All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors

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.

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Only Yesterday

Mutsuo Takahashi and Jeffrey Angles

Only Yesterday is a masterpiece by Mutsuo Takahashi, one of Japan's eminent and essential poets. In 2018, soon after Mutsuo Takahashi turned eighty, he published his magnum opus, a collection of poetry entitled Only Yesterday, a work containing 153 poems that showcase the poet's enormous erudition as he revisits the themes he has explored for the last five decades: the nature of beauty, love, homoerotic desire, art, and aging. At the same time, it also
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箱字宙を讃えて : ジョゼフ・コーネル / Hako ji chū o tataete: Joseph Cornell

Mutsuo Takahashi, Kawamura Kinen Bijutsukan, and Jeffrey Angles
Mergers and Acquisitions in Asia: A Global Perspective

Roger Tang and Ali Metwalli

This book examines recent trends towards mergers and acquisitions in Japan, Greater China, and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2004. Comparisons are made among regions and between countries of particular regions. The economic profile and investment climates of key countries is discussed and many issues will be examined from the perspectives of US-based and UK-based investors because they play significant roles in Mergers and Acquisitions activities in all regions of the world. When appropriate, the
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Current Trends and Corporate Cases in Transfer Pricing

Roger Y. Tang

Global changes in business and tax environments are having profound impact on the volume and direction of intrafirm trade and transfer pricing strategies. Tang reports on the findings of a survey of 95 Fortune 1000 companies, sponsored by the Institute of Management Accountants, and provides highly relevant information not easily found on how companies are reacting to this new business environment. He covers corporate financial goals and strategies and divisonal performance measurements systems, among other
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Children's and Young Adult Comics

Gwen Athene Tarbox and Derek Parker Royal

A complete critical guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Children's and Young Adult Comics helps readers explore how comics have engaged with one of their most crucial audiences.

In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers such topics as:

- The history of comics for children and young adults, from early cartoon strips to the rise of comics as mainstream children's literature
- Cultural contexts – from the Comics Code Authority to graphic
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Pediatric Psychodermatology: A Clinical Manual of Child and Adolescent Psychocutaneous Disorders

Ruqiya Shama Tareen, Donald E. Greydanus, Mohammad Jafferany, and Dilip R. Patel

Psychodermatologic disorders comprise for up to one third of dermatologic conditions in different clinical settings. By virtue of their complex nature these disorders can be very difficult to treat and adversely impact long term outcomes. This book examines the bidirectional relationship between psychiatry and dermatology in children and adolescents. The information is represented in an easy to follow format to be used as a clinical reference by physicians and paramedical staff in various fields of
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Electronic Enterprise: Strategy and Architecture

Andrew Targowski

Enterprise evolution (or electronic enterprise) is the road map to well-planned evolution of enterprise complexity with business and system strategies integration through standardized and synchronized architectures of IT components. This provides a method of how to analyze, design and manage the applications of IT in a complex, evolving enterprise. This book provides a vision for IT leaders with practical solutions for IT implementation.
Harnessing the Power of Wisdom from Data to Wisdom

Andrew Targowski

This book is the first of its kind which defines wisdom as information and the highest level of the cognition units set, composed of data, information, concept, knowledge and wisdom. The author has founded his theory of wisdom on the following assumptions: Any sane person can make wise decisions throughout their lifetime, from childhood to old age; Wise decisions need not be expert in nature; Wisdom ought to be defined in such terms as to
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The Limits of Civilization (Focus on Civilizations and Cultures)

Andrew Targowski

Part I. Introduction to civilization -- The nature of civilization -- How civilizations perish -- The second great crisis of civilization in history -- The global civilization development and its repercussions -- Part II. Civilization in crisis -- The death triangle of civilization in the 21st century -- Capitalism and the 21st century limits of civilization -- Superconsumerism in the 21st century -- Technology and the limits of civilization in the 21st century -- Climate
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The Strategies of Informing Technology in the 21st Century

Andrew Targowski

Digital technology is ever-changing, which means that those working or planning to work in IT or apply IT systems must strategize how and what applications and technologies are ideal for sustainable civilization and human development. Developmental trends of IT and the digitalization of enterprise, agriculture, healthcare, education, and more must be explored within the boundaries of ethics and law in order to ensure that IT does not have a harmful effect on society. The Strategies
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Wisdom: HNRS 4900-Spring 2012

Andrew Targowski

Wisdom: HNRS 4900-Spring 2012 by Andrew Targowski and Students is based on a course taught by Targowski at Western Michigan University’s Lee Honors College and Haworth College of Business. It investigates the differences between knowledge and wisdom and attempts to answer the question: Is wisdom investigated enough in education and practice? And if not, what is wisdom? The work evaluates wisdom from an interdisciplinary perspective and questions the absence of courses on interdisciplinary wisdom in
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The History, Present State, and Future of Information Technology

Andrew Targowski, T. Grandon Gill, and Dominik Sankowski

The purpose of this book is to characterize the main developmental trends of information technology (IT) in the world. In the presented approach the following situations and issues are investigated: • The most important achievements of information technology (IT) in the world, • Shifts in paradigms which triggered new developmental trends in IT and brought an end to previous ones, • The state of the current development of IT, • The future of the development
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Enterprise Information Infrastructure

Andrew Targowski and Allen D. Kozlowski

There are many textbooks that explain Management Information Systems (MIS) and provide examples of their use in business. But MIS descriptions and examples do not communicate the economic, political, and social revolutions spawned by world-wide telecommunications, robust wide area networks, prolific and effectual hardware and software, and the incredible power of the Internet to connect everything to everything. We are witnesses to a paradigm shift in the way people live and work every bit as
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Deadly Effect of Informatics on the Holocaust: How the Policies of IBM and its Machines Helped the Germans to Kill 4 Million More People During WWII

