Educators Books


Arthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian AgeArthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age
Best Price: $38.84
You'll enjoy this book more if you're not mathematically knowledgeable because...
William Barton Rogers and the Idea of MITWilliam Barton Rogers and the Idea of MIT
Best Price: $28.80
Conceptual founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, William Barton Rogers was a...
Milton S. Eisenhower, Educational StatesmanMilton S. Eisenhower, Educational Statesman
Best Price: $16.06
Milton S. Eisenhower was one of the most honored and influential statesmen this country has...
Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold InnisMarginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis
Best Price: $26.91
With Marginal Man , Alexander John Watson provides the first in-depth intellectual biography of...
On a WaveOn a Wave
Best Price: $2.95
This should give you a general idea of how good this book is: After reading the last page, I...


The Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman (Women in the West)The Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman (Women in the West)
Best Price: $28.79
Raised in a sheltered, puritanical household in New England, Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863?1953)...
A Child in the Principal's OfficeA Child in the Principal's Office
Best Price: $19.89
In a humorous and conversational style, Lodish describes the headaches and successes of managing...
Up from SlaveryUp from Slavery
Best Price: $4.05
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in...
I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of StoriesI Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories
Best Price: $2.99
"I Am a Pencil" tells of one man's journey into the creative lives of children who...
David French Boyd: Founder of Louisiana State University (Southern Biography)David French Boyd: Founder of Louisiana State University (Southern Biography)
Best Price: $23.95


The Long Haul: An AutobiographyThe Long Haul: An Autobiography
Best Price: $10.00
I was first introduced to THE LONG HAUL as a consequence of teaching a community organization...
Women, Science, and Society: The Crucial Union (Athene Series)Women, Science, and Society: The Crucial Union (Athene Series)
This work calls for women to come together to shape the research agenda for biotechnologies and...
William Friday: Power, Purpose, and American Higher EducationWilliam Friday: Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education
Best Price: $19.00
Few North Carolinians are as well known or as widely respected as William Friday. Although he...
A New American Family: A Love StoryA New American Family: A Love Story
Best Price: $18.61
Being a classmate of the Likins at Santa Cruz High, I can attest to the outstanding character of...
J. Walter Malone: The Autobiography of an Evangelical QuakerJ. Walter Malone: The Autobiography of an Evangelical Quaker
Best Price: $37.50
This book does a wonderful job of telling the life of J. Walter and Emma Malone. Their vision...

Just beneath My Skin: Autobiography and Self-DiscoveryJust beneath My Skin: Autobiography and Self-Discovery
Best Price: $59.95
Writing about oneself, says Patricia Foster, "engages in truth but depends on the...
Between Breaths: A Teacher in the Alaskan BushBetween Breaths: A Teacher in the Alaskan Bush
Best Price: $14.84
This book took over eight years to research and write, and is a labor of love yet grounded in...
Intellect and Spirit: The Life and Works of Robert ColesIntellect and Spirit: The Life and Works of Robert Coles
Best Price: $7.73
From the Barrio to Washington: An Educator's JourneyFrom the Barrio to Washington: An Educator's Journey
Best Price: $8.47
From the poor house in Mexico to the administration of four United States Presidents - sounds...
George Peabody: A BiographyGeorge Peabody: A Biography
Best Price: $3.99
International merchant and financier, the first modern philanthropist, and the first American to...

Misery InjusticeMisery Injustice
This book was written from the real life accounts of judicial corruption in Missouri that the...
Things I've Been Silent About: MemoriesThings I've Been Silent About: Memories
Best Price: $3.53
I started making a list in my diary entitled ?Things I Have Been Silent About.? Under it I...
A Compilation Of Writings Part 4A Compilation Of Writings Part 4
This book contains descriptions of actual crimes from the victim's perspective. Please read...
On a WaveOn a Wave
In this prizewinning poet's wry and exhilarating coming-of-age story, Thad Ziolkowski's...
Black IceBlack Ice
In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into...

Head Over Heels in the DalesHead Over Heels in the Dales
Best Price: $7.88
This is book two of a series about a school inspector in Yorkshire and it is delightful. (You...
Caught in the Web of Words: James A.H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford Paperbacks)Caught in the Web of Words: James A.H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford Paperbacks)
Best Price: $4.99
This biography of the first editor of the "Oxford English Dictionary" is based on...
The Life of LearningThe Life of Learning
Best Price: $2.49
Each year since 1983 the American Council of Learned Societies has invited one of America's...
The Story I Tell Myself: A Venture in Existentialist AutobiographyThe Story I Tell Myself: A Venture in Existentialist Autobiography
Best Price: $24.70
A very original autobiography and a demonstration of self-understanding and existential...
Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual BiographyRichard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
Best Price: $11.50
"Intellectual biography" reminds me of the legal profession's use of the term...

