March 10, 2005 :: No. 149

Cal State Fullerton 2004 Author Awards

Mitchell E. Avila, assistant professor of philosophy, and Todd Furman—editors
The Canon and Its Critics: A Multi-Perspective Introduction to Philosophy
McGraw-Hill

This introductory philosophy anthology introduces central figures important to traditional philosophy, along with a wide variety of authors who challenge the canon—a contrast that demonstrates philosophy’s commitment to dialogue and critical analysis. Distinctive among philosophy texts, the book provides greater attention to female and African-American authors to make it accessible to a diverse student audience.

Jesse F. Battan, chair and professor of American studies, Thomas Bouchet and Tania Regin — editors
Meetings & Alcôves: Gauches et Sexualités en Europe et aux Etats-Unis depuis 1850 (Rostrums and Bedrooms: The Left and Sexuality in Europe and the United States since 1850)
Editions Universitaires de Dijon

By exploring the links between the history of socialism (broadly defined) and the history of sexuality, the essays in this collection examine the complex ways in which a wide range of movements on the Left in Europe and America have explored the political significance of private life, and have argued for or against a connection between sexual revolution and social change. In addition to editing this volume, Battan co-authored its introduction with Bouchet (“Des Gauches Adroites?”) and contributed the article “Socialism Will Cure All But an Unhappy Marriage: Free Love and the American Left, 1850-1910.”

Marty Bray and Abbie H. Brown, associate professors of elementary and bilingual education, and Timothy D. Green, assistant professor of elementary and bilingual education
Technology and the Diverse Learner: A Guide to Classroom Practice
Corwin Press

Student diversity presents many challenges that the average classroom teacher may not feel adequately prepared to handle. Innovative technologies, such as the computer and the Internet, can help teachers meet the unique instructional needs of diverse learners. The purpose of this book is to provide a practical guide to help teachers make the best use of available technology to meet the needs of these students.

Stan L. Breckenridge, lecturer in Afro-ethnic studies
African American Music for Everyone, 2nd edition
Kendall-Hunt Publications

African American Music for Everyone is divided into three parts: Heritages of African-American Music, General Features and Related Topics, and Popular Styles. These divisions allow the reader to chronicle the musical activities of those who greatly contributed to the body of African-American music within the context of African-American social, political, economic, psychological and cultural conditions.

Thomas N. Clanin, Andi Stein and Anthony R. Fellow, lecturer, assistant professor and professor of communications, respectively
News Writing in a Multimedia World
Kendall/Hunt Publishing

An introductory textbook on writing for the mass media, its audience is journalism, public relations and advertising students. It covers various types of news writing for print, broadcast and Internet
based media, as well as writing for public relations and advertising. The book also discusses media ethics and law, common word-usage, grammatical and punctuation problems and Associated Press style.

Susana Y. Flores, assistant professor of elementary and bilingual education — co-editor
Postcritical Ethnography: Reinscribing Critique
Hampton Press

This collection of essays is on the cutting edge of ethnographic methods that are based on a critique of critical ethnography. Chapters are based on the assumption that ethnography is the ultimate colonialist project, and critical theory is the ultimate modernist project. They push the boundaries of positionality, representation, objectivity and politics.

Andrea M. Guillaume, professor of elementary and bilingual education
K - 12 Classroom Teaching: A Primer for New Professionals, 2nd edition
Merrill

This primer prepares new elementary and secondary teachers for the realities of today's classrooms by providing them with a strong conceptual basis related to major classroom issues.

William W. Haddad, chair and professor of history, and Tareq Ismael
Iraq: The Human Cost of History
Pluto Press

This book examines the impact of 12 years of sanctions and bombings on the Iraqi people led by Great Britain and the United States. The authors discuss why the sanctions regime failed and conclude that the political/economic sanctions had more to do with imperial hegemony than weapons of mass destruction.

Mary B. Huer, professor of human communication studies — co-author
Functional Augmentative Communication Training Strategies: Experiencing the Seasons
Academic Communication Associates

This is the second book in a series of instructional materials for students with severe communication disorders. The book presents a comprehensive language curriculum based on a seasonal theme, functional language activities, original graphic symbols, specific learning outcomes, scoring sheets and instructions combined for use by busy professionals in educational settings. The FACTS series represents more than 18 years of clinical training in a practical and easily replicated format for educators working with children with special needs.

Steven R. James, assistant professor of anthropology, Charles Redman, Paul Fish and Daniel J. Rogers — editors
The Archaeology of Global Change: The Impact of Humans on Their Environment
Smithsonian Institution Press

This book examines the impact that prehistoric humans had on ancient environments at different times and places throughout the world. Original case studies are presented from various regions of the world — including the Near East, Europe, Polynesia, Mexico and the American Southwest — where humans have affected their environments in the past. Beyond documenting the environmental impact of humans in prehistory, the chapters illustrate how archaeological research can provide significant data to examine long-term trends in human populations that are of importance in assessing modern environmental impacts and conservation efforts.

