he goal is to record most books written or edited by Western Michigan University faculty, staff and students. There is a WMU Authors section in Waldo Library, where most of these books can be found. 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 or find it in a library.
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Athletic and Orthopedic Injury Assessment: A Case Study Approach
Michael G. Miller, David C. Berry, and Leisha M. Berry
The case studies in this book use authentic injury assessment examples to help readers link theory and clinical practice with the goal of becoming competent clinicians. The situations are realistic and present more than 130 of the injuries that athletic trainers may encounter in the real world. The questions that accompany the cases ask readers to identify clinical and differential diagnoses, critique the evaluating clinician's actions, recommend treatment, and make many of the decisions they will face in the field. The cases encourage readers to think and problem solve; evidence-based ...Read More
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Building Bridges: Inventing and Sustaining School/University Partnerships that Nurture Professional Growth
Lynn Nations-Johnson
Table of Contents:
- Preface / Stefinee Pennegar, Lynnette Erickson, Brigham Young University
- Section I: The birth and development of a schoo/university partnership
- chapter 1. Bringing order and clarity out of a fractured system : building a school/university partnership ; chapter 2. The persistent growth and development of the school university partnership team in the midst of change and challenge / Lynn Nations Johnson, Western Michigan University
- Section II: Some confounding factors in bridge building : the impact of SUPT on professional development, partnership building and political territories
- chapter 3. ...Read More
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Language and Literacy Disorders: Infancy through Adolescence
Nickola W. Nelson
Organized with a clear framework and student-friendly learning supports, this textbook helps graduate and undergraduate students gain essential knowledge that can inform, and transform, their work with children who need special assistance to acquire language and literacy abilities to meet multiple communication and learning needs.
Featuring content and questions that encourage deeper thinking about the nature of disordered and normal development, this text makes assessment and intervention practices relevant to contexts of home, classroom, and peer interactions. In particular, readers will learn to draw on multiple sources of input to ...Read More
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Business Ethics and Society
Lisa H. Newton, Elaine E. Englehardt, and Michael Pritchard
The Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill Create™ includes current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. This Collection contains a multitude of current and classic issues to enhance and customize your course. You can browse the entire Taking Sides Collection on Create, or you can search by topic, author, or keywords. Each Taking Sides issues is thoughtfully framed with Learning Outcomes, an Issue Summary, an Introduction, and an Exploring the Issuesection featuring Critical Thinking and Reflection, Is There Common Ground?, and ...Read More
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Leadership: Theory and Practice
Peter G. Northouse
Adopted at more than 800 colleges and universities worldwide, the market-leading text owes its success to the unique way in which it combines an academically robust account of the major theories and models of leadership with an accessible style and practical exercises that help students apply what they learn. Each chapter follows a consistent format, allowing students to easily contrast the various theories, and three case studies in each chapter provide practical examples of each theory or trait discussed.
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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 how Italian Americans adapted, through work, prejudice, strife, and advancement, to the social and political ...Read More
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A 5-Year Study of the First Edition of the Core-Plus Mathematics Curriculum
Harold Schoen, Steven Ziebarth, and Christian R. Hirsch
A volume in Research in Mathematics Education Series Editor Barbara J. Dougherty, Iowa State University The study reported in this volume adds to the growing body of evaluation studies that focus on the use of NSF-funded Standards-based high school mathematics curricula. Most previous evaluations have studied the impact of field-test versions of a curriculum. Since these innovative curricula were so new at the time of many of these studies, students and teachers were relative novices in their use. These earlier studies were mainly one year or less in duration. Students ...Read More
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Light: Inquiry and Insights an Inquiry-Based Course in Optics
David Gray Schuster
A text for both conceptual and algebra-based courses. Originally developed at Western Michigan University for the Physics 1800 course for prospective teachers. *from worldcat.org
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Manifesto of the Critical Theory of Society and Religion: The Wholly Other, Liberation, Happiness and the Rescue of the Hopeless
Rudolf Siebert
The Manifesto develops further the Critical Theory of Religion intrinsic to the Critical Theory of Society of the Frankfurt School into a new paradigm of the Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy and Theology of Religion. Its central theme is the theodicy problem. The Manifesto approaches this theme in the framework of comparative religion and critical political theology in a narrative and discursive fashion. In search of a solution to the theodicy problem, the Manifesto explores , trends in civil society toward Alternative Future I (the Totally Administered Society), Alternative Future II (the ...Read More
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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
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Organ Preservation for Transplantation
Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra
The first edition of this book, Basic Concepts in Organ Procurement, Perfusion and Preservation for Transplantation, was published 27 years ago, in 1982 when organ procurement and preservation began to advance in the study of the best ways to preserve organs for transplantation. The second edition, Organ Procurement and Preservation for Transplantation, 2nd Edition, followed 15 years later, in 1997, with the goal of finding common denominators in the best preservation techniques for transplantation. In this current third edition, 11 years after the second edition, similar goals are still pursued ...Read More
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The Wow Factor: How to Create It, Inspire It, & Achieve It
Stephen Zegree
What is it about some musicians and performers who consistently achieve success? Are they the best performers? Did they have the best teachers? Do they have the best professional contacts and connections? Is it just coincidence? Of course not!
Dr. Steve Zegree of Western Michigan University, choral arranger and conductor of Western Michigan's Gold Company has developed this practical guide for performers, students, teachers and parents which offers fundamental philosophies and concepts that are essential to a person's growth and development and will contribute to a successful professional life in ...Read More
