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Report copyright infringementby David G. Duchesneau (Author)You're born and your parents and siblings are what you have, and that's it. God stuck you with them and them with you. You try and make the best of what God gave you. That's how simple life really is.Who named these nuns anyway? They were far from being saints so why did they get to be named Sister Saint anything?A drum and bugle corps is not a band. As a matter of fact, it's far from anything that a band is. A drum and bugle corps i...

It's Not Black, It's Not White: Being in an Inter-Racial/-Ethnic Marriage

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Report copyright infringementby Felicia Portwine (Author), Ronald Portwine (Author)This book is God-Ordained, predestined for you to read. Being in an interethnic relationship is harder than it looks. Not from the inside, but from the outside. In this book, Ronald and Fe reveal their journey of over 35 years of marriage, although different ethnicity, as soulmates. No one could have told Fe she would be in an interethnic relationship, especially a MARRIAGE!!! But according to Ron, as everyone ...

The Role of the Fulbright Coordinator, Faculty Associate, and Community Mentor in the Success of the Fulbright Program

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Report copyright infringementby Divine N. Tarla (Author)Dr. Divine Tarla was awarded the Fulbright scholarship in 2016, which took him to Manhattan, Kansas, where he conducted research with Professors Larry Erickson, Ganga Hettiarachchi, and Lawrence Davis on phytoremediation of pesticide-contaminated soils. He got immersed in American culture through his community mentor, Bob Reader, founder and president of Flint Harvest LLC and Emerging Fields, as well as Connie Satzler, CEO of EnVisage, a...

Pestalozzi and the Educationalization of the World

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Report copyright infringementby D. Tröhler (Author)Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi transformed education theory and practice worldwide. Daniel Tröhler connects Pestalozzi's work to its context in Europe's late 18th- and early 19th-century republican movement, offering readers a way to understand the sociopolitical significance of education and its central role in the development of modern societies.Author BiographyDaniel Tröhler is Professor in Educational Sciences and Director of the Languages, C...

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Report copyright infringementby MD Sifat Hossain (Author)Statistics, often described as the science of learning from data, is a field that has profoundly shaped the modern world. From the early days of probability theory to the contemporary advances in machine learning (ML), statisticians have played a pivotal role in developing tools and methodologies that underpin vast areas of science, industry, and society. This book, The Statisticians and Their Statistics, is a tribute to the remarkable ...

Texas History Stories; Houston, Austin, Crockett, La Salle: For Supplementary Reading in Primary Grades

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Report copyright infringementby E. G. Littlejohn (Author)Houston, Austin, Crockett, and La Salle are famous cities in Texas, but who are the great men whom those cities were named after?This book takes you back in time to learn the thrilling history behind those prominent figures. Originally targeted at primary students, the book is a short read with simple and poetic language suitable for readers of all ages."The people wanted a wise man to go to Congress to help make laws for the whole land...

It's Time to Spill The Beans: A Book About Greed

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Report copyright infringementby David Klein (Author), Stephanie Thirtyacre (Author)David Klein, the original inventor of Jelly Belly(R) jelly beans, shares the deeply personal and eye-opening story of his life-from humble beginnings and sweet success to betrayal and heartbreak. It's Time to Spill the Beans is more than a tale about candy; it's a revealing memoir about the man behind the beans and the high price he paid for trusting the wrong people. With raw honesty and sharp insight, Klein e...

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Fishwick (Author)Following The First Tri: As a Young Man, we pick up the story of self-described everyman, Dan Fishwick, just after his arrival at University School, an all-boys school in Shaker Heights, Ohio. The Second Tri: School Pictures captures images from Dan's life as a teacher. Just as photographs record how we change, the stories of his years in school also keep a record of broad shifts in our society. This gallery of school pictures takes us from...

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Report copyright infringementby Dwight Rogers (Author)Change the Narrative, Don't Let the Narrative Change You is a bold memoir that reclaims the stories too often rewritten by systems of oppression. Dr. Dwight Rogers-educator, speaker, and equity leader-invites readers into his world, from growing up in the Brooklyn projects to leading transformative change in California schools. With raw honesty and wisdom, he confronts the harmful labels placed on Black youth and offers a path forward root...

