Faculty Authored Books and Book Contributions

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Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants: Bibliographical Foundations of Information Science

Wayne de Fremery

Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants argues that bibliography serves a foundational role within information science as infrastructure, and like all infrastructures, it needs and deserves attention. Wayne de Fremery's thoughtful provocation positions bibliography as a means to serve the many ends pursued by information scientists. He explains that bibliographic practices, such as enumeration and description, lie at the heart of knowledge practices and cultural endeavors, but these kinds of infrastructures are difficult to see. In this book, he reveals them and the ways that they formulate information and meaning, artificial intelligence, and human knowledge.

Drawing on scholarship from areas as diverse as data science, machine learning, Korean poetry, and the history of bibliography, de Fremery makes the case for understanding bibliography as a generative mode of accounting for what has been received as data, what he calls “carpentry-accounting.” Referencing a well-known debate in the Anglo-American bibliographical tradition that features a willful cat, he suggests that bibliography and bibliographers are intentionally marginal figures who, paradoxically, perform foundational work in the service of the diverse disciplinary ends that formulate, however loosely, information science as a field. When we attend to the marginal but essential work of accounting for what humankind has fashioned as recorded knowledge, it becomes easier to consider the ways that human accounts can serve and, sometimes, injure us. Relevant to scholars and students from the sciences to the humanities, Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants is a highly original argument for bibliography as a marginal but foundationally powerful force shaping information science as a field and the ways that we know.
Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants: Bibliographical Foundations of Information Science [Forthcoming]

Wayne de Fremery

Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants argues that bibliography serves a foundational role within information science as infrastructure, and like all infrastructures, it needs and deserves attention. Wayne de Fremery's thoughtful provocation positions bibliography as a means to serve the many ends pursued by information scientists. He explains that bibliographic practices, such as enumeration and description, lie at the heart of knowledge practices and cultural endeavors, but these kinds of infrastructures are difficult to see. In this book, he reveals them and the ways that they formulate information and meaning, artificial intelligence, and human knowledge.

Drawing on scholarship from areas as diverse as data science, machine learning, Korean poetry, and the history of bibliography, de Fremery makes the case for understanding bibliography as a generative mode of accounting for what has been received as data, what he calls “carpentry-accounting.” Referencing a well-known debate in the Anglo-American bibliographical tradition that features a willful cat, he suggests that bibliography and bibliographers are intentionally marginal figures who, paradoxically, perform foundational work in the service of the diverse disciplinary ends that formulate, however loosely, information science as a field. When we attend to the marginal but essential work of accounting for what humankind has fashioned as recorded knowledge, it becomes easier to consider the ways that human accounts can serve and, sometimes, injure us. Relevant to scholars and students from the sciences to the humanities, Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants is a highly original argument for bibliography as a marginal but foundationally powerful force shaping information science as a field and the ways that we know.

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A Parable of Arable Land

Nicola Pitchford

The Nature Chronicles Prize is a new biennial, international, English-language literary award founded to celebrate engaging, unique, essay-length nonfiction that responds to the time we are in and the world as it is. Conceived in 2020 to mark the global pandemic, the prize is also a memorial to Prudence Scott, a lifelong British nature diarist who died in 2019.

Contained within this volume are the outstanding nominated entries for the inaugural prize. These winning works express diverse responses to our planet and its life, and together embody the best of contemporary nature writing.

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Aphids in the Rose

Joan Baranow

This collection of poems about a cancer patient’s journey vividly conjures the universal anxieties of the human condition as it confronts the simultaneous crises of bodily frailty and ecological precarity. Joan Baranow colorfully details the audacious cures in which we humans put our faith as we try to keep our worlds—inside and out—from falling apart. Modern medicine is at once celebrated and scrutinized in poems recognizing that scientific victories are as bruising as they are benevolent, that there is a cost to “force / assert[ing] its fact.” In looking to nature for answers, these poems bring to mind the Robert Frost of “Birches,” who would surely have approved of Baranow’s homage to a redwood tree’s dignified death: “that’s what I want,… / the full weight of gravity / pulling // with its fiery core, / whose hold never slips, / whose fist releases / such glossy, improbable leaves.”

–Jenna Le, MD, author of A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora
At Home in the World: Reflections of a Travel Addict

Matt Davis [Professor Emeritus]

Colliding with a kangaroo in Australia, navigating Italy’s strict dining customs, trying to avoid choking on a popular Japanese confection, dealing with car troubles in a remote part of Iceland, or strolling the shores of Israel’s Sea of Galilee – these are just a few of the hilarious, suspenseful, and introspective highlights of one traveler's international adventures contained within this collection of travel memoirs.

