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  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography by Greene, Meg
    Meg Greene

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography

    This full-length biography explores the multifaceted--and altogether fascinating--life, opinions, and accomplishments of African American scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography is the first comprehensive volume about a man hailed as one of America's most influential scholars. Tracing...
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  • Education as My Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools by Robinson, J.
    J. Robinson

    Education as My Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools

    When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools, The Baltimore Sun called her "the most powerful of principals" who "tangled with two superintendents and beat them both." In this oral memoir, Williams identifies the essential elements of sound...
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  • History Lesson: A Race Odyssey by Lefkowitz, Mary
    Mary Lefkowitz

    History Lesson: A Race Odyssey

    From the author of Not Out of Africa comes a gripping first-person account of the tyranny of political correctness in academe In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that...
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  • Monk's Tale: Way Stations on the Journey by Malloy, Edward A.
    Edward A. Malloy

    Monk's Tale: Way Stations on the Journey

    In Monk's Tale: Way Stations on the Journey, Father Malloy carries forward the story of his professional life from when he joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1974 to his election as president of Notre Dame. His journey in this volume begins with the...
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  • Monk's Tale: The Pilgrimage Begins, 1941-1975 by Malloy, Edward A.
    Edward A. Malloy

    Monk's Tale: The Pilgrimage Begins, 1941-1975

    One of the most respected figures in Catholic higher education, the Reverend Edward A. Malloy has written a thoroughly engaging first installment of his three-volume memoir. This book covers the years from his birth in 1941 to 1975, when he received his doctorate in...
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  • God Country Notre Dame: The Autobiography of Theodore M. Hesburgh by Hesburgh, Theodore M.
    Theodore M. Hesburgh

    God Country Notre Dame: The Autobiography of Theodore M. Hesburgh

    I have traveled far and wide, far beyond the simple parish I envisioned as a young man. My obligation of service has led me into diverse yet interrelated roles: college teacher, theologian, president of a great university, counselor to four popes and six presidents....
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  • Crossing: A Transgender Memoir by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen
    Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

    Crossing: A Transgender Memoir

    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year "I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point. The...
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  • Becoming Historians by Banner Jr, James M.
    James M. Banner Jr

    Becoming Historians

    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 '70s and helped...
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  • A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned by Tompkins, Jane
    Jane Tompkins

    A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned

    Here one of our leading literary scholars looks back on her own life in the classroom, and discovers how much of what she learned there needs to be unlearned. Jane Tompkins' memoir shows how her education shaped her in the mold of a high...
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  • The Right Place at the Right Time: Stories from a Life in Education by Connaughty, Curtis
    Curtis Connaughty

    The Right Place at the Right Time: Stories from a Life in Education

    This inspiring memoir by a lifelong educator is for the young, teens, older adults, alumni, and parents. While attending school he helped defray college costs with part time temporary jobs such as: a stone-quarry driver, railroad worker, candy factory employee, and soldier. Six years...
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  • Booker T. Washington Rediscovered by Bieze, Michael Scott
    Michael Scott Bieze

    Booker T. Washington Rediscovered

    Booker T. Washington, a founding father of African American education in the United States, has long been studied, revered, and reviled by scholars and students. Born into slavery, freed and raised in the Reconstruction South, and active in educational reform through the late nineteenth...
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  • This Is Your Own Time You're Wasting: Classroom Confessions, Calamities and Clangers by Parkinson, Lee
    Lee Parkinson

    This Is Your Own Time You're Wasting: Classroom Confessions, Calamities and Clangers

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The side-splittingly hilarious and heart-warming new book from your favourite teacher duo and hosts of Two Mr Ps in a Pod(cast)Remember the distant days of lockdown and those futile attempts to homeschool distracted, disinterested kids? Parents rejoiced to send them...
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  • Flames of the Fire: Firefighting Amidst the Explosions by Davidson Ccfi-C Cfei Cfii, Bradley R.
    Bradley R. Davidson Ccfi-C Cfei Cfii

    Flames of the Fire: Firefighting Amidst the Explosions

    This book is about triumphs and tragedies while serving for four decades as a firefighter. In the book, Brad overcomes personal and professional roadblocks and adversity. He describes memorable people on his journey. He has been a lifelong learner studying his craft. The book...
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  • Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu by Anton, Ted
    Ted Anton

    Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu

    Winner of 1997 Carl Sandburg Award On May 21, 1991, University of Chicago professor Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crime stunned the school, terrified students, and mystified the FBI. The case remains unsolved. In Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor...
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  • Word and Image in Russian History: Essays in Honor of Gary Marker by Di Salvo, Maria
    Maria Di Salvo

    Word and Image in Russian History: Essays in Honor of Gary Marker

    Word and Image invokes and honors the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the United States examine some of the main themes of Marker's scholarship on Russia-literacy, education, and printing; gender and politics; the importance...
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  • Rittenhouse Writers: Reflections on a Fiction Workshop by Rahn, James
    James Rahn

    Rittenhouse Writers: Reflections on a Fiction Workshop

    James Rahn has led the Rittenhouse Writers' Group since he founded it in 1988, making it one of America's longest-running independent fiction workshops. Hundreds of writers and would-be writers have sought out the group for its remarkable level of instruction and collaboration. Rittenhouse Writers...
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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 in another part of the world where they don't understand anything...
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  • The Corner of My Round Room by Paine, Randall Todd
    Randall Todd Paine

    The Corner of My Round Room

    The Corner of My Round Room was created from one of the many wild and funny stories I love to tell from my experiences in the classroom and from the fields. There is always something new every day that comes from a kid's mouth...
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  • God Stepped In by Berry, Toosdhi
    Toosdhi Berry

    God Stepped In

    Well let me tell you a little about Ms. Berry, I was born in Worcester Massachusetts, on May 29, but grew up in California, where I started school till my mother decided to leave, California and move back to Worcester, Massachusetts some years later....
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  • 150 50: A Teacher's Account of Urban Schools by Price, Cynthia
    Cynthia Price

    150 50: A Teacher's Account of Urban Schools

    150 50: A Teacher's Account of Urban Schools introduces various ways to teach culture and identity in the classroom. In order to do this, school districts and teachers must work hand-in-hand to create a healthy environment for children that addresses the whole culture of...
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  • Finding Froebel: The Man Who Invented Kindergarten by Wasmuth, Helge
    Helge Wasmuth

    Finding Froebel: The Man Who Invented Kindergarten

    Friedrich Froebel, the 'father of kindergarten', is one of the most influential pedagogues of the 19th century. However, relatively little is known about his life, his successes and failures, and his personal relationships. Based on many untranslated and unknown letters, this new biography presents...
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  • Understanding Education: Why Schools Don't Work * and How to Fix Them by Schlesinger, Bret
    Bret Schlesinger

    Understanding Education: Why Schools Don't Work * and How to Fix Them

    The book covers his experiences in a NYC High School called Washington Irving, an all girls school, including founding an alternative school site for potential dropouts, his work at the central Board of Education and with an alternative high school called City as School...
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  • A Place Called Home: Quilting a Life of Joy on the Colorado Plateau by Childs, Craig
    Craig Childs

    A Place Called Home: Quilting a Life of Joy on the Colorado Plateau

    A Place Called Home: Quilting a Life of Joy on the Colorado Plateau is a place-based creative non-fiction memoir at its heart. It is a collection of stories about how finding my "place" was essential to finding my happiness. It is a template for...
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  • They Called Me Mr. Scales by Scales, Phil
    Phil Scales

    They Called Me Mr. Scales

    The story is about a young Black kid who had a dream of becoming a professional orchestra conductor. I grew up in a low-income area of Pittsburgh where three steel mills were within a mile radius of my home. The B&O railroad ran through...
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  • Stanford's Wallace Sterling: Portrait of a Presidency 1949-1968 by Nilan, Roxanne L.
    Roxanne L. Nilan

    Stanford's Wallace Sterling: Portrait of a Presidency 1949-1968

    J. E. Wallace Sterling was Stanford University's fifth president, serving from 1949 until 1968. During his presidency, Stanford evolved from a notable regional university into a leading national and eventually international university--developments in which Sterling played a critical part. Taking advantage of a postwar...
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  • Creeksong: One Woman Sings the Climate Blues - A Memoir by Sarkissian, Wendy
    Wendy Sarkissian

    Creeksong: One Woman Sings the Climate Blues - A Memoir

    A spirited elder recounts her activist journey to confront the terrors of climate change.In 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its first Assessment Report. By then, award-winning urban planner Wendy Sarkissian had been singing the climate blues for years. Her colleagues...
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  • David's Little Town: Growing Up in Mid-Century Galion, Ohio by Costa, Julian
    Julian Costa

