Faculty Books and Monographs

Books and monographs written or edited in whole or in part by University of Nebraska Omaha faculty are collected here.

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The Symposium Proceedings of the 1998 Air Transport Research Group (ATRG), Volume 2

Aisling Reynolds-Feighan, Brent D. Bowen, and UNO Aviation Institute

UNOAI Report 98-4
The Symposium Proceedings of the 1998 Air Transport Research Group (ATRG), Volume 3

Aisling Reynolds-Feighan, Brent D. Bowen, and UNO Aviation Institute

UNOAI Report 98-5
International Encyclopedia Of Public Policy And Administration

Jay Shafritz, Dale Krane, and Deil S. Wright

Editor: Jay Shafritz

"Federalism" authored by Dale Krane, UNO faculty member.

"Intergovernmental Relations" co-authored by Dale Krane, UNO faculty member.

"Intergovernmental Management" co-authored by Dale Krane, UNO faculty member.

Public administration—the implementation side of government—is becoming an increasingly international discipline. Public policy—the decisionmaking side of modern government—has often been segregated from the administration of policy decisions. This four-volume encyclopedia is the first major international and comprehensive reference to combine public administration and policy in a single work.Containing approximately 900 articles by over 300 experts, the International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration covers all of the core concepts, terms, and processes of the following areas: applied behavioral science, budgeting, comparative public administration, development administration, industrial/organizational psychology, industrial policy, international trade, labor relations, management, nonprofit management, organization theory and behavior, policy analysis, political economy, political science, public administration, public finance, public law, public management, public personnel administration, public policy, and taxation.The reader will also find entries on individuals who made significant intellectual and technical contributions to the development of public policy and administration, such as Louis Brownlow, John Maynard Keynes, and Leonard White; significant organizations such as the American Society for Public Administration, the International Institute of Administrative Sciences, and the National Academy of Public Administration; and historically important committees or commissions, such as the Fulton Committee in Great Britain or the Hoover Commission in the United States.Each article tackles its subject from a generic perspective with examples from as wide a range of states as practical. Typically, an article deals with historical and theoretical developments, then explains how relevant concepts and practices are applied in varying cultures, such as the United States, Western Europe, or Asia, and in varying regimes, such as presidential, parliamentary, or monarchical. An underlying theme of the encyclopedia is that the various aspects of public administration in all developed states are essentially the same.The International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration presents the best of modern scholarship in an accessible form for an international audience. It is designed so that its contents—a combination of historical and descriptive articles, procedural presentations, and interpretive essays—will be accessible to the general reader as well as of interest to the specialist. Destined to become the basic reference book for public policy and administration, this encyclopedia will be an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and practitioners throughout the world.
Writing the Community: Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Composition

Linda Adler-Kassner, Robert Crooks, Ann Watters, Edward Zlotkowski, and Nora Bacon

Chapter: Community Service Writing: Problems, Challenges, Questions," authored by Nora Bacon, UNO faculty member.

The first volume in AAHE and Campus Compact’s series on service-learning in the disciplines, the book discusses the microrevolution in college-level Composition through service-learning. The essays in this volume show why service-learning and communication are a natural pairing and give a background on the relationship between service-learning and communication with maps to suggest where it should go in the future.
The Airline Quality Rating 1997

Brent Bowen, Dean Headley, and UNO Aviation Institute

UNOAI Report 97-9

The Airline Quality Rating (AQR) was developed and first announced in early 1991 as an objective method of comparing airline performance on combined multiple factors important to consumers. Development history and calculation details for the AQR rating system are detailed in The Airline Quality Rating 1991 issued in April, 1991, by the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University. This current report, Airline Quality Rating 1997, contains monthly Airline Quality Rating scores for 1996. Additional copies are available by contacting Wichita State University or University of Nebraska at Omaha. The Airline Quality Rating 1997 is a summary of month-by-month quality ratings for the nine major domestic U.S. airlines operating during 1996. Using the Airline Quality Rating system and monthly performance data for each airline for the calendar year of 1996, individual and comparative ratings are reported. This research monograph contains a brief summary of the AQR methodology, detailed data and charts that track comparative quality for major domestic airlines across the 12 month period of 1996, and industry average results. Also, comparative Airline Quality Rating data for 1991 through 1995 are included to provide a longer term view of quality in the industry.
Television News and the Elderly: Broadcast Managers' Attitudes Toward Older Adults

Michael L. Hilt

This concise survey investigates the television general managers’ and news directors’ attitudes towards the elderly in the United States. Originally published in 1997, it raises important issues of ageing in relation to the media with specific focus on the older viewer’s status as a viewing audience of the news and how they are presented in the news. This is still useful food for thought for gerontologists, mass communication researchers, social psychologists and media studies researchers.
Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace: The Role of Newspaper Syndicates in America, 1860-1900

Charles Johanningsmeier

Conventional literary history has virtually ignored the role of newspaper syndicates in publishing some of the most famous nineteenth-century writers. Henry James, Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain were among those who offered their early fiction to "Syndicates", firms that subsequently sold the work to newspapers across America for simultaneous, first-time publication. Charles Johanningsmeier shows how the economic practicalities of the syndicate system governed the consumption and interpretation of various literary texts. His study revises the conception of traditional literary history by examining the ordinary reader's response to some of the major writers of the nineteenth century.
Thresholds in Feminist Geography: Difference, Methodology, and Representation

John Paul Jones III, Heidi J. Nast, and Susan M. Roberts

Editors: John Paul Jones III, Heidi J. Nast, Susan M. Roberts

Chapter 10, Feminist Critical Realism: A Method for Gender and Work Studies in Geography, authored by Karen Falconer Al-Hindi, UNO faculty member.

