Two on the Rocks
ISBN: 9781587216800 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,58 zł |
A Flicker of Life
ISBN: 9781588202260 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,40 zł |
180 Days of Madness and Merriment: Some Memoirs of My Experience as a Teacher in Baltimore City
ISBN: 9781588205476 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book was written as a diary to describe many of the experiences Henson had as a teacher for over 35 years in Baltimore public schools. The stories range from the humorous to the tragic.
This book was written as a diary to describe many of the experiences Henson had as a teacher for over 35 years in Baltimore public schools. The storie...
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96,81 zł |
Education of a University President
ISBN: 9781592133765 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Having learned the value of education, self-improvement, and perseverance from his of Russian- Jewish immigrant parents, Marvin Wachman was always a good student. But his skill on the tennis court won him a university scholarship and social access (along with notable opponents such as Bobby Riggs). As a newly minted PhD, Wachman served in World War II as a combat platoon sergeant. He was drawn to teaching, first in the Army, then at Colgate University, by his desire for work of lasting value. He proved a man of vision and administrative ability, qualities that suited him to lead two great...
Having learned the value of education, self-improvement, and perseverance from his of Russian- Jewish immigrant parents, Marvin Wachman was always a g...
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171,50 zł |
Without Guarantees: In Honour of Stuart Hall
ISBN: 9781859842874 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stuart Hall has been an inspirational figure for generations of academics. His early work on the media, his influential use of Gramsci in understanding Britain in the late 1970s, his analysis of Thatcherism, and his work on race and new ethnicities, have helped to make universities places where ideas and social commitment to change can co-exist.
Stuart Hall has been an inspirational figure for generations of academics. His early work on the media, his influential use of Gramsci in understandin...
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195,87 zł |
Butterfly Song -- A Woman's Journey Back Into Life
ISBN: 9781891386602 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A butterfly-this butterfly, Evelyn, has moved out of the painful cocoon of abuse to fly Her memoir is a powerful testament to courage under fire.
What a testament of grace and guts Evelyn's evolution into consciousness from victim to survivor to pastor is a witness to all who choose to walk away from abuse in any form. Jan Bucher, Spiritual Director In this captivating account of her escape from more than 20 years of domestic abuse, Evelyn Dahlke captures the intricacies of how a woman can be induced into a world of abuse.how she can lose herself and so identify with her abuser... A butterfly-this butterfly, Evelyn, has moved out of the painful cocoon of abuse to fly Her memoir is a powerful testament to courage under fire.
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65,14 zł |
Edward Bouchet: The First African-American Doctorate
ISBN: 9789810249090 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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223,47 zł |
The Art of Teaching
ISBN: 9780195169690 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching, writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with humor, encouragement, and hard-won wisdom about the teacher's craft.
Here is a godsend for instructors of all levels, offering valuable insight into the many challenges that educators face, from establishing a persona in the classroom, to fostering relationships with students, to balancing teaching load with academic writing and... Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching, writer and critic Jay Pari...
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75,18 zł |
All My Yesterdays
ISBN: 9781847481450 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All my yesterdays belong to the past; the future belongs to no one From his early life on a farm in pre-war Pembrokeshire to years spent working in education, James Marsden has witnessed first-hand the sweeping changes the world has undergone over the last seven decades. This is what makes All My Yesterdays more than the story of one everyman's life (exceptional as that life has been); rather, it is a record of the past, of a rural way of life in rapid decline and a golden age of education that's now little more than a memory. James Marsden now lives with his wife in the city of Llandaff on...
All my yesterdays belong to the past; the future belongs to no one From his early life on a farm in pre-war Pembrokeshire to years spent working in ed...
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102,44 zł |
Quest for Antarctica: A Journey of Wonder and Discovery
ISBN: 9780595426263 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. . Antarctica fools you into thinking you are safe, that appearances are reality. Antarctica is not what she seems.
