All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors

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 Archaeological Northeast

Mary Ann Levine, Michael Nassaney, and Kenneth E. Sassaman

Despite the advances made in archaeology over the past generation, the Northeast remains the most misunderstood of all the archaeological regions of North America. With a complex environmental history shaped by ice sheets from the last glaciation, and highly acidic soils characteristic of the area, the kinds of organic artifacts found in other areas have been destroyed in the Northeast. The result is a sometimes evasive, particularly complicated, and always fragmentary archaeological record. As the
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Knowledge and Interaction: A Synthetic Agenda for the Learning Sciences

Mariana Levin

Decades of research in the cognitive and learning sciences have led to a growing recognition of the incredibly multi-faceted nature of human knowing and learning. Up to now, this multifaceted nature has been visible mostly in distinct and often competing communities of researchers. From a purely scientific perspective, "siloed" science--where different traditions refuse to speak with one another, or merely ignore one another--is unacceptable. This ambitious volume attempts to kick-start a serious, new line of
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Substance Abuse Counseling

Judith A. Lewis, Robert Q. Dana, and Gregory A. Blevins

SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELING, Fifth Edition, provides a sound, practical overview of substance abuse counseling. The book is at the cutting edge of the addiction field, combining a focus on the most current empirical studies with a firm belief that clients must be treated with a collaborative and respectful approach. These core values lay the basis for individualized treatment planning, attention to the client's social environment, a multicultural perspective, and a recognition that client advocacy is
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Religion as a human capacity : a festschrift in honor of E. Thomas Lawson

Timothy Light and Brian C. Wilson

Prepared in honor of E. Thomas Lawson, the essays in Religion as a Human Capacity represent diverse points of view in the study of religion today. Part I, Theoretical Studies, offers a broad range of cognitivist theoretical explorations, while Part II, Studies in Religious Behavior, presents cutting-edge applications of cognitive and other contemporary theories to religious data. This volume celebrates Lawson s critical contributions to cognitive studies of religion and the degree to which his
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Shopper, Buyer, and Consumer Behavior: Theory, Marketing Applications and Public Policy Implications

Jay D. Lindquist and M. Joseph Sirgy

Consumerism at its best! This up-to-date text focuses on consumer shopping, buying and consumption behavior topics looking at both domestic and international theory and examples. It is divided into sections on marketing foundations, consumer decision making, psychological and sociological influences on consumer decision making, and special topics relating to public policy, organizational buying and conducting research. The principles presented have application in not-for-profit and for-profit settings. A series of relevant cases are also included.

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Microfluid Mechanics: Principles and Modeling

William W. Liou and Yichuan Fang

The rapid progress in fabricating and utilizing microelectromechanical (MEMS) systems during the last decade is not matched by corresponding understanding of the unconventional fluid flow involved in the operation and manufacture of these small devices. Providing such understanding is crucial to designing, optimizing, fabricating and operating improved MEMS devices. Microfluid Mechanics: Principles and Modeling is a rigorous reference that begins with the fundamental principles governing microfluid mechanics and progresses to more complex mathematical models, which
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The ROI of Pricing: Measuring the Impact and Making the Business Case

Stephan Liozu and Andreas Hinterhuber

As with executives and managers in so many other business functions, pricing specialists are being challenged more and more to substantiate the added value of their activities. Pricing is a core function of every business, and needs not only to contribute positively to short- and long-term results, but also to document its impact to the bottom line. A fundamental part of this is the pricing ROI calculations.

This book, edited by globally renowned thought leaders
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Docudrama Performs the Past : Arenas of Argument in Films Based on True Stories

Steven Lipkin

Docudramas, films and movies-of-the-week based on true stories, offer their audiences performance as persuasion. As docudramas re-create actual people and events, these works perform their material. the premises of docudramas' persuasive arguments operate within the basic settings that stage performances of noteworthy events, the events of war, and the lives of noteworthy individuals. In performing the past, docudramas offer us a performance of memory. Through docudramatic performance, the memories of others become ours. the performance
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Real Emotional Logic: Film and Television Docudrama as Persuasive Practice

Steven N. Lipkin

Analyzing docudrama as a mode of argument, Steven N. Lipkin explores the ethical, historical, and ideological functions of docudrama to discover why these films based on true stories offer such appealing story lines. That appeal, Lipkin discovers, is rooted in docudrama’s representation of actual people and events by means of melodramatic narrative structures that play on the emotions of the viewer.

