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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Secularization, Desecularization, and Toleration: Cross-Disciplinary Challenges to a Modern Myth
Vyacheslav G. Karpov
This book challenges the modern myth that tolerance grows as societies become less religious. The myth inseparably links the progress of toleration to the secularization of modern society. This volume scrutinizes this grand narrative theoretically and empirically, and proposes alternative accounts of the varied relationships between diverse interpretations of religion and secularity and multiple secularizations, desecularizations, and forms of toleration. The authors show how both secular and religious orthodoxies inform toleration and persecution, and how
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Prague Winter
Richard Katrovas
Prague's Velvet Revolution changed Richard Katrovas's life and values profoundly, and Prague Winter reflects those changes. Katrovas bears witness to the remarkable transformation of one of the world's great cities, laying bare his life not in the spirit of confession so much as in solidarity with all who dare to change. Prague Winter chronicles and signs one American's view of Central Europe's metamorphosis, and how that perspective redirected his journey through midlife.
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Raising Girls in Bohemia: Meditations of an American Father: A Memoir in Essays
Richard Katrovas
A provocative collection of personal and political essays by an American writer, Raising Girls in Bohemia chronicles the life of a father raising three perfectly bilingual, culturally bifurcated, Czech-American daughters. While tracing what fatherhood has taught him about the world, Katrovas delves into a range of intricately related yet far-flung subjects including fine dining, sexual epithets, gender identity, racism, poetry, and education, tracing the contours of his ignorance about all things. Through the course of
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Scorpio Rising : Selected Poems
Richard Katrovas
Culled from six previous collections, Scorpio Rising: Selected Poems, is the culmination of a thirty-five-year career. Katrovas's early poems reflect a harrowing childhood on the highways of America as his parents fled the FBI. They also probe the gas-lit backstreets of New Orleans's French Quarter where "the protean human heart/is nature's crime against us." Witness to Prague's Velvet Revolution while on a Fulbright Fellowship, Katrovas in his later poems meditates upon his own American identity
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Swastika into Lotus
Richard Katrovas
In Swastika into Lotus, Richard Katrovas, a "punk formalist," casts a wary eye on poetry, poetry readings, higher education, the UFO cottage industry, organized religion, fine dining, climate change denial, and national right-wing politics. The book's humor is dark, by turns self-deprecating and fierce, and yet many of the poems are unabashed in their assertions of both filial and romantic love. Heaving traditionally "formal" verse through a looking glass, Katrovas has produced a book that
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The Years of Smashing Bricks : An Anecdotal Memoir
Richard Katrovas
The Years of Smashing Bricks is about sex, drugs and karate in Coronado and San Diego, California, in the early '70s. It’s a memoir in the form of interlocking stories, and reaches back into Richard Katrovas’s odd childhood on the highways of America with criminal parents, and into his teens in Sasebo, Japan, with adoptive parents on a U.S. Navy base. Having earned a second-degree black belt in Sho-bu-kan Okinawa-te in the late '60s, at
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Woman with a Cat on Her Shoulder and Other Riffs
Richard Katrovas
A poetic meditation on the terror of extinction. The Woman with a Cat on Her Shoulder is a gathering of "punk formalist" lyrics that collectively are a meditation not on mortality so much as on the terror of extinction, how that terror is the reservoir of love. Katrovas declaims from the margins of faith, the cliff edge of doubt, seeking to measure the conductivity of private troubles to public issues. Katrovas' "riffs" are verse essays
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Crimes of the American Nuclear State: At Home and Abroad
David Kauzlarich and Ronald C. Kramer
In this penetrating analysis of our government's policies, David Kauzlarich and Ronald C. Kramer describe acts related to the manufacture, deployment, and testing of nuclear weapons that violate both international and federal regulatory law.
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Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again
Shigeru Kayama and Jeffrey Angles
The first English translations of the original novellas about the iconic kaijū Godzilla Godzilla emerged from the sea to devastate Tokyo in the now-classic 1954 film, produced by Tōhō Studios and directed by Ishirō Honda, creating a global sensation and launching one of the world's most successful movie and media franchises. Awakened and transformed by nuclear weapons testing, Godzilla serves as a terrifying metaphor for humanity's shortsighted destructiveness: this was the intent of Shigeru Kayama,
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Global Perspectives on Medieval English Literature, Language, and Culture
Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. and Richard Scott Nokes
The twelve essays in this volume proceed from a modern fantasy-epic back in time to oral epics that have been transmitted through the technology of manuscripts, and central in the collection are two articles that address Chaucer's Middle English courtly epic, Troilus and Criseyde. Each, in its own way, presents a global perspective on its subject, whether by comparing texts, by considering textual transmission through translation, or by contrasting medieval issues with developing global movements.
