Published Works by SJSU Honorees

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Harmony of Babel: Profiles of Famous Polyglots of Europe

Scott Alkire and Tani Mitsch

In the late 1980s the Hungarian interpreter Kató Lomb researched historical and contemporary polyglots in an effort to understand their linguistic achievements. Her resulting work, "Bábeli harmónia (Interjúk Európa híres soknyelvű embereivel)," was published in Budapest in 1988. Her book was translated and edited by Adam Szegi and Scott Alkire ("Harmony of Babel: Profiles of Famous Polyglots of Europe") and published by TESL-EJ in September. Book design by Tani Mitsch. Department of Linguistics & Language Development
Facilitative Leadership in Social Work Practice

Roger Volker

Facilitative Leadership is an empowerment process that helps social workers live their professional and personal ethics in one of the arenas where they spend much of their time - working in groups. In the form of a training manual, this text helps social work students and practitioners become more effective agents of change through understanding the meaning, principles, and characteristics of facilitative leadership. Department of Health Science and Recreation
Father Junípero's Confessor

Nicholas Taylor

A historical novel re-imagining the story of the California missions. The novel’s publication coincides with the 300th anniversary of Junípero Serra’s birth. Department of English and Comparative Literature
Constructive Engagement of Analytic and Continental Approaches in Philosophy

Bo Mou and Richard Tieszen

From the vantage point of comparative philosophy and with the goal of cross-tradition constructive engagement, this anthology explores how analytic and "Continental" approaches in philosophy, as understood broadly and presented in the Western and other traditions, can learn from each other and jointly contribute to the contemporary development of philosophy on a range of issues. Philosophy Department
The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticities

Elizabeth Carroll Consavari

Adopting a broad chronological framework and expanding the regional scope beyond Florence and Venice to include domestic interiors from less studied centers such as Urbino, Ferrrara and Bologna, this collection offers new perspectives on the home in early modern Italy. The volume's dual emphasis is on reconstructing the material culture of specific residences, and on how particular domestic objects reflect, shape, and mediate family values and relationships within the home. Department of Art & Art History
Teaching and Learning Patterns in School Mathematics: Psychological and Pedagogical Considerations

Ferdinand Rivera

This book draws on research findings on patterns in the last twenty years or so in order to argue for a theory of graded representations in pattern generalization.The alternative view of pattern generalization processing is not about permanent shifts or transition phases but graded and multimodal depending on individual learners’ experiences with patterns. Department of Mathematics
Records and Information Management

Patricia Franks

Franks presents complete coverage of the records and information lifecycle model from creation through preservation and introduces the records continuum. This work encompasses paper, electronic (databases, office suites, email), and new media records (blogs, wikis), as well as records residing in "the cloud" (software as a service). It covers a full range of topics, including the origins and development of records and information, the discipline of information governance, and electronic records and electronic records management systems. School of Library and Information Science
Handbook of Forensic Sociology and Psychology

Stephen Morewitz

This landmark publication is the first ever book on the topic of forensic sociology. The Handbook of Forensic Sociology and Psychology offers comprehensive coverage of the impact of social science on the spectrum of civil, criminal, and immigration law issues. Department of Sociology
Singular Spaces: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments

Jo Farb Hernandez

A ground-breaking survey of 45 self-taught Spanish artists and their monumental art environments, this book includes a CD with full photographic documentation, text descriptions, and site plans, altogether comprising over 1100 pages. Detailed case studies of the artists and their works--most of which have never before been fully documented, let alone published or exhibited--are contextualized with historical and theoretical references to art history, anthropology, architecture, Spanish area studies, and folklore. Department of Art & Art History
A Student's Guide to Lagrangians and Hamiltonians

Patrick Hamill

This physics textbook will be released by Cambridge University Press in January, 2014. It is intended as a study aid for physics graduate students taking a course in advanced mechanics. Department of Physics and Astronomy
Champion of Choice: The Life and Legacy of Women's Advocate Nafis Sadik

Cathleen Miller

Not many women in modern history can claim to have changed the world. But during her thirty years at the United Nations Population Fund, Nafis Sadik’s perseverance in supplying access to contraception cut the global birth rate in half—prompting the London Times to call her one of “the most powerful women in the world.” Written in a dramatic narrative style, her biography tells the true story of a character who defies all stereotypes—an obstetrician, a dedicated wife and mother, a Pakistani, a devout Muslim—who becomes the first female director of the U.N. Department of English and Comparative Literature
Core Java, Volume I -- Fundamentals

Cay S. Horstmann

This is the 9th edition of the two-volume comprehensive coverage of the Java language and its core libraries, updated for Java 7. Core Java has been in print since 1995 and has been translated into over 20 languages. Department of Computer Science
Panama and the United States: The End of the Alliance.

