3rd Annual Celebration of Drexel Authors
By Frank Otto
For the third year, the books that Drexel faculty and staff wrote or edited in 2014 were highlighted in an event hosted by the Office of the Provost and Drexel Libraries.
A total of 57 members of Drexel faculty and staff were honored at “Celebrating Drexel Authors” March 11 in Gerri C. Lebow Hall. The authors and editors spanned 13 different colleges and one administrative department at Drexel.
The works honored ranged from a book exploring how the prominence of aluminum changed the 20th century, to a photo book with snaps from Easter Island, to one author’s autobiography on the Nazi occupation of the Greek Aegan isles.
Here’s a comprehensive list of who was honored and what their works were:
- 2014 BOOK AUTHORS
CENTER FOR HOSPITALITY AND SPORTS MANAGEMENT
- Jonathan Deutsch, PhD, Director, Center for Hospitality and Sport Management; Professor, Culinary Arts & Food Science
Barbecue: A Global History
If there is one thing the United States takes seriously (outside of sports), it’s barbecue. But the US didn’t invent the cooking form, nor do Americans have a monopoly on it—from Mongolian lamb to Fijian pig and Chinese char siu, barbecue’s endless variations have circled the globe. In this history of this red-blooded pursuit, the authors explore the first barbecues of ancient Africa, the Arawak origins of the word, and define what it actually is.
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
- Anthony W. Addison, PhD, Professor, Chemistry
Chemistry of Metalloproteins: Problems and Solutions in Bioinorganic Chemistry
This book addresses the full gamut of questions in metalloprotein science. Formatted as a question-and-answer guide, it examines all major families of metal binding proteins, presenting our most current understanding of their structural, physicochemical, and functional properties. Moreover, it introduces new and emerging medical applications of metalloproteins. Readers will discover both the underlying chemistry and biology of this important area of research in bioinorganic chemistry.
- David DeMatteo, JD, PhD, Director of JD/PhD Program; Associate Professor, Psychology; Associate Professor, Kline School of Law
Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Casebook
The Second Edition of Forensic Mental Health Assessment is thoroughly updated in light of the developments and changes in the field, while still keeping the unique structure of presenting cases, detailed reports, and specific teaching points on a wide range of topics. It provides genuine case material, so trainees as well as legal and mental health professionals can review how high-quality forensic evaluation reports are written; it features contributions from leading experts in forensic psychology and psychiatry, providing samples of work in their particular areas of specialization; and it discusses case material in the larger context of broad foundational principles and specific teaching points, making it a valuable resource for teaching, training, and continuing education.
- Naomi Goldstein, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology; Co-Director, JD/PhD Program in Law and Psychology; Stoneleigh Foundation Fellow
Miranda Rights Comprehension Instruments: Manual for Use with Juveniles and Adults
Like Grisso’s Instruments for Assessing Understanding and Appreciation of Miranda Rights (IAU), the MRCI is designed for use by forensic mental health practitioners who have been asked to evaluate defendants’ capacities to have waived their Miranda rights during police interrogations. These instruments provide multi-method approaches to assessing a person’s current understanding of the Miranda warnings and appreciation of the significance of the adversarial nature of interrogation, right to silence, and right to counsel. This can assist the examiner in making inferences about the person’s abilities at the time of the interrogation.
- Kirk Heilbrun, PhD, Interim Department Head and Professor, Psychology
Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Casebook
The Second Edition of Forensic Mental Health Assessment is thoroughly updated in light of the developments and changes in the field, while still keeping the unique structure of presenting cases, detailed reports, and specific teaching points on a wide range of topics. It provides genuine case material, so trainees as well as legal and mental health professionals can review how high-quality forensic evaluation reports are written; it features contributions from leading experts in forensic psychology and psychiatry, providing samples of work in their particular areas of specialization; and it discusses case material in the larger context of broad foundational principles and specific teaching points, making it a valuable resource for teaching, training, and continuing education.
