Books Authored by SJSU Faculty Copyright (c) 2013 San Jose State University All rights reserved. http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books Recent documents in Books Authored by SJSU Faculty en-us Wed, 15 May 2013 13:50:52 PDT 3600 Benchmarking and Organizational Change http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/61 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/61 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:45:58 PDT Benchmarking & Organizational Change will assist in integrating the technical, human, and economic aspects of an organization in order to optimize your business and planning results. Benchmarking will achieve the following for your organization: stimulate creativity across the enterprise minimize or eliminate complacency and the superficial mindset expand horizons beyond your industry enhance sensitivity to external factors align your business strategies to action plans create an ongoing sense of urgency to remain competitive and, possibly, outpace your competition

]]> Mohammad H. Qayoumi Navaye Nai (Sound of Reed) http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/60 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/60 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:45:54 PDT A native of Afghanistan and a registered dietitian, Najia Karim is also a Persian poet whose work has been published in several Afghan and Iranian magazines in the US. She is a regular guest with the on one of the local Afghan Satellite television stations.

]]> Najia Karim Qayoumi Versos Sencillos http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/59 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/59 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:45:48 PDT A introduction and notes in both English and Spanish along with a bilingual presentation of the poems. "One of the best works of translation...of Cuba's most universal and most-admired hero" - Hispania

]]> Anne Fountain et al. The LinkedIn Essentials: Leveraging LinkedIn to Grow Your Business http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/58 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/58 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:15:47 PDT The LinkedIn Essentials shows you proven techniques for attracting quality clients using LinkedIn, and provides you with the essential elements for successfully marketing your business on LinkedIn, the largest PROFESSIONAL social network in the world, and the perfect place to target B2B customers.

]]> Peter F. Young et al. Child Growth and Development http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/57 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/57 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:20:49 PDT Ellen Junn et al. Daily Life Through History: Women and Civil Rights Movement in America http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/56 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/56 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:20:45 PDT Daily Life of Women during the Civil Rights Era looks at the variety of women’s experiences in promoting social justice and human rights in the US from 1920 to the 1980s. It gives an audience a deeper understanding of the complexity of gender, class, and race in America.

]]> Danelle Moon Introduction to Dynamical Systems and Geometric Mechanics http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/55 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/55 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:11:25 PDT This is an introductory graduate text on dynamical systems and geometric mechanics, with applications to physics and engineering. In the first part of the text, we discuss linearization and stability of trajectories and fixed points, invariant manifold theory, periodic orbits, Poincaré maps, Floquet theory, the Poincaré-Bendixson theorem, bifurcations, and chaos. The second part of the text begins with a self-contained chapter on differential geometry that introduces notions of manifolds, mappings, vector fields, the Jacobi-Lie bracket, and differential forms. The final chapters cover Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics from a modern geometric perspective, mechanics on Lie groups, and nonholonomic mechanics via both moving frames and fiber bundle decompositions.

]]> Jared Maruskin Essential Linear Algebra http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/54 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/54 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:05:13 PDT This text introduces linear algebra—boiled to its essence—presented in a clear and concise fashion. Designed around a single-semester undergraduate course, Essential Linear Algebra introduces key concepts, various real-world applications, and provides detailed yet understandable proofs of key results that are aimed towards students with no advanced preparation in proof writing. The level of sophistication gradually increases from beginning to end in order to prepare students for subsequent studies.

]]> Jared Maruskin Big Java: Late Objects http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/53 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/53 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:59:42 PDT Big Java: Late Objects is a comprehensive introduction to Java and computer programming, which focuses on the principles of programming, software engineering, and effective learning. It is designed for a two-semester first course in programming for computer science students.

]]> Cay Horstmann Scala for the Impatient http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/52 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/52 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:53:05 PDT Scala for the Impatient concisely shows developers what Scala can do and how to do it. In this book, Cay Horstmann, the principal author of the international best-selling Core Java™, offers a rapid, code-based introduction that’s completely practical. Horstmann introduces Scala concepts and techniques in “blog-sized” chunks that you can quickly master and apply. Hands-on activities guide you through well-defined stages of competency, from basic to expert.

]]> Cay S. Horstmann Global Rights and Perceptions http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/51 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/51 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:47:43 PDT In Global Rights and Perceptions students read from a wide variety of original sources—foreign policy journals, non-fiction books, medical journals, and current affairs magazines on how human rights are currently being violated through practices such as human trafficking, female genital mutilation, organ trade, and female feticide. This varied exposure gives students several gateways through which to approach complex social issues, think and write about them with awareness and engagement. Based on the premise that students must be pulled away from a highly commercial, digitally perfect present, and encouraged to intelligently and passionately examine an imperfect world with a view to changing it, the book provides a well-rounded education on global rights, and the lack thereof, in our modern world.