Michael Conniff

Panama and the United States chronicles over 180 years of relations between the two countries, following the former’s independence from Spain in 1821. It covers major projects, like the Panama railroad, the French canal episode, the U.S. canal, as well as principal treaties and their negotiations. It goes beyond diplomacy, however, to survey the breadth of relations, including economic, political, cultural, demographic, and intellectual. The Panama Canal dominates the narrative, to be sure, spanning the 20th century, yet since 1999 that waterway has been managed successfully by Panama, as detailed in a new concluding chapter. This has been called one of the best surveys of Panama’s history in English.
Economic Development and GIS

J M. Pogodzinski and Richard Kos

Economic Development and GIS shows why geographic information system (GIS) software is an essential tool for economic development planning and analysis. The book describes policy problems in economic development then presents methods and techniques to solve them with GIS. Economic Development and GIS uses examples from Esri Business Analyst and ArcGIS software to explain the value of GIS in economic development decision making.
The Forgotten Gothic: Short Stories from the British Literary Annuals, 1823-1831

Katherine D. Harris

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.
Introduction to Transportation Security

Frances Edwards and Daniel C. Goodrich

An overview of homeland security and emergency management is followed by information on the federal structures and security layers used in transportation systems. Six chapters each cover one mode of transportation, such as road, rail, maritime and air, ending with a chapter on global supply chain security and continuity of operations.
Killer Fat: Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American "Obesity Epidemic"

Natalie Boero

In Killer Fat, Boero examines how and why obesity emerged as a public health concern and national obsession in recent years. Using primary sources and in-depth interviews, Boero enters the world of bariatric surgeries and diet programs to show how common expectations of what bodies should look like help determine what interventions and policies are considered urgent in containing this epidemic.
Boero argues that obesity, like traditional epidemics of contagion and mass death, incites panic, a doomsday scenario that must be confronted in a struggle for social stability. The “war” on obesity, she concludes, is a form of social control. Killer Fat ultimately offers an alternate framing of obesity based on the insights of the “Health at Every Size” movement.
Essential Linear Algebra

Jared Maruskin

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.
Populism in Latin America

Michael Conniff

Populism in Latin America is comprised of eight chapters written by specialists, covering the populist experiences in major Latin American nations, plus a preface, introduction, and analytical chapter on neo-populism. It ranges from the early 20th century pioneers in the Southern Cone to the most recent figures, including Hugo Chávez, Rafael Caldera, and Lula da Silva. Most attention focuses on the classic populists like Juan and Evita Perón, Haya de la Torre, Velasco Ibarra, and Lázaro Cárdenas. The authors conclude that although the heyday of populism may have passed in the region, it is likely to recur due to its deep roots in the national cultures.
Vida de la Madre Inés de la Encarnación

Eleanor Marsh

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.
Introduction to Dynamical Systems and Geometric Mechanics

Jared Maruskin

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.
Benchmarking and Organizational Change

Mohammad H. Qayoumi

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
Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South

Libra Hilde

This book examines the work, experiences, and importance of women as official and unofficial Confederate nurses and matrons. Female labor helped sustain the cause, women lowered mortality rates, and they gained an expanded sense of self-worth. After the war, former nurses transitioned from healing sick and wounded soldiers to healing memory, playing a critical role in the promulgation of the Lost Cause and in shaping post-war race relations.
Towards Equity in Mathematics Education: Gender, Culture, and Diversity

Ferdinand Rivera and Helen Forgasz

The volume gathers together twenty major chapters that tackle a variety of issues associated with equity in mathematics education along the dimensions of gender, culture, curriculum diversity, and matters of a biological nature. The research studies that are reported and discussed in the volume have been drawn from an international group of distinguished scholars whose impressive, forward-looking, and thought- provoking perspectives on relevant issues incite, broaden, and expand complicated conversations on how we might effectively achieve equity in mathematics education at the local, institutional, and systemic levels. Further, the up-to-date research knowledge in the field that is reflected in this volume provides conceptual and practical outlines for mechanisms of change, including models, examples, and usable theories that can inform the development of powerful equitable practices and the mobilization of meaningful equity interventions in different contexts of mathematics education. (Rivera also has a chapter in this book.)
Scala for the Impatient

Cay S. Horstmann

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.