    David's Little Town: Growing Up in Mid-Century Galion, Ohio

    Educator David Campbell experienced a unique time of life in American history-- growing up in industrial small town Galion, Ohio in the mid-twentieth century. He recorded some of his childhood recollections as part of a memoir for his children that he never finished.Now, with...
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  • Charlie's Lab by Graziano, Michael S. a.
    Michael S. a. Graziano

    Charlie's Lab

    For thirty years, Charlie Gross of Princeton University headed one of the most consequential neuroscience labs of the twentieth century, hidden behind locked doors in a secret wing of an old stone building. Michael Graziano, a member of that elite group of lab mates...
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  • God's Love Through the Eyes of a Teacher by Rouse-Curry, Becky
    Becky Rouse-Curry

    God's Love Through the Eyes of a Teacher

    This book is about the life and times of Dr. Becky Rouse-Curry as an educator in the Twiggs County school system. She faced many trials and tribulations; however, her faith in God brought her through all her situations. She is retired now, but she...
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  • The Pensive Citadel by Brombert, Victor
    Victor Brombert

    The Pensive Citadel

    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 1940s....
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  • The Missing Puzzle Pieces: Finding My Birth Family by Zaretsky, Joan
    Joan Zaretsky

    The Missing Puzzle Pieces: Finding My Birth Family

    Joan Zaretsky was adopted as an infant, and grew up in a loving, happy home with adoptive parents who supported her to experience many opportunities. Following her retirement, and her adoptive parents passing away, Joan courageously endeavors to reconnect with her birth family-but this...
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  • Becoming American: My First Learning Journey by Schein, Edgar H.
    Edgar H. Schein

    Becoming American: My First Learning Journey

    Edgar H. Schein, a major contributor to the field of organizational psychology, often gets asked how he became interested in culture, careers, and consulting-so he wrote this first part of his autobiography to answer that question. From his early years in Switzerland, the Soviet...
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  • I Don't Do That Anymore: A Memoir of Awakening and Resilience by Garmston, Robert J.
    Robert J. Garmston

    I Don't Do That Anymore: A Memoir of Awakening and Resilience

    Dr Robert Garmston, a high school dropout, whose childhood is characterized by rejection, abandonment, and abuse sees himself as having a core of badness and as someone who is unlovable. In his childhood, he spends more time in group homes than with his adopted...
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  • The Missing Puzzle Pieces: Finding My Birth Family by Zaretsky, Joan
    Joan Zaretsky

    The Missing Puzzle Pieces: Finding My Birth Family

    Joan Zaretsky was adopted as an infant, and grew up in a loving, happy home with adoptive parents who supported her to experience many opportunities. Following her retirement, and her adoptive parents passing away, Joan courageously endeavors to reconnect with her birth family-but this...
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  • My First Hundred Years by Adams, Will
    Will Adams

    My First Hundred Years

    My First Hundred Years is a memoir of the lifetime of Dr. Will Adams who shares many varied experiences culminating in the knowledge and opinions of a man who has lived a very fulfilling life. The book begins with an introduction to his family...
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  • Bowhunting My Way by Feisel, Bryan Griz
    Bryan Griz Feisel

    Bowhunting My Way

    Bryan "Griz" Feisel is passionate about the outdoors. Bryan takes you on a journey of not only bowhunting for white-tailed deer but several species including turkey, predators, and small game. Bryan has developed unique methods of harvesting and processing these animals. Please take this...
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  • Surprised by Glory: Essays on Searching for the Sublime by Ray, Shari Brand
    Shari Brand Ray

    Surprised by Glory: Essays on Searching for the Sublime

    In an age when the world can feel especially dark, Surprised By Glory is a collection of true stories and hopeful essays that invites the reader to consider setting down the fear and anger of the current moment in order to seek instead the...
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  • A Life on the Middle West's Never-Ending Frontier by Boyd, Willard L.
    Willard L. Boyd

    A Life on the Middle West's Never-Ending Frontier

    University of Iowa legend Willard L. "Sandy" Boyd is a proud middle westerner. His decades of service to the university began in 1954, when he arrived as a law professor. He later became president of the University of Iowa from 1969 to 1981, and...
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  • Surprised by Glory: Essays on Searching for the Sublime by Ray, Shari Brand
    Shari Brand Ray

