Faculty Authored Books and Book Contributions

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  Theory vs. Practice: An Administrative Perspective on Teaching and Learning in a Pandemic

  Gigi Gokcek

  As Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Education and a political science professor, I learned the hard way that teaching about disasters is not the same as living through one. In IR, the study of pandemics and communicable diseases falls under neoliberal institutionalism because the prevention and management of global pandemics require the cooperation of states, through intergovernmental organizations like the World Health Organization, to overcome a collective goods problem. Students of IR learn that global health security is a collective good (common or shared interest for all humans). Yet with the Covid-19 pandemic, today’s students and future generations will learn that the lack of global governance produced a worldwide health crisis in 2020. This essay offers the perspective of an administrator at a small liberal arts institution to examine how colleges and universities can avoid the collective action problem at all levels of the organization to deliver education remotely. Relying on anecdotal evidence from faculty and student surveys, the discussion focuses on the lessons learned for effective delivery of remote teaching. The chapter draws parallels between global and university governance to show that states, like campus units, can collaborate to conquer an unforeseen challenge as a pandemic.

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  Against Medical Advice: Addressing Treatment Refusal

  Luanne Linnard-Palmer

  Refusal, delay, or limitation of medical treatments, including vaccines, is an increasing phenomenon facing nurses and other healthcare practitioners daily. When a patient or family refuses treatment—maybe even lifesaving treatment—because it is contrary to their social, religious, or cultural beliefs, it can plunge healthcare providers, families, and patients into a difficult, emotionally charged conversation. Complex and diverse ethical dilemmas such as this can profoundly impact the health, welfare, and mental and emotional well-being of everyone involved. What’s more, today’s nurses and healthcare professionals will almost inevitably face this situation or one like it. Against Medical Advice details many of the medical, legal, social, cultural, and religious factors associated with treatment refusals. Authors Luanne Linnard-Palmer and Ellen Christiansen prepare healthcare professionals to compassionately assess and understand people’s beliefs, cultures, and philosophical perspectives. Their proven strategies and step-by-step examples guide providers to consider the patient’s and family’s point of view, share concerns with other healthcare team members, and negotiate the best possible outcome for all involved.

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  Airflow over Ogival Wings: An Aerodynamic Study

  Nicola Pitchford

  Despite living in a time when more women are speaking up and speaking out about inequality, political issues, and the realities of their day-to-day lives, many continue to be treated as whispers in the void; hidden figures in the dark; shadows on the wall. This is what moved us to launch We Are Not Shadows as the first book from Folkways Press.

  When compiling this anthology, we made it our mission to select writing from women of all ages and backgrounds covering a wide range of topics – many of which we feel are both timely and necessary. In We Are Not Shadows, you will find stories, poems, and essays concerning issues of race, gender, sexuality, trauma, adversity, disability, and much more.

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  American Political Leaders [3rd Edition]

  Richard L. Wilson and Alison Howard

  American Political Leaders, Third Edition contains 286 biographical profiles of men and women in the United States who have demonstrated their political leadership primarily by being elected, nominated, or appointed to significant political offices in the United States or by having attained some special prominence associated with political leadership. This reference work provides students and general readers with a concise, readable guide to present and past leaders in U.S. politics.

  Included in this book are presidents, vice presidents, major party candidates for president, significant third-party candidates, important Supreme Court justices, Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives, senators, representatives, cabinet officers, significant agency heads, and diplomats. Since much of U.S. political leadership involves the representation of successive waves of new groups within the U.S. political system, special care has been taken to include the contributions of women, Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and Americans who represented earlier waves of immigrants to the United States.

