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First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story (2018)
A candid, heartfelt love story set in contemporary California that challenges the idea of what it means to be American, liberated, and in love.
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Transforming an Idea Into a Business with Design Thinking (2018)
Muhammad Mashhood Alam MBA ’07
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This book will introduce you to a structured framework, called Transform3+1, to transform your idea into a business by following simple and specific steps spread across four stages. The framework is grounded in the belief that all solutions solve human problems using technology or otherwise.
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The Human Herd (2022)
Beth Anstandig M.A. ’04
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We are human animals. Yet in the modern world, the natural signals of our mammal bodies are suppressed. Our instincts go unanswered as we move through life on autopilot, reacting to the latest dilemma instead of listening to the innate wisdom we carry.
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Zealot (2014)
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the "Kingdom of God." Within decades after his death, his followers would call him God. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most enigmatic figures by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived.
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Whose Baby Is It, Anyway? (2018)
This book of essays takes an informal and, I hope, gentle look into South Asian homes, hearts, and homeland in an attempt to help mental health practitioners have a more complete understanding of their Indian clients. My aim is that these stories, anecdotes, and social and psychological sketches open the door to more pertinent clinical conversations.
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The Father of the Family: A Christian Perspective (2013)
Rooted firmly in Scripture, these pages call on husbands to stop thinking of themselves simply as bosses and breadwinners, rather, as co-creators with God, imitators of Christ's love for His people, high priests in the domestic Church, teachers of their children, witnesses to society, providers of spiritual and material goods, and models of holiness.
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Beyond Remission: Words of Advice for Thriving (2020)
Words of Advice for Thriving is a photography book of cancer survivors and their wisdom from their cancer journey. The purpose of this book is to give hope to those that have just received a cancer diagnosis. Their photos capture the success of survivors from all walks of life with all types of cancer. Gracelyn and Melody, authors and co-founders of Luna Peak Foundation, photographed and interviewed over one hundred cancer survivors to create this book. The visualization of diverse cancer survivors humanizes cancer and helps cancer fighters visualize their own remission as well. This book is made by cancer survivors and is meant for cancer fighters, though anyone touched by cancer will find a community in this book including families, doctors, caregivers, and support teams. Through Luna Peak Foundation, many of these books will be donated to newly diagnosed patients, their families, oncology offices, and hospitals.
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Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California (2023)
Rose Marie Beebe ’76 & Robert M. Senkewicz
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Beebe and Senkewicz not only illuminate Vallejo’s life and history but also examine the broader experience of the nineteenth-century Californio community. In eight essays, the authors consider Spanish and Mexican rule in California, mission secularization, the rise of rancho culture, and the conflicts between settlers and Indigenous Californians, especially in the post-mission era. Vallejo was uniquely positioned to provide insight into early California’s foundation, and as a defender of culture and education among Mexican Californians, he also offered a rare perspective on the cultural life of the Mexican American community.
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Honoring All Life; A Practical Guide To Exploring A New Reality (2005)
This book is a comprehensive reference guide to those who offer creative solutions to humanity's most pressing environmental, cultural, and political issues.
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Mike on a Bike: Across the US in 83 Days (2023)
One person's journey crossing the US on a bicycle from Astoria, Oregon to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. It details his adventures on this 4200 mile trip in words, and pictures, and shows what is possible when a person starts on an epic journey with more determination than experience.
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Drifting Democracy: India: From a Common Man's Perspective (2013)
A satire on Indian society, politics and democracy! India is, in fact, the world’s largest democracy. Big deal! Nobody is calling it the world’s greatest democracy. It has taken several centuries, a whole lot of bloodshed and an incredible amount of will on the part of millions and millions of people to get democracy evolved to where it is today.
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Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine (2021)
The bestselling author of UnSelfie explains why the old markers of accomplishment (grades, test scores) are no longer reliable predictors of success in the 21st century—and offers seven teachable traits that will safeguard our kids for the future.
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The Spring of Sight: An Inflection Point for Computer Vision and Society (2023)
In The Spring of Sight, Robert Boscacci draws from his double background in digital film production and machine learning to explore questions like these with industry experts. As advancements in the field carry in a tidal wave of promising use cases, it becomes increasingly clear that we'll have to implement nuanced policies to contend with their double-edged nature.
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Pinch Me: Waking up in a 300-Year-Old Farmhouse (2025)
For fans of Stanley Tucci and Frances Mayes, Barbara Boyle’s story of leaving her California home to restore an old stone farmhouse in Italy’s Piedmont—only to fall in love with the food and people of her enchanting new town—will delight and inspire.