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The Digital Era of Learning: Novel Educational Strategies and Challenges for Teaching Students in the 21st Century
Christopher S. Keator
Students of the 21st century, typically those of the Millennial (also referred to as Gen Y') or Gen Z generations, were born into a digitally advanced world. Unlike in the 1960's when the smallest computers occupied entire rooms at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) complex, today's digital landscape is smitten with the abundant use of modern laptops, tablets and smart phones. Modern computing technology has evolved due to the marriage with extremely powerful
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Quaternary Glaciation of the Great Lakes Region: Process, Landforms, Sediments, and Chronology
Alan E. Kehew
Quaternary Glaciation of the Great Lakes Region: Process, Landforms, Sediments, and Chronology
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Applied Chemical Hydrogeology
Alan E. Kehew
Offers an overall introduction to the field of chemical hydrology, useful to professionals from a wide variety of training backgrounds. Provides working professionals with an all-in-one source of reference to hydrogeological literature. Brings together basic concepts from organic chemistry and microbiology to support their applications to hydrogeology and presents examples from the literature that use these concepts. The emphasis is on practical, real-world problems, with coverage of the theoretical basics but a focus on applications.
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Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance
Lauron Jockwig Kehrer
Notions of hip hop authenticity, as expressed both within hip hop communities and in the larger American culture, rely on the construction of the rapper as a Black, masculine, heterosexual, cisgender man who enacts a narrative of struggle and success. In Queer Voices in Hip Hop , Lauron Kehrer turns our attention to openly queer and trans rappers and positions them within a longer Black queer musical lineage. Combining musical, textual, and visual analysis with
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International Handbook of Educational Evaluation: Part One: Perspectives / Part Two: Practice
Thomas Kellaghan, Daniel L. Stufflebeam, and Lori A. Wingate
Thomas Kellaghan Educational Research Centre, St. Patrick's College, Dublin, Ireland Daniel L. Stufflebeam The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, Ml, USA Lori A. Wingate The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, Ml, USA Educational evaluation encompasses a wide array of activities, including student assessment, measurement, testing, program evaluation, school personnel evalua tion, school accreditation, and curriculum evaluation. It occurs at all levels of education systems, from the individual student evaluations carried out by class room teachers,
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The Myth and Magic of Library Systems
Keith J. Kelley
The Myth and Magic of Library Systems not only defines what library systems are, but also provides guidance on how to run a library systems department. It is aimed at librarians or library administrations tasked with managing, or using, a library systems department. This book focuses on different scenarios regarding career changes for librarians and the ways they may have to interact with library systems, including examples that speak to IT decision-making responsibilities, work as
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The Economics of Natural and Unnatural Disasters
William S. Kern
The essays presented here give the reader a sample of the sort of research now being undertaken on the economics of disasters. Several themes long dominant in this literature are thoroughly discussed. These include the ability of potential disaster victims to accurately assess the risks they face, the role of incentives in ensuring that mitigation efforts are undertaken, the adequacy of our evaluation of the impact of disasters on economies, and discussion of the effectiveness
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The Economics of Sports
William S. Kern and W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
The contributors to this book, all economists at the forefront of the movement to study the economics of sports, show how a host of contemporary economic issues come into play in today's world of big-time sports.
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How Do We Spend Our Time?: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Jean Kimmel
After years of study the Bureau of Labor Statistics initiated the annual American Time Use Survey in which respondents report how they spend their time, these detailed data open a window on how americans spend their time and afford economists the opportunity to gain a better understanding of everyday life.
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Intergenerational Mobility: How Gender, Race, and Family Structure Affect Adult Outcomes
Jean Kimmel
This volume presents a complex portrait of the interrelationships among parents marital status and education, child gender, and the nature and success of children's transitions into adulthood. The first three chapters focus on differences in parents investments in their children, while the final three chapters focus directly on intergenerational income mobility
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Intergenerational Mobility: How Gender, Race, and Family Structure Affect Adult Outcomes
Jean Kimmel
This volume presents a complex portrait of the interrelationships among parents marital status and education, child gender, and the nature and success of children's transitions into adulthood. The first three chapters focus on differences in parents investments in their children, while the final three chapters focus directly on intergenerational income mobility
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The Economics of Work and Family
Jean Kimmel and Emily P. Hoffman
Conflicts arise daily among American families over how to balance the demands of work and family. At risk is nothing less than the economic security of the family and the bonds between parents and children that are so important and rewarding. The issues fueling the work/family struggle attract researchers interested not only in spotting and tracking trends that highlight the difficulties families face, but in finding policy solutions to those difficulties that are effective and
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Elementary mathematics curriculum materials: designs for student learning and teacher enactment
Ok-Kyeong Kim
The book presents comparative analyses of five elementary mathematics curriculum programs used in the U.S. from three different perspectives: the mathematical emphasis, the pedagogical approaches, and how authors communicate with teachers. These perspectives comprise a framework for examining what curriculum materials are comprised of, what is involved in reading and interpreting them, and how curriculum authors can and do support teachers in this process. Although the focus of the analysis is 5 programs used at
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