Children at Promise: 9 Principles to Help Kids Thrive in an At-Risk World

By Timothy S. Stuart and Cheryl Bostrom ’80
Jossey Bass, Inc., San Francisco, 2003

Many of us assume that the absence of adversity in a child’s life predicts success. In Children at Promise, Bostrom and Stuart challenge this assumption with the belief that adversity can become the tool by which children can learn to succeed and prosper.

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Dancing to the Concertina’s Tune: A Prison Teacher’s Memoir

by Jan Walker ’60
Northeastern University Press, Boston, 2004

Jan Walker explores her unusual career in correctional education and seeks to give the reader an understanding of prisons and inmates. At bottom, the book is about how education can be used as a means toward transformation and, perhaps, redemption.

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False Roads to Manhood

By Frank Chase, Jr. ’89
Ashley & Taylor Publishing, Huntsville, Alabama, 2004

The subtitle of the book is Breaking Free From the False T.R.A.D.I.T.I.O.N.s of Men. That acronym stands for Truancy, Rejection, Anger, Discouragement, Ignorance, Transients, Incarceration, Offenses, and Nomads. Each chapter is dedicated to one of those false roads, includes an interview with someone who has traveled on it, and gives Chase’s directions for the road out.

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Feather Medicine: Walking in Shoshone Dreamtime: A Family System Constellation

By Francesca Mason Boring (B.A. Soc. Sci.)

Feather Medicine chronicles the journey of a contemporary, bi-cultural Shoshone woman who has inherited her maternal grandmother’s gift of dream and knowing. Through the character, Annie, the reader shares youth, adulthood, the death of a child, the support and humor of a Native American extended family, and introduction to the ground breaking work of Bert Hellinger: Human & Family Systems Constellation.

Healing: Crucible Birth

By Sherrie M. Steiner (’93 M.A., ’98 Ph.D.)

From the publisher: In Healing, author Sherrie M. Steiner promotes social change to grapple with the global environmental problems that threaten our collective future. The book combines scientific and faith-based motives to compel the reader to participate in social renewal.

Is Self-Employment
for You?

By Paul E. Casey ’75
Hara Publishing Group, Seattle, 2004

This is the one business book every would-be entrepreneur should read before taking the plunge.

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Opening Minds: A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance

By Simeon Hein ’93
Mount Baldy Press, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, 2002

From the publisher: Opening Minds is about a social scientist's voyage into the world of non-ordinary, multidimensional, energy phenomena. The book is both an examination of the limited belief systems intrinsic to existing mechanistic worldviews and an exploration of emerging new paradigms based on subtle-energy sciences.

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