Biography & Autobiography - Educators

In the tradition of The Power of Myth, a conversation with Joseph Campbell that distills the mature wisdom and eclectic spiritual thinking of the world-renowned scholar and mythologist.Author: Michael TomsISBN-10: 0060972955ISBN-13: 9780060972950Publisher: Harper PerennialLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/23/1990Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 7.98h x 5.35w x 0.37d

While studying Chinese and Asian civilizations in college, Sabriye Tenberken was stunned to learn that in Tibet blind children were living in appalling conditions--shunned by society, abandoned, and left to their own devices. Sabriye, who had lost her sight at the age of twelve...

In The Education of a 20th Century Political Animal III, Arthur Kahn recounts how after returning to New York from a nine-month sojourn in the People's Democracies of Eastern Europe he found himself adrift. Under Truman's loyalty oaths and blacklistings and McCarthyite Cold War...

A true story of the coming-of-age account of a mid-19th century schoolgirl, Laurentine, in Janesville, Wisconsin who became a teacher upon turning 15 years old and was a prolific writer and an insightful chronicler of change and growth in the United States. Keeping a...

Jan was an outstanding teacher who inspired students and teachers alike until multiple sclerosis forced her to retire. In this poignant memoir, Jan's filmmaker husband relates the story of her journey through life and how it was shaped by things both large and small....

When Linda Katehi was six years old, growing up in war-ravaged Greece, she turned to her mother and said, "I do not want to be poor!" Her mother replied: "Then go to school and be a good student. This is the only thing that...

US public schools can do better. Post-pandemic, Harvard researcher Martin West states, "We've had the greatest decline in student achievement in US history. We have to have strategies to address this." 1980's national school change leader Ted Sizer commented, "School reform is like moving...

The first part of the book reflects the context of life within the totalitarian systems of Communism and Nazism. The author witnessed the mass deportations under Communism and mass executions of Jews, known as the Holocaust, and other tragic events during WWII, which left...

The Circle of Memory covers a broad canvas: Subhash Kak's childhood in Kashmir, his scientific career in India and the United States, and vignettes of several prominent scholars. In addition to many personal anecdotes about his family and colleagues, it describes how his research...

William Joseph "Will" Robinson, who in 1943 at the age of 32 became the first African-American coach in the Detroit Public School system (as well as in any school in the entire state of Michigan) was unquestionably a rare and audacious visionary. He always...

Author: Jenny R. PuckettISBN-10: 1463426259ISBN-13: 9781463426255Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2011Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

A major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The...

Few people manage to make a true impact on others the way Mike Adams did during his life.As a professor, columnist, and friend, he left an indelible mark on nearly everyone he met, moving them to become the best versions of themselves through his...

In his debut book, Joshua Faden shares his exciting work with students that led to the creation of the confidence-building model. He demonstrates how we can help our children go from resistant to engaged, lifelong learners. By weaving together the journeys of his students...

Gregory Brandt is a nonfiction writer from Austin, Texas. His first book is a memoir about his nontraditional path to a college education. Brandt graduated from the University of Texas in Austin in 2010 with a degree in print journalism.Author: Gregory BrandtISBN-10: 1798673754ISBN-13: 9781798673751Publisher:...

Booker T. Washington was an American political leader, educator and author of African ancestry, best known for his tenure as President of Tuskegee University. In My Larger Education, Washington writes on how he came by his positions on race relations describing the people who...

Named one of Book Riot's BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022 The "devastatingly affecting and moving" true story of a courageous school principal who saw the dangers of Nazi Germany and took drastic steps to save those in harm's way (The Times of London) In 1933,...

"A powerfully moving book . . . You will laugh, you will weep, you will be proud and you will rail." --Charleston News and CourierYamacraw Island was haunting, nearly deserted, and beautiful. Separated from the mainland of South Carolina by a wide tidal river,...

Outspoken New England urbanite Horace Holley (1781-1827) was an unlikely choice to become the president of Transylvania University--the first college established west of the Allegheny Mountains. Many Kentuckians doubted his leadership abilities, some questioned his Unitarian beliefs, and others simply found him arrogant and...

The story of Musahib Ud-Din Khan is not a run of the mill tale of rags to riches. It is rather an inspirational narrative about the potential of education as a vehicle for upward mobility and for realization of individual potential in the face...

Neither a cautionary tale nor a polemic, Men as Friends is about a variety of male friendships and a variety of men. A "coming-of-old-age story," it speaks to an audience of men who love or have loved other men but are too embarrassed to...

During his seven years as chancellor of the University of Arkansas, David Gearhart was outspoken on many issues, including putting students first, advocating for undocumented and minority students, and raising the profile of the university as a nationally-recognized research leader. But on some of...

"The rare book that has the potential to make you smarter--and everyone around you wiser." --Adam Grant Two-time world champion debater and former coach of the Harvard debate team, Bo Seo tells the inspiring story of his life in competitive debating and reveals the...

NEVER IN THEIR WILDEST DREAMS did the young couple imagine their teaching careers would begin in a remote Yupik Eskimo village on a desolate, icy, wind-swept island in the Bering Sea.It was 1951. On a whim, Charles "Tod" and his fiancé, Doris Derby, answer...

In childhood, Amy Hallberg receives a dollhouse that-while given with love-carries steep expectations. Forty years later, Amy walks away from her teaching career to forge a new life as a writer. The dollhouse reemerges as a mirror on Minnesota Nice, that familiar culture Amy's...

