Biography & Autobiography - Educators

How do you progress in life when, by your own actions, you fail in your career path? Even worse, within a year you're hospitalised and seriously injured and your main claim to fame is wrenched from your grasp?The road to redemption is long and...

It was never in author Joe Gilliland's plan to become a teacher, certainly not a college teacher and most certainly not an English teacher. But that's what happened, and he's never looked back. In A Teacher's Tale, he explains, how by neither planning for...

Dr. Jimmie James, Jr. is best known as the long-time voice of the Sonic Boom of the South, Jackson State University's storied marching band. His dazzling, virtuosic displays of verbosity rallied and inspired crowd across decades. Now he brings us The Legendary Voice of...

Amelia Akehurst Lines's diaries and letters provide an extraordinarily rich record of the attitudes and values of an "average" American woman of the mid-nineteenth century. Lines was a young New York schoolteacher whose ambition drove her to seek new opportunities in rural Georgia. Her...

Author: W. Thomas McQueeneyISBN-13: 9798318819094Publisher: Palmetto PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/2026Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d

Author: W. Thomas McQueeneyISBN-13: 9798318810978Publisher: Palmetto PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/2026Pages: 296Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: Derek FraserISBN-10: 183615495XISBN-13: 9781836154952Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/12/2026Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

SOUL DIAMOND LEGACY SERIES - VOLUME 1THE CROWNPersonal Stories of Vision, Higher Purpose & the Wisdom of Leading from Our Deepest TruthThe Crown brings together profound global leaders whose lives have been shaped by transformation, truth, and the real meaning of legacy. Each chapter...

Over the past five decades, prominent criminologist Gregg Barak has worked as an author, editor, and book review editor; his large body of work has been grounded in traditional academic prose. His new book, Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist, while remaining scholarly in its...

Part epistolary memoir, part handbook, Teaching Life reflects on more than three decades of teaching literature and touching the lives of students. Both a reflection on a life in literature and a primer on teaching as a vocation, this soul-stirring work also provides behind-the-scenes...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

This is the story of a woman who loved her career of geographer and climatologist. Marie Sanderson writes of the intellectual stimulation she experienced as a student at the universities of Toronto, Maryland and Michigan and of the professors who inspired her. She describes...

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...

The Ground I Walked On: Reflections Of A College President is a memoir written by George Nauman Shuster, a former president of Hunter College in New York City. In this book, Shuster reflects on his experiences as a college president, including the challenges he...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

"The Story of a Great Schoolmaster" offers a compelling biographical account of a significant figure in British education. Penned by Herbert George Wells, this volume explores the life and work of an influential school principal, providing valuable insights into the world of education in...

"Western Worthies: A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities" offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of prominent figures who shaped the 19th-century West of Scotland. Penned by J. Stephen Jeans, this collection presents biographical sketches of notable individuals...

Examines use of ethnically diverse published autobiographies in a teacher educ. book club & course. Focuses on autobiography as site of teacher learning about culture & role of conversation in that learning. Blends personal narrative w/ analysis & descriAuthor: Susan Florio-Ruane,Julie DetarISBN-10: 0805823743ISBN-13: 9780805823745Publisher:...

This book demonstrates how Celestin Freinet influenced education. He was a pioneer in incorporating technology into the classroom.Author: Victor AckerISBN-10: 0739119249ISBN-13: 9780739119242Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/16/2007Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 7.12w x 0.40dReview Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 193

Since the 1960s, many historians have condemned Booker T. Washington as a problematic, even negative, influence on African American progress. This attitude dramatically contrasts with the nationwide outpouring of grief and reverence that followed Washington's death in 1915. Kenneth M. Hamilton describes how, when,...

A fiercely independent thinker, colorful storyteller, and spirited teacher, David Grene devoted his life to two things: farming, which he began as a boy in Ireland and continued into old age; and classics, which he taught for several decades that culminated in his translating...

Carmen Blacker was an outstanding scholar of Japanese culture, known internationally for her writings on religion, myth and folklore - her most notable work being The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan. Importantly, a third of the volume comprises significant extracts...

The author draws a portrait of his teacher Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), whose research in a variety of fields laid the foundations of modern Sinology. The work deals with Karlgren's childhood, school years, university studies at Uppsala and St. Petersburg, adventurous sojourn in China, studies...

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...

Evelyn Shakir's witty, wise, and beautifully written memoir explores her status as an Arab American woman, from the subtle bigotry she faced in Massachusetts as a second-generation Lebanese whose parents were not only foreign but eccentric, to the equally poignant blend of dislocation and...

"You tryin' to change us?" A few seconds into my first class ever, a student asked a question that had no answer. Then, he walked out. It was a fitting introduction to City High, inner-city education, and what would soon become the most challenging...

In his autobiography, My Many Selves, Wayne C. Booth is less concerned with his professional achievements---though the book by no means ignores his distinguished career---than with the personal vision that emerges from a long life lived thoughtfully. For Booth, even the autobiographical process becomes...

