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Book Synopsis Losing My Faculties by : Brendan Halpin
Download or read book Losing My Faculties written by Brendan Halpin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first nine years as a teacher, Brendan Halpin goes from wide-eyed idealist to cynical, heartbroken idealist. Unique among teaching memoirs, Losing My Faculties is not the story of a heroic teacher who transforms the lives of his hardbitten students; rather, it’s the inspirational and often unpretty truth about people who choose to get up ridiculously early day after day and year after year to go stand in front of teenagers. It’s also a rarely-seen, all-access view of both suburban and urban education, including the ugly truth behind the mythology at a much-hyped charter school.
Book Synopsis The Fall of the Faculty by : Benjamin Ginsberg
Download or read book The Fall of the Faculty written by Benjamin Ginsberg and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda.The Fall of the Faculty examines the fallout of rampant administrative blight that now plagues the nation's universities. In the past decade, universities have added layers of administrators and staffers to their payrolls every year even while laying off full-time faculty in increasing numbers--ostensibly because of budget cuts. In a further irony, many of the newly minted--and non-academic--administrators are career managers who downplay the importance of teaching and research, as evidenced by their tireless advocacy for a banal "life skills" curriculum. Consequently, students are denied a more enriching educational experience--one defined by intellectual rigor. Ginsberg also reveals how the legitimate grievances of minority groups and liberal activists, which were traditionally championed by faculty members, have, in the hands of administrators, been reduced to chess pieces in a game of power politics. By embracing initiatives such as affirmative action, the administration gained favor with these groups and legitimized a thinly cloaked gambit to bolster their power over the faculty.As troubling as this trend has become, there are ways to reverse it. The Fall of the Faculty outlines how we can revamp the system so that real educators can regain their voice in curriculum policy.
Book Synopsis It Takes a Worried Man by : Brendan Halpin
Download or read book It Takes a Worried Man written by Brendan Halpin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarious and heartbreaking, profane and profound, It Takes a Worried Man is the true story of a young husband and father whose life is changed forever by his wife’s breast cancer diagnosis. Following Brendan Halpin’s cranky, irreverent and lustful thoughts through the diagnosis and treatment of his wife, Kirsten, It Takes a Worried Man is an unflinching and raw look at how cancer transforms a family. It’s also the funniest book about cancer you’ll ever read.
Book Synopsis Further Records, 1848-1883 by : Fanny Kemble
Download or read book Further Records, 1848-1883 written by Fanny Kemble and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ok, So I Lied! written by J. T. Fisher and published by Quippy Quill LLC. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life begins when you put your fantasies to rest and make your dreams come true... but sometimes those dreams may not be something that most people would understand, let alone your loved ones. We don't want to hurt the people we love so much that we end up lying to them... hoping they will understand.. Ok, So I Lied! Takes you to a story where dreams do come true but family is what really matters at the end of the day.
Book Synopsis The Cracked Spine by : Paige Shelton
Download or read book The Cracked Spine written by Paige Shelton and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanted: A bold adventurer who wants to travel the world from a comfortable and safe spot behind a desk that has seen the likes of kings and queens, paupers and princes. A humble book and rare manuscript shop seeks a keenly intelligent investigator to assist us in our search for things thought lost, and in our quest to return lost items to their rightful owners. Never an adventurer, no one was more surprised than Delaney Nichols when she packed her bags and moved halfway across the world to Edinburgh, Scotland to start a job at The Cracked Spine, a bookshop located in the heart of the city. Her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, has given her the opportunity of a lifetime, albeit a cryptic one, and Delaney can’t wait to take her spot behind the desk. The Cracked Spine is filled with everything a book lover could want, each item as eclectic as the people who work there; the spirited and lovable Rosie, who always has tiny dog Hector in tow; Hamlet, a nineteen-year-old thespian with a colored past and bright future; and Edwin, who is just as enigmatic and mysterious as Delaney expected. An extra bonus is Tom the bartender from across the street, with his cobalt eyes, and a gentle brogue—and it doesn’t hurt that he looks awfully good in a kilt. But before she can settle into her new life, a precious artifact goes missing, and Edwin’s sister is brutally murdered. Never did Delaney think that searching for things lost could mean a killer, but if she’s to keep her job, and protect her new friends, she’ll need to learn the truth behind this Scottish tragedy.
Book Synopsis Bohemia by the Sea by : Michael Whorf
Download or read book Bohemia by the Sea written by Michael Whorf and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bohemia by the Sea is a book of memories of Michael as a young boy. Mike was the youngest of four children and lived with his parents, Vivienne and John, at the tip of Cape Cod in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Michaels father, John Whorf, was a gifted American impressionist painter, who went on to become an outstanding watercolorist. This is small town America from 19391945, during World War II, which Whorf has labeled Bohemia by the Sea. In a series of vignettes, Michael attempts to capture the family stories during a time of turmoil and anxiety during the war. Through colorful anecdotes, he describes the wonderful, unforgettable moments and personal memories of his life.
Download or read book If the Shoe Fits written by Rae Ellen Lee and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rae Ellen Lee is a writer and sailing enthusiast.
Book Synopsis The Hutchins Family of Allegan County, Michigan by : Evert Olney Hutchins
Download or read book The Hutchins Family of Allegan County, Michigan written by Evert Olney Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Hucthins born in England in 1604 immigrated to America in 1638, and settled in Newbury, Mass.
