Living with a Learning Difference (Disability)
by Jr Phd Richard a Evans
This vivid portrait of Bart Giamatti encompasses his entire eventful life but focuses especially on his years at Yale University (1966–1986) and his brief career as a major league baseball executive (1986–1989). As scholar, teacher, and then university president, Giamatti was an admired and respected figure on campus. He forged his academic career during turbulent decades, and his tenure in baseball was no less contentious, for as commissioner of baseball he oversaw the banishment of Cincinnati’...
Up From Slavery: The Incredible Life Story of Booker T. Washington
by Booker T Washington
Up from Slavery" is the autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by...
Writing Her Own Life (Literature of the American West)
by Mary Clearman Blew
Mary Clearman Blew's aunt Imogene Welch embodied the hard-working values of depression-era western America. In Writing Her Own Life, Blew builds a narrative around excerpts from the diaries Imogene kept during World War II while she taught in rural Montana schools and later in Washington State. Through her diary entries we learn of the war's effects on Imogene as she moved from rural, family-centered life in Montana to independent if somewhat lonelier life in Washington State.After growing up on...
Giessener Antrittsvorlesung Sowie Andere Dokumente Seiner Giessener Zeit Und Gedoppelter Lebenslauf (Edition Pietismustexte, #4)
by Gottfried Arnold
John U. Monro (Southern Biography)
In 1967, John U. Monro, dean of the college at Harvard, left his twenty-year administrative career at that prestigious university for a teaching position at Miles College - an unaccredited historically black college on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama. This unconventional move was a natural continuation of Monro's life-long commitment to equal opportunity in education. A champion of the underprivileged, Monro embodied both the virtues of the Greatest Generation and the idealism of the civil...
La Biographie Inachevée (Compilation Des Textes Du Rabbin Salomon Malka זצל)
by Avi Nissim Malka and Grand Rabbin Salomon Malka Zt'l