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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The Da Vinci Code: Fact or Fiction?
Hank Hanegraaff and Paul L. Maier
People are talking. The DaVinci Code has been on the New York Times best seller list for two years and is raising a variety of responses from Christians and non-Christians alike. Some are outraged and upset by the claims of Dan Brown, while others are left utterly confused and don't know what to believe. Now, with the release of the movie, people are sure to ask even more questions. The Da Vinci Code: Fact or
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Dutch in Michigan
Larry Ten Harmsel
Even though they are historically one of the smaller immigrant streams, nineteenth-century Dutch migrants and their descendants have made parts of West Michigan their own. The first Dutch in Michigan were religious dissenters whose commitment to Calvinism had long-reaching effects on their communities, even in the face of later waves of radicalized industrial immigrants and the challenges of modern life. From Calvin College to Meijer Thrifty Acres and the Tulip Festival, the Dutch presence has
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Practicing Engineering Ethics
C. E. Harris, Michael Pritchard, and Michael J. Rabins
The authors of this text have taken a theoretical, philosophical approach to the topic of engineering ethics. Through inclusion of case-studies, it focuses on decisions faced by practitioners worldwide.
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Paleozoic Stratigraphy and Resources of the Michigan Basin
William B. Harrison III and David A. Barnes
"This volume provides new insights of the Michigan Basin to both academic and applied geoscientists; it includes papers that discuss various aspects of the sedimentology and stratigraphy of key units within the basin, as well as papers that analyze the diverse distribution of natural resources present in this basin"
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Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists
Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Laura Braunstein, Liorah Golomb, and Kathleen Langan
Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists is a collection of essays focusing on the role of the subject specialist in creating, supporting, and promoting digital humanities projects. Chapter authors include experts from diverse areas, such as humanities subject specialists, digital humanities librarians, special collections librarians, and professors and graduate students from many disciplines. This book, published in collaboration with the ACRL Literatures in English Section and with a foreword by
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Foundations and American Political Science: The Transformation of a Discipline, 1945-1970
Emily Hauptmann
Foundations in the United States have long exerted considerable power over education and scholarly production. Although today's titans of philanthropy proclaim more loudly their desire to transform schools and universities than did some of their predecessors, philanthropic programs designed to reshape educational institutions are at least a century old. In Foundations and American Political Science , Emily Hauptmann focuses on the postwar Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller programs that reshaped political science. She shows how significant
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Measuring Access to Learning Opportunities
Willis D. Hawley and Timothy Ready
Since 1968 the Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Compliance Report (known as the E&S survey) has been used to gather information about possible disparities in access to learning opportunities and violations of students civil rights. Thirty-five years after the initiation of the E&S survey, large disparities remain both in educational outcomes and in access to learning opportunities and resources. These disparities may reflect violations of students civil rights, the failure of education policies and
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Teaching Criminology at the Intersection: A How-To Guide for Teaching about Gender, Race, Class and Sexuality
Rebecca M. Hayes, Kate Luther, and Susan Caringella
Teaching about gender, race, social class and sexuality in criminal justice and criminology classrooms can be challenging. Professors may face resistance when they ask students to examine how gender impacts victimization, how race affects interactions with the police, how socioeconomic status shapes experiences in court or how sexuality influences treatment in the criminal justice system. Teaching Criminology at the Intersection is an instructional guide to support faculty as they navigate teaching these topics.
