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 Book of Forty
Patricia Hollahan, Western Michigan University, and Medieval Institute
Compiled by Patricia Hollahan
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Killing Your Neighbors
Jon Holtzman
Neighboring communities who once lived together in peace have committed some of the most disturbing genocidal violence in recent decades: ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia; the slaughter of Tutsis in Rwanda; or Sunni-versus-Shia violence in today’s Iraq. As these instances illustrate, lethal violence does not always come at the hands of outsiders or foreigners—it can come just as easily from someone who was once considered a friend. Employing a multisited, multivocal approach to ethnography,
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Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota
Jon Holtzman
This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study -- the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional life represents one of the most important case studies in the history of anthropology.
It provides an opportunity to examine issues of current importance within anthropology, such as social change, transnationalism, displacement, and diaspora in an easy to understand manner.
In understanding the experiences of the Nuer, students will not
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Uncertain Tastes: Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya
Jon Holtzman
This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of purchased agricultural products. In his innovative analysis, Jon Holtzman uses food as a way to contextualize and measure the profound changes occurring in Samburu social and material life. He shows that if Samburu reaction to the new foods is primarily negative--they are referred
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Full Cup, Thirsty Spirit: Nourishing the Soul When Life's Just Too Much
Karen Horneffer-Ginter
It seems that everyone is busy these days. The world is full of information, full of obligations, full of friends and family, full of everything - except fulfillment. Rushing has become a national epidemic. And even if you're rushing between good things - if you have a happy family and a good job, if you have great friends and wonderful colleagues - you can feel drained and exhausted.In Full Cup, Thirsty Spirit, psychologist Karen Horneffer-Ginter
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The Measurement of Behavior: Behavior Modification
Ron Van Houten and R. Vance Hall
...practitioners of behavior management & students who are just learning the basics of applied behavior analysis will find this new edition packed with useful information from the original version...
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Basic Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations
Po-Fang Hsieh and Yasutaka Sibuya
Providing readers with the very basic knowledge necessary to begin research on differential equations with professional ability, the selection of topics here covers the methods and results that are applicable in a variety of different fields. The book is divided into four parts. The first covers fundamental existence, uniqueness, smoothness with respect to data, and nonuniqueness. The second part describes the basic results concerning linear differential equations, while the third deals with nonlinear equations. In
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The Impacts of China's Rise on the Pacific and the World
Wei-Chiao Huang and Huizhong Zhou
This book provides the perspectives of a group of noted China experts on how China's economic expansion and internal reforms are impacting its neighbors in the Pacific region as well as the United States and the rest of the world.
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For When You Need It the Most
Erin Hult
This poetry collection was written over the span of two years. It touches on some of the hardest situations women of all ages are dealing with. The author writes about her own experiences with mental illness, unhealthy relationships, and more in a way that makes it relatable for her readers. She uses poetry as therapy, in hopes readers can identify with her words and use them as a healing experience, as she did.
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With All My Heart
Erin Hult and Alan Farmer
In Erin's second poetry collection, she continues to use writing as a way to express her thoughts and feelings. Erin navigates controversial and emotional topics in a relatable, original way. Paving a path for young women like her, she encourages her readers to seek help for mental illnesses, step away from unhealthy relationships, and learn to love themselves. As Erin approaches her early twenties, she is just figuring out love and the other intricacies of
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Idiot’s Guides: Quantum Physics
Marc Humphrey, Paul V. Pancella, and Nora Berrah
"Quantum physics explores the behavior of matter and energy at the atomic and subatomic levels--and is very complex and confusing subject. But with this clear and insightful guide by your side, you skip the complicated math and easily get to know the concepts, paradoxes, experiments, and more that make quantum physics so fascinating. In it, you get: The discoveries of Planck, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schroedinger, Einstein, and other quantum physicists. A primer on the three basic
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Culturally Responsive Practices in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Yvette D. Hyter and Marlene B. Salas-Provance
Definitions -- Theoretical frameworks about culture and cultural responsiveness -- Culture and power -- Culture and language -- Culture and hearing health -- Building ethnographic skills -- Culturally responsive research -- Working with interpreters -- Culturally responsive assessment -- Culturally responsive intervention -- Global engagement, sustainability and culturally responsive practices.
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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.