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Report copyright infringementby Teddy Morrison (Author)What if you had only one hand? How would you survive? As such a person, I detail many examples of coping in this book, such as when someone asks me if I need a hand-I have a perfect answer to open a conversation with that person. It is always interesting to watch as people misjudge the ability of a person with one hand. I have on many occasions shocked a person with my ability. Also coming with one hand is the desire to do as much or more...

The Vending Machine Prophet: A Memoir of Displacement, Achievement, and Learning to Say

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Report copyright infringementby Luke Li (Author)At seven years old in Shanghai, Luke Li learned that love was conditional on perfect performance. After a public humiliation involving torn calligraphy practice, he made a promise that would drive him across three continents: never again would he give someone the power to hang his shame where others could see it.From Tokyo playgrounds where vending machines dispensed miracles to Canadian high schools where friendship felt temporary, from Seattle...

Rags 2 Riches: Lessons from the Hard Road

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Report copyright infringementby Manuel L. Simpson (Author)Manuel Simpson was born to the unforgiving fields of Indianola, Mississippi and never was it supposed to be easy. His is a tale of resilience, redemption and constant determination, from childhood labor under the scorching Southern sun, to the struggle of living in Maywood, Illinois such that it is.Manuel was faced with poverty, racial barriers, addiction, and incarceration and his path was full of obstacles that could have shaped his ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Norberg (Author)A Spirit of Service: Purdue University and the United States Military is a richly illustrated, comprehensive look at the intersection of this great land-grant university and the US military since classes first began in 1874. Spearheaded by the Purdue University College of Engineering in recognition of its 150th anniversary, this book examines how Purdue Boilermakers have played a consequential role in defending democracy, freedom, and indep...

Being Black in America's Schools: A Student-Educator-Reformer's Call for Change

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Rashad Fuller (Author)For readers of The Knowledge Gap, Race to the Bottom, and The Inequality Machine, education and equity strategist Brian Rashad Fuller sheds a stark light on America's public schools, the miseducation of students of color, and the action required to make tangible changes and reforms to a failing and racialized educational system.With a foreword from Harriet Tubman's great-grand nephew, Abdul Tubman. In a polarizing and racially divide...

An Innocent Abroad: The Misadventures of an Exchange Teacher in Montana: Award-Winner's Edition

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Report copyright infringementby David M. Addison (Author)When, in 1978, taking a bold step into the unknown, the author, accompanied by his wife and young family, swapped his boring existence in Grangemouth in central Scotland for life in Missoula, Montana, in the western United States, he could never have foreseen just how much of a life-changing experience it would turn out to be. As an exchange teacher, he was prepared for a less formal atmosphere in the classroom, while, for their part, ...

From Roadways to Hallways: One Officer's Mission to Reach Young Hearts

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Report copyright infringementby Lazaron II (Author) Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.32 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: July 15, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle Weger (Author)What if your greatest challenges could become your greatest strengths? Well, guess what? They can!You have big dreams...Yet obstacles, fears, and even your own body might be holding you back. It's overwhelming, and it's far less scary to hit the snooze button, roll back over, and carry on living life as you know it...But your fear is what's really holding you back... and you can overcome it!Living with narcolepsy and cataplexy, Michelle W...

Prison: The Inside Story: Transforming Lives as an Officer and Educator

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Myette (Author)Author Jack Myette reveals a world that only a small segment of the population will ever see. Prison: The Inside Story brings to light the perspectives of prison officers, teachers, and, most importantly, inmates.The irate, 275-pound prisoner grabbed an officer's plexiglass shield and swung it so hard that it knocked Jack Myette's helmet clean off his head. Welcome to work as a corrections medical aide in a psychiatric prison, where Myette h...

The Ormonds of Borriyalloak: The story of the great philanthropist Hon Francis Ormond and his family

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Report copyright infringementby Edward (Ted) Stephens (Author)Francis Ormond, a great Victorian philanthropist, was fired by his passion to bring education to the masses. Not having children, he contributed millions of pounds to educational buildings and institutions.Francis Ormond travelled from Scotland to Shelford near Geelong in 1843 with his father Captain Francis Ormond, mother Isabella, and her tiny baby Alfred. There they built a hotel on the road to the Western District. They were th...