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40,000 to One (2012)
Scott Brown ’93 & Ben Petrick
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What if I told you that a decade ago, one of the greatest baseball prospects of his era was hitting home runs off Hall of Famers while hiding Parkinson's disease? What if I told you this is not the most amazing part of Petrick's story?
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The Nature of Relationships: A Question of Self, Other, God (2022)
This book studies the New Testament texts to determine what faith is all about. As a lay author, he inspects with the conviction that if a relationship with God is not accessible to all persons, then the idea of religion makes little sense. The chapters invite readers to examine what they believe or determine the impact of no belief on their life's direction. While the author discloses much of his views, it is not an attempt to convert any reader to believe as he does. Whether Christianity is true or not, there is no denying its impact on civilization.
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The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (2020)
Nicholas “Nick” Buccola ’01
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On Feb. 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America's most influential conservative intellectual. The topic was "the American dream is at the expense of the American Negro," and no one who has seen the debate can soon forget it. Nicholas Buccola's The Fire Is upon Us is the first book to tell the full story of the event, the radically different paths that led Baldwin and Buckley to it, and how the debate and the decades-long clash between the men illuminates the racial divide that continues to haunt America today.
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Thinking in a Digital World (2017)
Martin Buoncristiani ’60 and Patricia Calton Buoncristiani
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The information age is changing how we experience the world and interact with it. This has implications for young people and their learning both in and out of the classroom. This book offers practical strategies for working with young people, helping educators and parents understand and react to this changing situation.
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Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics (2013)
Global realities of human inequality, poverty, violence and ecological destruction call for a twenty-first-century Christian response which links cross-cultural and interreligious cooperation for change to the Gospel. This book demonstrates why just action is necessarily a criterion of authentic Christian theology, and gives grounds for Christian hope that change in violent structures is really possible.
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A Moment’s Pause for Gratitude: Enrich Your Life with a Focus on Gratitude (2017)
Kevin Carroll's reminders have helped me resist the urge to complain and replace it with an appreciation of all that I have. A Moments Pause for Gratitude can be read in one sitting or used as a daily prayer of thanks; either way, it serves as an antidote to negativity and an aide for the peaceful mind.
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Some Light at the End: Your Bedside Guide for Peaceful Palliative and Hospice Care (2021)
In this tender yet transparent guide to your final days, experienced hospice nurse Beth Cavenaugh reveals what options you may have as a patient living with a terminal disease. With personal stories and a touch of humor, Some Light at the End provides information about hospice care, the practicalities of the dying process, nursing guidance about pain and symptom management, and support for your loved one as they care for you along the way.
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Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression (2022)
Dust in the Blood considers the harrowing realities of life with depression from a Christian theological perspective. In conversation with popular Christian theologies of depression that justify why this suffering exists and prescribe how people ought to relate to it, Jessica Coblentz offers another Christian approach to this condition: she reflects on depression as a wilderness experience. Weaving first-person narratives of depression, contemporary theologies of suffering, and ancient biblical tales of the wilderness, especially the story of Hagar, Coblentz argues for and contributes to an expansion of Christian ideas about what depression is, how God relates to it, and how Christians should understand and respond to depression in turn.
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You Can’t Fix What You Can’t See: An Eye-Opening Toolkit to Cultivate Gender Harmony in Business (2019)
In You Can’t Fix What You Can’t See, tech guru Karen Cornwell offers a fascinating narrative that explains how we got here and why it's invisible to some. After spending many years in the world of technology, she made a stark discovery: men simply don't “see” the constant battle that women face each and every day. If they did, Cornwell asserts, they would be determined to help fix the inequality.
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Fortune Cookie Leadership: Wisdom for Leadership, Sales & Life (2017)
Enclosed in this book are 52 “fortune cookie” lines for your sales meeting, your leadership and your life. My mom’s one liners inspired me and hopefully they can inspire you and your team as well.
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Pivot, Disrupt, Transform: How Leaders Beat the Odds and Survive (2018)
In this innovative business how-to, leadership expert Marcia Daszko draws on her expertise to guide leaders at any level through a three-step process to radically improve their businesses: first, recognize and stop outmoded ways of thinking that fail to move the business forward (like focusing on the bottom line, conducting performance appraisals, and searching for best practices); second, start taking steps to introduce new, innovative ways of thinking and contrarian practices (such as developing leaders with the capacity to effect change, creating an interconnected team, and seeking knowledge through questions); and finally, transform your company into a more resilient, adaptive, and united organization.
