways of thinking.
Included throughout are stories and on-target advice from reporters and editors, providing real-world voices and experiences. This advice and guidance is coupled with practical exercises ...Read More
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Rawlsian Political Analysis : Rethinking the Microfoundations of Social Science
Paul Clements
In Rawlsian Political Analysis: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Social Science,Paul Clements develops a new, morally grounded model of political and social analysis as a critique of and improvement on both neoclassical economics and rational choice theory. What if practical reason is based not only on interests and ideas of the good, as these theories have it, but also on principles and sentiments of right? The answer, Clements argues, requires a radical reorientation of social science from the idea of interests to the idea of social justice.
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The Fed and the Credit Crisis
J. Kevin Corder
What was the role of the Federal Reserve System in the 2008 financial crisis as a cause of the crisis, as the most important government agency to respond, and as the center of federal efforts to prevent another crisis? J. Kevin Corder provides an incisive account of the Fed choices that contributed to the crash of 2008. Centering his analysis on the oversight of mortgage lending and the regulation/supervision of financial institutions and instruments, Corder draws out the implications of the crisis for the Fed's mission. Equally, he charts the ...Read More
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A History of Women in America
Janet L. Coryell and Nora H. Faires
A History of Women in America integrates the stories of women in America into the national narrative of American history. By weaving women's lives into the heart of the country's narratives, readers will see women where they were, rather than having them appear as appendages to events controlled largely by men. Coryell and Faires use accessible language, telling stories that will attract beginning scholars to the field of history. Major ethnic groups are incorporated, from Native American and African women who appear earliest in the text, to the major immigrant ...Read More
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Sustainable Development : Authoritative and Leading Edge Content for Environmental Management
Sime Curkovic
In recent years the topic of environmental management has become very common. In sustainable development conditions, central and local governments much more often notice the need of acting in ways that diminish negative impact on environment. Environmental management may take place on many different levels - starting from global level, e.g. climate changes, through national and regional level (environmental policy) and ending on micro level. This publication shows many examples of environmental management. The diversity of presented aspects within environmental management and approaching the subject from the perspective of various ...Read More
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The Apocalyptic Adventures of Private Winfred Scott Biegle
Clifford Davidson
A modernist novel, describing a dystopian military in the imaginary dictatorship of Atlantis, written more than a half century ago when the author was a conscript in the army during the Cold War. As editor of the post newspaper at the Granite City Engineer Depot, Clifford Davidson was in a privileged position for observing the military mentality of the time, in particular the propensity for bullying intended to turn men into mindless killing machines. From other soldiers he was also able to hear disturbing stories at first hand about World ...Read More
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Program Evaluation for Social Workers : Foundations of Evidence-Based Programs
Richard M. Grinnell Jr., Peter A. Gabor, and Yvonne Unrau
Now in its sixth edition, this popular student-friendly introduction to program evaluation provides social workers with a sound conceptual understanding of how to use basic evaluation techniques in the evaluation of their cases (case-level) and programs (program-level). Eminently approachable, straightforward, and practical, this edition includes the fundamental tools that are needed in order for social workers to fully appreciate and understand how case- and program-level evaluations will help them to increase their effectiveness as contemporary data-driven practitioners.
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Flying Carpets
Hedy Habra
Surveying what appears as familiar ground, Hedy Habra's Flying Carpets plunge deep into the bygone and the irrecoverable. Steeped in childhood memories of Egypt and Lebanon, and intensified in the act of fictional recollection, Habra's stories are at once joyous and tragic, witty and profound. In Habra we have a Shehrazad of our times, not one trying to save her life, but one intent to bring enchantment, gravitas, and sensitivity to ours. This is a book full of marvels, beautifully written. --Khaled Mattawa, author of Amorisco and Tocqueville
Hedy Habra's ...Read More
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Mundos Alternos y Artísticos en Vargas Llosa
Hedy Habra
This book explores the role of the image in relation to the concept of alternative worlds that emanate from the characters' interiority as well as their ability to cretate possible worlds in Vargas Llosa's narrative.
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Full Cup, Thirsty Spirit: Nourishing the Soul When Life's Just Too Much
Karen Horneffer-Ginter
It seems that everyone is busy these days. The world is full of information, full of obligations, full of friends and family, full of everything - except fulfillment. Rushing has become a national epidemic. And even if you're rushing between good things - if you have a happy family and a good job, if you have great friends and wonderful colleagues - you can feel drained and exhausted.In Full Cup, Thirsty Spirit, psychologist Karen Horneffer-Ginter reaches out to readers who are feeling overwhelmed by the sheer volume of life. In ...Read More
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The Fur Trade
Rachel B. Juen and Michael Nassaney
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project - Booklet Series, No. 2
Table of contents:
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New France and the Fur Trade
North American Rivalries
How the Fur Trade Worked
Trade Routes and Transportation
A Two Way Trade: The Movement of Goods and Furs
People of the Trade in New France
Fur Trade Society
Native Peoples and the Fur Trade
Trade Goods and the Material Culture of the Fur
Trade Animal Exploitation
Conclusion
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Agent Orange : History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty
Edwin A. Martini
Taking on what one former U.S. ambassador called "the last ghost of the Vietnam War," this book examines the far-reaching impact of Agent Orange, the most infamous of the dioxin-contaminated herbicides used by American forces in Southeast Asia. Beginning in the early 1960s, when chemical defoliants were first deployed in Vietnam, Edwin A. Martini looks for answers to a host of still unresolved questions. What did chemical manufacturers and American policymakers know about the effects of dioxin on human beings, and when did they know it? How much do scientists ...Read More
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Education Advancing Civilizations--A 50 Year Legacy of the ISCSC: Proceedings of the 2011 Conference, International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC): 41st International Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA, June 2-4, 2011
William McGaughey, Andrew S. Targowski, and Thomas Rienzo
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Exploring the School Choice Universe: Evidence and Recommendations
Gary Miron, Kevin G. Welner, Patricia H. Hinchey, and William J. Mathis
A comprehensive, complete picture of choice policies and issues. Examines choice in its various forms: charter schools, home schooling, online schooling, voucher plans that allow students to use taxpayer funds to attend private schools, tuition tax credit plans that provide a public subsidy for private school tuition, and magnet schools and other forms of public school intra- and interdistrict choice. It brings together some of the top researchers in the field, presenting a comprehensive overview of the best current knowledge of these important policies. The questions addressed in Exploring the ...Read More
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Deadbeat
Jay Baron Nicorvo
Jay Baron Nicorvo's debut collection revolves around a central character, called Deadbeat--a descendant of John Berryman's Mr. Bones, Marvin Bell's Dead Man and Ted Hughes's Crow, to name an irrepressible few. The poems weave together a domestic narrative as Deadbeat himself muddles through courtship, marriage, divorce, estrangement and, of course, fatherhood. An effigy for America and our culture of recession, Deadbeat is brought to life with honesty, sympathy and love in all of its complications.
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