This innovative collection explores the concept of space as it relates to feminist studies. Utilizing a range of theoretical perspectives, a distinguished group of international scholars crosses over the "thresholds" of difference, methodology, and representation that challenge feminist geography.

The contributors extend our understanding of spatial connections, including the role of social space in the construction of gendered and sexed identities, the need to sensitize feminist methodology to "place" contexts, and the importance of examining representations as sociopolitical and spatial artifacts. This volume has broad interdisciplinary appeal while pointing in specific directions for new research areas, new thresholds, within the discipline of geography.
Postmodernism, “Reality” and Public Administration: A Discourse

Hugh T. Miller, Charles J. Fox, and Gary S. Marshall

Chapter, Deconstructing Administrative Behavior: The “Real” as Representation, authored by Gary Marshall, UNO faculty member.
The Conference Proceedings of the 1997 Air Transport Research Group (ATRG) of the WCTR Society Vol. 1, No. 3

Tae Hoon Oum, Brent D. Bowen, and UNO Aviation Institute

UNOAI Report 97-4
The Conference Proceedings of the 1997 Air Transport Research Group (ATRG) of the WCTR Society Vol. 2, No. 2

Tae Hoon Oum, Brent D. Bowen, and UNO Aviation Institute

UNOAI Report 97-6
The Conference Proceedings of the 1997 Air Transport Research Group (ATRG) of the WCTR Society Vol. 3, No. 1

Tae Hoon Oum, Brent D. Bowen, and UNO Aviation Institute

UNOAI Report 97-7
The Conference Proceedings of the 1997 Air Transport Research Group (ATRG) of the WCTR Society, Vol. 1, No. 1

Tae Hoon Oum, Brent Bowen, and UNO Aviation Institute

UNOAI Report 97-2
Economic Restructuring and Local Environmental Management in the Czech Republic

Petr Pavlinek

This volume employs a geographical perspective to investigate the nature of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe, and its implications for the quality of the environment. The text focuses on four areas of investigation: economic transition from centrally planned to a market economy in coal mining and the petrochemical industry; political transition from the one party system to a democratic society and its implications for the local government system; effects of economic and political transitions on the quality of the environment and local environmental management; and popular attitudes of most district citizens toward democratization, economic change and the environment.
Foundations of Intelligent Systems

Zbigniew W. Ras, Andrzej Skowron, Qiuming Zhu, and Z. Chen

Editors: Zbigniew W. Ras and Andrzej Skowron

Chapter, Knowledge Discovery from Databases with the Guidance of a Causal Network, co-authored by Qiuming Zhu, UNO faculty member

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS'97, held in Charlotte, NC, USA, in October 1997. The 57 revised full papers were selected from a total of 117 submissions. Also included are four invited papers. Among the topics covered are intelligent information systems, approximate reasoning, evolutionary computation, knowledge representation and integration, learning and knowledge discovery, AI-Logics, discovery systems, data mining, query processing, etc.
Message to the Nurse of Dreams: A Collection of Short Fiction

Lisa K. Sandlin

A white high school girl tinkers with the invisible pieces of her life while the black disc jockey says, "This one is dedicated to all you blue-eyed soul sisters out there, hiding what the good Lord gave you. Move into it, babies."

Message to the Nurse of Deams is about growing up in the late 60s in a Texas oil town soaked by Gulf winds, where every kid was one generation removed from the country - a time when black and white got mixed together, half-grown, half children, trying to decide if they were as different as they'd been led to believe all their lives.
Legally Safe Mental Health Practice

Robert H. Woody

Here's an essential work of reference that belongs on the desk of every mental health professional, whether employer or employee. In a question-and-answer format, the psychologist-lawyer author discusses the fundamental legal issues that arise in a mental health practice. The answers to these and many other questions are followed by a list of recommended readings that may be used to study particular points in greater depth.
A Career in Clinical Psychology: From Training to Employment

Robert Henley Woody and Malcolm Higgins Robertson

Co-authored by Robert Henley Woody, UNO faculty member.

