Published Works by SJSU Honorees

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The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life

Thomas W. Leddy

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
Disconnect/Desencuentro

Anne Fountain, Nancy Alonso, and Sara E. Cooper

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.
Big Java: Late Objects

Cay Horstmann

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.
Building Research Culture and Infrastructure

Ruth G. McCoy, Jerry Flanzer, and Joan Levy Zlotnik

Drawing on the extensive experience of the authors, this book provides a roadmap to building research capacity. It outlines specific leadership strategies that deans and directors can use to access federal research funds; incentivize interdisciplinary research; enhance mentorship relationships between senior and junior researchers; and make strategic hires. The book also identifies specific strategies to promote research by junior faculty and graduate students; forge partnerships between the university and local community and state agencies; identify potential grant funders; and write successful grants. Deans, directors, faculty, research administrators, and doctoral students will find this book a valuable step-by-step guide for fostering a research climate and increasing the likelihood of developing successful research initiatives.
Dialogue in a Management Team: Empowerment, Participation, and Diversity

Minna Johanna Holopainen

Managing diversity in today’s organizational environments can challenge many organizations. This action research study addresses that challenge by investigating the outcomes of dialogic communication training on a city government management team experiencing organizational diversity. The results of this study indicate that dialogic communication and the development of dialogic style of leadership through communication training provide a valuable and practical approach for work teams. Specifically, management team members’ communication skills improved, they adopted a more participatory management style, and they reported higher levels of relational satisfaction. Study findings highlight the need for practitioners to assist in developing communication training that facilitates emergent dialogue.
The Barnstorming Hawaiian Travelers: A Multiethnic Baseball Team Tours the Mainland, 1912-1916.

Joel Franks

This book chronicles the Hawaiian Travelers, a barnstorming baseball team of multiethnic, multiracial Hawaiians, who played across the continental U.S. from 1912 through 1916. This team took on college, semi-professional, minor league, and African American nines. In the process, they won the majority of these games, while subverting venerable racial conventions. It also describes the experiences of some of these players after 1916 as they sought baseball careers on the East Coast of the mainland. This book sheds light on a generally untold story about baseball, race, and colonization in the United States during the early decades of the 20th century.
Versos Sencillos

José Martí, Anne Fountain, and Lisa Vollendorf

A introduction and notes in both English and Spanish along with a bilingual presentation of the poems of José Martí. "One of the best works of translation...of Cuba's most universal and most-admired hero" - Hispania
Better Angels

Harold W. Peterson

Betrayed by love and forever scarred by a war in Vietnam, Henry Allen has had enough of life in Michigan and sets out on a journey home to Alaska. Although hopeless and unconvinced that there is anything left to live for, Henry holds fast to a promise made to an old friend during the war and an overpowering desire to return home after 20 years. While the long and winding road takes him back in miles and memories, he must once again confront shadows from his past that for so long he has been able to avoid knowing that the darkest of them still awaits at his journey's end.
Pedretti’s Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction

Winifred Schultz-Krohn and Heidi McHugh Pendleton

This comprehensive textbook addresses the provision of occupational therapy services for those with physical disabling conditions and is widely used throughout the United States and internationally, being translated in several languages. In the 7th edition the editors, who also authored several of the chapters, sought to infuse clinical reasoning, analysis and practical intervention methods throughout the textbook with case presentations to help the reader apply the information to clinical practice. Over 50 expert occupational therapist were sought as contributors to this textbook providing the most contemporary and well researched methods for occupational therapy intervention. This textbook has received wide acclaim as being the “OT Bible” for occupational therapists working with individuals with physical disabilities.
Food and Culture

Kathryn P. Sucher

Research based coverage of health culture, food and nutrition habits of the most common ethnic, religious, and regional groups living the United States. Chapters include information on traditional and acculturated health beliefs and practices, food and religion, and intercultural communication. The book is widely used in nutrition and dietetic education programs, as well as by other allied health professionals.
Mentorship of Special Educators

Jennifer C. Booker Madigan and Georganne S. Schroth-Cavataio

The national shortage and exceptionally high attrition rate of special education teachers are barriers to effectively serving students with disabilities. Given that only 64 percent of special education teachers have access to a mentor compared with 86 percent of general education teachers, Mentorship of Special Educators meets an essential need for attracting, retaining, and supporting special educators. This book provides research-based tools for professional developers to use in multiple settings, including schools with culturally and linguistically diverse students.
Lee de Forest: King of Radio, Television, and Film

Mike Adams

Yale Ph.D. Lee de Forest took 19th Century science and turned it into the electronic entertainment media of the 20th Century. In 1907 he patented his signature invention, the vacuum tube, to be a transmitter, receiver and amplifier of sound. He experimented with the broadcast of music and started several radio stations. Beginning in 1918 he patented a system of writing sound on motion picture film for synchronized talking pictures. His tube was the key as it allowed amplification of sound using loudspeakers and made it possible for audiences to experience both radio and talking pictures. He supplied the missing voice to the motion picture for which he received an Oscar.
Forensic Engineering Sciences: American Academy of Forensic Sciences Reference Series - A Decade of Research and Case Study Proceedings

