Biography & Autobiography - Educators

Try and Be Somebody, a biography of the inspiring life of Dr. Henry Lake Dickason, documents the life of the first president of Bluefield State College, Bluefield, West Virginia, and an early 20th century leader of Black education. Though Dickason's remarkable achievements have been...

A surprising and revealing memoir populated with art historians, art influencers, and the former lover and lifelong friend of Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood. Francis M. Naumann, a distinguished expert on Dada and Marcel Duchamp reflects upon his mentors, including Leo Steinberg, John Rewald, and...

This book is a contribution to the history of the Cold War, Dr. Birnbaum having been a very audible critic of US policy. Even more, it is a study of the role of ideas in politics, and of the adventures and misadventures of three...

More than personal memoir, Donald Kennedy's story is not only a chronicle of watershed years in the history of Stanford University, but also a reflection on academia's perennial concerns. The story builds from his childhood and family in New England through mentors at Harvard...

Washington State University (WSU) is a remarkable place, over the years educating hundreds of thousands, conducting innovative research in a wide variety of disciplines, and earning numerous intercollegiate athletics titles. Originally named The Agricultural College, Experiment Station and School of Science of the State...

By most accounts Pete Likins has had a successful life. But his personal accomplishments are only the backdrop for the real story-the story of his family, whose trials and triumphs hold lessons for many American families in the 21st century. This poignant but ultimately...

From the author of the widely acclaimed Woman in Levi's, this colorful autobiography follows a year in the lives of the lone woman rancher, her students, and their families in 1930s rural Southern Arizona.Author: Eulalia BourneISBN-10: 0816500673ISBN-13: 9780816500673Publisher: University of Arizona PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1968Pages:...

This sixth in a series of volumes on Syracuse University's history focuses on the leadership of Chancellor Kenneth "Buzz" Shaw (1991-2004), who undertook the most comprehensive strategic overhaul of the institution since its founding in 1870. With a compelling narrative and fresh analysis, Tobin...

Fred Terman was an outstanding American engineer, teacher, entrepreneur, and manager. Terman was also deeply devoted to his students, to engineering, and to Stanford University. This biography focuses on the weave of personality and place across time--it examines Terman as a Stanford faculty child...

"I think I get it," Betty Levitov's youngest student said, sitting on a porch in Harare, Zimbabwe. "You've had a potentially fatal disease, and faced death, and now you'll do just about anything." The student was trying to fathom why a teacher would take...

Most people remember where they were when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, just as they remember how they felt when humans first set foot on the moon. Elements of both reactions are present in the story of Christa McAuliffe, the energetic young schoolteacher chosen...

Raised in a sheltered, puritanical household in New England, Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953) followed her conscience and calling in 1885 when she traveled west and opened a school on the Great Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Over the next six years she witnessed many...

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir and Finalist for Narration by the Author From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his voice....

Forrest McDonald is a legend in his own time. The NEH's sixteenth Jefferson Lecturer, he is one of our most eminent historians and the author of numerous provocative works on the early American republic, the Constitution, and the American presidency. Renowned for his sly...

The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth century This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential German-American medieval historian whose colorful life intersected with many of...

The idea that society progresses through stages of development, from savagery to civilization, arose in eighteenth-century Europe. Albert Craig traces how Fukuzawa Yukichi, deeply influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment, "translated" the idea for Japanese society, both enriching and challenging the concept. Fukuzawa, an official...

Author: Marla TavianoISBN-10: 0595177220ISBN-13: 9780595177226Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2001Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d

He was handed a terminal diagnosis. The way he faced it would make him immortal...Tishomingo County, Mississippi, 1985. David Lee Herbert was passionate about coaching high-school football. But one night driving the team bus home from a game, he came upon an accident that...

tell them we are rising ""The inspiring story of how one woman gave back.""--Ed Bradley ""This is a heartwarming story about struggle, survival, and achieve ment. If we didn't know people like this in our lives, we would want to invent them. What more...

Seit ?er 20 Jahren ist dies die erste umfassende Einstein-Biographie. Der anerkannte Autor Denis Brian untersucht die private, fentliche und wissenschaftliche Seite der legend舐en Perslichkeit dieses r舩selhaften Mannes. Geschickt beleuchtet Brian Einsteins eigenartig-neugierigen Charakter, die Tr舫me und Ereignisse, die den k?ftigen Wissenschaftler vorangetrieben haben...

THE FINE ART OF TOUGH LOVE. If you're lucky, somewhere in your past is that one person who changed your life forever. The one who pushed you to dream bigger and to reach higher, and who set you straight on what matters in life....

In this candid and delightful memoir, Alvin Kernan recalls his life as a student, professor, provost, and dean during turbulent decades of change in the hallowed halls of Columbia, Williams, Oxford, Yale, and Princeton. His vividly remembered account is a unique personal story and...

Just two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L. Mosse, one of the great American historians, finished writing his memoir, a fascinating and fluent account of a remarkable life that spanned three continents and many of the major events of the twentieth...

For over half a century, Robert Schmuhl interviewed and wrote about Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., who served as the president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 until 1987. Beginning as an undergraduate student during the 1960s, when he covered Hesburgh and...

With I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You, Ralph McInerny--distinguished scholar, mystery writer, editor, publisher, and family man--delivers a thoroughly engaging memoir. In the course of his recollections, McInerny describes his childhood in Minnesota; his grammar school and seminary education, with his decision to...