Pt. Sujan Rane is a professional Hindustani Classical Singer cum Portrait-Painter. He has received long training lasting 30 years from Pt. Phiroz Dastur associated with the Music Department of Bombay University, and a doyen of the well-known singing style Kirana Gharana of Abdul Karim...

Ma was a crafty lady who had been taught well by her father and mother, Elias Samuel Totten and Nancy Jane Bradford Totten. She learned to cook, sew, plow, hoe, pick cotton, do housework, and dry apples and peaches for fried pies. She worked...

Neither a cautionary tale nor a polemic, Men as Friends is about a variety of male friendships and a variety of men. A "coming-of-old-age story," it speaks to an audience of men who love or have loved other men but are too embarrassed to...

Situated next to the Kenyan capital's largest garbage dump, the Nairobi slum of Korogocho might seem like one of the least likely places on the planet where a youth orchestra has found itself a home. And yet, the classical strains of Mozart and Vivaldi,...

Are you a student of Napoleon Hill's classic from 1937 Think and Grow Rich? Has your life or business benefited from the timeless truths of this global classic? Are you ready to embrace and experience foundational steps to success that carry on from generation...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero."A vital and vivid portrait of an unlikely military hero who played a key role in...

A tender and perspective-shifting book that offers a rare level of understanding about the subtle and and no-so-subtle layers of internalized oppression and deep feelings and dilemmas of Deaf people, written by former Deaf teacher Rachel Zemach.This mesmerizing, funny, and disruptive narrative invites you...

TEACH showcases inspiring young adults and the remarkable teachers who celebrate the power of the HUMAN SPIRIT.Every successful urban educator's journey is different/unique. The common characteristic all great teachers possess is the ability to LISTEN to the FEARLESS, TENACIOUS, and DEMANDING voices of the...

A tender and perspective-shifting book that offers a rare level of understanding about the subtle and and no-so-subtle layers of internalized oppression and deep feelings and dilemmas of Deaf people, written by former Deaf teacher Rachel Zemach.This mesmerizing, funny, and disruptive narrative invites you...

"... one of the most delightful and charming books I've read in a long time ..."-Barbara Ferg-Carter, Ed.D., retired Chief of Staff, District Superintendent's Office, DoDEA Mediterranean District"... a joy to read ... documents recent history in an entertaining and inspiring way ... a...

This is the story of a young man's sojourn in the rainforest of Borneo in the late 1960s. Told through letters sent home, the book reveals the life of a small Kadazan village and the relationship that grows between the villagers and the American...

This was my attempt to find a path or purpose in a world that I couldn't make sense of. A documentation of audacious choices that I once hoped would lead me to some kind of dissentient promised land. It's a weird-ass narrative about invigorating...

John C. Donahue was considered a brilliant but difficult artistic genius in American theater in the 70s and 80s. His theater, the Children's Theatre Company and School (CTC), rose to the heights of critical acclaim. It was also a home to more than two...

Are you a student of Napoleon Hill's classic from 1937 Think and Grow Rich? Has your life or business benefited from the timeless truths of this global classic? Are you ready to embrace and experience foundational steps to success that carry on from generation...

The book begins with the life of a young Mexican-American boy from South Texas. Family and pop culture were influences on through high school and college showing the reader who he was and what he experienced. He continues with his experiences teaching at the...

US public schools can do better. Post-pandemic, Harvard researcher Martin West states, "We've had the greatest decline in student achievement in US history. We have to have strategies to address this." 1980's national school change leader Ted Sizer commented, "School reform is like moving...

Award-winning teacher Steve Cwodzinski was never content just imparting the assigned curriculum to his students. He saw in them the need to learn important life lessons as well about values, self-motivation, relationships, inquisitiveness, adventure, and so much more. Using his own struggles with growing...

Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this unforgettable memoir traces the ramifications of a series of lies that threaten to derail the author's life--exploring the line between truth and deception, fact and fiction, and reality and conspiracy.Sarah's story begins as she's...

After many years of writing nonfiction about handwriting psychology and mystery fiction, I tackled a memoir. This book details my spiritual path, starting with a strict religious background that allowed for no belief in an Afterlife, to the freedom of understanding that there is...

The Journey tells the stories of professional and personal ventures from my mother's Kindergarten homeschooling till post-Doctoral studies and beyond in nine different countries. It is a saga of friendship with so many families and colleagues in diverse cultures, a true anecdote of universal...

The engaging memoir of a legendary president of Wellesley College known for authentic and open-hearted leadership, who drove innovation with power and love. The Claims of Life traces the emergence of a young woman who set out believing she wasn't particularly smart but went...

Imagine moving nearly 80 times and living in almost 20 states before graduating high school. This is the story of a young boy growing up on the road. Shawn D. Congleton shares his account of overcoming his life's challenges, of never settling, that included...

Daniel Freeman's career as a public servant in government and his experiences as an educator are the foundation of this fascinating book. "The House Was My Home" is an intriguing and frequently humorous look behind the velvet curtain of the U.S. House of Representatives...

Where There's a Will, There's a Way Ma was a crafty lady who had been taught well by her father and mother, Elias Samuel Totten and Nancy Jane Bradford Totten. She learned to cook, sew, plow, hoe, pick cotton, do housework, and dry apples...

A BLACK FIRST is the story of an African-American, Black, Negro, colored man who weathered the storms of racism and bigotry and became a prominent educator in the State of New Jersey among its most powerful leaders for a significant period of time. The...