Author: Kristeller, Paul Oskar Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Originally published in Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr., edited by John Monfasani and Ronald G. Musto (New York: Italica Press, 1991).
Author: Collins Ph.D., Elsie M. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Elsie Collins is not your normal, everyday college professor in America. In her youth, she started out as "Kissi"-a descendent of African slaves, living in Wilson's Mill, North Carolina. Her upbringin...
Author: Parry, James Bartlett Publisher: Gray Dog Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Book All the Teachers! is a bittersweet account of James Parry's 35-year teaching career. In this humorous yet poignant memoir he reminds us that middle school/junior high is where and when the hormo...
Author: Nelson, Adam R. Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This definitive biography of the charismatic Alexander Meiklejohn tracks his turbulent career as an educational innovator at Brown University, Amherst College, and WisconsinÂ’s “Experimental CollegeÂ...
Author: Mundy, John Hine Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Originally published in Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr., edited by John Monfasani and Ronald G. Musto (New York: Italica Press, 1991).
Author: Greb, Gordon Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: START GOOGLING NOW! Google Brain is a "Time Machine" that takes you "back to the future." By being linked to the Internet, you're quickly plunged into the sights and sounds of the past. You become ...
Author: Pettit, Lawrence K. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Lawrence K. Pettit has had a dual career in politics and academia. After teaching political science at both Penn State University and Montana State University, he spent over twenty-five years as a uni...
Author: Greenfield, Matt Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Just So-me Stories flirts with the hyphen in between "non" and "fiction" in chronicling the darkest moments of Matt Greenfield's young life. "The Edge Behind Me" investigates a Memorial Day weekend/br...
Author: Sherk, Bill Publisher: Dundurn Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bill Sherk taught history to Toronto high school students for over thirty years. With his dynamic, creative teaching style, he instilled in his students a love of history and learning. Keep Up If You ...
Author: Sherk, Bill Publisher: Dundurn Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Bill Sherk taught history to Toronto high school students for over thirty years. With his dynamic, creative teaching style, he instilled in his students a love of history and learning. Keep Up If You ...
Author: Drury, James W. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: My Four Score and Ten Years is the memoir of a nonagenarian husband, father, grandfather, Kansas University professor, and world traveler. Jim Drury tells the story of his life, which spans most of th...
Author: Booth, Wayne C. Publisher: Utah State University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 v...
Author: Coleman, Edrel Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One Woman's Journey through a Challenging Century is the beautiful, true story of a strong, resilient woman. Born six days before WWI ended, Edrel grew up in the heart of that century and shares ninet...
Author: Main, Georgianna Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Marge Bump met Ernest Hemingway for the first time during the summer of 1915. She was walking back from Horton's Creek in northern Michigan where she had caught her first fish; he was a handsome sixte...
Author: Hunter, John O. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What they undertook to do, they brought to pass. All things hang like a drop of dew upon a blade of grass. -W. B. Yeats The work of a college president, or of any administrator in a position of respo...
Author: FH Jr., Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When Frank Hammond became a counselor at South Oak Cliff High School in the Dallas Independent School District, he had a good feeling. As a black man with a solid church upbringing and a degree from a...
Author: Pickering, Sam Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Praise for Sam Pickering: "Pickering has all of Thurber's humor, and he writes as well as E. B. White. He writes with passion, wit, and a strange personal note of self-mockery; he is humanely educa...
Author: Pinar, William F. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of work is an analysis and investigation into Maxine Greene, the most important philosopher of education in the United States today. The book opens and concludes with Greene's own auto...
Author: Crudup, Helen Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Thousands of kids around the world will either receive failing grades or drop out of school. Don't become a statistic learn about the ugly truth and how it can affect your life. Read this book and hel...
Author: Poe, Edith Bell Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Through My Classroom Door, an Oklahoma teacher shares the humorous highlights and entertaining anecdotes from her long career that began in a one-room schoolhouse and came to a close at the Univers...
Author: Acker, Duane C. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When Duane Acker assumed the presidency of Kansas State University on July 1, 1975, he inherited both the management team of his 25-year predecessor and their operating traditions. Though universities...
Author: Mathews, Jay Publisher: Algonquin Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. The...
Author: Crease M.A., Christopher Earl Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book gives a general idea of what a racist is, how a racist functions and the many effects they have on society. There are indications, circumstances and situations that, to some degree, lead us ...
Author: Doerr, Harold L. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 o...
Author: O'Donnell, Barbara Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: On September 5, 2008, Abraham Lambrechtse died of a massive stroke. I was overwhelmed with sadness for the lost of my friend, Bram. I was honored to be asked to write his obituary, and after his memor...
Author: Sparkman, Brandon Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jackson, Mississippi, was the last place Dr. Brandon Sparkman would have chosen to work back in 1970. But an anonymous, threatening letter lured him there. In this memoir and historical documentary, S...
Author: Moyen, Eric A. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In 1917, fifty-two years after its founding, the University of Kentucky faced stagnation, financial troubles, and disturbing reports of nepotism, resulting in a leadership crisis. A special committee ...
Author: Liddell, Hoover Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In traversing the earth and living with the wilderness from Africa to the California Sierras, author Hoover Liddell came to realize the great energy of youth as we struggle to educate our planet and o...
Author: Buor, Sei Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Praise for No More War Gordon J. Van Wylen, President Emeritus, Hope College, Holland, Michigan This book is a fine testimony of how God reached into Sei's life and then impacted the Church and the...
Author: Roberts, Jerry L. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Every teacher knows that a day in the classroom is always full of surprises, successes, failures, and inspirational moments. In the poignant memoir School House Diary, longtime educator shares anecdot...
Author: Finn, Fran Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Growing up in a Roman Catholic household and working at a Protestant school can be incongruous. "You're working for the enemy," insisted author Fran Finn's father. In this memoir, Finn recalls not onl...
Author: Williams, Richard H. / Zimmerman, Donald W. / Ross, Donald C. Publisher: Boson Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Twelve British Statisticians provides a description of the lives and scientific contributions of a dozen scientific luminaries. Each statistician is a famous figure, but is especially renowned in Grea...
Author: Dupras, Georges R. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Values in Conflict: Reflections of an Animal Advocate offers an account of changing and conflicting social values regarding man's role in the natural world. Author Georges Dupras compels us to think a...