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Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today
Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson
Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today" is an occasion to critically analyze and reassess the work of this intellectual pioneer. It is also an effort to signal the continuing importance of Durkheim for today s graduate and advanced undergraduate classrooms. "Reappraising Durkheim" brings together ten new critical essays in which noted sociologists, psychologists, phenomenologists, philosophers, and historians of religion grapple with the questions Durkheim raised and the solutions he proposed. Taken
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What Is Religion?: Origins, Definitions, and Explanations
Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson
"What is Religion?" consists of fourteen essays written by a selection of scholars who represent a wide spectrum of approaches to the acedamic study of religion. Each of the essays is an effort not only to take stock of the present controversy concerning appropriate methodologies for the study of religion, but also to take one giant step beyond that to formulate a precise definition of religion. Given the considerable confusion today about what it is
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Figuraciones del hinterland: notas sobre Maracaibo o un breve estudio del monte y culebra en Venezuela
Antonio M. Isea
Professor Isea specializes in Literary Theory, Spanish American cultural studies, twenty-first century Spanish American literature, and postcolonial novelistic discourse in the Spanish-Caribbean. His first book, Historiografía y ficción en la narrativa de Denzil Romero, is the first major study of the work of that important Venezuelan author, and it covers topics such as race and nation-building in Venezuela. His second book, Figuraciones del hinterland: notas sobre Maracaibo o un breve estudio del Monte y Culebra
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Fiber Face: Cross-Cultural Batik Collaborations, Indonesia 2008
Agus Ismoyo, Nia Fliam, and Mary-Louise Totton
"In essence our world cultures are one and have arisen from the strength of the mind and the spirit of humankind and are based on the philosophies and cosmologies that are their roots. Ancient traditional cultures give evidence of this process and are roadmaps for the future." —Nia Fliam and Agus Ismoyo Isnugroho This team of artists has been working across visible and invisible boundaries since 1985 when they established their fine-art batik studio, Brahma
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Wild Grass on the Riverbank
Hiromi Ito and Jeffrey Angles
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. Set simultaneously in the California desert and her native Japan, tracking migrant children who may or may not be human, or alive, Hiromi Itō's WILD GRASS ON THE RIVERBANK will plunge you into dreamlike landscapes of volatile proliferation: shape-shifting mothers, living father-corpses, and pervasively odd vegetation. At once grotesque and vertiginous, Itō interweaves mythologies, language, sexuality, and place into a
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The Thorn Puller
Hiromi Itō and Jeffrey Angles
Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize Caught between two cultures, award-winning author Hiromi Ito tackles subjects like aging, death, and suffering with dark humor, illuminating the bittersweet joys of being alive. The first novel to appear in English by award-winning author Hiromi Ito explores the absurdities, complexities, and challenges experienced by a woman caring for her two families: her husband and daughters in California and her aging parents in Japan.
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Breaking the Silence: Anthology of Liberian Poetry
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Named a Notable African Book of 2023 by Brittle Paper Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since before the nation's independence. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley has gathered work from the 1800s to the present, including poets and emerging young writers exploring contemporary literary traditions with African and African diaspora poetry that transcends borders. In this collection, Liberia's founding settlers wrestle with their identity as African free slaves in the homeland
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Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines
Jeffrey H. Jackson and Stanley C. Pelkey
This book begins with a simple question: Why haven't historians and musicologists been talking to one another?
Historians frequently look to all aspects of human activity, including music, in order to better understand the past. Musicologists inquire into the social, cultural, and historical contexts of musical works and musical practices to develop theories about the meanings of compositions and the significance of musical creation. Both disciplines examine how people represent their experiences. This collection of
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Responsible Communication: Ethical Issues in Business, Industry, and the Professions
James A. Jaska and Michael Pritchard
Technological developments often place people at risk, globally, internationally or locally. Exploring ethical concerns about communications in such risk areas, this volume considers to what extent international, ethical or moral standards can be formulated to deal with such risks.
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An Archaeology of Disbelief
Edward Jayne
An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention. Some mentioned the Homeric gods, but others did not. Atomists and Sophists identified themselves as agnostics if not outright atheists, and in reaction Plato featured transcendent spiritual authority. However, Aristotle offered a physical cosmology justified by evidence from a variety of scientific fields. He also revisited many pre-Socratic assumptions by proposing that existence
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