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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Towards A Democratic Nepal
Mahendra Lawoti
This book analyses the problem of the increasing political exclusion of ethnic, caste and gender groups in democratic Nepal and discusses its consequences for democracy and the stability of the country. While outlining alternative democratic institutions and proposing specific institutions that can include the diverse socio-cultural groups in Nepal, this book:
- analyses the Maoist insurgency, arguing that political exclusion was a major cause for its genesis and growth;
- examines the causes for the
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Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict : Identities and Mobilization After 1990
Mahendra Lawoti and Susan Hangen
Identity movements, based on ethnicity, caste, language, religion and regional identity, have become increasingly significant in Nepal, reshaping debates on the definition of the nation, nationalism and the structure of the state. This book analyzes the rapid rise in ethnic and nationalist mobilization and conflict since 1990, the dynamics and trajectories of these movements, and their consequences for Nepal.
From an interdisciplinary perspective, the book looks at the roots of mobilization and conflicts, the reasons
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The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal: Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
Mahendra Lawoti and Anup K. Pahari
The book deals with the dynamics and growth of a violent 21st century communist rebellion initiated in Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) – CPN(M). It contextualizes and explains why and how a violent Maoist insurgency grew in Nepal after the end of the Cold War, in contrast to the decline of other radical communist movements in most parts of the world.
Scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds employ a wide variety of approaches
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Speech Audiometry
Gary Lawson and Mary Peterson
Like other books in the Core Clinical Concepts in Audiology Series, Speech Audiometry will be particularly helpful and appealing to students and clinicians. The intent is to provide a single, easy to manage volume that provides broad coverage of speech audiometry and masking in clinical protocols. In addition to providing appropriate background information, the coverage is easy to read and presents a broad spectrum of assessment tools ranging from traditional to modern. Procedures in this
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Thermal Design: Heat Sinks, Thermoelectrics, Heat Pipes, Compact Heat Exchangers, and Solar Cells
HoSung Lee
The proposed is written as a senior undergraduate or the first-year graduate textbook,covering modern thermal devices such as heat sinks, thermoelectric generators and coolers, heat pipes, and heat exchangers as design components in larger systems. These devices are becoming increasingly important and fundamental in thermal design across such diverse areas as microelectronic cooling, green or thermal energy conversion, and thermal control and management in space, etc. However, there is no textbook available covering this rangeof
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Ottumwa
Michael Lemberger and Wilson J. Warren
Long one of Iowa's most important industrial cities, Ottumwa was established on the banks of the Des Moines River in 1843. The river was both a blessing, providing transportation as well as ice for early meatpacking plants, and a curse, inundating the city with periodic floods until it was tamed in the latter half of the 20th century. This collection of vintage photographs highlights the city's industries and laboring people, the river's role in the
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A Guide to Surviving a Career in Academia : Navigating the Rites of Passage
Emily Lenning, Sara Brightman, and Susan Caringella
Navigating an academic career is a complex process – to be successful requires mastering several 'rites of passage.' This comprehensive guide takes academics at all stages of their career through a journey, beginning at graduate school and ending with retirement.
A Guide to Surviving a Career in Academiais written from a feminist perspective, and draws on the information offered in workshops conducted at national meetings like the American Society of Criminology and the Society for
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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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