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The following is a list of books that I have read as a reference for myself and to initiate a discussion with others. David Stoloff – stoloffd@easternct.edu
Book List – Winter 2007
1) Author Gorkin, Michael
Title Days of honey, days of onion : the story of a Palestinian family in Israel / Michael Gorkin
Publisher Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]
DS113.7.G65 1993
American Jew studied the lives of a family in Kufr Qara – a village near Megiddo, their history as colonists from Egypt in 19th century, their reactions to the disruptions in the late 40s, their schools, religious life, and family life into the 1990s
2) Author Oz, Amos
In the land of Israel / Amos Oz ; translated by Maurie Goldberg-Bartura
Publisher New York : Vintage Books, 1984, c1983
DS112.O913 1984
interviews and observations on haredi, “Judeo-Nazi” settler, Arab men in cafe looking for piece, lecture on the settler movement, cosmic Jew
3) Author Samarah, Adil
Title Palestine : profile of an occupation
Publisher London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books, 1989
DS113.7.P33 1989
colonial law, migrant workers, demographics of Jerusalem, role of literature in shaping discussion, role of women in the Palestinian struggle
4) Author Kort, Michael, 1944-
Title The handbook of the Middle East / Michael G. Kort
Publisher Brookfield, Conn. : Twenty-First Century Books, c2002
ECSU Curric/Juvenile 956 KOR
good introduction to region, difficult to keep up with changes
5) Author Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001
Title This year in Jerusalem / Mordecai Richler
Publisher New York : Knopf, 1994
DS107.5.R54 1994
Habonim teenage experiences and friends mixed into a visit to Israel in 1992, from shetl life to Montreal streets to Israeli experiences
6) Type II uses of technology in education: projects, case studies, and software applications, by Cleborne D. Maddux, and D. LaMont Johnson. 207p bibl index afp ISBN 0789032554, $34.95; ISBN 0789032562 pbk, $17.95
Choice review – Type II applications of technology in education “make use and better ways of teaching available, ways not possible without the use of the information technology.”
7) THE JEW STORE By Stella Suberman. 1998, Algonquin, $19.95.
Jewish family in western Tenn, Concordia, and their needs for bar mitzvah training and appropriate suitors and friends. Led to a discussion on whether Jewish life in America is tenious, isolation issues, anti-Semitism or misunderstandings.
8. Author Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904
Title Altneuland. English
Altneuland = Old-new land : novel / by Theodor Herzl ; translated by Paula Arnold
Publisher Haifa, Israel : Haifa Pub. Co., 1961
PT2617 E825 A413 1961
world-weary lawyer and patron return to Haifa after 20 years away, utopian plan for a New Society, interesting color photos pasted in text
9) Jeanneney, Jean-Noël Google and the Myth of Universal
Knowledge: A View from Europe. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Foreword by Ian Wilson. 96 p. 5-1/2 x
8-1/2 2006 Cloth $18.00spec ISBN: 978-0-226-39577-7 (ISBN-10:
0-226-39577-4)
worries that google would direct readers to English translations of text in its Google Book Search – digitalized texts
10) Turner, Fred From Counterculture to Cyberculture:
Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. 354 p., 16 halftones. 6 x 9
2006 Cloth $29.00 ISBN: 978-0-226-81741-5 (ISBN-10:
0-226-81741-5) Fall 2006
Brand in the Bay Area, new communalism vs. new left, Kesey, Dead, Microsoft, MIT media lab
11) Lou Dobbs, War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War onthe American Dream and How to Fight Back (Hardcover) Viking, 2006
attack on schools, immigration, ownership of media
Book List – Spring 2007
12) Mihara, Mitsukazu (2002). Haunted House. Hamburg:
Toyko Pop.
graphic novel of teen-ager growing up in house of vampires, problems with girls
13) Berg, Elizabeth (2006) The Handmaiden and the Carpenter. NYC: Random House.
short retelling of nativity, focus on Joseph’s patience, relationship with cohenim John the Baptist’s family, royal family through Joseph
14) Leo Litwak (2001). The Medic: Life and Death in the Last Days of WWII. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
book club choice, Jewish college kid from Detroit in Europe in 1944-45, Saxony, girl from Sorbonne, other relationships with soldiers and towns people and forced labor
15) Theodore Dalrymple (2005). Our Culture, What’s Left of
It: The Mandarins and the Masses. Chicago: Ivan R.