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness! (2019)
Karla De La Torre ’09, J.D. ’15
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Ever wondered what being undocumented truly means? Follow Karla’s journey from undocumented immigrant to attorney to law professor. She invites you to join her on the rollercoaster of life. Feel her gut-wrenching emotion, as well as the laughter and love that has filled her bilingual world. Read her story in English and Spanish and be inspired to live yours.
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Sway: Implement the G.R.I.T. Marketing Method to Gain Influence and Drive Corporate Strategy (2021)
Christina Del Villar MBA ’94
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Sway turns marketing professionals into powerhouses by showing them how to build a strategic framework that enables greater proficiency and leads to growing levels of influence. This framework is the G.R.I.T. Marketing Method created by Christina Del Villar.
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Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer (2009)
Alice Dixon (1851-1910) was born into a comfortable middle class life in London that she eagerly left behind to travel to Yucatán as the young bride of Maya archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon. Working side by side as photographers and archaeologists, the Le Plongeons were the first to excavate and systematically photograph the Maya sites of Chichén Itzá and Uxmal. After spending eleven years in the field, she devoted the rest of her life to lecturing and published books and articles on a wide range of topics, including her exploration of Maya civilization, political activism and social justice, and epic poetry.
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Mobile Medicine: Overcoming People, Culture, and Governance (2021)
A rich resource, this book shares hard-won lessons and primary research for better understanding, management, and execution of key mobile computing initiatives in medicine (that can save patient lives by reducing delays in medical information). It provides an action planning reference guide for mobile medicine stakeholders, including health system and insurance decision makers, clinicians, and investors. Foundational and groundbreaking in its knowledge set and combination, it also provides a unique and rare perspective, drawing from 27 distinct experts across disciplines from legal to medicine, informatics, organizational psychology, cybersecurity to engineering – the building blocks needed to catalyze a comprehensive mobile medicine strategy for your health system or investment thesis.
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Flying Gavels (2021)
John Cheap Doyle ’75, J.D. ’78
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In Flying Gavels, John Cheap Doyle brings us by his side as he surveys his 41-year career in the US legal system as a civil trial attorney. Many people think that civil law is dull, almost like watching paint dry—au contraire! Legal problems lurk in places we never imagine. We meet a cast of characters along this journey and see how they impacted Doyle’s career and long-term outlook on our world.
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The Tao of Personal Leadership (1996)
Say good-bye to the adversarial samurai managerial principles of the last decade. A new philosophy is sweeping the business world, one that's more in tune with a global marketplace, where cooperation, not competition, is the key to success.
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Composure: The Art of Executive Presence (2021)
As boardrooms inch their way toward diversity, women and those in other underrepresented groups who break into executive, managerial and entrepreneurial ranks step into a spotlight that puts additional pressure on already demanding work and personal lives. Feeling the need to prove ourselves, this kind of pressure can zap our confidence, leading to perfectionism, self-judgment, a feeling of being overwhelmed, and burnout.
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Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations
Falcón redirects the conversation about UN-based feminist activism toward UN forums on racism. Her analysis of UN antiracism spaces, in particular the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa, considers how a race and gender intersectionality approach broadened opportunities for feminist organizing at the global level.
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Key Moments in Church History: A Concise Introduction to the Catholic Church (2005)
In his third edition of Key Moments in Church History, Mitch Finley enlivens a topic which, in a less talented writer's hands, could have been deadly dull. Instead, in his usual down-to-earth narration and flowing style, Mitch presents events seemingly far removed from us―the Council of Trent, the Crusades, even the Reformation―as precious parts of our own past, events that brought the entire Catholic Church to where it now stands, for better or worse.
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Walking Through the Valley of Dementia: A Self-Paced Spiritual Retreat for Care Partners
Therese Fisher, M.T.S. ’24
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A self-paced retreat designed to provide physical, emotional, and spiritual support for care partners through exercises and scriptural reflections. The retreat aims to help care partners engage in their relationship with God and address the isolation they may feel from society, community, church, family, and friends.
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Effective Discipline: A Delicate Balance (1997)
This a book for parents who are building careers, for mothers at home, for single parents, and for teachers. It’s an invaluable tool to help you establish a more peaceful, balanced, and loving home or school environment. This book will save parents precious time, effort, and heartache. Effective Discipline will teach you how to prevent discipline problems, maximize the trainable years, minimize sibling rivalry, and help the ADD child succeed.
