Educators

T. H. Rigby, 'Harry' Rigby to many colleagues and friends, was a leading pioneer in Soviet Studies during the Cold War. In this memoir he recounts his career as researcher, teacher, public intellectual and sometime adviser to MI6. He includes fascinating...

In the beginning years of the twenty-first century, at a time when Latinos are the most numerous ethnic minority in the United States and a growing part of the middle and professional classes, a Mexican American educator takes stock. Latinos can see that...

William Carol Latta was the 13th member of the Purdue faculty. He became the driving force behind Purdue's world-famous School of Agriculture and initiated extension services that have lasted for more than a century. In 1890, he laid out the first...

Inspired by the centenary of the publication of Booker T. Washington's autobiography, Up From Slavery, this collection of essays reinterprets Washington's career and self-presentation. It also seeks to contextualize our understanding of both the man and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999156247Author J Le'rayFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Heart 2 Heart ServicesPublisher Heart 2 Heart ServicesWeight(grams) 499g

This illuminating autobiography traces Scarborough?s path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce University. Despite the racism he met as he struggled to establish a place in...

Undercurrents recounts the life and career of John Byrne, who started as a geologist at an oil company and retired as president of a major land grant university. He came to Oregon State in 1960 as a faculty member, later becoming department chair, dean,...

Bill Jason Priest is credited with developing and defining the Dallas County Community College District. His career in higher education began in California before he came to Texas in 1965. Over the next fifteen years Priest transformed the junior college...

In Brooklyn Dreams, Sonia Nieto-one of the leading authors and teachers in the field of multicultural education-looks back on her formative experiences as a student, activist, and educator, and shows how they reflect and illuminate the themes of her...

Breaking the silence on a number of sacrosanct aspects of higher education-and now and then raising the clamor about some highly politicized issues-Conspiring with Forms is a critique of both the academy and the discourse concerning its purposes and...

"Once upon a time there were three men who exemplified, without knowing it, my ideal in life. All of them became famous as writers, influential thinkers, and public figures. Their names are Clifton Fadiman, Lionel Trilling, and Jacques Barzun. They...

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In Gathering the Family the author re-creates scenes and episodes from his early life with his family. Although he begins his work as a biographer, Holtz comes to turn his researcher's eye on himself, frankly examining his thoughts of the family he grew...

The thirteen essays in this volume come from Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Malaysia, South Africa, and Hawai`i. With a shared focus on the specific local conditions that influence the ways in which life narratives are told, the authors engage...

Paul Rusch first traveled from Louisville, Kentucky, to Tokyo in 1925 to help rebuild YMCA facilities in the wake of the Great Kanto earthquake. What was planned as a yearlong stay became his life's work as he joined with the Japan Episcopal Church to...

R. L. Moore: Mathematician and Teacher presents a full and frank biography of a mathematician recognized as one of the principal figures in the 20th Century progression of the American school of point set topology. He was equally well known as creator of...

In A Tramp's Wallet, Sam Pickering spends six months roaming Australia and New Zealand, tramping landscapes pocked by sheep stations, art galleries and bakeries, and always libraries, their dusty shelves troves quick with life and literature. The...

In 1947 John Hope Franklin, then a professor of history at North Carolina College for Negroes, wrote From Slavery to Freedom. Now in its eighth edition, that book, which redefined our understanding of American history, remains the preeminent record of...

J. C. Beaglehole, best known as a historian and Cook scholar, was also a passionate writer of letters. He wrote frequently, at length, and throughout his life, to family, friends and colleagues- wittily, affectionately, intimately, eruditely,...

A biography of the noted literary historian, critic, author, and scholar who taught at many leading universities before becoming head of the African American Studies department at Harvard.Book InformationISBN 9780791076873Author Marylou Moran...

For decades, practically every major initiative in American education (from top-down standards to the testing movement) has moved decision-making farther away from the school. Throughout their careers, Deborah Meier, John Goodlad, James Comer, Ted Sizer,...

Focusing on personal knowledge and how it influences teacher development, this book follows one teacher, ""Kay,"" from her years of teacher preparation through her time as a seasoned veteran. What emerges from this intense 10-year...

It All Began in Nuremberg is a translation of Rita Thalmann's moving memoir, Tout Commenca a Nuremberg, originally published in France in 2004. Thalmann's memoir represents one of the last voices to witness personally the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust...

The Progressive-era idea that a public university should improve the lives of people beyond the borders of its campus had its origins in nineteenth-century German idealism, liberal Protestantism, and evolutionary theory, and in the mind of brilliant...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951802274Author Roland MeighanFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Educational Heretics PressPublisher Educational Heretics PressWeight(grams) 383g

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In this life of Ezra Stiles, president of Yale University from 1778 to 1795, the noted historian Edmund S. Morgan portrays a man who reflects the thought and temper of an age in New England and the middle colonies.Book InformationISBN 9780393301267Author...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998389806Author Jo Anne Jones CornettFormat PaperbackImprint Judah House PressPublisher Judah House PressWeight(grams) 163g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039130562Author Brad KilbFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 508g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561873Author Tony WagnerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039159600Author Paul OwnmanFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 127g

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