Dee.
critiques, short essays on changing art, music, colonialism, western Europe, Islam, by son of German-Jewish refugee mother, world-travelling doctor
16) The Children in Room E4, American Education on Trial by Susan Eaton, Publisher: Algonquin Books (11/03/2006)
ISBN: 156512488X.
looping 3-4 graders – Jeremy in Ms. Luddy class, Waverly-Simpson School, Hartford, Sheff case, John Brittain
17) AUTHOR Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996
TITLE Cosmic connection
Carl Sagan’s cosmic connection : an extraterrestrial perspective / Carl Sagan ; produced by Jerome Agel ; new contributions by Freeman Dyson, Ann Druyan, and David Morrison
PUBLISHER Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000
QB54.S24 2000
re-issue of 1973 series of essays, with some updating, C-O, temp chauvinism, SETI
18) AUTHOR Levitt, Matthew, 1970-
TITLE Hamas : politics, charity, and terrorism in the service of jihad / Matthew Levitt ; foreword by Dennis Ross
PUBLISHER New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006
JQ1830.A98 H3756 2006
analysis of Hamas – full-service group, connections to Muslim Brotherhood
19) Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
by Jimmy Carter New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006.
Christian perspective on conflict in Israel-Palestine, seen as cause of all of the conflicts in the region, describes close relationships with dictators in the region, implied support for terrorism
22) AUTHOR Bradley, James, 1954-
TITLE Flags of our fathers / James Bradley with Ron Powers
PUBLISHER New York : Bantam Books, 2000
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS NOTE
CCSU Stack Level 3 D767.99 I9 B73 2000
focused on Iwo Jima battle and lives of 3 survivors, son’s discussion with father, lived in Japan, Ira Hayes and Rene Gagnon’s life adjustments
21) TITLE Recapturing the personal : essays on education and embodied knowledge in comparative perspective / edited by Irving Epstein
PUBLISHER Charlotte, NC : Information Age Pub. Inc., c2007
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS NOTE
ECSU Stacks LB14.7.R44 2007
Irv served as editor, embodied knowledge, comparative education, Irv wrote on embodied perspective, whiteness, and Chinese films about schools, Mark Winokur on codes of cyberspace, Carolyn Manion on emotional capital in The Gambia, Helen Boyle on Qur’anic memorization, Susan Peters – on disability as performative metaphor, Noah Sobe on field trips in Serbia, Sheryl Lutjens on Cuban education
22) AUTHOR Oz, Amos
TITLE Sipur ?al ahavah ?e-?oshekh. English
A tale of love and darkness / Amos Oz ; translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange
PUBLISHER Orlando : Harcourt, c2004
ECSU Stacks PJ5054.O9 Z47313 2004
early years of Amos Oz in Jerusalem – eastern European immigrants, some on war for Jerusalem and Kibbutz life and remaking of youth
23) AUTHOR Morris, Roy
TITLE The better angel : Walt Whitman in the Civil War / Roy Morris, Jr
PUBLISHER Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000
ECSU Stacks PS3232.M67 2000
Walt Whitman as nurse during war, connection with Barton, brother as war hero
Book List – Spring II 2007
24) AUTHOR Eisenberg, Deborah
TITLE The twilight of the superheroes / Deborah Eisenberg
PUBLISHER New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
ECSU Stacks PS3555.I793 T87 2006
slackers in NYC during 911, social life and relationships for this decade
25) Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell (1999). The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing To Change Themselves and the World around Them. New York: Broadway Books.
diary entries from the Freedom Writers, saw Erin Gruwell at the AACTE opening
26) Information literacy collaborations that work: , ed. by Trudi E. Jacobson and Thomas P. Mackey. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 264p bibl index afp ISBN 1555705790 pbk, $85.00
Choice review – relevant for LAP 133 – Online Learning and Teaching
27) Greene, Jay P., 1966-
TITLE Education myths : what special interest groups want you to believe about our schools, and why it isn’t so / by Jay P. Greene, with Greg Forster and Marcus A. Winters ; foreword by James Q. Wilson
PUBLISHER Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005
LA210.E445 2005
arguments against all of the values held by teacher education programs
28) Ricks, Thomas E
TITLE Fiasco : the American military adventure in Iraq / Thomas E. Ricks
PUBLISHER New York : Penguin Press, 2006
ECSU Stacks DS79.76.R535 2006
detailed history of Iraq situation
29) AUTHOR Hirsi Ali, Ayaan, 1969-
TITLE Infidel / Ayaan Hirsi Ali
PUBLISHER New York : Free Press, c2007
ECSU Stacks DJ292.H57 A3 2007
story of young Somali woman and life in Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Somaila, then Europe and Holland, threatened as attacked women’s issues in Islam
30) AUTHOR Potok, Chaim
TITLE Old men at midnight / Chaim Potok
PUBLISHER New York : Knopf, 2001
CCSU Stack Level 5 PS3566 O69 O44 2001
three short stories all linked by Davita – 1) after 1945, Davita as English teacher to teen-age religious boy, tormented artist, 2) Davita as guided and muse to a Russian Jewish security interogator, ousted by Stalin, 3) Davita as writer-neighbor in CT-like setting to a professor of war, brings up memories of his trope teacher and religious background. Potok’s last book?
