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\"Leadership<\/a>Leadership Matters:\u00a0Unleashing the Power of Paradox<\/b><\/h3>\n

<\/b>co-authored by Political Science Professor Tom Cronin<\/p>\n

Cronin\u2019s newest book is the recipient of the 2013 Outstanding Leadership Book Award. Unlike many books that emphasize specific rules and characteristics of leadership, this book takes a more nuanced view. The award committee praised it for its \u201cclear examples, cogent arguments, and careful critical analysis,\u201d saying that its accessible and provocative approach challenges practitioners and scholars to rethink prevailing theories.<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-1612051437. Published by Paradigm\u00a0Publishers, 2012.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a>Red Flower, White Flower<\/b><\/h3>\n

<\/b>by Jennifer Tseng \u201991<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>Tseng\u2019s poems are lyric interviews with communion and solitude, nativity and immigration, generation and regeneration. Like a tree that bears both red and white fruit, the two flowers are grafted; their meanings grow from one tangled source. \u201cRed Flower, White Flower\u201d is the winner of the 2012 Marick Press Poetry Prize; Tseng\u2019s \u201cThe Man With My Face\u201d won the 2005 Asian American Writers\u2019 Workshop\u2019s National Poetry Manuscript Competition and a 2006 PEN American Center Open Book Award.<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-1934851517. Marick Press, 2013.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>The Great Divide<\/b><\/h3>\n

<\/b>by Al \u201cDoc\u201d Mehl \u201977<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>Classmates know him as \u201cAl,\u201d but on the western entertainment circuit, folks just call him \u201cDoc.\u201d\u00a0With one foot in the past and one in the present, Al \u201cDoc\u201d Mehl (who is an M.D., by the way) weaves the history and mystery of the West into his original cowboy poetry and music. \u00a0\u201cListening to Doc is like having Lyle Lovett in one ear … and Tommy Smothers in the other,\u201d says songwriter Jon Chandler. \u201cThe Great Divide,\u201d his latest recording, was recognized as the 2013 Cowboy Poetry CD of the Year by both the Western Music Association and the Academy of Western Artists. This is Mehl\u2019s second CD of original poetry; he also has two CDs of original contemporary western music.<\/p>\n

ASIN: B00B94VQ2M. Label: CD Baby.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Deep<\/a>Deep Green Yoga<\/b><\/h3>\n

<\/b>by Elaine Ivaldi Pierce \u201968<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>A 45-year student of yoga, Pierce\u2019s practice for the past\u00a030 years has been devoted to the study of how geometric patterns that organize the universe apply to human posture. The book explores seven geometric patterns that unfurl through the natural world and the thousands of positions known as yoga poses. Pierce\u2019s book broadens the definition of yoga as \u201cunion\u201d as it strengthens connections not only within one\u2019s body, but also with the natural world.<\/p>\n

ASIN: B00KSNVI50. Amazon Digital Services Inc.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>The King of Sports<\/b><\/h3>\n

<\/b>by Gregg Easterbrook \u201976<\/b><\/p>\n

This book by the author of the popular ESPN.com column \u201cTuesday Morning Quarterback\u201d tells the story of how football became so deeply ingrained in American culture. Both good and bad, Easterbrook examines football\u2019s impact on American society at all levels of the game and shows how one big university, Virginia Tech, \u201cdoes football right.\u201d Then he reports on what\u2019s wrong with football at the youth, high school, college, and professional levels.<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-1250011718. Published by Thomas Dunne Books, 2013.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Armor<\/a>Armor and Blood<\/b><\/h3>\n

<\/b>by History Professor Dennis E. Showalter<\/p>\n

Showalter offers the definitive account of the Battle of Kursk, regarded as the largest tank battle in history, and, according to some historians, the greatest land battle in history. The 1943 clash of machines and men matched the indomitable will of the Soviet Red Army against the might of the Nazi Wehrmacht. Be prepared for a wild and riotous ride over the steppes of Russia, with Showalter, one of America\u2019s most distinguished military historians, as your guide.<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-1400066773. Published by Random\u00a0House, 2013.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"American<\/a>American Indians and\u00a0the American Imaginary<\/b><\/h3>\n

<\/b>by Pauline Turner Strong \u201975<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican Indians and the American Imaginary\u201d explores the power of representations of Native Americans in American public culture. The book\u2019s wide-ranging case studies move from colonial captivity narratives to modern film, from the campfire to the sports arena, from legal and scholarly texts to tribe-controlled museums and cultural centers. Strong is the director of the Humanities Institute and associate professor of anthropology and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-1612050485. Published by Paradigm Publishers, 2013.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>My Children\u2019s Children: Raising Young Citizens in the Age of Columbine<\/b><\/h3>\n

by Robert Saul \u201972<\/b><\/p>\n

Initially started as a series of op-ed articles for a newspaper, this work by Saul evolved into a parental guide for raising children to be good citizens. Saul, the medical director of\u00a0general pediatrics, senior medical director of Medicaid\u00a0practices, and clinical professor of pediatrics at the\u00a0Children\u2019s Hospital of Greenville Health System and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, believes\u00a0that good citizens care for one another and their\u00a0community \u2014 the hallmark of a democratic society.<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-1493502363. Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.<\/i>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Jesus<\/a>Jesus Loves You but Not Today<\/b><\/h3>\n

