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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Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics
Gary Chartrand, Albert D. Polimeni, and Ping Zhang
Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics, 4th Edition introduces students to proof techniques, analyzing proofs, and writing proofs of their own that are not only mathematically correct but clearly written. Written in a student-friendly manner, it provides a solid introduction to such topics as relations, functions, and cardinalities of sets, as well as optional excursions into fields such as number theory, combinatorics, and calculus. The exercises receive consistent praise from users for their thoughtfulness
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Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (2nd Edition)
Gary Chartrand, Albert D. Polimeni, and Ping Zhang
Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics, 2/e,prepares students for the more abstract mathematics courses that follow calculus. This text introduces students to proof techniques and writing proofs of their own. As such, it is an introduction to the mathematics enterprise, providing solid introductions to relations, functions, and cardinalities of sets.KEY TOPICS: Communicating Mathematics, Sets, Logic, Direct Proof and Proof by Contrapositive, More on Direct Proof and Proof by Contrapositive, Existence and Proof by Contradiction,
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Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics
Gary Chartrand, Albert Polimeni, and Ping Zhang
Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Third Edition, prepares students for the more abstract mathematics courses that follow calculus. Appropriate for self-study or for use in the classroom, this text introduces students to proof techniques, analyzing proofs, and writing proofs of their own. Written in a clear, conversational style, this book provides a solid introduction to such topics as relations, functions, and cardinalities of sets, as well as the theoretical aspects of fields such
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Chromatic Graph Theory
Gary Chartrand and Ping Zhang
With Chromatic Graph Theory, Second Edition , the authors present various fundamentals of graph theory that lie outside of graph colorings, including basic terminology and results, trees and connectivity, Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs, matchings and factorizations, and graph embeddings. Readers will see that the authors accomplished the primary goal of this textbook, which is to introduce graph theory with a coloring theme and to look at graph colorings in various ways. The textbook also covers
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Chromatic Graph Theory
Gary Chartrand and Ping Zhang
Beginning with the origin of the four color problem in 1852, the field of graph colorings has developed into one of the most popular areas of graph theory. Introducing graph theory with a coloring theme, Chromatic Graph Theory explores connections between major topics in graph theory and graph colorings as well as emerging topics.
This self-contained book first presents various fundamentals of graph theory that lie outside of graph colorings, including basic terminology and results,
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How to Label a Graph
Gary Chartrand, Ping Zhang, and Cooroo Egan
This book depicts graph labelings that have led to thought-provoking problems and conjectures. Problems and conjectures in graceful labelings, harmonious labelings, prime labelings, additive labelings, and zonal labelings are introduced with fundamentals, examples, and illustrations. A new labeling with a connection to the four color theorem is described to aid mathematicians to initiate new methods and techniques to study classical coloring problems from a new perspective. Researchers and graduate students interested in graph labelings will
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From Domination to Coloring: Stephen Hedetniemi's Graph Theory and Beyond
Gary Chartrand, Ping Zhang, Teresa Haynes, and Michael A. Henning
This book is in honor of the 80th birthday of Stephen Hedetniemi. It describes advanced material in graph theory in the areas of domination, coloring, spanning cycles and circuits, and distance that grew out of research topics investigated by Stephen Hedetniemi. The purpose of this book is to provide background and principal results on these topics, along with same related problems and conjectures, for researchers in these areas. The most important features deal with material,
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Graphs & Digraphs
Gary Chartrand, Ping Zhang, Heather Jordon, and Vincent Vatter
Now streamlined from previous editions, a new author team brings in a fresh look to this classic textbook and at how graph theory courses have evolved. When the first edition of this precursor text was published, there were few undergraduate courses offered. The text assisted in the establishment of the undergraduate course, while also offering enough coverage for a graduate course. Graph theory is not a seminal course in all combinatorics programs taught in universities
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Graphs & Diagraphs
Gary Chartrand, Ping Zhang, and Linda Lesniak
Continuing to provide a carefully written, thorough introduction, Graphs & Digraphs, Fifth Edition expertly describes the concepts, theorems, history, and applications of graph theory. Nearly 50 percent longer than its bestselling predecessor, this edition reorganizes the material and presents many new topics.
New to the Fifth Edition
- New or expanded coverage of graph minors, perfect graphs, chromatic polynomials, nowhere-zero flows, flows in networks, degree sequences, toughness, list colorings, and list edge colorings
- New examples,
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Physical Activities for Improving Children's Learning and Behavior
Billye Ann Cheatum and Allison Hammond
Fewer things cause more concern for teachers and parents than to be told that a child has a learning problem or behavior disorder. It is even more difficult when no specific cause or reason for the problem is given. Activities for Improving Children's Learning and Behavior can help you identify underlying causes for a child's difficulty and discover fun-filled activities that can greatly help them. Authors Cheatum and Hammond, who together have worked in the
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Online Consumer Protection: Theories of Human Relativism
Kuanchin Chen and Adam Fadlalla
Technology is a double-edged sword that not only brings convenience, but also allows for easier way to collect, explore, and exchange information on or off line. Consumer concerns grow as security breaches and privacy invasions are uncovered ever more frequently, creating the necessity for online consumer protection.Online Consumer Protection: Theories of Human Relativism presents the academic community with a broad range of international findings in online consumer protection, encapsulating years of expert online privacy research
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Fish For All: An Oral History of Multiple Claims and Divided Sentiment on Lake Michigan
Michael C. Chiarappa and Kristin M. Szylvian
The contentious claims of groups seeking to use Lake Michigan's fisheries resources were at the centre of modern America's emerging environmental politics in the middle of the 20th century. This text contextualizes the shared experiences that shape each group's collective memory.
