Filed under: readings
Book List – Spring 2006
1) Author Updike, John
Title Still looking : essays on American art / John Updike
Publisher New York : Knopf, 2005
N6505.U64 2005
American painters and their influence and reaction in Europe
2) Author Harvey, Peter (Brian Peter)
Title An introduction to Buddhism : teachings, history, and practices / Peter Harvey
Publisher Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990
BQ4022.H37 1990
diversity within Buddhism, historical analyses
3) Author Jones, Edward P
Title Lost in the city : stories / by Edward P. Jones ; photographs by Amos Chan
Publisher New York : Morrow, c1992
PS3560.O4813 L67 1992
author at Arts and Lectures Series, read two stories – on blindness and slavery, DC stories
4) Author Spitz, Bob
Title The Beatles : the biography / Bob Spitz
Publisher New York : Little, Brown, 2005
ML421.B4 S67 2005
too much detail on some hard-working kids who pushed themselves to the top, Hamburg and Liverpool scenes
5) Watson, Anne. Mathematics as a constructive activity by Anne Watson and John Mason. 228p bibl indexes afp ISBN 0805843434.
Choice review
6) Virtual decisions: digital simulations for teaching reasoning in the social sciences and humanities, ed. by Steve Cohen et al. 286p bibl indexes afp ISBN 0805849947, $79.95
Choice review
Choice research review on sorting literature on Education – needs recategorization and less emphasis on higher education if the focus is teacher education
7) Author Santiago, Esmeralda
Title When I was Puerto Rican. Spanish
Cuando era puertorriqueña / Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher New York : Vintage Books, 1994
SCSU Stacks F128.9.P85S2718 1994
Spanish – focus on la falda and country life in PR
8. Author Pinsky, Robert
Title Jersey rain / Robert Pinsky
Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000
ECSU Stacks PS3566.I54 J47 2000
use of acrostics – name of people in Brooklyn, diverse poems, commencement speaker
9) Pinsky, Robert
An explanation of America / Robert Pinsky
Publisher Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1979
ECSU Stacks PS3566.I54 E9
poems of the prairies, also within
10) Pinsky, Robert
The figured wheel : new and collected poems, 1966-1996 / Robert Pinsky
Publisher New York : Noonday Press, 1997, c1996
ECSU Stacks PS3566.I54 F54 1997
eclectic mix of urban and newcomer to America poetry
11) Santiago, Esmeralda
Almost a woman / Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books, 1998
ECSU Stacks F128.9.P85 S268 1998
immigrant tale – 9 year old who goes to HS Performing Arts, Up the Down Staircase cast, mating
12) Spring, Joel. Pedagogies of globalization: the rise of the educational security state. 308p bibl indexes afp ISBN 0805855564.
Choice review, deschooling society with a mix of pedagogy for the oppressed
Book List – Summer 2006
13) Meaningful learning using technology: what educators need to know and do, ed. by Elizabeth A. Ashburn and Robert E. Floden. 232p bibl index afp ISBN 0807746843 pbk, $44.95
Choice review – professional development at the core
14) Author Wiesel, Elie, 1928-
Title The night trilogy / Elie Wiesel
Publisher New York : Hill and Wang, 1990
PQ2683.I32 Z467 1987
Night, Dawn, The Accident (LeJour) – camps, Israel executions, car accident and recovery in light over Hudson
15) Author Fine, Ellen S
Title Legacy of night, the literary universe of Elie Wiesel / Ellen S. Fine ; with a foreword by Terrence Des Pres
Publisher Albany : State University of New York Press, c1982
ECSU Stacks PQ2683.I32Z68 1982
literary analyses – Night – father-son relationships, night, everlasting story
16) Online professional development for teachers: emerging models and methods, ed. by Chris Dede. 296p index ISBN 1891792741, $59.95; ISBN 1891792733 pbk, $29.95
Choice review
17) Pinsky, Robert
Title The life of David / Robert Pinsky
Publisher New York : Nextbook : Schocken, 2005
BS580.D3 P56 2005
interesting take on father-son status, virility, related to other poets
18) From haven to home : 350 years of Jewish life in America / editor, Michael W. Grunberger ; contributors, Hasia Diner … [et al.]