<\/b>by Miles White \u201992<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>Designed as the first volume in the\u00a0Canvas Sextet\u00a0series of contemporary literary fiction, the book is comprised of stories that are comic, tragic, and often hilarious. The stories are told with only as many words as can fit on a single standard blank page in Word, single-spaced, using 12-point Times Roman font. The result is stories that are provocative and unsettling, dramatic narrative condensed down to an essence.<\/p>\n

ASIN: B00I5RLVJE. Published by Bad Whiskey Press, 2014.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Peregrine<\/a>Peregrine Falcons of the World<\/b><\/h3>\n

<\/b>co-authored by Emeritus Biology Professor James Enderson<\/p>\n

Drawing on a lifetime of friendship and the expertise of the\u00a0authors, this book examines how peregrines have adjusted,\u00a0since the Pleistocene, to many of the Earth\u2019s most demanding climates. The authors base their work on the primary literature\u00a0of scientific information and unpublished reports, as well as\u00a0a global network of friends and colleagues. They depended\u00a0on the experiences of nearly a score of decades, collectively,\u00a0of work at eyries, and trapping peregrines on their migrations\u00a0and non-breeding grounds with students.<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-8496553927. Published by Lynx Edicions, 2013.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>The Creative Conversation:\u00a0ArtMaking as Playful Prayer <\/b><\/h3>\n

<\/b>by Bridget Benton \u201992<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>Artist and creativity guide Benton approaches creativity as a form of spiritual practice that anyone, regardless of religious background or prior art experience, can enjoy.\u00a0 \u201cThe Creative Conversation,\u201d her first book, has received the gold medal in the national Nautilus Book Awards\u2019 creative process category and a silver medal in the personal growth\/self help category. The Nautilus Awards are given for books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living, and social change.<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-0984456802. Published by Eyes Aflame\u00a0Publishing, 2011.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>The New Brand Spirit: How Communicating Sustainability Builds Brands, Reputations and Profits<\/b><\/h3>\n

<\/b>by Marjorie Ellis Thompson \u201978<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>Effective sustainability communication can deliver business value. Get it wrong, however, and the reputational damage can be costly. Stakeholders, the general public, and activists are unforgiving of companies whose products, services, business practices, or culture fall short of their socially responsible rhetoric. Based on nearly 100 in-depth interviews with leading experts, the book helps corporate communications and marketing professionals tackle this conundrum by providing a first-hand view of eight distinct and relevant stakeholder perspectives.<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-0566092442. Published by Gower\u00a0Publishing Co., 2013.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Ban<\/a>Ban the Booze<\/b><\/h3>\n

<\/b>co-authored by Betty Alt \u201960<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>The subtitle says it all: \u201cProhibition in the Rockies.\u201d Alt, in her ninth book with co-author Sandra K. Wells, takes a look at the 18 years of Prohibition in Colorado. They cover the purpose, problems, and people involved in the \u201cnoble experiment and fascinating \u2014 and sometimes amusing \u2014 stories of making and distributing bootleg booze.\u201d Numerous photos from the Library of Congress lend the book a sense of time and place.<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-1457521676. Dog Ear Publishing, 2013.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Love<\/a>Love You More Than Anything<\/b><\/h3>\n

<\/b>by Anna Harber Freeman \u201995<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>Freeman\u2019s book, featuring two chipmunk parents, is part of\u00a0the Snuggle Time Stories series. The chipmunks spend a day\u00a0with their children, enjoying nature, a picnic lunch, flying kites, and chocolate cake. Love is expressed with hugs and laughter; even the bedtime routine is fun with this mom and dad. The double-page illustrations are playful and energetic, just like the colorful text.<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-1454900214. Published by Sterling Children\u2019s Books, 2014.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Beyond<\/a>Beyond Post-Traumatic Stress: Homefront Struggles with the Wars on Terror<\/b><\/h3>\n

<\/b>co-authored by Anthropology Professor Sarah Hautzinger<\/p>\n

Hautzinger and co-author Jean Scandlyn tell a tale of two cultures, tracing the contours of what some call the military-civilian cultural gap. They call for expanded efforts to confront war\u2019s costs for combat veterans and their communities, arguing for a new approach to combat stress and trauma, seeing them not just as individual medical pathologies but as fundamentally collective cultural phenomena.<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-1611323665. Published by Left Coast\u00a0Press, 2013.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>A Change in Worlds on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Politics, Economies, and Environments in Northern Sichuan<\/b><\/h3>\n

<\/b>by\u00a0Jack Patrick Hayes \u201996<\/b><\/p>\n

Hayes, who teaches at\u00a0Kwantlen University and works for the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia, offers an incisive and detailed account of the socio-environmental transformation of the borderland region of Songpan from the Qing dynasty to the present. He addresses cutting-edge issues in the understanding of China\u2019s history, notably the processes of human-induced environmental change, and the ways in which environment and ethnicity in late imperial and modern China inform each other.<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-0739173800. Published by Lexington\u00a0Books, 2013.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\n
\"Emily<\/a>

Emily Chan, associate professor of psychology and associate dean of academic programs and strategic initiatives<\/p><\/div>\n

We asked Professor Emily Chan \u201cWhat\u2019s On Your Reading List?<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an older book, but it has relevance to the free press, an important current topic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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