Educators

'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times'Compassionate... full of warmth' GuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province,...

Educated initially in Africa then shipped to a UK boarding school, Mike Piercy stumbled and careered into teaching. Rising in time to leadership he became Head of three Prep Schools over a 25-year period. Those who had taught him might well express...

During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782384552184Author Booker T WashingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Alicia EditionsPublisher Alicia EditionsWeight(grams) 499g

Did you ever have a teacher you couldn't forget? Someone who helped shape your knowledge and values, and so remains an indelible part of you? For more than thirty-five years, Victor L. Cahn has been such an influential figure. As secondary school...

Death of a Rebel tells the story of Charles Andrews Fenton (1919-1960), a charismatic teacher, scholar, and writer who took his own life by jumping from the top of the Washington Duke Hotel in Durham, North Carolina. At the time he was apparently at...

An Educational Journey to Deanship: A Memoir explores and highlights achievements and stories of success throughout the author's academic and administrative experiences. This book includes photographs and personal narratives from early educational...

William Ellery Leonard was an eccentric poet, professor, and critic whose romantic ideals were set against a world whose aesthetics were fast turning away from his own. He lived a life marked by both success and dramatic failure, both personally and...

The goals of achieving equal citizenship rights for African Americans and international respect for human rights inspired Charles H. Thompson to focus his attention on ending segregation as public policy in the United States. As editor of The Journal of...

An American Teacher in Argentina tells the story of Mary E. Gorman who in 1869 was the first North American woman to accept President Domingo F. Sarmiento's invitation to set up normal schools in Argentina, where she eventually settled. An ordinary...

This book is a biography of University of California-Berkeley sociology professor Troy Duster. Troy Duster received an MA and PhD in sociology from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Duster is a black man who was born in South Chicago. His...

Running Naked Through the Streets is an account of the year Dr. Caramine White lived in the former Communist country Slovakia, from August 2004 - May 2005. When Dr. White received a Fulbright Scholarship, she and an American literature professor from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorChi Wang is co-founder and president of the U.S.-China Policy Foundation and adjunct professor at Georgetown University. He was the head of the Chinese section of...

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...

The Progressive-era idea that a public university should improve the lives of people beyond the borders of its campus had its origins in nineteenth-century German idealism, liberal Protestantism, and evolutionary theory, and in the mind of brilliant...

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...

Howard Zinn was perhaps the most widely celebrated popular interpreter of American history in the 20th century, renowned as a bestselling author, political activist, lecturer and one of America's most admired progressive voices. His complicated and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561873Author Tony WagnerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

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...

When Flora Roy accepted a teaching position at Waterloo College in 1948, she imagined it would be a temporary posting until she finished her dissertation and returned to Toronto or another large Canadian university. Little did she know that, as head of...

The Emergency Teacher is Christina Asquith's moving firsthand account of her year spent teaching in one of Philadelphia's worst schools. Told with striking humor and honesty, her story begins when the School District of Philadelphia, faced with 1,500...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780872333550Author Tim ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Bauhan PubPublisher Bauhan PubWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 153mm * 12mm

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501183744Author Spencer SekyerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761873167Author Martin KokolFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647425050Author Jennifer NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint She Writes PressPublisher She Writes Press

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982170684Author Kristin PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524798895Author Robert SpechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

The late Norman Rich (1921-2020) was an internationally recognized scholar of European history who taught at Brown University and Michigan State University, among other places. Professor Rich's life and career were unorthodox. He came from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817928322Author Jared R. StallonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Originally published in 1915, the Autobiography of Fredrich Froebel provides a detailed overview of the life of the eminent German educator Fredrich Froebel, it charts his life and looks at his significant contribution to the field of education,...

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...

America's first school teacher murder occurred in Poland, New York. The trial became Upstate New York's "Trial of the Century." Lullaby for Morons takes us into a dark age of medical and legal thinking.Book InformationISBN 9781595310118Author Ronald...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566569248Author Evelyn ShakirFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Olive Branch PressWeight(grams) 259g

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) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

"Fellow healer John Kelly devoted his life to the physical, emotional, and psychological healing of the socially and racially disadvantaged. His story inspires in these troubled times." - Deepak ChopraJohn Joseph Kelly-the quintessential Good...

One of the finest American composers of the 20th century, Walter Piston (1894-1976) taught for over thirty years (1926-1960) at Harvard, where he guided the education of such diverse, well-known composers as Elliott Carter, Leroy Anderson, Arthur Berger,...

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...

William Louis Poteat (1856-1938), the son of a conservative Baptist slaveholder, became one of the most outspoken southern liberals during his lifetime. He was a rarity in the South for openly teaching evolution beginning in the 1880s, and during his...