The dual nature of docudramas—blending narrative and documentary style— argues for a moral view
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Creating a Healthy School Using the Healthy School Report Card

David Lohrmann, Sandra Vamos, and Paul Yeung

Successful students are not only knowledgeable but also emotionally and physically healthy, motivated, civically engaged, prepared for work and economic self-sufficiency, and ready for the world beyond their own borders. To help students meet this standard, a school must use a coordinated, evidence-based approach that supports learning, teaching and student growth in short, the school must create a healthy school community. This action tool, and accompanying online scoring and analysis tool, offers a practical strategy
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Confluencias y demarcaciones: generaciones literarias y expresiones estéticas en la novela mexicana, 1998-2008

Irma López

La autora estudia la trayectoria de las dos generaciones de escritoras mexicanas que definieron algunas tendencias de la literatura mexicana de finales del siglo XX y principios del XXI, recorriendo sus obras más representativas. Del mismo modo, revisa las propuestas estilísticas que sustentan dichas obras, así como el manejo de los temas y el interés por construir una poética que dé cuenta de la estética actual.

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Extraño No-Amor el Tuyo : María Luisa Puga, Historia de una Pasión

Irma López

Extraño no-amor el tuyo traza la afición de Puga por la escritura y su desarrollo artistico en base a sus 327 diarios; se adentra en espacios intimos y recorridos geográficos nunca antes visitados y que se inician en la infancia al morir la madre y continuan cuando viaja a Londres en busca de Virginia Woolf. Este peregrinaja existencial ileno de sorpresas inusitadas y anécdotas convomedoras y humoristas revelan la imagen de una joven resuelta y
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China's Economic Globalization through the WTO

Ding Lu, Guanzhong James Wen, and Huizhong Zhou

This work provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of policy development and change in China in the context of China's accession to the World Trade Organization. The contributors to the volume provide a unique mix of outsider and insider perspectives and should ensure a valuable assessment. The authors of the first two papers are principal researchers in Chinese government institutions directly or indirectly involved in policy making towards foreign trade and economic cooperation. Their views
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La Vie seint Marcel de Lymoges

Molly Lynde-Recchia and Wauchier de Denain

La Vie seint Marcel de Lymoges, témoin capital de la première prose hagiographique française, raconte la légende de saint Martial, évangélisateur de l'Aquitaine et fondateur de l'évêché de Limoges. Martial, baptisé en présence du Christ et promu témoin de la Résurrection, partage avec les apôtres les pouvoirs que ces derniers reçurent du Saint Esprit. Sur l'injonction du Christ qui lui est apparu, saint Pierre, proche parent de Martial, envoie le jeune confesseur à Limoges pour
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Inequality, poverty, and neoliberal governance : activist ethnography in the homeless sheltering industry

Vincent Lyon-Callo

Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry? Drawing upon five years of ethnographic fieldwork in a homeless shelter in Northampton, Massachusetts, Lyon-Callo argues that homelessness must be understood within the context of increasing neoliberal policies, practices, and discourses. As advocates, activists, policy makers, and homeless people focused attention on market-based and individualized
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The Kalamazoo Automobilist

David O. Lyon

The year is 1891 and Kalamazoo inventor J. B. Rhodes is tinkering with his most impressive creation yet––an operable steam wagon that could be propelled down the streets of Kalamazoo, Michigan without the aid of horses. Steam-powered vehicles had traveled the roads in other towns as early as 1805, but Rhodes‚ wagon holds a special place in history as Kalamazoo's first "horseless carriage," marking the very beginning of a frenzy that some called "horseless-carriageitis." By
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For Shade and For Comfort: Democratizing Horticulture in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest

Cheryl Lyon-Jenness

For Shade and for Comfort explores the unprecedented burst of horticulture interest in the nineteenth-century, and documents its influence on midwestern domestic landscapes. With its careful portrayal of actual ornamental plant use and its examination of nineteenth-century horticultural advice literature and nursery and seed trades, For Shade and for Comfort will appeal to rural, cultural, and environmental historians of the midwest, and those readers who simply love horticulture and gardening.