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  Assisted Living Administration and Management Review: Practice Questions for RC/AL Administrator

  Darlene Yee-Melichar, Christina Flores, and Andrea Renwanz Boyle

  Assisted Living Administration and Management Review is the first practical question-based study guide for anyone preparing for certification or licensure exams in residential care and assisted living (RC/AL) administration. Organized according to the original five domains of practice established by the National Association of Long-Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB) and used in Assisted Living Administration and Management: Effective Practices and Model Programs in Elder Care, Second Edition, the book reflects the type of questions seen on the state and national exams. Answers and brief rationales have been provided in a final chapter organized according to the five domains of practice or knowledge areas of responsibility - Organizational Management, Human Resources Management, Business and Financial Management, Environmental Management, and Resident Care Management.

  Written by certified assisted living administrators and licensed health professionals and featuring questions relevant to all state-based exams, this is the authoritative study guide for anyone seeking professional certification/licensure in this growing line of service. The review begins with a comprehensive introduction to the current professional landscape of residential care and assisted living administration in addition to coverage of the different certification and licensure programs available. The following domain-based chapters feature multiple-choice, single-best answer questions, covering all core knowledge areas of responsibility that one is likely to see when taking state or national exams. Containing over 300 practice questions with rationales to encourage self-assessment and further learning, this is a must-have resource for students and professionals seeking RC/AL administrator certification or licensure.

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  Encyclopedia of the American Presidency [4th Edition]

  Micahel A. Genovese and Alison Howard

  The most up-to-date reference of its kind, Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, Fourth Edition is the definitive guide to the role of the president from the American Revolution through the present day. Offering a complete account of the presidency in U.S. history, this A-to-Z encyclopedia will make a great first stop for students and general readers looking for information on the executive branch of the American government. Its comprehensive scope spans the relationship between the executive and the other branches of government, court cases, elections, political opponents, scandals, and more.

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  Getting On in the Creative Arts Therapies: A Hands-On Guide to Personal and Professional Development

  Erin Partridge

  What do you really want from your career, and how are you going to get it? How do you find the right people and make the right connections along the way? What are the secrets of finding fulfilment in your work?

  This book is intended to help you to answer these questions - and many more. Written to inspire and motivate you as you progress through your career as creative arts therapist, it shares diverse stories and experiences spanning different career paths and decisions. The book also tackles common early career challenges including designing services, advocacy and collaborative working, exploring how adverse circumstances can be used as opportunities for growth.

  With creative and reflective exercises throughout to help you to identify your goals and achieve them, this book is an indispensable guide for any creative arts therapist who wants to flourish in their career.

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  Literary Phenomena and Alternative Encounters

  Wayne de Fremery

  The book 'On Media, On Technology, On Life: Interviews with Innovators' features thirteen artist-researchers whose artworks reconfigure the relationships between living bodies, microorganisms, tools, techniques, and institutions to ask new questions of life itself. When encountered for the first time, these are works that seem to challenge a conventional understanding of what artists and scientists do. Through the words of the artists themselves, these interviews explore what it means to spearhead innovative new partnerships able to create work that takes on a life of its own. By posing new questions at the interface between media, technology, and life, the book explores themes such as the life of multi-species bodies, the future of food security in the age of biotechnology, the microbial lives of historic archives, and the biohacker communities of the future. Together, they reveal how we are all actors in this theatre of life innovation.

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  Religious Responses to Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay: Addressing White Supremacy and Racism Area

  Laura Stivers

  Land of Stark Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists, and theologians exploring the profound role of religion in understanding and responding to homelessness and housing insecurity in all corners of the United States—from Seattle, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley to Dallas and San Antonio to Washington, D.C., and Boston.
  
  Together, the essays of Land of Stark Contrasts chart intriguing ways forward for future initiatives to address the root causes of homelessness. In this way they are essential reading for practical theologians, congregational leaders, and faith-based nonprofit organizers exploring how to combine spiritual and material care for homeless individuals and other vulnerable populations. Social workers, nonprofit managers, and policy specialists seeking to understand how to partner better with faith-based organizations will also find the chapters in this volume an invaluable resource.

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  Teaching IR with Literature and Film

  Gigi Gokcek

  This comprehensive guide captures important trends in international relations (IR) pedagogy, paying particular attention to innovations in active learning and student engagement for the contemporary International Relations (IR) classroom.