Andrew S. Targowski

Andrew Targowski believes that the Holocaust could have been avoided or at least largely limited in scale. The mere use of the well preserved IBM punched-card machines contributed to the extermination of an "excessive" 4 million people. Before World War II, there were hardly any politicians who could have successfully opposed Hitler and Stalin. Poland, considered to be a small country among the European superpowers of those days, had a chance to manage its policies
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Global Civilization in the 21st Century

Andrew S. Targowski

The purpose of this book is to evaluate the question: What does the New World Order (NWO) mean in the 21st century? After the Polish Revolution in 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the Soviet Union in 1991, many people expected better times than those during the Cold War between the West and East. Since Communism lost to Capitalism, can the latter promote freedom and happiness for all of us
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Information Technology and Societal Development

Andrew S. Targowski

"This book investigates the role of information and communication in civilization's development, because it is information and communication that decide how human organization, knowledge, and wisdom are applied in decisions impacting human survival"--Provided by publisher.
Cognitive Informatics and Wisdom Development : Interdisciplinary Approaches

Andrew S. Targowski

Since wisdom is the ultimate human virtue, its application is important for humans and civilization. Cognitive Informatics and Wisdom Development: Interdisciplinary Approaches argues that wise civilization cannot function without wise people and vice versa, that wise people cannot function without positive conditions for the development of wise civilization. Using the cognitive informatics approach as a basis for the investigation of wisdom, this book offers solutions on how to study and evaluate the state of wisdom
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The Deadly Effect of Informatics on the Holocaust

Andrew S. Targowski

The story of how IBM business policies and its computing machines-the forerunners of today's computers-assisted the Holocaust in 1939-1945 ought to influence contemporary IT engineers, business people, and politicians in such ways as to prevent today's IT systems and telecommunications networks from being used to inflict similar multi-million human losses. An Internet-accelerated expansion of the Global Economy inexorably leads to an accelerated expansion of global resources, which will lead to wars for those resources that
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Virtual Civilization in the 21st Century

Andrew S. Targowski

This book analyzes a new phenomenon in civilization: the transformation of the current "Information Wave" into virtual civilization. In the 21st century, the "real-space" of the world civilization, due to the massive, network-intensive use of computers world-wide, gained the virtual space known as cyberspace. Cyberspace is a product of information technology exemplified by the Internet as the world system of information highway(s) [INFOSTRADA(S)] which forms a digital space containing all sorts of files and communication
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Spirituality and Civilization Sustainability in the 21st Century

Andrew S. Targowski and Marek J. Celinski

This book investigates the state of civilization in the 21st century, which is characterized by the transformation of Western Civilization into Global Civilization and the resulting Great Recession, triggered by the financial crisis in the United States in 2008. Since the state of former Western Civilization is steadily worsening, the question is rising whether civilization is sustainable at all. To answer this question, 20 authors, members of the International Society for the Comparative Study of
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Chinese Civilization in the 21st Century

Andrew S. Targowski and Bernard T. Han

The authors of this book believe that the 5,000 year-long-history of Chinese Civilization is the main factor in the re-emergence of China in the 21st century. It is a well-known fact that the Chinese economy became the second largest economy in the world in 2014. With some predictions, in the near future perhaps China will surpass the United States. The main media interprets this progress as the result of a Western Civilization strategy, which forced
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Civilizational Futures: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC)

Andrew S. Targowski and Connie Lamb

Civilizational Futures2010 International Society for the Comparative Studyof Civilizations (ISCSC) 40th International ConferenceBrigham Young University Provo, UtahJune 15-17, 2010 Edited byConnie Lamb (Brigham Young University) Andrew Targowski (Western Michigan University) Program Committee Michael Andregg - Chairperson Ricardo Duchesne, Laina Farhat-Holzman, Hue-Ying Kuo, Connie Lamb Anthony Stevens-Arroyo, Andrew Targowski, David Wilkinson
Enterprise Systems Education in the 21st Century

Andrew S. Targowski and J. Michael Tarn

IT education, particularly at business colleges, is undergoing a transformation because of the emerging federated systems or enterprise-wide systems (ES). This follows a trend in industry, which uses complex software applications like SAP and others. This movement toward ES in industry has created major challenges for integrating ES into the classroom.Enterprise Systems Education in the 21st Century presents methods of reengineering business curricula in order to use ES solutions. It also helps ES vendors understand
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Tom Taylor's Civil War

Thomas Thomson Taylor, Albert Castel, and Margaret Antoinette White Taylor

Our hurly-burly sagas of war often overlook the deep connections between warriors and the families they left behind. In Tom Taylor's Civil War, eminent Civil War historian Albert Castel brings that familial connection back into sharp focus, reminding us again that soldiers in the field are much more than mere cogs in the machinery of war.

A young Ohio lawyer, Thomas Taylor was a junior officer who fought under Sherman at Vicksburg and Chattanooga and
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An Eerdmans Century : 1911-2011

Larry ten Harmsel and Reinder Van Til

From ten-cent specials for Dutch farmers to over 1,000 titles currently in print, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has since 1911 built a solid reputation for producing "the finest in religious literature": an ecumenical blend of thoughtful books by authors including C. S. Lewis, Karl Barth, John Howard Yoder, Philip Yancey, Joan Chittister, N. T. Wright, Rowan Williams, Martin Marty, Eugene Peterson, and Pope Benedict XVI. Now, on the occasion of
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