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  • You're Not From Around Here, Are You?: Notes from a Naturalized Southerner by Lehfeldt, Martin
    Martin Lehfeldt

    You're Not From Around Here, Are You?: Notes from a Naturalized Southerner

    More than five decades ago, Northeast-native Martin Lehfeldt was so captivated by the South that he made it his home. Reflecting on his experiences in the aptly titled You're Not from Around Here, Are, You?, Lehfeldt has assembled a uniquely diverse collection of impressions...
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  • Snapshots of My Father, John Silber by Devlin, Rachel
    Rachel Devlin

    Snapshots of My Father, John Silber

    This is an extensively illustrated memoir of John Silber, who entirely transformed Boston University as its president and was a controversial, yet intellectually formidable, candidate for governor of Massachusetts. Here, Rachel Devlin looks at her family and her father's trajectory from Texas to Boston...
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  • Heart of the Circus by Abraham, Manna
    Manna Abraham

    Heart of the Circus

    Heart of the Circus is an unusual story of courage, resilience and forgiveness by Manna. Through her travels across the US on a train, her home for almost 8 years, Manna takes us on this magical adventure, one which is rare for an Indian...
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  • A Pathway to an Ending by Madryga, Fred
    Fred Madryga

    A Pathway to an Ending

    In a lifetime of diverse careers, Canadian Fred Madryga has worked as a logger, in an abattoir, as a roofing kettle, tin basher, a university lecturer and a psychologist in private psychological practice with sexual offenders. His literary essays demonstrate a keen eye for...
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  • Tales from the Ivory Tower by Malone, Jim
    Jim Malone

    Tales from the Ivory Tower

    Tales from the Ivory Tower recalls moving or amusing incidents from a career in healthcare and academia, and often makes a serious point without belaboring it. The tales include accounts of a terrifying car journey through the Kuwaiti night desert; helping a bishop at...
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  • The Chief by Crockett, Clint
    Clint Crockett

    The Chief: Carl Madison's Life in Football

    "Whether you love sports or not, do yourself a favor and read this book." - Evelyn Van Pelt, Managing Editor/Publisher, The Rebel Walk magazine and website The Chief: Carl Madison's Life in Football pays tribute to a man who defied humble beginnings to become...
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  • Teaching with Heart: Lessons Learned in a Classroom by Nelson, Jennifer
    Jennifer Nelson

    Teaching with Heart: Lessons Learned in a Classroom

    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 do? Teaching with Heart chronicles the journey of a journalist-turned-teacher...
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  • Harold Taylor and Sarah Lawrence College: A Life of Social and Educational Activism by Kridel, Craig
    Craig Kridel

    Harold Taylor and Sarah Lawrence College: A Life of Social and Educational Activism

    Craig Kridel is E. S. Gambrell Professor Emeritus of Educational Studies and Curator Emeritus of the Museum of Education at the University of South Carolina. His many books include Stories of the Eight-Year Study: Reexamining Secondary Education in America (with Robert V. Bullough Jr.),...
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  • Becoming a Footnote: An Activist-Scholar Finds His Voice, Learns to Write, and Survives Academia by Schram, Sanford F.
    Sanford F. Schram

    Becoming a Footnote: An Activist-Scholar Finds His Voice, Learns to Write, and Survives Academia

    How does a graduate student acquire the skills necessary to define a clear research agenda and write meaningful contributions to the scholarship in his or her field? Can the requirements of professional advancement in the ivory tower be reconciled with making a difference in...
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  • A Son of Two Countries: The education of a refugee from nyarubuye by Rubagumya, Casmir M.
    Casmir M. Rubagumya

    A Son of Two Countries: The education of a refugee from nyarubuye

    A Son of Two Countries is a story of struggle for education. Born in 1946 in Rwanda under Belgian colonial rule, the author recounts his early education in Rwanda and later as a refugee in Tanzania. He was naturalized as a Tanzanian citizen in...
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  • Wishing for Wings by Jacob, Debbie
    Debbie Jacob

    Wishing for Wings

    They were outcasts, the forgotten boys of Trinidad and Tobago imprisoned for violent crimes including armed robbery and murder. They had nothing left but a wish for a better life, the feeling that they would need an education to achieve their goals, and a...
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  • Gautama Buddha: The Biography - The Life, Teachings, Path and Wisdom of The Awakened One (Buddhism) by Library, United
    United Library

    Gautama Buddha: The Biography - The Life, Teachings, Path and Wisdom of The Awakened One (Buddhism)

    Are you interested in learning more about Buddhism?The Life, Teachings, Path and Wisdom of The Awakened One (Buddhism) is a book that will help you learn all about the life of Gautama Buddha. This book has been written by an expert on Buddhist teachings...
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  • Margaret Sanger - An autobiography by Sanger, Margaret
    Margaret Sanger

