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Children at Promise: 9 Principles to Help Kids Thrive in an At-Risk World
By Timothy S. Stuart and Cheryl Bostrom '80
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
By Jan Walker '60
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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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.
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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.
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Is Self-Employment for You?
By Paul E. Casey '75
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
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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