USU 2022 Faculty Author Circular

USU FA C U LT Y AUTHOR CIRCULAR

TA B L E O F CONTENTS

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Education for Democracy: A Renewed Approach to Civic Inquiries for Social Justices Steven P. Camicia, Ryan Knowles

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Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work: Theories, Methodologies, and Pedagogies * Rebecca Walton

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The AFIB Cure: Get Off Your Medications, Take Control of Your Health, and Add Years to Your Life * Matthew D. LaPlante

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Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender and Coexistence Susan M. Cogan

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Error Correction Coding: Mathematical Methods and Algorithms, Second Edition Todd K. Moon

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Challenges in Mechanics of Time Dependent Materials, Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics * Ryan B. Berke

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Exceptional Me: How Donald Trump Exploited the Discourse of American Exceptionalism * Jason Gilmore

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Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics * Ryan B. Berke

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Common Bees of Eastern North America * Joseph S. Wilson

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How Sherlock Pulled the Trick: Spiritualism and the Pseudoscientific Method Brian McCuskey

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Proclaim Peace: The Restoration’s Answer to an Age of Conflict * Patrick Q. Mason

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An Introduction to Behavior Analysis * Gregory J. Madden

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Mark Gruenwald and the Star Spangled Symbolism of Captain America, 1985-1995 Jason Olsen

Systematic Methods for Analyzing Culture: A Practical Guide * H.J. Francois Dengah, II

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Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid and Multifunctional Materials, Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics * Ryan B. Berke

Working Well with Babies: Comprehensive Competencies for Educators of Infants and Toddlers * Lori Roggman

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Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction Li Guo

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The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora Felipe Valencia

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Young Subjects: Children, State-Building, and Social Reform in the Eighteenth-Century French World Julia M. Gossard

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Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New Knowledge Ecology * Joshua J. Thoms

The Faculty Author Circular recognizes USU faculty who published a book in the previous year. USU Libraries and the Office of Research would like to acknowledge this impressive accomplishment that 19 members of our faculty achieved in 2021.

Congratulations to our faculty on their accomplishments!

* Publication has contributors from multiple institutions. This booklet is intended to recognize USU researchers.

The AFIB Cure: Get Off Your Medications, Take Control of Your Health, and Add Years to Your Life Matthew D. LaPlante Journalism and Communication Most doctors will tell you that there isn’t much you can do to treat atrial fibrillation, aside from taking medications for the rest of your life.

Cardiologists and a-fib specialists John D. Day and T. Jared Bunch disagree.

In clear, accessible, patient-centric language, Drs. Day and Bunch share their revolutionary approach to treating atrial fibrillation, developed through a combined 53 years working with a-fib patients.

The effectiveness of their plan has been proven through countless medical studies. And now, in The AFib Cure: Get Off Your Medications, Take Control of Your Health, and Add Years to Your Life, they share that plan with you.

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Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence Susan M. Cogan History Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence explores the lived experience of Catholic women and men in the post-Reformation century. Set against the background of the gendered dynamics of English society, this book demonstrates that English Catholics were potent forces in the shaping of English culture, religious policy, and the emerging nation-state. Drawing on kinship and social relationships rooted in the medieval period, postReformation English Catholic women and men used kinship, social networks, gendered strategies, political actions, and cultural activities like architecture and gardening to remain connected to patrons and to ensure the survival of their families through a period of deep social and religious change. This book contributes to recent scholarship on religious persecution and coexistence in post-Reformation Europe by demonstrating how English Catholics shaped state policy and enforcement of religious minorities and helped to define the character of early models of citizenship formation.

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Challenges in Mechanics of Time Dependent Materials, Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics Ryan B. Berke Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Challenges in Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, Volume 2 of the Proceedings of the 2019 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the second volume of six from the Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of experimental mechanics, including papers in general technical research areas, such as characterization across length scales, damage, fatigue and fracture, and rate effects in elastomers.

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Common Bees of Eastern North America Joseph S. Wilson Biology Bees play a vitally important role in the pollination of native plants and agricultural crops around the globe. Common Bees of Eastern North America is the first species-level photographic field guide to the most commonly seen bees in the eastern United States and Canada.

Identifying bees to species is challenging even for taxonomists.

This book walks you through the process of bee identification using breathtaking high-resolution color photos that highlight the unique characteristics of each species, making identification easier.

Full of essential facts about the natural history of these magnificent creatures, this is the must-have field guide for naturalists and backyard gardeners alike.

