Filed under: readings
The following is a list of books that I have read. This list is a reference for myself and is meant to initiate a discussion with others. David Stoloff – stoloffd@easternct.edu
Book list – Spring 2005
1) Haythornthwaite, Caroline & Kazmer, Michelle M., editors (2004) Learning, culture and community in online education: Research and practice. NY: Peter Lang.
focus on Library Education Experimental Project at UI-UC
2) Watkins, Jermaine (2001). A change of heart. Cave Creek, AZ: Metropolis Ink.
presenter at FTC 2005, writer and book agent’s evolution from hatred
3) Heinze, Andrew R Jews and the American soul : human nature in the twentieth century / Andrew R. Heinze Publisher Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2004
from new library book shelf, Peace of Mind - Joshua Loth Liebman, Freud, Erickson, Maslow, Joyce Brothers, …
4) Liebman, Joshua Loth, 1907-1948
Peace of mind. Publisher New York, Simon and Schuster [1946]
psychology and religion
5) Goodlad, John I
Romances with schools : a life of education Publisher New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004
schooling 4-16, 3 four-year periods, discovering, practice, applications, from North Vancouver, Chicago, Atlanta, Florida, UCLA, Seattle, …
6) Gibson, William, 1914-
Golda’s balcony : a play / by William Gibson New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, c2003
Fay played Golda in the Wax Museum at Sweeney, balconies in Dimona and Tel Aviv, threat of nuclear war in 1973
7) Ten Little New Yorkers : A Novel (Hardcover) by Kinky Friedman Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster (March 8, 2005) ISBN: 0743246039
borrowed from public library. last novel before run for Texas governor, falls off Brooklyn Bridge
8. God Wears Lipstick: Kabbalah for Women Author(s): Berg, Karen
ISBN: 1571892435
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 3/30/2005
Publisher(s): Pub Group West
women as vessels, men as light,
taking and giving
a mixture of extreme tradition and new age musings -
astology and the ancient texts
9) Author Piercy, Marge
Title The art of blessing the day : poems with a Jewish theme / Marge Piercy
Publisher New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999
CCSU Stack Level 5 PS3566 I4 A89 1999
reconstructionist poetry
10) Author Piercy, Marge
Title Woman on the edge of time
Publisher [New York : Fawcett Crest], 1976 PS3566 I4 W65 1976b
NY hospital setting – relationships
11) Author Ungerleider, Charles S
Title Failing our kids : how we are ruining our public schools / Charles Ungerleider
Publisher Toronto, Ont. : McClelland & Stewart, c2003
ECSU Stacks LA412 .U64 2003
society focused from Canadian perspective
12) Author Comer, James P
Title Leave no child behind : preparing today’s youth for tomorrow’s world / James P. Comer ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates Publisher New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2004
ECSU Stacks LB2822.82 C65 2004
strong discussion of his model for New Haven schools – relationships, …
13) Making human beings human : bioecological perspectives on human development / Urie Bronfenbrenner, editor
Publisher Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c2005
BF713 .M332 2005
relationships 3x
process-person-context-time model
Book list – Summer 2005
14) Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress (Corgi Books, 1998) short chapters, code, mystery and spy intrigue – will be a B movie
15) Straight man / Richard Russo Publisher New York : Random House, c1997 PS3568.U812 S77 1997
Richard Russo’s The Straight Man (New York: Random House, 1997) is a novel by Richard Russo set at West Central Pennsylvania State University in Railton, PA. A coming of mid-life crisis tale told in first person by the interim chair of the English department. Notable moments include the chair’s hiding in the rafters as the faculty come to a 2/3 vote (when a 3/4 majority is needed) for his dismissal, the threat of killing a campus pond duck every day until the department receives a budget, flirtations between faculty and students, satires on academic scholarship and stardom, and love and health in the season of grace. A good first read for a summer after a hard academic year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Man
16) The triumph of numbers : how counting shaped modern life / I. Bernard Cohen Publisher New York : W.W. Norton, c2005 QA276.C53 2005
David’s cursed census to Florence Nightgale’s research, with discussion of probability, lotteries, and statistics’ origin
17) Adolescent depression : a guide for parents / Francis Mark Mondimore Publisher Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002 RJ506.D4 M66 2002
Questions the future of psychotherapy, focus on drugs and their effects and family participation
texts read after talking with Allen Stein
17) Author Harden, Donald B. (Donald Benjamin)
Title The Phoenicians
Publisher New York, Praeger [1962]
DS81.H3
Jezebel and Dido connection
18. Author Lewis, Bernard
Title The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years / Bernard Lewis
Publisher New York, N.Y. : Scribner, c1995
DS62.L594 1995
Sunni, Shi’a, Sufi and impact from West, steepes, Asia
19) Author Fell, Barry
Title America B.C. : ancient settlers in the New World / Barry Fell
Publisher New York : Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., c1976
E103.F33 1976
Zuni-Libyan, Algonquian-Celtic, Egyptian-Micmac connections
20)Author Fell, Barry
Title Saga America / Barry Fell
Publisher New York : Times Books, c1980
E103.F34 1980
including testimony from Thomas Jefferson
21) The Near East: The Early Civilizations, editors – Jean Bottero, Elena Cassin, Jean Vercoutter. New York: Delacorte Press, 1965.
