Celebration!

On Thursday, May 2, we gathered in the Hodges Reading Room of Jackson Library to celebrate the many faculty authors whose books the University Libraries acquired over the past year. If you published a book recently, please let us know!  We will be happy to include it in next year's celebration.

Books Written, Edited, or Translated by UNCG Faculty Acquired by the University Libraries in 2012/13

African American Studies

Tara Green, Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature

Art  

 Elizabeth Perrill,  Zulu Potter

Classical Studies    

Susan Shelmerdine, Introduction to Latin

Jeffrey Soles, Mochlos IIC, Period IV: The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery, The Human    

Communication Sciences and Disorders    

Alan G. Kamhi, Language and Reading Disabilities, 3rd Edition

Communication Studies   

 Spoma Jovanovic, Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action: Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro 

Loreen Olson, The Dark Side of Family Communications

Counseling & Educational Development    

Todd Lewis, Substance Abuse and Addiction Treatment, Practical Application of Counseling Theory 

Christine Murray, Responding to Family Violence: A Comprehensive Research-Based Guide for Therapists

Economics    

Albert N. Link, Public Investments in Energy Technology
Albert N. Link, Technology Transfer in a Global Economy

Educational Leadership & Cultural Foundations    

Carol Mullen, From Student to Professor: Translating a Graduate Degree into a Career in Academia

Carol Mullen, Educational Leadership at 2050: Conjectures, Challenges and Promises

English    

Ben Clarke, Understanding Richard Hoggart
 Michelle Dowd, Early Modern Women on the Fall, An Anthology 

Christopher Hodgkins, The Digital Temple: A Documentary Edition of George Herbert's English Verse   
 Holly Goddard Jones, The Next Time You See Me

Craig Nova, The Constant Heart
Mark Rifkin, The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination 

  Kelly Ritter, Exploring Composition Studies: Sites, Issues and Perspectives 

 Health and Human Sciences  

  Paige Hall Smith, Beyond Health, Beyond Choice: Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities

History   

 James Anderson, The Tongking Gulf Through History
Cheryl Logan , Hormones, Heredity, and Race: Spectacular Failure in Interwar Vienna
Linda M. Rupert, Creolization and Contraband: Curacao in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Stephen Ruzicka, Trouble in the West: Egypt and the Persian Empire 525-332 BCE
Loren Schweninger, Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, & the Law

Human Development & Family Studies    

Karen M. LaParo, Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) Manual: Toddler
Mark Fine, Handbook of Family Theories

Human Resource Services 

 Edna Chun, Creating a Tipping Point: Strategic Human Resources in Higher Education

Information Systems and Supply Chain Management    

Hamid Nemati,  Privacy Solutions and Security Frameworks in Information Protection

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures    

Laura Chesak, Critical Essays on Colombian Cinema and Culture: Cinembargo Colombia
Arndt Niebisch , Media Parasites in the Early Avant-Garde: On the Abuse of Technology and Communication
Susanne Rinner, The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination: Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent
Mark Smith-Soto, Berkeley Prelude

Library & Information Studies  

Sandra Andrews, The Power of Data: An Introduction to Using Local, State, and National Data to Support School Library Programs

Media Studies    

Geoffrey Baym, News Parody and Political Satire Across the Globe

Music     

Guy Capuzzo, Elliott Carter's 'What Next?': Communication, Cooperation, and SeparationHeal

Political Science    

Fabrice Lehoucq, The Politics of Modern Central America: Civil War, Democratization, and Underdevelopment
Jerry Pubantz, Is There a Global Right to Democracy?

Public Health Education  

  William Myles Evans, Virgin Snow: A Book of Poetry
Mike Perko, Sheldon's Adventure
Mike Perko, Sheldon's Adventure: Cornered!

Religious Studies    

Ellen Haskell, Suckling at My Mother's Breasts: The Image of a Nursing God in Jewish Mysticism

Sociology   

 Saundra Westervelt, Life after Death Row: Exonerees' Search for Community and Identity

Specialized Education Services  

  Joseph Hill, The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure
Joseph Hill, Language Attitudes in the American Deaf Community 

Teacher Education & Higher Education  

  Barbara Levin, Evidence-Based Strategies for Leading 21st Century Schools
Barbara Levin, Leading Technology-Rich Schools: Award-Winning Models for Success
  Dale H. Schunk, Motivation in Education: Theory, Research, and Applications
 Dale Schunk, Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective  
Edna Tan, Empowering Science and Mathematics Education in Urban Schools

Women's and Gender Studies  

  Danielle Bouchard, A Community of Disagreement: Feminism in the University

Empowering Science and Mathematics Education in Urban Schools

Professor Edna Tan (Teacher Education and Higher Education) recently received the Division B Outstanding Book Award for 2012 from the American Educational Research Association for her book, Empowering Science and Mathematics Education in Urban Schools. 


