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  • Chalkdust

    Prayers of Encouragement for Teachers

    by Elspeth Campbell Murphy ...
    Ready for whenever you need a quick pick-me-up, prayer, or moment of peaceful introspection, these timeless meditations tap into the everyday joys and frustrations of teaching, imparting encouragement and hope. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Priority List

    A Teacher's Final Quest to Discover Life's Greatest Lessons

    by David Menasche ...
    In this “beautiful, heartfelt, and ultimately important story about love, kinship, gratitude, and miracles” (Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times bestselling author), a beloved high school English teacher with terminal brain cancer undertakes a cross-country journey to reunite with his former students in order to find out if he made a difference and discovers what is truly important in life along ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Battle for Room 314

    My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School

    by Ed Boland ...
    In this insightfully honest and moving memoir about the realities of teaching in an inner-city school, Ed Boland "smashes the dangerous myth of the hero-teacher [and] shows us how high the stakes are for our most vulnerable students" (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black).In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • William James

    In the Maelstrom of American Modernism

    by Robert D. Richardson ...
    The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion—on modernism itself.Often cited as the "father of American psychology," William James was an intellectual luminary who made significant contributions to at least five fields: psychology, philosophy, religious studies, teaching, and literature.A ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Parkin

    Canada's Most Famous Forgotten Man

    by William Christian ...
    George Parkin was born the thirteenth child of an immigrant New Brunswick farmer and died a knight of the realm and perhaps the most famous Canadian in the world.Charismatic, charming, eloquent and dedicated, Parkin devoted his immense energy to two causes. As an orator and journalist, he worked to strengthen the bonds between the English-speaking peoples; as Principal of Upper Canada College and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ernst Kantorowicz

    A Life

    by Robert E. Lerner ...
    The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895–1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. A medieval ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introducing Barthes

    A Graphic Guide

    by Philip Thody ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    INTRODUCING guide to the cult author, semiologist and analyzer of advertising, Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes is best known as a semiologist, a student of the science of signs. This sees human beings primarily as communicating animals, and looks at the way they use language, clothes, gestures, hair styles, visual images, shapes and colour to convey to one another their tastes, their emotions, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Emergency Teacher

    The Inspirational Story of a New Teacher in an Inner-City School

    by Christina Asquith ...
    The Emergency Teacher is Christina Asquith’s moving firsthand account of her year spent teaching in one of Philadelphia’s worst schools. Told with striking humor and honesty, her story begins when the School District of Philadelphia, faced with 1,500 teacherless classrooms, instituted a policy of hiring emergency certified” teachers to fill the void. Asquith, a twenty-five-year-old reporter for ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Henry Roe Cloud

    A Biography

    by David W. Messer ...
    Henry Roe Cloud was the first Native American to graduate from Yale. His education, his religion, his personal life, and his public life were a mosaic made up of traditional Native American beliefs and practices, the white man's educational system, reform theology, progressive education and progressive politics. Cloud was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1913. His widely read ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Futures of the Past

    Collected Papers in Celebration of Its More Than Eighty Years: University of Southern California's School of Policy, Planning, and Development

    by Ross Clayton ...
    The key roles that the University of Southern Californias professional schools have played in promoting public affairs are brought into sharp focus in this detailed history, edited by a group of academic experts intimately involved in the development of the school. Through its School of Policy, Planning, and Development, USC has taken a distinctive approach in pushing forward community enterprise ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A New Day in the Delta

    Inventing School Desegregation As You Go

    by David W. Beckwith ...
    Explores Mississippi’s school desegregation from the viewpoint of a white teacherA New Day in the Delta is a fresh and appealing memoir of the experience of a young white college graduate in need of a job as the Vietnam War reached its zenith. David Beckwith applied and was accepted for a teaching position in the Mississippi Delta in the summer of 1969. Although it seemed to him a bit strange that ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Joy Bliss This

    A Teacher's Journey

    by William Quigley ...
    In his book Joy Bliss This, William Quigley tells the story of becoming a teacher, a journey he never planned to take, and one that was filled with repeated failure from the start. At his lowest point, when he had fallen the farthest and needed the most help, his students were the ones who saved him. In that redemption, he found a way to make a positive impact on the world through teaching, and he ... Read more

    $5.93 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus