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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Medical Responsibility: Paternalism, Informed Consent, and Euthanasia
Wade Robison and Michael Pritchard
As our powerful medical technology continues rapidly to develop, we seem to be confronted by fresh bioethical dilemmas at an ever increasing rate. This volume provides an introduction to modern thinking on these issues, concentrating particularly on paternalism, informed consent and euthanasia.
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Italian Americans : Bridges to Italy, Bonds to America
Ernest E. Rossi and Luciano Iorizzo
In this volume attesting to the Italian American influence on the United States, nine professors of Italian American studies and a curator of an ethnic museum provide original essays on the Italian American experience, using the theme bridges to Italy and bonds to America. Drawing from a wide variety of primary sources, such as census tracts, local directories, diaries, voting records, newspaper accounts, personal interviews and scholarly and polemical books and articles, the authors show
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Ancient Roots of Romanian History
Lucian Rosu and William H. Peck
Editors:
Carson Leftwich - Western Michigan University
Florin Curta - Western Michigan University
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Invisible in Plain Sight
Jill E. Rowe
The Land Act of 1820 made it possible for settlers to begin to populate the West and added to the confiscation of land from Native Americans. Former landowners – a mix of Native American, African and European ancestry – migrated to the northern frontier and founded at least thirty well-defined free black communities between 1820 and 1850 in the Old Northwest, becoming an important safe haven and beacon of freedom.
Its notoriety and size grew
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Literature and the Web: Reading and Responding with New Technologies
Robert Rozema, Allen Webb, and Sara Kajder
What it means to read and write has changed, making this an exhilarating and daunting time to be an English teacher. As teachers, Robert Rozema and Allen Webb understand this and offer a vision of how to teach with emerging tools in ways that amplify student learning. - Sara B. Kajder Author of The Tech-Savvy English Classroom Read the technology book that's about the content, not the computer. Literature and the Web is a thoughtful,
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Amnesiopolis: Modernity, Space, and Memory in East Germany
Eli Rubin
Amnesiopolis explores the construction of Marzahn, the largest prefabricated housing project in East Germany, built on the outskirts of East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s and touted by the regime as the future of socialism. It focuses particularly on the experience of East Germans who moved, often from crumbling slums left over as a legacy of the nineteenth century, into this radically new place -- one defined by pure functionality and rationality -- a
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Synthetic Socialism: Plastics & Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic
Eli Rubin
Eli Rubin takes an innovative approach to consumer culture to explore questions of political consensus and consent and the impact of ideology on everyday life in the former East Germany. Synthetic Socialism explores the history of East Germany through the production and use of a deceptively simple material: plastic. Rubin investigates the connections between the communist government, its Bauhaus-influenced designers, its retooled postwar chemical industry, and its general consumer population. He argues that East Germany
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Stepping into the Past: Activities for the Western Civilization Classroom, 1450-Present
Eli Rubin and Annemarie Sammartino
Stepping into the Past is a collection of structured activities designed for the Western Civ or Introductory European History classroom, designed for all levels of students and institutions. Through simulations, projects centered on primary sources, and other forms of experiential learning, Stepping into the Past actively engages students with history. Each activity is designed to be run in the span of one class period, in a variety of classroom spaces, and using only the materials
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Muslim Women's Rights: Contesting Liberal-Secular Sensibilities in Canada
Tabassum Fahim Ruby
In the post-9/11 environment, the figure of the Muslim woman is at the forefront of global politics. Her representation is often articulated within a rights discourse owing much to liberal-secular sensibilities notions of freedom, equality, rational thinking, individualism, and modernization. Muslim Women's Rights explores how these liberal-secular sensibilities inform, shape, and foreclose public discussion on questions of Islam and gender. The book draws on postcolonial, antiracist, and transnational feminist studies in order to analyze public
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International Perspectives on Evaluation Standards
Craig Russon and Gabrielle Russon
Prior to 1995, there were fewer than half a dozen regional and national evaluation organizations around the world. Today there are more than fifty, attesting to a growing interest in the practice of program evaluation internationally. Many of these new organizations have undertaken efforts to develop their own standards or to modify existing sets--most typically, the Program Evaluation Standards of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation--for use in their own cultural context. Following
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Reading The Rainbow: LGBTQ-Inclusive Literacy Instruction in the Elementary Classroom
Caitlin L. Ryan and Jill M. Hermann-Wilmarth
Drawing on examples from K - 5 classrooms, the authors make clear what LGBTQ-inclusive literacy teaching can look like in practice, including what teaches might say and how students might respond. The text also provides readers with opportunities to consider these new approaches with respect to traditional literacy instruction.
