Educators

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...

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) 340gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

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...

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 PressWeight(grams) 421g

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) 259gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587296307Author Dale SalwakFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 416g

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...

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...

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...

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...

In 1958, Alaska was not yet a state; it was one of the last frontiers in the West and offered a life of adventure to anyone willing to relocate there. Donna Joy McGladrey, the daughter of a Methodist minister, had recently graduated from college and was...

Joanne Tompkins travelled to the Baffin Island community of Anurapaqtuq to take on the job of principal at the local school. This is the fascinating story of her experiences in the four years she spent there and the many challenges she faced.On her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316335614Author Randy PauschFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *...

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)...

In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America's most respected historians of the South-and particularly its history of slavery-turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed...

Eliza Lowe, with two of her sisters, ran a school for girls, aged between 13 and 18, first in Liverpool, then in Southgate Middlesex. The book covers her life in Whitchurch, Burton on Trent, Everton, Liverpool and finally in Middlesex. It describes her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult) 1999 and Virginia Readers Choice Award (High School) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780385484510Author Mitch...

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 *...

Originally published in 1969, this is the first biography of Susan Isaacs, the first attempt to estimate her incalculable contribution to the theory and practice of the education of young children. As a pioneer of new teaching methods, Susan Isaacs will...

The founder and president of the Mothers' Union, one of the first and largest women's organisations, Mary Sumner (1828-1921) was an influential educator and a force to be reckoned with in the Church of England of the late nineteenth and early twentieth...

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 9780671617684Author Sylvia Ashton-WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 341gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670096152Author Shobha Tharoor SrinivasanFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578351322Author John Griffiths PedleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint GnatbooksPublisher GnatbooksWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307887870Author Tony DanzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Patrick van Rensburg (1931-2017) was an anti-apartheid activist and self-made 'alternative educationist' whose work received international recognition with the Right Livelihood Award in 1981.Born in KwaZulu-Natal into what he described as a 'very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393712127Author Manna AbrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint I Am an AuthorPublisher I Am an AuthorWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Richard W. Bulliet is an innovative historian of the Islamic world. His contributions have changed the way scholars think about the history of medieval city life, animal domestication, wheeled transport, religious conversion, Islamic institutions, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593446003Author Ruth J. SimmonsFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789745242005Author C D BarkmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Orchid PressPublisher Orchid PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374514969Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062564382Author Torey HaydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 277g