    Margaret Sanger - An autobiography

    Margaret Sanger - An Autobiography is a memoir written by famous American birth control activist with a goal to promote her main cause - the fight for birth control. Sanger speaks of her experiences in New York and all around the world seeing the...
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  • Becoming Ruth: Dropout to Teacher - Hippie to Straight - Spiritualist to Believer by Rubinstein, Sharon
    Sharon Rubinstein

    Becoming Ruth: Dropout to Teacher - Hippie to Straight - Spiritualist to Believer

    Life is the Cosmic Connection. I believe when we suspend the indoctrination of our culture, it becomes apparent that there is a divine design to the creation of man and woman. We are created equal in value, but we are uniquely different. Together we...
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  • Becoming Ruth: Dropout to Teacher - Hippie to Straight - Spiritualist to Believer by Rubinstein, Sharon
    Sharon Rubinstein

    Becoming Ruth: Dropout to Teacher - Hippie to Straight - Spiritualist to Believer

    Life is the Cosmic Connection. I believe when we suspend the indoctrination of our culture, it becomes apparent that there is a divine design to the creation of man and woman. We are created equal in value, but we are uniquely different. Together we...
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  • Transitions in Leadership: The Story of the MBV by Turrill, Robert B.
    Robert B. Turrill

    Transitions in Leadership: The Story of the MBV

    Transitions in Leadership is the story of a veterans' transition program conducted at the university level for men and women of the armed forces as they transition from a military career and mindset to a civilian career and mindset. This unique master of business...
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  • Crossover Teacher: The Erma McCampbel Story One Black Teacher, an All-White Teaching Faculty by McCampbel, Erma
    Erma McCampbel

    Crossover Teacher: The Erma McCampbel Story One Black Teacher, an All-White Teaching Faculty

    The most difficult time that I can recall was during the school year 1966-1967. I was returning to work after having ended a maternity leave. The school board in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, asked me to become the first of its Black crossover teachers. I...
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  • Bridging the Mississippi: a memoir of racial injustice and missed beads by Baron, Sandra Baker
    Sandra Baker Baron

    Bridging the Mississippi: A Memoir of Racial Injustice and Missed Beads

    BRIDGING THE MISSISSIPPI A memoir of racial inequality and missed beads  Sandi and Denny Baron both were delighted they landed their first job with ease. Joy turns to surprise when they drive across the nation to find themselves the only White teachers in an...
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  • You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Zinn, Howard
    Howard Zinn

    You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

    Author: Howard ZinnISBN-10: 8200001660ISBN-13: 9798200001668Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.80w x 1.10d
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  • The Mysterious Lake: From a Village Girl to Mami America by Ngu, Theresia Mbunue
    Theresia Mbunue Ngu

    The Mysterious Lake: From a Village Girl to Mami America

    This book tells the story of my life, growing up in the village in Bambili as a child. Life then was serene and the things we treasured, such as picking kola nuts, helping friends with house chores in order to finish and play, were...
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  • Chilka to Chicago, Sri Lanka & Singapore: Autobiography of an MBA teacher by Subudhi, Rabi Narayan
    Rabi Narayan Subudhi

    Chilka to Chicago, Sri Lanka & Singapore: Autobiography of an MBA teacher

    This is an autobiography of an MBA teacher who has taught at both private and Government universities in Odisha, India. It covers the life and education in Odisha (India), during the 1970s and 1980s.Odisha Universities launched (two years) MBA degree/ program exactly 37 years...
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  • From Protest to President: A Social Justice Journey Through the Emergence of Adult Education and the Birth of Distance Learning by Pruitt, George A.
    George A. Pruitt

    From Protest to President: A Social Justice Journey Through the Emergence of Adult Education and the Birth of Distance Learning

    From Protest to President describes an inspirational odyssey of a young, Black activist coming of age in Mississippi and Chicago in the tumultuous 1960s and '70s, culminating in a notable thirty-five-year presidency at Thomas Edison State University. From barbershop encounters with Malcolm X to...
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  • Roby Comes to New York: (revised and enlarged Anniversary edition) by Mackel, Robert
    Robert Mackel

    Roby Comes to New York: (revised and enlarged Anniversary edition)

    This is a genial memoir of a Luxembourger's student days in New York during the turbulent nineteen-seventies. The narrative describes the author's diverse adventures encountered during daily life and discovery of America, and his experiences as a graduate student at an 駘ite American University...
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  • A Boy Named Broccoli: How I Came to Fall in Love with a Classroom of Deaf Students by Robinson, Laurel
    Laurel Robinson