Jessie E. Jones and Debra J. Rose, professors of kinesiology and health science—editors
Physical Activity Instruction of Older Adults
Human Kinetics Publishers

This is the first book to detail the fundamental knowledge and skills associated with the training modules outlined in The International Curriculum Guidelines for Preparing Physical Activity Instructors of Older Adults. The text presents competency-based objectives that fitness instructors should know and be able to perform to lead safe and effective physical activity programs for older adults with diverse functional capabilities.

Ellen N. Junn, associate dean of the College of Health and Human Development and professor of child and adolescent studies, and Chris Boyatzis — editors
Child Growth and Development, Annual Editions, 11th edition
McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

This book is a compilation of current and provocative published articles on a large range of issues in child growth and development that is used nationally and internationally as a supplementary reader in child development and psychology courses.

Alan S. Kaye, professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics
Afroasiatic Linguistics, Semitics, and Egyptology
CDL Press

This is an appraisal of the life work of Indiana University professor Carleton T. Hodge in his specialized areas of Afroasiatic linguistics, Semitic linguistics and Egyptology. It includes Kaye’s essay on the life and career of this remarkable linguist, originally published in Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, as well as introductions to the essays by him and co-editor Scott Noegel of the University of Washington.

Ellen Kottler, lecturer in secondary education, Jeffrey A. Kottler, chair and professor of counseling, and Cary J. Kottler
Secrets for Secondary School Teachers: How to Succeed in Your First Year, 2nd edition
Corwin Press

This updated version offers a unique blend of perspectives and “insider” insights on secondary school teaching from a former middle and high school teacher, a longtime educator and counselor, and a high school graduate. The book offers practical tips and tools to guide those entering the teaching profession through their first days, weeks, semesters and years in the classroom.

Jeffrey A. Kottler, John Carlson and Bradford Keeney
An American Shaman: An Odyssey of Ancient Healing Traditions
Brunner/Routledge

Winner of the award as Best Spiritual Book of 2004 by Spirituality and Health (previous winners include the Dali Lama, Barbara Kingsolver, Ram Das, Harold Kushner), this book explores indigenous healing traditions around the world with implications for the practice of contemporary teaching and counseling relationships.

John A. Lawrence Jr., professor of information systems and decision sciences, and Barry Pasternack, chair and professor of information systems and decision sciences
Applied Management Science – Modeling Spreadsheet Analysis, and Communication for Decision Making (in Chinese)
John Wiley & Sons

This book focuses on the use of management science in management decision-making. The text integrates Excel in running the management science analysis so that there is no need for the student to learn complicated algorithms. The book also emphasizes the importance of communication in completing the analysis.

Dana Loewy, lecturer, Business Writing Program
Na Vlnách TSF (On the Waves of TSF) by Jaroslav Seifert, translation from Czech
SKANSKA

Loewy translated this bilingual facsimile edition of Nobel Laureate Seifert’s 1925 volume of poetry. This typical example of the Czech modernist movement "poetism" celebrates word play and typographical experimentation in the tradition of Cendrars, Apollinaire and Marinetti. She also is the translator of The Early Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert (1997).

Karen A. Lystra, professor of American studies
Dangerous Intimacy
University of California Press
Dangerous Intimacy relates the story of how, shortly after his wife’s death in 1904, Mark Twain basked in the attentions of Isabel Lyon, his flirtatious — and calculating — secretary. With the help of Twain’s assistant, Ralph Ashcroft, who fraudulently acquired power of attorney over the author’s finances, Lyon nearly succeeded in assuming complete control over Twain’s life and estate. Fortunately, Twain recognized the plot being woven around him just in time.

Anthony V. Manzo and Ula C. Manzo, professor and associate professor of reading, respectively, and Julie J. Albee
Reading Assessment for Diagnostic-Prescriptive Teaching
Wadsworth/Thompson Learning

This textbook outlines a diagnostic-prescriptive model for assessing reading, writing and thinking. It provides a wide range of practical instruments and techniques for identifying specific areas of need, and research-supported methods for modeling and guiding students' acquisition of strategies for actively constructing meaning from print.

William D. Marelich, assistant professor of psychology, and Jeff Erger—editors
The Social Psychology of Health, Essays and Readings
Sage

This book provides an integrative approach to understanding health psychology using social psychological principles. The first section includes an overview of the multiple disciplines and perspectives that contribute to theory and research in health psychology and behavioral medicine: psychology, sociology, epidemiology and public health. The remaining four sections cover major topics within the field of health psychology, mirroring the major topical coverage of most introductory health psychology textbooks.