Wrightsman’s Psychology and the Legal System
Wrightman’s Psychology and the Legal System shows you the critical importance of psychology’s concepts and methods to the functioning of many aspects of today’s legal system. Featuring topics such as competence to stand trial, the insanity defense, expert forensic testimony, analysis of eye witness identification, criminal profiling, and many others, this best-selling book gives you a comprehensive overview of psychology’s contributions to the legal system, and the many roles available to trained psychologists within the system.
- Kirsten Kaschock, PhD, Assistant Teaching Professor of English, English and Philosophy
The Dottery
The Dottery is a tale of dotters before they are born. In this series of prose poems you meet their would-be-mutters, the buoys they will know, their inner warden, and the mutterers who cannot have them.
- Daniel Mirman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Growth Curve Analysis and Visualization Using R
An increasingly prominent statistical tool in the behavioral sciences, multilevel regression offers a statistical framework for analyzing longitudinal or time course data. It also provides a way to quantify and analyze individual differences, such as developmental and neuropsychological, in the context of a model of the overall group effects. To harness the practical aspects of this useful tool, behavioral science researchers need a concise, accessible resource that explains how to implement these analysis methods. Growth Curve Analysis and Visualization Using R provides a practical, easy-to-understand guide to carrying out multilevel regression/growth curve analysis (GCA) of time course or longitudinal data in the behavioral sciences, particularly cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and psychology.
- Christine Maguth Nezu, PhD, ABPP, Professor of Psychology; Professor of Medicine
Specialty Competencies in Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology
Devoted to providing readers with a state of the art guide to the competencies required for the specialty practice of cognitive and behavioral psychology, Specialty Competencies in Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology describes and defines the foundational and functional competencies that guide best practices in this specialty. This book is one of 14 in the series co-edited by Drs. Nezu entitled Oxford Series in Specialty Competencies in Professional Psychology.
- Arthur Nezu, PhD, DHL, ABPP, Distinguished University Professor of Psychology; Professor of Medicine; Professor of Community Health & Prevention
Specialty Competencies in Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology
Devoted to providing readers with a state of the art guide to the competencies required for the specialty practice of cognitive and behavioral psychology, Specialty Competencies in Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology describes and defines the foundational and functional competencies that guide best practices in this specialty. This book is one of 14 in the series co-edited by Drs. Nezu entitled Oxford Series in Specialty Competencies in Professional Psychology.
- Marilyn Gaye Piety, PhD, Associate Professor of Philosophy, English and Philosophy
Sequins and Scandals: Reflections on Figure Skating, Culture, and the Philosophy of Sport
Is figure skating sport or art? Is the judging corrupt? Why has figure skating’s popularity gone into a death spiral? These beautiful essays address these questions and more. Informed by the author’s training in philosophy and her familiarity with the work of noted dance critics, this book will help you glide effortlessly to a deeper understanding of the mysterious world of figure skating. M.G. Piety has written an important social critique in the form of a series of vibrant essays about her chosen sport.
- Donald Riggs, PhD, Teaching Professor, English & Philosophy
Bilateral Symmetry
Paintings, boy scouts, temporary cats, different kinds of nakedness, house flies, tarot readings and memories of the poet’s father are a few of the dozens of subjects that motivate the emotionally-complex poems in Bilateral Asymmetry.
- Mimi Sheller, PhD, Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy; Professor of Sociology
Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity
Aluminum shaped modern technologies, practices, and cultures of speed and mobility that became definitive of twentieth century modernity. In Aluminum Dreams, Mimi Sheller addresses two faces of aluminum: the ethereal lightness of modernity’s dreams and designs, and the heavy burdens of industrialization, militarization, and environmental despoliation in places like Jamaica, Suriname, Guinea, Orissa, and the remote fringes of Iceland. Aluminum dreams played a crucial part in creating our contemporary infrastructures of mobility and communication, but also underwrote a military-industrial worldview that privileges speed, lightness, and motion.
- Justin R. Smith, PhD, Professor, Mathematics
Introduction to Algebraic Geometry
This book is intended for self-study or as a textbook for graduate students or advanced undergraduates. It presupposes some basic knowledge of point-set topology and a solid foundation in linear algebra. Otherwise, it develops all of the commutative algebra, sheaf-theory and cohomology needed to understand the material. It also presents applications to robotics and other fields.
