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 near you.
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China's Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change
Gregory Veeck, Clifton W. Pannell, Christopher J. Smith, and Youquin Huang
Despite China's growing importance on the world stage, it is often and easily misunderstood. Indeed, there are many Chinas, as this sustained survey of contemporary China vividly illustrates. Offering the first comprehensive geography of the reform era, the authors trace the changes occurring in this ancient nation across both time and space. Beginning with China's diverse landscapes and environments, and continuing through its formative history and tumultuous recent past, this text places China in its international context as a massive developing nation that must meet the needs of its 1.3 billion citizens while becoming a major regional and global player. Through clear prose and abundant maps and photos, the book highlights the diverse landscapes, economies, and cultures that represent China today.
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Where Do I Go from Here?: Meeting the Unique Educational Needs of Migrant Students
Karen Vocke
"Where Do I Go From Here?" by Karen Vocke is a practical and well written book that will appeal to teachers, administrators, and other community members where migrant workers live and these workers'' children go to school. The book contains valuable resources, including lesson plans and other materials that could be used by teachers of other ESL children, as well as by teachers whose students are not learners of English. The book helps the reader become aware that educational opportunity and equality do not exist as static entities, but rather are created by whole communities, especially those who choose to make the invisible more visible.
- Prolepsis
In our current society, teachers are faced with students who move frequently from place to place, speak a language other than English, and represent diverse cultures. This book shares many strategies and ideas that will help a teacher, experienced or novice, to meet the needs of these "new" students found in U.S. classrooms.
- Cheryl Boothby State and Federal Programs Director and Special Education Director Hartford, Michigan, Public Schools Migrant farm laborers are often called America''s "invisible people" - a term that, tragically, is just as applicable to their children. Because their lives are transitory and their English skills often limited, our opportunities to have a lasting impact on their literacy education are far too brief. But that makes these children no less deserving of our full commitment. In "Where Do I Go from Here?" Karen Vocke describes how to make the most of each day, creating an educational experience that will serve allchildren long after they leave our classrooms. Always mindful of state standards and assessment requirements, Vocke demonstrates how to modify the curriculum and adapt strategies to facilitate English language acquisition and content-area knowledge. She provides vital information on:
- the history, culture, and families of migrant students so that we better understand - and respect - the foundation on which their lives are built
- essential language considerations, with an emphasis on what we can do now to help struggling English learners become more proficient
- culturally responsive materials and lessons, with guidelines on how to evaluate books, along with a complete lesson plan for promoting cultural sensitivity
- the need for an inclusive community of readers and writers, based on the principles of cooperative learning and supported by a lesson plan on student heritage and tradition as well as other activities that create a culture of sharing
- ways to foster both literacy and cultural understanding through technology, especially the many benefits of digital storytelling, with easy-to-follow guidelines
- the importance of involving migrant families and communities, with suggestions on overcoming language and cultural barriers as well as specific steps you and your school can take.
All this is supported by a wealth of helpful materials, including additional resources for working with migrant families, organizations you can contact for more information, recommended children''s literature and wordless picture books, and letters and announcements to parents in both English and Spanish. Use the ideas in "Where Do I Go from Here?" to create a welcoming learning environment that values inclusion and diversity. Give every student the same chance for a literate life. In the process, you''ll soon see the future of America''s "invisible" students in a bright, new light.
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The Odds of Being
Daneen Leigh Wardrop
Poetry. THE ODDS OF BEING is a new collection of poetry by Daneen Wardrop, a Professor of English at Western Michigan University. "THE ODDS OF BEING is an original; nobody writes like this, and Daneen Wardrop's poems seem to come from a quiet and loving necessity. Among other things, this book is a moving meditation of delight in a new daughter. And as a happy side-effect, reading these poems changes the way your mind hears words, sees landscapes, reflects on history; it is a wonderful flowering."--Jean Valentine
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Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking
Wilson Warren
Ambitious in its historical scope and its broad range of topics, Tied to the Great Packing Machine tells the dramatic story of meatpacking's enormous effects on the economics, culture, and environment of the Midwest over the past century and a half. Wilson Warren situates the history of the industry in both its urban and its rural settings--moving from the huge stockyards of Chicago and Kansas City to today's smaller meatpacking communities--and thus presents a complete portrayal of meatpacking's place within the larger agro-industrial landscape.