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Everyday Media Literacy : An Analog Guide for Your Digital Life
Sue Ellen Christian
In this graphic guide to media literacy, award-winning educator Sue Ellen Christian offers students an accessible, informed and lively look at how they can consume and create media intentionally and critically. The straight-talking textbook offers timely examples and relevant activities to equip students with the skills and knowledge they need to assess all media, including news and information. Through discussion prompts, writing exercises, key terms, online links and even origami, readers are provided with a
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Overcoming Bias: A Journalist's Guide to Culture & Context
Sue Ellen Christian
In this practical and engaging new edition, experienced reporter and teacher Sue Ellen Christian offers a fully updated and fresh take on reporting without bias, examining the way that we categorize people, filter information and default to rehearsed ways of thinking. This book is about biases that affect journalism at every stage of reporting and writing. Included throughout are stories and advice from working reporters and editors, providing real-world voices and experiences, and covering questions
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Overcoming Bias : A Journalist's Guide to Culture & Context
Sue Ellen Christian
Journalists go out of their way to avoid purposeful bias in the news. But there is a more pervasive set of internal biases and flaws in thinking that can lead to unintentional inaccuracies and distortions in news coverage. This engaging book offers a fresh take on reporting without bias, targeting the way that we categorize people, filter information and default to rehearsed ways of thinking.
Included throughout are stories and on-target advice from reporters and
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Telling the Kalamazoo Community RACE Story
Sue Ellen Christian and Donna Odom
Local residents of Kalamazoo, Michigan share their stories of race and ethnicity.
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Nature, Raw Materials, and Political Economy
Paul Ciccantell, David A. Smith, and Gay Seidman
The papers in this volume push the study of the multifaceted nature-society relationship and the socioeconomic consequences of human dependence on nature forward in a variety of areas. In the first section, Theoretical Foundations, the five chapters lay out theoretical models for examining the nature-society relationship. The chapters examine the roles of material process, space, and time in shaping social processes of economic ascent and long term hegemonic change, as well as the role of
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Ski Bum
Colin Clancy
A flunking Midwestern college student drops out and moves west to live the ski bum life. In the Colorado mountains he finds a group of like-minded, and sometimes degenerate, friends who show him that a ski town is the ideal place for young people to raise a middle finger to societal norms and do as they please. It's a spontaneous party life of hot tub poaching, illicit sledding, and living scrappy and poor in a
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Southern political party activists : patterns of conflict and change, 1991-2001
John Andrew Clark and Charles L. Prysby
" The South continues to be the most distinctive region in American politics. Over the last half century, Democratic dominance in the South has given way to the emergence of a truly competitive two-party system that leans Republican in presidential elections. In some ways, the region is increasingly like the rest of the country, yet even the degree of change and the speed with which it occurred give the South a distinctive air. The contributors
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Election 2004: An American Government Supplement
John Clark and Brian Schaffner
ELECTION 2004 promises to be an instructionally interesting and unique supplemental booklet with analysis that includes maps, charts, and graphs. Both the presidential and congressional races will be included. Factors discussed by the authors include the unpredictable national political climate with our nation at war in an uneven economy. The use of real examples in this election booklet makes the concepts covered come alive for students.
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Election 2006: An American Government Supplement
John Clark and Brian F. Schaffner
The use of real examples in this election booklet, which addresses the 2006 congressional and gubernatorial races, makes the concepts covered come alive for students.
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To Make Room for the Sea: Poems
Adam Clay
"That's the magic of this book--the way Adam Clay, line after line, enacts the mind on the page." --MAGGIE SMITH To Make Room for the Sea reckons with the notion that nothing in this world is permanent. Led by an introspective speaker, these poems examine a landscape that resists full focus, and conclude that "it's easier to love what we don't know." "I hold this leaf I think / you should see, but I can't
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Introduction to Manuscript Studies
Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham
Providing a comprehensive and accessible orientation to the field of medieval manuscript studies, this lavishly illustrated book by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham is unique among handbooks on paleography, codicology, and manuscript illumination in its scope and level of detail. It will be of immeasurable help to students in history, art history, literature, and religious studies who are encountering medieval manuscripts for the first time, while also appealing to advanced scholars and general readers interested
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Rawlsian Political Analysis : Rethinking the Microfoundations of Social Science
Paul Clements
In Rawlsian Political Analysis: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Social Science,Paul Clements develops a new, morally grounded model of political and social analysis as a critique of and improvement on both neoclassical economics and rational choice theory. What if practical reason is based not only on interests and ideas of the good, as these theories have it, but also on principles and sentiments of right? The answer, Clements argues, requires a radical reorientation of social science
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Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Science Education An International Dialogue
William W. Cobern
Global science education is a reality at the end of the 20th century - albeit an uneven reality - because of tremendous technological and economic pressures. Unfortunately, this reality is rarely examined in the light of what interests the everyday lives of ordinary people rather than the lives of political and economic elites. The purpose of this book is to offer insightful and thought-provoking commentary on both realities. The tacit question throughout the book is
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