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1	Letters to a Young Teacher more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist This exhilarating new work from award-winning author Kozol takes the form of warm and friendly letters to a young classroom teacher, offering advice, encouragement, remembrances, and a lively indignation at the bureaucratic absurdities most teachers face. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Mathematical Ideas more books like this by Charles David Miller add to wishlist One of the biggest issues college math instructors face is capturing and keeping student interest. Over the years, John Hornsby has refined a creative solution--bringing the best of Hollywood into his mathematics classroom. Mathematical Ideas applies this same strategy of engaging students through descriptions of video clips from popular cinema ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.06! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Family in Transition more books like this by Arlene S Skolnick add to wishlist This bestselling reader on families and intimate relationships identifies the most current trends, places them in historical context, and balances cutting-edge scholarship with perennial favorites. The authors, who are leading scholars, build each new edition from classic literature in a variety of disciplines as well as from the continuing stream ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	One Hundred Great Essays more books like this by Robert DiYanni (Editor) add to wishlist One Hundred Great Essays is published as part of the Penguin Academics Series, a series of low-cost, high-quality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses. One Hundred Great Essays collects that number of the most teachable and rewarding essays used in today's college composition class. The anthology combines classic essays that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.99! \| SVS
5	Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Educational Issues more books like this by James Wm Noll add to wishlist This expanded fourteenth edition of "Taking Sides: Educational Issues" presents two additional current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. An instructor's manual ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.98! \| SVS
6	Education and the Significance of Life more books like this by J. Krishnamurti add to wishlist The teacher probes the Western problems of conformity and loss of personal values while offering a fresh approach to self-understanding and the meaning of personal freedom and mature love. see all copies from $3.99! new only from $8.52! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Intermediate Language Lessons more books like this by Emma Serl add to wishlist This second volume in Serl's language series makes teaching English easier during the often difficult intermediate years?4th, 5th, and 6th grades. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $22.35!
8	Tales from the Teachers' Lounge: What I Learned in School the Second Time Around--One Man's Irreverent Look at Being a Teacher more books like this by Robert Wilder add to wishlist From the critically acclaimed author of "Daddy Needs a Drink" comes a series of irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means to be a teacher today. By turns heartwarming, eye-opening, and uproariously funny, these pitch-perfect essays offer priceless lessons in life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling more books like this by John Taylor Gatto add to wishlist Gatto analyzes the roots of the modern American education system, outlining prescriptions for revitalizing the system, advocating greater emphasis on critical analysis, creativity, practicality, and real-world exposure in the curriculum. He calls on educators and administrators to acknowledge student's need for a spiritual and ethical framework ... see all copies from $11.55! new only from $55.96! \| signed copies
10	Writing about Reading: From Book Talk to Literary Essays, Grades 3-8 more books like this by Janet Angelillo, Katie Wood Ray (Foreword by) add to wishlist Janet Angelillo introduces us to an entirely new way of thinking about writing about reading. She shows us how to teach students to manage all the thinking and questioning that precedes their putting pen to paper. see all copies from $13.84! new only from $27.17! \| SVS
11 view cover	I'd Rather Teach Peace more books like this by Colman McCarthy add to wishlist In 1982 acclaimed Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy was invited to teach a course on writing at an impoverished public school in Washington, D.C. He responded, "I'd rather teach peace." Thus began the work he has passionately pursued for the past twenty-five years????????????????????????teaching courses on nonviolence, conflict management, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue more books like this by Danielle Ofri add to wishlist Danielle Ofri writes eloquently about her years of training to be a doctor at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, sharing her encounters with the sick, the dying, and the living. In the course of this volume, Ofri becomes a doctor, learning not only to heal the sick but to cope with the death and failure that are a part of every doctor's life--and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Beginnings of learning more books like this by Krishnamurti add to wishlist Krishnamurti, who founded schools in India, the USA and England to further his beliefs, presents lively and often intimate exchanges on practical and philosophical issues in the interests of teaching children to meet educational demands without conforming to conventional values. 'The subjects range from learning how to sit still with a quiet mind ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.35! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Giants and Dwarfs: Essays 1960-1990 more books like this by Allan Bloom add to wishlist A collection of essays on teachers, books and education, from the author of "The Closing of the American Mind". In this book, current liberal theories of justice are criticized, the shortcomings of the modern university are analyzed and the works of Shakespeare, Swift and Plato are examined. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $69.99! \| first editions
15 view cover	Agricola and Germany more books like this by Cornelius Tacitus, Anthony Birley (Translator) add to wishlist 'Long may the barbarians continue, I pray, if not to love us, at least to hate one another.' Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98. He was inspired to take up his pen when the assassination of Domitian ended 'fifteen years of enforced silence'. The ... see all copies from $2.90! new only from $3.03! \| SVS
16 view cover	Kindergarten Chats & Other Writings more books like this by Louis H Sullivan add to wishlist One of America's most original and influential architects expounds his theories in his most famous book, including eight additional papers. 17 illus. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.34! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Family in Transition more books like this by Jerome H Skolnick, Arlene S Skolnick add to wishlist This best-selling reader on families and intimate relationships identifies the most current trends and places them in historical context. The authors, who are leading scholars in the field, balance cutting-edge scholarship with perennial favorites. Sixteen readings are new to this edition, including: Lynne M. Casper and Suzanne M. Bianchi on ... see all copies* from $1.99! new only from $4.01! \| first editions
18 view cover	Essays in science and philosophy more books like this by Alfred North Whitehead add to wishlist The first three chapters are personal history, highly picturesque and amusing, illumined by flashes of his lively humor....From here the chapters go on into Philosophy, Education, and Science. covering a span of thrity years though these writings do, they are surprizingly unified. Atlantic see all copies from $2.48! first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life more books like this by Elrena Evans (Editor), Caroline Grant (Editor) add to wishlist Every year, American universities publish glowing reports stating their commitment to diversity, often showing statistics of female hires as proof of success. Yet, although women make up increasing numbers of graduate students, graduate degree recipients, and even new hires, academic life remains overwhelming a man's world. The reality that the ... see all copies from $12.95! new only from $14.84! \| SVS
20 view cover	A Vindication of the Rights of Men/A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft add to wishlist This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its later bloody phase. It reveals her developing understanding of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.18! \| SVS
21 view cover	Power & Ideology in Education more books like this by Jerome Karabel (Editor), Albert H Halsey (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $15.50! new only from $54.63! \| SVS
22 view cover	To Teach, to Love more books like this by Jesse Stuart add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Essays: First Series more books like this by Ralph Waldo Emerson add to wishlist This collection of the first series of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson collects some of the classic thoughts of this important American and leader of the Transcendentalist movement. Contained in this volume are the following essays: History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Some thoughts concerning education more books like this by John Locke add to wishlist Some Thoughts concerning Education, originally published in 1693, is one of John Locke's major works, the culmination of a decade's writings on the subject. It mainly concerns moral education and its role in creating a responsible adult, and the importance of virtue as a transmitter of culture. But Locke ranges also over such practical topics as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Herb Kohl Reader: Awakening the Heart of Teaching more books like this by Herbert Kohl, William Ayers (Foreword by) add to wishlist The best writing from a lifetime in the trenches and at the typewriter, from the renowned and much-beloved National Book Award-winning educator. see all copies from $12.15! new only from $14.94! \| SVS

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