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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Interracial Communication: Theory into Practice
Mark P. Orbe and Tina M. Harris
Interracial Communication: Theory Into Practice, Third Edition, by Mark P. Orbe and Tina M. Harris, guides readers in applying the contributions of recent communication theory to improving everyday communication among the races. The authors offer a comprehensive, practical foundation for dialogue on interracial communication, as well as a resource that stimulates thinking and encourages readers to become active participants in dialogue across racial barriers. Part I provides a foundation for studying interracial communication and includes
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Interracial Communication: Theory Into Practice
Mark P. Orbe and Tina M. Harris
Specifically addressing how interpersonal communication as process is potentially impeded because of how we are socialized to think about racial differences, this exciting and much-anticipated second edition of Interracial Communication: Theory Into Practice guides readers in applying the valuable contributions of recent communication theory to improving everyday communication among the races. Authors Mark P. Orbe and Tina M. Harris offer a comprehensive, practical foundation for dialogue on interracial communication, as well as a resource that
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Medieval Art: Recent Perspectives
Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Timothy Graham
Commemorates the art historian C.R. Dodwell with a collection of essays by leading scholars. Variously reporting new discoveries, reinterpreting major artefacts and contributing to current theoretical debate, the essays combine to provide a perspective on a selection of topics. The areas covered include: the iconography of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon sculpture and manuscript illumination; narrative technique in the Bayeux Tapestry; the representation of perspective in the Bayeux Tapestry; English Romanesque stone sculpture and stained
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Between Lipany and White Mountain: Essays in Late Medieval and Early Modern Bohemian History in Modern Czech Scholarship
James Palmitessa
This book presents twelve essays by Czech historians on the history of the Czech lands from the middle of the fifteenth to the middle of the seventeenth century, previously published in Czech, which appear here for the first time in English.
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Physics
Paul V. Pancella
Physics can be a complex and intimidating subject. Idiot's Guides: Physics breaks down the complex topics of physics and makes them easy to understand. Readers will learn from numerous examples and problems that teach all of the fundamentals -- Newton's Laws, thermodynamics, mass, energy and work, inertia, velocity and acceleration, and more!
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Quantum Physics
Paul V. Pancella
Simply explains the behaviour of matter and energy at the molecular, atomic, nuclear and even smaller levels Idiot's Guides ® - Quantum Physics makes this very complex topic easy to understand. Aimed at the true novice, this guide skips the complicated maths and dives right into all the concepts, paradoxes, thought experiments and implications that make quantum physics so fascinating. All the basics are covered with an absorbing explanation of quantum versus classical physics, a
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Twisted From The Ordinary: Essays On American Literary Naturalism
Mary E. Papke
American literary naturalism both seduces and repulses the reader, disrupting stable notions of individual and moral coherence. Usually associated with works such as Frank Norris’s McTeague and Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat,” naturalism draws on nineteenth-century theories of hereditary and environmental determinism, emphasizing the role of chance in characters’ struggles for survival in an increasingly industrial, capitalistic, urban jungle. The essays in this volume revise the canon of naturalism, looking beyond the classic period of
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Designing and planning programs for nonprofit and government organizations
Edward J. Pawlak and Robert Vinter
Designing and Planning Programs for Nonprofit and Government Organizations is a comprehensive guide for practitioners who must carry out program planning projects in nonprofit or government human service organizations. Authors Edward J. Pawlak and Robert D. Vinter experts in the field of program planning show how planning is a goal-directed activity that will succeed when its tasks are carried out in orderly, progressive stages. In this important resource, the authors walk practitioners and students through
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Please Understand
Marcy Peake
Please Understand takes you to a place many are not allowed to go—the secret thoughts of socially, emotionally, and economically deprived children. Marcy L. Peake presents their thoughts and the power of their pleas as they resonate promote and understanding of an oftentimes misunderstood, ignored, and disposable population. Educators, human services professionals, and anyone concerned about little people will be enlightened, saddened, and empowered to seek understanding, extend care, and fiercely protect the hearts and
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Driver Rehabilitation and Community Mobility: Principles and Practice
Joseph Pellerito
An emerging practice area for occupational therapists, adapted driving services is becoming increasingly popular as technology and demographics influence demand for these services. Not only does this text provide the tools necessary to effectively evaluate and rehabilitate disabled and aging drivers, it also prepares readers to enter the field by utilizing true-to-life case studies and evidence-based content.
- An Adapted Driving Decision Guide that allows therapists to determine a client's transportation need and driving ability
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At Their Feet: 50 Black Muslim Elders Share Stories of Faith and Community Life
Alisa Perkins
AT THEIR FEET is a rare opportunity to both pay homage to, and learn from, one of the most unique communities to ever grace the planet: African-American Muslim Elders born in the 1930s-1950s.
To sit “at the feet” indicates an exchange between student and teacher. Sage and apprentice. Master and disciple.