Publisher New York : George Braziller in association with the Library of Congress, 2004
E184.35.F76 2004
overview of history, politics, Black-Jewish relations – anti-semitism, women’s roles, …
19) Pinsky, Robert
Title Democracy, culture, and the voice of poetry / Robert Pinsky
Publisher Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002
PS323.5.P57 2002
narcissism, class in American poetry
20) Salt Dreams
by Jimmy and Dena Katz
Texts by Vicki Goldberg and Francis Davis
PowerHouse Books, 2006
cousin photos on the salt flats in Utah
21) Wiesel, Elie, 1928-
Title
The trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod) : a play in three acts / by Elie Wiesel ; translated by Marion Wiesel
Publisher New York : Random House, c1979
PQ2683.I32 P7613
rather incomplete, ends abruptly, Satan as defense attorney, Purimspiel
22) Author Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991
Title Satan in Goray
Publisher New York, Noonday Press, 1955
PJ5129.S49 S63
exorcisms after Shabati Zevi’s followers and opponents split a Polish shetl
23) To live together : shaping new attitudes to peace through education / edited by Daniel S. Halperin
Publisher Paris : UNESCO : International Bureau of Education , c1997
ECSU Stacks LC1090.T6 1997
references peace initiatives in Israel, effects on children
24) Bye bye Birdie [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures
Publisher Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1986
ECSU Video PN1995.9.M86 B94 1986
viewed by Fay, different than Kids’ Company version
25) Author Miller, Mark Crispin
Title Fooled again : how the Right stole the 2004 election & why they’ll steal the next one too (unless we stop them) / Mark Crispin Miller
Publisher New York : Basic Books, 2005
ECSU Stacks JK1994.M63 2005
evidence of voting tampering and tactics used by conservatives to gain and maintain power
26) Title Yellow submarine [videorecording] / Apple Films presents a King Features production ; screenplay by Lee Minoff and Al Brodax, Jack Mendelsohn and Erich Segal ; produced by Al Brodax ; directed by George Dunning
Publisher Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Video, c1999
ECSU Video PN1995.9.M86 Y45 1999
borrowed and watched in honor of 39th anniversary of issue date, Fay was bored
27) Author Roth, Philip
Title Everyman / Philip Roth
Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006
PS3568.O855 E94 2006
aging, illness, and death – alienation from family, depressing end in a condo on the Jersey Shore
28) Blood brothers / Elias Chacour with David Hazard (Grand Rapids, Mich. : Chosen Books, c1984), DS 113.7 .C49 1984.
need more information on Biram, peaceful journey – study in Europe, Hebrew University
Book List – Summer 2 2006
29) How to Read the Bible
By Marc Zvi Brettler
PhiladelphiaL JPS, 2005
ISBN: 082760775X
four or more writers, J – Jehovah, E – Elohist, P – Priestly, D – Deuteronomy, R – redactor, interesting discussion between authors of Esther and Ruth, archaelogical evidence
30) Stress in Israel; Breznitz, Shlomo, editor, New
York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983.
driving and pushiness related to agression of war, crime not correlated with stress of war, art therapy
to study children’s reactions to war.
31) Lusane, Clarence, 1953-
Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice : foreign policy, race, and the new American century / Clarence Lusane ; foreword by Kwame Dixon
Publisher Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006
E902.L87 2006
Rice was a friend of one of the girls who died in Birmingham church bombing, Powell and immigrant experience
32) Author Obama, Barack
Title Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama
Publisher New York : Three Rivers Press, c2004
E185.97.O23 A3 2004
Kenyan-Kansas Hawai’i, Indonesia, New York, Chicago, … hard finding oneself in a diverse world
33) Author Chacour, Elias, 1939-
Title We belong to the land : the story of a Palestinian Israeli who lives for peace and reconciliation / Elias Chacour with Mary E. Jensen
Publisher [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, c1990
DS113.7 C495 1990
update and addition to Blood Brothers – more politics among Palestinians, confused Israeli policies
34) Gore, Albert, 1948-
Title Earth in the balance : ecology and the human spirit / Al Gore Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin, :c1992
GF41 G67 1992
human history and ecology, planning for future, not lack of fuel but environment that is in danger
35) Author: Tabor, James D.
The Jesus Dynasty: A New Historical Investigation of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity Bibliographic Data: Hardcover, 384 Pages, Simon & Schuster, April 2006
ISBN: 0743287231
two Messiahs – John and Jesus, Levitic line in Mary’s ancestors, Jesus’ father – a Jewish Roman soldier who died in Gaul, Paul over James the Just for the future of the religion
36) Donna Rosenthal. The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land. New York: Free Press, 2003
dense text on multiple segments of Israeli life, interesting stories of cultural conflict
37) Author Grossman, David
Title Nokhe’im nif’adim. English
Sleeping on a wire : conversations with Palestinians in Israel / David Grossman ; translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman
Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1993
DS113.7 G7613 1993
intercultural connections, cantons, Islam Movement, sleeping on wire – not moving forward or back, demographics
38) Holmes, Bryn. E-learning: concepts and practice, by Bryn Holmes and John Gardner. 186p bibl index ISBN 1412911109, $110.00; ISBN 1412911117 pbk, $34.95
Choice review, Holmes at Concordia?
