Educators

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198958Author Fred RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

'A wonderful book.' - Temple Grandin, author of Animals in TranslationUnderstand what your canine best friend is thinking with this New York Times bestselling handbook.An incredible, revolutionary true story and surprisingly simple guide to teaching your...

More lessons and life from the Yorkshire Dales...All Teachers Bright and Beautiful is the concluding volume in Andy Seed's trilogy. As always, the book is peppered with the hilarious and heart-warming incidents that a life living and working with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593299531Author Bo SeoFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 135mm * 18mm

As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.'Told with the verve and immediacy of a novel' - Iain SinclairA vividly told yet reflective account of a year as a volunteer police officer, examining the nature of policing, its impact on those who are policed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733691215Author Ashok SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Meadow Grove PublishingPublisher Meadow Grove PublishingWeight(grams)...

A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the twentieth century to mentor a generation of young artists like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the gender...

'Tense and intimate... an education.' Geoff Dyer'Written with sensitivity and humanity... a remarkable insight into prison life.' Amanda Brown'Authentic, fascinating and deeply moving.' Terry Waite'Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending... a...

The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('I dare anyone to read it and not come away shocked, moved and entertained')Benjamin Zephaniah: 'A must-read. Her life...

As a child with Tourette syndrome, Brad Cohen was ridiculed, beaten, mocked, and shunned. As a teen, he was viewed by many as purposefully misbehaving, even though he had little power over the twitches and noises he produced, especially under stress...

A hilarious assortment of the weirdest and wackiest tales ever to come out of the classroom - and they're all true. Featuring the flamboyant swimming teacher who spent his spare time fighting bears, the story of how a fight with his teacher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807043844Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

From the author of the phenomenal Sunday Times bestsellers 'One Child' and 'Ghost Girl', comes a startling and poignant memoir of three people's victimisation and abuse - and their heartbreaking but ultimately successful steps to recovery, with the help...

The Alexander Technique is a method of muscular re-education, which has become standard training for actors, dancers and singers, and is practised for health reasons all over the world. Its founder, Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955), was an...

Now a New Showtime Original SeriesShowtime's dramatic series Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-life story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Before Sex and the City and ViagraTM, America...

Friedrich Froebel, the 'father of kindergarten', is one of the most influential pedagogues of the 19th century. However, relatively little is known about his life, his successes and failures, and his personal relationships. Based on many untranslated and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593239865Author The Freedom WritersFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

In 1998 John Wood was a rising executive at Microsoft . Then a trip to Nepal inspired him to set up schools and libraries in the developing world. Fuelled by the same drive that made him a top executive, Wood took his business acumen into the...

A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life-and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgroundsWhat is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525958Author Frances K ConleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800311046Author Elizabeth DeeksFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781473333574Author H G WellsFormat PaperbackImprint H. G. Wells LibraryPublisher H. G. Wells LibraryWeight(grams) 172g

#1 New Release in Biographies & Memoirs and Educators Empowering biographies of older women in historyA feminist and motivational collection of stories: Antony said of Cleopatra, "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale/Her infinite variety...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776338Author Hannah BreeceFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

'Fascinating ... so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn't seem so fearsome as it once did' SIMON WINCHESTER From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062564429Author Torey HaydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 318g

A New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021'Everybody should read [this]' Stylist"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its...

Best remembered today for his blockbuster documentary series The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski spent decades explaining scientific ideas to laypersons on television and radio. A true Renaissance man, Bronowski was not only a scientist, but a philosopher...

"Chris Westoby's THE FEAR TALKING is truly important, beautifully written, and urgently needed. This book will save lives-especially the lives of young people, one of our most vulnerable and underserved populations when it comes to mental and behavioral...

den describes her work with a sad, silent, autistic girl named Sheila. Now, in a powerful sequel, readers see how Sheila, now a young woman, has finally come to terms with her nightmare childhood of abuse.Book InformationISBN 9780062662880Author Torey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486287386Author Booker T. WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881358Author Jim LinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 212g

A female professor, a super maximum security prisoner, and how Shakespeare saved them bothShakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That is, until she decided to teach Shakespeare in a place the bard had never...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464900798Author United LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint United LibraryPublisher United LibraryWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

An exiled professor's journey from inside and beyond academe In the summer of 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois for his unwavering stance on Palestinian human rights and other...

In The Rivers North of the Future David Cayley has compiled Ivan Illich's moving and insightful thoughts concerning the fate of the Christian Gospel. Illich's view, which could be summed up as "the corruption of the best is the worst," is that Jesus'...

August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young...

The publication of the Michel Thomas ground-breaking, all-audio language learning materials has been a publishing phenomenon. Sales of over one million units in just eight years and the universal acclaim his method has excited would indicate that there...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525510086Author Ronald C. White, Jr.Format HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

The definitive biography of Fred Rogers, children&;s television pioneer and American cultural icon, an instant New York Times bestseller Fred Rogers (1928&;2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television. As the creator and...