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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Everyday Greed: Analysis and Appraisal
Michael Pritchard and Elaine E. Englehardt
This collection examines how greed should be understood and appraised. Roundly condemned by virtually all religions, greed receives mixed appraisals in the domains of business and economics. The volume examines these mixed appraisals and how they fare in light of their implications for greed in our everyday world. Greed in children is uniformly criticized by parents, other adults, and even children's peers. However, in adulthood, greed is commended by some as essential to profit-seeking in
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Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases
Michael S. Pritchard, Charles E. Harris, and Michael J. Rabins
Extend your analytical skills to moral deliberation with this best-selling engineering ethics text. ENGINEERING ETHICS: CONCEPTS AND CASES, 4E bridges the gap between theory and practice with more than 200 current case studies available in the text and on the companion website, including current and controversial topics, such as Hurricane Katrina and global warming. This edition introduces you to a proven, structured methodology for analyzing cases, as well as examples of cases that already have
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Traveling the Beaten Trail: Charles Tait's Charges to Federal Grand Juries, 1822-1825
Paul M. Pruitt Jr., David I. Durham, and Sally E. Hadden
Preface and acknowledgments --
Charles Tait : a biographical sketch / Paul M. Pruitt, Jr. and David I. Durham --
Exhibition, exhortation, example : Judge Tait's antebellum grand jury charges and legal problems on the frontier / Sally E. Hadden --
1822 grand jury charge / transcribed by Sarah Elizabeth Kelly --
1824 grand jury charge / transcribed by Samantha Chandler --
1825 grand jury charge / transcribed by Paul M. Pruitt, Jr. --
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Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises and Sensibilities
Lewis Pyenson and Susan Sheets-Pyenson
A penetrating account of how science, perhaps above all other human endeavors, has shaped --and been shaped by --the world that we inhabit today. Servants of Nature explores the fascinating interaction between scientific practice and public life from antiquity to the present. The authors reveal how, in Asia, Europe, and the New World, advances in science have been closely allied to changes in three distinct areas of society: the institutions that sustain science; the moral,
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Integrating Scale in Remote Sensing and GIS
Dale A. Quattrochi, Elizabeth Wentz, Nina Siu-Ngan Lam, and Charles W. (Jay) W. Emerson
Integrating Scale in Remote Sensing and GIS serves as the most comprehensive documentation of the scientific and methodological advances that have taken place in integrating scale and remote sensing data. This work addresses the invariants of scale, the ability to change scale, measures of the impact of scale, scale as a parameter in process models, and the implementation of multiscale approaches as methods and techniques for integrating multiple kinds of remote sensing data collected at
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Empty Shoes: Poems on the Hungry and the Homeless
Patrick T. Randolph
151 poems about hunger and homelessness, from 80 poets, many with direct experience, such as: Dori Appel, a Red Cross disaster volunteer; Mary L. Downs, a volunteer at LEAVEN; Barbara Flaherty, former treatment center supervisor; Nancy Gauquier, formerly homeless in NY; Randall Horton, a Ph.D. candidate who advocates for the homeless and prison reform, having been homeless and in prison; Michele Leavitt, a teenage runaway in the 1970s, who later worked as a public defender;
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Father's Philosophy : Poems
Patrick T. Randolph
In this collection of poems, Patrick T. Randolph achieves something all too few writers are able accomplish: He conveys honest joy, and he does so deeply, convincingly, and sustainedly. The book is a true pleasure to read. Lester Smith, president, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets has said: "If I could bequeath one book of poetry to my grandchildren and great grandchildren, it would be Father "s Philosophy by Patrick T. Randolph. Randolph's poems are written with
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Security in Virtual Worlds, 3D Webs, and Immersive Environments : Models for Development, Interaction and Management
Alan Rea
Although one finds much discussion and research on the features and functionality of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), the 3D Web, Immersive Environments (e.g. MMORPGs) and Virtual Worlds in both scholarly and popular publications, very little is written about the issues and techniques one must consider when creating, deploying, interacting within, and managing them securely. Security in Virtual Worlds, 3D Webs, and Immersive Environments: Models for Development, Interaction, and Management brings together the issues that managers,
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Visual Basic for Applications
Dr. Alan Rea
Thousands of learners have asked for high quality materials that focus on technologies that go beyond core applications of Microsoft Office. McGraw-Hill Technology Education has answered these requests with 4 new titles making up the +Plus Series. This books were designed to stand alone as primary texts or to supplement instruction in core courses. The +Plus Series books are brief, easy to use, and less expensive than primary textbooks.
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The Educator's Writing Handbook
Diana C. Reep and Helen M. Sharp
Many school professionals, whether on the job or preparing for a career in education, overlook the number and complexity of communication tasks routinely required on the job. They frequently are in the process of writing something, be it a memo, letter, report, news message, agenda, or minutes to a meeting. And they often must deliver presentations to parents, community groups, school boards, conventions, and academic conferences. But how are these professionals to prepare for such
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Fundamentals of Business Marketing Research
David Reid and Richard Plank
Get a thorough review of vital research issues! Fundamentals of Business Marketing Research examines recent industrial/business research, evaluates its current effectiveness, and offers suggestions for future use. This unique book includes and is based on “Business Marketing: A Twenty Year Review,” a thorough study of industrial/business research from 1978-1997 with critical commentary from a distinguished panel of business academics and the response of the study's authors. The combination of critiques, insights, and viewpoints will challenge
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How Many Therapists Does it Take? : the Wit and Wisdom of Psychotherapy
Kenneth Reid
Have you ever wondered ... ... why a couple, now in their 90's and married for 60 years, got divorced? THEY WAITED UNTIL THE CHILDREN WERE DEAD ... how God and psychiatrists differ? GOD DOESN'T THINK HE'S A PSYCHIATRIST. ... how many therapists it takes to change a light bulb? ONE, BUT IT TAKES A LONG TIME AND THE LIGHT BULB HAS TO REALLY WANT TO CHANGE. ... what the doctor said to the man
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Constitutional Rights Sourcebook
Peter G. Renstrom
The Constitutional Rights Sourcebook examines fundamental ideas of constitutionalism and American constitutional law through case summaries. The U.S. Supreme Court as an institution is featured and its rulings and rationale are represented throughout the work, beginning with a thorough treatment of the current court and including all the significant rulings since the mid-1980s.
