{"id":14735,"date":"2019-08-26T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=14735"},"modified":"2019-08-26T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T19:00:18","slug":"on-the-bookshelf-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2019\/08\/on-the-bookshelf-18\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Bookshelf"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"100 Things to Do in Colorado Springs Before You Die<\/h3>\n

By Kirsten Akens \u201996<\/strong><\/p>\n

The breathtaking views of Colorado Springs from the summit of Pikes Peak inspired Katharine Lee Bates\u2019 unforgettable anthem, \u201cAmerica the Beautiful.\u201d The city embodies some of the best that the West has to offer, and any visit to the region will be full of such inspiring vistas. To maximize your visit, this book offers insider tips for enjoying the outdoor adventures, restaurants, shopping, and entertainment in this stunning gem of a city. Author Kirsten Akens shares a local\u2019s insight from the perspective of both a longtime resident and a journalist with a skill for digging below the surface. Published by Reedy Press, 2019.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Mindful Elite<\/h3>\n

By Jaime Kucinskas \u201905<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mindful meditation is embraced in virtually all corners of society today, from K-12 schools to Fortune 100 companies. Its virtues, such as promoting health and well-being, reducing stress, and fostering attention, creativity, productivity, and emotional intelligence, are extolled by national and international media almost daily. In this book, Kucinskas, assistant professor of sociology at Hamilton College, shows how elite meditators transformed mindfulness from a marginal, countercultural practice in the 1950-70s, or a religious ritual for Asian immigrants, into a seemingly beneficial practice for everyone. However, as an unintended cost of their mainstream success, meditators\u2019 hopes to transform society and address larger social problems such as social inequality fell by the wayside. Published by Oxford University Press, 2019.<\/p>\n

\"\"Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability<\/h3>\n

By Genevieve Love, associate professor of English<\/p>\n

This book, Love\u2019s first, looks at the role of physically disabled characters in early modern English theatre. Through an examination of a range of plays, including Marlowe\u2019s \u201cDoctor Faustus\u201d and Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cRichard III,\u201d Love\u2019s book shows that early modern theatrical representation relied on representations of physical disability to navigate the \u201clikeness problems\u201d of theatre and examines the question \u201cWhat work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre?\u201d The work reveals how attention to physical disability enriches one\u2019s understanding of early modern ideas about how theatre works, while also illuminating how theatre offers a reframing of disability as metaphor. Published by The Arden Shakespeare, 2018.<\/p>\n

\"\"High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump<\/h3>\n

By Frank O. Bowman III \u201976<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the third time in 45 years, America is talking about impeaching a president, but the impeachment provisions of the American constitution are widely misunderstood. Bowman, a constitutional scholar and legal historian at the University of Missouri Law School, traces the roots of impeachment to medieval England, examines its adoption in the Constitution, and shows that the framers intended impeachment to be a flexible tool, adaptable to the needs of any age. The book combines historical and constitutional analysis of the impeachment clauses, a coherent theory of when impeachment should be used to protect constitutional order against presidential misconduct, and a comprehensive presentation of the case for and against impeachment of President Trump. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2019.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Writer\u2019s Style<\/h3>\n

By Paul Butler \u201979<\/strong><\/p>\n

Designed to help writers learn to use style as a rhetorical tool, taking into account audience, purpose, context, and occasion, this is not only a style guide for a new generation but a new generation of style guide. Butler encourages writing instructors to present style as a practical, accessible, and rhetorical tool, working with models that connect to a broad range of writing situations ranging from traditional texts such as essays to digital texts such as tweets, Facebook postings, YouTube videos, and others. Butler is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston whose recent scholarship focuses on the intersection of style, the public sphere, multimodal composition, and the digital humanities. Published by Utah State University Press, 2018.<\/p>\n

\"\"An Africana Philosophy of Temporality: Homo Liminalis<\/h3>\n

By Michael Sawyer, assistant professor of English<\/p>\n

Sawyer\u2019s first book is a timely study in the areas of philosophy, history, and literature. As an exploration of the modern political order and its racial genealogy, \u201cAn Africana Philosophy of Temporality: Homo Liminalis\u201d emerges when both scholars and activists are wrestling with how to understand subject formation from the perspective of the subordinated rather than from dominant social and philosophical modes of thought. For Sawyer, who also teaches in the Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies program and is the newly appointed chair of CC\u2019s Africana Intellectual Project, studying the formation of racialized subjects required a new imagining of marginalized subjectivity. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.<\/p>\n

\"\"Down in the White of the Tree: Spiritual Poems<\/h3>\n

By Tim J. Myers \u201975<\/strong><\/p>\n

The marriage of poetry and spirituality is an ancient one, and in this book of poetry, Myers works in that tradition. But his isn\u2019t conventional religious poetry, some of which, he believes, is either inadequate for genuine spiritual seeking or antithetical to it. One reviewer says Myers \u201cwrites of the sacred \u2014 not inside church halls looking through stained-glass windows, but with the cat in the alleyway, the bat sweeping through night, white trees, winter\u2019s slushy streets.\u201d A senior lecturer at Santa Clara University, Myers has 15 children\u2019s books out and won a first prize in a poetry contest judged by John Updike. This is his fourth adult poetry book; a fifth is at press. Published by Regal House Publishing, 2018.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Adulteration of Children\u2019s Sports<\/h3>\n

By Kristi Erdal, professor of psychology<\/p>\n

Subtitled \u201cWaning Health and Well-Being in the Age of Organized Play,\u201d Erdal\u2019s book contends that adult introduction of early competition, extrinsic rewards, early sport specialization, and year-round participation has thwarted children\u2019s intrinsic motivation and contributed to children\u2019s attrition from sport. The book looks at how adults\u2019 goals and needs are at the heart of the changes, and what the consequences are on children\u2019s enjoyment of sport and on their autonomy, creativity, and moral reasoning outside of sport. Erdal explores concerns about the future of sport itself, as adult-driven selection practices and expectations reduce the number of young athletes earlier in the participation process and on questionable criteria. The final chapters offer practical and scientifically valid suggestions for improvement. Published by Lexington Books, 2018.<\/p>\n

\"\"Moving Boarders: Skateboarding and the Changing Landscape of Urban Youth Sports<\/h3>\n

Co-authored by Matthew Atencio \u201997<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding now joins soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved activity for American children. With family skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, the book integrates first-person interviews and observations to provide a portrait of youth skateboarders, parents, and the social and market forces that drive them toward skate park spaces. Using an interdisciplinary lens, this treatise on youth sports also highlights how corporations, community leaders, and nonprofits have united to energize skate parks as platforms for community engagement and the creation of social and economic capital within urban neighborhoods. Published by the University of Arkansas Press, 2018.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Phenomenological Heart of Teaching and Learning<\/h3>\n

Co-authored by Brian Sohn \u201901 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Subtitled \u201cTheory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education,\u201d this book presents a carefully constructed framework for teaching and learning informed by philosophical and empirical phenomenology. It includes an extensive, multi-perspective case study focused around the lived experience of college-level teaching preparation, classroom interaction, and students\u2019 reflections. The case study provides a comprehensive portrait of an award-winning professor\u2019s phenomenological approach to teaching and learning which centered on the power of description as a pathway to transformative learning. The book also includes adaptations of a phenomenological approach by other instructors as models for applying the framework in various higher education settings. Published by Routledge, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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