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
 

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

 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