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Missionary Bishop: Jean-Marie Odin in Galveston and New Orleans (2013)
Rustlings of the Spirit, a refreshing addition to modern poetry, is divided into four chapters; “Loss”, “Rightful Rage”, “Reconnection”, and “Love” wherein the author explores her journey towards radical acceptance through grief. In her debut poetry chapbook, Chloe Gentile-Montgomery takes readers through a range of emotions in each chapter, allowing them to feel deeply, with an emphasis on self-love and radical acceptance of one’s progress. Rustlings of the Spirit reminds readers that they are not alone in their suffering and that healing is not as picture-perfect as it’s sometimes made out to be.
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They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France (2018)
Here, for the first time, is the story of one of the great clandestine organizations of World War II and of two heroic brothers whose ordeals during and after the war challenged the accepted myths of Britain's wartime resistance in occupied France. Written with complete and unrivaled access to only recently declassified documents from Britain's SOE files, French archives, family letters, diaries, and court records, along with interviews from surviving wartime Resistance fighters, They Fought Alone is a real-life thriller. Renowned journalist and war correspondent Charles Glass exposes a dramatic tale of spies, sabotage, and the daring men and women who risked everything to change the course of World War II.
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Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe (2016)
Veteran Middle East expert Charles Glass combines reportage, analysis, and history to provide an accessible overview of the origins and permutations defining the conflict. He also gives a powerful argument for why the West has failed to get to grips with the consequences of the crisis.
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You're Doing Great, Mama (2022)
This book was born out of the need for new mothers to feel seen and supported on their postpartum journeys. This book validates the anxieties that accompany the unknowns of new motherhood while encouraging and teaching positive self-talk. This is needed, especially due to the isolation of the ongoing pandemic. This book looks at the challenges of new motherhood such as feeding, sleeping, bathing, and clothing your baby and pairs it with the recurring line of "You're doing great, Mama." The last page contains resources for mothers struggling with postpartum anxiety or depression.
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Motivating Millennials: How to Recognize, Recruit and Retain The Next Generation of Leaders (2017)
This book will explain how to motivate Millennials and show you how to capitalize on the great potential of our often-maligned generation.
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All My Tomorrows: A Story of Tragedy, Transplant and Hope (2017)
Life’s funny. One day, some kid is a happy-go-lucky college freshman, healthy as a horse, and another guy is standing at death’s door. And then in a matter of hours, they somehow trade places. Chris collapsed and died of an aneurysm with no warning. Five people who had been near death lived to see another day because they received Chris’s organs. Eric Gregory, his father, wrote this book to chronicle this miracle of science and how meeting these recipients of his son’s organs filled a special need in their hearts that few outside the organ donation community can understand.
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Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune (2010)
The first full-length biography of Sarah Winchester, the subject of the movie Winchester starring Helen Mirren.
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Just Send the Text: An Expert's Guide to Letting Go of the Stress and Anxiety of Modern Dating (2021)
Say goodbye to the crippling stress and anxiety that come with dating in the 2020s with the dating advice all single people need.
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Taking Hold (2015)
Francisco Jimenez ’66, Ph.D
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Francisco Jimenez leaves everything behind in California to attend Columbia University in New York City. With few true accounts of the Latino experience in America, Francisco Jimenez’s work comes alive with telling details about the warmth and resiliency of family and the quest for identity against seemingly impossible odds.
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The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants Are Changing American Life (2017)
The immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established Americans—those whose families have been in the country for multiple generations?
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Sex and Gender: Christian Ethical Reflections (2017)
Patricia Beattie Jung ’71
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The collection covers a wide range of topics: same-sex marriage, sexual minorities and biblical interpretation, sex and power, sexual harassment and sexual abuse, HIV/AIDS and prevention strategy, the military and masculinities, mobile porn and sexting, human trafficking, moral discernment, and more.
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The Foundations of Moroccan Foreign Policy: An Anthology (2013)
Jack Kalpakian ’92 & Tachfine Baida
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Morocco has long enjoyed a strategic position as the crossroads between East and West. Yet within the field of international studies, few academics have examined its contemporary political relations in any depth. This edition aims to illuminate this area of study by introducing new perspectives to that discussion.
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War by Other Means: A General in the Trump White House (2021)
General Keith Kellogg saw it all. The only national security advisor to work side by side with both President Trump and Vice President Pence, he was their confidant as they made their most momentous decisions. No one knows better than he that the hysterical accusations of the administration’s partisan detractors were unconnected to reality.
