Biography & Autobiography - Educators

This collection of essays is a tribute to the lifetime achievements of the erudite Muslim scholar-activist, Osman Bakar. Recognized as among the world's most influential Muslims, Osman is author and editor of close to three dozen books and hundreds of articles, many of which...

Ezra F. Vogel (July 11, 1930-December 20, 2020) was one of America's foremost experts on Asia, mastering the Japanese and Chinese languages and contributing important scholarly works on both countries, and on their relationships with each other and with the world. Starting from modest...

Practical Social Justice brings together the mentorship experiences of a diverse group of leaders across business, academia, and the public sector. They relay the lessons they learned from Dr. Joseph L. White through personal narratives, providing a critical analysis of their experience, and share...

NEW!! Teacher Swear Word Coloring Book!Sweary Teacher Coloring Book for Adults!...This irreverent and sweary coloring book features laugh-out-loud funny and original designs that are perfect for taking the stress out of being a teacher... This adult coloring book contains a wide variety of designs,...

An essential guide for teachers and parents that's destined to become a classic, The Art of Teaching Children is one of those rare and masterful books that not only defines a craft but offers a magical reading experience. After more than thirty years in...

Don Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of "an infinite sensitivity to the world" (Zadie Smith). But his current standing gives few hints of his hilariously misspent youth. An indifferent student prone to obsessions (with girls at school and ....

MAKING A DIFFERENCE People have always told me, "Judy, your life is a journey and it has been a remarkable one. You should write a book!" Honestly, I have been too busy dedicating myself to helping as many students as I can to get...

'Born into a once indentured or girmit ('agreement') Indian family in Fiji, and having studied in India and the UK and taught in India and Fiji, Satendra Nandan lays claim to 'a fortunate life'. It has also been an exemplary life to those of...

Book 1 of the Mark and Sue Neumann Story shows the importance of faith, family and love of country. Author: Mark Neumann, Sue NeumannISBN-10: 1595988505ISBN-13: 9781595988508Publisher: Henschelhaus Publishing, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2021Pages: 222Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

When Evan Pugh became the first president of Pennsylvania's Farmers' High School--later to be known as The Pennsylvania State University--the small campus was in disrepair and in dire need of leadership. Pugh was young, barely into his 30s, but he was energetic, educated, and...

From the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of life in foster care.Parents Angelina and Ben exist in enviable luxury: not just wealth, success and a gorgeous home, but a loving relationship and beautiful twin babies to complete...

'An Accidental Headship' is a warts and all account of a life spent in education, both as a pupil and a leader. From a lively three-year-old with an eye for adventure to a battle weary fifty-plus-year-old looking for new purpose, these memoirs chart the...

At the beginning of World War II, professor Lauren Post, San Diego State College, asked his students entering military service to write to him. Thousands of letters arrived from places like Pearl Harbor, North Africa, and Normandy, beginning with the salutation, "Dear Doc," and...

The essays collected in this volume were written to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kenneth Dover, one of the twentieth century's most influential classical scholars. Between them, they explore the two major sides of his career: his groundbreaking scholarship on Greek...

Learning Life: A Memoir is the first volume of an unconventional memoir from the highly original educator and writer, Sylvia Baer. Through essays, photographs, and poems-many of which were online sensations during the pandemic, shared worldwide on social media-Baer tells the stories of five...

Career geographer and educator, Kit Salter, has revealed his "true innovator" in getting the most from life with his anecdotal accounts of his adventures in Episodes in a Life. From tandem biking in Taiwan, to hitchhiking across the U.S., to van-camping with his kids...

Career geographer and educator, Kit Salter, has revealed his "true innovator" in getting the most from life with his anecdotal accounts of his adventures in Episodes in a Life. From tandem biking in Taiwan, to hitchhiking across the U.S., to van-camping with his kids...

I'm surprised I became a high school teacher. I both loathe and love school, for what it is and what it could be. My feelings about education are complex. The book tells the schizophrenic, often humorous story of my teaching career-a career in which...

Originally written for close friends and family The Education of Henry Adams was released to the public only after the death of its author, American historian HENRY BROOKS ADAMS (1838-1918), a member of the Adams political family, Harvard professor of medieval history, and a...

Published to great acclaim in hardcover, Martin Duberman's Howard Zinn was described by Michael Kammen in the Los Angeles Review of Books as "biography at its best, written by a master of the craft and a man who has lived the activist life and...

Author: Gerald F. CarlsonISBN-10: 1587216809ISBN-13: 9781587216800Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2000Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.06h x 5.04w x 0.55d

At a time when Booker T. Washington is being rediscovered by African Americans today, the author offers a compelling look at the man and the qualities of leadership he embodied in his life and work. The result is a timeless message of hope, empowerment,...

The biography of Bob Sykes, professor of meteorology at the State University College at Oswego, New York from 1961-1983. Sykes was instrumental in our current understanding of the weather phenomenon known as lake-effect snow, as well as playing an important role in forecasting the...

An adventurous American academic travels to North Cyprus to teach at a new university. He has no idea what it will be like living and working in a country which has no official international recognition except by Turkey. All mail must be addressed to...

This book is a culmination of life, in prose, in America as a professional black woman. Unabridged in its recounts of racism, culture, and bigotry in education, society and opportunity. It is a timely reminder of what happens when race relations go unattended and...