Book Synopsis The Sage Hen by : Frederick Robert Buckley
Download or read book The Sage Hen written by Frederick Robert Buckley and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bedtime Stories written by Douglas Saylor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Malice in Miniature by : Margaret Grace
Download or read book Malice in Miniature written by Margaret Grace and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While teaching her granddaughter, Maddie, the art of creating miniatures, Gerry Porter comes to the aid of her neighbor's friend June who has been wrongfully accused of murder and discovers that sticking her nose where it doesn't belong can be deadly. Original.
Book Synopsis Shadows in the Grass by : Beverley Harper
Download or read book Shadows in the Grass written by Beverley Harper and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2007-11-10 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enraged screams filled his head. Deadly shapes bore down. Animal and man driven by one single thought. Kill or be killed. Neither wanted to die. Falsely accused of a terrible crime, impetuous young aristocrat Lord Dallas Acheson is forced to flee his native Scotland, leaving behind the only woman he has ever loved-Lady Lorna de Iongh. From that day onwards, he must learn to live a different life in a land where danger is an ever-present partner. Fate takes him to southern Africa and the emerging seaport of Durban, from where he sets off to trade and hunt, seeking his fortune in the little-travelled midlands of Natal and the wilds of Zululand. Tested to the limit, Dallas discovers more than he could have imagined. Married to a woman he doesn't love, he yearns to abandon the restraints of nineteenth-century society to be with Lorna. And when the Zulu war breaks out, he finds himself torn between old and new loyalties, required to be an enemy of the land that is now his true home.
Book Synopsis The Twelve Years of Christmas by : Rochelle Doan Craig
Download or read book The Twelve Years of Christmas written by Rochelle Doan Craig and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Twelve Years of Christmas is not just a Christmas story. It's a journal of the first twelve years of one family's past events, happily recounted to all in those dreaded, ghastly annual Christmas form letters. Newlyweds Rochelle and Tom Craig moved to a farm in a friendly rural community to raise a crop of children. The family traveled and camped as often as Tom could be dragged away for it. After seventeen years of child-rearing, Rochelle returned to part-time elementary school teaching. She soon switched to full-time teaching with numerous grades and totally new subjects. Shortly thereafter, she began the dreaded Christmas card form letters, a practice that she mocks in The Twelve Years of Christmas. The letters cover the years between 1984 and 1995, explaining the changes in the lives of the Craig family and their pets. Rochelle also discusses the family's love of travel and the ever present threat of marital collapse, mostly due to the annual family practice of putting up the winter window-insulating film, the Christmas tree, and the snow fence together. This version of rural family life describes the fortunes (few), misfortunes (many), ups, downs, and in-betweens of each year all tied up with lots of love and good humor.
Book Synopsis Marxism and the Call of the Future by : Bob Avakian
Download or read book Marxism and the Call of the Future written by Bob Avakian and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers readers a rare chance to witness a mainstream thinker challenge an outlaw-activist. Avakian and Martin wrestle with big questions that have to do with the state of the world and the possibility for radical change. The scope and relevance of Marxism, and the nature and reach of communist revolution, are at the heart of this rich and lively dialogue. Avakian and Martin probe a wide range of issues: the place of ethics in a transformative revolutionary politics; Kant, Rousseau, and Hegel; Marx and the question of colonialism and Eurocentrism; the Maoist experience in China; sustainable agriculture and the task of overcoming the urban-rural divide; imperialism and lopsided development in the world, and the effects on social structure and revolution; animal rights; secularism and religion; the post-911 agenda of the U.S. ruling class, the political-social-cultural landscape of the U.S., and the prospects for resistance and revolution; Marxism and the question of homosexuality; the challenges confronting radical and communist intellectuals and the possibilities for engaged, creative intellectual work today.
Book Synopsis Falling Into Forever by : Delancey Stewart
Download or read book Falling Into Forever written by Delancey Stewart and published by Delancey Stewart. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming home wasn’t part of the plan, and being forced to live with her (admittedly hot) enemy? Definitely not on the agenda. Michael Tucker is a jerk. I know this because he is a Tucker. I mean, his last name even rhymes with… well, you get it. And while I’m not necessarily going to indulge in the shenanigans involved in the hundred-year-old feud between our families, I’m also not getting too close to any Tuckers. Even this one, with his tousled hair, wounded eyes and sarcastic wit. Especially not this one. Coming home to Singletree was meant to be a stop-over—time to heal after a particularly embarrassing breakup. I never planned to stay.
Book Synopsis Doctor Moebius and Mister Gir by : Numa Sadoul
Download or read book Doctor Moebius and Mister Gir written by Numa Sadoul and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working closely with publisher Casterman and Moebius Production, Dark Horse now brings you Numa Sadoul's landmark interviews with Jean "Moebius" Giraud. The master reflects on his many lives as an artist and man, from his Heavy Metal breakthrough era to a year before his untimely passing. Numa Sadoul--whose exclusive fourteen-hour interview with Hergé in 1971 was the basis of the 2003 documentary Tintin and I--is known for his book-length conversations with such major comics figures as Jacques Tardi, André Franquin (Spirou), and Albert Uderzo (co-creator of Astérix). Edward Gauvin, translator of over three hundred graphic novels, brings us Sadoul's English-language debut, as he explores the mind of the maestro Mœbius.