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The Strange Case of the Mad Professor by Peter Kobel
epub |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Peter Kobel

The mid- to late 1970s made for heady times in the rock scene in New York City. NYU students could slam shut their textbooks and walk a few blocks to ...
( Category: Mammals March 2,2020 )
A Woman's Education by Jill Ker Conway
mobi |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Jill Ker Conway [Conway, Jill Ker]

5 SCHOLARS WITH PINES FROM THE DAY I ARRIVED in Northampton, I was on guard against the presidential trap of merging self and institution so completely that there seemed no ...
( Category: Educators March 2,2020 )
A Dedicated Life by David Lawrence Jr
epub |eng | 2018-07-18 | Author:David Lawrence, Jr. [Lawrence, David Jr.]

David and Nancy Lawrence in New York City before the years on the farm. David Lawrence Jr. at 8 months. David and Nancy Lawrence—parents of nine—on the chicken farm in ...
( Category: Educators February 20,2020 )
Living Ethnomusicology: Paths and Practices by Margaret Sarkissian & Ted Solis
epub |eng | 2019-06-16 | Author:Margaret Sarkissian & Ted Solis [Sarkissian, Margaret & Solis, Ted]

Judith (Judy) McCulloh (March 24, 2009) PhD, Indiana University (Folklore) Editor Emerita, University of Illinois Press Graduate Studies JMcC: After I got my bachelor's in English I went down the ...
( Category: Ethnic & International January 19,2020 )
My Life of Language: A Memoir by Paul W. Ogden
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Paul W. Ogden

3 SURVIVING SCHOOLWORK We have been told over and over about the importance of bonding to our children. Rarely do we hear about the skill of letting go. Joan Sheingold ...
( Category: Educators January 19,2020 )
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life by Robert Lerner
epub |eng | 2017-01-03 | Author:Robert Lerner [Lerner, Robert]

CHAPTER 14 Flight ERNST KANTOROWICZ LOST HIS “LEISURE WITH DIGNITY” painfully in 1938. Upon his return from Paris his passport was taken away from him, meaning that he could no ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
The New Negro by Jeffrey C. Stewart
epub |eng | 2019-04-29 | Author:Jeffrey C. Stewart

Here Locke put his foot down. “Let’s leave them out of this issue,” he wrote on February 17. “There is no use bringing in through the back-door what we have ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 19,2020 )
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-09-26 | Author:Booker T. Washington

XI Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie on Them A little later in the his­tory of the school we had a visit from Gen­eral J. F. B. Mar­shall, the ...
( Category: African-American Studies December 13,2019 )
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
epub |eng | 2019-09-08 | Author:Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Dead Man Talking Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Dear Cousin Neil, The day after my father died, I went to the funeral home to view his body. He’d been sick for ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science October 9,2019 )
Lost Child by Torey Hayden
epub |eng | | Author:Torey Hayden

chapter seventeen On Thursday we had a team meeting – myself, Meleri, Ben, two other social workers, another representative of my charity, and, because the case with Joseph was still ...
( Category: Child Abuse August 7,2019 )
It All Adds Up: The Story of People and Mathematics by Mickael Launay
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2019-10-08 | Author:Mickael Launay

INVENTING YOUR OWN MATHEMATICAL THEORY Have you ever dreamt of having a theorem to your name, like Pythagoras, Brahmagupta or al-Kashi? Great – I’ll now demonstrate how you can create ...
( Category: Educators July 30,2019 )
Roughhouse Friday by Jaed Coffin
epub |eng | | Author:Jaed Coffin

* * * I spent the rest of the night camped out in the shadows of the barroom, trying to make sense of how I’d somehow ended up the winner ...
( Category: Educators July 19,2019 )
Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-08-23 | Author:Margaret Landon

24 THE KING’S BIRTHDAY It was a rainy afternoon in the middle of October. School was in full swing when a small page came to the Temple of the Mothers ...
( Category: Women July 18,2019 )
Living Ethnomusicology by Margaret Sarkissian
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Sarkissian

Judith (Judy) McCulloh (March 24, 2009) PhD, Indiana University (Folklore) Editor Emerita, University of Illinois Press Graduate Studies JMcC: After I got my bachelor's in English I went down the ...
( Category: Ethnic & International July 15,2019 )
A Headmaster's Story by Bill Schroder
epub |eng | 2019-05-10 | Author:Bill Schroder

CHAPTER 7 Transformation and beyond As we moved towards the change of education departments, as a school we wanted to be a sincere and significant agent for change. To achieve ...
( Category: Educators June 5,2019 )

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