This is a book about personal experience, but it is not a memoir. While experiencing threatening situations and circumstances that define one's life, the author invites encounters with others to teach him important life's lessons, while in fact he has been a college teacher...

The author's smooth, inviting tone is at once in-depth and profound while maintaining an air of conversational storytelling that makes it seem as if one is having coffee with the author and listening to his tales in person. The global nature of David Ryan's...

Onkere: An African Boy's Story of Struggle, Resilience, and Determination discusses how a young French-speaking African boy from a low-income family named Onkere came to fall in love with the English language and American culture as a whole and how regardless of the incredible...

Jeremy Lesniak of whistlekick Martial Arts Radio interviews Fumio Demura.If you prefer an audio version, you can find that for free on our website.Author: Jeremy LesniakISBN-10: 1092356576ISBN-13: 9781092356572Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2020Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.11d

Tired of reading the daily headlines, about kids out of control? Then it is time for you to change what it is that you are reading. Take a four-decade journey with high school teacher, Mary Thomas, as she shares amazing, emotional, life changing stories...

Some people would think twice before accepting the responsibility of educating twelve- and thirteen-year-old students, but for author Tommy Jones, teaching seventh-grade students would rate as one of the most rewarding aspects of his life. In this memoir, Jones recounts a thirty-five-year career at...

Avis Glaze was recently identified as one of the most inspiring women every educator should know. From her earliest days in Jamaica, as a young girl who was driven to teach others to read, to her rapid rise through all levels of the school...

Wisdom of a Western Mom Prepare for everything you ever thought about parenting to be flipped on its head. Mama Marlaine advocates: Retiring "Children Learn What They Live." Retiring Academic Principles of Right/Wrong, Perfect/Imperfect Retiring the term "Therapy" for education in interpersonal communication. Retiring...

How I Survived the First Five Years of Teaching is about the struggles an educator faced and how she overcame those struggles in her early days of teaching. The journey begins with the challenges she faced after graduating from college and the difficulties she...

THIS BOOK DOES not intend to portray the history of the period, but it is only a recollection of the early years of my life, the way I experienced it. I thought that the period I lived during the early years of my life...

THIS BOOK DOES not intend to portray the history of the period, but it is only a recollection of the early years of my life, the way I experienced it. I thought that the period I lived during the early years of my life...

Kerwin's youth was riddled with adversity, which culminated in a criminal record. Doomed to fail, he decided to fight for his goal of attaining remarkable success. This intimate biography of a young man's struggle to ascend the socio-economic ladder will propel you to rise...

This is an autobiographical and a historical nonfiction piece of literature written by a twenty-eight year retired reading teacher who endured many trials and tribulations known today as "bullying" only because she wanted to attend the high school that was in close proximity of...

When Arlene Sollis was born with cerebral palsy in 1935, the doctor advised her parents against taking her home. He said she would never function on her own?that she would be mentally handicapped and unlikely to survive beyond the age of ten. Her quality...

This story begins in the Concord State Prison a maximum-security facility in New Hampshire, in 1973, following the tragic uprising at the Attica State Prison in Upstate New York. It was a time of political turmoil, chaos in prisons, and the beginnings of upheaval...

A challenged learner's dream of earning a master's degree combines with the efforts of a spectacular teacher who emphasized, saw, and made ability manifest into greatness. A special teacher of the philosophy of Mindfulness with extraordinary student appreciation and encouragement, this heartfelt story starts...

Sean McElwee was born with Down syndrome, and entered his neighborhood school as a general education kindergarten student with the supports, accommodations and modifications he needed to be successful. He was included in all aspects of his elementary school; learned to read, exceled in...

Near the banks of Troublesome Creek in Cass County, Iowa, a boy happily grows up on his family's farm in the 1930s and 1940s. He helps his father milk cows and harvest hay, reads newspapers, and listens to radio serials. But it is when...

When eleven-year-old Francis Duworko was abducted as a child soldier, he fought for the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy not from his own ambition or interest, but out of fear of being killed and of the fear of displaying cowardice. In To Live...

Raised in a Greek immigrant family amid New England's industrial decline, Manny Voulgaropoulos wanted to explore exotic places. His ticket to adventure was medical school in Belgium, where he learned how Belgium's colonization of the Congo exploited its indigenous people. His medical training, originally...

Following his retirement in 1976 from a distinguished career as a teacher and administrator at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, Cratis Williams wrote these memoirs of his life odyssey from a log cabin in eastern Kentucky to the upper echelons of American...

This is a moving and personal story of teacher's life told from her side of the desk. Teachers build a nation by touching the lives of the youth and you will be there, too, as the stories touch your life. Everyone knows what it...

A New York Times Editors' ChoiceKeizer writes eloquently and perceptively . . . More than just thoughtful, reasonable, carefully observed, elegantly written, and deeply humane, this book is also that rare thing, a work of genuine wisdom.-Chicago Tribune Perhaps no profession is so constantly...

The Awesome Miss Seeds is the story of a child with disabilities whose courage, determination, and vision enabled her to become a remarkable teacher and leader in education. It is the story of Corinne A. Seeds's personal challenges and eventual successes, a dramatic and...

J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) was thought by many to be a modern-day equivalent of the Buddha. In fact, he was once even considered to be the second coming of Christ. While many think it wonderful to live and work in close proximity with such a...