Writing from the vantage point of twenty-five years of extensive research, Warren analyzes the evolution of the packing industry from its early period, dominated by the big terminal markets, through the development of new marketing and technical innovations that transformed the ways animals were gathered, slaughtered, and processed and the final products were distributed. In addition, he concentrates on such cultural impacts as ethnic and racial variations, labor unions, gender issues, and changes in Americans' attitudes toward the ethics of animal slaughter and patterns of meat consumption and such environmental problems as site-point pollution and microbe contamination, ending with a stimulating discussion of the future of American meatpacking.
Providing an excellent and well-referenced analysis within a regional and temporal framework that ensures a fresh perspective,Tied to the Great Packing Machine is a dynamic narrative that contributes to a fuller understanding of the historical context and contemporary concerns of an extremely important industry. -
The Grammar Plan Book: A Guide to Smart Teaching
Constance Weaver
Thanks to Connie Weaver, generations of teachers have come to understand that the most efficient way to teach grammar that's relevant for writing is to embed it within writing instruction. Now her Grammar Plan Book is designed with precisely one thing in mind: to be the best resource you've ever used for teaching grammar to strengthen writing. This new book helps you apply a limited amount of grammar instruction directly to writing and enables you to map out instruction in the way that best serves the needs of your students.
A complete planning tool, The Grammar Plan Book has two complementary parts. Part One describes an overarching framework for high-quality grammar instruction in conjunction with the process of writing. It offers:
- engaging examples of effective teaching
- demonstrations of how that teaching has improved students' use of grammatical options in writing
- suggestions for deciding which editing conventions to teach
- an informal analysis of the grammatical content of typical ACT practice exams.
The Plan Book also contains ideas for encouraging students to make independent use of what they've learned in their own writing and about how to apply grammatical insights to enhance and improve their writing, from adding details to editing appropriately.
Then in Part Two, Weaver presents an exceptional tool for preparing to teach grammar related to improving writing: a minimal grammar handbook for teachers that doubles as a lesson planner. Everything you need to know to teach major grammatical options, stylistic features, and conventions is included:
- basic grammatical functions within the sentence
- grammatical options for adding details and sentence fluency
- connectors (transitions) for organizational flow
- parallelism and other rhetorical devices for emphasis and effect, style, and voice
- stylistic options (dialect versus "standard") for different audiences and purposes
- conventions most important for edited American English
- "rules" that don't necessarily rule effective published writing.
With a designated column for your notes, special lay-flat binding for your convenience, and helpful, comprehensive coverage of important grammatical concepts, The Grammar Plan Book is designed with one thing in mind: to be the best resource you've ever used for teaching grammar to strengthen writing.
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Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santeria: Speaking a Sacred World
Kristina Wirtz
How do Santería practitioners in Cuba create and maintain religious communities amidst tensions, disagreements, and competition among them, and in the absence of centralized institutional authority? What serves as the "glue" that holds practitioners of different backgrounds together in the creation of a moral community? Examining the religious lives of santeros in Santiago de Cuba, Wirtz argues that these communities hold together not because members agree on their interpretations of rituals but because they often disagree. Religious life is marked by a series of "telling moments"--not only the moments themselves but their narrated representations as they are retold and mined for religious meanings. Long after they occur, spiritually elevated experiences circulate in narratives that may express skepticism or awe and hold the promise of more such experiences. The author finds that these episodes resonate in gossip and other forms of public commentary about the experiences of their fellow Santería practitioners. Drawing on ethnographic research about Santería beliefs and practices, Wirtz observes that practitioners are constantly engaged in reflection about what they and other practitioners are doing, how the orichas (deities) have responded, and what the consequences of their actions were or will be. By focusing their reflective attention on particular events, santeros re-create, moment to moment, what their religion is. Wirtz also argues that Santería cannot be considered in isolation from the complex religious landscape of contemporary Cuba, in which African-based traditions are viewed with a mix of fascination, folkloric pride, and suspicion. [Interactions among the conflicting discourses about these religions--as sacred practices, folklore, or dangerous superstitions, for example--have played a central role in constituting them as social entities.] This book will interest scholars of religion, the African diaspora, the Caribbean, and Latin America, as well as linguistic and cultural anthropologists.