39) The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror, George Soros, New York: Perseus Book Group, 2006.
conceptual framework based on open society, critic of world order
40) Unspeak: How words become weapons, how weapons become a message, and how that messgae becomes reality, Steven Poole, New York, Grove Press, 2006.
how words are used to frame discussion, Israeli fence, war on terror
41) Sailing from Byzantium: How a lost empire shaped the world, Colin Wells, New York: Delacorte Press, 2006.
Character based, influence of changing nature of Byzantium on Europe, Islam, and Slavic empire
42) Grossman, David
Title Zeman ha-tsahov. English
The yellow wind / David Grossman ; translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman
Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1988
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS NOTE
ECSU Stacks DS110.W47G7613 1988
Abu Danni, Wastonaires, crossing the Jordan, divided villages
Book List – Fall 2006
43) Author Suskind, Ron
Title The one percent doctrine : deep inside America’s pursuit of its enemies since 9/11 / Ron Suskind
Publisher New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006
ECSU Stacks HV6432.S87 2006
Vice President Dick Cheney articulated shortly after 9/11: in Mr. Suskind’s words, ”if there was even a 1 percent chance of terrorists getting a weapon of mass destruction — and there has been a small probability of such an occurrence for some time — the United States must now act as if it were a certainty.”
discussion of the CIA and other international players in the war on terror
44) Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-
Title Blink : the power of thinking without thinking / Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2005
BF448 .G53 2005
the power of first impressions, the new coke situation
45) The Seasons of a man’s life / by Daniel J. Levinson … [et al.]
Publisher New York : Knopf, c1978
BF724.6.S42 1978
mentioned by Elsa Nunez – stages of life, research study of changes for men
book club discussion books -
46) How The Bible Was Built
Author: Charles Merrill Smith, James W. Bennett;
Released: 2005; Format: Paperback
good section the politics of the bible in European history, motivated by grand-daughter’s question
47) Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages (Hardcover)by Jaroslav Pelikan, Viking 2005
changes in Bible over history, uses in politics in England, motivated by Halleujah choir
48) Zipporah, Wife of Moses
by Marek Halter
Publisher: Crown, 2005
Moses, son of Pharoah mother, escapes murder to be isolate on sea, saves sisters, Zipporah’s sister marries into Sheba and hates Moses, resolves lack of mention of Gershon and Eliezer – killed in stampede at golden calf, Zipporah – Cushite orphan found by Jethro, Miriam scarred by torture by new pharoah who wanted to know from handmaiden origin of Moses, Horeb as volcano, …
49) Banner, James M., Jr. and Harold C. Cannon. 1997. The Elements
of Teaching. Yale University Press. 160 pp. $16.50. ISBN
0-300-06929-4.
was sent to me for review. They list the elements of teaching to be
Learning
Authority
Ethics
Order
Imagination
Compassion
Patience
Character
Pleasure.
50) Title Rethinking multicultural education : case studies in cultural transition / edited by Carol Korn and Alberto Bursztyn ; foreword by Joe Kincheloe
Publisher Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2002
LC1099.3.R49 2002
papers from Brooklyn College, transformative multicultural education to overcome despair, individual case studies
51) Author Clayton, Jacklyn Blake Title One classroom, many worlds : teaching and learning in the cross-cultural classroom / Jacklyn Blake Clayton
Publisher Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2003
orientations in a multicultural classroom – human nature, person-nature, time, activity – being is more important than doing, relational
52) Title Critical multicultural conversations / edited by Greg S. Goodman and Karen Carey
Publisher Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, c2004
LC1099.3 .C75 2004
students of Peter McLaren, individual case studies of minority groups, deep culture concerns, laptop study – on what the students related to the machines and each other
53) Title Culturally proficient instruction : a guide for people who teach / Kikanza Nuri Robins … [et al]
Publisher Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2006
LC1099.3.C845 2006
includes as author, Dean Raymond Terrell from CSULA, now in Ohio, terrelr@muohio.edu
continuum towards cultural proficiency – page 3
cultural destructiveness
cultural incapacity
cultural blindness
cultual precompetence
cultural competence
cultural proficiency – holding esteem for culture, knowing how to learn about individual and organizational culture, interacting effectively in a variety of cultural environments
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