http://www.lybrary.com/index.php?cPath=2320 Copyright © 2013 Lybrary.comhttp://www.lybrary.com/the-black-man-and-his-visa-p-292719.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/the-black-man-and-his-visa-p-292719.htmlMon, 13 May 2013 15:37:09 EDT <p>The remarkable true story of one man's fight to turn the tide of low expectations, this account follows educator Chris Sarra from his humble beginnings in a large Italian-Aboriginal family to his triumphant achievements, including becoming Queensland's Australian of the Year, the subject of ABC's <I>Australian Story</I>, and one of the most outspoken and recognized educators in Australia. Attempting to better Indigenous education, Sarra transformed the Cherbourg State School into a national success story, but not without controversy along the way—Sarra battled the media, the education system, and a culture of complacency. This inspiring autobiography shows why Indigenous children no longer hope for a better education; they can expect it.http://www.lybrary.com/good-morning-mr-sarra-my-life-working-for-a-stronger-smarter-future-for-our-children-p-288226.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/good-morning-mr-sarra-my-life-working-for-a-stronger-smarter-future-for-our-children-p-288226.htmlWed, 01 May 2013 23:37:35 EDT I am grateful beyond words for the example of the lanterns shared in this memoir whose lives I hope will illuminate my children's, your children's, and the paths of countless others coming behind.--Marian Wright Edelman, from the Preface<p>Marian Wright Edelman, "the most influential children's advocate in the country" (<i>The Washington Post</i>), shares stories from her life at the center of this century's most dramatic civil rights struggles. She pays tribute to the extraordinary personal mentors who helped light her way: Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Fannie Lou Hamer, William Sloane Coffin, Ella Baker, Mae Bertha Carter, and many others.<p>She celebrates the lives of the great Black women of Bennettsville, South Carolina-Miz Tee, Miz Lucy, Miz Kate-who along with her parents formed a formidable and loving network of community support for the young Marian Wright as a Black girl growing up in the segregated South. We follow the author to Spelman College in the late 1950s, when the school was a hotbed of civil rights activism, and where, through excerpts from her honest and passionate college journal, we witness a national leader in the making and meet the people who inspired and empowered her, including Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, Howard Zinn, and Charles E. Merrill, Jr.<p><i>Lanterns</i> takes us to Mississippi in the 1960s, where Edelman was the first and only Black woman lawyer. Her account of those years is a riveting first-hand addition to the literature of civil rights: "The only person I recognized in the menacing crowd as I walked towards the front courthouse steps was [a] veteran <i>New York Times reporter.</i> He neither acknowledged me nor met my eyes. I knew then what it was like to be a poor Black person in Mississippi: alone." And we follow Edelman as she leads Bobby Kennedy on his fateful trip to see Mississippi poverty and hunger for himself, a powerful personal experience for the young RFK that helped awaken a nation's conscience to child hunger and poverty.<p><i>Lanterns</i> is illustrated with thirty of the author's personal photographs and includes "A Parent's Pledge" and "Twenty-five More Lessons for Life," an inspiration to all of us-parents, grandparents, teachers, religious and civic leaders-to guide, protect, and love our children every day so that they will become, in Marian Wright Edelman's moving vision, the healing agents for national transformation.http://www.lybrary.com/lanterns-a-memoir-of-mentors-p-280870.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/lanterns-a-memoir-of-mentors-p-280870.htmlWed, 17 Apr 2013 22:31:13 EDT <p>Brimming with honestly and passion, <i>The Education of a WASP</i> chronicles one white woman's discovery of racism in 1960s America. First published in 1970 and highly acclaimed by reviewers, Lois Stalvey's account is as timely now as it was then. Nearly twenty years later, with ugly racial incidents occurring on college campuses, in neighborhoods, and in workplaces everywhere, her account of personal encounters with racism remains deeply disturbing. Educators and general readers interested in the subtleties of racism will find the story poignant, revealing, and profoundly moving.<BR></p><p>"Delightful and horrible, a singular book." —Choice<p>"An extraordinarily honest and revealing book that poses the issue: loyalty to one's ethnic group or loyalty to conscience." —Publishers Weekly</p>http://www.lybrary.com/the-education-of-a-wasp-p-280023.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/the-education-of-a-wasp-p-280023.htmlTue, 16 Apr 2013 05:33:08 EDT Have you ever wanted to know what it's like being a male student of African descent, who never encountered any educators that were male role models? Have you always wanted to understand why males are virtually obsolete in schools throughout America? Then, journey through these pages to discover the passionate, first-hand account of a current educator and former student who wants the world to know how important males are needed as educators in communities throughout America. Consider the premises made for meeting this historic demand of recruiting and retaining males as educators. Males, who may look just like you or just might be yourself!http://www.lybrary.com/67-not-a-nba-player-a-nation-builder-meeting-the-demands-for-male-educators-p-278374.