foundations of Egypt and Babylon
22) Title Man across the sea; problems of pre-Columbian contacts. Edited by Carroll L. Riley [and others]
Publisher Austin, University of Texas Press [1971]
E103.M34
scientific discussion of biology and botany diffusion, legend of Quetzalcoatl
23) Performance theories in education : power, pedagogy, and the politics of identity / edited by Bryant K. Alexander, Gary L. Anderson, Bernardo P. Gallegos Publisher Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005
LC196 .P464 2005
Bernardo was a colleague at CSLA. Notions of body and culture in the classroom. Performance, reformance, conformance.
24) Title Fueling the future : how the battle over energy is changing everything / edited by Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon
Publisher Toronto : House of Anansi Press, 2003
TP318.F85 2003
from the Canadian perspective, hydrogen as currency
25) How students learn: history, mathematics, and science in the classroom, ed. by M. Suzanne Donovan and John D. Bransford. 615p index ISBN 0309074339, $54.95
review for CHOICE at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/stoloff/choicereviews.html
26) Author Lesh, Phil, 1940- Searching for the sound : my life with the Grateful Dead / Phil Lesh Publisher New York : Little, Brown, 2005 ML419.L43 A3 2005
self-styled nerd’s history of the band, drugs, alcohol, and a mention of Stony Brook in 1969 – not Halloween 1970, There were days
27) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)
3rd in family after N & C to read, Dumbledore
Book List – Fall 2005
28) Author Diamond, Jared M
Title Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human
societies / Jared Diamond
Publisher New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c1997
HM206 D48 1997
also watched 3 hr PBS program, food production and domestication of animals, east-west pathways in Eurasia
29) Author Rury, John L., 1951-
Title Education and social change : themes in the
history of American schooling / John L. Rury
Publisher Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005
LA205 R67 2005
Richard Reynolds’ pick for EDU 555, survey of America schooling with featured characters, Lancastrian school format
30) Author Gee, James Paul
Title What video games have to teach us about learning
and literacy / James Paul Gee
Publisher New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
GV1469.3 G44 2003
gift of Ellen Weiss, justification of video games for learning
31) Author Barrow, John D., 1952-
Title The constants of nature : from Alpha to Omega–the numbers that encode the deepest secrets of the universe / John D. Barrow
Publisher New York : Vintage Books, 2004 QC39.B37 2002
constants imply divinity, origins of time and universe, best of all possible worlds
32) Author Stewart, James B
Title Disney war / James B. Stewart
Publisher New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005 PN1999.W27 S74 2005
Eisner’s history at Disney, Roy Disney’s politics
33) Author Heilman, Samuel C
Title The people of the book : drama, fellowship, and religion / Samuel C. Heilman ; with a new preface
Publisher Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987 BM205.H43 1987
performance in learning groups in NY and Jerusalem
34) Author Landau, David, 1947-
Title Piety and power : the world of Jewish fundamentalism / David Landau
Publisher New York : Hill and Wang, 1993 BM198.L26 1993
Israeli and US politics around haredim
35) Author Kidder, Tracy
Title Mountains beyond mountains / Tracy Kidder
Publisher New York : Random House, c2003
R154.F36 K53 2003
Dr. Paul Farmer in Haiti, Boston, Peru, Cuba, …
36) Author Goetschel, Willi, 1958-
Title Spinoza’s modernity : Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine / Willi Goetschel
Publisher Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004
B3998.G63 2004
influence of Spinoza on German philosoph, read Nathan the Wise
37) Author Decherney, Peter
Title Hollywood and the culture elite : How the movies became American / Peter Decherney
Publisher New York : Columbia University Press, c2005
PN1993.5.U6 D36 2005
connection of elite museums and universities to film, influence of film study program, Vachel Lindsay’s text