- Kathryn Steen, PhD, Associate Professor of History, History and Politics
The American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry: War and Politics, 1910-1930
Prior to 1914, Germany dominated the worldwide production of synthetic organic dyes and pharmaceuticals like aspirin. When World War I disrupted the supply of German chemicals to the United States, American entrepreneurs responded to the shortages and high prices by trying to manufacture chemicals domestically. Learning the complex science and industry, however, posed a serious challenge. This book explains how the United States built a synthetic organic chemicals industry in World War I and the 1920s. Steen argues that Americans’ intense anti-German sentiment in World War I helped to forge a concentrated effort among firms, the federal government, and universities to make the United States independent of “foreign chemicals.”
- Rachel Wenrick, Associate Teaching Professor, English and Philosophy
Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music
In Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music, Grammy Award-winning singer Angélique Kidjo reveals the details of her dangerous escape into France, and how she rose from poverty to become a Grammy Award–winning artist and an international sensation at the top of Billboard’s World Albums chart. She also explains why it’s important to give back by sharing stories from her work as a UNICEF ambassador and as founder of the Batonga Foundation, which gives African girls access to education. Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music was written by Anquelique Kidjo and Rachel Wenrick.
COLLEGE OF COMPUTING & INFORMATICS
- Chaomei Chen, PhD, Professor, Informatics
The Fitness of Information: Quantitative Assessments of Critical Evidence
Organized for readers to follow along easily, The Fitness of Information: Quantitative Assessments of Critical Evidence provides a structured outline of the key challenges in assessing crucial information in a complex adaptive system. Illustrating a variety of computational and explanatory challenges, the book demonstrates principles and practical implications of exploring and assessing the fitness of information in an extensible framework of adaptive landscapes.
- Jeff Salvage, Associate Teaching Professor, Computing
When it Clicks: Photobook
This photo book highlights over 50 of the best photographs from the journey of Jennifer and Jeff Salvage and their wedding on the remote Easter Island. This sparked an idea to document their almost 200,000 miles of travel across 23 countries through photographs of Jennifer in her wedding gown.
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
- Abi O. Aghayere, PhD, PEng, Professor, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Structural Steel Design: A Practice-Oriented Approach
Structural Steel Design: A Practice-Oriented Approach bridges the gap between theory and practice, helping readers learn the basics of steel design and how to practically apply that learning to actual steel-framed building projects.
Reinforced Concrete Design
Reinforced Concrete Design Eighth Edition integrates current research and literature to give readers a modern understanding of the strength and behavior of reinforced concrete members and simple reinforced concrete structural systems. It takes a fundamental, non-calculus, practice-oriented approach to the design and analysis of reinforced concrete structural members, using numerous examples and a step-by-step solution format.
- Charles Cook, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Construction Management
Successful Contract Administration: For Constructors and Design Professionals
The success of every construction project begins with reading and understanding the contract. Contract Administrators and Project Managers for all parties in the construction process must realize the major impact their actions have on cost, schedule, and quality in relation to the contract terms and conditions. Written in a clear and accessible way from a Constructor’s perspective, Successful Contract Administration guides the student through the critical issues of understanding contract law and obligations for effective project execution.
- Charles N. Haas, PhD, L.D. Betz Chair Professor of Environmental Engineering; Head, Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering
Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment
This text provides the latest QMRA methodologies to determine the risk and cause of infection – either by accidental microbial infections or deliberate infections caused by terrorism. It reviews the methodologies to quantify at every step of the microbial exposure pathways, provides techniques on how to gather information, on how each microorganism moves through the environment, explains how QMRA can be used as a tool to measure the impact of interventions and identify the best policies and practices to protect public health and safety.
- Harry G. Harris, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering
Sklavia-Tholopotami, An Idyllic Part of Chios - Its History and People-My Childhood Memories
Harris’s autobiographical sketch describes a beautiful region of the Greek Aegean Island of Chios. Born in Sklavia, the author brings first-hand knowledge to the narrative, which documents the period immediately before and during WWII. One of the darkest periods of Chios’ history is covered, the German occupation during WWII, documenting the hardship and deprivation to his people.
