Educators

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881467901Author Sandra E GodwinFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Mercer University PressPublisher Mercer University Press

When Michael Copperman left Stanford University for the Mississippi Delta in 2002, he imagined he would lift underprivileged children from the narrow horizons of rural poverty. Well-meaning but naive, the Asian American from the West Coast soon lost his...

The year is 1969, and fresh-out-of-college smart-aleck Howard Shane has just landed his first teaching job—at Belchertown State School, a bleak institution where people with disabilities endure endless days of silence, tedium, and neglect.Howard is...

The Eloquence of Mary Astell makes an important contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the important role that women, and one woman in particular, played in the history of rhetoric. Mary Astell (1666-1731) was an unusually perceptive thinker...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996754545Author Milton Lee Pritchard Snyder PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Milton Lee Pritchard Snyder, PhDPublisher Milton Lee Pritchard...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781073518951Author Anne LaffertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039150706Author John BarsbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039119192Author Abdus SalamFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618056668Author Henry AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 517Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 561g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595528646Author William V MuseFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578460932Author Reece MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 614Imprint Know Our Story LLCPublisher Know Our Story LLCWeight(grams) 889g

In the spirit of Studs Terkel's Working, Bill Smoot interviews master teachers in fields ranging from K-12 and higher education to the arts, trades and professions, sports, and politics. The result suggests a dinner party where the most fascinating...

How have Black women fostered belonging in higher education institutions that have persisted in marginalizing them? Focusing on the career of Lucy Diggs Slowe, the first trained African American student affairs professional in the United States, this...

In the summer of 2014, Firas Jumaah was working diligently to complete his doctorate in chemistry at Lund University in Sweden when he suddenly received news that an ISIS advance in northern Iraq threatened the lives of his wife and children who had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299333102Author Erica MorettiFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin Press

Through the biography of a remarkable man, this work traces the development of New Zealand's national library system-from the intervention of the Carnegie Corporation in the 1930s to the establishment of the National Library of New Zealand in the 1960s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996754552Author Milton Lee Pritchard SnyderFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Milton Lee Pritchard Snyder, PH.D.Publisher Milton Lee Pritchard Snyder,...

David Boyd's biography is the story of one man's dedicated struggle to protect and preserve Louisiana's fledgling state university from the cumulative effects of war, Reconstruction, political hostility, and parochial greed. Boyd fought hard to promote...

In June 1919 Harry Woodburn Chase was chosen to succeed Edward Kidder Graham as president of the University of North Carolina. The two were a study in contrasts. Graham was a southerner whose father had worn Confederate gray. Chase was a New Englander...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781086250565Author Michael Wells GlueckFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781078464963Author Agnes HouessouFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781089722540Author Emma Adams HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 150g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759692800Author A. R. Magaletta McClureFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 274g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595659227Author Matina K PsyhogeosFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 413g

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...