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Why? (2019)
Is there a God? Why Do Innocent Children Suffer? How do you deal with sad events? Is there life after death? Find the answers to these and many other questions about life.
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Moving Forward: Santa Clara's Story of Transformation (2013)
Lindsey W. Kouvaris '02
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Moving Forward traces the history of Mission Santa Clara de Asis from Native California through the Mission Period and into the early days of Santa Clara College.
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A Parent's Guide to Video Games (2016)
Drawing from the most recent research in the field of game studies, A Parent’s Guide to Video Games was developed specifically to help parents better understand if, how, and why video game play can impact a child’s physical, social, and psychological well-being.
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Why Zarmina Sings: 18 Steps to Live and Learn Beyond Anxiety (2016)
Thérèse Ayla Kravetz ’85
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Plagued by an over-anxious brain, the author embarks on a journey toward creativity and confidence after hearing her student, Zarmina, find vocal freedom and move other students to tears with her song. As Thérèse searches for ways to free herself and her students from fragmented learning, restricted voices, and the fight or flight response, she learns tools to accelerate learning and transcend anxiety.
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Things My Daddy/Daughter Taught Me: How to Forge and Extraordinary Relationship with Your Teenager (2022)
How do a bull-headed father and rebellious daughter transform their contentious relationship into something extraordinary? One such pairing—the author and his daughter—managed to navigate the minefield of periodic dysfunction that changed their kinship obstacles to challenges and challenges to mutual successes. Along the way, this parent learned invaluable lessons that fundamentally changed his dogmatic perceptions of child-rearing to enlightened parenting, lessons that can be applied by any parent.
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Her Right to Know (2019)
A courageous woman’s search for the truth, the cause of her blindness, and those responsible — this is a true story about a tenacious young couple who persevered in their fight against Big Pharma hoping to save the lives of thousands of childbearing women. Using the power of our legal system she, her husband, a young trial lawyer and his team, took on the largest pharmaceutical corporation in America, and fought against all odds to protect a woman’s right to know of the life threatening risks of the oral contraceptive—“The Pill.”
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The Miracle Chase: Three Women, Three Miracles, and a Ten Year Journey of Discovery & Friendship (2010)
Katie Mahon ’78, Mary Beth Phillips ’76, and Joan Louise Hill
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What exactly is a miracle? That’s the question three women try to answer when one of them faces a sudden tragedy. In the process, they transform a simple friendship into a powerful spiritual odyssey.
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The Miracle Collectors: Uncovering Stories of Wonder, Joy, and Mystery (2021)
Katie Mahon ’78 and Joan Louise Hill
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This eye-opening book will teach you how to step back, examine important moments in your life, and recognize the miracles that are constantly occurring all around you.
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Convince Investors to Fund You: The Insider’s Guide to Avoid Deadly Mistakes and Gain Real Success with Your Startup Business (2019)
At last, through this book, you can gain access to hidden methods so that you convince investors to fund your startup business. Learn to handle tough situations whether you are pitching to a group or you're in a crucial investor meeting. Discover what to do if things go bad in a pitch meeting with an investor. Use clever methods to handle the situation if your mind goes blank while you're giving a pitch.
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Pro-Choice Pro-Adoption: It's Time for a Loving, Positive Response to Unplanned Pregnancy (2022)
If you parent, pastor or mentor a young woman, there’s a one in four chance she will face an unplanned pregnancy. And she’ll turn to you for advice.
What will you say?
If you think her only options are parenting and abortion, this book is for you. It will shed light on the new world of open adoption and the beautiful, brave women who are choosing it.
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Prairie Man: The Struggle between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James McLaughlin (2015)
One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America. He had resisted the United States’ intrusions into Lakota prairie land for years, refused to sign treaties, and called for a gathering of tribes at Little Big Horn. He epitomized resistance.
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Pie Camp: The Skills You Need to Make Any Pie You Want (2020)
In this new book, McDermott takes her teaching to the next level. Here, she’s focused more on technique: how to decorate pastry with braided crusts, troubleshoot a custard that won’t set, create beautiful layered pies, and perfectly thicken your fruit filling. Once you have the foundations down, it’s time to mix and match crusts, fillings, and toppings. The dozen “master” recipes―from flaky to tender to cookie crumb crusts, and fruit to cream to chiffon pies―will become part of every pie maker’s repertoire and will open the door for bakers everywhere to conjure pies with self-assurance.