- Qudus Hamid, PhD, Adjunct, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Additive Fabrication of Cell-laden Microfluidic Devices
This book presents advances in additive manufacturing techniques, the utilization of plasma chemistry to enhance surface functionalization, and manipulation of photo-polymerization to investigate new approaches to assemble cell-laden microfluidics.
- Richard Sievert, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Construction Management
Value Management: A Step-by-Step Plan to Do More with Less.
Proper application of the value management method leads to benefits and value-adding improvements such as teamwork, creativity, waste elimination, differentiation, well-designed products and services, which ultimately saves money and sharpens your competitive edge. Value Management shares the principles and techniques of value analysis along with the objectives of this activity and management’s responsibilities. Sample charts, diagrams, and worksheets give you the tools and guidelines you need to help identify and resolve value problems in your own organization.
- Walt Sobkiw, Adjunct Faculty, Systems Engineering
Systems Engineering Design Renaissance
There is systems thinking, process, analysis and management, but how does one actually perform systems design? This text introduces the reader to the design of sustainable complex systems. Specific topics include needs analysis, conceptual physical and implementation architectures, technology, quality, fundamentals of great system designs, selecting system designs, system and design requirements, system element designs, system design verification and validation, sustainability design, and more.
Systems Practices as Common Sense
On July 16, 1945 the first nuclear bomb was detonated at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. The Trinity nuclear test forever changed the world. There were massive developments that arose from this huge event like Interstate Freeways and the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE). Additionally Systems Engineering emerged. It was matured and honed to such a level that many in the field started to view it as common sense. Unfortunately what might be considered common sense or just training from one perspective might be viewed as significant knowledge and education from another perspective. This knowledge was captured in the complex collection of for profit companies, non-profit companies, think tanks, and national labs. Now we are faced with the dilemma that many of these institutions have disappeared and many of the practitioners have died. This book is an attempt to capture some of this knowledge and pass it to the next generation.
- Victor Sohmen, Associate Clinical Professor, Project Management Program
Transcultural Project Leadership: A Model for International Project Success
Projects are temporary organizations and a lack of effective project leadership has been cited as a major cause of costly project failure, overriding most organizational factors. In the rapidly globalizing 21st century, the challenge of project leadership is compounded further by cross-cultural factors as projects around the world are being increasingly peppered with multi-ethnic participants. This novel global research of successful international project managers, program managers, consultants, and team members examines the confluence of organizational leadership, cross-cultural management, project management, and team dynamics to identify behavioral patterns likely to result in effective transcultural project leadership.
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
- Theodore Fallon Jr, MD, MPH, FAACAP, Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry; Adjunct Professor, Family, Community and Preventative Medicine
Disordered Thought and Development: Chaos to Organization in the Moment
There is a moment at every level of psychological development in which the mind comes face to face with a challenge. This moment can last for a literal moment in time or it can extend for years—becoming the leading edge of development. Disordered Thought and Development: Chaos to Organization in the Moment explores the processes around that moment. The exploration begins with a psychotic analysis and in which these processes loudly reveal themselves. From there, the exploration extends to a young child with pervasive developmental disorder and then on to four other cases, each revealing the elements and dynamics necessary for development to proceed.
- Denise R. Ferrier, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Lippincott Illustrated Reviews Flash Cards: Biochemistry
Based on the best-selling Lippincott Illustrated Reviews series, Lippincott Illustrated Reviews Flash Cards: Biochemistry helps you review, assimilate, and integrate essentials of complex subject matter. Developed for fast content absorption, these 200 high-yield cards support course learning and board exam preparation.
- Bradford Jameson, PhD, Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Lippincott Illustrated Reviews Flash Cards: Biochemistry
Based on the best-selling Lippincott Illustrated Reviews series, Lippincott Illustrated Reviews Flash Cards: Biochemistry helps you review, assimilate, and integrate essentials of complex subject matter. Developed for fast content absorption, these 200 high-yield cards support course learning and board exam preparation.