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The Stone Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
Peter G. Renstrom
A comprehensive examination of the rulings, key figures, and legal legacy of the Stone Court.
• Analyzes all of the important decisions that made up the Stone Court's "revolution"―particularly those that redefined the federal government's authority to regulate the economy and social welfare
• Profiles the life and career of each justice, including eminent jurists Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and Felix Frankfurter
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The Taft Court: Justices, Rulings, And Legacy
Peter G. Renstrom
An authoritative survey of the Taft Court, which served from 1921 to 1929, and the impact it had on the U.S. legal system, social order, economics, and politics.
• An A–Z set of entries on the people, laws, events, and concepts that are important to an understanding of the Taft Court
• A photograph of and a brief bibliography on each justice
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The Poems Of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975
Charles Rezinkoff and Seamus Cooney
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976), the son of Russian garment workers, was an American original: a blood-and-bone New Yorker, a collector of images and stories who walked the city from the Bronx to the Battery and breathed the soul of the Jewish immigrant experience into a lifetime of poetry. He wrote personal memoirs, family history, and tenement tales in verse. He wrote narrative poems based on Old Testament sources. Above all, he wrote spare, intensely visual, epigrammatic
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The Tough Kid New Teacher Kit: Practical Classroom Management Survival Strategies for the New Teacher
Ginger Rhode, William R. Jenson, and Daniel P. Morgan
A simple, easy-to-use manual chock-full of tips, suggestions, and proven tactics that will make any class pay attention, be respectful and comply with your rules.
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Social Movements and Free-market Capitalism in Latin America: Telecommunications Privatization And the Rise of Consumer Protest
Sybil Rhodes
Explores how privatization of state-owned telephone companies led to new consumer movements in Latin America.
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Constellarium
Jordan Rice
Constellarium chronicles the author's gender transition from biological male to female, and engages the ontological quandaries that arise from this experience. Family history and religious heritage must be reckoned with along the way. In Rice's poems, the evolving nature of the self, the fluidity of identity, and the lasting influence of the past are all held up to the soul's penetrating gaze.
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Controlling Pilot Error: Automation
Vladimir Risukhin
With up to 80% of accidents attributed to pilot error, this new series is critically important. It identifies and examines the ten top areas of concern to pilot safety. Each book contains real-life pilot stories drawn from FAA/NASA databases, valuable "save-yourself" techniques and an action agenda of preventive techniques pilots can implement to avoid risks.
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Vysokoavtomatizirovannyĭ Samolet : Teorii︠a︡ i Praktika Letnoĭ Zkspluatat︠s︡ii
Vladimir Risukhin, S. G. Tulskii, V. V. Kozlov, A. V. Kravchenko, and Aeroflot
Presents the concept and design principles of flight control systems of highly automated aircraft. The features of the flight characteristics of modern jet aircraft are analyzed. It outlines components and functions of automated flight control devices, including control of the aircraft attitude, engine thrust, and flight path. The book scrutinizes issues of the automation operation, flight parameters indication in the cockpit, functioning of the computerized flight management system, and the fly-by-wire control. Particular attention is
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Tropical Pediatrics: A Public Health Concern of International Proportions
Richard R. Roach, Donald E. Greydanus, Dilip R. Patel, Douglas N. Homnick, and Joav Merrick
Tropical medicine is a branch of medicine focusing on disorders usually found in subtropical and tropical areas of the world. Tropical paediatrics is a branch of tropical medicine focusing on children in these areas. The current process of global warming and the widespread issue of international travel are bringing these conditions to many places of the globe. This book highlights selective concepts of tropical paediatrics that are of importance to clinicians caring for children and
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Alfred the Wise
Jane Roberts, Janet L. Nelson, and Malcolm Godden
Alfred and the great achievements of his reign are once more at the centre of scholarly discussion, and the studies in this collection make a significant contribution to the continuing debate. Focusing particularly on the writings of Alfred's age, the contributions, by leading scholars in the field, examine Alfred's life, work and influence: there are accounts of law and morality; examinations of translations and their sources; and investigations of words and events, throwing new light
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Profits and Professions: Essays in Business and Professional Ethics
Wade L. Robison, Michael Pritchard, and Joseph Ellin
Suppose an accountant discovers evidence of shady practices while ex amining the books of a client. What should he or she do? Accountants have a professional obligation to respect the confidentiality of their cli ents' accounts. But, as an ordinary citizen, our accountant may feel that the authorities ought to be informed. Suppose a physician discov ers that a patient, a bus driver, has a weak heart. If the patient contin ues bus driving even
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