Published Works by SJSU Honorees

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Citizenship, Democracy and Higher Education in Europe, Canada and the USA

Jason Laker

Higher Education is a steward of socialization, a facilitator of social mobility, and a provocateur eliciting individuals' and societies' unrealized potential, mainly through its graduates. But as globalization continues to blur individual, institutional and national boundaries, there are calls from and to multiple sectors to articulate productive methods for achieving the ideals of democracy and social cohesion. This text is intended to contemplate the conceptual frameworks and policy imperatives facing post-secondary/tertiary sector educational institutions in preparing citizens for meaningful participation in democracies, whether long-standing, young or emerging. Department of Counselor Education
Innovation in Public Transport Finance: Property Value Capture

Shishir Mathur

With all levels of governments under significant fiscal stress, any new transit funding mechanism is to be welcomed. Value capture (VC) is one such mechanism, which involves the identification and capture of a public infrastructure-led increase in property value. This book reviews four major VC mechanisms: joint development projects; special assessment districts; impact fees; and tax increment financing. Through the study of prominent examples of these VC mechanisms from across the US and around the world, this book evaluates their performance focusing on aspects such as equity, revenue-generating potential, stakeholder support, and the legal and policy environment. It also conducts a comparative assessment of VC mechanisms to help policy makers and practitioners to choose one, or a combination of VC mechanisms. Department of Urban and Regional Planning
The Woman's Film of the 1940s: Gender, Narrative, and History

Alison McKee

This book explores the relationship among gender, desire, and narrative in 1940s "woman’s films" as they navigate the terrain between public history and private experience. The woman’s film and other form of cinematic melodrama have often been understood as positioning themselves outside history; this book challenges and modifies that understanding, contextualizing the films it considers against the backdrop of World War II. Department of Television-Radio-Film and Theatre
Belmont

Cynthia K. McCarthy

Midway between San Francisco and San José, Belmont is where an Italian count reconstructed his villa transported from Italy, where a silver king created “the White House of the West,” and where the Warlocks, a fledgling 1960s rock band, honed the sound they would make famous under another name, the Grateful Dead. Spanish explorers called Belmont’s vales “la Cañada del Diablo,” or “the Devil’s Canyon,” either after the locally famous winds or because the native Ohlone believed the canyon to be inhabited by spirits. Belmont’s historic advantage of being on the bay side of the shortest route to the Pacific coast meant easier access to another type of spirits during Prohibition, fueling a minor red-light district across the tracks on Old County Road. A century or more ago, Belmont’s wooded hills attracted sanitariums and prep schools. Today, its woods and trails draw residents from more developed neighboring towns. University Library
Secrets and Democracy: from arcana imperii to Wikileaks

Lawrence Quill

As governments actively collect and analyze more information about their populations than ever before, citizens struggle to defend their privacy, and to determine which state secrets are legitimate and which are not. Jurisdictional complexity, the inability of representatives to gain access to relevant information, citizens’ relative lack of expertise, and the partisanship that exists between different government agencies make oversight difficult. Secrecy and Democracy considers afresh the role that secrets plays within liberal democracies and the impact this has on the public’s ‘right to know,’ the individual’s ‘right to privacy,’ and the government’s penchant for secrecy and data collection. Department of Political Science
Soy Sauce for Beginners

Kirstin Chen

Gretchen Lin, adrift at the age of thirty, leaves her floundering marriage in San Francisco to move back to her childhood home in Singapore and immediately finds herself face-to-face with the twin headaches she’s avoided her entire adult life: her mother’s drinking problem and the machinations of her father’s artisanal soy sauce business. In the midst of increasing pressure from her father to remain permanently in Singapore—and pressure from her mother to do just the opposite—Gretchen must decide whether she will return to her marriage and her graduate studies at the San Francisco Conservatory, or sacrifice everything and join her family’s crusade to spread artisanal soy sauce to the world.
Discovering Accounting

Helen Brubeck

Discovering Accounting is an introductory accounting electronic textbook created as part of SJSU's Textbook Alternatives Project, giving students a high quality text at a low cost. The book will also come into use as part of the iPad Initiative. Department of Accounting & Finance
The Occasionist

Curt Anderson

Book of poems delving into the interplay of language and humor as addressed to personal and public events. The work was written over several years and seeks to be both poignant and playful. College of International and Extended Studies
Kevin Moore's Hail Mary Pass: Into the End Zone with the 49ers in Levi's Stadium

Michael Fallon

This book is the story of one man’s journey to realize his dream of bringing a professional sports team to his hometown, the little Mission City of St. Clare. Like beads on a rosary, some 70 episodes recount the behind-the-scenes tales from failed Giants and As campaigns to the ultimate achievement of securing a new home for the SF49ERS in the new Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA. Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Center for Community Learning & Leadership
Sound Patterns of Hindi

Manjari Ohala

This book addresses a number of issues in the phonetics/phonology of Hindi using a variety of experimental methods--from phonetics (physiological/acoustic/perceptual) to psycholinguistic. Department of Linguistics and Language Development
How Real is Race? A Sourcebook on Race, Culture and Biology, 2nd Edition

Carol Mukhopadhyay, Rosemary Henze, and Yolanda T. Moses

How Real is Race? A Sourcebook on Race, Culture and Biology employs an activity-oriented approach to address the question How REAL is race? What is biological fact, what is fiction, and where does culture, enter? What do we mean when we say race is a “social construction? Department of Anthropology, Department of Linguistics and Language Development
Aging and Society: A Canadian Perspective

