Health Care Policy and Practice: A Biopsychosocial Perspective, (fourth edition) Cynthia Moniz, professor of social work and Stephen Gorin, professor of social work
In this fourth edition of their social work textbook, Cynthia Moniz and Stephen Gorin have restructured the book to guide students through the development of the American health care system: what it is, what the policies are, and how students can influence them. The authors have also updated their text to incorporate health care reform.
Redesigning Courses for Online Delivery: Design, Interaction, Media & Evaluation, Robyn Parker, professor of organizational communication and organizational behavior
This volume examines key considerations for effective online course redesign. Using a four-phase approach, Redesigning Courses for Online Delivery informs thinking, inspires creativity, and structures decisions to drive the development of high-quality online learning experiences. Both scholarly and practical, it provides a comprehensive approach to redesign useful to novices and veterans alike.
Healthy Children, Healthy Minds: Helping Children Succeed NOW for a Brighter Future, Marcel Lebrun, professor of curriculum and instruction, education, and special education; and Kimberly Williams, education teaching lecturer
The latest collaboration between Marcel Lebrun and Kimberly Williams (Keeping Kids Safe, Healthy, and Smart) is an excellent resource for educators, parents, and anyone who is interested in and committed to fostering healthy patterns of behavior, thinking, and lifestyle choices in children. This book provides strategies on how to keep the brain and mind healthy, and how to address challenges to brain and mind health, such as mental illness and substance abuse.
Transformative Leisure: A Philosophy of Communication, Annette M. Holba, professor of rhetoric
Our impressions of leisure today often involve rest, relaxation, and freedom from work. These impressions are misguided if their limits remain unchallenged. This book reveals the deep essence of leisure by repositioning it as a philosophy of communication that cultivates the mind and body.
Stay Alive Series #1–4, Joseph Monninger, professor of English
PSU author Joseph Monninger has embarked on a fun new writing adventure. Stay Alive is a planned series of adventure books for upper elementary and middle school-aged readers. Each book features a disaster faced by a group of children who must find their own way to survival, from a plane crash in the remote Alaskan wilderness to a freak earthquake off the coast of Maine. Monninger’s characters are true-to-life, ranging from whiny to unexpectedly resourceful to dangerously inept. The first four books in the Stay Alive series are #1: Crash, #2: Cave-in, #3: Breakdown, and #4: Flood.
The Legacy of Fort William Henry: Resurrecting the Past, David R. Starbuck, professor of anthropology
Fort William Henry, America’s early frontier fort at the southern end of Lake George, NY, was a flashpoint for conflict between the British and French empires in America. Over the past decade, new and exciting archeological findings, in tandem with modern forensic methods, have changed our view of life at the fort prior to the massacre, by providing physical evidence of the role that Native Americans played on both sides of the conflict. Intertwining recent revelations with those of the past, Starbuck creates a lively narrative beginning with the earliest Native American settlement on Lake George.
Electrified Skeletons, Paul Rogalus, professor of English
From “Psychos on the Highway” to “Addicts,” Paul Rogalus writes about the bizarreness of everyday life with sardonic humor and gritty realism. This collection of microstories turns on themes of adventure and friendship, yet it never strokes the inauthentic device of happily-ever-afters.
Taken by Storm 1938: A Social and Meteorological History of the Great New England Hurricane, Lourdes Aviles, professor of meteorology
On September 21, 1938, one of the most powerful storms of the twentieth century came unannounced into the lives of New Yorkers and New Englanders, leaving utter devastation in its wake. The Great Hurricane, as it came to be known, changed everything, from the landscape and its inhabitants’ lives, to weather bureau practices, to the measure and kind of relief New Englanders would receive during the Great Depression and the resulting pace of regional economic recovery. Aviles’s compelling history successfully weaves science, historical accounts, and social analyses to create a comprehensive picture of this devastating hurricane.
2013–14 have been prolific years for Bruce Heald, history teaching lecturer, who published the following titles:
A History of the Boston and Maine Railroad
A History of Dog Sledding in New England
A History of the New Hampshire Abenaki
New Hampshire and the Revolutionary War
Old Country Stores of New Hampshire
One-Room Schoolhouses of New Hampshire: Primers, Penmanship and Potbelly Stoves
United States Mail Boat: Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire
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