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/67-not-a-nba-player-a-nation-builder-meeting-the-demands-for-male-educators-p-278374.htmlFri, 12 Apr 2013 10:35:37 EDT Marry Me in Africa is an invitation to discuss approaches and processes in African marriage ritual. As one crucial institution in African culture, marriage in its traditional African definition has helped many of the continent's cultures maintain a sense of community and identity. This book invites especially students and researchers into exchanges on some African marriage traditions and their roles in African societies. It concerns those aspects that fascinate me and many other Africans that we believe will interest people in the New World, particularly the Caribbean. Researchers of the African Diaspora might want to use some of the marriage practices for reconstructing models for analysis and interpretation of the formation and transformation of the African heritage in the Diaspora. <br> Marry Me in Africa is particularly useful for scholars not familiar with the different cultural practices among African societies, their sources of identity and diversity, and the implications of these for understanding African social systems. This book will be a useful companion for other scholars who know about some of the cultural practices but are unable to identify exactly their relationship to specific ethnic groups, traditional concepts, social, political, economic, technological, and other practices that have constituted the patterns of cultural behavior among African societies through marriage. <br> Individual or local cultural traditions and practices are presented within the context of the general African cultural heritage, leading to cross-cultural comparison and generalizations. The convergence of traditional marriage patterns and continuities in specific aspects of traditional values and behavior of various societies are examined over the common-ground sense of community among Africans that may not be the same today as in the past. For this reason this book takes the liberty to discuss present manifestations of a transformed past in the present.http://www.lybrary.com/marry-me-in-africa-african-foundations-p-273233.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/marry-me-in-africa-african-foundations-p-273233.htmlTue, 26 Mar 2013 13:57:13 EDT <span><span><span style="font-style:italic;">Becoming an Ethnomusicologist</span><span> centers on the life and education of the author, Bruno Nettl, a well-known ethnomusicologist.</span></span></span>http://www.lybrary.com/becoming-an-ethnomusicologist-a-miscellany-of-influences-p-272114.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/becoming-an-ethnomusicologist-a-miscellany-of-influences-p-272114.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 03:31:30 EDT <span><span><span>With Baby Boomers now moving into retirement, members of Generation X have come to the forefront of American society. Consequently, understanding Generation X—and the potential impact of the independent, sometimes rebellious spirit that characterizes it—is critical. In </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Generation X Professors Speak: Voices from Academia</span><span>, Elwood Watson has assembled a unique collection of thematically arranged essays by academics that offers insights into the issues, conflicts, and triumphs that epitomize this often overlooked generation. The essays cover topics ranging from career, class, family life, health, music, and physical disabilities to race, religion, and sexuality. Together, the essays define the characteristics and demonstrate the diversity of Generation X, and will appeal to scholars, students, and others interested in social history, psychology, gender studies, and popular culture.</span></span></span>http://www.lybrary.com/generation-x-professors-speak-voices-from-academia-p-272113.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/generation-x-professors-speak-voices-from-academia-p-272113.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 03:31:25 EDT <I>Together We Can</I> recounts effective strategies for institutional change and focuses on collective leadership within the land-grant university system, with reflections on Hiler's long and successful career in academic leadership, both at Texas A&M University and within the larger Texas A&M System.<BR>Although many books discuss leadership and organizational change in the private sector, there are relatively few dealing with public-sector entities—especially public land-grant universities and academic agencies—and none on collective leadership, the standard for highly collaborative and interdependent groups and individuals.