Books by Alums

  • The cover features two men sitting in front of musical equipment. The cover is in black and white.
    Mueller examines how musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus used the jazz industry’s adoption of the long-playing record (LP) to redefine the uneven power relations of the heavily segregated music business.
  • The cover says "the safety effect" and has a carabiner on it.
    Psychological safety is the primary driver of team effectiveness at Google, and organizations with high psychological safety often outperform their peers, but companies continue to fail to create psychologically safe work environments. In The Safety Effect, David Moerlein provides the tools to overcome the three barriers to creating psychological safety.
  • A woman stands in a heavy coat, facing the sky with the Northern Lights. The cover says "teaching in the dark: a memoir"
    A young teacher buys a one-way ticket to Shishmaref, Alaska. Within minutes of landing, she finds herself dealing with unexpected, rustic accommodations, and the culture shock of living in a remote Iñuit community.
  • The cover is white with a green ball of yarn and a blue ball of yarn, strands of yarn from each ball form a bow
    The urgency for educators to commit to diversity and equity work in their schools calls for a framework that will help narrow achievement and opportunity gaps. This book offers the guidance you need to nurture strong family-school partnerships that are essential for student success.
  • The cover is white with traditional Native American carvings featured.
    Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver, with its extensive illustrations, is the story of a remarkable and underrecognized figure of twentieth-century Navajo artistic creation and innovation.
  • The cover is white with faint tropical leaf designs and a green rooster pictured with tropical designs inside the body of the rooster. The title of the cover is featured in green lettering.
    Kaua'i Rooster Stories and Other Tropical Tales is a collection of stories by Roger Lepley, an enthusiast of the stunning Hawaiian island and its countless jungle fowl.
  • The cover is made to look like wooden boards with a small image of the inside of a tree house with a boy sitting and looking at the floor.  It reads the title: Growing Up Aspen, Adventures of the Unsupervised.
    Growing Up Aspen is the inside scoop on Aspen, Colorado in the '70s and '80s.
  • The cover is dark with blue and yellow swirls creating a galaxy-like effect and reads the title "An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe".
    What happened before the primordial fire of the Big Bang: a theory about the ultimate origin of the universe.
  • The cover is yellow and reads "How AI Works: From Sorcery to Science". It features a witches hat being lifted to reveal a robot typing on a computer underneath.
    AI isn’t magic. How AI Works demystifies the explosion of artificial intelligence by explaining—without a single mathematical equation—what happened, when it happened, why it happened, how it happened, and what AI is actually doing "under the hood."
  • The cover features a black and white photograph of a man and woman dressed in clothing from the WWII era- the man wears an army uniform and the woman is wearing a dress. The title says SFC: A Poor Mans Battle
    A 20th Century journey through military and domestic battlefields.
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