  This book is organized into three parts: IR course structures and goals; techniques and approaches to the classroom; and assessment and effectiveness. It is up-to-date with teaching practices highlighted by leading journals and conferences sponsored by the International Studies Association (ISA) and the American Political Science Association (APSA).

  Collectively, the chapters contribute to continuing dialogues on pedagogy in the field and serve as a critical resource for faculty in IR, political science, and social science.

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  Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach

  Laura Stivers and James B. Martin-Schramm

  The case method approach, effective in disciplines from law, forms the backbone of this classroom-proven work. Designed specifically for undergraduate courses this latest revision includes ten new cases on immigration (connection with global poverty), homelessness and foreclosures, water, ethical issues in the workplace, closing hospital emergency rooms, living together v. marriage, gay marriage, and physician-assisted death. Several cases have been dropped and the remaining cases have all been updated to keep the book contemporary with real life issues, for productive discussion and fruitful learning.

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  For Every Gender: Being Who We Are

  Katherine Lewis

  Teaching about Gender Diversity is an edited collection of teacher-tested interdisciplinary lesson plans that provides K–12 teachers with the tools to implement gender-inclusive practices into their curriculum and talk to their students about gender and sex.

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  Legalization Through Marriage: When Love and Papers Converge

  Lucía León

  The widely recognized “Dreamer narrative” celebrates the educational and economic achievements of undocumented youth to justify a path to citizenship. While a well-intentioned, strategic tactic to garner political support of undocumented youth, it has promoted the idea that access to citizenship and rights should be granted only to a select group of “deserving” immigrants. The contributors to We Are Not Dreamers—themselves currently or formerly undocumented—poignantly counter the Dreamer narrative by grappling with the nuances of undocumented life in this country. Theorizing those excluded from the Dreamer category—academically struggling students, transgender activists, and queer undocumented parents—the contributors call for an expansive articulation of immigrant rights and justice that recognizes the full humanity of undocumented immigrants while granting full and unconditional rights. Illuminating how various institutions reproduce and benefit from exclusionary narratives, this volume articulates the dangers of the Dreamer narrative and envisions a different way forward.

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  Plant Hosts of Apple Proliferation Phytoplasma

  Dana Barthel, Pier Luigi Bianchedi, Andrea Campisano, Laura Tiziana Covelli, Gastone Dallago, Claudio Ioriatti, Wolfgang Jaraush, Thomas Letschka, Cecilia Mittelberger, Mirko Moser, Sabine Öttl, Josef Österreicher, Wolfgang Schweigkofler, Rosemarie Tedeschi, Michael Unterhurner, and Katrin Janik

  In the last years the cooperation between the Fondazione Edmund Mach (Trentino) and the Laimburg Research Center (South Tyrol) was intensified to bundle the expertise of both research institutions. The cooperation in the field of apple proliferation (AP) disease became exemplary of how good scientific collaborations between the partner institutions is supposed to be. Both provinces - Trentino and South Tyrol - have large areas of apple cultivation, which were affected by recurrent outbreaks of apple proliferation disease. It was therefore evident that relevant discoveries can only be achieved in close collaboration and exchange. We discussed, planned, worked together, argued, but altogether and most important we grew as a team. The complexity of the topic is reflected by the different scientific and technical backgrounds of the researchers involved in the projects. This work was also possible thanks to the external contribution of prestigious national and international researchers known for their studies on apple proliferation. It should thus not be concealed that we are proud of what we achieved together in the last years. These achievements are reflected by numerous scientific publications, presentations and by this book that we edit as a joint work. The book is aimed at scientists in the field, local farmers, students and anyone who is interested in apple proliferation. We provide an overview of the current state of apple proliferation related research (with a focus on Trentino and South Tyrol) and provide an extended list of references for further reading. The book is available in three languages, Italian, German and English to make its content accessible to national and international readers. Our collaboration is ongoing and we are curious to see which interesting discoveries the future will bring.