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Education for Democracy: A Renewed Approach to Civic Inquiries for Social Justice Steven P. Camicia Ryan Knowles School of Teacher Education and Leadership This book presents a vision of education for democracy built around promoting equity and social justice. In doing so, Camicia and Knowles challenge many of the common perspectives of democratic education, deliberation, and the common good. The authors have published widely on the topic of education for democracy. This book builds upon their work to assist practicing teachers, teacher educators, graduate students, and educational researchers in understanding the background of education for democracy, as well as new directions for the field.

While one of the primary goals of public schools is to teach students how to build better communities, this goal is increasingly difficult given the degree of political polarization within societies. Recent events provide no shortage of challenges to democracy in the United States and beyond. Utilizing theory and research, Camicia and Knowles promote instructional methods that are responsive to changing cultural and political contexts.

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Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work: Theories, Methodologies, and Pedagogies Rebecca Walton English Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work provides action-focused resources and tools—heuristics, methodologies, and theories—for scholars to enact social justice. These resources support the work of scholars and practitioners in conducting research and teaching classes in socially just ways. Each chapter identifies a tool, highlights its relevance to technical communication, and explains how and why it can prepare technical communication scholars for socially just work.

For the field of technical and professional communication to maintain its commitment to this work, how social justice intersects with inclusivity through UX, technological, civic, and legal literacies, as well as through community engagement, must be acknowledged. Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work will be of significance to established scholar-teachers and graduate students, as well as to newcomers to the field.

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Error Correction Coding: Mathematical Methods and Algorithms, Second Edition Todd K. Moon Electrical and Computer Engineering Error Correction Coding: Mathematical Methods and Algorithms, Second Edition provides a comprehensive introduction to classical and modern methods of error correction. The presentation provides a clear, practical introduction to using a lab-oriented approach. Readers are encouraged to implement the encoding and decoding algorithms with explicit algorithm statements and the mathematics used in error correction, balanced with an algorithmic development on how to actually do the encoding and decoding. Both block and stream (convolutional) codes are discussed, and the mathematics required to understand them are introduced on a “just-in-time” basis as the reader progresses through the book.

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Exceptional Me: How Donald Trump Exploited the Discourse of American Exceptionalism Jason Gilmore Communication Studies and Philosophy Donald Trump has forged a unique relationship with American exceptionalism, parting ways with how American politicians have long communicated this idea to the American public. Through systematic comparative analyses, this book details the various ways that Trump strategically altered and exploited the discourse of American exceptionalism to elevate not the nation, but himself personally, professionally, and politically. Jason Gilmore and Charles Rowling call this Trump’s Exceptional Me Strategy and they document how it made Trump different from every president in modern American history.

Beginning with the 2016 election, the authors show how Trump broke with tradition and instead of championing American exceptionalism, he actively portrayed the nation as an un-exceptional mess in need of a saviour. Gilmore and Rowling illustrate how from the outset Trump’s conception of American exceptionalism had almost nothing to do with the country’s institutions, ideals, or its people.

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Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics Ryan B. Berke Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the third volume of seven from the Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas.

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How Sherlock Pulled the Trick: Spiritualism and the Pseudoscientific Method Brian McCuskey English A masterful combination of literary study and author biography, How Sherlock Pulled the Trick guides us through the parallel careers of two inseparable men: Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Reconsidering Holmes in light of Doyle’s well-known belief in Victorian spiritualism, Brian McCuskey argues that the so-called scientific detective follows the same circular logic, along the same trail of questionable evidence, that led Doyle to the séance room. Fascinating and highly readable, How Sherlock Pulled the Trick returns the iconic Holmes to his mystical origins.

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An Introduction to Behavior Analysis Gregory J. Madden Psychology An Introduction to Behavior Analysis delivers an engaging and comprehensive introduction to the concepts and applications for graduate students of behavior analysis. Written from the ground up to capture and hold student interest, the book keeps its focus on practical issues.

The book offers readers sound analyses of Pavlovian and operant learning, reinforcement and punishment, motivation and stimulus control, language and rule-following, decisionmaking and clinical behavior analysis.

With fully up-to-date empirical research references and theoretical content, An Introduction to Behavior Analysis thoroughly justifies every principle it describes with empirical support and explicitly points out where more data are required.

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Mark Gruenwald and the Star Spangled Symbolism of Captain America, 1985-1995 Jason Olsen English This book dissects the influence of the world at large on Gruenwald’s stories and the subsequent influence of Gruenwald’s work on the world of comics. The book’s ten chapters discuss a wide range of topics including the generational tensions inherent in a comic about a G.I. Generation hero, written by a baby boomer, for an audience of Gen Xers; the enduring threat of the Red Skull and the never-ending aura of World War II; the rising popularity of vigilante characters during the ‘90s; and how Captain America fits into the war on drugs and its “just say no” mentality. Set against the declining American patriotism of the 1980s and 1990s, this book places special emphasis on the symbolism of the most American of superheroes.

