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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Introduction to Leadership : Concepts and Practice
Peter Guy Northouse
Offering a straightforward introduction to the basic principles of leadership, the Second Edition of Introduction to Leadership focuses on providing readers with practical strategies for becoming better leaders. An applied text by the author of the SAGE best-seller Leadership: Theory and Practice, Fifth Edition, this text provides the much needed how-to component of leading for students in leadership courses.
Three interactive components in every chapter: self-assessment questionnaires, observational exercises, and reflection and action worksheets get readers actively involved in applying leadership concepts to their own lives. Grounded in leadership theory, ...Read More
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How Many Therapists Does it Take? : the Wit and Wisdom of Psychotherapy
Kenneth Reid
Have you ever wondered ... ... why a couple, now in their 90's and married for 60 years, got divorced? THEY WAITED UNTIL THE CHILDREN WERE DEAD ... how God and psychiatrists differ? GOD DOESN'T THINK HE'S A PSYCHIATRIST. ... how many therapists it takes to change a light bulb? ONE, BUT IT TAKES A LONG TIME AND THE LIGHT BULB HAS TO REALLY WANT TO CHANGE. ... what the doctor said to the man who thought he was a bell? IF THE FEELING PERSISTS, GIVE ME A RING. ... ...Read More
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Tropical Pediatrics: A Public Health Concern of International Proportions
Richard R. Roach, Donald E. Greydanus, Dilip R. Patel, Douglas N. Homnick, and Joav Merrick
Tropical medicine is a branch of medicine focusing on disorders usually found in subtropical and tropical areas of the world. Tropical paediatrics is a branch of tropical medicine focusing on children in these areas. The current process of global warming and the widespread issue of international travel are bringing these conditions to many places of the globe. This book highlights selective concepts of tropical paediatrics that are of importance to clinicians caring for children and adolescents.
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Tools for Improving Principals' Work
Jianping Shen
The vital role of principalship in improving schools in general and enhancing student achievement in particular has been well documented. Given its importance, there is a need for tools to improve principalship, particularly ones emphasizing those dimensions associated with student achievement. Given the accountability movement, with its particular focus on student achievement and the advent of the evaluation era (including the evaluation of principals), the need for tools is even more urgent. This edited volume presents those tools with the aim of improving learning-centered principalship. The book is useful for ...Read More
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The Development of Moral Consciousness Toward a Global Ethos
Rudolf Siebert
The book traces the evolution of the ethical or moral consciousness through the different world-religions, as well as through the secular modern enlightenment movements and humanisms. (From the book distributor.)
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The Evolution of the Religious Consciousness Toward Alternative Futures
Rudolf Siebert
The book traces the development of the world-religions in the context of the timeline of human evolution.
Source: Bookadda.com
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Toward a Radical Interpretation of the Abrahamic Religions : in Search for the Wholly Other
Rudolf Siebert
This book deals with the disharmony, which broke into the religious community through the bourgeois, Marxian, and Freudian enlightenment, as well as with the possibility of a new Post-Modern harmony. After the bourgeois enlightenment and revolution the religious community differentiated itself into three groups: 1.The simple and naive believers; 2. the so called educated or enlightened people, characterized by analytical understanding and reflection; 3. the dialectical philosophers, for whom faith and reason had been reconciled by the power of the dialectical notion: the self-particularization and self-estrangement as well as the ...Read More
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Le (Néo)Colonialisme Littéraire : Quatre Romans Africains Face à l'Institution Littéraire Parisienne (1950-1970)
Vivan I.P. Steemers
Le texte littéraire ne naît pas en apesanteur, selon Edward Saïd. Il se présente dans un contexte historique et social et dépend pour son existence d'instances de pouvoir spécifiques : maisons d'édition, presse, critique, comités de prix littéraires. Ce constat s'impose avec encore plus de force lorsque l'on considère la situation des auteurs africains francophones qui sont presque entièrement tributaires de l'infrastructure éditoriale parisienne et des autres instances légitimantes du pays (anciennement) colonisateur. Cette étude présente le discours éditorial et critique de la première édition de quatre romans africains francophones ...Read More
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21st Century Geography : a Reference Handbook
Joseph P. Stoltman
Via approximately 80 entries, the SAGE 21st Century Reference Series volumes on geography highlights the most important topics, issues, questions and debates any student obtaining a degree in this field need to have mastered for effectiveness in the 21st century. The purpose is to provide undergraduate majors with an authoritative reference source that will serve their research needs with more detailed information than encyclopedia entries but not so much jargon, detail, or density as a journal article or a research handbook chapter.