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  Reactance and spiritual possibilities: an application of psychological reactance theory

  Benjamin Rosenberg and Jason T. Siegel

  Psychological reactance theory (PRT) posits that threats to people’s freedom elicit reactance, an aversive motivational state that triggers freedom restoration. The current chapter utilizes PRT as a vehicle for understanding phenomena related to religious beliefs and behavior. Our focus here is on outlining the ways in which social, political, or environmental threats to people’s religious freedom can arouse reactance and a variety of associated outcomes, including increased religious adherence. In addition, we illustrate the ways in which restrictive faith-based regulations can arouse reactance among adherents, outcomes of which could be heresy (i.e., holding a belief contrary to religious orthodoxy) and apostasy (i.e., renouncing religious affiliation). We also propose that religions can use strategies from communication research to allay reactance and increase message effectiveness. Finally, we suggest future directions for research at the intersection of PRT and religious behavior.

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  Safe Maternity & Pediatric Nursing Care [2nd Edition]

  Luanne Linnard-Palmer

  The text, written specifically for LPNs/LVNs, provides the comprehensive nursing knowledge they need to understand in this key course. Online Resources equip instructors with the lesson plans, teaching resources, and activities to create an active classroom environment where students can apply what they’re learning. Davis Edge online quizzing tracks student progress; assesses their knowledge; prepares students for classroom exams and the NCLEX®; and provides real time analytics to identify their weak concepts and topic areas.

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  Spring and a Thousand Years

  Judy Halebsky

  Finalist, 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize

  A translator’s notebook, an almanac, an ecological history, Judy Halebsky’s Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) moves between multiple intersections and sign systems connected in a long glossary poem that serves as the book’s guide to what is lost, erased, or disrupted in transition both from experience to written word and from one language, location, and time period to another.

  Writers Li Bai, Matsuo Bashō, Sei Shōnagon, and Du Fu make frequent appearances in centuries ranging from the eighth to the twenty-first, and appear in conversation with Grace Paley, Donald Hall, and Halebsky herself, as the poet explores subjects ranging from work and marriage to environmental destruction. Asking what would happen if these poets—not just their work—appeared in California, the poems slip between different geographies, syntaxes, times, and cultural frameworks.

  The role of the literary translator is to bring text from one language into another, working to at once shift and retain the context of the original—from one alphabet to another, one point in time to another. These are poems in homage to translation; they rely on concepts that can bridge time and space, and as a result are as likely to find meaning in donuts or Zumba as they are to find it in the ocean. Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) finds reasons for hope not in how the world should be, but in how it has always been.

  Supported by the Miller and Lucinda Williams Poetry Fund.

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  Still You: Poems of Illness & Healing

  Joan Baranow

  Poetry. STILL YOU gathers together poems that invite us into private rooms of suffering and solace. In these profoundly personal stanzas, we recognize our own encounters with nature's inevitable blows. By turns we fall ill, we recover, we care for a loved one, we prepare for loss. At these times poetry can open the door to the sickroom and offer a potent physic for the isolation that comes with illness. Here you will find a wife's fierce resistance to cancer's attack as well as the courage to accept a feared diagnosis. You will find poems of humor, joy, gratitude, and consolation. Ultimately, a resilient spirit binds us together. As poet Gail Tierney says, "whatever it may be, you're not alone." - publisher's description -

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  The Small College Imperative: Models for Sustainable Futures

  Mary B. Marcy

  With costs rising, traditional college student populations shrinking, and pundits predicting that huge numbers of colleges will close in the next few decades, small colleges cannot afford to pretend that business-as-usual can sustain them. This book offers five emerging models for how small colleges can hope to survive and thrive in these very challenging times: Traditional; Integrative; Distinctive Program; Expansion, and Distributed. In addition to offering practical guidance for colleges trying to decide which model is for them, the book includes brief institutional profiles of colleges pursuing each model. The book also addresses the evolving role of consortia and partnerships as an avenue to provide additional innovative ways to manage cost and develop new opportunities and programs while maintaining fidelity to mission and strategic vision.