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Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions: Cultural Perspectives on the Regulation of Discourse and Organizations
Mark Zachry and Charlotte Thralls
Bringing together prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines, Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions: Cultural Perspectives on the Regulation of Discourse and Organizations offers readers an engaging set of essays on the complicated relationship between discourse and the many institutions within which people act. Each author brings a unique theoretical perspective to conceptualizing how discourse is regulated and how it regulates when human activity is organized for such purposes as work or belonging to a profession. Together, the contributors to this collection offer a provocatively complex picture of what regulation means and the means of regulation. The workplaces or professional sites used as illustrations in these studies are diverse, covering such organizations as an Internet start-up company, an international energy company, an urban hospital, a university, and a telecommunications corporation. The perspectives the contributors bring to their work are likewise diverse, covering a range of prominent thinkers, including Bourdieu, Giddens, Latour, Spivak, Bakhtin, and Burke. In total, the perspectives offered in this volume are invaluable for researchers who want to gain greater insight into routine or regularized discourse and its connections to the many institutions within which people act. Following a general introduction to the idea of regulation and communicative practices, the book is divided into three sections. The first focuses on offering readers an understanding of regulative processes, practices, and effects. The essays in the second section focus on the possibilities for action, addressing the issues of agency, power, and empowerment. The collection concludes with chapters that outline critical research perspectives for examining regulation and communicative practices.
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No Deposit, No Return": Enriching Literacy Teaching and Learning through Critical Inquiry Pedagogy
Jennifer Aaron, Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer, Michelle Commeyras, Sharon Dowling Cox, Bren Daniell, Ellen Elrick, Bob Fecho, Jill Hermann-Wilmarth, Elizabeth Hogan, Andrea Pintaone-Hernandez, Kathy Roulston, Amanda Siegel, and Hope Vaughn
Foster a classroom community where teachers and students make their own meanings of the world and consider their relation to larger social, political, cultural, and historical issues
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Japan A Traveler's Literary Companion
Jeffrey Angles and J. Thomas Rimer
Edited by Jeffrey Angles and J. Thomas Rimer This collection guides the reader through the complexity that is Japan. Although frequently misunderstood as a homogeneous nation, Japan is a land of tremendous linguistic, geographical, and cultural diversity. Hino Keizo leads the reader through Tokyo's mazes in "Jacob's Tokyo Ladder." Nakagami Kenji explores the ghostly, mythology-laden backwoods of Kumano. Atoda Takashi takes us to Kyoto to follow the mystery of a pair of shoes and discover the death of a stranger. The stories, like the country and the people, are beautiful and compelling. Let these literary masters be your guide -- from the beauty of northern Honshu through the hustle and bustle of Tokyo, to the many temples in Kyoto, through Osaka and the coastline of the Sea of Japan, and down to southern Kushu -- to a Japan that only the finest stories can reveal. Contributors include Hino Keizo, Maruya Saiichi, Inoue Yasushi, Oda Sakunosuke, Miyamoto Teru, Tada Chimako, Atoda Takashi, Nakagami Kenji, Mizukami Tsutomu, Kawabata Yasunari, Takahashi Mutsuo, and Shima Tsuyoshi.
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Telling Training's Story: Evaluation Made Simple, Credible, and Effective
Robert O. Brinkerhoff
Telling Training's Story is the first accessible, affordable book to offer clear, simple tools and a compelling way of measuring and proving the impact of training on bottom-line results: The Success Case Method (SCM). Filled with examples, illustrations and checklists, the book shares the power of SCM and offers practical step-by-step guidelines for creating SCM projects.
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The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride
Julia C. Collins, William L. Andrews, and Mitch Kachun
In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, a novel written by Mrs. Julia C. Collins, an African American woman living in the small town of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The first novel ever published by a black American woman, it is set in antebellum Louisiana and Connecticut, and focuses on the lives of a beautiful mixed-race mother and daughter whose opportunities for fulfillment through love and marriage are threatened by slavery and caste prejudice. The text shares much with popular nineteenth-century women's fiction, while its dominant themes of interracial romance, hidden African ancestry, and ambiguous racial identity have parallels in the writings of both black and white authors from the period.
Begun in the waning months of the Civil War, the novel was near its conclusion when Julia Collins died of tuberculosis in November of 1865. In this first-ever book publication of The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, the editors have composed a hopeful and a tragic ending, reflecting two alternatives Collins almost certainly would have considered for the closing of her unprecedented novel. In their introduction, the editors offer the most complete and current research on the life and community of an author who left few traces in the historical record, and provide extensive discussion of her novel's literary and historical significance. Collins's published essays, which provide intriguing glimpses into the mind of this gifted but overlooked writer, are included in what will prove to be the definitive edition of a major new discovery in African American literature. Its publication contributes immensely to our understanding of black American literature, religion, women's history, community life, and race relations during the era of United States emancipation.