    A Boy Named Broccoli: How I Came to Fall in Love with a Classroom of Deaf Students

    A dichotomy. That explains this story. When we are younger, we wonder what we will do in the future. What path will we take? I found a path that I had no idea existed. Deafness? Signing? Interpreting? What did I know about that? I...
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  • A Boy Named Broccoli: How I Came to Fall in Love with a Classroom of Deaf Students by Robinson, Laurel
    Laurel Robinson

    A Boy Named Broccoli: How I Came to Fall in Love with a Classroom of Deaf Students

    A dichotomy. That explains this story. When we are younger, we wonder what we will do in the future. What path will we take? I found a path that I had no idea existed. Deafness? Signing? Interpreting? What did I know about that? I...
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  • Pennsbury Forever by Nau, Terry L.
    Terry L. Nau

    Pennsbury Forever

    Pennsbury Forever is a nostalgic look back at a high school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania that grew exponentially in the 1950s as the Baby Boomer generation advanced from kindergarten through graduation. The rapidly growing suburban communities forced parents, school administrators, and school board members...
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  • It's a Don's Life by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    It's a Don's Life

    Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the...
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  • A Broken Hallelujah: The Making of a Christian Brother by Leavey, Lorcan
    Lorcan Leavey

    A Broken Hallelujah: The Making of a Christian Brother

    A Broken Hallelujah traces a young man's path through the Christian Brothers' regime from Juniorate through the Leaving Certificate year to Teacher Training, and from there to work "on the mission." The author describes in intimate detail the experiences and challenges he faces on...
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  • Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin by Tannenbaum, Judith
    Judith Tannenbaum

    Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin

    When Judith Tannenbaum last met with her poetry writing class at San Quentin prison, one of the students commented, "Now I'm going to give you an assignment: write about these past four years from your point of view; tell your story; let us know...
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  • Tales My Grandfather Told Me by Spangler-Provance, Bryce
    Bryce Spangler-Provance

    Tales My Grandfather Told Me

    These are collected tales that my Grandfather told me about our family and their experiences, in the hours I would spend listening to him at the dining room table rolling cigarettes or just sitting their and listening to him talk.Author: Bryce Spangler-ProvanceISBN-10: 1387759914ISBN-13: 9781387759910Publisher:...
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  • Fifty Years in the Classroom and What I Learned There by Barsby, John
    John Barsby

    Fifty Years in the Classroom and What I Learned There

    "It is easy for people my age to look on the schools of the past with a sense of nostalgia, seeing a golden age that never really existed. I am not among them. I recognize that the schools of today have much more to...
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  • Fifty Years in the Classroom and What I Learned There by Barsby, John
    John Barsby

    Fifty Years in the Classroom and What I Learned There

    "It is easy for people my age to look on the schools of the past with a sense of nostalgia, seeing a golden age that never really existed. I am not among them. I recognize that the schools of today have much more to...
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  • The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children's Rights by Moretti, Erica
    Erica Moretti

    The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children's Rights

    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 The Best Weapon...
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  • Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Albom, Mitch
    Mitch Albom

    Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

    It's been ten years since Mitch Albom first shared the wisdom of Morrie Schwartz with the world. Now-twelve million copies later-in a new afterword, Mitch Albom reflects again on the meaning of Morrie's life lessons and the gentle, irrevocable impact of their Tuesday sessions...
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  • I See Your Genius: Transform Your Idea into Income by Long, Shelby Jo
    Shelby Jo Long

    I See Your Genius: Transform Your Idea into Income

    The journey of an academic refugee.She walked into her office to begin her fourteenth year in a career that she loved. As college professor, she heard herself asking if there was something more. Was there another place where her knowledge and experience could make...
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  • A Walk in Deep Time by Smyth, Morag
    Morag Smyth

    A Walk in Deep Time

    Born in Scotland, the first sound Morag was aware of was "the river's roar and rumble - a constant source" that held her to "this place, this time, this moment". Her path as an artist, designer and in education takes many twists and turns....
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  • Love, Teach: Real Stories and Honest Advice to Keep Teachers from Crying Under Their Desks by Treleaven, Kelly
    Kelly Treleaven

    Love, Teach: Real Stories and Honest Advice to Keep Teachers from Crying Under Their Desks

    Hopeful, hilarious musings and serious advice for new teachers from the formerly anonymous blogger behind Love, Teach. Every teacher will tell you the first years are the hardest, and even the most confident of the pack sometimes ask themselves, Am I cut out for...
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  • Billy's Story: Thrown Away Children Series by Allen, Louise
    Louise Allen

    Billy's Story: Thrown Away Children Series

    From the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of life in foster care.Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blackthorn comes to stay. He is one of more than 20 children taken...
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  • Lessons With Love by Turner, Mary Margaret
    Mary Margaret Turner

    Lessons With Love

    Margaret Turner was born in 1918 in Texas, and moved to Oregon in 1948 with her husband, a Methodist minister. After raising four children, she started teaching elementary school in Silverton, Oregon from 1965 until retirement in 1979. This book is a moving account...
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  • Junior High Junior Hell: A Teacher Tell All, For Real... by Porras, S. Cabot
    S. Cabot Porras

    Junior High Junior Hell: A Teacher Tell All, For Real...