Who was John Ogden (1824-1910), the first Superintendent -- later Principal and President -- of Fisk School, today's Fisk Univ.? Was he Dr. Ogden? A Methodist minister? An educator from Pennsylvania? An ex-Army Captain? A veteran of the Civil War from the second Wisconsin...

Author: Eric A. MoyenISBN-10: 0813129834ISBN-13: 9780813129839Publisher: University Press of KentuckyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2011Pages: 416Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d

In Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide, Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge_accomplished sociologist and published novelist_explore the fascinating interplay between literary and ethnographic writing. The exciting result is an intriguing experimental text that simultaneously delves into, reveals, simplifies, and complicates methodologies of writing...

In Against the Tide: An Autobiographical Account of a Professional Outsider, Leslie Woods relates the fascinating story of his life from fisherman's son in New Zealand to head of the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford. After starting at a trade school, he...

Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of judgement have been and continue to be widely discussed among many scholars. The impact of his thinking is beyond doubt and his ideas continue to inspire and encourage an on-going dialogue among many people in...

The year of Heinz Wolfgang Arndt's birth, 1915, was not a good time for a German boy to be born. His country was soon to be defeated in a great war, his school years were shadowed by the rise of Hitler. Yet when Heinz's...

One Man's Deep Words: From Academic Frustrated to Global IconWhat happens when the man with all the answers realizes he's been asking the right questions in the wrong way?Dr. Charles Griffins was the embodiment of academic prestige. As the "Most Outstanding Lecturer" at the...

One Man's Deep Words: From Academic Frustrated to Global IconWhat happens when the man with all the answers realizes he's been asking the right questions in the wrong way?Dr. Charles Griffins was the embodiment of academic prestige. As the "Most Outstanding Lecturer" at the...

On November 12, 2021, in recognition of the bicentennials of both Bartholomew County and the city of Columbus, Indiana, the Bartholomew County Genealogical Society and Mill Race Center's Afternoon for Arts series presented Driftwood River Anthology, a local version of Edgar Lee Masters' classic,...

El autor era Farmacéutico y Supervisor Farmacéutico, con una carrera de veintitrés años en uno de los hospitales de VA. Al jubilarse, se convirtió en un Farmacéutico de guardia en el Native American Indians Hospital, en el que pudo cumplir sus sueños de visitar...

With I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You, Ralph McInerny--distinguished scholar, mystery writer, editor, publisher, and family man--delivers a thoroughly engaging memoir. In the course of his recollections, McInerny describes his childhood in Minnesota; his grammar school and seminary education, with his decision to...

Author: Paul J. SachsISBN-13: 9798990133464Publisher: Tidepool PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2025Pages: 416Format: Hardcover

On November 12, 2021, in recognition of the bicentennials of both Bartholomew County and the city of Columbus, Indiana, the Bartholomew County Genealogical Society and Mill Race Center's Afternoon for Arts series presented Driftwood River Anthology, a local version of Edgar Lee Masters' classic,...

Teachers are the heroes we too often forget to thank. And we need heroes more than ever. From across the country, from kindergarten to high school, from public, private, religious, or military schools, teachers tell us about their classrooms. They tell us what it...

This memoir, completed just before Vincent Mosco's sudden death in February 2024, chronicles the last half century of research, activism and teaching in critical communication, technology and society from the perspective of one of its pioneering figures. It concentrates on the making of a...

A biography of Ezra Stiles, a prominent American academic who served as the president of Yale College. Written by Abiel Holmes in the early 19th century.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of...

This funny and moving memoir interweaves stories of an English teacher's encounters with his adult students who came to the San Francisco Bay Area from Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Korea, Peru, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand,...

Arthur Link (1920-1998) was one of the great historians of his generation, a prolific author with a wide following inside and outside the profession. For many years the foremost authority on Woodrow Wilson, he wrote a five-volume biography of the president and edited a...

Meyer Feldberg is a storyteller. The source of his stories is his rich and unique life, which took him from South Africa under apartheid to a C-Suite in present-day New York, from the hallowed halls of academia to the frenzy of global investment banking....

American Trojan is the captivating story of a refugee who lost everything and then rebuilt it all, an immigrant who defied the odds and achieved the American Dream; a visionary technologist who transformed the University of Southern California into one of the nation's most...

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 Saga of Lucien L. Nunn and Deep...

An examination of how settler colonialism shaped the thinking of America's leading philosopher of democracy and education, John Dewey John Dewey is regarded as a towering figure in the history of American philosophy, widely remembered by educators as an advocate for experiential and child-centered...

Yo Soy is a memoir of Roberto E. Villarreal's life struggle for social justice and equality and a reclamation of his ancestry, language, and culture, forbidden by the Texas state school policies during his childhood in the 1930s. Racism, bigotry, violence, and subordination formed...