Candle By Night: The Story Of The Life And Times Of Kezia Payne De Pelchin, Texas Pioneer Teacher, Social Worker And NurseCandle By Night: The Story Of The Life And Times Of Kezia Payne De Pelchin, Texas Pioneer Teacher, Social Worker And Nurse
Best Price: $19.30
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations,...
Discovery - A MemoirDiscovery - A Memoir
Best Price: $19.90
Vernon L. Smith, Discovery: A Memoire (Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse 2008). The Subjects Had...
The Education of a 20th Century Political Animal IV: Recapitulation And Reconciliation In Gotterdammerung AmericaThe Education of a 20th Century Political Animal IV: Recapitulation And Reconciliation In Gotterdammerung America
Best Price: $16.56
One Woman's Journey through a Challenging Century: Her Response to the Challenges with FaithOne Woman's Journey through a Challenging Century: Her Response to the Challenges with Faith
Best Price: $15.80
One Woman's Journey through a Challenging Century is the beautiful, true story of a strong,...
The Good, The Oops! and the FunnyThe Good, The Oops! and the Funny
Best Price: $29.87

If You Live by the Sword: Politics in the Making and Unmaking of a University PresidentIf You Live by the Sword: Politics in the Making and Unmaking of a University President
Best Price: $17.82
Larry Pettit came from a little town in Montana. He worked in Washington with two United State...
For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time---A Journey Through the Wonders of PhysicsFor the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time---A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
Best Price: $25.48
"You have changed my life" is a common refrain in the emails Walter Lewin receives...
Xtul: an experience of The ProcessXtul: an experience of The Process
Best Price: $11.50
Sabrina Verney takes you with her every step of the way and lets you see and feel what she feels...
The SubThe Sub
Best Price: $13.99
?I believe some people have a gift. John Lennon had a gift, Bob Dylan has one, as did Raymond...
Chalkboards and Clipboards: My Thirty-Five Years at The Montgomery AcademyChalkboards and Clipboards: My Thirty-Five Years at The Montgomery Academy
Best Price: $15.78
Some people would think twice before accepting the responsibility of educating twelve- and...

Misery InjusticeMisery Injustice
This book was written from the real life accounts of judicial corruption in Missouri that the...
Things I've Been Silent About: MemoriesThings I've Been Silent About: Memories
Best Price: $3.53
I started making a list in my diary entitled ?Things I Have Been Silent About.? Under it I...
A Compilation Of Writings Part 4A Compilation Of Writings Part 4
This book contains descriptions of actual crimes from the victim's perspective. Please read...
On a WaveOn a Wave
In this prizewinning poet's wry and exhilarating coming-of-age story, Thad Ziolkowski's...
Black IceBlack Ice
In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into...

Head Over Heels in the DalesHead Over Heels in the Dales
Best Price: $7.88
This is book two of a series about a school inspector in Yorkshire and it is delightful. (You...
Caught in the Web of Words: James A.H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford Paperbacks)Caught in the Web of Words: James A.H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford Paperbacks)
Best Price: $4.99
This biography of the first editor of the "Oxford English Dictionary" is based on...
The Life of LearningThe Life of Learning
Best Price: $2.49
Each year since 1983 the American Council of Learned Societies has invited one of America's...
The Story I Tell Myself: A Venture in Existentialist AutobiographyThe Story I Tell Myself: A Venture in Existentialist Autobiography
Best Price: $24.70
A very original autobiography and a demonstration of self-understanding and existential...
Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual BiographyRichard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
Best Price: $11.50
"Intellectual biography" reminds me of the legal profession's use of the term...

