Book Recommendations Celebrating faculty excellence: showcasing published works and scholarly contributions
Book Recommendations
Spring 2025
By Jill Stockton, Cheyenne Kelly, and Molly Beisler
Each year, 69老湿机福利 faculty publish scholarly and creative books across an impressive range of topics, often reflecting years-long undertakings and career-spanning research. The University Libraries’ Collections and Discovery unit is working to identify, acquire and make available books authored, edited, and translated by University faculty.
This initiative focuses on books published by current faculty members in 2017 or later. The Libraries selected this publishing window because identifying earlier faculty publications becomes more challenging over time, and older books are less likely to remain in print. So far, the collection includes nearly 600 titles. Since publishing practices vary widely by discipline and publisher, there is no simple way to learn what University authors are publishing. Creative works — such as musical compositions, fiction translations and poetry — are unlikely to be indexed in research databases, making them harder to discover. As a result, identifying new publications for the Faculty Author Book Collection remains an ongoing effort.
Fritzie: The Invented Life and Violent Murder of a Flapper
By Amy Absher ’98, ’02 MPH
One January day in 1923, a young boy came across the dead body of a twenty-year-old woman on a San Diego beach. When police arrived on the scene, they found the woman’s calling card, which read simply, “I am Fritzie Mann.” Yet Fritzie’s identity, as revealed in this compelling history, was anything but simple, and her death — eventually ruled a homicide — captured public attention for months. In Fritzie, historian Amy Absher reveals how broader cultural forces, including gendered violence, sexual liberation, and evolving urban conditions in the American West, shaped the course of Mann’s life and contributed to her tragic death.
Leadership with Impact: Preparing Health and Human Service Practitioners in the Age of Innovation and Diversity
By Juan Carlos Araque and Eugenia L. Weiss
Leadership with Impact offers new ways of thinking and approaching complex problems through a conceptual and practical leadership approach founded on innovation and diversity. The authors introduce the I.D.D.E.A. (Innovation, Design, Diversity, Execution, and Assessment) Leadership Framework, through which health and human service practitioners can easily design, implement, and evaluate innovative programs to help vulnerable populations and promote organizational and social change.
Introduction to Early Childhood Education Ninth Edition
By Melissa M. Burnham ’94, ’96 M.S.and Eva L. Essa ’71 M.S.
Introduction to Early Childhood Education, Ninth Edition, inspires learners to make a meaningful difference in young children’s and their families’ lives. This text provides current and future educators with a highly readable, comprehensive overview of the field, so students understand the many components of high-quality early childhood programs. At its core, the book emphasizes the vital role of professional early childhood educators in connecting with young children and creating programs that foster their learning and development.
Dementia Self-Management Guidebook
By Jennifer Carson
Jennifer Carson works to envision and develop opportunities for individual, organizational and collective growth to combat ageism and ableism, and to improve the inclusion and well-being of elders, with a special focus on persons living with dementia. Carson, a critical gerontologist, is the Founding Director of the Dementia Engagement, Education and Research (DEER) Program in the School of Public Health. She is a community-engaged researcher who spends much of her time working with tribal, rural and urban communities.
Progressive Relaxation Training: A Guide for Professionals, Students, and Researchers
By Holly Hazlett-Stevens and Douglas A. Bernstein
Two clinical psychologists widely known for their writings on relaxation present state-of-the-art methods for teaching clients to ease muscle and mind tension to deal with stress and anxiety disorders, as well as other conditions where stress and anxiety play a role. Bernstein and Hazlett-Stevens explain who the targets for Progressive Relaxation Training (PRT) are; the rationale, basic procedures, and variations of PRT; the setting and possible problems and solutions of PRT; and how to assess a client’s progress.
Global LGBTQ Activism: Social Media, Digital Technologies, and Protest Mechanisms
Edited By Paromita Pain
This edited collection focuses on under — standing and analyzing LGBTQ activism and protest globally, bringing together voices from around the world to examine LGBTQ protests and their impact. Through the lens of media, culture, and sociopolitical structures, this collection highlights how cultural and technical factors like the emergence of social media and other digital platforms have impacted LGBTQ activism. This book draws on studies from countries as varied as Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Hungary, Morocco, China, and the U.S.
A Danger Which We Do Not Know: A Philosophical Journey into Anxiety
Edited By David Rondel
This book tells a story about how philosophy and anxiety are tangled up with each other. Rondel explores how anxiety is one of the main human contexts in which the inclination to philosophize arises. The experience of anxiety sometimes prompts us to reflect and inquire, drawing us toward perennial philosophical questions about the nature of reality and knowledge, freedom and morality, the meaning of life and the prospect of death. Anxiety can give these questions fresh urgency, making them vivid and momentous in ways they otherwise might not be.
Impact/Impasse: Revaluing University Classroom Life
By Laura E. Smithers, Heidi Fischer and Faith A. Watrous
Impact/Impasse argues for the value of everyday life in college classrooms. Quantifiable categories such as high-impact practice, student engagement, and integrative learning have captured the imagination of a generation of higher education researchers, practitioners, administrators, and policy-makers. But they miss those mundane moments, or “impasses,” that resist capture by metrics while nevertheless shaping student outcomes. Impact/Impasse blends critical theories and ethnographic research — conducted before and during the COVID-19 pandemic — to argue that learning happens in ordinary moments.