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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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.
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You with Hands More Innocent: Selected Poems of Vesna Parun
Dasha Culic Nisula
Vesna Parun was born in 1922 on the island of Zlarin, on the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. She made her literary debut in 1947 with the collection of poems, Zore i vihori (Dawns and Hurricanes), and over the next 60 years went on to publish more than twenty books of poetry, as well as essays, criticism, and children's books. And, although Croatian lyrical is a strong and fruitful tradition, until Vesna Parun, it did not
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Music is Everything: Selected Poems of Slavko Mihalic
Dasha Culic Nisula and Slavko Mihalic
Slavko Michalic was born in 1928 in Karlovac, Croatia. As a journalist, he moved to Zagreb and there he published his first book of poetry, Komorna muzika (Chamber Music) in 1954.
In his poetry, Mihalic attempted to overcome the absurdity of life with his ardent belief in the humanistic role of the poet. Writing in an idiom remarkable for its simplicity, precision, and lyrical fluency, he was considered outstanding among Croatian ports of his generation,
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Selected Poems of Vesna Parun
Dasha Culic Nisula and Vesna Parun
About the Poet
Vesna Parun was born in 1922 on the island of Zlarin near Šibenik on the Dalmatian coast. She made her literary debut in 1947 with the publication of a collection of poems entitled Zore i vihori (Dawns and Hurricanes). Since, she has published numerous collections which include her love lyrics, war poems and children's verse. Vensa Parun lives and works in Zagreb. She has received a number of awards, among them Nazor, Zmaj, and Šantić.
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Leadership: Theory and Practice
Peter G. Northouse
Adopted at more than 800 colleges and universities worldwide, the market-leading text owes its success to the unique way in which it combines an academically robust account of the major theories and models of leadership with an accessible style and practical exercises that help students apply what they learn. Each chapter follows a consistent format, allowing students to easily contrast the various theories, and three case studies in each chapter provide practical examples of each
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Leadership: Theory and Practice
Peter G. Northouse
The Second Edition of this popular text provides a description and analysis of a wide variety of different theoretical approaches to leadership. The book contains the same user-friendly, chapter-consistent format, with each chapter examining a specific leadership approach, including a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. The new edition includes comprehensive updates and additions incorporating recent advances in the field, as well as suggestions from over 250 colleges and universities where the
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Introduction to Leadership : Concepts and Practice
Peter Guy Northouse
Offering a straightforward introduction to the basic principles of leadership, the Second Edition of Introduction to Leadership focuses on providing readers with practical strategies for becoming better leaders. An applied text by the author of the SAGE best-seller Leadership: Theory and Practice, Fifth Edition, this text provides the much needed how-to component of leading for students in leadership courses.
Three interactive components in every chapter: self-assessment questionnaires, observational exercises, and reflection and action worksheets get
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Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice
Peter Guy Northouse
Providing practical strategies for becoming a better leader, this bestselling book includes interactive elements to help students apply leadership concepts to their own lives. The book examines one quality of leadership per chapter, enabling students to apply concepts and skills to their leadership development. It provides self-assessment questionnaires, observational exercises, and reflection and action worksheets in each chapter. A new chapter on handling conflict has been added to the Second Edition, giving a multi-faceted view
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Leadership Case Studies in Education
Peter Guy Northouse
"This is a must-have book for educational leadership." -Joseph Mukuni, Virginia Tech University Engaging, practical, and relevant, Leadership Case Studies in Education, Second Edition applies leadership theories in educational settings. Designed to be used alongside Leadership: Theory and Practice, Eighth Edition, this casebook provides relevant, substantive, and contemporary case studies on leadership issues in Higher Education and K-12 Education. Each of the 32 case studies include critical thinking questions that encourage students to apply leadership
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Leadership: Theory and Practice
Peter Guy Northouse
Translated into 12 different languages and used in 89 countries, this market-leading text successfully combines an academically robust account of the major theories and models of leadership with an accessible style and practical examples that help students apply what they learn. Peter G. Northouse uses a consistent format for each chapter, allowing students to compare the various theories. Each chapter includes three case studies that provide students with practical examples of the theories discussed. Adopted
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