Books Authored by Wright State Faculty/Staff

Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. Please first navigate to a specific Image before printing.

Switch View to Grid View Slideshow

Youth and Competition

Ronald R. Geibert

YOUTH AND COMPETITION features a photographic artist and children of Okayama, Japan and Dayton, Ohio responding and reacting to their culture's competitive events and traditions through photographs, drawings, and paintings. Narrator leads viewer through a personal examination of competition in their life.
Marxism and Ideology

Hee-Young Shin

Korean translation of Jorge Larrain, Marxism and Ideology (London: Macmillan, 1983).
Melancholy Duty: The Hume-Gibbon Attack on Christianity

Stephen Paul Foster Ph.D.

This book studies the complementary features of the thought of David Hume and Edward Gibbon in the complete range of its confrontation with eighteenth-century Christianity. The ten chapters explore the iconoclasm of these two philosophical historians - Hume as the premier philosopher, Gibbon as the consummate historian - as they labored to 'naturalize' the study of Christianity, particularly with attention to its social and political dimensions. No other work deals as comprehensively or thoroughly with the attempt of philosophical history's challenge to Christianity. Belief in miracles and the afterlife, the dimensions of fanaticism and superstition, and the nature of religious persecution were the themes that occupied Hume and Gibbon in the making of their critique of Christianity. This book makes a valuable contribution to scholarship in a number of fields including the history of ideas, religious studies, and philosophy. It will be of interest to philosophers of religion, historians of ideas, eighteenth-century intellectual historians, scholars of the Scottish Enlightenment, and Hume and Gibbon scholars.
The Celebrative Spirit: 1937-1943 Additional Excerpts

Ronald R. Geibert

Additional excerpts from the 1997 CD-ROM and 1986 exhibition The Celebrative Spirit: 1937-1943
Three Orwellian Kiosks 1997-2001

Ronald R. Geibert

THREE ORWELLIAN KIOSKS contains images of artworks dealing with "Big Brother" issues.
Total Quality and Organization Development

William Lindsay and Joseph A. Petrick

What happens when you bridge the fields of Total Quality (TQ) and Organization Development (OD) to improve organizational performance? You get Total Quality and Organization Development.
Here is a comprehensive and practical treatment of the impact TQ approaches to system performance has on OD. For the first time, views of organization change processes taken by academic researchers and practitioners in the fields of TQ and OD are bridged into a single text. Total Quality and Organization Development presents empowering insights, up-to-date tools, and challenging opportunities for organizational managers, OD practitioners, academicians, trainers, and students alike.
When facing the fact that a true need exists to transform organization structures and corporate cultures, and to develop organizations to meet the challenges and demands of the next century, the principles and practices of total quality can aid in the transformation. OD was originated by a group of varied professionals, ranging from organizational psychologists to economists and philosophers who had a major role in developing the "human" side of work. The core philosophies of the parallel movements of OD and TQ are rapidly coming together as quality advocates deal with human factors in quality improvement and the technical and measurement factors that accompany such changes. This book will be a vital tool in making those changes successfully.
Six Generations Here: A Farm Family Remembers

Marjorie L. McLellan

Six Generations Here is a unique collection of words and photographs taken across the first half of the 20th century by Wisconsin dairy farmer Alexander Krueger and his descendants. The Kruegers turned the camera lens on their Dodge County farm, its environs, their family, and the networks of kin that framed their lives. Their photographs and family stories comprise a unique record not only of who the Kruegers were but also of how they sought to be remembered.
The Wandering Uterus: Politics and the Reproductive Rights of Women

Cheryl L. Meyer

From the FDA review of RU-486 to the recent growth of fertility clinics to the rights of lesbian parents, women's reproductive lives are aggressively regulated by law and medicine. While a great deal has been written on such issues as abortion and postpartum depression, no single volume has offered a broad discussion of the interface between the legal, medical, and political aspects of women's reproduction in a manner accessible and informative to non-specialists. The Wandering Uterus fills that gap. Taking her title from an ancient Greek belief that women's health problems were caused by a wandering uterus that needed to be confined and controlled, Meyer exposes the way in which myths and prejudice about female sexuality continue to influence the practice of law and medicine today.