The University of Chicago Press provides the following abstract:

"Math and science hold powerful places in contemporary society, setting the foundations for entry into some of the most robust and highest-paying industries. However, effective math and science education is not equally available to all students, with some of the poorest students—those who would benefit most—going egregiously underserved. This ongoing problem with education highlights one of the core causes of the widening class gap. While this educational inequality can be attributed to a number of economic and political causes, this book demonstrates that it is augmented by a consistent failure to integrate student history, culture, and social needs into the core curriculum. The chapters argue that teachers and schools should create hybrid third spaces—neither classroom nor home—in which underserved students can merge their personal worlds with those of math and science. A host of examples buttress this argument: schools where these spaces have been instituted now provide students with not only an immediate motivation to engage the subjects most critical to their future livelihoods but also the broader math and science literacy necessary for robust societal engagement. The book pushes beyond the idea of teaching for social justice and into larger questions of how and why students participate in math and science."
 

The Politics of Modern Central America

Dr. Fabrice Lehoucq (Political Science) is the author of The Politics of Modern Central America:  Civil War, Democratization, and Underdevelopment (Cambridge University Press, 2012). The book provides an analysis of both the origins and outcomes of civil war in Central America, including social, economic, and political upheavals and even failures. It seeks to use examples from the events in this region to enable a broader understanding of political change and civil war. One reviewer called it “a well-executed book of impressive theoretical scope and richness.” Another declared, “If I were to recommend one book on modern Central America to my students, it would be this one.' Clearly it is a valuable addition to scholarship on this often volatile area.

Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action: Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro

November 3, 1979. The Greensboro Massacre. The Klan-Nazi shootings.  Whatever you want to call that day, it is a day of infamy in this city’s history. Dr. Spoma Jovanovic (Communication Studies) is the author of Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action: Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro, published in November 2012 by the University of Arkansas Press. The book follows the trail that led from the horror of 1979 to the formation of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2004 to the commission’s final report in 2006—and beyond.

Dr. Jovanovic worked with community members to document the work of the TRC as it tried to discover and explain what happened on that day and what resulted. Why were no police present? Why were the gunmen never convicted? The Greensboro TRC was the first in the United States to undertake this sort of examination and this book testifies to its importance. As one reviewer said, “A practical look at the messy, conflicting, and difficult work, the book explores how such work can foster greater participation in local, even national, democracy.”

Berkeley Prelude: A Lyrical Memoir, 1970-1975

Berkeley Prelude: A Lyrical Memoir, 1970-1975 is the latest book of poetry by Dr. Mark Smith-Soto (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures). In it, there are two narrators and the poet himself plays both parts. One is Mark Smith-Soto as he was in California in the 1970s; the other resides in the present. Each poem has two parts; in the first, he speaks of himself in the third person and in the second, in the first person.  As one critic observed, “By making his earlier self be a he instead of an I, Smith-Soto is simultaneously creating psychological accuracy and opening up questions about the contiguity of the self.” Another  wrote, “In the end, Berkeley Prelude cautions that when you look back, the face you don’t recognize might be your own.”

The book was published by Unicorn Press in Greensboro in two separate editions. Unicorn describes the editions as follows:  “The author signed 26 hardbound copies, lettered A through Z. An additional 50 hardbound copies and 225 bound in paper were produced by Unicorn Press.” It seems fitting that even the physical properties of the poems should represent yet another duality.

Leading Technology-Rich Schools

In December, 2012, Guilford County Schools received a $30 million grant for technology in the classroom.  In this context, Professor Barbara Levin's (Teacher Education and Higher Education) new book, Leading Technology-Rich Schools, is especially timely.  Through eight case studies, the book, as the publisher describes, "shows how award-winning secondary schools and districts are successfully using technology and making systemic changes to increase student engagement, improve achievement, and re-invigorate the teaching and learning process. Through in-depth case studies, we see how experienced school and district leaders use technology in curricular, administrative, and analytical ways to meet the needs of 21st-century learners, educators, and communities. These cases reveal important details addressed by the leadership of these schools and districts that go beyond what they did with technology to include changes in school culture, curriculum and teaching, uses of assessment data, financial considerations, infrastructure, and involvement with the community."

One reviewer notes that "These rich illustrations of technology leadership in secondary schools show how a number of complex variables must come together to produce the key outcome of positioning educational technology as a support to teaching and learning. Examples of leadership practices that coordinate team members for interdependent work and invite teachers' involvement should prove to be a valuable resource to practitioners and also provide insight to policymakers for how they can create supportive conditions for such work.”

Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature

Dr. Tara Green , Director of UNCG's African American Studies Program, is the editor of the recently published Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Oprah Winfrey is perhaps most closely linked with her television shows and OWN, her television network, but she has appeared in such films as The Color Purple and Beloved and she was one of the producers of Precious. As its title suggests, the book explores Winfrey’s interest in and connection to both film and literature. One reviewer noted that it “speaks to the
complexities of Oprah Winfrey’s role in shaping racial and cultural literacy—on and off the page.” “Oprah” is certainly a household name; these essays reveal the far-reaching breadth of her influence.

The University Libraries own both a print and e-version of the book.

For more information about Green and Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature, see UNCG's news story.