The Bookshelf
Every spring, YSU Magazine sends out a call to university faculty and staff, inviting them to announce their newly published books, computer applications, musical recordings, art and photo exhibitions. We are never disappointed. Read on, and find out why our exceptional YSU faculty and staff make us “Y and Proud!”
Finding Grit: The No Nonsense Guide for Raising Your Daughter to be Successful in Athletics, School and Life, by Don Martin, professor, Counseling.
Drawing from his own experience as the father of two successful adult daughters, Martin’s newest parenting book promotes school sports as a way to build leadership qualities in youth. The author said he observed the connection as a parent and professional counselor – and studies seem to confirm it.
“Sports teach teamwork and develop self esteem. You learn from failure. You develop grit and resilience,” he said. “A lot of parents struggle with developing a child who stays on task, who’s motivated, who wants to succeed. Athletics will help to make that happen.”
Martin and his wife, Magy, co-author of the book and a professional youth and family counselor, saw their daughters succeed academically while playing competitive basketball in high school and college. Both daughters earned doctoral degrees and are now happily employed as college professors.
He cited an Ernst & Young study showing that 94 percent of top women executives played sports and more than half were college athletes. “It kind of proves my theory, that athletics plus academics creates an environment of leadership,” he said.
Finding Grit, published by ArcheBooks Publishing Inc., is Martin’s ninth book. A resident of Beaver, Pa., he joined the YSU faculty in 1999 and serves as coordinator of the School Counseling Program.
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Introduction to Geospatial Technologies, Third edition, by Bradley Shellito, professor, Geography. Published by Macmillan Education, Dec. 2015, 558 pages. The book serves as an introduction to the concepts of geospatial technologies, including Geographic Information Science (computer mapping and analysis), remote sensing (taking imagery from a plane, drone, or satellite), and the Global Positioning System (GPS). The text is used in YSU’s Geospatial Foundations class and has been adopted by more than 100 schools across the United States and Canada. A Youngstown native, Shellito joined the YSU faculty in 2004 and also serves as the university’s principal investigator in OhioView, a statewide geospatial consortium.
Discovering GIS and ArcGIS, Second edition, by Bradley Shellito, professor, Geography. Published by Macmillan Education, Dec. 2016, 592 pages. This text examines the theory and application of Geographic Information Systems, or GIS, and includes hands-on use of the ArcGIS software package, the industry standard for GIS. Shellito’s book is used for two YSU GIS classes and in many other schools across the U.S. |
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Understanding Sharon Olds by Russell Brickey, adjunct instructor, English. Published by University of South Carolina Press, November 2016, 149 pages. The book explores the career of Pulitzer Prize winning writer Sharon Olds, the controversies and successes of her intimate "confessional" poetry about often taboo subjects including sexuality, gender, married life and alcoholism in America.
Teen Pregnancy and Parenting: Rethinking the Myths and Misperceptions, by Jaelyn R. Farris, assistant professor, Psychology, with Keri Weed and Jody S. Nicholson. Published by Routledge 2015, 220 pages. This book identifies core controversies surrounding teen pregnancy and parenting, and resolves prevalent myths and misperceptions using findings from large-scale empirical research. This is the author’s second book. She joined the YSU faculty in August 2016.
Violence and the World's Religious Traditions, co-edited by Michael Jerryson, associate professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, with Margo Kitts and Mark Juergensmeyer. Published by Oxford University Press, December 2016, 256 pages. The book contains a collection of essays that examine the relationship between violence and the world's most prominent religious traditions, with an introduction written by Jerryson.
NCLEX-RN Questions & Answers Made Incredibly Easy!, 7th Edition, by Susan A. Lisko, associate professor, Nursing. Published by LLW, 2016, 921 pages. The text and its companion electronic resources are designed to help pre-licensure nursing students prepare for the licensing examination, with thousands of questions at the application level or above to prompt active learning and higher-order thinking. A Canfield resident, Lisko joined the YSU Nursing faculty in 1995.|
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Public Speaking in the Age of Technology, by Daniel J. O'Neill, professor, Communication, and Adam C. Earnheardt, associate professor and chair, Communication. The e-text is published by Great River Learning Publishing Co., 2016. A web text, it is easily accessed online by teachers and students alike for the teaching of public speaking. Both authors have published several textbooks, and this one emerged from an earlier collaboration with the same publisher.
Beliefs and Practices: Taking a Fresh Look, by Tom Shipka, professor emeritus, Philosophy and Religious Studies. Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 2014, 240 pages. The book promotes critical thinking and skepticism by challenging readers to evaluate their long-held beliefs and practices. Shipka, of Austintown, joined YSU in 1969. He served as chair of Philosophy and Religious Studies from 1986-2006, when he retired, but he continued to teach part-time until 2015.