    Surprised by Glory: Essays on Searching for the Sublime

    In an age when the world can feel especially dark, Surprised By Glory is a collection of true stories and hopeful essays that invites the reader to consider setting down the fear and anger of the current moment in order to seek instead the...
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  • In My Life: A Memoir and Family History by Tannacito, Dan
    Dan Tannacito

    In My Life: A Memoir and Family History

    The privilege of writing an autobiography is usually reserved for the famous or infamous. Now, an expert in life stories turns his focus to his own story. The author connects his personal life with relevant aspects of the history of Italian Americans in the...
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  • From East to West: Memoirs of a Finance Professor on Academia, Practice, and Policy by Lee, Cheng Few
    Cheng Few Lee

    From East to West: Memoirs of a Finance Professor on Academia, Practice, and Policy

    This memoir presents a special look into Professor Cheng-Few Lee's formative childhood years, his distinguished career as a respected scholar and conference organizer, and his substantial experience in the fields of education and policy-making. It shares the innovative methods and forward-looking educational philosophy that...
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  • Short Stories from a Long Career by Lewis, Virginia
    Virginia Lewis

    Short Stories from a Long Career

    Dr. Lewis gives instructions on how to teach by recounting some of her personal experiences in brief and pointed paragraphs.Author: Virginia LewisISBN-10: 0883782669ISBN-13: 9780883782668Publisher: Third World PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2005Pages: 171Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.12w x 0.56d
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  • C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics by Roper, John Herbert
    John Herbert Roper

    C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics

    Perhaps the most prominent historian of his time, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) was always at the center of public controversy, wielding power inside the history profession while exercising influence on the reading public. In this collection of essays, historians examine the writings of the...
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  • Invisible Privilege: A Memoir about Race, Class, and Gender by Rothenberg, Paula
    Paula Rothenberg

    Invisible Privilege: A Memoir about Race, Class, and Gender

    Life began for Paula Rothenberg in a privileged home in New York City, but it took her to the battlefields of the culture wars on behalf of the underprivileged. Now this veteran of that cultural clash examines the subtle and complex ways in which...
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  • ...And So, It Began: Moments Well Lived: Recollections of Living, Teaching, and Traveling in South America by Marston, David
    David Marston

    ...And So, It Began: Moments Well Lived: Recollections of Living, Teaching, and Traveling in South America

    As a young married couple in 1976, David and June Marston shocked their family and friends by abandoning the predictable Midwestern life laid out before them and accepting teaching jobs in an American school in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The life stories of fascinating people met,...
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  • The Legend of the Happy Teacher: Stories and Strategies for Keeping Your Passion by Haft, Dennis
    Dennis Haft

    The Legend of the Happy Teacher: Stories and Strategies for Keeping Your Passion

    Being a teacher is intense, passionate, difficult, exasperating, exciting, demanding, and-most of all -rewarding!Which is exactly why Dennis Haft wrote The Legend of the Happy Teacher-Stories and Strategies for Keeping Your Passion.Based on his 30-plus years as a reading specialist, a classroom teacher, school...
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  • The teacher who escaped by Marlin, Warwick
    Warwick Marlin

    The teacher who escaped

    This book follows the true story of a burnt-out teacher who is trying to establish an alternative career as an author and self-publisher of mathematics books. The story follows him from his original roots in South Africa, to his education in England, his career...
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  • Prison City Kiddie by Colbo, Ken
    Ken Colbo

    Prison City Kiddie

    During my lifetime, I've been told well over 100 times that I should write a book, from almost drowning from falling into a horse trough at Age Three, to being escorted out of Montana State Prison through 700 hardened convicts who wanted to kill...
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  • Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up from Slavery 100 Years Later by Brundage, W. Fitzhugh
    W. Fitzhugh Brundage

    Booker T. Washington and Black Progress

    Inspired by the centenary of the publication of Washington's autobiography, Up From Slavery, this collection of essays reinterprets Washington's career and self-presentation. As the most visible and widely acclaimed black leader of his era, Washington played a pivotal role in advocating a strategy for...
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  • Lloyd Shaw and the Cheyenne Mountain Dancers by Shaw, Dorothy
    Dorothy Shaw

    Lloyd Shaw and the Cheyenne Mountain Dancers

    This is the story of an extraordinary educator who also became a dance leader. As superintendent of the public K-12 Cheyenne Mountain School in Colorado Springs from 1916 to 1951, Lloyd Shaw conducted an experiment in public education that won national attention. After coaching...
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