- Myron Yanoff, MD, Professor and Chair, Ophthalmology
Ophthalmic Diagnosis & Treatment
The third edition of this manual has been fully revised to provide the latest developments in the diagnosis and treatment of common eye diseases. Disorders are arranged in alphabetical order and each condition is presented over two colour coded pages, with ‘Diagnosis’ on one page, and ‘Treatment’ on the other.
LEBOW COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
- Rolph E. Anderson, PhD, Royal H. Gibson, Sr. Chair Professor of Marketing
Personal Selling: Building Customer Relationships and Partnerships
Personal Selling: Building Customer Relationships and Partnerships uses a pragmatic, up-to-date, realistic, upbeat, and professional approach to the study of personal selling. The text, written in a conversational style, creates diverse “real-world” experiences for students through experiential learning such as Internet exercises, role plays, case studies, and self-assessment tools.
- Anthony Curatola, PhD, Joseph F. Ford Professor of Accounting
Individual Retirement Account Answer Book
The continuing popularity and importance of individual retirement accounts as retirement vehicles underscores the necessity for attorneys, accountants, financial planners, and insurance advisors to keep abreast of legislative and regulatory developments in this area. Individual Retirement Account Answer Book is the source practitioners rely on for the most comprehensive, authoritative coverage of traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs, SEP IRAs, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, and health savings accounts (HSAs).
- Roger McCain, PhD, Professor, Economics
Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction to the Analysis of Strategy
The third edition of Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction to the Analysis of Strategy introduces the ideas of game theory in a way that is approachable, intuitive, and interdisciplinary. Relying on the Karplus Learning Cycle, the book is intended to teach by example. Noncooperative equilibrium concepts such as Nash equilibrium play the central role. In this third edition, increased stress is placed on the concept of rationalizable strategies, which has proven in teaching practice to assist students in making the bridge from intuitive to more formal concepts of noncooperative equilibrium.
Reframing Economics: Economic Action as Imperfect Cooperation
For most of the 20th century economists focused on competition as the driving force of the modern capitalist economy. Roger A. McCain offers a different frame of reference for economists. Using game theory’s distinction between cooperative and noncooperative games, he defines economics as the study of the development of cooperative agreements in the economy and the failure to bring them about. Orthodox economists who think in terms of a competitive model and heterodox economists who adhere to a class conflict paradigm will both find their ideas challenged by McCain’s new frame that sees mature capitalism as the result of class compromise based on an imperfectly cooperative game
PENNONI HONORS COLLEGE
- Cordelia Frances Biddle, Adjunct Professor
Saint Katharine: The Life of Katharine Drexel
Saint Katharine: The Life of Katharine Drexel is the story of a remarkable woman who rebelled against family, friends, and the luxuries of the Edwardian Age, and who risked her life aiding and educating the poorest of the poor. She was passionate in her belief in equality. Katharine’s life reflects the nation’s history: the tumultuous years leading to the Civil War, Lincoln’s assassination, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the movement for Women’s Suffrage, and the Equal Rights Movement. She combated racial prejudice as she traveled the country establishing schools for African and Native Americans. Xavier University in New Orleans she considered a crowning achievement; of equal importance was her tireless work on behalf of the Navajo and Pueblo nations. At a time when journeys to the Dakotas, Wyoming, Arizona, and New Mexico were fraught with peril because of the government’s repressive policies, she overcame bigotry, distrust, and threats of murder. She died in 1955, having devoted her life to uplifting the nation’s forgotten peoples.
- Paula Marantz Cohen, PhD, Dean, Pennoni Honors College; Distinguished Professor of English, English and Philosophy
Suzanne Davis Gets a Life
Light in its tone but incisive in its social satire, Suzanne Davis Gets a Life balances its wit with true concern for its protagonist. We can’t help but wish Suzanne success in “getting a life.” But can such a search possibly yield the meaning she craves?