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Selected Studies In Drama and Renaissance Literature
Clifford Davidson
In a distinguished career of teaching, research, editing, and writing, Clifford Davidson has produced an impressive number of publications. For more than thirty years he was an editor of Comparative Drama, the standard journal in the field. He has published widely on medieval and Renaissance drama, with articles and books on topics of vital interest - violence in early plays, the matter of illusion and truth, iconoclasm and iconography, and the stability of symbolic images. With On Tradition; Essays on the Use and Valuation of the Past, he argued that the past "may serve to heal the wound of post-modernity and to make its skepticism seem irrelevant." This collection presents one previously unpublished essay and harvests some of the best of Davidson's shorter writings, published in a wide range of journals and monographs not always readily accessible today. He is now professor emeritus of English and Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, home of the annual International Congress of Medieval Studies, through which Davidson's guiding presence has moved for more than thirty-eight years.
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Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc
Clifford Davidson, Martin W. Walsh, and Ton J. Broos
Faced with death's certainty-and the uncertainty of the time of its coming, particularly in a historical period of widespread plague and other afflictions-as well as the inevitability of the hereafter, what is one to do? Everyman speaks to this dilemma. . . . The protagonist is one who, because he has laid up treasures on earth, has been in a position to do good deeds, but he has been very lax about it and instead has pursued enjoyment and wealth, the latter hoarded instead of being shared with the poor and needy. . . . Now he must, as the medieval mystics knew, endure the solitariness of leaving behind all that has given him comfort in this world. . . . This facing page translation of this Continental play will be useful to all students of theater.
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Cases in Finance
Jim DeMello
This is a book of hypothetical cases written to give students real examples of key finance concepts. Each case contains a strong critical thinking/analytical component. The cases match topics covered by all of our undergraduate books, making it the perfect companion. Each case is 3-4 pages in length, and concludes with questions and problems that walk students through calculations and critical analysis of the case to help them make business decisions.
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A Grammar to Waking
Nancy Eimers
Time is the hour at which a pub closes, the moment we must put our pencils down, a way of paying later for something now. A Grammar to Waking explores moments we wake to the grammar of living time, what Virginia Woolf called "moments of being." In the drift of the present, of song in the throat of its bird and the verb in its sentence, the drift of loved one into memory, of talk from the talker to the listener, how and where does meaning live? "There are so many rules we don't even know," writes Nancy Eimers, "but we wake to them anyway." This collection offers a reflective, loving look at the mystery of the time being.
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Universities and Corporations: A Selection of Papers Presented at the WMU Emeriti Council Forum
Joseph Ellin, Robert Kauffman, and Darci Doll
Applying a business model to the University / entrepreneurial university : rewards andrisks / Cultural contradictions and ethical dilemmas in the corporate-styled university / commodification of international education / Recent developments in international education at WMU / College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the BTR - apartnership with purpose / Epilogue /
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Living Hinduisms: An Explorer's Guide
Nancy Falk
Aiming to turn inside-out models currently used for the teaching of Hinduism, Nancy Falk's new LIVING HINDUISMS aims to introduce students to this religion through an illuminating presentation of its lived practices. Recognizing an all-too-frequent disconnect that students of Hinduism feel when confronted with the actual sights and sounds of contemporary Hindu rituals, Nancy Falk brings these experiences to life through an astute and eye-opening exploration of Hinduism's diverse, yet--as she argues--unified traditions.
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Counseling Adults in Transition: Linking Practice With Theory
Jane Goodman, Nancy Schlossberg, and Mary Louise Anderson
Effective adult counseling depends on a successful integration of empirical knowledge and theory with practice. Such a framework continues to be made explicit in this updated third edition of Counseling Adults in Transition, a practical guide for students, teachers, counselors, and all other helping professionals. In the decade since the second edition of this book, the pace of change has accelerated, and the world has become more complex.
