The special ethos of Oxford University continues to take hold on award-winning author Paul West. Now a world-renowned writer and acclaimed literary stylist, West illuminates the reader regarding one of the oldest and most venerable universities in the world. Writing with an affectionate smile, West takes you beyond the classroom with vignettes and memories that made his Oxford experience unforgettable. His vivid descriptions and rhapsodic ...

Edmond Meany promoted Washington's participation in the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. He then won a seat in the state legislature and became a supporter of Seattle's first world's fair in 1909. Meany taught history for nearly four decades at the University of Washington and edited the Washington Historical Quarterly, 1906 to 1935. As teacher, editor, author, and collector of pioneer reminiscences, Meany became the state's most important and ...

Born in 1940, Faderman was the only child of an uneducated and unmarried immigrant Jewish woman. She became a brilliant student, loving partner, devoted mother, influential writer, and groundbreaking scholar of gay and lesbian studies. Told with wrenching immediacy, this is the nakedly honest story of an exceptional woman. Photos. ...

Moses; Confucius; Pythagoras; Plato; King Alfred; Erasmus; Booker T. Washington; Thomas Arnold; Friedrich Froebel; Hypatia; Saint Benedict; Mary Baker Eddy. ...

"Thanks to Thomas Bonner's "Iconoclast," we finally have the biography Flexner deserves and readers seek." -- "Journal of Higher Education" ...

Four years ago Layton moved from Texas to Alaska to teach--or so he thought. Read how personal adventures and observations of Eskimo living have made him a student of the past while educating the children in the present.
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In January 1952, Aileen Kilgore was teaching forty-three fourth graders at a public school in Northport, Alabama. Her life, filled with lesson preparations, inservice meetings, countywide meetings, and special projects, seemed grim, and she resolved to change it.<P>Remembering tales she'd heard of the Big Bend region in Texas, she wrote to the school board at Alpine, applying for a position. To her surprise an offer came back to teach at a ...

World renowned economist and president of Michigan State University, Walter Adams first published The Test in 1971, a year after his tenure as president ended. Adams recounts the tumlutuous nine months of his office. As the first university president to follow the legendary John Hannah, Adams inherited the unease and resentments that had been quietly swelling under seemingly calm administrative waters.These resentments, coupled with the increased ...

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. <BR>For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. <BR>Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, ...

In this explosive book, Adolph Reed covers for the first time the full sweep and totality of W. E. B. Du Bois's political thought. Departing from existing scholarship, Reed locates the sources of Du Bois's thought in the cauldron of reform-minded intellectual life at the turn of the century, demonstrating that a commitment to liberal collectivism, an essentially Fabian socialism, remained pivotal in Du Bois's thought even as he embraced a range ...