Biography & Autobiography - Educators

"From Maple Mud to Ethiopian Miracles" is Bill Graff's memoir of a life shaped by service. It opens with a crumpled telegram - that pulled him from a graduate teaching post at Stevens Institute into the Peace Corps in 1963. Sent to Ethiopia, he...

This deeply moving and courageous story is a journey of pain, resilience, and healing. Through raw honesty and heartfelt reflection, the author shares a voice once silenced, now rising with strength and purpose.From enduring life's darkest moments to finding light through love, family, and...

Potpourri fits well in a title for one man's diverse travels, adventures, and experiences. Joe Polacco captures them them with a variety of poetic genres. The effect, instead of dizzying, is a pleasing kaleidoscope of imagery, understanding, and feeling.Author: Peppe (Joe) PolaccoISBN-10: 1954396503ISBN-13: 9781954396500Publisher:...

What if your breaking point was not the end of your story-but the beginning of your becoming? Stripped Naked is a powerful fusion of memoir, neuroscience, trauma recovery, and spiritual awakening.Therapist and creator of the Neuro-Spiritual Integrated Model (NSIM), Megan Elaine Gasink takes readersinside...

Serendipity is the unforgettable true story of a boy from small-town Pennsylvania who grows up to live several lives in one. From a childhood filled with close calls, mischief, and wide-eyed curiosity to the discipline and hardship of the U.S. Marine Corps, from the...

Teaching During the Pandemic: A Firsthand Journey Through the Crisis That Reshaped EducationWhat happens when classrooms go dark and learning moves behind a screen? Teaching During the Pandemic is a raw, honest, and inspiring account of what it truly meant to be an educator...

I Didn't Really Know Him is a memoir of the author's life with her husband from 1960 until 2018. She fictitiously portrays herself as the character, Beth, and her husband as William Parker Hays. By presenting his poems chronologically while describing their marriage as...

In this third volume, I will share problems I faced as a beginning teacher with parents, administrators, fellow faculty, staff, competitor coaches, faculty union issues, academic senate challenges, and how both my students and I overcame minor and major obstacles that certainly changed our...

In this second installment of his memoir, Ron relives the summer of 1968 through the summer of 1974. It includes the four colleges he attended noting the unique challenges they provided including accusations of plagiarism, negative stereotyping, too much alcohol consumption, and his own...

From a snowy morning in 1949 to a life transformed by love and faith, Stephen overcame a troubled start. With the support of his adoptive family, he became a professor and author, proving that with hope and guidance, anyone can rise above their circumstances.In...

In the spring of 1970, a seemingly ordinary school day becomes a defining moment for a group of kids caught in the crosswinds of a nation in turmoil. Capture the Flag is a heartfelt, nostalgic memoir that captures the innocence of youth, the stirrings...

The book highlights my many and diverse major accomplishments, including: -Becoming an Evans Scholar at the University of Michigan-Obtaining an MBA from Northwestern University's Graduate Business School-Starting the New Bedford Business Park-Attracting many high-quality businesses to the park-Creating the Global Learning Charter School-Improving New...

The early years... 1998-2009A Tip of the Hat collection - 2 volume series - excerpts from 22-years of writing, thoughts and musings from Canada's Idea Man, Bob Hooey For 22 plus years I have wracked my brain to find something informative, provocative, or at...

Now that Latinos are the most numerous ethnic minority in the United States and a growing part of the middle and professional classes, a Mexican American educator takes stock. Latinos can see that their sun is rising. Marco Portales knows; his life has been...

To survive a life-long quarrel with authority-and come out the winner-takes luck.Was it really just luck that took Irv Zuckerman from a Depression-era childhood in a Brighton Beach rooming house, through a life that should have ended at 20 in a French forest, to...

I asked my Year 1 class, 'What's the best thing that's ever happened to you?'George Pointon asks his class a lot of questions. What do you want to be when you grow up? What do you reckon your parents do while you're at school?...

A portrait of the celebrated intellectual As a historian, theologian, and mentor, Richard Lyman Bushman greatly influenced the shaping of how those inside and outside the Church perceived Latter-day Saint history. J.B. Haws's examination of Bushman's life and thought tells the story of a...

Geerhardus Vos, a pioneer in biblical theology, continues to influence Bible students today. Widely known for his scholarship on Vos, editor James T. Dennison Jr. here collects, for the first time, all of Vos's extant letters. Many of these letters were written to such...

Author: Edd Sandra Pierce MathisISBN-13: 9798295870712Publisher: Sandra Pierce Mathis, EddLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/03/2026Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d

A portrait of the celebrated intellectual As a historian, theologian, and mentor, Richard Lyman Bushman greatly influenced the shaping of how those inside and outside the Church perceived Latter-day Saint history. J.B. Haws's examination of Bushman's life and thought tells the story of a...

Harold Doerr's life was shaped by many and varied forces. In this memoir, he shares the stories and experiences that helped him become the man he is today. Using a three-part approach, in A Square of Daffodils, Capitalism, and Why Children Don't Learn, Doerr...

Annie Webb Blanton: Founder, The Delta Kappa Gamma Society is a biography written by Clara M. Parker. The book tells the story of Annie Webb Blanton, a pioneering educator and women's rights activist who founded The Delta Kappa Gamma Society, an organization that supports...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Allan Frederic Saunders came to the Islands in August 1945, on a one-year appointment to the University of Hawai'i's Government Department. He stayed to become a much-loved teacher and administrator in the University, and a pillar of the community. His impact on the territory,...

