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The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50
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Renowned sociologist Dr. Lawrence-Lightfoot challenges the still-prevailing and anachronistic images of aging by documenting and revealing the ways in which the years between 50 and 75--the third chapter--may, in fact, be the most transformative and generative time in a person's life.
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The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
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Advice for parents and teachers on how to make parent/teacher conferences more productive.
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Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer
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This biography describes the journey of Margaret Lawrence from her childhood as the daughter of a black Episcopalian minister in Mississippi to professsional success as a child psychiatrist in New York City.
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Respect
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In these many-layered and masterfully written portraits, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot reaches deep into human experiencefrom the drama of birth to the solemn vigil before deathto find the essence of respect. In her moving vision, relayed through powerfully told stories, respect is not the passive deference offered a superior but an active force that ...
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The Good High School: Portraits of Character and Culture
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Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
An award winning book by the noted Harvard educator which examines six schools that have earned reputations for excellence.. What makes a good school? A prominent Harvard educator looks for the answers in six schools that have earned reputations for excellence: George Washington Carver High School in Atlanta; John F. Kennedy High School in the ...
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I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation
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Mixing biography and autobiography, casual talk with soul-baring revelations, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot uses a kind of "human-archaeology" to reveal the complex, nuanced lives of six middle-class African American achievers.
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Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer
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With the objectivity and insight of a scholar and the love and admiration of a daughter, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot recounts the extraordinary life of her mother, Dr. Margaret Morgan-Lawrence, one of the first African-American women to graduate from both Cornell University and Columbia University's School of Medicine to become a physician. 22 pages ...
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The Art and Science of Portraiture
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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Jessica Hoffmann Davis
"The writing is beautiful, the ideas persuasive, and the picture it paints of the process of careful observation is one that every writer should read...A rich and wonderful book." - "American Journal of Education". A landmark contribution to the field of research methodology, this remarkable book illuminates the origins, purposes, and features of ...
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The Good High School: Portraits of Character and Culture
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I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation
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}In Ive Known Rivers, sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot practices her unique human archaeology, peeling back the layers of six extraordinary lives. What she creates is a wholly original work, a penetrating portrait of the lives of middle-class African-Americans that has not been seen before.The six storytellers in Lightfoots work are poised in ...
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Respect: An Exploration
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A stunningly original treasure of a book that reveals the single most powerful ingredient in any relationship, whether personal, professional, or in public life.. In these many-layered and masterfully written portraits, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot reaches deep into human experiencefrom the drama of birth to the solemn vigil before deathto find the ...
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At Peril
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Told by children and adults, these stories offer a sometimes disturbing testimony about the circumstances of life in the contemporary United States. These personal accounts speak of a variety of social concerns, from youth crime and domestic violence to public education and health care.
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At Peril: Stories of Injustice
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Told by children and adults, these stories offer a sometimes disturbing testimony about the circumstances of life in the contemporary United States. These personal accounts speak of a variety of social concerns, from youth crime and domestic violence to public education and health care.
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Worlds Apart: Relationships Between Families and Schools
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Beyond Bias: Perspectives on Classrooms
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Jean V Carew, Sara Lawrence Lightfoot
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