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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What's Public About Charter Schools?: Lessons Learned About Choice and Accountability
Gary Miron and Christopher D. Nelson
This book is a valuable tool for analyzing the success of the private/public hybrid in serving the core purpose of public education.
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Exploring the School Choice Universe: Evidence and Recommendations
Gary Miron, Kevin G. Welner, Patricia H. Hinchey, and William J. Mathis
A comprehensive, complete picture of choice policies and issues. Examines choice in its various forms: charter schools, home schooling, online schooling, voucher plans that allow students to use taxpayer funds to attend private schools, tuition tax credit plans that provide a public subsidy for private school tuition, and magnet schools and other forms of public school intra- and interdistrict choice. It brings together some of the top researchers in the field, presenting a comprehensive overview
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Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana
Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler
The Jie people of northern Uganda and the Turkana of northern Kenya have a genesis myth about Nayeche, a Jie woman who followed the footprints of a gray bull across the waterless plateau and who founded a "cradle land" in the plains of Turkana. In Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro, Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler shows how the poetic journey of Nayeche and the gray bull Engiro and their metaphorical return during the Jie harvest
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Shugendo: Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion
Hitoshi Miyake
Essays on the structure of of Japanese folk religion.
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Concepts in Enterprise Resource Planning
Ellen F. Monk, Bret J. Wagner, and Ellen F. Monk
Learn how to master and maximize enterprise resource planning (ERP) software -- which continues to grow in importance in business today -- with Monk/Wagner's CONCEPTS IN ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING, 4E. Readers discover how to use ERP tools to increase growth and productivity while reviewing how to effectively combine an organization's numerous functions into one comprehensive, integrated system. CONCEPTS IN ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING, 4E reflects the latest trends and updates in ERP software as well as
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Parody, the Avant-Garde, and the Poetics of Subversion in Oliverio Girondo
Patricia Montilla
Oliverio Girondo is a leading figure of the Spanish American avant-garde. Parody, the Avant-Garde, and the Poetics of Subversion in Oliverio Girondo examines the presence and function of parody in Girondo’s early poetry and drawings. It illustrates how, through the subversion of both conventional and vanguard poetics, these texts discredit the values imposed upon artistic production by institutionalized models and social codes. This book assesses the extent to which Girondo followed the theories outlined in
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Latinos and American Popular Culture
Patricia M. Montilla
According to the 2010 Census, Latinos represent more than 16 percent of the total population and are the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States. Their vast contributions to popular culture are visible in nearly every aspect of American life and are as diverse as the countries and cultures of origin with which Latinos identify themselves. This book provides a historical overview of the developments in U.S. Latino culture and highlights the most
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Courageous Training: Bold Actions for Business Results
Tim Mooney and Robert O. Brinkerhoff
For years there have been dozens of books about training and how to do it more effectively, with more impact, with greater focus on performance, and so on, and on. Yet despite the surge of books and advice over the past decade, training departments continue to struggle to produce concrete results, and the value of training is constantly questioned. But some "upstarts" are achieving results in a radical, non-traditional way in small pockets around the
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Evidence-based educational methods
Daniel J. Moran and Richard W. Malott
Evidence-Based Educational Methods answers the challenge of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 by promoting evidence-based educational methods designed to improve student learning. Behavioral scientists have been refining these instructional methods for decades before the current call for evidence-based education. Precision Teaching, Direct Instruction, Computerized Teaching, Personalized System of Instruction, and other unique applications of behavior analysis are all informed by the scientific principles of learning, have been tested in the laboratory, and
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Improving Road Safety in Developing Countries: Opportunities for U.S. Cooperation and Engagement
Joseph Morris
Special report for the National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board.
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Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories
Melinda Moustakis
In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Born in Alaska herself to a family with a homesteading legacy, Moustakis examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness that are her inheritance and probes the question of what it means to live up to larger-than-life expectations for toughness and survival.