In Ed's account of 1965-1966, we have the advantage of his double vantage point, an artist's sensibilities: Ed, in that year of his letters home to his family, and Ed, reflecting and refracted as he approaches sixty years later as a Basilian and fifty...

The paths of Bill Shankly, Denis Law and David Kershaw crossed briefly at Huddersfield Town FC in the 1950s. David who? Kershaw would never go on to become a household name. Before leaving for Liverpool, Shankly had to tell him that he was never...

In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North America has a religious...

Even a cursory glance at today's headlines reveals that higher education is in crisis. Tuition outpaces inflation, states slash budgets, graduation rates decline, and technology threatens to reshape everything. Universities continue to crank out new PhDs, but many will become poorly paid members of...

J. C. Beaglehole, best known as a historian and Cook scholar, was also a passionate writer of letters. He wrote frequently, at length, and throughout his life, to family, friends and colleagues-- wittily, affectionately, intimately, eruditely, acerbically, and always with an eye to style--and...

-Padma Shri and late Hindi author Shivani's memoirs of studying at the experimental school set up by Rabindranath Tagore. -A rare view and stories of life inside the Ashram, of how the students' intimate relationships and interactions with Tagore and other towering personalities shaped...

Every year, the United States spends roughly $60 billion-about one percent of the federal budget-on university research. Though this research has far-reaching effects and benefits the public at large, most people are unaware of the inner workings of academic research. Who bears the risk...

Every year, the United States spends roughly $60 billion-about one percent of the federal budget-on university research. Though this research has far-reaching effects and benefits the public at large, most people are unaware of the inner workings of academic research. Who bears the risk...

Emily Hipchen is a Fulbright scholar, the editor of Adoption & Culture, co-editor of the book series Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture (OSUP), and an emeritus editor of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. She is the author of a memoir, Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an...

No Borders: Journeys Across Islands and Continents is the autobiography of eminent historian Professor Wang Gungwu. Respected the world over for his interpretation of the Sinic civilisation, he delves into his own annals to tell his story. From vantage points in Malaya, London, Australia,...

A Pen Flew Across the Room and a Friendship Took FlightA single moment in a classroom-a tossed pen-sparked a lifelong friendship that neither Barbara Jeanne Fisher nor Mitchell Holland could have predicted. What began as a story of a dedicated teacher and a spirited...

An eye-opening look at life as an online teacher of English.Often funny, sometimes poignant, always real.In this book, author and long-time educator Jinny Alexander takes you on a fly-on-the-wall journey into the world of online English learning.Have you ever thought about how people around...

Rabbi Edward M. Gershfield didn't fit the cookie cutter mold of a typical rabbi or Jewish scholar.Known to some as the Freedom Writer because of his decades of experience writing Jewish divorces, he taught Talmud and Jewish Law at the Jewish Theological Seminary of...

This book relates Dr. Lancer's teaching approach with many memorable students. It is her hope that her love for her students and for teaching shines through her words. She describes the changes in education over her years in the public school system, and she...

"THE LEGEND OF INARA WALI" In the sacred annals of societal evolution, there exists a tome of profound significance-a testament to the transformative power of human endeavour and the enduring spirit of resilience and compassion. This book, a luminous beacon amidst the shadows of...

About the Book"Discover a captivating journey in 'And...I Met Myself, ' a poignant memoir reflecting on universal themes of love, family, and self-identity. From childhood crushes to the pressures of exams, the author navigates adolescence with relatable storytelling. This engaging narrative unveils transformative moments,...

"THE LEGEND OF INARA WALI" In the sacred annals of societal evolution, there exists a tome of profound significance-a testament to the transformative power of human endeavour and the enduring spirit of resilience and compassion. This book, a luminous beacon amidst the shadows of...

My Journey Through Life critically records and celebrates the life of Chief Sir Prof. Alexander D. Wozuzu Acholonu's earliest beginnings through his educational struggles accentuating challenges he has faced and how he has been able to surmount them; Professor Acholonu's career as an academician...

As my children have grown, I realize that a family's "story" is its legacy for future generations. This book retells family stories so that others may share a laugh, gain some insight, and discover that each of us, and our experiences, should be celebrated....

'This important memoir about growing up brings tears, laughter and goosebumps - sometimes all at the same time. It is utterly compelling. Johanson is a natural storyteller. With unique turns of phrase and a delicious sense of humour, his human generosity and wisdom guide...

An extraordinary account of Gemma Sisia's twenty years as the founder of St Jude's, a school that is changing the lives of some of the poorest children in Tanzania. From a country town in Australia to a small village in Tanzania, Gemma Sisia has...

Welcome to the real-life stories and empowering lessons from the author's life in two continents and his practice of servant leadership at a church, hospital, and later as a seminary dean and whole person educator at Oral Roberts University (ORU). Read it to discover...

This volume is pivotal reading for laypersons looking for an accurate understanding of the private life and public career of A.E. Housman. Furthermore, it is also essential for any reader seeking to recover a truer image of the Victorian man who, during his lifetime,...

Plain Mr. Knox is the first comprehensive biography of John A. Knox, one of the most influential educators of the early 20th century. As the longtime president of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, Knox championed a revolutionary approach to liberal arts education that...

Quality of education is a topic as important to Canadians as national health care, but what happens when students start to fall between the cracks in the system? Diane Wishart interviewed many at-risk students in an urban high school, including a number of aboriginal...

In 1960s Regina, when racial discrimination often went unchallenged, and the education system needed visionary reform, Gloria Mehlmann struggled to embrace her Cree/Saulteaux identity and sustain her passion for learning and teaching. Critical but not cynical, Mehlmann's touching stories reveal the experiences and students...