Educators

Carmen Blacker was an outstanding scholar of Japanese culture, known internationally for her writings on religion, myth and folklore - her most notable work being The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan. Importantly, a third of the...

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 9780684864655Author SowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 475gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

The candid tale of one of Britain's most outstanding contemporary philanthropists. These pages wryly track Peter's varied career moves, from flogging tickets for one of The Beatles first major concerts, to getting...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322356Author Lorenzo Da PonteFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

How do academics survive the bureaucracy, the petty jealousies, the absurdities of operating in the university? More important, how do they, as humans, cope with the darker shadows that enter professional lives-- illness, sorrow, death? Coyote, The...

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998533612Author Gregg LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Widiom Publishing LLCPublisher Widiom Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560256892Author Eric TammFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534619203Author Jane ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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...

A reflective volume of essays on literature and literary study from a storied professor. In The Pensive Citadel, Victor Brombert looks back on a lifetime of learning within a university world greatly altered since he entered Yale on the GI Bill in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635420845Author Cristina De StefanoFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Written by a successful venture capitalist (and university dropout), this book is part memoir, part guide for the next generation of innovators who seek an alternative to the traditional path in higher education."Part adventure tale, part manifesto,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035807987Author Guy NewmountainFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101971390Author Roger AngellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Anchor BooksWeight(grams) 295g

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845402204Author Anthony JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

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...

When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that-and more. In their early twenties, by sheer...

An author and educator's pioneering approach to helping autistic students find their voices through poetry-a powerful and uplifting story that shows us how to better communicate with people on the spectrum and explores how we use language to express our...

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearThe remarkable life of violinist and teacher Shinichi Suzuki, who pioneered an innovative but often-misunderstood philosophy of early childhood education-now known the world over as the Suzuki Method.The name Shinichi...

"This irresistible, passionate, hilariously funny look at a young teacher and her surprisingly lovable students lights up the landscape of recent writing about American education." Susan CheeverAccording to Ilana Garon, popular books and movies are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913087227Author Neil McKendrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.Publisher Edward Everett Root Publishers Co...

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...

On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut and a respected scholar of Middle East politics, was shot in the back of the head as he stepped out of an elevator on his way to work. At the time, the chaos of Lebanon's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452279896Author E. M. StandingFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

A hilarious and heartfelt illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties. In Everything is Going to be K.O., Kaiya Stone writes about her experiences of living with specific learning difficulties: from struggling at school, to being...

The Accidental Immigrant is the capstone work of world-renown author Professor Kyriacos C. Markides, based on his over fifty-year-quest for an authentic understanding of the true nature of Reality. As a teenager he arrived at the docs of New York in 1960...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553381573Author Pat ConroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) was one of the twentieth century's most original interpreters of the market economy. His penetrating analysis of globalization's disruptions and the Great Depression's underlying causes still serves as an effective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767905923Author Mitch AlbomFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Charlotte Mason (1842-1923), orphaned and poor at the age of sixteen, nonetheless developed into an inspiring and original educational reformer of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, a period of great intellectual vitality and cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861519726Author Amelia HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553265965Author Robert SpechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 174mm *...