2011 Published Works by SJSU Honorees

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  The Organizational Behavior Reader

  Joyce Osland and Marlene Turner

  This book is a primer on human behavior in organizations for students of management and industrial & organizational psychology at three levels – undergraduate, graduate and executive education. The Reader contains the best and most reader-friendly articles in these categories: basic ideas and concepts, new research findings and practical applications, as well as emerging perspectives that suggest the future shape of the field. The book consists of four sections: Understanding Yourself and Others at Work; Creating Effective Work Groups; Leadership and Management; and Managing Effective Organizations.

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  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."

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  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.

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  Dante and Italy in British Romanticism

  Paul Douglass and Frederick Burwick

  This volume, which brings together several of the most authoritative scholars in the field, represents a landmark in the study of Anglo-Italian literary and cultural relations in the Romantic period. It succeeds brilliantly … and throws much-needed light on a crucial period of political and social transformation in Italy, as seen from the critical but sympathetic viewpoint of contemporary British intellectuals, reaffirming the centrality of Dante’s role in the formation and interpretation of Italy’s late and contradictory identity as a nation.

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  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.

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  Toward a Visually Oriented School Mathematics Curriculum: Research, Theory, Practice, and Issues

  Ferdinand Rivera

  Toward a Visually-Oriented School Mathematics Curriculum explores a unified theory of visualization in school mathematical learning via the notion of progressive modeling. Based on the author’s longitudinal research investigations in elementary and middle school classrooms, the book provides a compelling empirical account of ways in which instruction can effectively orchestrate the transition from personally-constructed visuals, both externally-drawn and internally-derived, into more structured visual representations within the context of a socioculturally grounded mathematical activity

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  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."

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  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.

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  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.

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  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

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  Cognitive Communication Disorders

  Michael Kimbarow

  This innovative book is the definitive core text for graduate courses covering cognitively based communicative disorders. Instructors now have a resource that provides current knowledge on the normal cognitive processes that support communication, along with current knowledge on the impact deficits in these cognitive domains may have on language and communication. The textbook provides a comprehensive review of theoretical and applied research on the cognitive processes of attention, memory and executive function; and, Identifies the unique cognitive communication deficits associated with right hemisphere damage, the dementias, and traumatic brain injury. Demonstrates the synergy among cognitive supports for communication and the impact of cognitive deficits on communication

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  Nutrition Therapy and Pathophysiology

  Kathryn P. Sucher, Marcia Nelms, Sara Long Roth, and Karen Lacey

  Provides the evidence based nutrition therapy for acute and chronic medical disorders in the context of pathophysiology, medical treatment and current research.