Dr. Richard Guarasci - President of Wagner College
Democratic Education in an Age of Difference : Redefining Citizenship in Higher Education (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series; co-written by Grant H. Cornwell)
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This book addresses the need for colleges and universities to design educational experiences that promote the objectives of a free society while recognizing and embracing difference. The authors detail some of the experiments taking place across American campuses and reveal how each approach fosters the development of democratic sensibility, citizenship skills, and multicultural appreciation.
Susan M. Bernardo - Professor of English
Gender Reconstructions: Pornography and Perversions in Literature and Culture (co-edited with Cindy L. Carlson and Robert L. Mazzola)
Timely and politically pertinent, this collection of essays links the fields of women’s studies and cultural studies, examining women’s desires and women as objects of desire. Working in diverse disciplines and time periods, the contributors address the common theme of 'perversion' as a cultural, often linguistic, construct. Analysing texts and images from medieval times to the twentieth century, the volume affords the reader modernist and postmodernist perspectives on the connected issues of erotics, pornography, and perversion.
Ursula K. Le Guin - A Critical Companion by: Susan M. Bernardo and Graham J. MurphyWestport, CT: Greenwood Press 2006
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This book offers interpretations of many of Le Guin's science fiction and fantasy works. Also included is a bibliography of Le Guin's works and an extensive bibliography of secondary, critical materials. Works covered include: A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) The Tombs of Atuan (1970) The Farthest Shore (1972) The Lathe of Heaven (1973) The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974) The Eye of the Heron (1978) Tehanu (1990), The Telling (2000),The Other Wind (2001) and more.
Richard Brower - Associate Professor of Psychology
The Monk and the Warrior in the Garden of Renewal: Searching for Meaning, Mind, Work
This book is a structural analysis of creativity. It proposes that there are five essential, recursive, confluent macrosystems that require interconnectedness and intentional evolution for the fruition of creativity, of mastery, of self-efficacy, and of spiritual self-growth. The five systems are : (1) knowledge, (2) mental operations, (3) rich emotional worlds; (4) a sense of purpose, and (5) connecting with others. This text includes an overview of previous research on creativity, while proposing a new theory based on confluence theory, the belief that creativity is best understood as an intersection and recursive interaction among confluencing systems.
Mark Elliott-Assistant Professor of History
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Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson," by Mark Elliott, has been named for this year's Avery O. Craven Award by the Organization of American Historians.
"Color-Blind Justice" was published in December by the Oxford University Press.
The Craven Award, created in 1985, is given each year for "the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction." Among recent Craven Award winners is Drew Gilpin Faust, who was named earlier this month as Harvard University's first female president.
Largely forgotten in the twentieth century, Albion Tourgée served as a judge in post-Civil War North Carolina. "A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools," Tourgée's best-selling 1879 novel, was his autobiographical assessment of Reconstruction. In the 1890s, Tourgée was lead counsel on the losing side of Plessy v. Ferguson, the infamous U.S. Supreme Court case that provided the legal basis for more than half a century of segregation in the United States. Tourgée died in 1905, just months before the founding of the Niagara Movement, predecessor of the NAACP.
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Jeffrey Glanz - Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Education
What Every Principal Should Know About Leadership: The Seven Book Collection
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Among the numerous factors that influence student learning, quality instruction is at the heart. This concise yet comprehensive guide outlines an easy-to-implement blueprint for spearheading instructional excellence to bolster student and teacher performance. It offers a proactive approach for setting and attaining high academic goals and boils down the best practices for enhancing teaching, curriculum, supervision, assessment, and professional development.
What Every Principal Should Know About Cultural Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Collaborative Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Ethical & Spiritual Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Instructional Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Operational Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About School Community Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Strategic Leadership
Fundamentals of Educational Research: A Guide to Completing a Masters Thesis
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Here's just what you need to understand and apply basic research principles so that you can more successfully complete a research task or paper and, more importantly, become an intelligent consumer of research. Written in workbook format to facilitate easy reading and use and filled with charts, blocked text and practice exercises to ensure easier reading. The book's 13 parts include several modules, not formal chapters. Interactive review and reflective exercises further reinforce your learning. It's all designed to help you develop an appreciation of research as a professional responsibility and useful tool to improve your teaching, promote student learning or simply improve your practice as a professional educator.
Miles Groth, PhD - Professor of Psychology
Translating Heidegger (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences)
"Miles Groth's text fills a major tacuna in the scholarship by offering an inclusive account of Heidegger's own philosophy of 'paratactic' translation and illustrating how Heidegger himself employed it in his translations from the Greek. The book will provoke a lively and much-needed debate in the translation of key terms in Heidegger's works."
- Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
Jean Halley - Assistant Professor of Sociology
The Boundaries of Touch: Social Power, Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
The Affective Turn: Toward Theorizing the Social. Edited by Patricia Ticineto Clough with Jean Halley. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
Shaohua Hu - Assistant Professor of Political Science
Explaining Chinese Democratization
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Hu's study represents the first systematic examination of the democratization process in China. It covers traditional, Republican, Maoist, and Dengist China, and uses historical legacies, local forces, the world system, socialist values, and economic development to explain China's difficulty in establishing a democratic system.
Ann Hurley - Professor of English
John Donne's Poetry And Early Modern Visual Culture (The Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture)
"This study differs from other approaches to John Donne’s poetry in arguing that his verse can now profit from being read in
the context of early modern cultural experience, specifically its visual culture. It acknowledges that while the complexity of his
religious identity has been well explored, the complexity of his secular interests has perhaps been less thoroughly examined.
