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Greg Mortenson
[Paperback 2008]
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The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Talibans backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individuals power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of... more
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E R Braithwaite
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One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. Based on the author's own experiences, this is the story of a black teacher's trials and triumphs with a group of senior pupils in an overcrowded London school. The modern classic about a dedicated teacher in a tough London school who... more
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Booker T Washington
[Paperback 1995]
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Vividly recounting Washington's life--his childhood as a slave, struggle for education, founding and presidency of the Tuskegee Institute, and meetings with the country's leaders, this book reveals the conviction he held that the black man's salvation lay in education, industriousness and self-reliance. For the 50 years that followed its publication... more
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Daniel J Brown
[Hardcover 2007]
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Frederick Mosteller ,
Stephen E Fienberg ,
David C Hoaglin
[Paperback 2009]
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Featuring dozens of photos and with the addition of commentaries from colleagues and former students each offering a unique perspective, renowned statistician and educator Frederick Mosteller looks back on a celebrated career spanning more than six decades.... more
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Kristen A Renn
[Hardbound 2002]
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Sabriye Tenberken
[Paperback 2004]
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Defying everyone's advice, armed only with her rudimentary knowledge of Chinese and Tibetan, Tenberken set out to do something about the appalling condition of the Tibetan blind, who had been abandoned by society and left to die. Her story demonstrates anew the power of the positive spirit to overcome the... more
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Arthur Symons
[Paperback 2008]
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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 this work is culturally important, and... more
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Penny Kittle ,
Donald H Graves ,
Donald M Murray
[Paperback 2003]
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Susan Florio Ruane ,
Julie Detar ,
Julie De Tar
[Paperback 2001]
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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 & descri Making culture a more central concept in the texts and contexts... more
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Keith Devlin
[Paperback 2011]
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One of the great math popularizers of our time, Devlin recreates the life and enduring legacy of a young Italian named Leonardo of Pisa (better known today as Fibonacci), an overlooked genius, and in the process makes clear how central numbers and mathematics are to our daily lives. About the... more
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Jerome B Wiesner
[Hardcover 2003]
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CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2004 The recurring theme in Jerry Wiesner's varied and distinguished career was what Senator Edward M. Kennedy calls in the foreword to this book a "passionate involvement to make a better world, and a safer world." His odyssey as a public citizen included work as... more
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Gervase Phinn
[Paperback 2003]
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When his queen Arjumand Banu-Mumtaz-i-Mahal-the Chosen One of the Palace-died, Shah Jahan wanted to build a monument that was the image of his perfect love for her. For twenty-two years, twenty thousand men laboured day and night to fulfill the emperor's obsession. The result was the Taj Mahal, a marble... more
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Gervase Phinn
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2003]
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Gervase Phinn, school inspector, begins his third year with a spring in his step for in April he will marry Christine Bentley, head teacher of Winnery Nook School. But before then he has to suffer the wicked repartee of his fellow inspectors on the subjects of love and marriage. The... more
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Gervase Phinn
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2001]
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Phinn returns to the Dales for a second slice of Yorkshire life. Continuing where "THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DALE" ended, Gervase Phinn begins his second year as a schools inspector in Yorkshire. His colourful cast of characters are now becoming firm favourites - the mostly mad staff at County... more
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Lee Roy Neal
[Paperback 2002]
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Shirley Robinson Sprinkles
[Paperback 2008]
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June M Temple
[Paperback 2003]
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Almost twenty years ago June Temple, with her husband and their four teenage children, left a comfortable home and job to teach at a Mission school in British Columbia's famed Cariboo country. This amazing story was told in Bush Teacher in B.C. In this ne... more