Bringing together
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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
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A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley
Lynne Heasley
A Thousand Pieces of Paradise is an ecological history of property and a cultural history of rural ecosystems set in one of Wisconsin's most famous regions, the Kickapoo Valley. While examining the national war on soil erosion in the 1930s, a controversial real estate development scheme, Amish land settlement, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam project, and Native American efforts to assert longstanding land claims, Lynne Heasley traces the historical development of modern American
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The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes
Lynne Heasley
In The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes , Lynne Heasley illuminates an underwater world that, despite a ferocious industrial history, remains wondrous and worthy of care. From its first scene in a benighted Great Lakes river, where lake sturgeon thrash and spawn, this powerful book takes readers on journeys through the Great Lakes, alongside fish and fishers, scuba divers and scientists, toxic pollutants and threatened communities, oil pipelines and invasive
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Exodus
Janet Ruth Heller
The poems in EXODUS are modern re-interpretations and psychological explorations of the people and events in the Bible. A central metaphor is the exodus from Egypt, which represents the journeys that people take: trying new experiences, leaving a bad relationship, finding a new job, taking risks. Many of the poems are dramatic monologues from the perspective of a character in the Scriptures. "In this ambitious collection of poems, Janet Ruth Heller takes on the voices
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Asian Indians in Michigan
Arthur W. Helweg
Since 1970, a growing number of Asian Indians have called Michigan home. Representative of the “new immigration,” Asian Indians come from a democratic country, are well-educated, and come from middle- and upper-class families. Unlike older immigrant groups, Asian Indians do not form urban ethnic enclaves or found their own communities to meet the challenges of living in a new society. As Arthur W. Helweg shows, Asian Indians contribute to the richness and diversity of Michigan’s
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Strangers in a not-so-strange land : Indian American immigrants in the global age
Arthur Wesley Helweg
This text is a case study of the Asian Indians in the United States. Almost unheard of three decades ago and almost nonexistent in the United States in the 1970s, this community is, on the average, the highest educated and claims the highest average family income of any ethnic community in North America. They are part of and representative of the new kind of immigrant coming to America. This text delves into the subject of
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2008 Physics Education Research Conference: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 23-24 July 2008
Charles Henderson, Mel Sabella, and Leon Hsu
The 2008 Physics Education Research Conference brought together researchers studying a wide variety of topics in physics education. The conference theme was Physics Education Research with Diverse Student Populations. Researchers specializing in diversity issues were invited to help establish a dialog and spur discussion about how the results from this work can inform the physics education research community. The organizers encouraged physics education researchers who are using research-based instructional materials with non-traditional students at either
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Great North American Stage Directors Volume 1: David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, Margaret Webster
Joan Herrington
This volume assesses the contributions of David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, and Margaret Webster, whose careers shaped the artistic and specialist identity of the Broadway director. Their work spans almost a century and captures the rapidly changing social and cultural landscape of 20th-century America. While their aesthetic styles differed greatly, they were united in their mastery of theatre craft and their impact on theatrical collaboration. The essays in this volume explore how these directors established and
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I ain't Sorry for Nothin' I Done
Joan Herrington
The most successful African-American playwright of his time, August Wilson is a dominant presence on Broadway and in regional theaters throughout the country. Herrington traces the roots of Wilson's drama back to the visual artists and jazz musicians who inspired award-winning plays like Ma Rainey's Come and Gone , Fences and The Piano Lesson . From careful analysis of evolving playscripts and from interviews with Wilson and theater professionals who have worked closely with him,
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Playwrights Teach Playwriting 2: A Guide to Writing Plays and Teaching Playwriting
Joan Herrington
"Playwrights Teach Playwriting 2", created by some of the most well-respected playwrights of our time , is an extraordinary guide to writing plays and teaching playwriting. Framed with a foreword by Mac Wellman that lauds the value of the diversity contained in this book, and a concluding chapter that highlights key insights from the individual chapters, "Playwrights Teach Playwriting 2" provides a powerful tool to writers at all stages of their careers for writing a
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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
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Four Romances of England
Ronald B. Herzman, Graham Drake, and Eve Salisbury
Fitted with ample introductions, notes, and glosses, this volume will make an excellent text for a class of any level on Middle English romance. This excellent edition includes King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, and Athelston. These romances all deal with the Matter of Britain-that is, they celebrate action and adventure tales taking place in England. Featuring all the hallmarks of a good romance, these works include disinherited nobles, thrilling battles, love stories,
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Robust Nonparametric Statistical Methods
T. P. Hettmansperger and J. W. McKean
Based in ranks of the data, this book offers an alternative to the traditional least squares approach. Topics include one- and two-sample location models, linear models (including multiple regression and designed experiments), and multivariate models. Rank tests and estimates for all models are developed, including bounded influence and high breakdown methods. Emphasis is on efficiency and robustness and all methods are illustrated on data sets.
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Killing Kanoko; Wild Grass on the Riverbank
Itō Hiromi and Jeffrey Angles
A landmark dual collection by Ito Hiromi, one of the most important contemporary Japanese poets, in a “generous and beautifully rendered” translation by Jeffrey Angles.
Now widely taught as a feminist classic, Killing Kanoko is a defiantly autobiographical exploration of sexuality, community, and postpartum depression, featuring some of Ito’s most famous poems.
Set simultaneously in the California desert and Japan, Wild Grass on the Riverbank focuses on migration, nature, and movement. At once grotesque and
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