The book uses an approach that is both interdisciplinary and new historicist in its methodology."- The Susquehanna Press
Erica L. Johnson, Ph. D. - Assistant Professor of English
Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, Marguerite
Duras, and Erminia Dell'Oro
Gordon McEwan - Professor of Anthropology
The Incas : New Perspectives (Understanding Ancient Civilizations Series)
This book offers a revealing portrait of ancient life in the Andes. It is the most current and authoritative overview of Inca
society available today, following the rise and fall of this remarkable society from the earliest stages of its development to
its final capitulation in the mid-16th century to conquistador Francisco Pizarro. In a series of vivid and engaging chapters,
The Incas explores the unique character or Inca history, culture, religion, politics, economics, and daily life.
Pikillacta : The Wari Empire in Cuzco
The origin of the first Andean imperial state has been the subject of lively debate for decades. Archaeological sites dating to the Peruvian Middle Horizon time period, a.d. 540 to 900, appear to give evidence for the emergence of an expansive empire that set the stage for the development of the later Inca state. This archaeological investigation of Pikillacta, the largest provincial site of Peru's pre-Inca Wari empire, provides essential background for interpreting the empire's political and cultural organization. With engineering skills rivaling those of the builders of Cuzco itself, the Wari at Pikillacta erected more than seven hundred buildings covering nearly two square kilometers, with a fresh water supply and an elaborate underground sewage system but, enigmatically, only seven short streets and a near total lack of windows. In this long-awaited volume, Gordon McEwan and his colleagues report on the labor costs of construction (nearly 6 million man-days), the typology of Pikillacta's enigmatic architecture, and the site's spectacular hydraulic system as well as its ceramics and chronology, human remains, and metal artifacts. In the final section, building on his years of research and excavation, McEwan develops a hypothetical model of Wari provincial administration in the Cuzco region, arguing that the Wari were innovators of techniques of statecraft that explain the function of and the labor investment in the Pikillacta complex. His book not only substantively contributes to our understanding of when and exactly how and why Pikillacta was built and what it was used for, it also illuminates thepolitical and cultural antecedents of the Inca state.
Laura Morowitz - Associate Professor of Art
Artistic Brotherhoods in the 19th Century
'... a particularly innovative text in its examination of the male, homosocial art world... With its careful attention to economic, social, cultural and social movements, this far-reaching, innovative collection of essays should appeal to a broad audience, ranging from those interested in art and art history to gender studies.'
- Debra L. Cumberland, Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Consuming the Past
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"This interesting addition to the growing literature on visual culture at the fin de siècle... an intriguing and necessary interdisciplinary approach... a text that both assembles a rich diversity of material and opens up substantial questions about attitudes to tradition in the early decades of the Third Republic... emphatic and even startling... Consuming the Past makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of how fin-de-siècle France negotiated tradition and [...] performs something of the same function for the middle ages as Debora Silverman's 1989 book on Art Nouveau did for the Rococo."
- Richard Thomson, The Burlington Magazine
Patricia Moynagh - Assistant Professor of Government & Politics
Simone de Beauvoir's Political Thinking (co-edited with Lori Marso)
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"The central achievement of this volume is to recover Beauvoir's work for feminist political theory. Especially noteworthy is the attempt to wrest from Beauvoir a way of thinking about politics which emphasizes singularity and refuses to subsume the particular under the universal. Taken together, the essays go a long way in making the case for Beauvoir as a feminist political theorist in her own right, a thinker who brilliantly grasped the vicissitudes of the human condition and the contingency of human action."
- Linda Zerilli, professor of political science, Northwestern University
"Bringing together a variety of essays from well-respected scholars, Simone de Beauvoir's Political Thinking makes a significant contribution to feminist theory and Beauvoir studies. Through these insightful interpretations of her work, Beauvoir emerges as a classical thinker whose theories on the body are still relevant and important today."
- Judith Grant, author of Fundamental Feminism
David Schulenberg - Professor of Music
The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach, second, revised edition (New York: Routledge, 2006)
The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach provides an introduction to and comprehensive discussion of all the music for harpsichord and other stringed keyboard instruments by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 1750). Often played today on the modern piano, these works are central not only to the Western concert repertory but to musical pedagogy and study throughout the world.
Intended as both a practical guide and an interpretive study, the book consists of three introductory chapters on general matters of historical context, style, and performance practice, followed by fifteen chapters on the individual works, treated in roughly chronological order. The works discussed include all of Bach's individual keyboard compositions as well as those comprising his famous collections, such as the Well Tempered Clavier, the English and French Suites, and the Art of Fugue.
Peter Sharpe - Professor of English
The Ground of Our Beseeching: Metaphor and the Poetics of Meditation
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"No other critique of American poetry, prior to this study, has systematically linked the idea of the sacred with the practice of metaphor. Nor has a compelling case been made, until now, for viewing meditation, a style of thinking close to prayer, as the source or ground of these poets."
- The Susquehanna Press
Mark Wagner - Professor of Psychology
The Geometries of Visual Space
When most people think of space, they think of physical space. However, visual space concerns space as consciously experienced, and it is studied through subjective measures, such as asking people to use numbers to estimate perceived distances, areas, angles, or volumes. This book explores the mismatch between perception and physical reality, and describes the many factors that influence the perception of space including the meaning assigned to geometric concepts like distance, the judgment methods used to report the experience, the presence or absence of cues to depth, and the orientation of a stimulus with respect to point of view. The main theme of the text is that no single geometry describesvisual space, but that the geometry of visual space depends upon the stimulus conditions and mental shifts in the subjective meaning of size and distance.