"This book was a labor of love, and I hope my readers can share my pleasure in, once again, telling the stories of a place dear to us all." --Father "Monk" Malloy, from the introductionThis wonderful collection of humorous, poignant, and revealing stories and...

The first new book from beloved therapist and writer Torey Hayden in almost fifteen years--an inspiring, uplifting tale of a troubled child and the remarkable woman who made a difference.In a forgotten corner of Wales, a young girl languishes in a home for troubled...

In Radical, Michelle Rhee, a fearless and pioneering advocate for education reform, draws on her own life story and delivers her plan for better American schools.Rhee's goal is to ensure that laws, leaders, and policies are making students--not adults--our top priority, and she outlines...

In over twenty years of teaching, Alan Aymie has learned public education is a battle worth fighting for, and proper battle training isn't always guaranteed. Turning Points details his journey from struggling Hollywood actor to a heralded school teacher and the lessons he learned...

Kofi Attah Annan, Ghana's first Noble Peace Laurette who served as the 7th Secretary General of the United Nations who through his transformational Leadership affected the globe and impacted on the lives of many, needs more than a book. This book, Busumuru, the Epistles...

What is it like to be born into an extended Peranakan family that has seen better days? Besides poverty, there's strife when some don't pull together. However, I had a wise Grandma, Dad, and Aunt. Reading transported me into a world of joy, and...

An author and educator's pioneering approach to helping autistic students find their voices through poetry--a powerful and uplifting story that shows us how to better communicate with people on the spectrum and explores how we use language to express our seemingly limitless interior lives.Adults...

Students are running wild, academic standards are shoddy, and sexually explicit topics are introduced to kindergarteners. My public-school teaching career had morphed into something unrecognizable. Who was behind the changes? I traveled across the country doing research and talking with teachers to find out....

An inspiring memoir of one man's transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate--all by the age of twenty-seven. Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a...

Dr. Richard S. Beal Jr. was my dad. A year or so before he died, he handed me his autobiography, the first draft of a book about his life, and asked me to publish it and pass it on to the family. As I...

When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by unhinged parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer...

"Never say can't." This simple phrase defines the life of Coach Forrest Pruner. Because he lived out this philosophy every day, it became a watchword for the thousands of young men and women he coached over the course of more than half a century....

Get the new Teacher Swear Word Coloring Book Vol. 2 to relief and mood lifting. You will feel very good after done the coloring of one page. We have now released a Volume 2 of our Teacher Swear Word Coloring Book series which includes...

Frederick Stewart became the first headmaster of what is now called Queen's College in Hong Kong. (Then it was called, the Hong Kong Government Central School for Boys; the first school to be founded and fully funded by the Hong Kong Government.) Born in...

Codell's portrait of an inner-city elementary school is funny, poignant, and inspiring.Author: Esmé Raji CodellISBN-10: 1665186747ISBN-13: 9781665186742Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/22/2002Format: CDWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 6.14h x 6.69w x 0.71d

William C. Dowling is University Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature emeritus at Rutgers University. His previous publications include The Epistolary Moment: A Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle, Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson, Jameson/Althusser/Marx,...

The Education of Henry Adams follows the life of presidential descendent Henry Adams. However, instead of serving just as an account of Adams' deeds, The Education of Henry Adams is a series of observations and introspections Adams makes on social changes, scientific advancements, personal...

This is a story of a Kashmiri Woman's Struggle for Empowerment. In it the author weaves the social, economic, political and religious fabric in a beautiful way and provides insights of how our past is affecting our current trends.Author: Shamla MuftiISBN-10: 8563919466ISBN-13: 9798563919464Publisher: Independently...

This is the story of how an American man in 1963 joined the American Peace Corps and spent two years teaching English in southern Turkey. The book describes Turkish customs, food, habits, and language, as well as what it was like to visit Lebanon,...

There is no way that the thirteen-year-old wallflower me could have conceived of a day when I would dance-voluntarily-in the halftime show of the Chinese University Basketball Association championship that was broadcast to millions of people. But I did.While teaching at an international university...

"What's it like to teach in that inner-city high school?" her friends often asked her. Implicit in the question was "why?" In this memoir, a well-meaning white teacher hopes to improve education for black students. She is baffled that not all of her black...

Schimmels' Maxim: The Quixotic Yet Heartwarming Adventures of an Inner-City Teacher. A love story. Thrust into a rough-and-tumble inner-city school in Tucson, Arizona, author Alan Voelkel overcomes the crushing and overwhelming challenges of a beginning science teacher to ultimately help transform this once failing...

In the most deeply personal writing of his long career, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the life and work of his wife Nancy, who died of leukemia in 2018. Partly the memoir of a vibrant marriage, Live As If... tells the story of...

The Education of Henry Adams follows the life of presidential descendent Henry Adams. However, instead of serving just as an account of Adams' deeds, The Education of Henry Adams is a series of observations and introspections Adams makes on social changes, scientific advancements, personal...

"Baba and the Crew is a candid story of Bill Davis' challenges and triumphs as a single dad raising four children ages 3, 5, 7, and 9. Despite the naysayers who believed children belong with their mother, Bill demonstrates that love, compassion, and structure...