Check out other titles by Kate McDermott '86, such as Home Cooking with Kate McDermott and Art of the Pie: A Practical Guide to Homemade Crusts, Fillings, and Life »
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That’s on Me: Seasoned Executives Confess Their Rookie Mistakes (2024)
Seasoned Executives Share Their Leadership Errors
One indication of a good leader is the willingness not only to admit mistakes but also to share those errors with others so that the cycle is not repeated. To do this takes humility and courage.
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The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World (2017)
Now that the Internet has liberated ideas to spread through networks instead of hierarchies, power is no longer determined by your status, but by “onlyness”—that spot in the world only you stand in, a function of your distinct history and experiences, visions and hopes.
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Son of a Gambling Man: My Journey from a Casino Family to the Governor's Mansion (2013)
A memoir of growing up in mob-run Sin City from a casino heir-turned-governor who's seen two sides of every coin. A warm family memoir, the story of a city heir, with just a little bit of The Godfather and Casino thrown in for spice, Son of a Gambling Man is a unique and thoroughly memorable story.
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Deadly Medicine (1989)
She killed for thrills. The sensational story of nurse Genene Jones shocked a nation as more than 30 children were murdered by an angel of mercy. This is the whole story, from the doctors that hired her to the trial that followed. Featured in Redbook. HC: St. Martin’s.
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Limitless: How to Be, Have, Do and Accomplish Anything (2015)
LIMITLESS is a must-read for anyone serious about living a purposeful life of accomplishment and fulfillment. The author, Larry Murnane, concisely explains the simple, practical and proven techniques and strategies used by all high-achieving men and women, in every field, to accomplish far more than they or the folks around them ever dreamed possible. Learn how to break the bonds of limited conventional thinking, and expand your mind and ambitions to the point where you can greatly exceed any goal you have ever set for yourself. Murnane’s simplistic formula with clear examples of how to change your thoughts, beliefs and actions will rapidly accelerate goal fulfillment and maximize happiness.
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Why Woman Should Rule the World (2009)
If women ruled the world, politics would be more collegial, businesses would be more productive, and communities would be healthier. More women should lead—not because they are the same as men, but precisely because they are different.
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Making Black Scientists: A Call to Action (2019)
Americans have access to some of the best science education in the world, but too often black students are excluded from these opportunities. This essential book by leading voices in the field of education reform offers an inspiring vision of how America’s universities can guide a new generation of African Americans to success in science.
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Full of Grace: A New Year of Life for Your Baby—and for You! (2015)
Developmental milestones. Mothers watch them throughout that first year of their babies lives; waiting, observing, fretting, sometimes comparing, and always wondering. This marvelous book focuses on these critical markers, and offers reflections, suggestions for spiritual practices, and encouragement for all new moms, whether they are brand new to motherhood or seasoned veterans.
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Arise to Blessedness: A Journal Retreat with Eight Modern Saints Who Lived the Beatitudes (2023)
Eight modern saints invite you to follow their example to live the Beatitudes—the heart of Jesus’s teaching—in your own life.Through her beautiful full-color art, scripture passages, journaling prompts, and original prayers inspired by the Our Father, popular Catholic artist Jen Norton will guide you to put the Beatitudes into practice as she challenges you to examine the state of your own heart and your willingness to grow in holiness.
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Life in the FishBowl: Lessons to Help you Survive and Thrive in Elected Office (2024)
This book provides readers with the knowledge, advice, and inspiration they need to navigate the political fishbowl. Through real-life stories shared by current and former elected officials, readers will learn how to make sound decisions, cultivate a successful political career, and discover the truth behind winning an election.
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Avalanche: Lessons of Love
Stephen J. Oddo ’86 and Kris Ochoa-Keane
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Avalanche: Lessons of Love tells the true-life story of Kris Ochoa-Keane's journey through tragedy, betrayal, perseverance, redemption and enlightenment. Kris felt compelled to share her real-life experiences so others who grieve can discover their own message of hope.
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God of Many Loves (2019)
Sometimes the simplest truths are the hardest to remember. Sometimes we forget that Christianity is first of all about love, and that it begins with God's love for us, not with our love for God. A seasoned spiritual director, Fr. Max Oliva knows how easy it is to get caught up in ourselves and lose track of God. As he guides us on this enriching journey of remembrance and discovery, he encourages us to remember all the ways God has been present throughout our lives and to discover God's love anew.