Mark Novak

The most widely used introduction to gerontology textbook in Canada. Now in its 7th edition. The text covers the major topics in the field, such as ageism, pensions, health care, and housing. The text looks at major policy issues and program innovations that promote successful aging. College of International and Extended Studies
Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage

Susan Shillinglaw

Carol Henning Steinbeck was John's first wife and the woman who edited and inspired his best work. The dedication to The Grapes of Wrath reads, in part: "To Carol who willed this book," and in a very real sense she willed to life all of his fiction of the 1930s. Energetic, creative, spunky and intelligent, Carol devoted herself to her husband's writing. It's an oft-told tale, a woman hitching her star to a man's steady sense of purpose. Department of English and Comparative Literature
In the Buddha Factory

Alan Soldofsky

Captivating and truthful, In the Buddha Factory is rich in detail, honest in tragedy, and poignant in observation. Through a mastery of style and language placed against the backdrop of Silicon Valley, Soldofsky explores the tension of opposites of place and no place, rich and poor, and finite and the limitless. These poems capture the intricacies of family, aging, and identity, and renders them in words both insightful and lyrical. Department of English and Comparative Literature
Teaching Writing Grades 7-12 in an Era of Assessment: Passion and Practice

Mary Warner and Jonathan Lovell

This is a book for teachers, by teachers, about teaching writing. In it, veteran teachers assert that writing, especially if it is authentic, must be taught comprehensively and not segmented into distinct measurable skills. An ideal guide for those who have not had access to professional development in teaching writing, the book gives readers the benefit of hearing first hand from real people teaching real students–teachers who have great credibility and knowledge about teaching writing, plus the “evidence” of their success as shown in their students’ writing samples. Department of English and Comparative Literature
Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology

Michael Parrish

The opening of an exhibit focused on "Jane," a beautifully preserved tyrannosaur collected by the Burpee Museum of Natural History, was the occasion for an international symposium on tyrannosaur paleobiology. Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology highlights the far ranging and vital state of current tyrannosaurid dinosaur research and discovery. College of Science
News Writing and Reporting: The Complete Guide for Today's Journalist

Richard Craig

The book covers every aspect of news gathering, reporting and writing with today's hi-tech news tools and audiences in mind. Throughout the book, dozens of successful journalists have shared insights about the business and its changing nature. Each chapter contains numerous examples of storytelling techniques, information gathering strategies and other important elements of today's journalism. School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Choosing Sides: Loyalists in Revolutionary America

Ruma Chopra

The work shows us that America’s original colonies were not nearly as united behind the concept of forming free, independent states as our society’s collective memory would have us believe. There were, in fact, numerous colonists, slaves and Native Americans who counted themselves among the Loyalists: those who never wanted to sever ties with the English crown and who viewed revolution as an unnatural and unlawful mistake. Too often overlooked, these men and women made valid and valuable arguments against the formation of the United States—both weighing the costs of revolution and the perilousness of existing without divine rule of a monarch— arguments that even hundreds of years into America’s existence are echoed and championed both within and beyond our borders. Department of History
Recognition, Sovereignty Struggles, and Indigenous Rights in the United States

Alan Leventhal

This publication is a source book that brings together a series of articles written by various Native and non-Native American scholars that addresses the critical issue of Federal recognition and the historic processes that have disenfranchised many of the historic tribes throughout the United States. College of Social Sciences
Communicating Environmental Patriotism: A Rhetorical History of the American Environmental Movement

Anne Marie Todd

This book is the first to explore the history of environmental patriotism, the belief that the national environment defines a country’s greatness. The rise of environmental patriotism in the 20th century is told through the intriguing stories of environmental patriots and the rhetoric of their speeches and propaganda. This rhetorical history shows that patriotism is a powerful rhetorical tool that can persuade readers to live more sustainably and engage environmental problems as global citizens. Department of Communication Studies
Epidemiology Kept Simple

B. Burt Gerstman

Epidemiology Kept Simple introduces the epidemiological principles and methods that are increasingly important in the practice of medicine and public health. Topics include disease causality, epidemiologic measures, descriptive epidemiology, study design, clinical and primary prevention trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, and the consideration of random and systematic error in studies of causal factors. Chapters on the infectious disease process, outbreak investigation, and screening for disease are also included. Department of Health Science and Recreation
Daydreaming in Kyoto

Daniel Brook

Kyoto is one of the world's most historical and beautiful cities. As Japan's capital city for nearly one thousand years, Kyoto is rich in all sorts of cultural ways. In "Daydreaming in Kyoto", one perfect day is detailed in this magical city through evocative and provocative haiku and photographs. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a haiku may be worth a thousand pictures. The possibilities are endless. Department of Sociology
Python for Everyone

Cay Horstmann

This book is an adaptation of the popular "Java for Everyone" and "C++ for Everyone" introductory computer science textbooks to the Python language, combining Cay Horstmann's pedagogy and Rance Necaise's expertise in teaching Python. Department of Computer Science
Religion, Science and Democracy: A Disputational Friendship

Lisa Stenmark

This book uses Hannah Arendt’s work to understand the paradoxical role of religion and science in public life and to develop a model for the science and religion discourse which does not focus on truth claims, but rather promotes public discourse and judgment. It advocates the position of the storyteller, who never tells a definitive story but instead seeks more stories, and promotes a disputational friendship in which we seek out points of disagreement in order to expand the conversation and incorporate more stories. Department of Humanities
Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy

Anne T. Lawrence

Market-leading textbook in the field of business and society, coauthored with James Weber of Dusquesne University. Department of Organization & Management