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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Program Evaluation for Social Workers: Foundations of Evidence-Based Programs
Richard M. Grinnell, Peter A. Gabor, and Yvonne Unrau
Now in its seventh edition, this comprehensive text once again provides beginning social work students and practitioners with a proven, time-tested approach to help them understand and appreciate how to use basic evaluation techniques within their individual cases (case-level) and the programs where they work (program-level). As with the previous six editions, this text is eminently approachable, accessible, straightforward, and most importantly, practical.
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Program Evaluation for Social Workers: Foundations of Evidence-Based Programs
Richard M. Grinnell Jr., Peter A. Gabor, and Yvonne A. Unrau
Over the course of 20 years and eight editions, the goals of the book have remained the same: to prepare students to participate in evaluative activities within their organizations, become beginning critical producers and consumers of the professional evaluative literature, and reap the benefits of more advanced evaluation courses and texts. The authors aim to meet these objectives by presenting a unique approach that is realistic, practical, applied, and user friendly. Unlike other textbooks on
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Social Work Research and Evaluation: Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice
Richard M. Grinnell Jr. and Yvonne Unrau
This book is the longest standing and most widely adopted text in the field of social work research and evaluation. As stated in the book's preface, it is intended for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate social work students in a one-semester research methods course. Since the first edition in 1981, this edition is designed to provide social work students with the basic methodological foundation they need in order to successfully complete more advanced research courses
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Social Work Research and Evaluation: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
Richard M. Grinnell Jr. and Yvonne Unrau
This book is the longest standing and most widely adopted text in the field of social work research and evaluation. Since the first edition in 1981, it has been designed to provide beginning social work students the basic methodological foundation they need in order to successfully complete more advanced research courses that focus on single-system designs or program evaluations. Its content is explained in extraordinarily clear everyday language which is then illustrated with social work
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Social Work Research and Evaluation: Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice
Richard M. Grinnell Jr. and Yvonne A. Unrau
Over thirty years of input from instructors and students have gone into this popular research methods text, resulting in a refined ninth edition that is easier to read, understand, and apply than ever before. Using unintimidating language and real-world examples, it introduces students to the key concepts of evidence-based practice that they will use throughout their professional careers. It emphasizes both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research, data collection methods, and data analysis, providing students
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Program Evaluation for Social Workers: Foundations of Evidence-Based Programs
Richard M. Grinnell Jr, Yvonne Unrau, and Peter Gabor
This text presents a practical and tested approach of how to do case- and program-level evaluations within social service programs. It provides an unintimidating conceptual understanding of how programs can become more accountable by incorporating uncomplicated evaluation strategies into their day-to-day service delivery activities. With the above in mind, this edition has been completely updated, revised (some chapters have been totally rewritten), and re-arranged in an effort to present the essential ingredients for programs to
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Statistics for Social Workers
Richard M. Grinnell Jr and Robert Weinbach
Now in its eighth edition, this widely used text covers the types of statistical analyses that are most likely to be encountered by social work practitioners and researchers. It requires no prior knowledge of statistics and only basic mathematical competence.
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Social Work Research and Evaluation : Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice
Richard Grinnell and Yvonne Unrau
Over thirty years of input from instructors and students have gone into this popular research methods text, resulting in a refined ninth edition that is easier to read, understand, and apply than ever before. Using unintimidating language and real-world examples, it introduces students to the key concepts of evidence-based practice that they will use throughout their professional careers. It emphasizes both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research, data collection methods, and data analysis, providing students
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Research Methods for BSW Students
Richard Grinnell, Yvonne Unrau, and Margaret Williams
This introductory research methods text is intended for BSW students as their first introduction to social work research methodology, data analyses, and report writing. The contents have selected and arranged so that it can be used in an undergraduate one-semester social work research methods course. As in the previous editions, the book's goal is to produce a "user-friendly," straightforward introduction to social work research methods couched within the quantitative and qualitative traditions-the two approaches most
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The Gospels with Salt
Francis Gross
This learned, highly personal, and blunt devotional commentary on selected passages in the four gospels is intended for both devotional and educational purposes. It showcases a number of archetypal images of Jesus found in the gospels, including Jesus as Wildman, feminine man, wounded healer, fiery prophet, and Trickster.
