Educators

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 9781913087227Author Neil McKendrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.Publisher Edward Everett Root Publishers Co...

Karl Koenig: My Task is an inspiring introduction to Koenig's remarkable life and work. This book combines Koenig's autobiographical fragment and an essay by Peter Selg with two selected reminiscences written by Koenig's colleagues Anke Weihs and...

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year . "Moving and beautifully written." -BBC Music Magazine "Hotta is an unobtrusive narrator whose personal anecdotes are like grace notes on the larger score of Suzuki's life." -Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal ...

What makes a good education? 'A crucial book of the moment: the best-informed education insider laying out how schools should work' David Bodanis In a brilliant blend of memoir and manifesto,...

One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground state in the fight for voting rights. As a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083150581Author United LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint United LibraryPublisher United LibraryWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

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...

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...

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

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)...

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...

Richard Hofstadter (1916-70) was America's most distinguished historian of the twentieth century. The author of several groundbreaking books, including "The American Political Tradition", he was a vigorous champion of the liberal politics that emerged...

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...

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...

"But any story about human beings is bound to have an end, like this story about us, a pair of ingenuous people who fell in love and went journeying together through life, blundering by good luck in the right directions so that we came to a lasting...

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 9781635424133Author Cristina De StefanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951805418Author William R TorbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Waterside ProductionsPublisher Waterside ProductionsWeight(grams)...

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...

#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...

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 9781958363508Author Ginanne BrownellFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Mission Point PressPublisher Mission Point PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767915847Author Erin GruwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870-1952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong pacifist, although historians tend to consider her writings on this topic as secondary to her pedagogy. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716792045Author Joss SheldonFormat PaperbackPage Count 760Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 1098gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 42mm

Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was one of the twentieth century's most prescient and profound thinkers. As a cultural historian, he sought a broader perspective on humanity's relationship to the earth in order to respond to the ecological and social challenges...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800310285Author Patricia CockrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800311039Author Elizabeth DeeksFormat HardbackPage Count 562Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

As the acknowledged founder and philosopher of the Parents' National Educational Union (PNEU), Charlotte Mason was revered by her followers as a saintly Madonna figure. She died in 1923 at the peak of her fame, having achieved mythic status as the...

This is an unusual narrative in that it successfully combines subjectivity -- how an English person was led by a sequence of educational developments, personal encounters and historical constraints to become the founder of the German-Jewish Centre at the...

Stuart Hall has been an inspirational figure for generations of academics. His early work on the media, his influential use of Gramsci in understanding Britain in the late 1970s, his unique and influential analysis of Thatcherism and more recently his...

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 *...

Follows a Black woman's forty-year career in academia, sharing how race and gender can disrupt and enhance the professional and the personal, from leadership and policies to family life.Finalist for the 2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the...

The intellectual autobiography of a leading scholar in the field of African American Studies.In this refreshingly candid intellectual autobiography, Robert C. Smith traces the evolution of his consciousness and identity from his early days in rural...

Follows a Black woman's forty-year career in academia, sharing how race and gender can disrupt and enhance the professional and the personal, from leadership and policies to family life.Finalist for the 2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the...

This memoir offers an interesting case study, a subjective addition to the objective-historical works on Central and Eastern European state socialism. It describes the hard choices of intellectuals in a totalitarian state: remain in isolation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889963204Author Kathleen Lopp-SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788466349284Author Alessio SurianFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint DebolsilloPublisher Penguin Random House Grupo EditorialWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798822945876Author Ed D Judy Luchey CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Palmetto PublishingPublisher Palmetto PublishingWeight(grams)...