This book offers new insights and provides a wealth of up-to-date information on a subject that changes every day. The text is divided into three main parts: political issues of pre- conception, the politics of pregnancy, and the politics of motherhood. Throughout, Meyer argues passionately that while technology and medicine must progress, they should not be allowed to do so at women's expense.
Management Ethics: Integrity at Work

Joseph A. Petrick and John F. Quinn

This book provides the theoretical rationale, conceptual framework and practical tools necessary for building and sustaining managerial and organizational integrity over time. Individual chapters are devoted to ethical planning, leadership and control. Also included are 28 mini-cases relate to various functional areas of management including finance, marketing, human resource management, law, technology, operations, public policy and the environment.
Advances in the Science and Technology of Titanium Alloy Processing: Proceedings of an International Symposium Sponsored by the TMS Titanium and Shaping and Forming Held at the 125th TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Anaheim, California, February 5-8, 1996

Isaac Weiss, Raghavan Srinivasan, P. J. Bania, D. Eylon, and S. L. Semiatin

The purpose of this proceedings volume is to provide the reader with a thorough update of the latest scientific and technological advances in titanium alloy processing. It addresses all aspects of processing, including process development, modeling, and scale up for the hot working, cold working, heat treatment, and joining of titanium alloys and aluminides.

Coverage includes:

Hot-Working of Titanium Alloys--An Overview

Solute Strengthening in Beta Titanium--Hydrogen Alloys

Cold Forming of Titanium Rounds and Flats

Selection of Heat Treatment Optimum Technologies for Intricately Shaped Titanium Alloy Articles

A Study of Diffusion Bonding of Dissimilar Titanium Alloys
Robert Berlind: Paintings 1982-1996

Wright State University

A catalog from the exhibition of Robert Berlind paintings curated by David Leach, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Wright Sate University.
Denmark in the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648: King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State

Paul D. Lockhart

This book examines the involvement of Denmark in the Thirty Years' War, a watershed in the history of early modern Europe. Not only did the war permanently alter the European balance of power, but the pressures and demands created by such a prolonged and intensive conflict could not help but have a tremendous impact on the governments, societies, and economies of each of the major participants.
The Spiral Guide to Research Writing

Martin Maner

This comprehensive guide to writing research papers presents the research process not only as information gathering but also as an opportunity to generate new knowledge and challenge established opinions. Throughout, it advocates the use of technology (including word processing, computerized information services, on-line searches) as it guides students through the process of constructing a research paper.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dean Parmelee

Provides information on basic examination, evaluation and diagnostic approaches, general diseases and disorders, and common problems and issues. This book provides a biologically oriented view of the child and adolescent medicine field. It includes topic-based sections that provide chapters organized according to the DSM-IV guidelines.
New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage

Alpana Sharma

During the last 50 years, writers from immigrant groups have greatly enriched American literature. This reference overviews immigrant literatures in the United States since World War II. Previously underrepresented immigrant literatures, such as Pakistani-American, Korean-American, and Mexican-American literatures, are given special attention, and contributors discuss women's writing whenever possible. Each chapter provides a thorough historical and critical discussion and extensive bibliographical information.
Case Management and Substance Abuse Treatment: Practice and Experience

Harvey A. Siegal and Richard C. Rapp

Case managers are in a unique position that enables them to help their clients achieve their drug treatment goals. Based on a special issue of the Journal of Case Management, this important book reviews the use and adaptations of case management for the treatment of special populations, such as substance-abusing women, prisoners, and HIV-positive drug users. The chapters provide a well-balanced treatment of the subject, including descriptions of innovations in the field, the impact of case management on health care costs, and the challenges faced in the implementation of case management.
Fractals in Petroleum Geology and Earth Processes

Christopher C. Barton and Paul R. La Pointe

In this unique volume, renowned experts discuss the applications of fractals in petroleum research-offering an excellent introduction to the subject. Contributions cover a broad spectrum of applications from petroleum exploration to production. Papers also illustrate how fractal geometry can quantify the spatial heterogeneity of different aspects of geology and how this information can be used to improve exploration and production results.
Fractals in the Earth Sciences