With over 150 of the author's original photos, this book will bring to life the exotic locations and extraordinary experiences of the author's travels in a way that makes you feel that you are traveling right along beside him.

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Cálao Bicorne

Claudia Morales

The protagonist of Cálao Bicorne immerses herself, from beginning to end, in an intimate bond with the written word, from which she is separated due to various circumstances. Her grandmother and her concern to find answers from her lead her to reconsider her relationship with writing, in which she will lay the foundations of her existence, of her memories, of her relationships with others. others, of its projection and its purposes.

In her search, the protagonist forges her path by joining her story to others, in a world bloodied by flags and borders, by the fight of guerrillas where poetry, memory and experiences make the environment a hostile and which, however, saves space for fantastic stories of love and illusions that keep alive the flames of internal and external battles.
Cochise: A Re-Imagination

Arthur Scott

This is a fictionalized work that looks at Cochise’s life, through a series of imagined scenarios. My intention in writing this was to provide an intimate venue by which he not only comes alive as an extraordinary warrior and sage archetype, but as a human being who struggled with doubt, loss, and fear. Leadership, honesty, and honor are important themes that Cochise’s life exemplified. Though soft spoken, he imparted volumes on leadership to his people and enemies through his spiritual, emotional, and physical presence.
De las buenas costumbres

Claudia Morales

Fundamental journey through the micro-story, Atomic Fiction presents in perspective the great variety and cohesion of the current Mexican scene throughout its territory. Like the prisms of a kaleidoscope, its pages refract the atmospheres and style stamps that characterize many of the genre's brightest voices, from established to newcomers. Reading immerses us in an ecosystem crossed by metamorphosis, unknown bacteria, parallel dimensions, witches, disturbing fauna and flora, literary classics, plagues, imaginary beings and mythologies; and at the same time it allows us to urgently address issues such as gender violence, social exclusion or isolation in times of pandemic.

The main character in this adventure is language: a very short creature –inexhaustible in literary density– that the authors enchant with senseless strokes, sharp words, genre crossovers and an abundance of imaginative universes. Hence the mystery of his alchemy, his chemical artifice, his electrical charge. Hence the constant feeling of something new, always sharp, unpredictable. Each one of these micro-stories expands the dimensions of the known world and charges its material in an unexpected, powerful and transformative way.

Atomic because of its power, not because of its brevity, this anthology brings together texts such as lightning, bursts, condensation lightning. A living organism rather than a gallery of authors, its atoms collide, intertwine and vibrate, composing a necessary framework for an exciting genre both for its roots and for its expansion.

Reader, this is a warning. It doesn't matter how you choose to go through Atomic Fiction, it doesn't matter if you read it in one sitting or savor it in microscopic sips: at the end, our vision – of the genre and well beyond it – is no longer the same. Something in us, something deep and mysterious, widens, electrifies forever.

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Facilitating multicultural reflective practice during supervision [2nd Edition]

Tegan Adams and Alison Pope-Rhodius

Within the Sport and Exercise Sciences (SES) and allied disciplines, reflective practice has become firmly established as a fundamental aspect of education, professional training and development, and applied service delivery. This has resulted in an emerging, context-specific evidence base that has attempted to make sense of the application and utility of reflective practice as a mechanism to facilitate personal and professional growth through experiential learning, and subsequently develop the knowledge required to navigate the complexities of applied practice.

This new and fully revised edition of Reflective Practice in the Sport and Exercise Sciences explores the contemporary conceptual landscape, critical perspectives, pedagogy, and applied considerations in reflective practice in the SES and allied disciplines. Contributions from scientists, researchers, practitioners, and academics offer innovative perspectives of reflective practice, founded on a synthesis of the contemporary empirical evidence base and applied practitioner experience.

These contributions challenge academic and/or practice-based audiences regarding the utility, research, and representation of reflective practice, while offering critical insights into the application of different approaches to reflective practice. Based on exploring the crucial interface between learning and practice, this book is important reading for all who work in the SES and allied disciplines, and, more widely, any professional aiming to become a more effective practitioner.

This book is endorsed by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences.