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Report copyright infringementby Eric J. Neal (Author)Incident Command and Leadership Decision Making on the FiregroundBy Eric J. NealIn the high-stakes environment of the fireground, every second counts-and every decision can be the difference between chaos and control, injury and rescue, or even life and death. In Incident Command and Leadership Decision Making on the Fireground, Fire Chief Eric J. Neal delivers a comprehensive, experience-driven guide designed to shape confident incident co...

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Autism and Other Adventures: Lucy's Story (Naught to Nineteen)

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Report copyright infringementby Lucy Blackman (Author)Born with autism, Lucy could not understand much of what was said around her. Her own language came later from newspapers and books. She created stories and poems in her head from the words she had read. As an adult she still barely speaks.In 1987 early in her teens Lucy started to use a keyboard with someone touching her arm, but that was not a substitute for ordinary speech. Lucy's language had developed in a world of her own making in w...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Schober (Author)Each of us has a story. Each of us is unique. Heart Prints encourages teachers to open their hearts and eyes to each of the students in their classrooms. It reveals the realities of the classroom when a teacher realizes that each person has a story to tell and each person has a voice to be heard. This work is a story of connections, success, heartbreak and love. It is an impassioned call to learn to teach, love and speak with your heart to ...

A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under Fire

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Report copyright infringementby Jane S. Smith (Author)In A Blacklist Education, a mysterious file of family papers triggers a journey through the dark days of political purges in the 1950s. Jane S. Smith tells the story of the anticommunist witch hunt that sent shockwaves through New York City's public schools as more than a thousand teachers were targeted by Board of Education investigators. Her father was one of them--a fact she learned only long after his death. Beginning in 1949, amid wi...

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Report copyright infringementby Ernest E. Middleton (Author) Number of Pages: 262 Dimensions: 0.59 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 04, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Ernest E. Middleton (Author) Number of Pages: 262 Dimensions: 0.88 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 04, 2025

The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Woman and One Community Are Inspiring the World

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Report copyright infringementby Nadia Lopez (Author), Rebecca Paley (Author)Be inspired by the magnetic young principal who "stands on the front line of the fight to educate America's children." (Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York ) and the book that Essence calls "Essential reading." In 2010, Nadia Lopez started her middle-grade public school, Mott Hall Bridges Academy, in one of America's poorest communities, in a record heat wave--and crime wave. Everything was an uphill batt...

From Vision to Reality: African American Inventors Who Changed the World

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Report copyright infringementby Bettye Thomas-Gilkey (Author) Number of Pages: 214 Dimensions: 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 28, 2025

KEYS TO EMPOWERING OUR VOICES Through Life Experiences

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Report copyright infringementby Yvonne Dacres (Author)Yvonne Dacres comes from a place where she thought her family was "normal" and filled with unconditional love, although she felt seen but not heard. Until she moved out of this environment to study abroad and learned that this was not the case. Living in that environment was restricting her growth in life, work, relationships, and in the sharing of her gift, her voice. Having coached, performed, and studied the vocal instrument for 25-plus...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Allan Brewer (Author) Number of Pages: 314 Dimensions: 0.85 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: June 17, 2025

You Cannot Be Patient: The Story of Prophet Moses, pbuh, Meeting the Wise Man, Khidr

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Report copyright infringementby Marcus III Sabir (Author), Qur'an Shakir (Author)Follow the Journey of a Prophet on a Quest to Learn! In this beautifully told story, young readers will travel alongside Prophet Musa (peace be upon him) as he searches for a mysterious wise man named Khidr. With the help of his young student, a fish that jumps away, and lessons full of wonder, Musa learns that true wisdom comes from Allah, the All-Knowing.Written by Marcus Sabir (M3) when he was just 9 years old...

LET'S GET REAL and: Make Our Schools Great Again

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Report copyright infringementby Rodney Haire (Author)For those who wonder how well-educated, well-adjusted, happy students can be produced at a private school, this book provides an invaluable roadmap to success. With humor and transparency, it tells the American success story of a school that grew from humble beginnings and rose to the top.Both innovative ideas and pitfalls to avoid are revealed by its author, Dr. Rodney Haire, as he applied a business model, using practices not often incorp...