Inside, you’ll learn and read stories on a variety of life experiences. You’ll read how some of our elders accepted Islam as their way
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Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit
Alisa Perkins
In 2004, the al-Islah Islamic Center in Hamtramck, Michigan, set off a contentious controversy when it requested permission to use loudspeakers to broadcast the adhān, or Islamic call to prayer. The issue gained international notoriety when media outlets from around the world flocked to the city to report on what had become a civil battle between religious tolerance and Islamophobic sentiment. The Hamtramck council voted unanimously to allow mosques to broadcast the adhān, making it
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Muslims and US Politics Today: A Defining Moment
Alisa Perkins
The twenty-first century has been a volatile period for American Muslims. Anti-Muslim hate crimes peaked after September 11, 2001, then increased again dramatically in parallel with the candidacy and presidency of Donald Trump. Yet American Muslims now have unprecedented avenues of influence in US politics. Muslims and US Politics Today explores the various representations of Muslims in American political and civic life, the myriad ways American Muslims are affected by politics, and how American Muslims
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The New Work of Writing Across the Curriculum: Diversity and Inclusion, Collaborative Partnerships, and Faculty Development
Staci Perryman-Clark
The New Work of Writing Across the Curriculum is a descriptive analysis of how institutions can work to foster stronger intellectual activities around writing as connected to campus-wide diversity and inclusion initiatives. Author Staci M. Perryman-Clark blends theory and practice, grounds disciplinary conversations with practical examples of campus work, and provides realistic expectations for operations with budgetary constraints while enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion work in higher education. Many of these initiatives are created in
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Afrocentric Teacher-Research: Rethinking Appropriateness and Inclusion
Staci Maree Perryman-Clark
This work reports on a qualitative teacher-research study that examines the ways in which African American and other students perform expository writing tasks using an Afrocentric ebonics-focused first-year writing curriculum. The book conceptualizes a theory of Afrocentric teacher-research that includes all students in addition to African Americans.
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Black Perspectives in Writing Program Administration: From Margins to the Center
Staci M. Perryman-Clark and Collin Lamont Craig
Editors Staci M. Perryman-Clark and Collin Lamont Craig have made a space for WPAs of color to cultivate antiracist responses within an Afrocentric framework and to enact socially responsible approaches to program building. This framework also positions WPAs of color to build relationships with allies and create contexts for students and faculty to imagine rhetorics that speak truth to oppressive and divisive ideologies within and beyond the academy, but especially within writing programs.
Contributors share
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Advanced Calculus: Theory and Practice
John Srdjan Petrovic
Advanced Calculus: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, expands on the material covered in elementary calculus and presents this material in a rigorous manner. The text improves students' problem-solving and proof-writing skills, familiarizes them with the historical development of calculus concepts, and helps them understand the connections among different topics. The book explains how various topics in calculus may seem unrelated but in reality have common roots. Emphasizing historical perspectives, the text gives students a glimpse
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Advanced Calculus: Theory and Practice
John Srdjan Petrovic
Suitable for a one- or two-semester course, Advanced Calculus: Theory and Practice expands on the material covered in elementary calculus and presents this material in a rigorous manner. The text improves studentse(tm) problem-solving and proof-writing skills, familiarizes them with the historical development of calculus concepts, and helps them understand the connections among different topics.
The book takes a motivating approach that makes ideas less abstract to students. It explains how various topics in calculus may
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Edge of Empire: Documents of Michilimackinac, 1671-1716
Joseph L. Peyser and Jose Antonio Brandão.
Edge of Empire provides both an overview and an intensely detailed look at Michigan's Fort Michilimackinac at a very specific period of history. While the introduction offers an overview of the French fur trade, of the place of Michilimackinac in that network, and of what Michilimackinac was like in the years up to 1716, the body of the book is comprised of sixty-one French-language documents, now translated into English. Collected from archives in France, Canada,
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Pizza Pie and Politics: How Mitchell Moon Lost His Childhood
Troy Place
The engaging, fun-loving, and endearing Mitchell Moon must grow up. Growing up means making sound decisions, but how can he make a decent decision when he doesn’t know what he wants or where life is taking him? The solution is to take the path of least resistance, and that means deciding to return to his job at a local pizza restaurant in his Michigan hometown and to party with his lifelong friends Charlie, Neil, and
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The American Political Dictionary
Jack C. Plano and Milton Greenburg
1. Political Ideas. 2. The United States Constitution and the Federal Union. 3. Parties, Politics, Interest Groups, and Elections. 4. The Legislative Process: Congress and the State Legislatures. 5. The Executive: Office and Powers. 6. Public Administration: Organization and Personnel. 7. The Judicial Process: Courts and Law Enforcement. 8. Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Immigration, and Citizenship. 9. Finance and Taxation. 10. Business and Labor. 11. Agriculture, Energy, and Environment. 12. Health, Education, and Welfare. 13.
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Women and Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre, and the Limits of Epic Masculinity
Sara Poor and Jana Schulman
This collection of essays explores the place, function, and meaning of women as characters, authors, constructs, and cultural symbols in a variety of epics from the Middle Ages, including those of Persia, Spain, France, England, Germany, and Scandinavia. Medieval epics are traditionally believed to narrate the deeds of men at war. This volume draws our attention not only to the key roles women often play in these narratives, but also to the larger implications they
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