education

Hardcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 490 pages, b&w frontis. Rush, the Philadelphia doctor who signed the Declaration of Independence, was an energetic, ambitious man given to devising reforms and, as the author puts it, meddling in politics. He studied medicine in Edinburgh and London, meeting Hume, Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, et al. and, Hawke thinks, solidifying his republican disposition. Back in Pennsylvania he agitated for independence, made friends with John Adams, urged Paine to write Common Sense, and entered Congress. Apart from the recurrent epidemics of the age, the practice of military medicine and propaganda for resuming debt payments occupied Rush during the war; afterwards he turned to progressive education, speculated in land, fought paper money, equivocally supported the abolition of slavery, declared that tobacco is unhealthful, and boosted the Constitution before it was even written. Dust jacket chipped, faded in parts, clean internally.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Small ink notation on front fly leaf otherwise clean. 320 pages with extensive notes and index. This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating institution between citizens and the state. Framed around the three major federal higher education policies of the twentieth century--the 1944 GI Bill, the 1958 National Defense Education Act, and the 1965 Higher Education Act--the book charts the federal government's various efforts to deploy education to ready citizens for the national, bureaucratized, and increasingly global world in which they lived. Loss details the myriad ways in which academic leaders and students shaped, and were shaped by, the state's shifting politicalagenda as it moved from a preoccupation with economic security during the Great Depression, to national security during World War II and the Cold War, to securing the rights of African Americans, women, and other previously marginalized groups during the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, Loss reappraises the origins of higher education's current-day diversity regime, the growth of identity group politics, and the privatization of citizenship at the close of the twentieth century. At a time when people's faith in government and higher education is being sorely tested, this book sheds new light on the close relations between American higher education and politics.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Memoir of an African-American woman when she was a student at a formerly all white male private prep school.

Hardcover. Chicago, Lyons & Carnahan, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Child-Story Program. Guidance in Reading Series. Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in blue and orange. State of Texas textbook. Illustrated throughout in color by Vera Stone Norman. 154 pages. Clean copy. Like Dick and Jane series. Both part of "look-say" (whole-word) method of teaching reading popular in 1930s -1960s.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream color cloth stamped in black and orange, 160 pages. A vintage school reader with 2-color illustrations throughout by Mary Spoor Brand. Near fine condition, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 319 pages, color illustrations. This stunning cookbook collects 100 of the most timeless and seminal recipes from the first leg of Bobby Flays monumental career in one place, for the first time ever. At the age of sixteen, Bobby Flay left high school and the idea of traditional education behind to pursue a life in professional restaurant kitchens. Through his groundbreaking restaurants, cookbooks, and numerous television shows, Flay has built a body of work that is one of the most influential in American culinary history. His stamp can be felt in restaurants across the country, as well as at the dinner table in many families' homes. Read the essays, absorb the photography, and most important, cook tantalizing dishes from this book. Bobby Flay has put decades of his daily work into these pages. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 313 pages. The Consolations of Philosophy by Boethius, whose English translators include King Alfred, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Queen Elizabeth I, ranks among the most remarkable books to be written by a prisoner awaiting the execution of a tyrannical death sentence. Its interpretation is bound up with his other writings on mathematics and music, on Aristotelian and propositional logic, and on central themes of Christian dogma. Chadwick begins by tracing the career of Boethius, a Roman rising to high office under the Gothic King Theoderic the Great, and suggests that his death may be seen as a cruel by-product of Byzantine ambitions to restore Roman imperial rule after its elimination in the West in AD 476. Subsequent chapters examine in detail his educational programme in the liberal arts designed to avert a threatened collapse of culture and his ambition to translate into Latin everything he could find on Plato and Aristotle. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners names on front endpaper. Yellow highlighting of text throughout book. "Illustrated with Photographs from Moving-Picture Films - The "movie" illustrations are clippings from the reels of the ten-round bout between Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and Tommy Burns, the former heavyweight champion of the world." Darkening to endpapers, edges. Light wear.

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Xerox Education Publications, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Massie. Weekly Reader Book Club. Clean, bright copy. Nodust jacket.

Hardcover. Mankato, MN, Creative Education, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Seymour Chwast. Laminated boards, no dust jacket issued. Sticker on rear board.

Softcover. Cambridge [England] ; New York, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 389 pages. Minor wear to edges of cover. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Slight foxing on top edge. Inside is bright, clean and unmarked. A nice copy.

Softcover. Vergennes VT, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes, spiral bound, 640 total pages. many b&w illustrations, photographs. An Education Curriculum for Grades Pre-K - 8. From the author's introduction: The Lake Champlain-Hudson River corridor is one of the most historic waterways in North America. The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum has dedicated much time and effort to the study of Lake Champlain's canal boat shipwrecks. The curriculum in this book examines a wide range of activities of the northern canalers and addresses select issues that were important during the canal boat era (1819-1940) on the Northern Waterway. The fifteen units in this curriculum are multi-disciplinary and meet the education learning standards of New York and Vermont. Clean copies.

