Published Works by SJSU Honorees

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  Cognitive Communication Disorders

  Michael L. Kimbarow

  Cognitive Communication Disorders, now in its second edition, is the definitive core text for graduate courses that address cognitively based communicative disorders. This text provides up-to-date knowledge on the normal cognitive processes that support communication, cognitive linguistic communication disorders, clinical management, as well as the impact that deficits in these cognitive domains may have on language and communication - including right hemisphere disorders, Alzheimer disease and related disorders, and traumatic brain injury. Furthermore, through contributions from a renowned group of contributors, this text provides a comprehensive review of theoretical and applied research on the cognitive processes of attention, memory, and executive function.

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  Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty

  Scott Myers-Lipton

  Poverty and inequality are at record levels. Today, forty-seven million Americans live in poverty, while middle class incomes are in decline. The top 20 percent now controls 89 percent of all wealth. These conditions have renewed demands for a new Economic Bill of Rights, an American idea proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Martin Luther King Jr. The new Economic Bill of Rights has a coherent plan and proclaims that all Americans have the right to a job, a living wage, a decent home, adequate medical care, a good education, and adequate protection from economic fears of unemployment, sickness, and old age. Integrating the latest economic and social data, this new book explores each of these rights. Each chapter includes an analysis of the social problems surrounding each right, a historical overview of the attempts to implement these rights, and assessments of current solutions offered by citizens, community groups, and politicians. These contemporary, real-life solutions to inequality can inspire students and citizens to become involved and open pathways toward a more just society. Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

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  Seismic Design of Building Structures: A Professional's Introduction to Earthquake Forces and Design Details

  Michael R. Lindeburg and Kurt M. McMullin

  Seismic Design of Building Structures presents the seismic design concepts most essential to engineers, architects, and students of civil and structural engineering, and architecture. The book’s 15 chapters provide a concise but thorough review of seismic theory, code application, design principles, and structural analysis. The 30 example problems demonstrate how to apply concepts, codes, and equations to solve realistic problems. More than 125 practice problems provide opportunities for independent problem-solving practice, and complete solutions allow you to check your solution approach.

  This book includes two comprehensive indexes—one of key terms and another of seismic building codes—to quickly direct you to the information you are looking for. You can also locate related support material by following references throughout the text to the 150 equations, 29 tables, 144 figures, and 16 appendices, and to relevant codes and standards.

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  Screenwriting for Neurotics

  Scott Sublett

  A quirky guide for beginning screenwriters that not only covers technique, but also the psychological pitfalls faced by all writers. Department of Radio-Television-Film and Theatre

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  José Martí, the United States, and Race

  Anne Fountain

  This book offers a comprehensive study of what José Martí wrote about race and race relations, in the context of nineteenth century North American life. Martí is Cuba's national hero and lived in the United States for nearly fifteen years (1880-1895). It brings together a careful reading of Martí’s Complete Works (28 vols.) and extensive research in American history. Department of World Languages and Literatures

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  Education for the Joy of It: How to Thrive Not Just Survive in High School, College and Beyond

  Robert J. Pellegrini

  This book is targeted to all current or prospective high school students, college students, or anyone else who aspires to strengthen the educational foundation upon which to build the rest of her/his life -- with the hope that it is especially helpful to people who might otherwise become, or have already been formal educational program dropouts or lockouts. I cannot guarantee that applying what is offered here will ensure an “A” grade, or achievement of one’s life goals. But I do guarantee that I have tried to summarize critical elements of thought, feeling, and action oriented to such objectives.

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  Advances in Global Leadership, Volume 8

  Joyce Osland

  This edited volume contributes to bridging and integrating conceptual and practitioner perspectives that yield a deeper understanding of the variables associated with effective global leadership and its development. The book advances foundational research in a nascent but critical field of study. The book has been chosen as one of the four finalists for the annual University of San Diego's Outstanding Leadership Book Award. School of Global Innovation & Leadership

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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

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  Civic Pedagogies in Higher Education Teaching for Democracy in Europe, Canada and the USA

  Jason Laker

  In this text, university teachers from Eastern Europe, Western Europe and North America report on their efforts to prepare students for engaged democratic citizenship. Their case studies illustrate methods employed to prepare citizens for meaningful participation in democracies, whether long-standing, young or emerging. The contributors describe their approaches in detail, reflecting on the philosophical and pedagogical considerations being employed, as well as exploring models of experiential service-learning, action research, and other curricular innovations. Department of Counselor Education

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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.

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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