This book, A Career in Clinical Psychology: From Training to Employment, is a companion volume to Theories and Methods for Practice of Clinical Psychology by Robertson and Woody. When combined, the two-volume set provides a comprehensive overview of clinical psychology, including history, training, employment opportunities, roles and functions, as well as concepts of normality and psychopathology and theories and strategies of psychological assessment, psychotherapy, and behavioral change. Contemporary "clinical psychology" is wide ranging and its concepts applicable to a number of fields. The concepts of this book are directed particularly to students and practitioners in the specialties of clinical, counseling, and school psychology, but professionals in mental health counseling, marriage and family therapy, pastoral counseling, rehabilitation counseling, social work, psychiatric nursing, and medicine will also benefit from a careful reading of the text.
Theories and Methods for Practice of Clinical Psychology

Robert Henley Woody and Mal Higgins Robertson

Co-authored by Robert Henley Woody, UNO faculty member.

Theories and Methods for Practice of Clinical Psychology is a valuable source of knowledge for advanced undergraduate students who want to explore career options in professional psychology. For graduate students in professional psychology, the book provides an informed understanding of how clinical psychologists currently practice in today's world of healthcare services. Finally, the volume is substantive enough to benefit new and established practitioners. The authors present recent and current developments in the application of the profession's theories and methods against a backdrop of changing social, economic, and political priorities, together with the emergence of new professional roles and expanded healthcare practices.
The Airline Quality Rating 1996

Brent D. Bowen, Dean Headley, and UNO Aviation Institute

UNOAI Report 96-4

The Airline Quality Rating (AQR) was developed and first announced in early 1991 as an objective method of comparing airline performance on combined multiple factors important to consumers. Development history and calculation details for the AQR rating system are detailed in The Airline Quality Rating issued in April, 1991, by the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University. This current report, Airline Quality Rating 1996, contains monthly Airline Quality Rating scores for 1995. Additional copies are available by contacting Wichita State University or the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

The Airline Quality Rating 1996, contains a brief summary of month-by-month quality ratings for the nine major domestic U.S. airlines operating during 1995. Using the Airline Quality Rating system and monthly performance data for each airline for the calendar year of 1995, individual and comparative ratings are reported. This research monograph contains a brief summary of the AQR methodology, detailed data and charts that track comparative quality for major domestic airlines across the 12 month period of 1995, and industry average results. Also, comparative Airline Quality Rating data for 1991 through 1994 is included to provide a longer term view of quality in the industry.
All Music: Essays on the Hermeneutics of Music

Fabio B. Dasilva, David L. Brunsma, Nikitah O. Imani, and Vera Hernan

Chapter, War at 33 1/3: A Pilot Study on the Sociological Effects of Hip-Hop (Rap) Music, co-authored by Nikitah Imani, UNO faculty member.

With essays covering such genres as opera, rap and instrumental music, this work aims to exemplify how music can be analyzed from a socio-cultural perspective. It explores the idea of music itself as a social creation and includes issues such as the social construction of New Age music.
The Agony of Education: Black Students at White Colleges and Universities

Joe Feagin, Vera Hernan, and Nikitah O. Imani

Co-authored by Nikitah Imani, UNO faculty member.

The Agony of Education is about the life experience of African American students attending a historically white university. Based on seventy-seven interviews conducted with black students and parents concerning their experiences with one state university, as well as published and unpublished studies of the black experience at state universities at large, this study captures the painful choices and agonizing dilemmas at the heart of the decisions African Americans must make about higher education.
Field of Vision

Lisa Knopp

In this contemplative collection of essays, Lisa Knopp moves out from the prairies of Nebraska and Iowa to encompass a fully developed vision of light, memory, change, separateness, time, symbols, responsibility, and unity. Knopp charts a stimulating course among the individual, community, and culture that removes the boundaries between self and other, allowing one to become fully present in the world. Her keen vision sees beyond the ordinary to illuminate the mysteries and meanings of our personal and natural worlds.
Broadcast Indecency: F.C.C. Regulation and the First Amendment

Jeremy Harris Lipschultz

This cutting-edge book treats broadcast indecency as a social phenomenon challenging the policy approach of government regulation. It is an exploration of the political and social processes involved in the government control of mass media content. The author, using F.C.C. documents and other sources, studies the complex issue of broadcast indecency and its impact on the mass media and the public. He also challenges assumptions and attempts to place content issues within an international context and to project the future of regulation while offering practical advice to broadcast managers on how to deal with today's broadcast indecency issues.
Stereotypes and Stereotyping

C. Neil Macrae, Charles Stangor, Miles Hewstone, and Carey S. Ryan

Chapter 4: Assessing stereotype accuracy: Implications for understanding the stereotyping process, co-authored by Carey S. Ryan, UNO faculty member.

Where do stereotypes come from? How accurate are they, and how do they affect interpersonal and intergroup relations? Can stereotypes be changed? Stereotypes--structured sets of beliefs about the characteristics of members of social categories--influence how people attend to, encode, represent, and retrieve information about others, and how they judge and respond to them. A comprehensive overview of contemporary research, this volume highlights important approaches that have considerably expanded our understanding of stereotyping in recent years. Integrating cognitive, motivational, emotional, and linguistic perspectives, Stereotypes and Stereotyping demonstrates the diversity and richness of the field today and illuminates new directions for future research.