38) Virtual schools: planning for success, ed. by Zane L. Berge and Tom Clark. 246p bibl index afp ISBN 0807745715 pbk,
review for CHOICE – online
39) Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry
Samuel C. Heilman
394 pages
Publication Date: March 1992
Publisher: Schocken Books
paperback version published in 1999
40) Natasha
And Other Stories
David Bezmozgis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
160 pages
Pub Date: 06/2004
ISBN: 0-374-28141-6
Animal to the Memory, Immigrants from Riga in Toronto
satmar is saint mary, discussion of sexual relations with a wife of a friend
41) Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem, 1881-
Title Judaism as a civilization; toward a reconstruction of American-Jewish life, by Mordecai M. Kaplan
Publisher New York, Schocken Books [1967]
BM197.7.K26 1967
critique of movements, role of Israel
42) Title Online news and the public / edited by Michael B. Salwen, Bruce Garrison, Paul D. Driscoll
Publisher Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005
PN4833.O55 2005
research from UMiami
43) Ten thousand lovers
by Edeet Ravel
Type: English : Book : Fiction
Publisher: New York : Perennial, 2003. ISBN: 0060565624
has Isaac image at end, Mtl-Israeli love of Israeli interrogator-actor in late 1970s
44) Larkin, Kevin T
Title Stress and hypertension : examining the relation between psychological stress and high blood pressure / Kevin T. Larkin
Publisher New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005
complexities of stress-hypertension relationship
Book List – Winter 2006
45) Author Shulevitz, Uri, 1935- Title The travels of
Benjamin of Tudela : through three continents in the
twelfth century / Uri Shulevitz Publisher New York :
Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005 isbn 0-374-37754-5
intriguing illustations, on the harshest of travel
from
Spain to Persian
46) The secret seder by Doreen Rappaport; Emily Arnold
McCully, New York : Hyperion Books For Children,
©2005.
* ISBN: 0786807776
seder among resistance fighters in 1940s
47) Davies, Douglas James
A brief history of death
Publisher Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005
HQ1073.D383 2005
past and future projections of death
48) Dr. Suess Goes to War: The World War II Editorial
Cartoons of
Thedor Seuss Geisel
author – Minear, Richard H.
(2001 ISBN: (1-56584-704-0) paper
editorial cartoons for PM 39-41
49) Cavalier, Robert J
Title The impact of the Internet on our moral lives / Robert J. Cavalier Publisher Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005
TK5105.878.C38 2005
20-60-20 cheating, virtual virtues
50) Author Bothwell, Robert
Title Our century : the Canadian journey in the twentieth century / Robert Bothwell and J.L. Granatstein
Publisher Toronto : McArthur & Co., 2000
F1034.B619 2000
honest history appraisal of a bicultural, multicultural nation
51) Declining by degrees : higher education at risk / edited by Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow ; foreword by Tom Wolfe
Publisher New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005
LA227.4 .D45 2005
marketing, questioning the value of undergraduate education
52) Author Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963
Title The Screwtape letters [and] Screwtape proposes a toast / by C. S. Lewis
Publisher New York, : Macmillan, [c1961]
BR125.L67 1961
diabolic letters on catching souls, with an attack on democracy, particularly in American schools
53) Author Nigosian, S. A. (Solomon Alexander)
Title Islam : its history, teaching, and practices / S.A. Nigosian
Publisher Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004
BP161.3.N54 2004
Joseph’s tale differences, diversity in Islam
54) Author McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-
Title The global village : transformations in world life and media in the 21st century / Marshall McLuhan and Bruce R. Powers
Publisher New York : Oxford University Press, 1989
P96.T42 M34 1989
angelism and robotism, east-west, cultural identity in Canada and US, tetradic glossary
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