Directory of American Scholars: Biography - Walkowitz, Daniel Jay (1942-)Directory of American Scholars: Biography - Walkowitz, Daniel Jay (1942-)
Best Price: $1.50
Students will love this directory's one-stop access to current biographies of scholars. ...
Directory of American Scholars: Biography - Harris, Errol E. (1908-)Directory of American Scholars: Biography - Harris, Errol E. (1908-)
Best Price: $1.50
Students will love this directory's one-stop access to current biographies of scholars. ...
Directory of American Scholars: Biography - Tang, Paul C. L. (1944-)Directory of American Scholars: Biography - Tang, Paul C. L. (1944-)
Best Price: $1.50
Students will love this directory's one-stop access to current biographies of scholars. ...
Directory of American Scholars: Biography - Lee, Sander H. (1951-)Directory of American Scholars: Biography - Lee, Sander H. (1951-)
Best Price: $1.50
Students will love this directory's one-stop access to current biographies of scholars. ...
Directory of American Scholars: Biography - McKinney, George Dallas, Jr. (1932-)Directory of American Scholars: Biography - McKinney, George Dallas, Jr. (1932-)
Best Price: $1.50
Students will love this directory's one-stop access to current biographies of scholars. ...

Directory of American Scholars: Biography - Toruno, Rhina (?-)Directory of American Scholars: Biography - Toruno, Rhina (?-)
Best Price: $1.50
Students will love this directory's one-stop access to current biographies of scholars. ...
A Personal OdysseyA Personal Odyssey
This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as...
God and Ronald ReaganGod and Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan is hailed today for a presidency that restored optimism to America, engendered...
Crossing Silver Creek: Narratives of Truth, Beauty and GoodnessCrossing Silver Creek: Narratives of Truth, Beauty and Goodness
Crossing Silver Creek is a collection of personal narratives that create a story cloth of poetic...
Daniel Webster: A Bibliography (Bibliographies of American Notables)Daniel Webster: A Bibliography (Bibliographies of American Notables)
Daniel Webster captured the hearts and imagination of the American people of the first half of...

Leo Baeck: Teacher of TheresienstadtLeo Baeck: Teacher of TheresienstadtChapters in a Lucky LifeChapters in a Lucky Life
Best Price: $24.95
Counting herself a teacher born and bred, and a feminist since birth, Clara Thomas feels...
Recollections of Waterloo CollegeRecollections of Waterloo College
Best Price: $29.95
When Flora Roy accepted a teaching position at Waterloo College in 1948, she imagined it would...
Recollections of Waterloo Lutheran University 1960-1973Recollections of Waterloo Lutheran University 1960-1973
Best Price: $33.44
To the very few women who were teaching in Ontario?s universities at the time of the great...
Meeting The Professor: Growing Up In The William Blackburn FamilyMeeting The Professor: Growing Up In The William Blackburn Family
Best Price: $0.99
Meeting The Professor: Growing Up In The William Blackburn Family is the autobiography of...

High School Confidential: The True Story of America's Most Out-Of-Control SchoolHigh School Confidential: The True Story of America's Most Out-Of-Control SchoolFleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major LeaguerFleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer
Best Price: $29.49
It will come as a surprise to most baseball enthusiasts, but Jackie Robsinson was not the first...
Don't Shoot! I'm the Guitar ManDon't Shoot! I'm the Guitar Man
Best Price: $12.41
What do you do with a kid who seems hell-bent on getting into trouble and maybe spending a life...
Leaving No Child Behind: My First Year Teaching in New York CityLeaving No Child Behind: My First Year Teaching in New York City
Best Price: $15.48
I really enjoyed reading this book. Once I saw that it was endorsed by Pat Riley, I new this...
Edward Thring: Teacher And PoetEdward Thring: Teacher And Poet
Best Price: $12.42
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations,...

Called to Jackson, Mississippi: The Last Bastion of Segregation: A Historical DocumentaryCalled to Jackson, Mississippi: The Last Bastion of Segregation: A Historical Documentary
Best Price: $18.82
Jackson, Mississippi, was the last place Dr. Brandon Sparkman would have chosen to work back in...
Life and Work of Carl RogersLife and Work of Carl Rogers
Best Price: $52.47
Twenty years after his death, PCCS Books celebrates the life and work of Carl Rogers with the...
Uncle: My Journey with John Purdue (Founders)Uncle: My Journey with John Purdue (Founders)
Best Price: $12.99
I was fortunate enough to first read "Uncle" as a work in progress. It is a very...
The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
Best Price: $16.83
This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. This is a great book written...
Then Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T. Washington (Leaders in Action)Then Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T. Washington (Leaders in Action)
Best Price: $3.85
In another sterling volume of the Leaders in Action series, Stephen Mansfield here outlines the...

Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal DiscoveryWilling to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery
Best Price: $12.04
Writer and educator Mary Catherine Bateson is best known for the proposal that lives should be...
Accidental Lessons: A Memoir of a Rookie Teacher and a Life RenewedAccidental Lessons: A Memoir of a Rookie Teacher and a Life Renewed
Best Price: $8.31
I highly recommend this book not only for teachers but for anyone that is thinking they are...
Death of a Rebel: The Charlie Fenton StoryDeath of a Rebel: The Charlie Fenton Story
Best Price: $32.50
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Acercarse Y Mirar/ Get Close and Look: Homenaje a Beatriz De La Fuente/ Tribute to Beatriz de la Fuente (Spanish Edition)Acercarse Y Mirar/ Get Close and Look: Homenaje a Beatriz De La Fuente/ Tribute to Beatriz de la Fuente (Spanish Edition)
Best Price: $65.00
Directory of American Scholars: Biography - DePillars, Murry Norman (1938-)Directory of American Scholars: Biography - DePillars, Murry Norman (1938-)
Best Price: $1.50
Students will love this directory's one-stop access to current biographies of scholars. ...

Ms. Cahill for Congress: One Fearless Teacher, Her Sixth Grade Class, and the Election that Changed their Lives ForeverMs. Cahill for Congress: One Fearless Teacher, Her Sixth Grade Class, and the Election that Changed their Lives Forever
entertaining book about a race for congress that is not covered in any of the How-to books. ...
Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the SeaStill Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea
In this beautifully written and frequently funny memoir, Catherine Goldhammer, newly separated,...
It's Just a Matter of BalanceIt's Just a Matter of Balance
It's Just a Matter of Balance: Recommended Reading by "The American Academy of...
Sorbonne ConfidentialSorbonne Confidential
This is a fascinating exploration of the arcane and idiosyncratic methods the French employ to...
John WitherspoonJohn Witherspoon
This volume is from 1906. From the book's Prefatory note: Witherspoon's life is...

No Title Fits (1)No Title Fits (1)
Autobiography of Dave Tex Anders who was a coach, club owner, rock band manager, rock newspaper...
Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri LankaNot Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka
Since the early fourteenth century, travelers have journeyed to the resplendent island of Sri...
It's Tough Being Amazing: The Claire Hoffman StoryIt's Tough Being Amazing: The Claire Hoffman StoryLove and Divinity Goes Off the AirLove and Divinity Goes Off the Air
Summary Introduction: Love and Divinity Goes Off the Air, is about the Bio and Resume, of our 2...
Citadel on the Mountain: A Memoir of Father and SonCitadel on the Mountain: A Memoir of Father and Son
Best Price: $1.95
"In the future everyone will write a memoir for 15 minutes. And many of them will get...

Teacher: The One Who Made the DifferenceTeacher: The One Who Made the Difference
Best Price: $4.95
If you are lucky, you had a teacher back in high school you can remember, one who demonstrated...
Positive Reflections on My Life: Pre-School to Professor Emeritus (1914 - Present)Positive Reflections on My Life: Pre-School to Professor Emeritus (1914 - Present)
This is a wonderful autobiography of a boy from a farm in rural central Minnesota who became a...
Noble Poverty: A Teacher's Life in Silicon ValleyNoble Poverty: A Teacher's Life in Silicon Valley
Best Price: $2.55
This guy is one of the most boring writers I have ever encountered. His dialog makes you cry out...
The Education of Henry Adams: An AutobiographyThe Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography
Best Price: $1.74
This books is indeed full of some memorable aphorisms. Adams certainly lived through some...
James Kay-Shuttleworth: Journey of an OutsiderJames Kay-Shuttleworth: Journey of an Outsider
Best Price: $236.62

Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American PatriotNoah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot
Best Price: $17.30
This is an excellent book, well written, and anybody contemplating purchase should proceed with...
Sudden Death, OvertimeSudden Death, Overtime
My wife and I both just finished Sudden Death, Overtime. Despite quite a few typographical...
Falling Off the Roof of the WorldFalling Off the Roof of the World
Best Price: $8.51
This book is the captivating tale of Lama Dudjom Dorjee Rinpoche, "The Jolly Lama."...
A Personal Odyssey (Library Edition)A Personal Odyssey (Library Edition)
Best Price: $35.88
"A Personal Odyssey" is a collection of anecdotal remembrances of Thomas Sowell from...
 
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