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"It was a wrong turn that changed everything. When Luma Mufleh--a Muslim, gay, refugee woman from hyper-conservative Jordan--stumbled upon a pick-up game of soccer in Clarkston, Georgia, something compelled her to join. The players, 11- and 12-year-olds from Liberia, Afghanistan, and Sudan, soon welcomed her as coach of their ragtag but fiercely competitive group. Drawn into their lives, Mufleh learned that few of her players, all local public school...
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In this uproarious exploration of the joys of reading, a long-time teacher, lifelong reader and The New Yorker contributor shares surprising stories from her life and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students and shows us how literature can transform us for the better.
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"A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American university Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father was a professor at Yale University. She has studied and taught at some of the world's most prestigious universities. She was the first woman to serve as provost of Yale....
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My Memoir. It describes my journey through my working life as a doctor. It also describes my experiences as a patient, and the wonderful life saving care I received from the NHS. There are also a few lines on my earlier life, as a Medical Student and how that impacted on my life as a Hospital Consultant Physician and Nephrologist (kidney specialist). The book consists of a series of vignettes describing episodes that have lingered in my memory. This...
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This book is not a scholarly text reporting research, nor does it intend to show someone how to teach. I present learnings about teaching and how important my students, my Precious Jewels have been in my growth as a teacher. It is about me growing up with the support of a lot of students.
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Bob currently resides in rural Iowa, where he lives with his son, daughter-in-law, and grandson. After retiring from public school administration in 2004, Bob spends his time preaching at area churches, teaching adjunct math classes at a local university, and golfing anytime he can get it in. Bob also has a daughter and four grandchildren who reside in Washington.
A Teacher's Tale chronicles Bob's life in his first teaching assignment. Bob's humorous...
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"If scientists have found parallel universes, we may one day have the opportunity to skip from one time period to another and have experiences only imagined. We might escape to another universe and then back to the present time. One might be able to be enlightened by spending a moment in Paradise. There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can be discerned by purer eyes; We cannot see it unless...
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My relationship with my family and friends while growing up were very special to me. Living in Brooklyn and graduating from P.S.230, Montaulk JHS, Erasmus High School, and Brooklyn College taught me a lot!
All these educational experiences left me with a strong feeling for teaching, acting, dancing, music, and enjoying life!
My friendship with Laura and her family, especially her actress mom, Fredi, and her family involved with theater were always...
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This is a moving, thought-provoking, and at times hilarious account of the highs and lows of one teacher's life in a pioneering inner-city school for damaged and difficult children in the 1970s.
Memoirs of a Maladjusted Teacher is the true account of one teacher's struggle to bring hope and happiness to his pupils, his employers and himself...a mixture of joy and chaos in the classroom.
Memoirs of a Maladjusted Teacher is one man's account of life...
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As a follow up to his phenomenal New York Times bestselling memoir, Highest Duty, Captain Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger explores exactly what it takes to lead and inspire. In Making a Difference, one of the most captivating American heroes of this century-the courageous pilot who brought the crippled US Airways Flight 1549 safely down in New York's Hudson River-engages some of the most accomplished men and women in the fields of technology, medicine,...
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A captivating memoir about tutoring for Manhattan's elite, revealing how a life of extreme wealth both helps and harms the children of the one percent.
Ben orders daily room service while living in a five-star hotel. Olivia collects luxury brand sneakers worn by celebrities. Dakota jets off to Rome when she needs to avoid drama at school.
Welcome to the inner circle of New York's richest families, where academia is an obsession,...
Ben orders daily room service while living in a five-star hotel. Olivia collects luxury brand sneakers worn by celebrities. Dakota jets off to Rome when she needs to avoid drama at school.
Welcome to the inner circle of New York's richest families, where academia is an obsession,...
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From the bestselling author of One Child comes the story of three of former special education teacher Torey Hayden's most extraordinary challenges.
Nine-year-old Cassandra, kidnapped by her father and found starving, dirty, and picking through garbage cans—is a child prone to long silences and erratic, violent behavior.
Charming, charismatic four-year-old Drake will speak only in private to his mother—while
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I Remember Laurier is the story-actually, thirty-seven stories-of the little university that could, told by some of those who devoted themselves to transforming the school from its modest beginnings into a superb small liberal arts college, and in turn to the university whose growth, diversification, research, and partnerships characterize it today. Although the stories are diverse in content, viewpoint, and tone, readers will note a number of unifying...
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R B Le Page (1920-2006) was one of the founding fathers of sociolinguistics. From an impoverished and unpromising start in east London WW2, and after a dangerous few years flying against submarines during the war, he worked his way through Oxford to become a young lecturer at the new University College of the West Indies in the 1950s, then a professorship in Malaya, and finally at York University. It was in Jamaica that he developed a lifelong interest...
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Is 'Romeo and Juliet' really a love story, or is it a play about young people living in dangerous circumstances? How might life under occupation produce a new reading of 'Julius Caesar'? What choices must a group of Palestinian students make, when putting on a play, which has Jewish protagonists? And, why might a young Palestinian student refuse to read? For five months at the start of 2013, Tom Sperlinger taught English literature at the Abu Dis...
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Those who knew Clark Huff as a child believed he would either be in jail or dead before he graduated high school. They had good reason to think that. He paid little attention to authority and never considered the risk of his actions. Enjoy these fascinating stories of how this disobedient, adventurous boy learned from his mistakes and survived to became a successful adult. The saga begins with an eight-year-old child who hopes to get a deer rifle...
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In all phases and stages of life, there are many options, opportunities, and paths that one can take. Usually, however, there is a process, that may have many roads that will lead an individual to success
The purpose of this Manual is to identify and define some of the roads,
opportunities, and options and to help the reader, through a planned program, to
reach his/her destiny. Without regard to the individual, everyone seeking success
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Higher education has changed, and we have to change with it. “The Freelance Academic” will show you how. When Katie Pryal started her career in higher education, she did everything right, she thought. With a law degree, a doctorate, and a federal clerkship, how could her career go off track? But this is higher ed in the new millennium. "Off track" is the new normal. So, slowly, she made her own career, one she dubbed "the freelance academic" in...
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Mark Twain wrote that one of his books was "mostly true." That is so with this book of sketches from the life of Erwin Hargrove, professor of political science. This is a lightly rendered memoir of his academic career at Brown and Vanderbilt Universities from 1960 to 2000. Though some of the details have been, enhanced, this book is an accurate account of Dr. Hargove's experience rising through the ranks of academia in the latter half of the 20th-century....
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