The goal is to eventually record most books written or edited by Western Michigan University faculty, staff and students. We will start by entering the most recent publications first and work our way back to older books. There is a WMU Authors section in Waldo Library, where most of these books can be found. Most are available with another copy in the general stacks of Waldo or in the branch libraries.
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.
If you are a WMU faculty or staff member and have a book you would like to include in this list, please contact wmu-scholarworks@wmich.edu
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Religion in Japan: Unity and Diversity
H. Byron Earhart
This standard text explores religion in Japan as a complex tapestry of different religious strands, reflecting both the unity and diversity of Japanese culture, a theme Earhart pioneered in the first edition (1969) of this enduring, classic book--a theme he has devoted subsequent decades to refining through cutting-edge scholarship and keen observation of the evolving religious scene. Tracing the development of religious traditions from the prehistoric era through modern times, Earhart explores the vital influence
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Religion in the Japanese Experience
H. Byron Earhart
The authors intention in compiling this anthology is to help the reader see Japanese religion more concretely, as it is found within the history of the tradition and experience of the people. The overall purpose of the selections, which represent various historical periods and schools of thought, is to show what religion means in the Japanese experience.
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Field Notes from a Nightmare: An Anthology of Ecological Horror
Alexander Ebenstein
Pollution. Extinction. Warming. Sea level rise... Mother Nature heard our crimes and found us guilty. Field Notes from a Nightmare is an anthology of ecological horror, containing 18 stories from some of the strongest voices in indie horror. Edited by Alex Ebenstein; with a Foreword from New York Times-Bestselling author Tim Lebbon Cover art and interior illustrations by David Bowman Stories from: A.K. Dennis Alexis DuBon Jonathan Louis Duckworth Eddie Generous KC Grifant S.L. Harris
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Developing Tomorrow's Leaders: Context, Challenges, and Capabilities
Pamela L. Eddy, Debbie L. Sydow, Richard L. Alfred, and Regina L. Garza Mitchell
The contributions of community colleges to society are well-documented. Yet, today’s community colleges are at a cross road. Decreases in funding support, a push for college completion, attention on developmental course work, and a host of other demands create a dynamic context for community college operations. Who leads these colleges matters as they face these demands and how they lead influences outcomes. Pending leadership retirements provide a prime opportunity for thinking about community college leadership
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Imagining the Academy: Higher Education and Popular Culture
Susan Huddleston Edgerton, Holm Gunilla, Toby Daspit, and Paul Farber
The essays in this book examine various forms of popular culture and the ways in which they represent, shape, and are constrained by notions about and issues within higher education. From an exploration of rap music to an analysis of how the academy presents and markets itself on the World Wide Web, the essays focus attention on higher education issues that are bound up in the workings and effects of popular culture.
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The Communication Age : Connecting and Engaging
Autumn Edwards, Chad Edwards, Shawn T. Wahl, and Scott A. Meyers
We are in the communication age. No matter who you are or how you communicate-from baby boomers to millennials, born digital or getting there-we are all members of a society who connect through the internet, not just to it. From face-to-face to Facebook, this book invites you to join the conversation about today’s issues and have your voice heard.
This contemporary and engaging text is built from the ground up to bridge the gap and
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The Communication Age: Connecting and Engaging
Autumn P. Edwards, Chad Edwards, Shawn T. Wahl, and Scott A. Meyers
When should you send a text message, and when is it more appropriate to talk face-to-face? What is the best way to prepare for a job interview that will be conducted over video? How should you modify your speech if it will be recorded and posted online? The Communication Age: Connecting and Engaging by Autumn Edwards, Chad Edwards, Shawn T. Wahl, and Scott A. Myers introduces students to the foundational concepts and essential skills of
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The Communication Age: Connecting and Engaging
Autumn P. Edwards, Chad Edwards, Shawn T. Wahl, and Scott A. Myers
We are in “the communication age.” No matter who you are or how you communicate, we are all members of a society who connect through the internet, not just to it. From face-to-face interactions to all forms of social media, The Communication Age, Second Edition invites you to join the conversation about today’s issues and make your voice heard. This contemporary and engaging text introduces students to the essentials of interpersonal, small group, and public
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Hand Grasps and Manipulation Skills : Clinical Perspective of Development and Function
Sandra J. Edwards
Hand Grasps and Manipulation Skills: Clinical Perspective of Development and Function, Second Edition is an expertly designed and logically organized text that provides an accurate and clear depiction of the development of hand grasps and the taxonomy of functional hand grasp. Hand Grasps and Manipulation Skills, Second Edition by Sandra J. Edwards, Donna B. Gallen, Jenna D. McCoy-Powlen, and Michelle A. Suarez is full of concise and user-friendly text that is written to assist in
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Developmental and Functional Hand Grasps
Sandra J. Edwards, Donna J. Buckland, and Jenna D. McCoy-Powlen
At last! A reference that has organized grasps into a concise, beautifully illustrated text for clarity and accuracy.