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Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall

Daniel Macfarlane

Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing facade designed to appeal to tourists. Essentially, this natural wonder is now a tap: huge tunnels channel the waters of the Niagara River around the Falls, which ebb and flow according to the tourism calendar.

Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the technological feats and cross-border politics that facilitated the transformation of one of the most important natural sites in
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Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations

Daniel MacFarlane

No two nations have exchanged natural resources, produced transborder environmental agreements, or cooperatively altered ecosystems on the same scale as Canada and the United States. Environmental and energy diplomacy have profoundly shaped both countries' economies, politics, and landscapes for over 150 years. Natural Allies looks at the history of US-Canada relations through an environmental lens. From fisheries in the late nineteenth century to oil pipelines in the twenty-first century, Daniel Macfarlane recounts the scores of
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Negotiating a River: Canada, the US, and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway

Daniel Macfarlane

A megaproject half a century in the making, the planning and building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project is one of the defining episodes in North American history. Possibly the largest construction undertaking in Canadian history, and one of the most ambitious borderlands projects ever embarked upon by two countries, it also required decades of negotiation and the controversial relocation of thousands of people. Negotiating a River looks at the profound impacts of
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Evaluation Models: Viewpoints on Educational and Human Services Evaluation

George F. Madaus, M. Scriven, and D. L. Stufflebeam

Attempting fonnally to evaluate something involves the evaluator coming to grips with a number of abstract concepts such as value, merit, worth, growth, criteria, standards, objectives, needs, nonns, client, audience, validity, reliability, objectivity, practical significance, accountability, improvement, process, pro duct, fonnative, summative, costs, impact, infonnation, credibility, and - of course - with the ten evaluation itself. To communicate with colleagues and clients, evaluators need to clarify what they mean when they use such tenns to
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More than a Skeleton

Paul Maier

Joshua Ben-Yosef attracts a huge following. He was born in Nazareth to parents name Mary and Joseph and speaks more than a dozen languages―fluently and without accent. His words ripple with wisdom and authority. And the crowds that follow him are enthralled as he heals the sick, gives sight to the blind, casts out demons, and even raises the dead.

Is Dr. Merton, the well-known leader and author of end-times books, correct about the return
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Eusebius: The Church History

Paul L. Maier

Often called the "Father of Church History," Eusebius was the first to trace the rise of Christianity during its crucial first three centuries from Christ to Constantine. Our principal resource for earliest Chrisitianity, The Church History presents a panorama of apostles, church fathers, emperors, bishops, heroes, heretics, confessors, and martyrs.

This paperback edition includes Paul L. Maier's clear and precise translation, historical commentary on each book in The Church History, and numerous maps, illustrations, and
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The Constantine Codex

Paul L. Maier

Harvard Professor Jonathan Weber is finally enjoying a season of peace when a shocking discovery thrusts him into the national spotlight once again. While touring monasteries in Greece, Jon and his wife Shannon-a seasoned archaeologist-uncover an ancient biblical manuscript containing the lost ending of Mark and an additional book of the Bible. If proven authentic, the codex could forever change the way the world views the holy Word of God. As Jon and Shannon work
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Principles of Behavior

Richard Malott

This book offers a solid introduction to the principles of behavior using a clear, interesting, entertaining style with many case studies, and everyday examples. It maintains a high level of intellectual rigor, addressing fundamental concepts at the beginning of each chapter with more advanced topics left for one of the two enrichment sections within each chapter. Chapter topics cover the reinforcer, reinforcement, escape, punishment, penalty, extinction and recovery, differential reinforcement and punishment, shaping, unlearned reinforcers
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