The characters in Bear Down, Bear North are salt-tongued fishermen, fisherwomen, and
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Kitāb Dustūr Al-Gharāʼib Wa-Maʻdan Al-Raghāʼib Wa-Nuṣūṣ Ukhrá: Murāsalāt Muḥammad Al-Bakrī Al-Ṣiddīqī, 1524-1586
Mustafa Mughazy
This is the first publication of the official correspondence of the leading religious scholar and literary figure, Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Bakri al-Siddiqi al-Shafi'i Sibt Al al-Hasan. It provides a window into the world of an influential religious scholar in sixteenth century Cairo and his network of contacts in the Ottoman Empire and beyond. Muhammad al-Bakri corresponded with Sultan Murad III, the grand vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, and with various officials in Mecca, including
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The Georgetown Guide to Arabic-English Translation
Mustafa Mughazy
"Translation is like a reverse-engineering process―whereby, say, we might take apart a clock made of metal parts in order to build a functioning replica made entirely of plastic. Our final product will not look the same as the original clock, and it would be impossible to simply copy the designs of its inner workings, because plastic and metals have very different properties. For example, we cannot make small plastic springs or very thin gears of
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Turjumān al-asrār : wa-dīwān sayyidinā wa-mawlānā al-ustādh al-aʻẓam wa-al-malādh al-afkham al-Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī al-Shāfiʻī al-Ashʻarī sibṭ Āl al-Ḥasan /
Mustafa Mughazy and Adam Sabra
Based on a study of twelve Arabic manuscripts, The Interpreter of Secrets is a critical edition of the entire surviving corpus of the poetry of Muhammad ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Bakri (930-994/1524-1586), a leading jurist, Sufi, and literary figure in sixteenth-century Cairo. The texts of the poems are accompanied by a critical apparatus including all of the plausible variant readings and alternative versions of the poems. Al-Bakri was a major literary figure, and his Sufi poetry
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A History of Business in Medieval Europe
James Murray and Edwin S. Hunt
This book demolishes the widely held view that the phrase 'medieval business' is an oxymoron. The authors review the entire range of business in medieval western Europe, probing its Roman and Christian heritage to discover the economic and political forces that shaped the organization of agriculture, manufacturing, construction, mining, transportation and marketing. Businessmen's responses to the devastating plagues, famines, and warfare that beset Europe in the late Middle Ages are equally well covered. Medieval businessmen's
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Bruges, Cradle of Capitalism, 1280-1390
James M. Murray
Medieval Bruges provides an early model of a great capitalist city. This book examines the factors which contributed to Bruges' economic success such as the shift to sea-borne commerce and the efforts of the city's population to fashion a great commercial center. With its study of diverse topics such as the city's political history, its advantageous communications position, the wool, cloth and gold trade and the role of women in the market, the volume offers
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Small-diameter Trees Used for Chemithermomechanical Pulps
Gary C. Myers, R. James Barbour, and Said M. AbuBakr
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Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era
Christopher C. Nagle
Drawing together theoretically informed literary history and the cultural history of sexuality, friendship, and affective relations, this is the first study to trace fully the influence of this notorious yet often undervalued cultural tradition on British Romanticism, a movement that both draws on and resists Sensibility's excessive embodiments of non-normative pleasure. Offering a broad consideration of literary genres while balancing the contributions of both canonical and non-canonical male and female writers, this bold new study
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An Introduction to Korean Culture
Andrew C. Nahm and John H. Koo
This book is intended to meet the needs of the general reader. Major aspects of traditional, as well as modern Korean culture are discussed reputable scholars specializing in particular fields, and each chapter is prepared specifically to introduce a particular aspect of culture. A brief survey of Korean history and other cultural information are provided to enable the reader to fully appreciate the roots of Korean culture and the ways in which it has grown
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American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture
Ilana Nash
Teenage girls seem to have been discovered by American pop culture in the 1930s. From that time until the present day, they have appeared in books and films, comics and television, as the embodied fantasies and nightmares of youth, women, and sexual maturation. Looking at such figures as Nancy Drew, Judy Graves, Corliss Archer, Gidget, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Britney Spears, American Sweethearts shows how popular culture has shaped our view of the adolescent
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Fort St. Joseph Revealed: The Historical Archaeology of a Fur Trading Post
Michael Nassaney
Fort St. Joseph Revealed is the first synthesis of archaeological and documentary data on one of the most important French colonial outposts in the western Great Lakes region. Located in what is now Michigan, Fort St. Joseph was home to a flourishing fur trade society from the 1680s to 1781. Material evidence of the site?lost for centuries?was discovered in 1998 by volume editor Michael Nassaney and his colleagues, who summarize their extensive excavations at the
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The Archaeology of the North American Fur Trade
Michael S. Nassaney
"A fine piece of scholarship. . . . A solid introduction to the archaeology of the fur trade, as well as to the myriad archaeological issues associated with colonial interaction."--American Antiquity"Impressive and ambitious, covering centuries of time and much of the North American continent. . . . Admirably balances the enormous numbers of sites, peoples, historical events, and colonial enterprises with some of the important research directions that have defined and are defining the field
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