Developmental and Functional Hand Grasps is designed to identify, illustrate, and describe the complexity of grasps in a clear, user-friendly manner. Faculty, clinicians, and students will find that this accurate and comprehensive text addresses essential developmental, precision, and power grasps as well as handwriting grasps for use in evaluation, treatment, and research. The functional aspects of grasps,
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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
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Oz: Poems
Nancy Eimers
A broomstick horse, clay marbles, WWII tin fighter plane, Cold War dollhouse with bomb shelter, "all the toys are vanishing," says Nancy Eimers in Oz, her fourth collection of poetry. These poems offer a paradoxical, moving elegy of things we left--or that left us--behind, not just the toys that grow obsolete, but a lost cat, a name, a monarch wing, a melting glacier, all the children at Terezin--an "immensity" that "recedes so incrementally we can't--
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Jihad of the Soul: Singlehood and the Search for Love in Muslim America
Zarinah El-Amin Naeem
Young, Single, Attractive and Muslim? How do young single American Muslims balance their faith with western culture? This topic and more is tackled by author Zarinah El-Amin Naeem in Jihad of the Soul, a gut wrenching look at how young Muslim singles navigate love and faith. Let's face it, no matter how many T.V. episodes of The Bachelor or Sex and the City air, singlehood for the average person is a difficult life period. Most
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The New Monastery: Texts and Studies on the Earliest Cistercians
E. Rozanne Elder
'A mirror for the diligent, a gad-fly for the indolent', one Benedictine called the Cistercians of his day. Although cistercian studies have flourished over the past quarter century, most attention has been directed to events and literature of the second generation, the Age of Saint Bernard. Here, in commemoration of the nine-hundredth anniversary of the foundation of 'the new monastery' in1098, documents from and studies on the earliest cistercian years have been assembled to introduce
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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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Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama: Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage
Anthony Ellis
This first book-length study to trace the evolution of the comic old man in Italian and English Renaissance comedy shows how English dramatists adopted and reimagined an Italian model to reflect native concerns about and attitudes toward growing old. Anthony Ellis provides an in-depth study of the comic old man in the erudite comedy of sixteenth-century Florence; the character's parallel development in early modern Venice, including the commedia dell'arte; and, along with a consideration of
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The Ethical Challenges of Academic Administration
Elaine Englehardt, Michael Pritchard, Kerry Romesburg, and Brian Schrag
This book is an invitation to academic administrators, at every level, to engage in reflection on the ethical dimensions of their working lives. Academics are very good at reflecting on the ethical issues in other professions but not so interested in reflecting on those in their own, including those faced by faculty and administrators. Yet it is a topic of great importance. Academic institutions are value-driven; hence virtually every decision made by an academic administrator
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Piccola storia dei Longobardi di Benevento
Erchemperto and Luigi Andrea Berto
Luigi Andrea Berto - Editor and Translator
Language: Italian
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Darwinism and philosophical analysis
Arthur E. Falk
Analytic method, the naturalisation of the mind, and evolution -- Dennett's dangerous idea: design before mind -- Better idea: information prior to mind -- Update of the good idea underlying Descartes's idea of the pineal gland -- Perceiving temporal passage: an indicator of the nature of consciousness -- Beyond Wilfrid Sellars's jumblese: the invention of the verb -- Defence of a Quinean holism -- Rational basis for religion's attempt to gain extra-scientific information --
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Desire and belief : introduction to some recent philosophical debates
Arthur E. Falk
Some call it folk psychology; others call it the perennial philosophy. According to Arthur Falk, author of Desire and Belief, it's the traditional account of the mind's features that make it unique in nature. This work examines the nature of what philosophers call de re mental attitudes, paying close attention to the controversies over the nature of these and allied mental states. Over the course of the book, a story emerges within the traditional account
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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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Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives
Nancy Falk and Rita M. Gross
With thoroughly integrated readings and original introductions, UNSPOKEN WORLDS provides an illustration of cross-cultural patterns in women's religious lives. Carefully selected works writings by eminent scholars have been judiciously edited by Falk and Gross to weave them into a coherent whole that evolves from simple, vivid portraits of individual women to analyses of complete systems.
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Why Teaching Matters: A Philosophical Guide to the Elements of Practice
Paul Farber and Dini Metro-Roland
Why Teaching Matters is an introductory guide to core elements of teaching, getting to the heart of what teaching is, and why it matters. Paul Farber and Dini Metro-Roland introduce the following 8 elements which encompass the many issues, themes and social complexities of teaching- - Conveying Care - Enacting Authority - Cultivating Virtue - Interpreting Subject matter - Rendering Judgment - Articulating Purpose - Establishing a Sense of Place - Engaging Presence The focus
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Art Music Activism: Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s New York City
Maria C. Fava
Surrounded by the widespread misery of the Depression, left-leaning classical music composers sought a musical language that both engaged the masses and gave voice to their concerns. Maria Cristina Fava explores the rich creative milieu shaped by artists dedicated to using music and theater to advance the promotion, circulation, and acceptance of leftist ideas in 1930s New York City. Despite tensions between aesthetic and pragmatic goals, the people and groups produced works at the center
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