Faculty Bookshelf

Description: Access to Academics shows language as vital to content access and thereby academic achievement. This book also provides step-by-step instructions to help students acquire the language they need to achieve academic success.

Description: A thought-provoking analysis of how race plays in the sports industry and critically re-examines the mythologies and social uplift narratives that dominate our culture.

Description: Winner of the National Communication Association, Ethnography Division, 2010 Book Award. Two Brazilian scholars explore the spaces “in-between”—between their experiences of identity, race, class, sexuality and the classroom—to decolonize the world of American scholarship and promote the use of research toward inclusive social justice.

Description: A vivid study of Mexican coffee farmers that paints a clear picture of the complex dynamics of the fair trade market and its relationship to the global economy. Winner of the 2008 C. Wright Mills Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Description: This book examines how Chinese-Tibetan relations changed from peaceful co-existence to intensifying confrontation around the turn of the 20th century. Foreign imperial pressures were seized upon by a regional power in the Qing Empire to impose direct control over eastern Tibet, producing important institutional change as well as ethnic resistance.

Description: An investigation of the process of information disclosure as a policy strategy for environmental protection and its effect on industry's environmental performance.

Description: Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and film. The intimacy of these collaborations or conversations between Bambara (1939–1995) and her interviewers provide an excellent and necessary resource for those interested in scholarly approaches to her fiction. The interviews present a woman who saw herself as “a teacher who writes, a social worker who writes, a youth worker who writes, a mother who writes.” Bambara viewed herself as a cultural worker for oppressed people whose job as an artist was making, in her words, “revolution irresistible.”

Description: This popular text "unpackages" the various dimensions of literacy – linguistic, cognitive, sociocultural and developmental, and provides a strong conceptual foundation upon which literacy curriculum and instruction in school settings can be grounded.

Description: Duoethnography is a collaborative research methodology in which two or more researchers juxtapose their life histories in order to provide multiple understandings of a social phenomenon in order to promote societal as well as personal change and praxis. In this volume, two dozen scholars present the first wave of duoethnographic writings on topics as diverse as gender, identity, and curriculum, with the editors framing key tenets of the methodology around the studies presented.

Description: The Hewlett's were the first medical anthropologists invited by the World Health Organization to help control Ebola outbreaks in Central Africa. This book is the first scholarly study to explain how local people viewed this deadly disease and how their indigenous knowledge systems helped to control the outbreaks.

Description: This collection examines father-child relationships in a diversity of human cultures and demonstrates how culture and biology interact in particular natural and social environments to shape the nature of this relationship. Euro-American father-child relations are found to be quite different from those in small-scale cultures.

Description: An effective blueprint for predicting, managing, and preventing the ill effects of workplace revenge. Entertaining and insightful, readers will find applications in their home lives as well as in their work lives.

Description: An essential guide for librarians implementing or expanding interlending services, offering practical advice and real-life examples of global resource sharing practices and procedures.

Description: A critical edition of the complete lyric works of 14th c. Savoyard knight-poet, Oton de Granson. In French.

Description: An examination of the unique transnational community created between San Ignacio Cerro Gordo, Jalisco, and Detroit, Michigan, that gives us an understanding of the historical processes of U.S. and Mexican immigration.

Description: An introduction to the C programming language, the programming process and using C to program a microcontroller in electromechanical systems.

Description: "No Room of her Own will take its place next to Liebow's Tell Them Who I Am as a definitive contemporary human document on the lives of homeless women." - Mitchell Duneier, Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

Description: Information and ideas for educators seeking to infuse the TESOL English language proficiency standards into curriculum, instruction and assessment that contributes to a cohesive and equitable educational system for all.

Description: A focus on teachers building collaborative support structures grounded in "the work teachers do" to reflect on and possibly change instructional practice. This seminal work will interest all who seek insight into teacher education, leadership and inquiry.

Description: A comprehensive textbook of challenges, issues, and strategies in program evaluation in national and international settings, with co-authors M. Bamberger and J. Rugh.

Description: A collection of documents from the French, British, Spanish and Portuguese empires that introduce the voices of slaves, slave-holders, jurists, legislators and others who shaped the legal understandings of slavery, freedom and citizenship in the dynamic transition into the modern nation-state era.

Description: A remarkable array of diverse American voices that include accounts of everything from slavery to protest movements, world wars to work and leisure, forming a detailed mosaic of American life in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Description: An analysis of the measurement of crime both historically and cross-nationally, examining the strengths and weaknesses of each data source, the fundamental issues surrounding their accuracy and the applications of these data in theoretical and policy research.

Description: A provocative analysis of the ways that intersecting agendas—prevention, civil rights, providing specialized care and celebrating disability culture—compete to make disability rights policy.

Description: This book helps practicing evaluators design and conduct competent evaluation studies, while explicitly considering resource and data constraints. The book is organized around a seven-step model developed by the authors, and which has been tested and refined in workshops that cater to a broad spectrum of evaluation practitioners. Vignettes from practice and case studies, representing evaluations from a variety of geographic regions and sectors, demonstrate adaptive possibilities for small projects with budgets of a few thousand dollars, or timelines as brief as a few days, to large-scale, long-term evaluations with multi-million-dollar budgets. The text is specifically designed to incorporate quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method designs.

Description: Using a thematic approach, World History: Journeys from Past to Present provides a dynamic framework for the study of the vast reaches of our common past, helping us to discover the connections between past and present from the earliest prehistory to the present age of globalization.