Since he was thirteen years old, author John Barell's life-long-and life-enriching-dream has been to sail to Antarctica and explore its wild and expansive territories. "Quest for Antarctica: A Journey of Wonder and Discovery" recounts Barell's Antarctic adventure that is not only captivating but also educational. Fostered by knowing America's foremost polar explorer, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, and with strong family support, Barell's dream continues south to McMurdo... . Antarctica fools you into thinking you are safe, that appearances are reality. Antarctica is not what she seems.
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73,86 zł |
Trickster in Tweed: The Quest for Quality in a Faculty Life
ISBN: 9781598743180 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do academics survive the bureaucracy, the petty jealousies, the absurdities of operating in the university? More important, how do they, as humans, cope with the darker shadows that enter professional lives-- illness, sorrow, death? Coyote, The Trickster, a well known figure in the American Indian world, is also the icon for communication scholar Tom Frentz. Frentz uses the survival strategies of The Trickster in his articulate, amusing, and often emotional autoethnography of striving for quality through the worlds of academia and medicine.
How do academics survive the bureaucracy, the petty jealousies, the absurdities of operating in the university? More important, how do they, as humans...
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197,43 zł |
Retrospections
ISBN: 9781410797766 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,26 zł |
Stand for the Best: What I Learned After Leaving My Job as CEO of H&r Block to Become a Teacher and Founder of an Inner-City Charter Schoo
ISBN: 9780470188965 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thirteen years ago, Tom Bloch was CEO of H&R Block, the groundbreaking tax organization. The son of the company's founder, he was a happily married 41-year-old executive, but something was missing from his life. After a nineteen-year career at the company, Bloch resigned his position to become a math teacher in an impoverished inner-city section of Kansas City. Stand for the Best reveals Bloch's struggles to make a difference for his marginalized students and how he eventually co-founded a successful charter school, University Academy.
Thirteen years ago, Tom Bloch was CEO of H&R Block, the groundbreaking tax organization. The son of the company's founder, he was a happily married 41...
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108,72 zł |
The Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman
ISBN: 9780803218321 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raised in a sheltered, puritanical household in New England, Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953) followed her conscience and calling in 1885 when she traveled west and opened a school on the Great Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Over the next six years she witnessed many of the monumental events that affected the Lakotas, including the inception of the Ghost Dance religion and the fallout from the Wounded Knee massacre in December 1890. She also fell in love with and married Charles Eastman, a Dakota doctor with whom she had six children, and went on to help edit his many popular books on...
Raised in a sheltered, puritanical household in New England, Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953) followed her conscience and calling in 1885 when she t...
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124,68 zł |
Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency
ISBN: 9780300204889 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he spent 25 years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate, then professor, and finally as president. His experiences at the helm of Princeton-where he enjoyed four productive years followed by four years of wrangling and intense acrimony-reveal much about the kind of man he was and how he earned a reputation as a fearless crusader. This engrossing book focuses on how Wilson's Princeton years influenced the ideas and worldview he later applied in politics. His career in the White House, W. Barksdale Maynard shows, repeated...
Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he spent 25 years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate, then professor, and...
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317,43 zł |
Dave Sanders--Columbine Teacher
ISBN: 9781413452228 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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160,69 zł |
Dave Sanders--Columbine Teacher
ISBN: 9781413452211 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,47 zł |
Memories, memories: An Illustrated Autobiography
ISBN: 9781517044992 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the author's autobiography encompassing 86 years (1929-2015), illustrated with pictures, some of them historical. It contains his family tree, a very personal portrait of his parents, the history of his childhood and adolescence, and his early vocation for Medicine culminating in his graduation from the University of Havana Medical School. The painful experiences of leaving his country for political reasons, and his adaptation to a new country and a new language, are vividly described. He has written this autobiography with the ambitious purpose of leaving the younger generations...
This book is the author's autobiography encompassing 86 years (1929-2015), illustrated with pictures, some of them historical. It contains his family ...
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62,45 zł |
The Odyssey of a Vice Chancellor
ISBN: 9781413461329 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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146,37 zł |
The Odyssey of a Vice Chancellor
ISBN: 9781413461312 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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95,82 zł |