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
- Damola Mabogunje, Software Engineer, The Math Forum
A Season for All Things
A Season for all Things is a remarkable collection of poems whose form reminds you of the architectural beauty of an oriental edifice. The collection is structured around the four seasons – spring, summer, autumn and winter – which the poet uses as metaphors to explore themes as diverse as love, friendship, redemption, creativity, infidelity, frustration, uncertainty. Each poem is realized in a language that sizzles, and a style that shimmers like the sea at the touch of moonlight.
- Fredricka Reisman, PhD, Professor; Program Director of Creativity and Innovation; Director of Drexel/Torrance Center for Creativity and Innovation
Creativity as a Bridge between Education and Industry: Fostering New Innovations
Creative new innovations are urgently needed in education and industry. Knowledge gained in industry related to creativity and innovation has potential value when applied in education, and likewise, knowledge gained in education has potential value when applied in industry. This book describes the value of creativity as a bridge between education and industry fostering new innovations.
Creativity and Writing Pedagogy: Linking Creative Writers, Researchers and Teachers
Creativity and Writing Pedagogy offers a unique view of creative practices and pedagogy in writing from the perspective of writing teachers, creativity researchers and scholars, and writers themselves. The volume, collected and edited by a poet and a scholar who are both involved in the teaching of writing, seeks to bridge the creative writing and the academic writing communities in building a case for creativity as central to all writing programs and showcasing creative practices in writing.
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
- Michael Yudell, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor; Interim Chair, Community Health and Prevention
Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century
Surveying the work of some of the twentieth century’s most notable scientists, Race Unmasked reveals how genetics and related biological disciplines formed and preserved ideas of race and, at times, racism. A gripping history of science and scientists, Race Unmasked elucidates the limitations of a racial worldview and throws the contours of our current and evolving understanding of human diversity into sharp relief.
COLLEGE OF NURSING AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS
- Roberta Waite, EdD, Associate Professor of Nursing; Assistant Dean of Faculty Integration and Evaluation of Community Programs
ADHD Across the Lifespan
It is more important, now than ever, that healthcare professionals be prepared to treat AD/HD throughout the lifespan. AD/HD is no longer seen as a childhood disorder, and it is likely that many adults affected by the AD/HD are undiagnosed. It is for this reason that this comprehensive course has been developed: to educate healthcare professionals and bring clarity and a deeper understanding to the research, diagnosis, and treatment of AD/HD in individuals of all ages and various life stages. Additionally, the significance of culture and gender-related issues and AD/HD are discussed.
DREXEL UNIVERSITY ONLINE
- Susan Aldridge, PhD, Senior Vice President for Online Learning; President of Drexel University Online
Wired for Success: Real-World Solutions for Transforming Higher Education
Higher education is under enormous pressure to transform itself these days, as cynicism runs rampant in the midst of mounting student loan debt and rising tuition costs; negative press coverage; and millions of dollars in lost revenue. Wired for Success: Real-World Solutions for Transforming Higher Education proposes and explores effective, evidence-based paradigms for meeting these challenges and adding to that value. It showcases the thought leaders at the forefront of continuous innovation, who are reaching new heights and forging new directions in higher education. Rather than succumbing to headlines, fads or convention, these men and women think creatively and act strategically to champion the learning experiences, environments and technologies students need to successfully transition into both a changing world and a changing workforce.
- Kathleen Harvatt, Assistant Vice President, Strategic Outreach
Wired for Success: Real-World Solutions for Transforming Higher Education
Higher education is under enormous pressure to transform itself these days, as cynicism runs rampant in the midst of mounting student loan debt and rising tuition costs; negative press coverage; and millions of dollars in lost revenue. Wired for Success: Real-World Solutions for Transforming Higher Education proposes and explores effective, evidence-based paradigms for meeting these challenges and adding to that value. It showcases the thought leaders at the forefront of continuous innovation, who are reaching new heights and forging new directions in higher education. Rather than succumbing to headlines, fads or convention, these men and women think creatively and act strategically to champion the learning experiences, environments and technologies students need to successfully transition into both a changing world and a changing workforce.
