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A must-read for parents, new teachers, and classroom veterans, “Educating Esmé” is the exuberant diary of Esmé Raji Codell's first year teaching in a Chicago public school. Fresh-mouthed and free-spirited, the irrepressible Madame Esmé, as she prefers to be called, does the cha-cha during multiplication tables, roller-skates down the hallways, and puts on rousing performances with at-risk students in the library. Her diary opens a window into...
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In this powerful, eloquent story of his return to the classroom, a former teacher offers a rousing defense of his beleaguered vocation
Perhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voices of the teachers themselves are conspicuously missing. Defying this trend, teacher and writer Garret Keizer takes us to school-literally-in this arresting account of his return to the same rural Vermont...
63) Learning Lessons
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It is probably the question I get asked most often by students: how did you achieve what you did? There is an urgency to the question and more than a little self-interest. If I can figure out how he made it, the student reasons, then maybe I will know how to chart my own path. It was always difficult to provide a simple answer to a long and complex journey. So I often leave the inquiring student with a pointer here or a caution there. Never enough...
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William M. Chace is Professor of English and President Emeritus at Emory University. He is the author of two books, The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot and Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics.
In One Hundred Semesters, William Chace mixes incisive analysis with memoir to create an illuminating picture of the evolution of American higher education over the past half century. Chace follows his own journey from undergraduate...
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The story of a dream — moving to another country and building a successful life — and how it came to fruition. Aksana Palevich moved abroad in her early twenties, carrying only a dream, some clothes and ten dollars in her pocket. However, this isn't just a story of struggle, but of dream-like success built out of 48 lessons learnt along the way. The Ten-Dollar Dream is a guide for anyone, who thinks their circumstances can prevent their ambition,...
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Together with his pupils, Bryan ventures into the great outdoors to prove that life can be just as challenging and chaotic outside the school gates. And there is an interlude on a narrow boat, for which school and pupils cannot be held accountable, unless the blame can fall on school holidays.
67) Upstart
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Ed Walsh returned to Ireland in 1970 to blunder into setting up an institute of education. He found a decaying mansion on a riverside site, gathered talented young people and secured funding from the World Bank and European Investment Bank to build what became the University of Limerick. Along the way, Ed made powerful enemies as he challenged official cant, traditional academics and clerical humbug. This is an inspiring, frank and often funny memoir...
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Success and failures are worth telling, because we can learn from them and strengthen ourselves. We can use that experience to strengthen organizations and societies in which we work and live.
This book is a true story, set in the gender segregated context of Saudi Arabia. It presents lively stories of the different social actors that were involved in establishing and developing the Female International Technical College, where the authors worked...
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An award-winning African-American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadephia childhood in the 1930's to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan.
A rich narrative recounting the life story of award-winning African American historian and novelist Allen B. Ballard, Breaching Jericho's Walls takes its readers on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadelphia community in the 1930s to...
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"Los Demonios de Mercury: El Trágico Final de una Estrella de Rock" es el título de un libro ficticio que se podría utilizar para contar una historia basada en la vida y la carrera de Freddie Mercury, el legendario vocalista de la banda Queen.Freddie Mercury, cuyo nombre real era Farrokh Bulsara, nació el 5 de septiembre de 1946 en Zanzíbar, Tanzania. Fue conocido por su increíble rango vocal, su carismática presencia en el escenario y su habilidad...
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Eden Across the Street and Other Formative Places: a Memoir attempts to recreate important relationships in the author's earlier life and to convey the spirit of the places, where he lived. Bill Keen was born in1935 in Harrisburg PA, where he attended public schools, graduating from John Harris High School in 1953. He received further education at Dickinson College (B.A. 1957), Lehigh University (M.A. 1960; PH.D. 1967), and L. S. U. (1959-1961). He...
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In Glimpses of Notes Ian Davidson describes in remarkable detail his education at Manchester Grammar School, beginning during the second half of World War Two. A native of Broughton-in-Furness, he brings his acute observational powers to bear on his upbringing in this great northern industrial city and his education at one of the world's great schools. Starting in the Preparatory Department and leaving from the History Sixth Form, he produces wonderful...
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What kind of writing can you get done in three days? David Macpherson wrote a memoir in three days. He liked it so much, he did it five more times. What you have in this book are the six small memoirs he wrote in three days a piece. You will learn about the ins and outs of being a Rocky Horror kid. Or you experience a youth remembered in reference to the TV shows he watched. How about a small memoir about reading books while walking the dog? That's...
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An Unexpected Story of Hope and Perseverance... As a young child, it was obvious something was wrong with Michael. He lacked basic motor skills and was unable to follow simple instructions or answer questions. Testing revealed a diagnosis of autism with a low IQ. Experts insisted that leading an independent life would be impossible for him...and school was not an option. Supported by documentation and interviews, Michael's heartfelt memoir traces...
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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 studies department that offers courses on Western and Eastern religions as well as religion in general. Harold Coward addresses this change in this memoir of his forty-five-year...
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Proving that fact is stranger than fiction, this book takes you along a teacher's fascinating and often hilarious journey from training-college days to leading a school. Packed full of incredible Teesside-teacher tales it will stir many memories of events from your early days in school – whether you loved or loathed them!
This book is 'class' from beginning to end as it takes you on a roller-coaster ride to show you life behind the
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BACK IN THE DAY is the autobiography of Kenneth R. Young, a distinguished American scholar of Southeast Asia born in Oklahoma at the end of the Great Depression. The book details Young's early life in small-town Oklahoma and midcentury Los Angeles and continues his story through the present day.
Young's mother's family were "Okies," poor dirt farmers, who barely survived each harvest, while his father worked ten hours a day, six days a week as a grocery...
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If School Desks Could Speak is a collection of true, humorous, and heartening vignettes from the classrooms of middle- and high-school students on both sides of the Atlantic. From being addressed as `babe' to finding a father's personal item glowing in the dark, from dodging flying spitballs to flying business class, from confiscating student amorous messages to helping a teenage mother cope with an unplanned pregnancy - these are only a few examples...
79) A Ray of Vishnu
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AN EMPOWERED SOUL
A ray of Vishnu, a saktyavesa avatara, His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura fought against the darkness of casteism, atheism, British cultural chauvinism, sensualism in the name of spirituality, and all kinds of false doctrines which had a stranglehold on India in the 1920's and 1930's. Triumphant in his attempts, he ignited a spark which created a spiritual conflagration which is still burning brightly throughout...
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Over 40 years have passed since I began my career teaching children and adults with special needs. With each step, mistake, and small victory, I have seen how education and communication have changed lives. People who were once considered "throwaways" are now productive, responsible, and happy members of our communities. "We label jars, not people." Everyone has gifts, talents and a purpose. I just try to help everyone appreciate these qualities in...
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