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Fotos en Movimiento

Claudia Morales

The book Mexican: Thirteen Contemporary Narratives brings together a collection of stories that highlight the challenges faced by women in Mexico. The authors portray the reality and complexity of not just romantic relationships, but also friendships and even familial relationships, all of which women in Mexico experience. Through their stories, the authors shed light on experiences of submission, despair, and injustice, as well as physical absences that are expressed through powerful words. However, some of the stories also employ black humor and irony, showcasing the characters' resilience and determination in overcoming their obstacles. These stories are a testament to the spirit and strength of the protagonists and the authors themselves.

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Invisible Illness Narratives in the United States

Vivian Delchamps

“Illness narratives” and “invisible illness” have already been usefully defined; this entry defines “invisible illness narratives,” specifically examining narratives on social media by twenty-first century Americans that reflect upon the experiences of pain and illness. This entry asserts that such narratives invite scholars of the health humanities to better appreciate the value of community and the importance of combatting stigma. When invisible illness narratives are circulated widely on social media platforms, they teach physicians and the general public about the embodied and social realities that may accompany life with invisible illnesses. These perspectives are highly significant in today’s political-medical moment, for they communicate symptoms and combat ableism in formats that are easily accessible and shared.

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La virgen Axchil

Claudia Morales

Embark on a fundamental journey through the world of micro-stories with the anthology Atomic Fiction. This book showcases the great variety and cohesion of the current Mexican literary scene by featuring established and up-and-coming voices, each with their own unique atmospheres, styles, and perspectives. The stories within Atomic Fiction explore a range of topics, from metamorphosis and unknown bacteria to witches, imaginary beings, and urgent social issues like gender violence and isolation during a pandemic. At the heart of this adventure is language, a powerful and concise creature that the authors of Atomic Fiction enchant with their imaginative universes. The result is a collection of micro-stories that expand the dimensions of the known world and transform it in unexpected ways. With its lightning-like bursts and condensation, Atomic Fiction is a living organism that brings together a necessary framework for the genre. Each atom vibrates, collides, and intertwines with the others, creating a powerful and transformative reading experience. Whether you choose to read Atomic Fiction in one sitting or savor it in small doses, the anthology will leave a lasting impact on your vision of the genre and beyond. It widens and electrifies something deep and mysterious within us, forever changing the way we see the world. Immerse yourself in the world of Atomic Fiction and discover a new perspective on the power of language and imagination.

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No habrá retorno

Claudia Morales

The novel No habrá retorno is a fascinating piece of literature as it traverses time and different geographical spaces. The story takes us from New York to the aquifer systems of the Valley of Mexico, to the indigenous territories, to the harvest season in the south of the country, to explore unprecedented ties, the reliability of memory, and the experience of love. The author's poetic writing style restores a universe cracked by uprooting, weaving plots, and rescuing unique lives from oblivion. The characters in the story, including the photographer Marcey Jacobson, the ghostly presence of Juan de la Cabada, and the outlaws, all leave the imprint of their wandering existences, of their unsubmissive writings. This first novel is full of beauty and horror, depicting the myths embedded in the violence of the present, the indulgence of small acts redeeming human cruelty, the political atmosphere between eras that left a handful of broken utopias, and the implacable landscape imposing its designs. Above all, migration is a prominent theme in the book, as the linguistic and geographical schism has left the characters in that open air where the horizon is misty like dreams, making the idea of living an impossible return for all of them.

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Plot to Kill the President: A Novel

Arthur Scott and Brian Heath

I was always skeptical of The Warren Report as were countless other Americans over the decades.

I was reenergized to look more closely at November 22,1963, by a chance encounter with Brian heath, a JFK aficionado, who had made some startling discoveries about the assassination. He had studied meticulously the Nix film and concluded that the fatal shot came from within the presidential limousine from the driver, William Greer. Similarly, that many of JFK’s cabinet members consisted of former OSS spooks, who dominated the CIA, and were major spokesman for the national security state and America’s global dominance.

They saw JFK’s rapprochement with Khrushchev after the Cuban missile crisis a threat to their world view. Vietnam was the breaking point as they saw in his policy of gradual withdrawal, the fall Ho Chi Minh City, as heralding the collapse of all of southeast Asia to the Chinese, described as the domino theory. Ironically, the latter never occurred.

