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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Interpretations of Native North American Life: Material Contributions to Ethnohistory
Michael S. Nassaney and Eric S. Johnson
"A thoughtful, disciplined, and useful work. . . . The issue of how to interpret North American Native cultures, in all their complexity and diversity, is one that historians, archaeologists, and other behavioral scientists have wrestled with for a long time. This volume is an interesting indicator of where that struggle currently stands."--James W. Bradley, director, Robert S. Peabody Museum, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts"A useful, interesting, and up-to-date introduction to how scholars are using material
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Archaeology and Community Service Learning
Michael S. Nassaney and Mary Ann Levine
"Highlights the important role of archaeology and community service learning in transforming higher education into a progressive force that challenges contemporary social inequality through empowering students to work collaboratively in uncovering the silenced histories of oppressed and exploited groups."--Howard Rosing, DePaul University
"Nassaney and Levine examine how CSL can contribute to what they see as the 'necessary reform' of archaeological pedagogy in the United States."--Maureen Malloy, Society for American Archaeology
In recent years, a number
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Achieving High Educational Standards for All
National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences Board on Behavioral; Catherine E. Snow; Christopher Edley Jr.; and Timothy Ready
This volume summarizes a range of scientific perspectives on the important goal of achieving high educational standards for all students. Based on a conference held at the request of the U.S. Department of Education, it addresses three questions: What progress has been made in advancing the education of minority and disadvantaged students since the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision nearly 50 years ago? What does research say about the reasons of successes and
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Achieving High Educational Standards for All: Conference Summary
National Research Council, Timothy Ready, Christopher Edley Jr., and Catherine E. Snow
This volume summarizes a range of scientific perspectives on the important goal of achieving high educational standards for all students. Based on a conference held at the request of the U.S. Department of Education, it addresses three questions: What progress has been made in advancing the education of minority and disadvantaged students since the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision nearly 50 years ago? What does research say about the reasons of successes and
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Building Bridges: Inventing and Sustaining School/University Partnerships that Nurture Professional Growth
Lynn Nations-Johnson
Table of Contents:
- Preface / Stefinee Pennegar, Lynnette Erickson, Brigham Young University
- Section I: The birth and development of a schoo/university partnership
- chapter 1. Bringing order and clarity out of a fractured system : building a school/university partnership ; chapter 2. The persistent growth and development of the school university partnership team in the midst of change and challenge / Lynn Nations Johnson, Western Michigan University
- Section II: Some confounding factors in bridge building
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Language and Literacy Disorders: Infancy through Adolescence
Nickola W. Nelson
Organized with a clear framework and student-friendly learning supports, this textbook helps graduate and undergraduate students gain essential knowledge that can inform, and transform, their work with children who need special assistance to acquire language and literacy abilities to meet multiple communication and learning needs.
Featuring content and questions that encourage deeper thinking about the nature of disordered and normal development, this text makes assessment and intervention practices relevant to contexts of home, classroom, and
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Childhood Language Disorders in Context: Infancy through Adolescence
Nickola W. Nelson
This is a MAJOR revision of the previous edition. The language has become more accessible to readers, and material has been updated and included throughout. Speech-language pathologists of all levels of experience will turn to this comprehensive overview of language disorders across the childhood years. This book provides readers with information, instructional goals, and strategies within a systems framework to guide treatment of language disorders from infancy through adolescence in the context of
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The writing lab approach to language instruction and intervention
Nickola Wolf Nelson, Christine M. Bahr, and Adelia M. Van Meter
This guidebook gives educators an exciting new approach to improving language and writing skills for all students. Developed through a decade of work with elementary and middle school children, the Writing Lab Approach uses computer-supported activities to encourage student progress in each stage of the writing process, from organizing to editing. The book focuses on three key components -- writing process instruction, computer supports, and inclusive practices -- and gives readers a primer on how
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Business Ethics and Society
Lisa H. Newton, Elaine E. Englehardt, and Michael Pritchard
The Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill Create™ includes current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. This Collection contains a multitude of current and classic issues to enhance and customize your course. You can browse the entire Taking Sides Collection on Create, or you can search by topic, author, or keywords. Each Taking Sides issues is thoughtfully framed with Learning Outcomes, an Issue Summary, an Introduction,
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Deadbeat
Jay Baron Nicorvo
Jay Baron Nicorvo's debut collection revolves around a central character, called Deadbeat--a descendant of John Berryman's Mr. Bones, Marvin Bell's Dead Man and Ted Hughes's Crow, to name an irrepressible few. The poems weave together a domestic narrative as Deadbeat himself muddles through courtship, marriage, divorce, estrangement and, of course, fatherhood. An effigy for America and our culture of recession, Deadbeat is brought to life with honesty, sympathy and love in all of its complications.
