Biography & Autobiography - Educators

Marianna Tax Choldin has studied censorship in Russia for 40 years. She describes the tension between her strong commitment to freedom of expression and her growing understanding of Russian and Soviet censorship. Fluent in Russian, she travels widely in post-Soviet Russia, speaking with hundreds...

The book describes the author's eventful life, which spans over seventy years, in three different countries and on as many continents.Author: Gavriel ShapiroISBN-10: 1618115170ISBN-13: 9781618115171Publisher: Academic Studies PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2017Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d

"But any story about human beings is bound to have an end, like this story about us, a pair of ingenuous people who fell in love and went journeying together through life, blundering by good luck in the right directions so that we came...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner, novelist and educationist, was extraordinarily famous in the 1960s. She maintained that young children best learn to read and write when they produce their own vocabulary, especially sex words - like 'kiss', and fear words - like 'ghost'. Educators lauded her. Her...

Bill Schroder is the stuff teaching legends are made of. He was strict, yet kind; firm and consistent, yet creative and playful when needed. He knew the magical mix of discipline and care needed to ensure the loyalty of his students.In this warm-hearted, inspiring...

Stuart Hall's retirement from the Open University in 1997 provided a unique opportunity to reflect on an academic career which has had the most profound impact on scholarship and teaching in many parts of the world. From his early work on the media, through...

Boys' Secrets and Men's Loves is the memoir of a law professor who has written over twenty books on the basic rights of American constitutionalism. He has been a prominent advocate of gay rights and feminism, which joins men and women in resistance. A...

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 Harvard at age 16. The...

The life story of a South Carolina champion of education and his transformation from segregationist to integrationistImmortalized in the writings of his most famous student, best-selling author Pat Conroy, veteran education administrator William E. Dufford has led an inspirational life as a stalwart champion...

Selected letters capturing ongoing conversations between famed mythologist Joseph Campbell and a remarkable group of artists, seekers, filmmakers, novelists, and scholars This brand-new collection of letters features illuminating conversations between Joseph Campbell and a fascinating cast of correspondents, ranging from friends and cowriters to...

Here is a look at the life and legacy of an irrepressible innovator. Pushing against both social convention and technological boundaries, L.L. Nunn left enduring marks on economic and social history, labor development, and, educational reform. The Electric Edge of Academe is a bold...

Accidental Lessons is a remarkable memoir by successful Chicago journalist David W. Berner. Berner takes the reader inside his own personal journey; a heart-wrenching and inspirational account of self-discovery.Berner had it all-a very successful career as a broadcast journalist and a wonderful family life....

Before she got the phone call, Tiffany Lott Stevenson was at the end of her rope. Her son Oscar was having major behavioral problems in school. No one was willing to help. Instead, the white teachers and administration were all ready to write Oscar...

Not Even Past: A History of the Department of English, The Ohio State University, 1870-2000 provides a thorough and fascinating institutional history of a program central to the mission of the university and a history of an entire complex discipline. OSU's Department of English...

Guy McPherson was a successful professor by every imperial measure: well-published in all the right places, he taught and mentored students who acquired the best jobs in the field, and performed abundant, exemplary professional service. He earned enough to live on a third of...

The Mystery ... The Mystique ... The Enigma ... of Sarah Vinke has only increased with time, since the "brilliant beyond belief" .. "work of a genius", historic arrival of the 1975 book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (ZMM). In ZMM, author...

Based on Gilbert's 1st-hand interviews, these remarkable true stories of the young Polish Jewish women who actively and successfully defied the Nazis provide a new perspective on women and the Holocaust.Author: Joanne D. GilbertISBN-10: 1732445117ISBN-13: 9781732445116Publisher: Adira PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2018Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.02h...

Experience with me what life was like living with thirteen other family members in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in a typical 1950s middle-class, postwar American neighborhood. This story is an unusual combination of revealing autobiography, insightful self-help, and handy classroom teacher's guide.Survive rides with...

From the tenements of the Bronx to the Southern California Desert and the hills of Berkeley, back to the Manhattan world of psychoanalysis, and finally landing in the foothills of Boulder, the journey of Bob Unger has traveled through changing times, landscapes and roles....

IF ONLY TRUTH MATTERED IN FAMILY LAW A DOCUMENTARY OF UNPRECEDENTED CORRUPTION IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM OF FAMILY LAW "The justice system is, unfortunately, often not a friend of the family or the truth." For what crime can a person be accused, judged, convicted,...

After decades of telling others' stories, Odd Lovoll places his own life in the larger context of Norwegian and Norwegian American experiences from World War II to the present day.Author: Odd LovollISBN-10: 1681341158ISBN-13: 9781681341156Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2018Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.90h...

Minister, educator, devoted family man, philanthropist, statesman, and intrepid traveler- John Franklin Goucher's far-reaching contributions bridged two centuries. Well known in cities, towns, and villages around the world, he was a champion of educational opportunity for all, regardless of gender, race, religion, or social...

The Grace of Dr. (Mrs.) Mojisola Olayinka Edema n e Fatungase: A Visionary and a Reformer is a splendid "aso-oke" compilation of stories and articles of this noble and graceful lady. It is a "talking drum" of coded colorful messages honoring and celebrating the...