Christopher C. Barton and Paul R. La Pointe

This well-illustrated volume reviews the many applications of fractal geometry used to study earth science patterns and processes. Designed as an introduction to this new area of study, the papers represent a broad spectrum of earth science disciplines where patterns have proven to be fractal over many orders of magnitude in time or space. This volume features an exhaustive list of published fractal dimensions measured for earth science patterns.
Global Perspectives on the Ecology of Human-Machine Systems

John M. Flach, Peter A. Hancock, Jeff Caird, and Kim J. Vicente

There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems. Some have suggested that the problem lies in the fact that much HF/E research has been based on the wrong type of psychology, an information processing view of psychology that is reductionistic and context-free. Ecological psychology offers a viable alternative, presenting a richer view of human behavior that is holistic and contextualized. The papers presented in these two volumes show the conceptual impact that ecological psychology can have on HF/E, as well as presenting a number of specific examples illustrating the ecological approach to human-machine systems. It is the first collection of papers that explicitly draws a connection between these two fields. While work in this area is only just beginning, the evidence available suggests that taking an ecological approach to human factors/ergonomics helps bridge the existing gap between basic research and applied problems.
Photography in the 1990s: Fifty Portfolios

Ronald R. Geibert

Photography in the 1990s: fifty portfolios was a two-disc international survey of nearly 400 images. Portfolios by 50 photographers were selected from 500 submissions from 30 countries. The jurors were museum curators from the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bibliotheque nationale de Paris, the Houston Museum of Art, and the MoMA in NYC. This publication represents a work by each of the photographers from six categories. The curator and project director was Professor Ron Geibert of Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.
Local Applications of the Ecological Approach To Human-Machine Systems

Peter A. Hancock, John M. Flach, Jeff Caird, and Kim J. Vicente

There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems. Some have suggested that the problem lies in the fact that much HF/E research has been based on the wrong type of psychology, an information processing view of psychology that is reductionistic and context-free. Ecological psychology offers a viable alternative, presenting a richer view of human behavior that is holistic and contextualized. The papers presented in these two volumes show the conceptual impact that ecological psychology can have on HF/E, as well as presenting a number of specific examples illustrating the ecological approach to human-machine systems. It is the first collection of papers that explicitly draws a connection between these two fields. While work in this area is only just beginning, the evidence available suggests that taking an ecological approach to human factors/ergonomics helps bridge the existing gap between basic research and applied problems.
Pleasures and Pains: Opium and the Orient in Nineteenth-Century British Culture

Barry Milligan

Throughout the nineteenth century, while Britons were taking their culture to the East, they were also bringing back exotic commodities and ideas, inviting the Orient to enter English terrain, bodies, and consciousness. This mixing is both mediated and mirrored by opium, an Oriental commodity that enters and alters the English body and mindset, thus confusing the direction of Anglo-Oriental power dynamics. Incorporating elements of literary criticism, cultural studies, and social history, Pleasures and Pains takes a new look at the complicated dynamics of empire as well as the development of still-prevalent perceptions of drugs as alien invaders responsible for the decay of national character.
Total Quality in Managing Human Resources

Joseph A. Petrick and Diana S. Furr

Human resource management is a particularly challenging role, both domestically and globally. This challenge can be viewed either as an opportunity or as a threat. As an opportunity, the principles and practices of total quality presented in this book can help human resource professionals or anyone who manages people, transform institutionalized mediocrity into organizational excellence.

The focus of this book is on managing the difference TQ makes in human resources. Whereas the traditional nature and scope of responsibility for most human resource professionals has been that of staff support geared to administrative compliance, the total quality approach offered here reveals the keys to developing and sustaining commitment to world-class performance. These keys include strategic input and continual improvement of the human resource system to enhance internal and external customer satisfaction both now and in the future. The full meaning of these new TQ role demands is explored in light of the driving forces reshaping the HR environment into the 21st Century.

In addition, this book offers practitioner assessment instruments, practical TQ tools, and specific implementation steps to take in order to make the TQ difference in managing human resources domestically and globally.
1994

Ronald R. Geibert

The book 1994 is comprised of samples made in the summer of 1994. Geibert taught a class for a Nevada school Consortium first in Paris and then in Saint Jean-du-Luz, France. The images of the town, which have never been exhibited were the last color film/camera images that Geibert made before making the transition over to installations, multimedia, and scanned books.