]]> Avantika Rohatgi After Gödel: Platonism and Rationalism in Mathematics and Logic http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/50 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/50 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:07:30 PDT This book presents an analysis, development, and defense of a number of central ideas in the great logician Kurt Gödel's writings on the philosophy and foundations of mathematics and logic. The argument is structured around Gödel's three philosophical heroes, Plato, Leibniz and Husserl, and includes treatment of the incompleteness theorems and other technical results.

]]> Richard Tieszen Wicked Hill http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/49 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/49 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:55:39 PDT Wicked Hill is an American Gothic tale of suspicion and superstition set in the Smoky Mountains of the Eastern United States.

]]> Edwin Sams Revolution of Forms, Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/48 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/48 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:32:01 PDT This book examines the convergence and collision of architecture, ideology, and culture in 1960s Cuba through the architectural design for the Escuelas Nacionales de Arte. The attention that his book brought to these works of architecture prodded the Cuban government to commit to their restoration, and to declare them national monuments in November 2010. In addition, the book has provided the inspiration for a documentary film, Unfinished Spaces by Alysa Nahmias, an art installation Utopía Posible at the 2009 Gwangju Biennial by Felipe Dulzaides, and an opera, Revolution of Forms, being developed with Robert Wilson as director.

]]> John Loomis The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/47 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/47 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:23:33 PDT This book explores the aesthetics of the objects and environments we encounter in daily life. Thomas Leddy stresses the close relationship between everyday aesthetics and the aesthetics of art, but places special emphasis on neglected aesthetic terms such as 'neat,' 'messy,' 'pretty,' 'lovely,' 'cute,' and 'pleasant.' The author advances a general theory of aesthetic experience that can account for our appreciation of art, nature, and the everyday.
"Thomas Leddy offers a comprehensive and compelling treatment of everyday aesthetics, discussing a wide variety of historical and contemporary sources while putting forward an interesting new theory of what it is to have an aesthetic experience." - Sherri Irvin, University of Oklahoma

]]> Thomas W. Leddy The Forgotten Gothic: Short Stories from the British Literary Annuals, 1823-1831 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/46 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/46 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:16:27 PDT This collection of gothic short stories takes us further than perhaps eighteenth or nineteenth-century scholars are comfortable with – to extend our discussions about the Gothic in such a way that the tradition does not die at 1820, as is purported by Robert Mayo. We will, however, move past the deaths of Shelley, Keats and Byron – the spokespersons for the second wave of traditional Romanticism. Queen Victoria won’t ascend to the throne for another six years, and Tennyson has not yet become the powerhouse poet who will eventually rise to Poet Laureate of England. Scholars touted 1820-1830 as a “dead zone” – without any literary guiding light. However, many studies have shown that the magazines were filled with literary fodder, more specifically, the Gothic short story.

]]> Katherine D. Harris Vida de la Madre Inés de la Encarnación http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/45 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/45 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:06:58 PDT This is an annotated edition of the spiritual autobiography authored in the seventeenth-century by a Spanish lay holy woman (beata) named Inés López Meléndez (1564-1634) who later became a nun known as Inés de la Encarnación.

The text—which has not been republished since its original printing in a 1690 chronicle of the founding of Spanish convents—is a representative example of the literary genre of women’s spiritual autobiography according to the model established by the Libro de su vida (Book of her Life) by Teresa of Avila.

This book is written in Spanish and includes a critical introduction and explanatory footnotes by Eleanor Marsh.

]]> Eleanor Marsh Disconnect/Desencuentro http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/44 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/44 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:00:43 PDT A bilingual edition of 12 stories by prize-winning Cuban author Nancy Alonso. Translations of the stories into English, Introduction and commentary about Alonso are by Anne Fountain. This is the first bilingual edition of Alonso's work published in the United States.

]]> Anne Fountain et al. T. S. Eliot, Dante, and the Idea of Europe http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/43 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/43 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:54:42 PDT T. S. Eliot’s response to Dante includes aesthetic, philosophical, and religious convictions, his formative influence upon literary modernism’s “classicism,” and his desire to promote European unity. The book’s deals with Eliot’s engagement through Dante with concepts of immediate experience, primary consciousness, and “unified sensibility,” as well as with Hindu-Buddhist and Christian themes and motifs. The book also deals with Eliot as a modernist writer, asking how Dante influenced Eliot, and through Eliot many other writers. Dante’s importance to Eliot’s promotion of an “idea of Europe” is related to his notion of “tradition.

]]> Paul Douglass Dante and Italy in British Romanticism http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/42 http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/faculty_books/42 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:47:49 PDT This volume, which brings together several of the most authoritative scholars in the field, represents a landmark in the study of Anglo-Italian literary and cultural relations in the Romantic period. It succeeds brilliantly … and throws much-needed light on a crucial period of political and social transformation in Italy, as seen from the critical but sympathetic viewpoint of contemporary British intellectuals, reaffirming the centrality of Dante’s role in the formation and interpretation of Italy’s late and contradictory identity as a nation.

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