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Amber Notes
Judith A. Rypma
Once again Rypma weaves words into poetic patterns that explore everything from the forbidden fruits to the healing gems of our lives. In this latest book, Amber Notes, she also “transports us across a lifetime and around the globe,” as Atlanta Review editor Dan Veach puts it. Richard Katrovas, author of 14 books, concurs, adding that “an insect in amber is the perfect emblem for this dance.”
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Business in Ethical Focus
, Alex Sagar, and Anand J. Vaidya
Business in Ethical Focus is a compilation of classical and contemporary essays and case studies in business ethics. Readers will become acquainted with seminal ideas on corporate social responsibility and the place of business in a just society. Other topics include diversity in the workplace, sexual harassment, workplace rights, environmental responsibility and sustainability, global business, intellectual property, bribery, and ethical issues in advertising and marketing. This second edition adds a dozen original case studies, as
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Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes
John Saillant
Born in Connecticut, Lemuel Haynes was first an indentured servant, then a soldier in the Continental Army, and, in 1785, an ordained congregational minister. Haynes's writings constitute the fullest record of a black man's religion, social thought, and opposition to slavery in the late-18th and early-19th century. Drawing on both published and rare unpublished sources, John Saillant here offers the first comprehensive study of Haynes and his thought.
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The Language of Feminine Duty : Articulating Gender, Culture, and Covert Policy in Modern Japan
Rika Saito
This book examines "women's speech" as a policy of constructs expressed in official and unofficial discourse from the 1880s to the 1920s in Japan. It analyzes specific language policies that were incorporated through governmental gender policy to perpetuate "women's speech," asymmetrical gendered speech styles and concepts in the Japanese language. It also seeks to develop cross-cultural approaches to language and gender theories initiated in the United States and Europe by proposing new concepts of language
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Hikikomori: Adolescence Without End
Tamaki Saito and Jeffrey Angles
This is the first English translation by Jeffrey Angles of a controversial Japanese best seller that made the public aware of the social problem ofhikikomori, or “withdrawal”—a phenomenon estimated by the author to involve as many as one million Japanese adolescents and young adults who have withdrawn from society, retreating to their rooms for months or years and severing almost all ties to the outside world. Saitō Tamaki’s work of popular psychology provoked a national
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Chaucer and the Child
Eve Salisbury
This book addresses portrayals of children in a wide array of Chaucerian works. Situated within a larger discourse on childhood, Ages of Man theories, and debates about the status of the child in the late fourteenth century, Chaucer’s literary children―from infant to adolescent―offer a means by which to hear the voices of youth not prominently treated in social history. The readings in this study urge our attention to literary children, encouraging us to think more
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The Trials and Joys of Marriage
Eve Salisbury
The disparate texts in this anthology, produced in England between the late thirteenth and the early sixteenth centuries, challenge, and in some cases parody and satirize, the institution of marriage. In so doing, according to the Introduction, they allow us to interrogate the traditional assumptions that shape the idea of the medieval household. The trials of marriage seem to outweigh its joys at times and, as some of these texts suggest, maintaining a sense of
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Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts
Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price
"Challenges readers to acknowledge the extent to which violence figured in medieval texts and, with this recognition, to reconsider what the works teach us not only about the treatments and troping of victims in the medieval world but also how these patterns are a part of the social history of domestic violence."--Ann Dobyns, University of Denver Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts addresses a topic critical to our understanding of the medieval past--its notions of childhood
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An Introduction to Hiaki Grammar: Hiaki Grammar for Learners and Teachers, Volume 1
José Sánchez, Alex Trueman, Maria Florez Leyva, Santos Leyva Alvarez, Mercedes Tubino Blanco, Hyun-Kyoung Jung, Louise St. Amour, and Heidi Harley
An introductory presentation of some aspects of the grammar of Hiaki, also known as Yaqui, Yoeme or Jiaki.
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Evaluating School Programs: An Educator's Guide
James Sanders and Carolyn Sullins
This updated edition of the bestseller features a five-step NCLB-based process that demonstrates how skillfully administered annual program evaluations result in lasting educational benefits.
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Creatures
William C. Schirado and Teresa Marie Assenzo
Parents reading with their children can provide one of the most valuable and memorable experiences in a child's life. In Creatures, the added dimension of human emotions are brought to life throughout the book's thirteen chapters with characters such as Creatures Happy, Sad, Smart and Fear. Creatures is an enjoyable way for families to develop ways of identifying and understanding familiar, and sometimes difficult, emotions in an atmosphere of acceptance and tolerance, as well as
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