John H. Mathews, professor of mathematics, and Kurtis D. Fink—editors
Numerical Methods: Using Matlab, 4th edition
Prentice-Hall Publishers

This book provides a fundamental introduction to numerical analysis for undergraduate students in the areas of mathematics, computer science, physical sciences and engineering. Topics covered are: solution of nonlinear equations, linear systems, polynomial approximation, numerical differentiation and integration, and solution of differential equations.

George C. Peale, professor of modern languages and literatures, and William Manson
El Hijo Del Águila
Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs

The first edition of the Manson-Peale critical edition of this unknown comedy by the 17th-century Spanish playwright Luis Vélez de Guevara first appeared in 2003. The play is about the youthful years of the 16th-century hero, Don Juan of Austria, and is a companion piece to a Vélez de Guevara play, El Águila del Agua, that Peale published last year. The edition has been nominated for the Royal Academy Prize.

George C. Peale
Las Palabras a Los Reyes y Gloria de Los Pizarros
Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs

This critical edition brings to light a play that has long been regarded lost. It is the only work in the history of Spain’s national theater that deals with the theme of the conquest of Peru. As with El HIjo Del Aguila, Las Palabras a Los Reyes was awarded the Modern Language Association’s seal as an Approved Edition.

Irena A. Praitis, assistant professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics
Touch
Finishing Line Press

This book of poems seeks to find healing and solace in descriptions of and interactions with the natural world. Focusing largely on trees, the poems delve into and explore the emotional complexities of everyday existence.

David N. Sandner, assistant professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics
Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader
Praeger Publishers

Broad in range and scope, this volume serves as a record of and reference for the development of fantasy literature. Working to be inclusive rather than exclusive — opening a dialogue wherever possible — Sandner presents the full range of debates concerning the fantastic and its relationship to the sublime, the gothic, children’s literature, romance and comedy and the purposes of imaginative literature.

Ephraim P. Smith, vice president for academic affairs and professor of accounting — co-author
2005 CCH Federal Taxation
Commerce Clearing House

Federal Income Taxation introduces accounting students to the complex study of federal taxation and covers a broad range of subjects from the definition of income to corporate reorganizations.

Nancy E. Snow, assistant professor of communications
Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9/11
Seven Stories Press of New York

This is a critical communications analysis of both domestic and international information strategies, including public diplomacy and propaganda, used by the Bush Administration in “the war on terror and war in Iraq.” The book takes a media-ethics approach to the role of the press in wartime, including the tendency for the press to self-censor and drown out dissenting points of view. Snow is a former U.S. Information Agency and State Department official who writes from an ex-insider's perspective.

Nancy E. Snow
War, Media and Propaganda: A Global Perspective—co-editor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

This book takes a multifaceted and global look at war, media and propaganda with a focus on the media's role in global conflicts. Included are contributions from prominent authors, journalists, scholars and researchers (including CSUF student journalist and embedded war correspondent Ron Larson), who provide an overview of the impact of globalization on media practices.

Raphael J. Sonenshein, professor of political science
The City at State: Secession, Reform, and the Battle for Los Angeles
Princeton University Press

The City at Stake tells the dramatic story of how the nation’s second-largest city completed a major reform of its government in the face of deeply threatening movement for secession by the San Fernando Valley. Los Angeles’ government nearly collapsed in political bickering over charter reform, which generated the remarkable phenomenon of two competing charter reform commissions. Out of this nearly impossible tangle, reformers managed to knit a new city charter that greatly expanded institutions for citizen participation and addressed long-standing weaknesses in the role of the mayor. The new charter, pursued by a Republican mayor, won its greatest support from liberal whites who had long favored reform measures.

Atara Stein, professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics
The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television
Southern Illinois University Press

This volume is a study of the influence of Byron’s dark heroes on contemporary popular culture heroes, including Eric Draven of “The Crow,” Lestate from Anne Rice’s vampire novels, Dream from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman graphic novels, “Q” from “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” and Ripley from the “Alien” series.

Jim Volz, professor of theatre and dance
How to Run a Theatre
Back Stage Books

How to Run a Theatre is receiving international attention, the top 5-star ranking from Amazon.com, and favorable critical reviews from national theater leaders. The publisher describes it as a “unique, dynamic and savvy guide to building an arts institution that works” and “the first arts administration/ theater management book written by someone who has run a major American theater, consulted with theaters, museums, dance companies and arts centers, and headed both BFA and MFA theater programs at major universities.” The book covers life management, time management, stress management, financial management, personnel management, fund raising, marketing, and board of trustee communications for arts institutions and executives.

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