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DISCOVER Vocation Resources Library

Author Index

Albion, Mark S.

      Making a Life, Making a Living : Reclaiming Your Purpose and Passion in Business and in Life. New York : Warner Books, 2000.

Astin, Alexander

      Cultivating the Spirit: How College Can Enhance Students' Inner Lives. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2010.

Bass, Dorothy C. 

      Leading Lives That Matter. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 2006.

      On Our Way: Christian Practices for Living a Whole LifeNashville, TN : Upper Room Books, 2010.

      Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching PeopleSan Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2010.

Benefiel, Margaret

      Soul at Work: Spiritual Leadership in Organizations. New York: Seabury Books, 2005.

Benne, Robert

      Quality with Soul: How Six Premier Colleges and Universities Keep Faith with Their Religious Traditions. Grand Rapids, MI : Eerdmans, 2001.

Bolles, Richard Nelson

      What Color is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career Changers. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2013.

Bronson, Po

      What Should I Do with My Life? The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question. New York : Random House, 2002.

Carr, Robert Owen

     Through the Fires: An American Business Story of Turbulence, Triumph and Giving Back. Self-published. 2014.

Clydesdale, Timothy

      The First Year Out: Understanding American Teens After High School. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

     The Purposeful Graduate: Why Colleges Must Talk to Students About Vocation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Coelho, Paulo

      The Alchemist. New York : HarperOne, 1998.

Crawford, Matthew B.

      Shop Class as Soulcraft : An Inquiry into the Value of Work. New York : Penguin Books, 2010.

Cunningham, David S., ed.

     At This Time and In This Place: Vocation and Higher Education. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

     Vocation Across the Academy: A New Vocabulary for Higher Education. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly

      Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. New York: Harper Perennial, 1996.

Daloz, Laurent A. Parks

      Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1996.

Damon, William

      Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their Calling in Life. New York : Free Press, 2009.

Dik, Bryan J.

      Make Your Job a Calling : How the Psychology of Vocation Can Change Your Life at Work. West Conshohocken, PA : Templeton Press, 2012.

Edwards, Mark U. 

      Religion on Our Campuses: A Professor's Guide to Communities, Conflicts, and Promising Conversations. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Ellwood, Robert. 

      Introducing Religion. Boston : Pearson, 2014.

Frankl, Victor E.

      Man's Search for Meaning. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2006.

Garber, Steven.

     Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Press, 2014.

Gordon, Jon. 

      The Seed: Finding Purpose and Happiness in Life and Work. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2011.

Grisez, Germain Gabriel.

     Personal Vocation: God Calls Everyone by Name. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, 2003.

Guillebeau, Chris.

      Happiness of Pursuit : Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life. New York: Harmony Books, 2014.

Guinness, Os.

      The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life. Nashville, Tenn. : W Pub. Group, 2003.

Hahnenberg, Edward P. 

      Awakening Vocation: A Theology of Christian Call. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2010.

Hanegraaff, Hank. 

      Afterlife: What You Need to Know about Heaven, the Hereafter and Near-Death Experiences. Brentwood, Tenn. : Worthy Pub., 2013.

Haughey, John C., S.J.

      Revisiting the Idea of Vocation: Theological Explorations. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2004.

      Where is Knowing Going?: The Horizons of the Knowing Subject. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2009.

Hendley, Doc. 

      Wine to Water: How One Man Saved Himself While Trying to Save the World. New York : Avery, 2012.

Hiebert, Paul G. 

      Transforming Worldviews: An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2008.

Jensen, David H. 

      Responsive Labor: A Theology of Work. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2006.

Kabat-Zinn, Jon. 

      Wherever You Go, There You Are. New York: Hyperion, 1994.

Keller, Timothy J. 

      Every Good Endeavor. New York : Dutton, 2012.

Lewis University

     Journeys to Purpose: The DISCOVER Stories Project. Romeoville, IL: Envision 3, 2019.

Loeb, Paul Rogat.

      The Impossible Will Take a Little While. New York : Basic Books, 2014.

Mahan, Brian. 

      Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose: Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition. San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Martin, James, S.J. 

      The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life. New York : HarperCollins, 2010.

Martin, Stephen. 

      Messy Quest for Meaning : Five Catholic Practices for Finding Your Vocation. Notre Dame, Ind. : Sorin Books, 2012.

McGuinness, Margaret M. 

      Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America. New York : New York University Press, 2013.

McLaughlin, Terence, Brother.

      Blessed to Teach. 2010.

Merton, Thomas. 

      The Seven Storey Mountain. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1999.

Migliazzo, Arlin C., ed. 

      Teaching as an Act of FaithNew York : Fordham University Press, 2002.

Miller, Donald. 

      A Million Miles in a Thousand Years : How I Learned to Live a Better Story. Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, 2009.

Muldoon, Tim.

Living Against the Grain: How to Make Decisions That Lead to an Authentic Life. Chicago, IL: Loyola Press, 2017.

Neafsey, John. 

      A Sacred Voice is Calling: Personal Vocation and Social Conscience. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2006.

Norris, Kathleen. 

      Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. New York : Riverhead Books, 1998.

      The Cloister Walk. New York : Riverhead Books, 1997.

Palmer, Parker

      Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2000.

      The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2007.

      To Know As We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey. New York, NY: HarperOne, 1993.

Parks, Sharon Daloz

      Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith (10th Anniversary revised ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2011.

Placher, William C.

      Callings : Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, 2005.

Rath, Tom. 

      Strengths Finder 2.0. New York : Gallup Press, 2007.

Ray, Darby Kathleen. 

      Working. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2011.

Reilly, James Marshall. 

      Shake the World: It's Not About Finding a Job, It's About Creating a Life. New York : Portfolio/Penguin, 2011.

Riley, Naomi Schaefer. 

      God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation are Changing America. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2006.

Robinson, Ken. 

      The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. New York : Penguin Group, 2009.

Roche, Mark William. 

      Why Choose the Liberal Arts? Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.

Rose, Mike. 

      Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker. New York : Penguin Books, 2005.

Schuster, John P. 

      Answering Your Call: A Guide to Living Your Deepest Purpose. San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler, 2003.

Schuurman, Douglas James. 

      Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, 2004.

Schwehn, Kaethe.

      Claiming Our Callings: Toward a New Understanding of Vocation in the Liberal ArtsNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Schwehn, Mark R.

      Exiles from Eden : Religion and the Academic Vocation in America. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.

      Leading Lives That MatterGrand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 2006.

Simon, Caroline Joyce.

      Mentoring for Mission: Nurturing New Faculty at Church-Related Colleges. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 2003.

Smith, Christian. 

       Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

      Souls in Transition : The Religious and Spiritual Live of Emerging Adults. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Stevens, R. Paul. 

      Work Matters: Lessons from Scripture. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, 2012.

Terkel, Studs. 

      Working. New York : New Press, 2004.

Van Grieken, George Adrian. 

      Touching the Hearts of Our Students: Characteristics of Lasallian Schools. Landover, MD : Christian Brothers Publications, 1999.

Veith, Gene Edward.

     God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2002.