Word’s Out: Published Works of CSUN Faculty and Alumni

Wendy Weichel Murawski (Special Education)

Wendy Weichel Murawski (Special Education)

Murawski delivers strategies in a “lighthearted, humorous manner” but covers a lot of ground in “Collaborative Teaching in Secondary Schools; Making the Co-Teaching Marriage Work” (Corwin Press) and its companion book for elementary schools. “From the details of starting a co-teaching relationship to the fine art of sustaining the co-teaching union, this book has something for everyone,” said George Mason University’s Peggy King-Sears.

Ogom Peter Nwosu (Communication Studies)

Ogom Peter Nwosu (Communication Studies)

In “Beyond Race” (Tsehai Publishers and the University of South Africa Press), recent American Council on Education Fellow Nwosu examines race issues in American public policy. An internationally recognized expert on multicultural and social science issues, Nwosu offers solutions to issues such as black-Latino relations, building a color-blind society, and more. Schaefer Center for Public Policy public affairs scholar Sam Brown considers the book “politically acute, insightful, and ultimately hopeful.”

Matthew Radmanesh (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Matthew Radmanesh (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

KRC Books.com has just released a three-CD set, “The Superior Foundation for Engineering & Sciences,” in which Radmanesh offers an in-depth discussion on the origin of sciences leading to the discovery of the main components and the final unstacking of our complex universe. The three disks cover topics including time and space at the apex of the pyramid of knowledge, and more advanced concepts.

Takashi Yagisawa (Philosophy)

Takashi Yagisawa (Philosophy)

“Worlds and Individuals Possible and Otherwise” (Oxford University Press) takes on the metaphysics of possibility and impossibility, and defends the position known as “modal realism,” says Yagisawa. “It argues that possible worlds and possible individuals are ‘real’ in some fundamental sense of ‘real,’ ” he says, “by means of a methodology which analogizes possible worlds with temporal moments.”

Marine Boyadzhayan (Family & Consumer Sciences)

Marine Boyadzhayan (Family & Consumer Sciences)

“The Art of Sewing” (Pearson Custom Publishing), Boyadzhyan’s laboratory handbook, was prepared for Clothing Construction I courses in all universities, fashion design institutes and community colleges, in the area of apparel design and merchandising.


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