Plot to Kill the President, is our answer to keeping alive the idealism of the new frontier and the coup d’état that transpired. Recent events around January 6 under Trump show how fragile democracy and its institutions are. These weaknesses were apparent during the JFK’s period when there rose a groundswell of powerful forces that called for his removal and dramatically altered the trajectory of American history.
Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague

Joan Baranow

Written during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, Joan Baranow’s Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague contemplates the dread uncertainty of our life. Describing hospitalized sufferers, she writes: “A patient, no longer struggling, is wheeled away. / Another sits up, accepts the bent straw between his lips.” Likewise, her tough-minded yet always loving vision of domestic life invites us to inhabit a level of self-scrutiny that leaves us heartened even if also often troubled. And yet, despite the losses mourned throughout this book, the poet’s humor and hopefulness prevail. In “Advice from a Moth” she exhorts us to “enjoy the erratic path.” Deeply satisfying, Baranow’s unaffected language is as clear and natural as a tumbler of spring water. She possesses a scrupulously honed poetic gift that is precious and rare.

Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University. Author of The Life of Langston Hughes (2 vols.)
Refiguring Speech: Late Victorian fictions of Empire and the Poetics Talk

Amy Wong

In this book, Amy R. Wong unravels the colonial and racial logic behind seemingly innocuous assumptions about "speech": that our words belong to us, and that self-possession is a virtue. Through readings of late-Victorian fictions of empire, Wong revisits the scene of speech's ideological foreclosures as articulated in postcolonial theory. Engaging Afro-Caribbean thinkers like Édouard Glissant and Sylvia Wynter, Refiguring Speech reroutes attention away from speech and toward an anticolonial poetics of talk, which emphasizes communal ownership and embeddedness within the social world and material environment.

Analyzing novels by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, George Meredith, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, Wong refashions the aesthetics of disordered speech—such as parroting, eavesdropping, profuse inarticulacy, and dysfluency—into alternate forms of communication that stand on their own as talk. Wong demonstrates how late nineteenth-century Britain's twin crises of territorialization—of empire and of new media—spurred narrative interests in capturing the sense that speech's tethering to particular persons was no longer tenable. In doing so, Wong connects this period to US empire by constructing a genealogy of Anglo-American speech's colonialist and racialized terms of proprietorship. Refiguring Speech offers students and scholars of Victorian literature and postcolonial studies a powerful conceptualization of talk as an insurgent form of communication.
The Reflective Sport and Exercise Science Practitioner

Zoe Knowles, Andy Miles, Emma Huntley, Gareth Picknell, Stephen D. Mellalieu, Sheldon Hanton, Emily Ryall, Andy Borrie, Jo Trelfa, Hamish Telfer, Kate Williams, Tegan Adams, Alison Pope-Rhodius, Christopher R. D. Wagstaff, Matthew Miller, Alessandro Quartiroli, Amy Whitehead, Amanda J. Wilding, Paula Watson, Laura Needham, James Morton, Brian Gearity, Clayton Kuklick, Hannah C. Wood, Amelia K. Simpson, Amelia K. Mcintosh, Emma S. Cowley, and Brendan Cropley

Within the Sport and Exercise Sciences (SES) and allied disciplines, reflective practice has become firmly established as a fundamental aspect of education, professional training and development, and applied service delivery. This has resulted in an emerging, context-specific evidence base that has attempted to make sense of the application and utility of reflective practice as a mechanism to facilitate personal and professional growth through experiential learning, and subsequently develop the knowledge required to navigate the complexities of applied practice.

This new and fully revised edition of Reflective Practice in the Sport and Exercise Sciences explores the contemporary conceptual landscape, critical perspectives, pedagogy, and applied considerations in reflective practice in the SES and allied disciplines. Contributions from scientists, researchers, practitioners, and academics offer innovative perspectives of reflective practice, founded on a synthesis of the contemporary empirical evidence base and applied practitioner experience.

These contributions challenge academic and/or practice-based audiences regarding the utility, research, and representation of reflective practice, while offering critical insights into the application of different approaches to reflective practice. Based on exploring the crucial interface between learning and practice, this book is important reading for all who work in the SES and allied disciplines, and, more widely, any professional aiming to become a more effective practitioner.

This book is endorsed by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences.

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A Slight Thing, Happiness

Joan Baranow

"We think back through our mothers if we are women," Virginia Woolf declares in A Room of One's Own, and certainly Joan Baranow embraces a woman-centered poetics in A Slight Thing, Happiness. In this volume of poetry, Baranow explores the many phases of motherhood, beginning with her struggle with infertility treatments, toxemia of pregnancy, and the premature births of her sons.

