Educators
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Glimpses of a Public Ivy: 50 Years at William & Mary
$24.99 Read moreThis behind-the-scenes collection of vignettes, as told by a professor of four decades, shares the story of life at America’s second-oldest college from 1950 to 2000.
Learn about the remarkable stud… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0764364448
- Language: English
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Higher Ground: My American Dreams and Nightmares in the Hidden Halls of Academia
$28.00 Read moreWhen Linda Katehi was six years old, growing up in war-ravaged Greece, she turned to her mother and said, “I do not want to be poor!” Her mother replied: “Then go to school and be a good student. This
- Author: Katehi, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1684017238
- Language: English
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Dancing with History: A Life for Peace and Justice
$22.95 Read moreA memoir of a Quaker activist and master storyteller on his involvement in struggles for peace, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, labor justice, and the environment, whose life will be the subject of a new … [more below]
- Author: Lakey, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1644212358
- Language: English
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Home in the World: A Memoir
$19.95 Read moreA towering figure in the field of economics, Amartya Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India. But Sen has, in fact… [more below]
- Author: Sen, Amartya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1324092920
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Saved My Life
$19.99 Add to cartA female professor, a super maximum security prisoner, and how Shakespeare saved them both
Shakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That is, until she decided
- Author: Bates, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1402273142
- Language: English
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Bright Eyes: Surviving Our Monsters and Learning to Live Without Them – A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartFans of Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died will root for Bridey Thelen-Heidel as she struggles to unshackle herself from her mother’s chaos in this triumphant debut memoir.
Bridey is tethered to- Author: Thelen-Heidel, Bridey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 164742738X
- Language: English
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Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors
$18.95 Add to cart“Feuerverger’s search for a “place of inner solace” is profoundly inspiring … often rendered in poetically stirring prose. With affecting clarity, the author meditates on the ways in which trauma is
- Series: Holocaust Heritage
- Author: Feuerverger, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9493322602
- Language: English
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My Homecoming Dance: Reflections on Teaching in Wisconsin
$24.99 Add to cartIn her memoir My Homecoming Dance: Reflections on Teaching in Wisconsin, Sue Leamy Kies returns to her alma mater to teach high school English. What’s changed in the twenty years since graduation? Wha
- Author: Kies, Sue Leamy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798986336541
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Promised Me Horses
$24.95 Add to cart“He tried to outrun a train,” Theodore Blindwoman told David Joseph Charpentier the night they found out about Maurice Prairie Chief’s death. When Charpentier was a new teacher at St. Labre Indian Sch… [more below]
- Author: Charpentier, David Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496238079
- Language: English
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The Principal Chronicles
$18.99 Add to cartThe Principal Chronicles is a collection of funny and poignant short stories that follow the arc of one man’s life and career in education. These works of creative non-fiction-or, to be precise, of se… [more below]
- Author: Garlick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: December 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1039125735
- Language: English
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The Tiger’s Child: What Ever Happened to Sheila?
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of One Child comes this incredible, true story of the six-year-old girl who touched the hearts of millions–and the courage of one teacher who would not give up on her.
What
- Author: Hayden, Torey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0062662880
- Language: English
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Live As If: A teacher’s love story
$14.99 Add to cartIn the most deeply personal writing of his long career, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the life and work of his wife Nancy, who died of leukemia in 2018. Partly the memoir of a vibrant
- Author: Gaillard, Frye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1734590211
- Language: English
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Renegade Teacher: Inside School Walls with Standards and the Test
$15.95 Add to cartUS public schools can do better. Post-pandemic, Harvard researcher Martin West states, “We’ve had the greatest decline in student achievement in US history. We have to have strategies to address this.
- Author: Scheidler, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886792614
- Language: English
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The Art of Being a School Counselor: Leading with Confidence, Compassion & Authenticity
$17.95 Add to cartAre you thinking about school counseling as a profession or just starting as a school counselor? Okay, maybe you’re already an established school counselor; congratulations! However, are you feeling s
- Author: Regas, Nancy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1977235964
- Language: English
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Renegade Teacher: Inside School Walls with Standards and the Test
$26.95 Add to cartUS public schools can do better. Post-pandemic, Harvard researcher Martin West states, “We’ve had the greatest decline in student achievement in US history. We have to have strategies to address this.
- Author: Scheidler, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886792621
- Language: English
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The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill
$25.99 Add to cartPsychologically astute and passionately written, Molly Worthen’s remarkable debut charts the intricate relationship between student and teacher, biographer and subject. As a Yale freshman, Worthen fou… [more below]
- Author: Worthen, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0618872671
- Language: English
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Walking Out on the Boys
$21.00 Add to cartIn May 1991, Frances K. Conley, the first female tenured professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headline news when she resigned from Stanford University to protest the medical school’s unabash
- Author: Conley, Frances K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0374525951
- Language: English
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To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe
$23.95 Add to cartHow have Black women fostered belonging in higher education institutions that have persisted in marginalizing them? Focusing on the career of Lucy Diggs Slowe, the first trained African American stude
- Author: Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Tamara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0820361658
- Language: English
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Coming Ashore: A Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartNow in trade paper Written with the same spirit and wit as the bestselling Too Close to the Falls and After the Falls, Coming Ashore is the third and final volume of Catherine Gildiner’s memoir series… [more below]
- Author: Gildiner, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1770412565
- Language: English
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Anatomy of a Kidnapping: A Doctor’s Story
$27.95 Add to cartFour hours. That was the amount of time between looking down the barrel of a gun and finding myself free along a silent highway lined by cotton fields. In the time period that seemed eternal, my uniqu… [more below]
- Author: Berk, Steven L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0896726932
- Language: English