<BR>Hiler draws on more than four decades of academic leadership experiences and personal anecdotes to recount the history of the land-grant system and Texas' place in it. He also distills collective leadership "principles-in-action" that he believes should sustain such institutions, including Texas A&M, in the future, articulating an unwavering argument that the land-grant mission, through teaching, research, and outreach through extension, remains the single most powerful educational force within our society to equip citizens with the means to adapt to create meaningful opportunities, improve quality of life, and keep the world on a sustainable course amid uncertain times.<BR>Bosserman then places Hiler's reflections in the context of institutional change strategies and situational leadership styles to establish a "do-it-yourself tool kit" that includes effective leadership, collaboration, and mentorship approaches and techniques for those who strive to make a positive impact in their organizations, regardless of their starting point.http://www.lybrary.com/together-we-can-pathways-to-collective-leadership-in-agriculture-at-texas-am-p-265906.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/together-we-can-pathways-to-collective-leadership-in-agriculture-at-texas-am-p-265906.htmlWed, 06 Mar 2013 16:49:42 EST After teacher training in the very early sixties, Maureen Stahl was ready for a life of teaching. She was to enjoy a wide variety of teaching experiences, schools and systems. The love of teaching and the children, and eventually adults, in her care shines through brightly. Her anecdotes are told warmly and with humour. A few are moving and many are hilarious, her sometimes wry responses to situations illustrating how well she was suited to this career she chose. There will be parents who'll always remember her as a shining light in their children's school-life. Throughout, Maureen interweaves the story of her marriage and motherhood with that of her teaching career. Maureen was "born to teach". This was a conclusion that she reached at the end of her teaching career and with which you will agree when reading her enjoyable book. Anyone who has been involved in Education as staff, parents or students, will relate to this entertaining book - a fascinating, true record of life as a teacher from the sixties to the beginning of this century.http://www.lybrary.com/born-to-teach-p-258527.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/born-to-teach-p-258527.htmlWed, 13 Feb 2013 03:36:22 EST Lessons in Humility is the bizarre story of Barry Dickins' life as a teacher. He gained his Diploma of Education at The Melbourne State College forty years ago although he failed Classroom Management. He has taught Drama and Creative Literature to cherubs at a primary school and prayer-composition at a secondary college. The recollection unfolds at the point of doom but cheerfully expands when the author experiences enlightenment when he is put in with Grade Ones forever. Barry Dickins' writing has been called 'The defeat of the desperate by the bizarre' which means of course that his stage characters are inevitably overcome by not themselves but their surroundings. Join the catastrophic but noble hunt for meaning as our indefatigable community-loving teacher collides with life head-on. Nietzsche once wrote that 'only with laughter do we slay' and never was that epithet truer for a willing servant of education who not only clashes with bureaucracies but can't comprehend society either. What he is brilliant at is never teaching but the forgotten art of listening. Children adore to be carefully heard and practising that fact is what gets him through Hell in one piece. The fantastic and fatal daily hurts and contradictions are faithfully recorded here by a writer who loves poor people so well he knows what lollies they've knocked off. Many essays have been composed and published upon teaching in the 200 years of the strap. Many are marvellous but this is true. You too will feel as you have held class at The Boil Street Special School in Sickening Road. The author learns the timely lesson in modesty at the rickety helm of teaching chaos. It's not that his kids are stupid but that he is arrogant. He teaches poorly because he listens worse. It is only when he surrenders his portrait of himself as an artist to the wheelie bin of life that he finally learns that teaching is to do with others and not vanity. About the Author: Barry Dickins has worked as a writer and teacher ever since he failed The Intermediate Certificate at Merrilands High School in 1965. He won The Victorian Premiers Award for Drama in 1995 for the stage play 'Remember Ronald Ryan', published by Currency Press, which examines the truth behind Australia's last hanging. The same play won The International Amnesty Award For Peace Through Art.http://www.lybrary.com/lessons-in-humility-40-years-of-teaching-p-258140.