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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
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The Future of Wireless Networks
Mohesen Guizani, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, and Chonggang Wang
The exponential increase in mobile device users and high-bandwidth applications has pushed the current 3G and 4G wireless networks to their capacity. Moreover, it is predicted that mobile data traffic will continue to grow by over 300 percent by 2017. To handle this spectacular growth, the development of improved wireless networks for the future has been of paramount importance. The Future of Wireless Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Services discusses the future of wireless networks, including
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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
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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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Or Did You Ever See the Other Side?: Poems
Hedy Habra
Or Did You Ever See The Other Side? weaves a mystery about a mystery-the yearning and its fulfillment (or not) of any lived life. Here, it's the life of a woman whose exquisite artist's sensibility enables her to escape a repressive paternalistic tradition. "It took me a while / to wake up from / a life not lived" she says in "Or Did You Think I'd Never Find The Way Out?" As mercurial as life,
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Tea in Heliopolis : Poems
Hedy Habra
"The poems of Tea in Heliopolis form the story of a family, sometimes tragic, sometimes searingly beautiful, and always exotic, seen through the eyes of a painter. The trope of life, as moments flowing from the paintbrush wielded skillfully by a poet, allows Hedy Habra to capture details redolent of old masters, exquisite and visceral, and creates her remembered world with the wild imagination and color of a Van Gogh. Moving through life in Egypt,
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Under Brushstrokes
Hedy Habra
In the poem "Brushstrokes," Hedy Habra writes "the painter raises inexorably the level of the waters, and the woman knows... she will only be fulfilled by drowning in the torrent." The poems, in verse and prose, in Habra's new collection, Under Brushstrokes, pay homage to the transformative power of art in the most authentic way possible—by demonstrating it. —Stuart Dybek, author of Ecstatic Cahoots and Paper Lantern
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Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas
Sally E. Hadden
Obscured from our view of slaves and masters in America is a critical third party: the state, with its coercive power. This book completes the grim picture of slavery by showing us the origins, the nature, and the extent of slave patrols in Virginia and the Carolinas from the late seventeenth century through the end of the Civil War. Here we see how the patrols, formed by county courts and state militias, were the closest
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A Companion to American Legal History
Sally E. Hadden and Alfred L. Brophy
A Companion to American Legal History presents a compilation of the most recent writings from leading scholars on American legal history from the colonial era through the late twentieth century.
- Presents up-to-date research describing the key debates in American legal history
- Reflects the current state of American legal history research and points readers in the direction of future research
- Represents an ideal companion for graduate and law students seeking an introduction to the field,
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Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History
Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter
In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more deeply into the southern legal heritage, in much the same way that David Bodenhamer and James Ely's seminal 1984 work, Ambivalent Legacy, inspired an earlier generation to take
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Darning the Wear of Time
Miranda Howard Haddock
Minimizing the marks of time on clothing is a formidable challenge. Costumes reflect the cultural, religious, and ethnic elements of society. Maintaining and recording them is an important pursuit to many professionals including anthropologists, archeologists, museum curators, designers, and archivists. Textile preservation and restoration includes a variety of subtopics such as fiber properties, weave structures, light and lighting, pests, and synthetic conservation materials. History, analysis, and complete subject coverage are provided in this work, and
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Interpersonal Communication: Principles and Practice
Annette Hamel
Interpersonal Communication: Principles and Practice focuses on the principles of Interpersonal Communication, while placing special emphasis on everyday life applications. It equips students with a set of practical tools that will boost their successes in personal and workplace relationships.
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Twice There Was a Country
Alen Hamza
Poetry. "Alen Hamza is a lyric poet of the first order, and TWICE THERE WAS A COUNTRY proves it with poems that alchemize past and present, personal and political, and grief and celebration in a way that leads to absolute stillness: 'Silence has a mother in it and summer / refuses to move on.' Throughout this volume, Hamza acts as an Adam of sorts, naming people and places and events with the exactitude that allows
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