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  “The Unnecessary Gendering of Everything”: Gender Diverse Adults Speak Back to Their K-12 Schools

  Katherine Lewis

  Across the globe, students are speaking up, walking out, and marching for social and ecological justice. Despite deficit discourses about students, youth are using their voice and agency to call forth a better world. Will educators respond to this call to stand with students in relational solidarity as co-constructors of a new tomorrow? What is possible when teachers and students engage together in new ways? Pedagogies of With-ness: Students, Teachers, Voice and Agency offers insight into the transformative possibilities of education when enacted as the art of being with. Driven by student voices and their experiences of marginalization, this text takes a clear ethical stance. It asserts that students are both capable and competent. Taking a narrative approach, this book honors academic work that is rooted in educational practice. Expanding beyond traditional conceptions of student voice, chapters engage in meditations on three themes: identity, pedagogy, and partnership. This book is an exploration of with-ness, a way of knowing, being, and acting. By centralizing the all-too-often suppressed wisdom of youth, teachers and researchers engage in new forms of critique and possibility-making with students. Editors reflect on this central theme, exploring the dimensions of such pedagogies of with-ness. Through this book, teachers are invited to imagine pedagogy under this new framework, actively committed to students, their voice, and mutual engagement.

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  Widening the Circle

  Philip Novak

  Joanna Macy is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology whose decades of writing, teaching, and activism have inspired people around the world. In this collection of writings, leading spiritual teachers, deep ecologists, and diverse writers and activists explore the major facets of Macy’s lifework. Combined with eleven pieces from Macy herself, the result is a rich chorus of wisdom and compassion to support the work of our time.

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  Art Therapy with Older Adults: Connected and Empowered

  Erin Partridge

  This book outlines a framework for art therapy with older adults rooted in a belief in the autonomy and self-efficacy of older adults, including those with dementia or other diseases of later life.
  
  Advocating for a more collaborative approach to art-making, the author presents approaches and directives designed to facilitate community engagement, stimulate intellectual and emotional exploration, and promote a sense of individual and collective empowerment. Relevant to community, assisted living, skilled nursing and dementia-care environments, it includes detailed case studies and ideas for using art therapy to tackle stigma around stroke symptoms and dementia, encourage increased interactions between older adults in care homes, promote resilience, and much more.

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  "'A Slight Hysterical Tendency’: Performing Diagnosis in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper'"

  Vivian Delchamps

  In the beginning of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”(1892), the unnamed female protagonist writes disobediently in her journal: “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?” 1 Gilman famously wrote this semi-autobiographical short story to criticize her doctor, Silas Weir Mitchell. Mitchell diagnosed Gilman with hysteria and treated her with his famous “rest cure”—a treatment that kept women confined to their beds, restricting their bodily and mental freedoms. Gilman then wrote the “Yellow Wallpaper”, featuring a narrator who similarly was put on the rest cure. Insistent that she is ill—but with something more than a “slight hysterical tendency”, a diagnosis which she seems to find unsatisfactory—the narrator of Gilman’s story hints at a question that dominates her experience in the text.“What is one to do” with diagnosis, its consequences and its fallibility?

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  Expressive Therapies Continuum: A Framework for Using Art in Therapy [2nd Edition]

  Lisa Hinz

  Distinctive in its application as a foundational theory in the field of art therapy, this up-to-date second edition demonstrates how the Expressive Therapies Continuum provides a framework for the organization of assessment information, the formulation of treatment goals, and the planning of art therapy interventions.

  In addition to the newest research supporting the uses of art in therapy, this volume offers the latest research in media properties and material interaction, the role of neuroscience in art therapy, emotion regulation, and assessment with the Expressive Therapies Continuum. It provides case studies to enliven the information and offers practical suggestions for using art in many and varied therapeutic ways.

  Through rich clinical detail and numerous case examples, this book’s easy-to-use format and effectiveness in teaching history and application make it an essential reference for practitioners and students alike.

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