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  • Starting from Scratch

    A Memoir

    Raised in a chaotic household during the Depression and World War II in a small Indiana town, Dr. John Brighton felt trapped from the first day of school. Because of undiagnosed hearing damage and ADHD, he was labeled as slow. It wasnt until he discovered engineering that he even considered going to college. Counselors predicted he would certainly fail. Instead, he proved the naysayers wrong and ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season

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  • Under the Holy Lake

    A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan

    by Ken Haigh ...
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    Inaccessible for most of its history, the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has long fascinated the West. Today, wealthy travelers are admitted in small groups, but in 1987, when Ken Haigh arrived as a volunteer to teach in a small high school, foreign travelers were as hard to find in the kingdom as telephones or toilet paper. Under the Holy Lake describes a two-year sojourn in the valley of ... Read more

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  • Robertson Davies

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    Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen’s University in Kingston in the 1930’s, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, essayist, critic, professor, and novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995) was one of Canada’s pre-eminent literary voices for more than a half-century.Davies, with his generous beard and donnish manner, was ... Read more

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  • The Bee Eater

    Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation's Worst School District

    The inside story of a maverick reformer with a take-no-prisoners management styleHailed by Oprah as a "warrior woman for our times," reviled by teachers unions as the enemy, Michelle Rhee, outgoing chancellor of Washington DC public schools, has become the controversial face of school reform. She has appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, and is currently featured as a hero in the documentary ... Read more

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  • Keep Up If You Can

    Confessions of a High School Teacher

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    A light-hearted and touching memoir of Bill Sherk’s 30-plus-year career as a Toronto high school history teacher with a creative flair and passion for his work.Bill Sherk taught history to Toronto high school students for more than thirty years. With his dynamic, creative, and occasionally unorthodox teaching style, he instilled in his students a passion for history and learning. Sherk was loved ... Read more

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  • Maria Montessori

    A Biography

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    The definitive biography of a physician, feminist, social reformer, educator, and one of the most influential, and controversial women of the 20th century.Maria Montessori effected a worldwide revolution in the classroom. She developed a new method of educating the young and inspired a movement that carried it into every corner of the world. This is the story of the woman behind the public figure ... Read more

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  • The Emergency Teacher

    The Inspirational Story of a New Teacher in an Inner-City School

    The Emergency Teacher is Christina Asquith’s moving firsthand account of her year spent teaching in one of Philadelphia’s worst schools. Told with striking humor and honesty, her story begins when the School District of Philadelphia, faced with 1,500 teacherless classrooms, instituted a policy of hiring emergency certified” teachers to fill the void. Asquith, a twenty-five-year-old reporter for ... Read more

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  • Each One Must Shine: The Legacy of Vasily Sukhomlinsky

    Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918-1970) was one of the most influential Soviet educators of the post-war period. His idealistic vision of human development and his deep love for children led him to develop a holistic system of education that emphasised the moral and aesthetic dimensions of a child's development, as well as the physical, intellectual and vocational. His school in the Ukrainian village of ... Read more

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    A mini-memoir about some hilarious times while Marsha Marie, an American, was living in United Arab Emirates as an English teacher. Not allowed to return to the States, Marsha chose UAE to be her new home. ... Read more

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  • Encounters with a Fat Chemist

    Teaching at a University in Northern Cyprus

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    Chris Payne writes a hilarious surreal account of life as a university professor at a dysfunctional university in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. On the beautiful island of Cyprus, little works as you expect it to, from the primitive plumbing to the maniacal university bus service. The American Institute of Cyprus is a seat of higher learning like no other. The place is chaotically ... Read more

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  • Divided Paths, Common Ground

    The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science into the Home

    by Angie Klink ...
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    In the early 1900s, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis forged trails for women at Purdue University and throughout Indiana. Mary was the first dean of the School of Home Economics. Lella was Indiana's first state leader of Home Demonstration. In 1914, Mary hired Lella to organize Purdue's new Home Economics Extension Service. According to those who knew them, Lella was a "sparkler" who traveled the ... Read more

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