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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin  
Powells.com Staff Pick Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time is a powerful contribution to that arsenal. If there...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom Publisher Comments It’s been ten years since Mitch Albom first shared the wisdom of Morrie Schwartz with the world. Now–twelve million copies later–in a new afterword, Mitch Albom reflects again on the meaning of Morrie’s life lessons and the gentle,...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom Publisher Comments Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it....
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32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny
by Phillip Done Publisher Comments A 20-year veteran of teaching third grade, Done chronicles a year in his classroom with 32 charming, hilarious, tragic third graders--and their pet bunny....
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by Paul Hoffman
Publisher Comments Paul Erdos, the most prolific and eccentric mathematician of our time, forsook all creature comforts — including a home — to pursue his lifelong study of numbers. He was a man who possessed unimaginable powers of thought yet was unable to...
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To Sir, with Love
by E R Braithwaite Publisher Comments The author's experiences as a teacher in the slums of London....
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There Are No Shortcuts (03 Edition)
by Rafe Esquith Publisher Comments "The 1992 National Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Esquith explains how his inner-city students manage to score in the top ten percent on standardized tests."--"Library Journal."...
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Up from Slavery (Signet Classics)
by Booker T Washington Publisher Comments A MAN WHO OVERCAME THE BONDS OF SLAVERY TO BECOME A SPOKESMAN FOR HIS PEOPLE.<P>Historically acknowledged as one of America's most powerful and persuasive orators, Booker T. Washington consistently challenged the forces of racial prejudice at a...
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The Water is Wide
by Pat Conroy Publisher Comments The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not...
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Michigan State College: John Hannah and the Creation of a World University, 1926-1969 (Michigan State University Press Sesquicentennial Book)
by David A. Thomas Synopsis Michigan State College: John Hannah and the Creation of a World University, 1926-1969, is the second volume in the Sesquicentennial history of Michigan State University. Preceded by Michigan Agricultural College: The Evolution of a land-Grand Philosophy,...
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The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield
by John Mcphee Publisher Comments Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school' s headmaster for sixty-six years...
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Up from Slavery (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Booker T Washington Publisher Comments 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...
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Teacher (Touchstone Books)
by Sylvi Ashton-warner Publisher Comments TEACHER was first published in 1963 to excited acclaim. Its author, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, who lived in New Zealand and spent many years teaching Maori children, found that Maoris taught according to British methods were not learning to read. They were...
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Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work
by E. M. Standing Publisher Comments This updated classic by Maria Montessori's closest collaborator reveals the inspirations behind the greatest educational innovator of all time<P>Maria Montessori is important background reading for parents considering Montessori education for their...
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Educating ESME: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
by Esme Raji Codell
Publisher Comments There aren't too many teachers who are written about in the New Yorker, People, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, and excerpted in Reader's Digest. But Esm Raji Codell is no ordinary teacher. An irrepressible spirit, she wears costumes in the classroom, dances...
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Dream Not of Other Worlds: Teaching in a Segregated Elementary School,1970 (Sightline Books)
by Huston Diehl Publisher Comments When Huston Diehl began teaching a fourth-grade class in a " Negro" elementary school in rural Louisa County, Virginia, the school’ s white superintendent assured her that he didn't expect her to teach " those...
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Boy I Once Knew : What a Teacher Learned From Her Student (02 Edition)
by Elizabeth Stone Publisher Comments One morning, a box was delivered to Elizabeth Stone's door. It held ten years of personal diaries and a letter that began "Dear Elizabeth, You must be wondering why I left you my diaries in my will. After all, we have not seen each other in over twenty...
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Teach with Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers
by Erin Gruwell
Powells.com Staff Pick Read the book about the teacher and founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation. Erin Gruwell was portrayed by Hilary Swank in the film Freedom Writers as the teacher who helped struggling abused, angry, and often gang-affiliated teens write about their...
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Teaching Amidst the Neon Palm Trees
by Lee Ryan Miller Publisher Comments Miller relates a funny and moving story of a young professor in Las Vegas who inadvertently gets caught up in a whirlwind of intrigue and corruption. This fast-moving true story features bizarre characters, reminiscent of Berendt's "Midnight in the...
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Mirror To America : Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (05 Edition)
by John Hope Franklin Publisher Comments Born in 1915, John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining 20th-century transformation, the dismantling of segregation. He has influenced with determination and dignity the nation's racial conscience, earning the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
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