Anastasia Micheals, Laura L. Liptai, Sonya R. Bynoe, and Anne Warren

The American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) Reference Series is the largest collection of forensic case studies and research abstracts worldwide spanning eleven fields of forensic science. Established in 1948, the AAFS represents over 6,260 members from all fifty US states, all ten Canadian provinces and 62 other countries worldwide. This first of its kind twelve volume collection contains a decade of proceedings from many of the most prominent forensic scientists worldwide.
Advances in the Human Side of Service Engineering

Louis E. Freund and James C. Spohrer

This book describes the emerging field known as the human-side of service engineering. If there is any one element to the engineering of service systems that is unique, it is the extent to which the suitability of the system for human use, human service, and excellent human experience has been and must always be considered. Contributors to this book explore the wide range of ways in which Human Factors Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Usability Testing, Attitude and Opinion Assessment, Servicescape Designs and Evaluations, Cognitive Engineering, Psychometrics, Training for Service Delivery, Co-Creation and Co-Production, Service Levels and Cost Effectiveness, Call Center Engineering, Customer Support Engineering, and many other areas relate to and impact the human-side of engineering service systems.
Global Rights and Perceptions

Avantika Rohatgi

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.
Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach

V. Gregory Payne and Larry D. Isaacs

This is a leading text in Human Motor Development. It describes the normal changes in human movement progressions (e.g., infant reflexes, crawling, walking, hand writing, skilled movement) across the lifespan, as well as the issues related to these changes. The book was originally published in 1987, and is now in its 8th edition. It has been used throughout the world, and has been translated into other languages.
The LinkedIn Essentials: Leveraging LinkedIn to Grow Your Business

Peter F. Young and Asia Bird

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.
Nava-yi Nai (Sound of Reed)

Najia Karim-Qayoumi

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.
The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups.

Randall Stross

For the project, I took a two-semester DIP leave and acted as an ethnographer, closely observing a group of software entrepreneurs as they were selected for seed funding and then worked on their products under the supervision of partners at Y Combinator, a seed fund in Mountain View. The resulting narrative presents an inside view of the process of angel investing on a large scale---there were 64 startups that were funded simultaneously----and of startup creation at the heart of Silicon Valley.
Structural Concrete: Theory and Design

Akthem Al-Manaseer and M. Nadim Hassoun

Structural Concrete, Fifth Edition provides complete guidance to the analysis and design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. This new edition brings all material up to date while maintaining the book's practical, logical, easy-to-follow approach.
Bean Bags to Bod Pods: A History of 150 years of San José State University's Department of Kinesiology

Shirley Reekie

This book chronicles the development of what started as the first public system of physical activity (now typically housed in departments of Kinesiology) in higher education in the west and one of the earliest in the entire US. In common with most programs, it began as a physical education teacher education program but in the last 50 years has diversified into preparing students for many careers including personal training, sport management, athletic training, adapted physical activity, cardiac rehabilitation, physical therapy, exercise physiology, coaching, and sport psychology. It is not a history of athletics but this does form a strand in the narrative, which is set in the context of the major social and political movements of the times.
Wicked Hill

Edwin Sams

Wicked Hill is an American Gothic tale of suspicion and superstition set in the Smoky Mountains of the Eastern United States.
Global Leadership: Research, Practice and Development

Joyce Osland, Mark E. Mendenhall, Allan Bird, Gary R. Oddou, Martha L. Maznevski, Michael Stevens, and Günter K. Stahl

This book is the only overview and compendium of research published to date in the nascent field of global leadership. It describes the global context in which leaders of multinational enterprises work, the difference between domestic and global leaders, and the multidisciplinary roots of this field. In addition to reviewing the literature and practical recommendations on global leadership competencies, assessment, process models and development methods, the book also discusses global teams, knowledge creation and transfer, and change.
Some Same but Different: Unlearning the Concept of Disability

Bettina Brockmann

The book exemplifies how working with leads to a product that can help create an inclusive academic environment. The author worked with 7 students with disabilities to better understand their successes and struggles within higher education. Together, they explore the social construct of disability and offer ways on how to unlearn this learned concept. Guiding exercises and thought-provoking ideas challenge the reader to investigate his/her own attitudes and beliefs. In addition, the book offers guidelines on how students and instructors can engage one another in constructive dialogue across difference. This book is applicable across a broad array of courses and disciplines.
Annual Editions: Child Growth and Development 12/13

Ellen Junn and Chris J. Boyatzis

Annual Editions: Child Growth & Development is a compilation of current and provocative articles on a large range of issues in child growth and development that is used nationwide as a supplementary reader in child development and psychology courses.