KLINE SCHOOL OF LAW
- Amy Boss, JD, Trustee Professor of Law
ABCs of the UCC: Article 2A Leasing
Leases of goods have existed for centuries, but until Article 2A was added to the Uniform Commercial Code in 1987, there was no coherent body of law to assist practitioners and judges in interpreting these contracts. Many practitioners are unaware of this major addition to the Code and how it affects transactions such as leases of aircraft or other categories of capital equipment. This guide will give attorneys for lessors and lessees, as well as third parties such as lenders and equipment suppliers who are involved with lease transactions a concise, readable introduction to Article 2A.
- Barry Furrow, JD, Director of the Health Law Program; Professor of Law
Health Law
Expert authors present an up-to-date overview of health law as it affects the professionals, institutions, and entities that deliver and finance health care in the United States. Considers the law’s response to quality and error through institutional and professional regulation, and malpractice litigation against professionals, hospitals, and managed care organizations. Surveys tax, corporate, and organizational issues. Explores the government’s efforts to control costs and expand access through Medicare and Medicaid. Examines government attempts to police anticompetitive activities, fraud, and abuse. And considers the legal and ethical issues involving death, human reproduction, medical treatment decision making, and medical research. The Affordable Care Act, HIPAA, HITECH, and other new statutory and regulatory changes of the past few years are thoroughly incorporated in all aspects of the legal discussion.
WESTPHAL COLLEGE OF MEDIA ARTS & DESIGN
- Andrew Altrichter, DUTV Program Manager; Instructor, Cinema & Television
1 Maze 1 Book
Beware to those who enter One Maze, One Book! For puzzle and maze enthusiasts, the entire book is a massive single maze that stretches and wiggles through 89 pages.
- Eve Friedman, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Performing Arts
Tone Development on the Baroque Flute
Eve Friedman’s book includes an in-depth discussion of treatises (from the period and modern) and 16 original exercises whose sole aim is to give players of the baroque flute strategies for producing beautiful tone across the range of the instrument. Suitable for established players as well as beginners and especially useful for teachers of baroque flute.
- Bruce Katsiff, Adjunct, Museum Leadership Program, Arts & Entertainment Enterprise
Nature Morte; Photographs by Bruce Katsiff
In this first major publication on his Nature Morte series, Katsiff-recently retired director/CEO of the James A. Michener Art Museum-returns to his roots as an artistic seeker, a life that he continued to practice quietly despite a distinguished career as educator, administrator, and museum professional. With an insightful essay by Delaware Art Museum curator Heather Campbell Coyle, a foreword by Peter Barberie, Brodsky Curator of Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a brief history of the platinum process by photographer Thomas Shillea, this book turns our attention toward our darkest fears, and there we find, as Katsiff, says, “a design and grace beyond the reach of man’s ability to create or understand.”
- Beth Phillips, Associate Teaching Professor, Design & Merchandising
Fashion Careers: the Complete Job Search Workbook
Fashion Careers is the definitive guide to a successful job search in the fashion industry. The new 4th edition updates this highly acclaimed workbook with up-to-the-minute research and reference material, new tips and tools to give the job seeker an edge in today’s highly competitive and fast-paced market and includes expanded sections in each chapter for those seeking entry-level job opportunities. This is a workbook - not just words on paper. The book covers all the essential aspects of finding a job in a user-friendly format. It is designed as an interactive manual to guide the job seeker through the search process step by step.
- 2014 Book Editors
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
- Phillip Ayoub, PhD, Assistant Professor, History and Politics
LGBT Activism and the Making of Europe: A Rainbow Europe?
Ayoub, Phillip and David Paternotte. Eds. LGBT Activism and the Making of Europe: A Rainbow Europe. Palgrave Macmillian, 2014.
- Robert Kane, PhD, Professor and Chair Person, Criminology and Justice Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Police and Policing
Reisig, Michael D, and Robert J. Kane. Eds. The Oxford Handbook of Police and Policing. Oxford University Press, 2014
- Harriet Levin Millan, Director, Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing; Associate Teaching Professor of English, English and Philosophy
Creativity and Writing Pedagogy Linking Creative Writers, Researchers, and Teachers
Millan, Harriet L, and Martha C. Pennington. Eds. Creativity and Writing Pedagogy: Linking Creative Writers, Researchers, and Teachers. Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2014. Print.
