Published Works by SJSU Honorees

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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Daily Life Through History: Women and Civil Rights Movement in America

Danelle Moon

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.
Coordinating the Communication Course: A Guidebook

Deanna Fassett and John T. Warren

Written by two experienced course directors and graduate teaching associate supervisors, this book is designed to help both novice and experienced course coordinators effectively manage the challenges associated with large, multi-section communication courses. Topics range from selection, training and evaluation of faculty to assessment and advocacy.
After Gödel: Platonism and Rationalism in Mathematics and Logic

Richard Tieszen

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.
Revolution of Forms: Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools

John Loomis

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.
Unnatural Rebellion: Loyalists in New York City during the Revolution

Ruma Chopra

Thousands of British Americans in the thirteen colonies rejected the War for American Independence. Shunning rebel violence as unnecessary, unlawful, and unnatural, they emphasized the natural ties of blood, kinship, language, and religion that united the colonies to Britain. This is a story of how a cross-section of colonists flocked to the British headquarters of New York City to support their ideal of reunion. These loyal Americans did not surrender their vision but creatively adapted their rhetoric and accommodated military governance to protect their long-standing bond with the mother country. They never imagined that allegiance to Britain would mean a permanent exile from their homes.
Information Security: Principles and Practice

Mark Stamp

Information security is a rapidly evolving field. As businesses and consumers become increasingly dependent on complex multinational information systems, it is more imperative than ever to protect the confidentiality and integrity of data. Featuring a wide array of new information on the most current security issues, this fully updated and revised edition of Information Security: Principles and Practice provides the skills and knowledge readers need to tackle any information security challenge.
T. S. Eliot, Dante, and the Idea of Europe

Paul Douglass

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.
Assault on Kids: Hyper-accountability, Corporatization, Deficit Ideologies and Ruby Payne are Destroying our Schools

Roberta Ahlquist, Paul Gorski, and Theresa Montaño

This book critiques the conservative neoliberal educational reform agenda; a remaking of U.S. public schooling into a private and corporate enterprise. This agenda is an assault on students and teachers. It includes high stakes standardization of both curriculum and testing, and threatens teacher efficacy and student engagement. The book is a social justice call to action to save public schools, and push back against this regressive agenda.
Global Service-Learning in Nursing

Tamara McKinnon and Joyce J. Fitzpatrick

"This is a book of learning that can bring healing to the world through the touch of nursing. This book provides a map for approaching the best of global work in nursing. The authors demystify the global endeavor by clearing the brush from the pathway, helping us see clearly the reality of global commitment through partnerships."
Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the US

William T. Armaline

"An accessible and highly readable collection that pulls together a wide range of information and analyzes it through the lens of sociology. The book makes a significant contribution to emerging literature that applies human rights principles to U.S. policy and practice."—Martha F. Davis, Northeastern University
Canadian Perspectives on Men and Masculinities

Jason Laker

This new interdisciplinary reader is one of the only texts that explores men and masculinity issues within a distinctly Canadian context. Featuring sixteen original essays by leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this fascinating volume analyzes the many ways in which men and masculine gender roles have been constructed and depicted within Canadian society. Organized into three thematic sections, the text examines topics such as popular culture, sports, immigration, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, and other dimensions of identity, while considering whether 'Canadian masculinity' is particularly unique.
Masculinities in Higher Education: Theoretical and Practical Considerations

Jason Laker

Masculinities in Higher Education provides empirical evidence, theoretical support, and developmental interventions for educators working with college men both in and out of the classroom. The critical philosophical perspective of the text challenges the status-quo and offers theoretically sound educational strategies to successfully promote men’s learning and development. Contesting dominant discourses about men and masculinities and binary notions of privilege and oppression, the contributors examine the development and identity of men in higher education today. This edited collection analyzes the nuances of lived identities, intersections between identities, ways in which individuals participate in co-constructing identities, and in turn how these identities influence culture.
They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill: The Psychological Meaning of Supernatural Monsters in Young Adult Fiction

Joni Richards Bodart

Teen readers have always been fascinated by monsters, but lately it seems like every other young adult (YA) book is about vampires, zombies, or werewolves. These works are controversial because they look at aspects of life and human nature that adults prefer to keep hidden from teenagers. But this is also why they are so important: they provide a literal example of how ignoring life’s hazards won’t make them go away, and demonstrate that ignorance of danger puts one at greater risk. Bodart examines six different monsters in YA fiction (vampires, shapeshifters, zombies, unicorns, angels, and demons), discusses the meaning of these monsters in cultures all over the world, and explores their history and most important incarnations in teen fiction.
Deus Ex Machina

Andrew Foster Altschul

Set behind the scenes of a reality television show, Deus Ex Machina explores the lives of players and crew as they compete, manipulate, and betray one another. In the wake of personal tragedies, the show's producer has come to question the value of his creation, and his attempts to inject something "real" into "reality" meet with resistance from the all-powerful network and wreak havoc on the deserted island where the show is being taped. When true catastrophe strikes, he finds it harder and harder to navigate this surreal landscape, where boundaries of the real, imagined, and orchestrated have blurred beyond recognition. The Wall Street Journal described Deus Ex Machina as "a heady, fast-paced novel" and NPR called it "brilliant... one of the best novels about American culture in years."