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/lessons-in-humility-40-years-of-teaching-p-258140.htmlTue, 12 Feb 2013 06:40:23 EST Suzuki may be a name renowned for automobiles, but this book introduces us to a very different Suzuki - the Suzuki who was a world leader in the teaching of music. Dr Shinichi Suzuki, creator of "The Suzuki Method", is well remembered for his extraordinary warmth, care, and sense of humour. Part biography, part memoir, this important book recalls scenes from Suzuki's life, and many of the author's own experiences as his student in Japan. Both humorous and culturally informative, this book illustrates how Suzuki was influenced by Japanese history and his Zen beliefs, making him "the son of his environment". Above all, this book reminds us that Suzuki gave far more to the world than just a method of teaching. In the book Suzuki Violin School, Volume 1, Dr Suzuki gives an impassioned plea to parents: Please raise your child to be a fine human being. Students, teachers, and lovers of music and history alike will enjoy this stroll through the life and teachings of the quick-witted Dr Suzuki, who turned the music education world upside down.http://www.lybrary.com/memories-of-dr-shinichi-suzuki-son-of-his-environment-p-239266.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/memories-of-dr-shinichi-suzuki-son-of-his-environment-p-239266.htmlSat, 01 Dec 2012 05:32:26 EST Howard Zinn was perhaps the best-known and most widely celebrated popular interpreter of American history in the twentieth century, renowned as a bestselling author, a political activist, a lecturer, and one of America's most recognizable and admired progressive voices.<p>His rich, complicated, and fascinating life placed Zinn at the heart of the signal events of modern American history—from the battlefields of World War II to the McCarthy era, the civil rights and the antiwar movements, and beyond. A bombardier who later renounced war, a son of working-class parents who earned a doctorate at Columbia, a white professor who taught at the historically black Spelman College in Atlanta, a committed scholar who will be forever remembered as a devoted “people's historian"—Howard Zinn blazed a bold, iconoclastic path through the turbulent second half of the twentieth century.<p>For the millions who were moved by Zinn's personal example of political engagement and by his inspiring “bottom up" history, here is the first biography of this towering figure—by Martin Duberman, recipient of the American Historical Association's 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award. Given exclusive access to the previously closed Zinn archives, Duberman's impeccably researched biography is illustrated with never-before-published photos from the Zinn family collection. <I>Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left</I> is a major publishing event that brings to life one of the most inspiring figures of our time.<BR>http://www.lybrary.com/howard-zinn-a-life-on-the-left-p-205851.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/howard-zinn-a-life-on-the-left-p-205851.htmlSun, 26 Aug 2012 22:30:58 EDT <p><i>In the Crossfire</i> brings a much-needed historical perspective to contemporary debates about educational inequality by tracing the life and work of Marcus Foster, an African-American educator who struggled to reform urban schools in the 1960s and early 70s.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/in-the-crossfire-marcus-foster-and-the-troubled-history-of-american-school-reform-p-202509.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/in-the-crossfire-marcus-foster-and-the-troubled-history-of-american-school-reform-p-202509.htmlThu, 16 Aug 2012 21:31:58 EDT This is the first volume of my autobiography covering the years 1950 to 1968, when I left Pontardawe Grammar School. The book opens with an extensive and rigorously authentic genealogy going back to the mid fourth century in one branch of the family, and genealogy of all the other branches. The book is interwoven with some of my poetry in both languages and is a unique account of Pontardawe Grammar School in the nineteen sixties. The prose is interwoven with poetry, which is the distilled wisdom of any People.http://www.lybrary.com/o-hudd-ei-ddoe-prof-myron-wyn-evans-p-202293.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/o-hudd-ei-ddoe-prof-myron-wyn-evans-p-202293.htmlThu, 16 Aug 2012 00:34:02 EDT A comprehensive biography of a dedicated civil rights activist and distinguished South Carolinianhttp://www.lybrary.com/the-magnificent-mays-a-biography-of-benjamin-elijah-mays-p-195067.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/the-magnificent-mays-a-biography-of-benjamin-elijah-mays-p-195067.htmlWed, 25 Jul 2012 21:32:29 EDT <p>Wisdom of a Western Mom</p><p>Prepare for everything you ever thought about parenting to be flipped on its head. Mama Marlaine advocates:</p><p><i>Retiring "Children Learn What They Live."</i></p><p><i>Retiring Academic Principles of Right/Wrong,</i></p><p><i>Perfect/Imperfect</i></p><p><i>Retiring the term "Therapy" for education in interpersonal communication.</i></p><p><i>Retiring Normal</i></p><p><i>Retiring the view of "Parents Raising Humanity."</i></p>http://www.lybrary.com/kissing-the-mirror-raising-humanity-in-the-twentyfirst-century-p-194645.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/kissing-the-mirror-raising-humanity-in-the-twentyfirst-century-p-194645.htmlTue, 24 Jul 2012 01:31:28 EDT <p><i>Rocknocker: A Geologist's Memoir</i> reviews the life of George Devries Klein, an immigrant who made it through the American System as a geologist. It chronicles his life from early childhood, graduate school, working as an oil company researcher, university professor, science administrator, and as a geological consultant. The book includes the highs and lows of George's life. Each chapter also summarizes key lessons learned making the book even more useful to young scientists as a career guide. Isolated incidents relevant to the book, but shortened, are included as postscripts at the end of each chapter. A highly informative read that shows what is needed to develop a productive career in the sciences.