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Space Physics and Aeronomy, 5 Volumes (2021)
The Space Physics and Aeronomy collection is a five-volume set of books presenting the latest scientific observations, models, and theories. Arranged sequentially, the books examine the Sun and the solar wind, magnetospheres in the Solar system, Earth's ionosphere, Earth's upper atmosphere, and the effects of space weather.
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Power of Surge: Five Ways to Supercharge Your B2B Software Business and Unleash Hidden Value (2024)
The book covers common disconnects between CEOs and CMOs that undermine execution, along with advice for finding and keeping the right marketing leader in a competitive talent market. You’ll discover proven methods for driving growth, lowering customer acquisition costs, shortening sales cycles, and boosting valuation. With practical advice from other industry leaders, this playbook provides the key steps to transform your marketing for a competitive advantage and transaction success.
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Northern Italy in the Roman World: From the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity (2018)
Dr. Carolynn E. Roncaglia ’00
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Northern Italy in the Roman World argues that the relationship between long-term trends and short-term events is key to understanding how Rome affected the territory within its empire.
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Parenting with an Accent: How Immigrants Honor Their Heritage, Navigate Setbacks, and Chart New Paths for Their Children (2021)
Masha Rumer '01
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Through her own stories and interviews with other immigrant families, award-winning journalist Masha Rumer paints a realistic and compassionate picture of what it’s like for immigrant parents raising a child in America while honoring their cultural identities. Parenting with an Accent speaks to immigrant and non-immigrant readers alike, incorporating a diverse collection of voices and experiences to provide an intimate look at the lives of many different immigrant families across the country.
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Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants: Race, Gender, and Immigration Politics in the Age of Security (2015)
Immigration politics has been significantly altered by the advent of America's war on terror and the proliferation of security measures. In her cogent study, Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants, Anna Sampaio examines how these processes are racialized and gendered and how they impose inequitable burdens on Latina/o immigrants.
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Republicanism and Anticlerical Nationalism in Spain (2009)
This book analyzes attempts by radical Spanish republicans to construct an anticlerical-nationalist vision of Spain, focusing in particular on the the mass production by the 'anticlertical industry' of newspapers, novels, poems, cartoons, posters, postcards and plays put out by republican muckrakers, journalists, and politicians.
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Heal Your Anxiety Now!: Five-Minute Tools for Moving Beyond Surviving into Thriving
Heal Your Anxiety Now! Five-Minute Tools for Moving Beyond Surviving Into Thriving is a jargon-free book that provides practical and actionable tools to heal anxiety, transform your life, and change your brain. Individuals like these tools because they are easy to learn and use, they work in a short period of time, and they can be incorporated into even the busiest day.
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An L.A. Lawyer in Munich—My Funny Life (2018)
John C. Scalia, Sr. ’68
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The author is a graduate of Santa Clara University and the UCLA School of Law. He practiced the arcane art of workers' compensation, representing clients including some of the world's largest corporations to individual injured workers and medical groups. Born in San Francisco, he has lived in Munich, Germany since 2013.
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Long Schott: Building Homes, Dreams, and Baseball Teams (2022)
A candid autobiography from the famously reclusive Oakland Athletics owner, Steve Schott, during the pivotal Moneyball era.
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Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law (2022)
The story behind the historic Mineral King Valley case, which reveals how the Sierra Club battled Disney’s ski resort development and launched a new environmental era in America.
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Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor (2002)
For almost ten years, Gary Smith, S.J., lived and worked among the poor of Portland, Oregon. With this memoir, he invites us to walk with him and meet some of the abandoned, over-looked, and forgotten members of our society with whom he has shared his life. Just as Smith found a deeper, truer understanding of himself and of the heart of God through his work, these people and their stories stand to transform us.
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Why Live?: The Beautiful and Painful Mess of Learning to Love Life (2022)
Faolan Sugarman-Lash ’20
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“Why Live?” is a story of vulnerability and transformation. In the face of depression and trauma, Faolan Sugarman-Lash learns to love his life despite his pain. In this book, he shares his mistakes, lessons, stories, and advice for how to overcome mental health challenges by experiencing each part of life fully and finding meaning.
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Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe (2022)
Brian Thomas Swimme ’72
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The understanding that the universe has been expanding since its fiery beginning 14 billion years ago and has developed into stars, galaxies, life, and human consciousness is one of the most significant in human history. It is taught throughout the world and has become our common creation story for nearly every culture. In terms of the universe’s development, we humans are not only economic, religious, or political beings. At the most fundamental level, we are cosmological beings.
