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Vendor:Guy Newmountain
Please I Can to the Toilet Go?
Ever wondered what it's like to be a supply teacher? This is the book for you! Artist and illustrator Guy Newmountain, a time-served teacher at the chalk-face for 25 years and a familiar sight to thousands of pupils across the spectrum from nursery to...- $15.95
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Vendor:Rashad Vance
Goal Setter: How to Win at College
Looking back, my life at school wasn't quite easy for me. Sometimes I hated school, but I was so determined to wrestle at the division I level, that I worked as hard as I could in order to accomplish that goal. I hardly ever...- $12.95
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Vendor:David J. Connor
Contemplating Dis/Ability in Schools and Society: A Life in Education
This book chronicles the professional life of a career-long, inclusive educator in New York City through eight different stages in special and general education. Developing a new approach to research as part of qualitative methodology, David J. Connor merges the academic genre of autoethnography...- $45.99
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Vendor:Farenga Lawrence Patrick
The Legacy of John Holt: A Man Who Genuinely Understood, Trusted, and Respected Children
The Legacy of John Holt contains sixteen portraits of a radical teacher and writer whose ten books and work influenced schoolteachers and homeschoolers to help children learn in their own ways.Written by friends, colleagues, and homeschoolers who knew Holt personally, this book sheds new...- $11.99
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Vendor:Robert L. Bliss
From the Outhouse to the President's Chair
From the Outhouse to the President's Chair is a riveting memoir outlining the difficulties, adversities, and the good times in a unique and totally unplanned rise from a farm boy to a college presidency, coupled with proven success in the corporate world.Beginning on the...- $12.95
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Vendor:James J. Raciti
Stephen Girard
Why is Stephen Girard, a figure from late Colonial America, important today? As a teenager, he left home in Bordeaux, France with meager funds and went to sea as a merchant marine, following his family's tradition. In early summer, 1776, he landed in Philadelphia...- $24.95
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Vendor:Booker T. Washington
The Story of My Life and Work
He is one of the great voices in African-American history: Booker T. Washington rose from a boyhood in shackles in West Virginia-he was eight when the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution freed all slaves in 1865-to the status of national hero. In this autobiography...- $21.99
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Vendor:Abdul Qayum Safi
One Life: An Afghan Remembers
I was born in the mountainous remote district of Pech, Kunar Province, in eastern Afghanistan, before it became known as the Valley of Death during decades of relentless wars. As the oldest of ten children, encumbered by the constant threat of fatal disease, due...- $19.95
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Vendor:Clive Bush
Witness to the End of Empire: A young Englishman in Nigeria during its first year of independence, 1960-61
The story will speak of my voyage out to Nigeria in September 1960, officer class, on a British Navy Troopship. By telling this story of the End of Empire by a young, innocent member of the colonial power, I also hope, in a second,...- $23.99
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Vendor:Tom McAuliffe
Throttle Up! Teacher Astronaut Christa McAuliffe
The world watched......as a teacher flew into space. Do you remember where you were when Christa McAuliffe died? She was a wife, Mother and Teacher and the first civilian to fly into space but Christa's dream tragically ended on a cold January day with...- $16.99
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Vendor:Elaine Zorbas
Townsend's Folding Globe: A world in letters from Gold Rush California by Dennis Townsend, educator and inventor
Letters written between 1852 and 1868, vividly describe the overland journey and excitement of settling in the evolving California mining towns of Fiddletown and Volcano in the Sierra Nevada foothills. A native of Vermont, Dennis Townsend marveled at the wonders of California, writing about...- $18.50
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Vendor:LeVert Hedgemon
A Ministry Not a Job: Memoirs of a Middle School Teacher
In A Ministry. Not a Job: Memoirs of a Middle School Teacher, author Levert Hedgemon, Jr. reflects on his fifty-four-year career as a student, teacher, colleague, and mentor in the Tuscaloosa City Schools. Growing up during the Jim Crow era of segregation, racial tension,...- $34.99
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Vendor:Roberta Wallitt
From Classroom Teacher to Co-Conspirator: A Journey of Transformation
