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Author: Pierre Boulle
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIronic story of a French intellectual in the British Intelligence during World War II , who cracks under torture but later tries to pay for his defection with his life.
Author: Peter Novick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988-09-30
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 110726829X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aspiration to relate the past 'as it really happened' has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Eugene Genovese, That Noble Dream is a richly textured account of what American historians have thought they were doing, or ought to be doing, when they wrote history - how their principles influenced their practice and practical exigencies influenced their principles.
Author: Pauline Hurtt
Publisher: Balboa Press
Published: 2019-01-17
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 1982219831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo you ever wonder what it is like to be a science teacher with all the ins and outs of being efficient, organized, and passionate? Follow the career of one woman from her first-year teaching until she retired. You will find eighteen vignettes of students she taught. You will find these stories fascinating, rewarding, and inspiring. The author also addresses sundry education issues, such as brain development, dress codes, uniforms, and Power Point presentations. This treatise is a refreshing look at education through the eyes of a teacher who has been there.
Author: J. Rycus Mitchell J. Rycus
Publisher: Mitchell Rycus
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the late nineteenth century Austro-Hungarian Empire, two Jewish astronomy professors work tirelessly to unearth new academic research for their chosen field. But their participation in adultery, deception, and murder will follow them throughout time, weaving a complicated web into future generations, and setting the stage for the age-old question, "Are the sins of the fathers visited upon the sons?" Years later, the professors' families having immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, the old axiom comes to a strange and chilling climax. The grandsons of the astronomers supposedly influenced by ancient Jewish mysticism are murdered-one allegedly at the hands of the other. Detective Sergeant Marty Kowalski investigates the murders, with the assistance of an astronomy professor and two of her students from the University of Michigan. Spending considerable time and meticulous effort, Kowalski slowly unravels the complicated past behind the two victims and unearths a shattering truth that will leave both families reeling. A fascinating blend of philosophy, history, and religion, The Noble Profession of Leaf Chasing delivers a compelling read.
Author: Carol Pelletier Radford
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2021-03-03
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1071822675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIlluminate your education path with uplifting lessons and mindful living practices. It takes courage, positivity, and passion to thrive as a teacher. This vivid and inspirational guide offers educators practical wisdom and strategies to promote their wellbeing and balance. Carol Pelletier Radford shares 10 important lessons she has learned in a long career as an educator that can help you build a fulfilling and lifelong career in education. In each lesson, readers will find: • Stories of resilience from classroom teachers • Self-care tips and assessments • Podcasts with inspiring teachers and leaders who have lived out the 10 lessons • Reading plans for teachers, teacher teams, and mentor/mentee pairs • Ways to dive deeper with additional companion website resources Teaching With Light equips courageous teachers with the tools they need to take care of themselves so they can serve their students, step into leadership, and contribute to the education profession.
Author: Theresa A. Hammond
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-01-14
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0807874949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the major professions, certified public accountancy has the most severe underrepresentation of African Americans: less than 1 percent of CPAs are black. Theresa Hammond explores the history behind this statistic and chronicles the courage and determination of African Americans who sought to enter the field. In the process, she expands our understanding of the links between race, education, and economics. Drawing on interviews with pioneering black CPAs, among other sources, Hammond sets the stories of black CPAs against the backdrop of the rise of accountancy as a profession, the particular challenges that African Americans trying to enter the field faced, and the strategies that enabled some blacks to become CPAs. Prior to the 1960s, few white-owned accounting firms employed African Americans. Only through nationwide networks established by the first black CPAs did more African Americans gain the requisite professional experience. The civil rights era saw some progress in integrating the field, and black colleges responded by expanding their programs in business and accounting. In the 1980s, however, the backlash against affirmative action heralded the decline of African American participation in accountancy and paved the way for the astonishing lack of diversity that characterizes the field today.
Author: Robert D. Ramsey
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2006-06-21
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1483361969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe complete uplifting guide for every teacher to enrich each day and a career in teaching! All teachers need encouragement, affirmation, support, and to be reminded that they are part of a noble profession. Best-selling author Robert D. Ramsey has been an avid collector of inspirational quotes, notes, anecdotes, reflections, testimonials, and tributes for educators, and his new collection provides potentially career-saving homework for the soul of every teacher. This easy-to-read, but hard-to-forget anthology is full of powerful reminders that there is no such thing as "only a teacher." The contents of this uplifting resource have been carefully harvested by an educator for educators and are designed to: Help belabored and beleaguered educators jump start their careers Reclaim their professional pride Rekindle their passion for teaching Get the grit to press on against all odds Inspirational Quotes, Notes, & Anecdotes That Honor Teachers and Teaching makes a strong unified statement all teachers need to hear!
Author: Clayton M. Christensen
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Published: 2017-01-17
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 1633692574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply his wisdom to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life, which led to this now-classic article. Although Christensen’s thinking is rooted in his deep religious faith, these are strategies anyone can use. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.
Author: Claudia Goldin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2023-05-09
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0691228663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, the author builds on decades of complex research to examine the gender pay gap and the unequal distribution of labor between couples in the home. The author argues that although public and private discourse has brought these concerns to light, the actions taken - such as a single company slapped on the wrist or a few progressive leaders going on paternity leave - are the economic equivalent of tossing a band-aid to someone with cancer. These solutions, the author writes, treat the symptoms and not the disease of gender inequality in the workplace and economy. Here, the author points to data that reveals how the pay gap widens further down the line in women's careers, about 10 to 15 years out, as opposed to those beginning careers after college. She examines five distinct groups of women over the course of the twentieth century: cohorts of women who differ in terms of career, job, marriage, and children, in approximated years of graduation - 1900s, 1920s, 1950s, 1970s, and 1990s - based on various demographic, labor force, and occupational outcomes. The book argues that our entire economy is trapped in an old way of doing business; work structures have not adapted as more women enter the workforce. Gender equality in pay and equity in home and childcare labor are flip sides of the same issue, and the author frames both in the context of a serious empirical exploration that has not yet been put in a long-run historical context. This book offers a deep look into census data, rich information about individual college graduates over their lifetimes, and various records and sources of material to offer a new model to restructure the home and school systems that contribute to the gender pay gap and the quest for both family and career. --
Author: Pierre Boulle
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1780943717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong before Battle Royale or The Hunger Games, the author of The Planet of the Apes imagined a world governed by science and brutality gone mad in this long-neglected, dystopian sci-fi classic, now in a new translation Despairing at the state of world degeneration, a group of the world's most renowned intellectuals form the new Scientific World Government, aiming to put the world to rights. Elected into power, they quickly start making changes for the better, eliminating world hunger and cancer, encouraging scientific thought, and banning frivolous entertainment. But while congratulating themselves on a job well done, they fail to notice that actually, people are not happy. The suicide rate has sky-rocketed and, strangely, it turns out the public wants a little risk and conflict in their lives. So to cater to the masses, the Department of Psychology forms a plan: they will stage an entertainment show the likes of which the world has never seen before. It starts with gladiatorial style battles, bloodthirsty and brutal, where the victors become celebrities of unseen proportions, and quickly escalates into entire historical battle re-enactments involving chemical warfare and mass destruction. The Scientific World Government has unleashed a monster. What has the world let itself in for?
