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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56

by Rafe Esquith

Published: 2007-12-18

Paperback: 243 pages

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The New York Times bestseller that is revolutionizing the way Americans educate their kids-"Rafe Esquith is a genius and a saint" (The New York Times) Perhaps the most famous fifth-grade teacher in America, Rafe Esquith has won numerous awards and even honorary citizenship in the British ...

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Teach Yourself Singing: If You Can Talk You Can Sing

by Timothy Kelly

Published: 2009-10-27

Paperback: 366 pages

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Teach Yourself Singing is the worlds best selling singing textbook, now back in print in an all new bigger and better edition. Over 250,000 successful students worldwide since the 1890's have improved their voice, for business, romance and the sheer joy of singing freely, as the birds do. Anyone,...

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Teacher Man (Penguin Longman Reader L4)

by Franck McCourt

Published: 2008-02-21

Paperback: 88 pages

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Teacher Man: A Memoir

by Frank McCourt

Published: 2005-09-19

Paperback: 258 pages

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his voice.Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst ont...

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The Teacher Who Couldn't Read: One Man's Triumph Over Illiteracy

by John Corcoran

Published: 2008-09-02

Paperback: 272 pages

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John Corcoran's memoir, The Teacher Who Couldn't Read is being offered in a new trade paperback format to coincide with the release of his new book Bridge to Literacy. The Teacher Who Couldn't Read is John's life story of how he struggled through school without the basic skills of how to r...

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Teaching about the Holocaust: Essays by College and University Teachers

Published: 2004-04-30

Hardcover: 256 pages

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This collection of fourteen essays by renowned scholars in the field of Holocaust studies seeks to reflect on the experience of teaching and researching this complicated and emotional topic. Contained within are the pioneering stories of those presently engaged in the work of Holocaust edu...

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Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap

by Teach For America, Steven Farr

Published: 2010-02-02

Paperback: 352 pages

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A road map for teachers who strive to be highly effective leaders in our nation's classroomsTeach For America has fought the daunting battle of educational equity for the last twenty years. Based on evidence from classrooms across the country, they've discovered much about effective teachi...

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Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances

by Fred Thompson

Published: 2010-05-18

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Fred Thompson has enjoyed a remarkable career in Hollywood and politics, but when he sat down to write a memoir about how he got to be the person he is, he discovered that his best stories all seemed to come out of the years he spent growing up in and around his hometown of Lawrenceburg, T...

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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

by Carlos Castaneda

Published: 2008-05-09

Paperback: 240 pages

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Forty years ago the University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. The Teachings of Don Juan initiated a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Castaneda's now classic book remains...

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The Teahouse Fire

by Ellis Avery

Published: 2007-12-04

Paperback: 465 pages

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“Like attending seasons of elegant tea parties—each one resplendent with character and drama. Delicious.”—Maxine Hong KingstonThe story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places an...