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Forty Mystical Sufi Poems

Arthur Scott and Nahid Angha

Forty Mystical Sufi Poems is an elegant collaboration between Dr. Nahid Angha and Saleh Arthur Kane Scott describing the healing mystery and transformative energy of Sufi poetry. Dr. Angha, the founder of International Association of Sufism and noted poet/scholar, likewise, has brought the poetics and wisdom of her father, Moulana Shah Maghsoud, to the West. Professor Scott has been a practicing Sufi for two decades studying under the direction of Shah Nazar Ali Kianfar, co-founder of International Association of Sufism. Through the example of Dr. Angha, Professor Scott became enraptured by the Spiritual nuances of Sufi poetics. As he declares, Forty Mystical Sufi Poems “is itself a meditation which takes you deeper into yourself thereby releasing you from the busyness of time/space.” Forty Mystical Sufi Poems introduces the reader to the beauty, poetics, and metaphors of Forty Sufi poems from Bayazid Bastami to Hallaj, from Khayyam to Ahmad Ghazzali, and from Shah Maghsoud Sadiq Angha to Rumi along with their brief biographies. Forty was chosen as it’s a sacred number pointing to the inner transformation that the seeker must undergo to return to the heart, the Fountainhead of Divine Wisdom. What makes it so rich is that it explores the rich metaphors and vocabulary of the Sufis: Drunkenness is code for falling into a deep rapture, Garden points to the beauty of Paradise, Tulip points to the ascending heart. Dr. Angha says it best when she writes, every color holds a meaning, every song presents a divine melody, and every word is a key to open treasure box of the heart. These Sufi themes are beautifully expressed on the cover which portrays a mystical garden filled with exotic birds, trees, flowers pointing to the ethereal. In conclusion, Forty Mystical Sufi Poems, is a must read rich in insights about identity in a world on fire. It calls the world to surrender to the Divine, to the warm embrace of the Garden of love, to the realization that what we seek was always within as beautifully expressed by Bayazid Bastami in this line: Then I looked and saw that lover and beloved are one. What a gift!

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Home and Homelessness

Laura Stivers

Encompassing three comprehensive volumes, the Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics introduces fundamental issues in moral inquiry, explores the world’s major moral traditions, and surveys specific moral issues across a wide range of human experiences.
Meteoric: How to Achieve Success through Innovation, Influence, and Leadership

Adam Braus

In Meteoric, San Francisco-based entrepreneur, professor, and product manager, Adam Braus suggests that a key factor in innovation was lost in translation. Nemawashi—or piecemeal consensus—is a Japanese management technique that was ignored when lean and agile migrated from the island nation to the west. Nemawashi is the oil in the engine of an agile company—without it innovation grinds to a standstill. In this book, Braus distills this new way to lead change into a simple five-step process. Braus tells engaging real-life stories from startups, small businesses, and large innovative companies to explain how individuals, teams, and companies can use this breakout method of career and business success.

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Motivate: How to Defeat Distraction, Ignite Interest, and Secure Success

Adam Braus

Motivate is a masterclass in how to support children, youths, and adults to unlock their energies, genius, and success. In each chapter, you'll learn proven strategies that parents, teachers, and managers can use in the design of their homes, schools, and workplaces. You will learn what motivation is exactly, how to be kind while still maintaining high expectations, the three real factors for personalizing learning, a new four-step model to getting anyone interested in
anything, and much more.

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Persuasive Communication: Source, Message, Audience

Benjamin Rosenberg, Alexander Marshburn, and Jason T. Siegel

Persuasive communication, defined as any message designed to influence people’s attitudes or behaviors, is a core concept in social psychology. It is possible that persuasive communication scholarship would not exist if not for Carl I. Hovland, Irving L. Janis, and Harold H. Kelley’s seminal text Communication and Persuasion, and its theoretical propositions are still being examined today. The approach outlined in that text, which has since informed multiple theories and research programs, suggests a tripartite model, where source, message, and audience features dictate persuasive impact.
The Future of Good: How to Tell Good from Evil in an Age of Distraction, Polarization, and Crisis

Adam Braus

In The Future of Good, Adam Braus brings to light a 100-year-old theory of good and evil that can help us meet the moral challenges of our times. Braus weaves together stories from history, philosophy, psychology, and neuro- and evolutionary biology to offer his readers a new perspective on how to build good institutions, identify good leaders, and be good people.

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