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism, edited by Michael Jerryson, associate professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies. Published by Oxford University Press, November 2016, 760 pages. The text offers a collection of work by leading scholars tracking the changes in Buddhism as a diverse religious system. Taken together, the book provides a blueprint to understanding Buddhism's past and uses it to explore the ways in which Buddhism has transformed in the 20th and 21st centuries. Jerryson joined the YSU faculty in 2013. He has authored or co-edited several books and co-edits the Journal of Religion and Violence.
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Introduction to Human Gross Anatomy, Second Edition, by Mark D. Womble, professor of Biological Sciences and Graduate Program director. Published by Van-Griner Publishing, 2016, 476 pages, 349 figures. The text provides in-depth coverage of human anatomy for pre-medical and other pre-professional undergraduate students and is the textbook used in the YSU course Introduction to Human Gross Anatomy. A Liberty Township resident, Womble joined the YSU faculty in 1995. |
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Producer Consciousness, co-authored by Homer Warren, professor emeritus, Marketing, and Linette Stratford, an attorney and adjunct faculty, Philosophy and Religion Studies. Published by Blurb, Inc., 2016, 320 pages. The book discusses why the social, political, economic and business problems the nation faces require a different consciousness. Warren taught for 35 years for YSU. A Youngstown resident, Warren joined the university in 1978. Stratford lives in Austintown and has been teaching at YSU since 2012.
Fair Trade, by Katie McGinley, instructor, English. Published by Crimson Romance, a Simon and Schuster company, December 2015, 188 pages; and What Happens in Vegas, self-published, 2016, 151 pages. McGinley has been writing contemporary hockey romances under her maiden name, Katie Kenyhercz, for the past three years. Vegas is part of her Las Vegas Sinners series that contains five full-length books and two novellas.
Concert pianist Caroline Oltmanns, professor of Piano in the Dana School of Music, released her sixth solo recording, a concept album titled Ghosts. The recording, on the Filia Mundi label, features works by Schumann, Brahms, Chopin and Wilding. Oltmanns, a native of Germany who came to YSU in 1994, recently established an endowment, “88 Hearts for Youngstown,” a fund to support scholarships for piano students at YSU.
Cicilia Yudha, assistant professor of Piano, in the Dana School of Music, has released her first solo recording, titled Selected Piano Works by Robert Casadesus and Henri Dutilleux. The CD, released by Navona Records, features piano pieces that date back to the post World War II period, from 1945 to 1951. Yudha joined the YSU faculty four years ago.
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Boundless, a two-person exhibit and gallery debut held Oct. 7 – Nov. 4, 2016, at Visions West Gallery in Denver, featured the watercolor works of JenMarie Zeleznak, part-time Art faculty, and the work of sculptor Crystal Morey. The exhibition was featured in the October 2016 edition of American Art Collector magazine. Zeleznak’s work will also be on display in September at the National Museum of Wildlife Art as part of its Western Visions Exhibition. Zeleznak began teaching at YSU this fall. She lives in Cleveland.
Tacit Aligning, a one-person art exhibit featuring the work of Dragana Crnjak, associate professor, Art, was on display Nov. 4 -Dec. 3 at Page Bond gallery in Richmond, Va. The exhibition, which included 12 large scale acrylic-on-canvas paintings, was Crnjak’s 16th one-person exhibit since joining YSU in 2006.
Claudia Berlinski: Regional Photography Exhibition, an exhibit of photographs by Claudia Berlinski, assistant professor, Art Foundations, was on display from Sept. 2016, through Feb. 5 at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown. The exhibition included 21 iPhone photographs printed on aluminum panels. One series of photos, titled Jamal, meaning “beauty,” featured images shot in Turkey and were funded by a University Research Council Grant from YSU. A Cortland resident, Berlinski started teaching at YSU in 2000 as adjunct faculty and was hired as a full-time assistant professor in 2012.
Richard C. Mitchell, professor emeritus, Art, curated “The Vaudeville Team of Jesse Block & Eva Sully,” an exhibition of family album photographs, that was on display Oct. 25 – Dec. 7, 2016, at Thiel College in Greenville, Pa. Three of his photos were also included in the Fotofocus Biennial Photography Exhibition, an invitational exhibit at Sinclair College in Dayton. Mitchell joined the YSU faculty in 1966, retired in 2006 and continued teaching part-time until 2011.