In this memoir, a White educator reflects on her journey toward becoming an anti-racist co-conspirator. Each chapter describes the experiences and challenges that contributed to her understanding of how to work in coalition to ensure an equitable education for students of color. While these...- $15.00
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Vendor:Sandra Jenkins Cook
Homeroom 109
The miracles that took place in Homeroom 109 were astounding. Widespread student salvations, healings, and deliverance occurred. Spiritual battles were fought and won as school policies were changed to allow a Christian club and prayer at the flagpole. Even my fellow teachers, administrators, and...- $16.95
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Vendor:Reginald K. Ellis
Between Washington and Du Bois: The Racial Politics of James Edward Shepard
Southern Conference on African American Studies Inc. C. Calvin Smith Book Award Between Washington and Du Bois describes the life and work of James Edward Shepard, the founder and president of the first state-supported black liberal arts college in the South. Arguing that black...- $18.95
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Vendor:Al Ainsworth
Playing for Overtime: The David Lee Herbert Story
He was handed a terminal diagnosis. The way he faced it would make him immortal...Tishomingo County, Mississippi, 1985. David Lee Herbert was passionate about coaching high-school football. But one night driving the team bus home from a game, he came upon an accident that...- $14.99
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Vendor:David J. Fishkind
What My Students Taught Me: Letters from My Time in Teaching
What My Students Taught Me is a reflective work covering time I spent teaching in Broward County, Florida. It is a collection of students' thoughts and feelings that inspired and taught me how to be a better teacher. It is about the impact a...- $16.95
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Vendor:Thomas Benson
A Legacy Created: Memoir of a Boy from the South
Dr. Thomas Benson III is on an extraordinary journey in life and is a man of many accolades with a story worth telling. From being a husband, father, son, and brother to being a longtime educator and mentor, and former athlete, Dr. Benson III...- $14.99
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Vendor:J. D. Oliver
A Heart of Giving
A Heart of Giving chronicles the life of J.D. Oliver-his extraordinary quest for learning, his career in education and the space industry, and the influences and events instrumental to his success. Navigating life as an African American man born in rural Texas in the...- $19.95
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Vendor:Daniel M. Freeman
The House Was My Home: My Life On Capitol Hill and Other Tales
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...- $42.99
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Vendor:Krist匤 Bragadtir
Willard Fiske: Friend and Benefactor of Iceland
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the young American student Daniel Willard Fiske left college to embark on a sojourn in Denmark and Sweden that would eventually lead, in 1879, to a lengthy visit to Iceland. By then, Fiske had become Cornell University's...- $28.95
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Vendor:Sathish Kumar Mahalingam
Instincts, Intents and the Greater Purposes.: Holding on to niche and converging aims to meet realities.
We immerse into our selves, don't open up to express outwardly, and remain confined or contained and non-expectant of a better life if encouragement, reward and gratification are not showing. However, on the converse if we open up, express, moot up preparations to meet...- $12.00
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Vendor:Raymond Keene Obe
Tony Buzan: Mapping the man behind Mind Mapping
Tony Buzan achieved global fame as the inventor of Mind Mapping, a technique for note taking and creative ideas which has transformed educational theory and practice around the world. In the course of his career, promoting Mental Literacy and the belief that Genius is...- $19.99
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Vendor:Nigel Richardson
Thring of Uppingham: Victorian Educator
Edward Thring on EducationEdward Thring (1821-1887), who founded the Headmasters' Conference of prominent schools in Britain in 1869, was the best-known headmaster of his generation.Formed by a nature-loving childhood in rural Somerset, survival in the notorious Long Chamber at Eton, a fellowship at King's...- $33.99
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Vendor:Archie P. McDonald
Never Without Honor: Studies of Courage in Tribute to Ben H. Procter
Never Without Honor features essays written in Memory of Ben H. Procter, a beloved mentor and friend who taught many people most of what they know about the practice of history, and even more about life. Historians, particularly those who practice their craft through...- $20.00
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