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How Other People Make Love
Thisbe Nissen
In How Other People Make Love, Thisbe Nissen chronicles the lives and choices of people questioning the heteronormative institution of marriage. Not best-served by established conventions and conventional mores, these people-young, old, gay, straight, midwestern, coastal-are finding their own paths in learning who they are and how they want to love and be loved, even when those paths must be blazed through the unknown. Concerning husbands and wives, lovers and leavers, Nissen's stories explore our
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Osprey Island
Thisbe Nissen
From the author ofThe Good People of New York ("Fabulous . . . Wonderfully satisfying . . . This is a voice I'd follow anywhere" --Elinor Lipman), a book about summer, that most incandescent and evanescent season -- about lazy days, fleeting love, and tempers that flare in the heat. Very few people ever leave the tight-knit community of year-rounders on Osprey Island, and fewer yet come back. Suzy Chizek does, though, with her young
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Our Lady of the Prairie
Thisbe Nissen
A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises--and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad--long-married theater professor and mother of an unstable daughter--grapples with a life turned upside down. After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, Phillipa returns
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Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night
Thisbe Nissen
In Thisbe Nissen's award-winning debut story collection, characters teeter on the verge of love, of life, of oncoming cataclysms after which Things Will Never Be the Same. Against the varied backdrops of Grateful Dead shows, anniversary parties, sickrooms, and bright Manhattan vestibules, Nissen traces the joy, terror, and electric surprise that flash between people as they suddenly connect. A fifteen-year-old girl whose mother is slowly dying finds solace in the bed of her best friend's
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The Good People of New York
Thisbe Nissen
When Roz Rosenzweig meets Edwin Anderson fumbling for keys on the stoop of a Manhattan walk-up, the last thing on her mind is falling for a polite Nebraskan–yet fall for him she does. So begins Thisbe Nissen’s breathtaking debut novel, a decidedly urban fairy tale that follows Roz and Edwin as they move from improbable courtship to marriage to the birth of daughter Miranda–the locus of all Roz’s attention, anxiety, and often smothering affection. As
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The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left
Thisbe Nissen and Erin Ergenbright
Every time we tell someone about this book we get puzzled grins, raised eyebrows, and hilarious guesses as to what on earth The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook might possibly be. Every time we tell a guy about it, he becomes instantly intent on doing pretty much anything if it'll get him into the book. One boy (who swears he only went out with Thisbe in order to get a recipe named after him) found out he'd missed
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Your State Capitol: Michigan State Capitol (In Russian)
Dasha C. Nisula, Dasha Lozinskaya, and Michigan State Government
The booklet "Your State Capitol: Michigan State Capitol" was translated from English to Russian by Dasha C. Nisula and Dasha Lozinskaya to accommodate Russian speaking visitors to the capitol. From the introduction to the visitors:
"Welcome to the Michigan State Capitol. We are delighted you have taken the time to visit us and tour this historic landmark."
"In 1987, the Michigan Legislature established the Michigan Capitol Committee and charged it with overseeing a landmark restoration
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Bibliography of Slavic Literature
Dasha Culic Nisula
Nisula covers materials published in the United States and abroad since 1989 covering Slavic literature from the medieval period to the end of the twentieth century.
The three main sections are meticulously structured to cover all the dimensions of geographical space, literary genres, topics, authors and time. The first section examines general works on Slavic literature―namely Slavic bibliographies, journals, and library holdings. The second one frames the bibliographic sources within the Slavic geographic perimeter: East,
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English-Russian and Russian-English Glossary of Marketing Terms
Dasha Culic Nisula
This glossary contains fundamental marketing terms which should be useful for business professionals in Russia, as well as other emerging free-market economies. The terms have been selected to represent marketing terms commonly used in open market situations. While business people have some exposure to certain terms from work experience or from being a consumer, it is increasingly necessary to understand and use terminology which helps explain free-market business methods. In business, Marketing complements other functional
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How the Hedgehog Married: And Other Croatian Fairy Tales = Kako se je Jež Oženio : I Druge Hrvatske Narodne Bajke
Dasha Culic Nisula
Fairy tales occur both in oral and in literary form. The focus in this book has been on preserving the elemental structure of oral tradition without embellishment. But, this is a distinctive literary collection, one that gathers a dozen fairy tales which come from the Croatian national folklore tradition. This is also a contemporary English-language version that respects the ancient Slavic mythology of pre-Christian Croatia. And, through exceptionally communicative translations, Dasha C. Nisula has elevated
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How the Hedgehog Married and Other Croatian Tales
Dasha Culic Nisula
The fairy tale occurs both in oral and in literary form. The focus in the book has been on preserving the elemental structure of oral tradition without embellishment. But this is a distinctive literary collection that gathers a dozen fairy tales which come from the Croatian national folklore tradition, and in this bilingual edition the Croatian and English-in-translation are presented together – accompanied by a 17 original colour artworks by the cover artist, Josip Botteri
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Leading Contemporary Poets: An International Anthology
Dasha Culic Nisula
This anthology is the fourth in the series of international anthologies published every four years coinciding with the Olympic Games. The idea of honoring mental prowess as we do physical was initiated by Elizabeth Bartlett, a recognized poet in her own right, who edited the first three volumes of this series in 1984, 1988 and 1992. Midway in the process of preparing the fourth collection, however, Elizabeth Bartlett suddenly became ill and died in 1994.
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Rhythm and Free Verse Across the Slavic Belt
Dasha Culic Nisula
Selected by translator Dasha C. Nisula, this unique volume traces the development of modern free verse that extends from Croatia on the Adriatic to Russia in the East. Included are early pieces from the West to East Slavic belt, with the majority of the works focusing on the Russian Whitmanist Vladimir Burich, and the contemporary master of free verse in Russia, Vyacheslav Kupriyanov. This volume captures feeling, essence, rhythm, and depth through superb translations. Also
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Russian Language and People
Dasha Culic Nisula
Russian Language and People
Transcribed and arranged for classroom use
Supplementary materials to accompany 1985
BBC videocassettes available from Films, Inc.