31) Taffe, Susan Watts. Integrating literacy and technology: effective practice for grades K-6, by Susan Watts Taffe and Carolyn B. Gwinn. 146p bibl index afp ISBN 1593854536, $42.00; ISBN 1593854528 pbk, $19.95
CHOICE review – more on instructional planning/design than technology, good discussion on instructional cycle and assessment
32) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is a 2005 English-language book by Jared M. Diamond, professor of geography at University of California, Los Angeles.
China, South Pacific Islands – Easter Island, Australia, Montana – delicate balance with environment, gift from Rona and Dennis
33) AUTHOR Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-
TITLE Roots too : White ethnic revival in post-civil rights America / Matthew Frye Jacobson
PUBLISHER Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS NOTE
ECSU Stacks E184.A1 J23 2006
white ethnics, with an emphasis on Jews, women, and gays, and their reaction to Roots and the civil rights movement
34) AUTHOR Piercy, Marge
TITLE What are big girls made of? : poems / by Marge Piercy
PUBLISHER New York : Knopf, 1997
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS NOTE
ECSU Stacks PS3566.I4 W48 1997
personal and religious poetry, clever discussion of women’s roles
35) AUTHOR Coyle, Diane
TITLE The soulful science : what economists really do and why it matters / Diane Coyle
PUBLISHER Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS NOTE
ECSU Stacks HB74.P8 C58 2007
interesting overview of economics – personal stories of leaders, discussion of valuing happiness and development, emphasis on technology
Book List – Summer 2007
36) AUTHOR Ebert, Roger
TITLE Your movie sucks / Roger Ebert
PUBLISHER Kansas City : Andrews McMeel Pub., c2007
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS NOTE
ECSU Stacks PN1995.E319 2007
reviews of movies that he didn’t like
37) AUTHOR Iraq Study Group (U.S.)
TITLE The Iraq Study Group report / James A. Baker, III, and Lee H. Hamilton, co-chairs; Lawrence S. Eagleburger … [et al.]
PUBLISHER New York : Vintage Books, 2006
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS NOTE
ECSU Stacks E902.I73 2006
does include that mid-East conflict requires settlement in Israel-Palestine, short report, suggested timetable, international involvement
38)TITLE Couldn’t keep it to myself : testimonies from our imprisoned sisters / Wally Lamb and the women of York Correctional Institution
PUBLISHER New York : ReganBooks, 2004
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS NOTE
ECSU Stacks PS548.C8 C68 2004
very sad stories how women wound up in York/Niantic, echoes of She Came Undone
39) AUTHOR Larson, Edward J. (Edward John)
TITLE The creation-evolution debate : historical perspectives / Edward J. Larson
PUBLISHER Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2007
discussion of belief among scientists, different forms of evolution, recent and famous court cases
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS NOTE
ECSU Stacks BL263.L32 2007
TITLE Thailand [videorecording] : the golden kingdom / producer/director, Andrew K. Slodkowski ; writer, Peter Stein
PUBLISHER San Ramon, CA. : International Video Network, c1991
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS NOTE
ECSU Video DS566.2.T54
dated but a good introduction, includes scenes of Chiang Mai
40) Concerto pour quatre consonnes sans voyelles | Marc-Alain Ouaknin, Format : Poche Prix : 10,4 € Dernière Edition : Octobre 2003 Nbre. de pages : 432
EAN : 9782228897892
I.S.B.N. : 2-228-89789-2
Editeur Payot
book lent by Emmanuel, enhanced numerology, numbering dots, Oedipus Rex, vowels for desire, “fay” in numbers’ names, division of aleph into 2 yods and a vav, word plays, critique of Paul’s change in Judaism and chimera of Judeo-Christian society
41) Title Judaism as a civilization;
toward a reconstruction of American-Jewish life, by Author Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem, 1881-
Publisher New York, Schocken Books [1967] LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS NOTE
ECSU Stacks BM197.7.K26 1967 DUE 09-18-07 American Jews as citizens of
two civilizations – Judaism in home and in centers, kosher in home,
freedom to explore outside of home, criticism of other branches of
Judaism, would have been a good text to discuss
42) Across a hundred mountains : a novel / Author Grande, Reyna
Publisher New York : Atria Books, 2006 LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
NOTE ECSU Stacks PS3607.R3627 A63 2006 DUE 11-07-07
interconnected stories of two girls/women – victims of immigration, poverty,
mistreatment by men, in mountains near Acapulco, Tijuana, Los Angeles,
El Otro Lado, shelters in LA, sexual slavery in village, bus to border
43) 26 Reasons Why Jews Don’t Believe in Jesus, By: Asher Norman – website – http://www.26reasons.com/index2.html – more as a reference, definition of messiah, divinity issues, historic accounts, misleading reading of writings.