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The Colour of the Sun (2021)
The child, Gillian August, is born still shrouded in her amniotic sac. She is a caul baby, and in 1970s South Africa, this heralds greatness. Gillian is a Coloured girl born under Apartheid who overcomes unimaginable tragedy, loss, and abuse to find her voice and to help others find theirs. This is her story, one where thieves give more than they take, and where something great comes from places where nothing at all is expected.
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Embrace the Power of You: Owning Your Identity at Work (2023)
Tricia Montalvo Timm J.D. '96
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In the competitive world of Silicon Valley, corporate lawyer Tricia Montalvo Timm knew that talent and drive weren’t enough to succeed. She had to belong. Timm took a cue from her days as a child actor, when she had to change her name to get auditions. As an adult, she downplayed her Latino heritage and her life as a mother to fit in. And it worked: at the height of her success, she sold software company Looker to Google for $2.6 billion. But when a LinkedIn post about her roots went viral, she knew she couldn’t continue to hide. As a high-powered Latina lawyer, she had a responsibility to be visible so she could be the role model she never saw coming up the ranks. She realized that belonging begins with self-acceptance.
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Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels and the Borderland Dream (2017)
Joe Tone’s riveting, exquisitely layered crime narrative, set against the high-stakes world of horse racing, is an intimate story about family, loyalty, and the tragic costs of a failed drug war.
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Forty Years a Giant: The Life of Horace Stoneham (2021)
When New York Giants owner Charles A. Stoneham came home one night in 1918 and told his teenage son, Horace, “Horrie, I bought you a ballclub,” he set in motion a family legacy. Horace Stoneham would become one of baseball’s greatest figures, an owner who played an essential role in integrating the game, and who was a major force in making our pastime truly national by bringing Major League Baseball to the West Coast.
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (2017)
Veteran technology journalist Ashlee Vance offers an unprecedented look into the remarkable life of the most daring entrepreneur of our time. Elon Musk paints a portrait of a complex man who has renewed American industry and sparked new levels of innovation—from PayPal to Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity—overcoming hardship, earning billions, and making plenty of enemies along the way.
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Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul (2024)
Bloomberg journalist Kurt Wagner takes you inside Twitter’s everchanging headquarters, charting its rise from flippant 140-character posts to one of the world’s most consequential tech companies. From Jack Dorsey’s triumphant return as CEO in 2015 to the rise and fall of @RealDonaldTrump to the contentious $44 billion sale to Elon Musk, Battle for the Bird exposes the messy reality and relentless challenges that come with building a global social network.
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A Simple Guide to Finance & Money Basics for Kids, Teens, & Adults (2021)
You'll know everything you need to know to invest safely, smartly, and sensibly by reading this book “A Simple Guide to Finance & Money Basics for Kids, Teens, & Adults.” It is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to aid you in understanding the investment world, by helping you set clear objectives on Finance Literacy to Help You NOT Be a Dummy When It Comes to Retirement & Investments, Your Paycheck & Taxes, and Credit, thus leading you to financial success. Inside you will Find a Detailed Description of the Different Methods to Budget and Manage Your Money.
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Land and EXPAND: 6 Simple Strategies To Grow Your Company's Top And Bottom Line (2020)
Patricia Watkins MBA ’00
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How to Grow your Bottom Line without Increasing your Marketing Budget. If you are a CXO or Sales Executive from any sized company, this may be the most important book you read this year.
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An American Doctor's Life Divinely Orchestrated (2006)
This is the story of Leslie Webber, a retired physician with interesting adversities, from the depression years to the 90's. The writing was mostly for family, but at this time I have been encouraged to publish it. The most of the material is from memory, but augmented by letters written over a 35 year period, which my mother had saved.
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Until Someone Gets Hurt, The Multi-Layered Crime Spree and Murder by a Master Criminal Enterprise (2013)
Untangle the threads of this decad elong crime spree filled with twists, turns and jaw-dropping revelations. Be taken from one con to the next--until a single brazen act leads to murder. However, the story doesn't end there. Prepare to experience the dramatic courtroom trials that no one predicted and the shocking ending that no one expected--not even the judge.
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The Tao (Path) of High Performance Leadership (2019)
We usually spend more than 18 years in school studying, memorizing and being tested on subjects that often don’t apply in the corporate world. Even if some are valuable to conducting business effectively, most educational institutions fall woefully short of preparing us for management (causes action through authority), leadership (causes action through alignment) and especially not high performance leadership (causes action through alignment and inspiration). Therefore, it can take years to discover, practice and master key elements of successful, high performance leadership.
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