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Gender in Transition
Marion Gray and Ulrike Gleixner
The late Enlightenment saw an acute transformation of gender definitions in the German cultural areas of Europe, leading to a “polarization” of the sexes. Where early modern cultural norms had once affirmed a multitude of differences within society, modernity was founded on an ideal of equality which, although embraced as universal, in practice applied only to white male citizens. The new dichotomies of gender, socioeconomic status, and race created by this disparity between rhetoric and practice held tremendous social implications for all Germans. Law and science inscribed a new set of morals with gendered virtues and social spheres. Masculinity and femininity came to be understood as opposites based in nature. The transformed gender system fueled an epochal social reordering.
Gender in Transition recounts the innumerable ways in which this drama played out in German-speaking Europe during the transitional period between 1750 and 1830. A cast of accomplished scholars examine the effect of gender in numerous realms of German life, including law, urban politics, marriage, religion, literature, natural science, fashion, and personal relationships.
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Essential Adolescent Medicine
Donald Greydanus, Dilip Patel, and Helen Pratt
This book sets forth the principles of clinical and psychosocial adolescent medicine clearly and concisely, at a price the market will bear. Includes numerous tables, charts, lists, and algorithms for easy access to the spectrum of clinical considerations.
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Mental Health among Taiwanese Americans: Gender, Immigration, and Transnational Struggles
Chien-Juh Gu
Gu examines how Taiwanese Americans' immigration background, gender, and relations in the family and workplace affect their mental health. She argues that Taiwanese Americans' experience of distress is not only gendered but also transnational. Men's and women's experiences differ, and transnational culture influences how they interpret their worlds. While work situations frustrate men, family life bothers women. Their identities are multiple and fluid, and they struggle with their American-ness and Chinese-ness in everyday life. Men feel excluded by the majority culture in the workplace because they are "too Chinese." Women, in contrast, wonder if they should follow Chinese or American norms in dealing with their families.
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Crisis Management By Apology: Corporate Response to Allegations of Wrongdoing
Keith Hearit
This volume examines the role of apologia and apology in response to public attack. Author Keith Michael Hearit provides an introduction to these common components of public life, and considers a diverse list of subjects, from public figures and individuals to corporations and institutions. He explores the motivations and rationales behind apologies, and considers the ethics and legal liabilities of these actions. Hearit provides case studies throughout the volume, with many familiar examples from recent events in the United States, as well as an international apology-making case from Japan.
The broad-perspective approach of this volume makes the content relevant and appealing to practitioners and scholars in public relations, business communications, and management. It is a valuable text for courses that take a discursive approach to public relations, and it also appeals to readers in business management, examining apology as a response strategy to corporate crises. -
Playwrights Teach Playwriting
Joan Herrington and Crystal Brian
Playwrights Teach Playwriting, edited by Joan Herrington and Crystal Brian, is a collection unique in the realm of 'how-to' playwriting books. These essays by such well-known playwrights as Chris Durang Marsha Norman Tina Howe Tony Kushner David Henry Hwang Marie Irene Fornes José Rivera Romulus Linney Mac Wellman Donald Margulies explore the pedagogy of playwriting, offering fascinating and valuable insights into the way established playwrights communicate their own creative methods to young writers. Each of the playwrights included in the book has extensive experience as a teacher in a variety of venues. Their chapters offer insight into the unique vision of each playwright and provide practical and tested advice, exercises, and course structures for both students and teachers of playwriting. A concluding essay by dramaturg and literary manager, Mead Hunter, offers career advice for beginning as well as emerging playwrights. Joan Herrington is Chair of the Theatre Department at Western Michigan University. Her two books, The Playwright's Muse and I Ain't Sorry for Nothin' I Done: August Wilson's Process of Playwriting, and numerous recent articles all explore the creative process of writing and directing. Dr. Herrington currently serves as the editor of Theatre Topics. Crystal Brian is an associate professor and director of the theater program at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. She holds an MFA and PhD in Theater from the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to her work as an award-winning professional director and producer of such playwrights as Horton Foote and Tina Howe (her world-premiere production of Foote's The Day Emily Married was named one of the top twenty productions in Southern California by the Los Angeles Times), she has published articles about Foote's work and is currently completing a critical biography of the playwright.
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Comparing Religions
Thomas Athanasius Idinopulos, Brian C. Wilson, and James Constantine Hanges
Comparing Religions covers such important topics as recent theoretical approaches to comparison, case studies of comparing religions in the classroom, and the impact of postcolonialism and postmodernism on the modernist assumptions of comparitivism in the academic study of religion.