44) Author Connelly, Karen, 1969-
Title Touch the dragon : a Thai journal / Karen Connelly
Publisher Winnipeg : Turnstone Press, c1992
ECSU Stacks DS566.2.C65 1992
16th year old from Calgary, Canada goes to Denchai, Thailand as a high school student, Thailand as a dream, mai pen rai
45) Author Ziesing, Michael, 1946-
Title I walked away : an expatriate’s guide to living cheaply in Thailand / by Michael Ziesing ; introduction by Mike Gunderloy
Publisher Port Townsend, WA : Loompanics Unlimited, c1996
ECSU Stacks DS566.2.Z54 1996
former Eastern CSU Asian philosophy professor and co-owner of legendary bookstore goes to Thailand as an ex-pat, bar keeper, husband, rural home owner. Frank discussion on visas, sex, relationships.
46) Author Kotter, John P., 1947-
Title Our iceberg is melting : changing and succeeding under any conditions / by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber ; with artwork by Peter Mueller
Publisher New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2006, c2005
Edition 1st St. Martin’s Press ed
ECSU Stacks HD58.8.K672 2006
from http://www.ouricebergismelting.com/html/8step.html
The 8-Step Process of Successful Change
SET THE STAGE
1. Create a Sense of Urgency.
Help others see the need for change and the importance of acting immediately.
2. Pull Together the Guiding Team.
Make sure there is a powerful group guiding the change—one with leadership skills, bias for action, credibility, communications ability, authority, analytical skills.
DECIDE WHAT TO DO
3. Develop the Change Vision and Strategy.
Clarify how the future will be different from the past, and how you can make that future a reality.
MAKE IT HAPPEN
4. Communicate for Understanding and Buy-in.
Make sure as many others as possible understand and accept the vision and the strategy.
5. Empower Others to Act.
Remove as many barriers as possible so that those who want to make the vision a reality can do so.
6. Produce Short-Term Wins.
Create some visible, unambiguous successes as soon as possible.
7. Don’t Let Up.
Press harder and faster after the first successes. Be relentless with instituting change after change until the vision becomes a reality.
MAKE IT STICK
8. Create a New Culture.
Hold on to the new ways of behaving, and make sure they succeed, until they become a part of the very culture of the group.
47) The kite runner
Hosseini, Khaled
New York : Riverhead Books, 2003
PS3608.O832 K58 2003
well-written novel that provided background in the changes in Afghanistan since the 1960s, male relationships, damages of ethnocentrism, societal honor, and war on children
48) Author Lowy, Ronald M.
Title Paint to win : creative strategic management / Ronald M. Lowy
Publisher Dallas ; Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2003
chair of business administration department, design for success
49) Using technology with classroom instruction that works by Howard Pitler et al. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development/Mid-continent Research for Education and Learing, 2007. 242p bibl index afp ISBN 9781416605706
Choice review, curriculum development using innovative software
50) Kohn, Alfie
Title The homework myth : why our kids get too much of a bad thing / Alfie Kohn
Publisher Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Life Long, 2006
Edition 1st Da Capo Press ed
companion to his work on testing, questions the goals and effectiveness of homework and the public perceptions of its purposes
51) Scherkenbach, William W
Deming’s road to continual improvement / William W. Scherkenbach
Publisher Knoxville, Tenn. : SPC Press, c1991
voice of people, process, Deming’s cycle (PDSA) - “Plan, Do, Study, Act”, Laotsu’s definition of a leader -
A leader is best when people barely know he exists; not so good when they obey and acclaim him; worse when they despise him. Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, “We did this ourselves.” – Lao-Tsu
http://www.ncpep.org/patl/patl26/templep/index.htm
52) Author Ellison, Ralph
Title Juneteenth : a novel / Ralph Ellison ; edited by John F. Callahan ; preface by Charles Johnson
Publisher New York : Vintage Books, 2000, c1999
Edition 1st Vintage International ed
novel on race confusion in US in the second half of the 20th century. Senator raised by preacher, former jazz-man, killed on Senate floor. Intricate flashbacks and streams of consciousness.
53) Takaki, Ronald T., 1939-
A different mirror : a history of multicultural America / Ronald Takaki
Boston : Little, Brown & Co., c1993
Edition 1st ed
comprehensive text on immigrants and nature of accommodations for diverse groups
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