Educators
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Ghetto Classics: How a Youth Orchestra Changed a Nairobi Slum
$16.95 Add to cartSituated next to the Kenyan capital’s largest garbage dump, the Nairobi slum of Korogocho might seem like one of the least likely places on the planet where a youth orchestra has found itself a home.
- Author: Brownell, Ginanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: March 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1958363502
- Language: English
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Men As Friends: From Cicero to Svevo to Cataldo
$26.95 Add to cartNeither a cautionary tale nor a polemic, Men as Friends is about a variety of male friendships and a variety of men. A “coming-of-old-age story,” it speaks to an audience of men who love or have loved
- Author: Epstein, Irwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: May 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1646639936
- Language: English
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The Missing Puzzle Pieces: Finding My Birth Family
$21.99 Add to cartJoan Zaretsky was adopted as an infant, and grew up in a loving, happy home with adoptive parents who supported her to experience many opportunities. Following her retirement, and her adoptive parents… [more below]
- Author: Zaretsky, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1039153488
- Language: English
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You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
$18.95 Add to cartIf you’re both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a “new generation of activists and ordinary people who search for hope in the darkness” (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor). … [more below]
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 807043842
- Language: English
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Stanford’s Wallace Sterling: Portrait of a Presidency 1949-1968
$50.00 Add to cartJ. E. Wallace Sterling was Stanford University’s fifth president, serving from 1949 until 1968. During his presidency, Stanford evolved from a notable regional university into a leading national and e
- Author: Nilan, Roxanne L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 098479588X
- Language: English
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Terlingua Teacher: The Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-room Texas Schoolhouse.
$22.00 Add to cartThe Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-room Texas Schoolhouse.
A search for a simpler, more rewarding lifestyle brings Trent Jones and his wife Olga to the ghost town of Terlingua, Texas so
- Author: Jones, Trent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0974504831
- Language: English
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Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work
$18.00 Read moreMaria Montessori is important background reading for parents considering Montessori education for their children, as well as for those training to become Montessori teachers. The first woman to win a … [more below]
- Author: Standing, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0452279895
- Language: English
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The Quiet Trailblazer: My Journey as the First Black Graduate of the University of Georgia
$32.95 Add to cartThe Quiet Trailblazer recounts Mary Frances Early’s life from her childhood in Atlanta, her growing interest in music, and her awakening to the injustices of racism in the Jim Crow South. Early carefu
- Author: Early, Mary Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0820360813
- Language: English
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The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade
$21.95 Add to cartIn this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South–and particularly its history of slavery–turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of
- Author: Dew, Charles B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0813940397
- Language: English
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life’s Greatest Lesson
$31.50 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A special 20th anniversary edition of the beloved book that changed millions of lives–with a new afterword by the author
“A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by- Author: Albom, Mitch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 18 2010
- ISBN10: 0739377779
- Language: English
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Beautiful Child: The True Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of One Child comes this amazing, true story of a mute and withdrawn seven–year–old girl and the special education teacher determined never to abandon a child in need.
Seve
- Author: Hayden, Torey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0062662740
- Language: English
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An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms
$16.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Power of Myth, a conversation with Joseph Campbell that distills the mature wisdom and eclectic spiritual thinking of the world-renowned scholar and mythologist.
- Author: Toms, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 23 1990
- ISBN10: 0060972955
- Language: English
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Max and Mia’s Story
$15.95 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of life in foster care.
Parents Angelina and Ben exist in enviable luxury: not just wealth, success and
- Series: Thrown Away Children
- Author: Allen, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1802791205
- Language: English
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Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite
$20.00 Add to cartA haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea’s ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il’s reign
Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lin- Author: Kim, Suki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0307720667
- Language: English
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Anna and the King of Siam
$17.99 Add to cartThe bestselling book that inspired the musical play and film The King and I
“Enchanting. . . . The author wears her scholarship with grace, and the amazing story she has to tell is recounted with humor
- Author: Landon, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 03 1999
- ISBN10: 0060954884
- Language: English
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Rubber Bands on My Socks: The Reflections of a Sharecropper’s Daughter – Family, Poverty, Potential and Progress
$19.95 Add to cartNothing explains this book more than the subtitle, “The Reflections of a Sharecropper’s Daughter – Family, Poverty, Potential, and Progress,” that refers to the journey of the daughter of a sharecropp… [more below]
- Author: Wimbish Ed D., Annie P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1977209548
- Language: English
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One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season
$21.99 Add to cart“One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . This isn’t merely a book about baseball. It’s a book about heart.” — Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The… [more below]
- Author: Ballard, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1401312667
- Language: English
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Gordon Cressy Tells Great Stories
$20.99 Add to cartGordon Cressy is a walking, talking civics lesson. His work over the years has been a driving force in making Toronto what it is today – a city that takes top spots globally in livability rankings for
- Author: Cressy, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1771806702
- Language: English
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To Create the World That Ought to Be: Memoirs of a Radical Educator
$39.99 Add to cartTo Create the World That Ought to Be explores enticing possibilities and proven solutions for transforming our society and ourselves, as viewed through the lens of the life and work of a celebrated vi
- Author: Langberg, Arnie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987537305
- Language: English
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C. S. Lewis — A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
$22.99 Add to cartECPA 2014 Christian Book Award Winner (Non-Fiction)
Fifty years after his death, C. S. Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions. His legacy remains varied and vast. He was a towering intellec… [more below]- Author: McGrath, Alister
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1496410459
- Language: English