    Alcoholics, drug addicts, perverts, misogynists, bullies, bible thumpers, narcissists, racists, thieves, gangsters, murder. Junior High. Junior Hell. Eye-popping behavior occurred on campus during my three decades teaching at a highly-rated junior high school in Southern California. Whether or not you're in the education arena,...
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  • An Uncommon Journey: Leadership Lessons From A Preschool Teacher Who Became A University President by Raines, Shirley
    Shirley Raines

    An Uncommon Journey: Leadership Lessons From A Preschool Teacher Who Became A University President

    Dr. Shirley Raines, now a much sought after speaker, consultant, and author, earned her way from a humble farm in Tennessee to the office of the President of the University of Memphis as the first woman president of that institution. In this frank and...
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  • Going to Wings by Worsham, Sandra
    Sandra Worsham

    Going to Wings

    "... A palpable and invigorating book, mapping one woman's lifelong efforts to discover her own sexual identity through Christianity and friendship." Kirkus Review "Sandra Worsham's humor, clear-eyed honesty stitch this amazing quilt of meaning and experience together in a wonderful way." Jill McCorkle, author...
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  • Eye Statements From God by Shaw Dawood, Sandra
    Sandra Shaw Dawood

    Eye Statements From God

    In this thought-provoking first book, noted clinical psychologist Sandra Shaw Dawood, Ph.D., shares her heartfelt and playful communication with God through the symbols He has provided her. Through wordplay, poetry, and autobiographical excerpts, Dr. Dawood lets the reader experience her struggle to turn negative...
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  • Tune in Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries by Anderson, Tim
    Tim Anderson

    Tune in Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries

    Everyone wants to escape their boring, stagnant lives full of inertia and regret. But so few people actually have the bravery to run - run away from everything and selflessly seek out personal fulfillment on the other side of the world where they don't...
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  • Letters From Nigeria: Volume 2 by Deeks, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Deeks

    Letters From Nigeria: Volume 2

    In 1972 Elizabeth Deeks returned to Nigeria to teach at the Vining Christian Leadership Centre in Akure where men trained as catechists. Elizabeth was the Women's Warden and she taught a course for their wives designed to help these men in their future work....
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  • Letters From Nigeria: Volume 2 by Deeks, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Deeks

    Letters From Nigeria: Volume 2

    In 1972 Elizabeth Deeks returned to Nigeria to teach at the Vining Christian Leadership Centre in Akure where men trained as catechists. Elizabeth was the Women's Warden and she taught a course for their wives designed to help these men in their future work....
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  • Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left by Duberman, Martin
    Martin Duberman

    Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left

    Howard Zinn was perhaps the best-known and most widely celebrated popular interpreter of American history in the twentieth century, renowned as a bestselling author, a political activist, a lecturer, and one of America's most recognizable and admired progressive voices. His rich, complicated, and fascinating...
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  • Frank Porter Graham: Southern Liberal, Citizen of the World by Link, William A.
    William A. Link

    Frank Porter Graham: Southern Liberal, Citizen of the World

    Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) was one of the most consequential white southerners of the twentieth century. Born in Fayetteville and raised in Charlotte, Graham became an active and popular student leader at the University of North Carolina. After earning a graduate degree from Columbia...
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  • My Love Affair with Fear: How Fear Enabled Me to Become Who I Was Created to Be by Kilb, Brad
    Brad Kilb

    My Love Affair with Fear: How Fear Enabled Me to Become Who I Was Created to Be

    Brad's life has been tested - his body ravaged by disease; his life spared during death-defying adventures; his fear as he speaks to an audience of 1,100. As tough as these moments have been, he shares his insights into 'dancing with fear'. Brad's storytelling...
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  • William L. Bulkley, 1861-1933: African American Educator and Reformer by Norris, Peggy W.
    Peggy W. Norris

    William L. Bulkley, 1861-1933: African American Educator and Reformer

    William L. Bulkley was one of the important educators and reformers of the early 20th Century and it is time to incorporate him into the American story.He was born to free, mixed-race parents in South Carolina just as the Civil War began. He graduated...
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