<p><b><u>About the Author</u>:</b> <br>George Devries Klein is a widely respected geologist, both in academe and the petroleum industry. Born in 1933 in the Netherlands, he immigrated to the USA in 1947. He graduated from Mamaroneck Senior High School and earned his BA, MA, and PhD in geology from Wesleyan University, The University of Kansas, and Yale University, respectively. <br>His career spanned work as a research geologist at Sinclair Research, Inc., followed by service as a faculty member at the Universities of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Illinois @Urbana-Champaign, where he was a full professor from 1972 to 1993. He served as President of the New Jersey Marine Science Consortium and as New Jersey State Sea Grant Director and then formed his own consulting company, SED-STRAT Geoscience Consultants, Inc., in 1996. <br>He is best known for his research on tidal sedimentology, proposing the "Tidalite" concept. He authored over 350 refereed papers, abstracts and reports, including 11 reference books, and one novel, <i>Dissensions</i>. His publications include the book <i>Sandstone Depositional Models for Exploration for Fossil Fuels</i> and a widely-used Wall Chart on "Vertical Sequences and Log Shapes of Major Sandstone Reservoir Systems". <br>His consulting client work is in the US Gulf of Mexico and Gulf Coast, Illinois basin, Appalachian basin, Angola, Senegal, South Africa, East Africa, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Romania, Russia, and the eastern Mediterranean. He has discovered, either solo or as part of consulting teams, approximately 160 Million Barrels of oil and 3 Trillion Cubic Feet of natural gas. He currently resides with his wife, Suyon (originally from Seoul, Korea), in Sugar Land, Texas.http://www.lybrary.com/rocknocker-a-geologists-memoir-p-193690.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/rocknocker-a-geologists-memoir-p-193690.htmlFri, 20 Jul 2012 01:31:22 EDT <p>Arthur Link (1920-1998) was one of the great historians of his generation, a prolific author with a wide following inside and outside the profession. For many years the foremost authority on Woodrow Wilson, he wrote a five-volume biography of the president and edited a sixty-nine volume edition of Wilson's papers.</p><p>Margaret Link (1918-1996), his wife and fellow North Carolinian, was the emotional core of the family. As an activist, she helped form an interdenominational crisis ministry in Princeton that reached out to the poor with counseling, clothing, and food, and she was a cofounder and president of the Association for the Advancement of Mental Health.</p><p>In <i>Links</i>, their youngest son--an accomplished and award-winning historian--offers a moving and unsentimental biography of two individuals who experienced the intense change and tumult of the South during the mid-twentieth century. Drawing from a rich trove of letters, interviews with friends and family, and unique insights, Link offers a highly detailed, evocative portrait of the coming of age and lifelong partnership of his parents. <i>Links</i> combines the objectivity and critical judgment of the professional historian with the subjectivity and deep emotional connection of the memoirist who participated directly in part of the story.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/links-my-family-in-american-history-p-185593.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/links-my-family-in-american-history-p-185593.htmlSat, 23 Jun 2012 10:14:01 EDT Running Naked Through the Streets is an account of the year Dr. Caramine White lived in the former Communist country Slovakia, from August 2004 - May 2005. When Dr. White received a Fulbright Scholarship, she and an American literature professor from a Slovak university "exchanged" jobs. Dr. White lived in Banska Bystrica, a city of about 84,000 in central Slovakia. Although her students spoke English, very few of the townspeople did, and the living conditions were much different from those enjoyedin America. Running Naked Through the Streets, which refers to the utter helplessness and vulnerability she often felt, is neither an autobiography nor a travel book. Although Dr. White does include some interesting information for tourists, the crux of the book is how being so alone and dependent can encourage and even accelerate personal growth. It is told with a great deal of humor and honesty. Interwoven throughout the text are humorous essays recounting some of her bizarre adventures during the year, which range from belly dancing to marathon running, from inadvertently taking part in a Polish Confirmation ceremony to becoming the object of affection for a mentally challenged homeless man.http://www.lybrary.com/running-naked-through-the-streets-p-182155.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/running-naked-through-the-streets-p-182155.htmlSun, 10 Jun 2012 16:52:22 EDT