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Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid and Multifunctional Materials, Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics Ryan B. Berke Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials, Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the third volume of four from the Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas.

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The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora Felipe Valencia World Languages and Cultures In The Melancholy Void Felipe Valencia examines this reconstruction of the lyric in key texts of Spanish poetry from 1580 to 1620. Through a study of canonical and influential texts, such as the major poems by Luis de Góngora and the epic of Alonso de Ercilla, but also lesser-known texts, such as the lyrics by Miguel de Cervantes, The Melancholy Void addresses four understudied problems in the scholarship of early modern Spanish poetry: the use of gender violence in love poetry as a way to construct the masculinity of the poetic speaker; the exploration in Spanish poetry of the link between melancholy and male creativity; the impact of epic on Spanish lyric; and the Spanish contribution to the fledgling theory of the lyric.

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Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New Knowledge Ecology Joshua J. Thoms World Languages and Cultures This book contextualizes open education in foreign language (FL) learning and teaching through historical overview of the movement, along with an in-depth exploration of how the open movement affects FL education beyond the classroom context; fills the research void by exploring aspects of open second language learning and teaching across a range of educational contexts; and illustrates new ways of creating, adapting and curating FL materials that are freely shared among FL educators and students.

This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.

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Proclaim Peace: The Restoration’s Answer to an Age of Conflict Patrick Q. Mason History This book is a spiritual journey by two believing scholars of peace.

In a world plagued by violence, Mason and Pulsipher believe, with President Russell M. Nelson, that “peace is possible” and that the “descendants of Abraham . . . are in a pivotal position to emerge as peacemakers” (“Blessed Are the Peacemakers,” Ensign, Nov. 2002).

This book is an effort to lift up the Restoration’s distinctive principles that invite us to renounce violence and proclaim Christ’s good news of love and peace to a world that desperately needs it.

Proclaim Peace seeks not to promote any particular ideology, but to invite readers, especially the rising generation, to reflect on the interpersonal, ethical, and social dimensions of Christian discipleship.

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Systematic Methods for Analyzing Culture: A Practical Guide H.J. Francois Dengah, II Sociology and Anthropology Systematic Methods for Analyzing Culture is a practical manual that provides step-by-step instruction for collecting and analyzing cultural data. This compact guide explains complex topics in straightforward and practical terms, via research examples, textual and visual software guides, and hands-on exercises.

Through each chapter’s introductory examples, the manual illustrates how socially learned knowledge provides group members with shared understandings of the world, which allow for mutually intelligible interactions. The authors then carefully walk readers through the process of eliciting those socially learned, shared, and thus cultural representations of reality, which structure the thinking and practice of individuals inhabiting social groups. Specifically, the book shows how researchers can elicit such thought and behavior via methods such as free lists, pile sorts, cultural consensus and consonance analysis, textual analysis, and personal network research.

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Working Well with Babies: Comprehensive Competencies for Educators of Infants and Toddlers Lori Roggman Human Development and Family Studies Working Well with Babies describes the comprehensive competencies (including the knowledge, dispositions, and skills) that educators of infants and toddlers must have to provide optimal support for infants and toddlers.

Designed as a learning resource for both in-service and preservice infant/toddler practitioners, this text details the nine competency dimensions of infant/toddler educators developed by the Collaborative for Understanding the Pedagogy of Infant/ Toddler Development (CUPID).

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Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction Li Guo World Languages and Cultures Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction offers a timely study on early modern Chinese women’s representations of gender, nation, and political activism in their tanci works before and after the Taiping Rebellion (1850 to 1864), as well as their depictions of warfare and social unrest.

Women tanci authors’ redefinition of female exemplarity within the Confucian orthodox discourses of virtue, talent, chastity, and political integrity could be bourgeoning expressions of female exceptionalism and could have foreshadowed protofeminist ideals of heroism. They establish a realistic tenor in affirming feminine domestic authority, and open up spaces for discussions of “womanly becoming,” female exceptionalism, and shifting family power structures.

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Young Subjects: Children, State-Building, and Social Reform in the Eighteenth-Century French World Julia M. Gossard History Across the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of statebuilding initiatives, social reform programs, and imperial expansion efforts. Young Subjects explores the lives and experiences of these youth, revealing their role as active and vital agents in the shaping of early modern France. Through a set of regional case studies, Julia Gossard demonstrates how thousands of children and youth were engaged in the service of the state.

As sources of labour, future taxpayers, colonial subjects, cultural mediators, and potential criminals, children and youth were objects of intense interest for civic authorities. Young Subjects refocuses our attention on these often overlooked historical subjects who helped to build France.

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