- Mimi Sheller, PhD, Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy; Professor of Sociology, Culture and Communication
Mobility and Locative Media: Mobile Communication in Hybrid Spaces
De, Souza S. A, and Mimi Sheller. Eds. Mobility and Locative Media: Mobile Communication in Hybrid Spaces. Routledge, 2014. Print.
- Jose A Tapia, BMBCh, MPH, PhD Professor, History & Politics
Crisis Economica y Teorias de la Crisis
Tapia, Jose A. Ed. Crisis Economica y Teorias de la Crisis. Maia Ediciones, 2014.
- Kathleen Volk Miller, Director of Graduate Program in Publishing and Drexel Publishing Group; Co-editor of Painted Bride Quarterly; Teaching Professor of English, English and Philosophy
Humor: A Reader for Writers
Wrenn, Marion, and Miller K. Volk. Eds. Humor: A Reader for Writers. Oxford University Press, 2014. Print.
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
- Eishi Noguchi, PhD, Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Cell Cycle Control: Mechanisms and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)
Noguchi, Eishi, and Mariana C. Gadaleta. Eds. Cell Cycle Control: Mechanisms and Protocols. Humana Press, 2014. Print.
- Myron Yanoff, MD, Professor and Chair, Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology
Yanoff, Myron, and Jay S. Duker. Eds. Ophthalmology. Elsevier Saunders, 2014. Print.
COLLEGE OF NURSING AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS
- Frances Cornelius, PhD, MSN, RN-BC, CNE, Chair, MSN Advanced Practice Role Department & Complementary and Integrative Health Programs
Pediatric Nursing Test Success: An Unfolding Case Study Review
Scholtz, Susan P, Vicki A. Martin, and Frances H. Cornelius. Eds. Pediatric Nursing Test Success: An Unfolding Case Study Review. Springer Publishing Company, 2014. Print.
- Maureen Davey, PhD, LMFT, Associate Professor, Couple and Family Therapy Department
Clinical Supervision Activities for Increasing Competence and Self-Awareness
Roy A. Bean, Sean D. Davis, Maureen P. Davey. Eds. Clinical Supervision Activities for Increasing Competence and Self-Awareness. Wiley, 2014. Print.
- Linda Wilson, PhD, Assistant Dean for Special Projects, Simulation and CNE Accreditation; Associate Clinical Professor
Review Manual for the Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator Exam
Wilson, Linda, and Ruth A. Wittmann-Price. Eds. Review Manual for the Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator Exam. Springer Publishing Company, LLC, 2014. Print.
ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT & STUDENT SUCCESS
- Cheryl Tevlin, Associate Director, Freshman Admissions, Enrollment Management & Student Success
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems
Phelps, Elizabeth S, Elizabeth Duquette, and Cheryl Tevlin. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems. University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Print.
LEBOW COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
- Benjamin Lev, PhD, Professor, Decision Sciences
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management
Xu. Jiuping, Virgílio António Cruz Machado, Benjamin Lev and Stefan Nickel (Eds.) Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management: Focused on Computing and Engineering Management. Springer, 2014
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
- Fredricka Reisman, PhD, Professor; Program Director of Creativity and Innovation; Director of Drexel/Torrance Center for Creativity & Innovation
Creativity in Business
Reisman, Fredricka. Ed. Creativity in Business. KIE Conference Book Series, 2014.
WESTPHAL COLLEGE OF MEDIA ARTS & DESIGN
- Joseph H. Hancock II, PhD, Associate Professor, Fashion and Design & Merchandising
Global Fashion Brands: Style, Luxury & History
Hancock, Joseph, Gjoko Muratovski, Veronica Manlow, and Anne Peirson-Smith. Global Fashion Brands: Style, Luxury & History. Intellect, 2014. Print.