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A story of David and Goliath proportions, how an American hedge fund manager created a unique school in Somaliland whose students, against all odds, have come to achieve success beyond anyone's wildest dreams
Jonathan Starr, once a cutthroat hedge fund manager, is not your traditional do-gooder, and in 2009, when he decided to found Abaarso, a secondary school in Somaliland, the choice seemed crazy to even his closest friends. "Why," they wondered,...
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History Encounters unearths the greatest stories with the major events from Aztec Empire to expand reader horizons for readers to be best informed. The Aztec Empire began its humble beginnings in the Valley of Mexico and went through at least four rulers before they could call their civilization an empire. Their practices were centered on their religion, which involved daily human sacrifices to help appease their gods. However, their social order...
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Standing at the podium, Victor Villaseñor looked at the group of educators amassed before him, and his mind flooded with childhood memories of humiliation and abuse at the hands of his teachers. He became enraged. With a pounding heart, he began to speak of these incidents. When he was through, to his great disbelief he received a standing ovation. Many in the audience could not contain their own tears.
So begins the passionate, touching memoir...
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Three Identities, One Life: An Indian-Tanzanian-Seychellois Autobiography In the vast tapestry of human existence, some of us are lucky enough to be born into a kaleidoscope of cultures, each thread adding its unique hue to the fabric of our lives. My journey, as captured in this autobiography titled "Three Identities, One Life," is a testament to the intricate interplay between my Indian, Tanzanian, and Seychellois heritage. Born in Tanzania, I was...
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The world watched…...as a teacher flew into space. Do you remember where you were when Christa McAuliffe died? She was a wife, Mother and Teacher and the first civilian to fly into space but Christa's dream tragically ended on a cold January day with the needless explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Has anyone ever been held accountable? Told by her distant relative, award-winning author Tom McAuliffe, 'Throttle Up - Teacher Astronaut Christa...
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This revised New Edition features additional stories, a new cover design, and updates on Rachel's life.
Though born in 1965, Rachel's story could have been set in the 1800s. Wearing long dresses and bonnets and living without electricity, modern medicine, or indoor plumbing, she and her two older brothers were shaped by the extreme religious view of her iron-willed, Vietnam veteran father and malleable mother. The family separated from society...
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A reflective volume of essays on literature and literary study from a storied professor.
In The Pensive Citadel, Victor Brombert looks back on a lifetime of learning within a university world greatly altered since he entered Yale on the GI Bill in the 1940s. Yet for all that has changed, much of Brombert's long experience as a reader and teacher is richly familiar: the rewards of rereading, the joy of learning from students, and most of all the...
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The extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children's classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown.
Margaret's books have sold millions of copies all over the world, but few people know that she was at the center of a children's book publishing revolution. Her whimsy and imagination fueled a steady stream of stories, book ideas, songs, and poems and she was renowned...
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How do we reclaim our innate enchantment with the world? And how can we turn our natural curiosity into a deep, abiding love for knowledge? Frank Oppenheimer, the younger brother of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, was captivated by these questions, and used his own intellectual inquisitiveness to found the Exploratorium, a powerfully influential museum of human awareness in San Francisco, that encourages play, creativity, and discovery-all in...
10) What Do I Want?
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I have tried my best to demonstrate how universal peace can be debated on paper when I claim that I have no enemies. If I have lost in touch with my friends, I say I want to extend the hands of friendship to my readers through my pen. Yes all is never lost on making friends. All is usually lost in wars. Even humanity. I am one lucky dude who can maintain humanity and who can talk about it in broken ideas and broken words. Eventually I am happy to...
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Journey from the Heartland to the Heart of Racial Understanding: A True Story of Insight and Transformation.
Embark on a transformative journey with Dave Markward as he transitions from an upbringing in an almost exclusively white community to a life enriched by diversity in From Dubuque to Selma and Beyond: My Journey to Understand Racism in America.
Intertwining Dave's personal growth with significant historical events and figures, this remarkable...
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Psychologically astute and passionately written, Molly Worthen's remarkable debut charts the intricate relationship between student and teacher, biographer and subject. As a Yale freshman, Worthen found herself deeply fascinated by worldly-wise professor Charles Hill, a former diplomat who had shaped American foreign policy in his forty-year career as an adviser to Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali, among others. Hill was never...
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The first critical biography of J. Gresham Machen, examining the full arc of his intellectual career
J. Gresham Machen is known as a conservative hero of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy. But was he always so staunchly antimodernist?
In this sweeping new biography, Richard E. Burnett examines the whole of Machen's life and career-from his early years at Princeton, to his experience in the First World War, to his founding of Westminster...
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How liberalism and one of the most dramatic eras in American history were shaped by an influential university president and his powerful circle of friends
Yale's Kingman Brewster was the first and only university president to appear on the covers of Time and Newsweek, and the last of the great campus leaders to become an esteemed national figure. He was also the center of the liberal establishment-a circle of influential men who fought to keep the...
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Now a Hallmark Hall of Fame Movie Event available on streaming platforms. Front of the Class is now in e-book format for the first time and includes a new epilogue.
As a child with Tourette syndrome, Brad Cohen was ridiculed, beaten, mocked, and shunned. Children, teachers, and even family members found it difficult to be around him. As a teen, he was viewed by many as purposefully misbehaving, even though he had little power over the twitches and...
16) Sexual Health and Intimacy: A Comprehensive Guide to Improve Your Well-being and Enhance Intimate
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Discover the transformative power of true sexual health and intimacy with "Sexual Health and Intimacy: A Comprehensive Guide to Improve Your Well-being and Enhance Intimate Relationships." This captivating eBook takes you on a remarkable journey of self-discovery, unlocking the secrets to a fulfilling and vibrant sexual life.In a world where misconceptions and myths often cloud our understanding of sexuality, this guidebook emerges as a beacon of...
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An exiled professor's journey from inside and beyond academe
In the summer of 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois for his unwavering stance on Palestinian human rights and other political controversies. A year later, he landed a job in Lebanon, but that, too, ended badly. With no other recourse, Salaita found himself trading his successful academic career for an hourly salaried...
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A new take on this icon of African American educational reform, drawing on previously unpublished materials.
Booker T. Washington, a founding father of African American education in the United States, has long been studied, revered, and reviled by scholars and students. Born into slavery, freed and raised in the Reconstruction South, and active in educational reform through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Washington sought to use...
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