Key features:
- Curricular-driven to provide students with ...Read More
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UFOs and Government : a Historical Inquiry
Michael D. Swords and Robert Powell
Governments around the world have had to deal with the UFO phenomenon for a good part of a century. How and why they did so is the subject of UFOs and Government, a history that for the first time tells the story from the perspective of the governments themselves. It's a perspective that reveals a great deal about what we citizens have seen, and puzzled over, from the outside for so many years. The story, which is unmasked by the government's own documents, explains much that is new, or at ...Read More
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Wisdom: HNRS 4900-Spring 2012
Andrew Targowski
Wisdom: HNRS 4900-Spring 2012 by Andrew Targowski and Students is based on a course taught by Targowski at Western Michigan University’s Lee Honors College and Haworth College of Business. It investigates the differences between knowledge and wisdom and attempts to answer the question: Is wisdom investigated enough in education and practice? And if not, what is wisdom? The work evaluates wisdom from an interdisciplinary perspective and questions the absence of courses on interdisciplinary wisdom in higher education. The book also features content from the course, as well as the projects ...Read More
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Animeat's End: A Future History of the End of Animal Meat
Wilson J. Warren
In the future, contact between people and animals is forbidden. Because interaction between people and animals leads to pain and suffering, eliminating contact has the highest priority. Eating animal meat-animeat-is a heinous crime and punished severely. Everyone is vegan. The Order of the Prelate teaches Noameran citizens to reject human dominion over the animal world. Christianity and other religious traditions that had empowered people to believe they could use animals for whatever purposes they chose have been disbanded. Pet ownership has also been banned. The hypocrisy that had allowed people ...Read More
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Teaching Literature in Virtual Worlds : Immersive Learning in English Studies
Allen Webb
What are the realities and possibilities of utilizing on-line virtual worlds as teaching tools for specific literary works? Through engaging and surprising stories from classrooms where virtual worlds are in use, this book invites readers to understand and participate in this emerging and valuable pedagogy. It examines the experience of high school and college literature teachers involved in a pioneering project to develop virtual worlds for literary study, detailing how they created, utilized, and researched different immersive and interactive virtual reality environments to support the teaching of a wide range ...Read More
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Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East
Allen Webb, David Alvarez, Blain H. Auer, Monica Mona Eraqi, Jeffrey A. Patterson, and Vivan Steemers
Providing a gateway into the real literature emerging from the Middle East, this book shows teachers how to make the topic authentic, powerful, and relevant.
Teaching the Literature of Today’s Middle East:
• Introduces teachers to this literature and how to teach it
• Brings to the reader a tremendous diversity of teachable texts and materials by Middle Eastern writers
• Takes a thematic approach that allows students to understand and engage with the region and address key issues
• Includes stories from the author’s own classroom, and shares student ...Read More
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Traces of Gold: California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature
Nicolas Witschi
From Gold Rush romances to cowboy Westerns, from hard-boiled detective thrillers to nature writing, the American West has long been known mainly through hackneyed representations in popular genres. But a close look at the literary history of the West reveals a number of writers who claim that their works represent the "real" West. As Nicolas Witschi shows, writers as varied as Bret Harte, John Muir, Frank Norris, Mary Austin, and Raymond Chandler have used claims of textual realism to engage, replicate, or challenge commonly held assumptions about the West, while ...Read More
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Improving Formative Assessment Practice to Empower Student Learning
E. Caroline Wylie, Arlen R. Gullickson, Katharine Cummings, Paula E. Egelson, Lindsay A. Noakes, Kelley M. Norman, and Sally A. Veeder
Teachers routinely ask and answer a series of three questions with and for students: Where are my students headed? Where are they right now? How can I close the gap between where they are and where I want them to be? This text suggests that teachers also ask these parallel questions of themselves:
Where am I going?
What can formative assessment practice look like?
Where am I currently in my formative assessment practice?
How do I close the gap?Readers are then encouraged to select a specific aspect of formative assessment to investigate, ...Read More