Educators

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860916Author Mary BomfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 348g

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...

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...

The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain's intellectual life. The Fellows of the British Academy who...

For over 100 years, the British Academy has published Biographical Memoirs - extended obituaries - of its deceased Fellows. Collectively these memoirs make up a chapter in the intellectual history of Britain, and are used as a source by biographers and...

University of Iowa legend Willard L. "Sandy" Boyd is a proud middle westerner. His decades of service to the university began in 1954, when he arrived as a law professor. He later became president of the University of Iowa from 1969 to 1981,...

When Barney Clark received the Jarvik-7 artificial heart in 1983 and Cold Fusion came under fire in 1989-90, Chase Peterson, as The University of Utah president, was inevitably pulled into these events that occurred on campus. While these episodes may be...

How does a Jewish boy who spent the bulk of his childhood on the basketball courts of Brooklyn wind up teaching in one of the city's pioneering black studies departments? Naison's odyssey begins as Brooklyn public schools respond to a new wave of Black...

A beautifully written, dramatic memoir from one of women's history's foundersBook InformationISBN 9781566398893Author Gerda LernerFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.

Two central Alabama counties, Hale and Tuscaloosa, provide the setting for Distant Son, the absorbing story of a young boy struggling, during the forties and fifties, to define himself in a world of poverty and deprivation. Norman McMillan was the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874216318Author Wayne C. BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 335Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780872333550Author Tim ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Bauhan PubPublisher Bauhan PubWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472106745Author Robben W. FlemingFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

One educator reflects on the challenges in her second language teaching career. Teachers and students don't come to the classroom as blank states; they bring their identities and experiences into the classroom with them. Understanding the ramifications...

Acknowledged as a significant figure in the history of women on the early western frontier, Mary Easton Sibley may be little known to many modern readers. Yet she was involved in most of the important events in nineteenth-century Missouri, pursued and...

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...

Arend D. Lubbers was president of an unusual and rapidly developing state university for a long time - thirty-two years - and during a very significant period of American and global history - 1969-2001. Vietnam, the Cold War, counterculture, energy...

For two hundred years Oxford and Cambridge universities were home to some of Britain's greatest teachers and intellects, each forming the minds of the passing generations of students and influencing the thinking and practice of university learning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945624025Author Gladys Turner FinneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Butler Center for Arkansas StudiesPublisher Butler Center for Arkansas...

Why are so many teachers leaving the profession? They’re burned out; they feel disrespected, and unsupported. After teaching remotely during a pandemic, they’re returning to classrooms with under-socialized and sometimes out-of-control kids. What to...

If Harvard can be said to have a literature all its own, then few universities can equal it in scope. Here lies the reason for this anthology—a collection of what Harvard men (teachers, students, graduates) have written about Harvard in the more than...

Privilege and Prejudice is a stereotype-defying autobiography. It reveals a Black man whose good fortune in birth and heritage and opportunity of time and place helped him to forge breakthroughs in four separate careers. Clifton R. Wharton Jr. entered...

One of America’s preeminent educational philosophers and public intellectuals, John Dewey is perhaps best known for his interest in the study of pragmatic philosophy and his application of progressive ideas to the field of education. Carrying his ideas...

Robert L. Green, a friend and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr., served as education director for King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference during a crucial period in Civil Rights history, and - as a consultant for many of the nation’s largest...

One of the twentieth century’s most original and influential literary theorists, Stanley Fish is also known as a fascinatingly atypical, polarizing public intellectual; a loud, cigar-smoking contrarian; and a lightning rod for both the political right...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817351496Author Sarah Newman ShouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama...

Mary McLeod Bethune was born on May 10, 1875, in a log cabin in rural Sumter County, South Carolina. She was the fifteenth child among seventeen siblings but the first born free of the bonds of slavery. As a child she attended a Presbyterian mission...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595310118Author Ronald Keith SiegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint North Country BooksPublisher North Country BooksWeight(grams) 472g

In this unique collection, the memoirs of eleven historians provide a fascinating portrait of a formative generation of scholars. Born around the time of World War II, these influential historians came of age just before the upheavals of the 1960s and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816529315Author Peter LikinsFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780910671187Author Phillip E JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Path PressPublisher Path PressWeight(grams) 308g

Part epistolary memoir, part handbook, ""Teaching Life"" reflects on more than three decades of teaching literature and touching the lives of students. Both a reflection on a life in literature and a primer on teaching as a vocation,...

When Mark Cladis embarks, he is spiritually lost, shaken by a failed marriage, and disillusioned by the academic life he has chosen. This is how Paul Kane and Mark Cladis, two Vassar professors, find themselves on a road trip through the Southwest desert...

The African continent has long been plagued by economic problems. During the 1970s, with famines and two oil crises, the attention of the international donor community was riveted on Africa. In the 1980s international organizations, both governmental and...

The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the...

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...