Albert Einstein has been hailed as one of the greatest minds to ever exist on our planet. He was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize...

Unfinished Love Story by Carol Bost is the captivating and true story between a young teacher and an orphaned eight-year-old boy that seeks to define true love, understand its meaning, and the feel the power of forgiveness through looking toward God in challenging and...

The Girl Without Shoes is a true story that will inspire you and can help you liberate yourself from the bondage of abuse by empowering you to persevere, and to overcome. Sadly, many people experience abuse in their lives, and victims of violent acts...

Long before she ever met him, Professor Mar? Elena Fern疣dez-Miranda fell in love with the mind of Eugene Nida, distinguished linguist and Bible translator. During the busiest period of a professional career that had taken her from Spain to Luxembourg and then Belgium, she...

When Michael Copperman left Stanford University for the Mississippi Delta in 2002, he imagined he would lift underprivileged children from the narrow horizons of rural poverty. Well-meaning but naive, the Asian American from the West Coast soon lost his bearings in a world divided...

The story of Brian Wood, Sportsman, Musician, Teacher, Christian, Family Man. Brian was a 'man's man', remembered for his exceptional abilities in sport, mountaineering and music, focused and expressed in the only profession where his abilities and passion could have the maximum benefit and...

This book contains six short profiles of six famous inventors. Included profiles: Alexander Graham Bell Edwin Land George Westinghouse Jerome Lemelson Nikola Tesla Thomas EdisonAuthor: Kidlit-O, Sam SimonISBN-10: 1493762036ISBN-13: 9781493762033Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2013Pages: 62Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.13d

Ernest Sirluck's life has been full of passion and, not infrequently conflict. The special value of this work lies in the unique perspective that Sirluck brings to familiar and unfamiliar event and issues. His deeply held beliefs, persuasive analytical powers, and richly detailed memories...

Jackson, Mississippi, was the last place Dr. Brandon Sparkman would have chosen to work back in 1970. But an anonymous, threatening letter lured him there. In this memoir and historical documentary, Sparkman narrates what it was like to try to ensure a quality education...

... Antarctica fools you into thinking you are safe, that appearances are reality. Antarctica is not what she seems. Since he was thirteen years old, author John Barell's life-long-and life-enriching-dream has been to sail to Antarctica and explore its wild and expansive territories. Quest...

Author: C. T. WilkeISBN-10: 1456842447ISBN-13: 9781456842444Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/18/2011Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

Best known for her design of the Union Theological Seminary Classification System, JULIA PETTEE was a master librarian. Her ideas about the organization of knowledge were philosophically grounded in a conviction about the unity of knowledge, growing out of her experience as a cataloger...

A behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing.Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, All Day recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at...

Just So-me Stories flirts with the hyphen in between "non" and "fiction" in chronicling the darkest moments of Matt Greenfield's young life. "The Edge Behind Me" investigates a Memorial Day weekend/breakdown in the life of an alienated young teacher and would-be rock star known...

Marge Bump met Ernest Hemingway for the first time during the summer of 1915. She was walking back from Horton's Creek in northern Michigan where she had caught her first fish; he was a handsome sixteen-year-old who invited Marge to troll for rainbow trout....

If You Live by the Sword offers an honest portrayal of the human struggles faced by a university president and it explains how these seldom discussed stresses of the position are intensified by the intrusion of politics. Pettit goes behind the scenes and writes...

Born in 1940, Lillian Faderman is the only child of an uneducated and unmarried Jewish woman, who, along with her sister, left their shtetl in Latvia to seek a better life in America. However, her mother's family were murdered by Nazis and their home...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Sigmund FreudISBN-10: 1447425693ISBN-13: 9781447425694Publisher: Read...

Author: Elizabeth H. BrettISBN-10: 1483629589ISBN-13: 9781483629582Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2013Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d

Life's foundational questions come elegantly to the fore in this skillfully crafted nonfiction story about the late John H. Finley, Jr. For 51 years Finley was the celebrated and erudite Eliot Professor of the Classics at Harvard. His musings transport readers on a soul-engaging...

How Do You Rewrite Your Life's Script after You've Suffered a Massive Brain Tumor? Janet Johnson Schliff was an award-winning special education teacher for 25 years. But, as her abilities began to fade away with no medical explanation, she suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)...

A male educator explores the joys of working with children in this inspirational account. Manuel Kichi Wong shares his personal journal entries that consider the challenges and obstacles of being a male educator in a field dominated by women. Whether it's cooking, cleaning, changing...

Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening. From 1815 to 1841, she kept journals about her career, family life, and encounters with slavery. Drawing on these journals and hundreds of...

This book describes the deeply moving itinerary of an exceptional human being, Omraam Mikha l A vanhov. A man who offered simple but infinitely effective methods to deal with most difficulties of everyday life. His methods respond to our own deep-felt need to love...

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...

Author: Rema JohnsonISBN-10: 1441578137ISBN-13: 9781441578136Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2010Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d

Allen B. Ballard is Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University at Albany-SUNY and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at City College of New York. His previously published works include two books of nonfiction, The Education of Black Folk: The Afro-American Struggle...