Hardcover. Burlington VT, University of Vermont, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY PILCHER on title page. The history of surgical education at the University of Vermont, from 1804 to 2008. Large format. Handsomely produced and illustrated. 444 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Softcover. Lanham MD, Scarecrow Press, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 203 pages. Using over 90 original interviews, as well as his extensive research in a variety of New Orleans' archives, Dr. Kennedy deftly explores the role public school teachers had in the formative years of jazz, as well as the influence they continue to have on the musical life of one of America's foremost musical cities. As jazz and music mentors, these teachers employed creativity, innovation, and dedication in propelling some of the world's finest musicians forward into brilliant careers. Chord Changes on the Chalkboard includes a foreword by jazz legend Ellis Marsalis, Jr. and is a must for jazz fans and historians, music libraries, and for collections supporting the study of popular culture and African-American history. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine. SIGNED BY BRIGGS opposite title page. Introduction is dated January, 1913. The author was Dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. This volume contains four essays, two each from two of Briggs' earlier works -- School, College, and Character, and Ideals -- focused mainly on students. 124 pages. Clean copy. Laid in is a folded mimeographed sheet: "Message from Dean Briggs of Harvard", date unknown.

Hardcover. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st Edition, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 346 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean, unmarked and tight copy.

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 2nd pr., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 263 pages. For members of Cairo's upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or goods that are linked in the popular imagination to other, more "modern" places. In a series of thickly described and carefully contextualized case studies-of Arabic children's magazines, Pokemon, private schools and popular films, coffee shops and fast-food restaurants-Mark Allen Peterson describes the social practices that create class identities. He traces these processes from childhood into adulthood, examining how taste and style intersect with a changing educational system and economic liberalization. Peterson reveals how uneasy many cosmopolitan Cairenes are with their new global identities, and describes their efforts to root themselves in the local through religious, nationalist, or linguistic practices. Clean copy.

Softcover. Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 164 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY HAAS on the title page. This is the story of a 19th century German-American industrialist who made his fortune manufacturing hard rubber combs thanks to his friendship with Charles Goodyear and his invention, vulcanized rubber. Poppenhusen founded a town, College Point, New York, and became a much-loved philanthropist funding churches, libraries and an educational institute that is today both a National and New York City landmark, the Institute that bears his name. He was an innovator in education introducing the first free kindergarten for his workers and the people of the town, perhaps the first corporate day care facility in the U.S. He made the catastrophic mistake of getting involved in the railroads in the late 1860's and used his vast fortune to bring about the consolidation of what has come down to us today as the Long Island Railroad.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 23 and 27 pages, introduction by Claudis Johnson. Facsimile reprints of two pamphlets written to benefit priests who were expelled by the revolutionary French Government. Both authors championed causes to relieve their plight. Clean copy.

Softcover. University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 320 pages. Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, or Swedish periodicals. Several are published here for the first time in any language. Giving attention to Sontag's education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, they cover Sontag's rich career as a distinguished writer, filmmaker, dramatist, and cultural critic. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, gray wrappers with purple titles. With front endpaper map of "All Protestant Mission Stations in Japan, Korea, and Formosa". 248 pages, b&w plates. Details early Christian Japanese collaboration on social challenges and reforms. Related newspaper clippings laid in. Covers worn interior clean.

Softcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. "They were all there, the pimps, the fags, the whores, the curious, the alcoholic, the weird of the late '50s... blues lovers, Canadian bikers, thrill seekers, junkies, insomniacs, hepcats..." So begins "Down at the Kitty Kat," one of the 20-plus never-before-collected memoirs and yarns by Spain Rodriguez, one of the original gang of Zap Comix provocateurs. Although he's best known for his two-fisted tales of the chopper-riding Trashman, Spain's blunt graphic style and uncompromising gift for caricature, rendered in eye-punishing slabs of black and white, work equally well for more subtle fare -- such as these memoirs of his misspent youth. Cruisin' with the Hound ranges from Spain's days as an innocent young churchgoer to his time as a member of the Road Vultures motorcycle gang, with stops along the way for his discoveries of science fiction and other, more adult pursuits ("The Birth of Porn") -- as well as the "The Education of an Underground Cartoonist," describing his journey from a pimply Captain Marvel-reading scribbler to his arrival as a professional artist. But the heart of this collection is a cycle of stories ) set during Spain's teenage days in the 1950s, often featuring the doomed, dot-eyed Fred Toot.

Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 259 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With these interwoven autobiographical essays, Geoffrey Wolff, author of the acclaimed The Duke of Deception, recounts the moral (and immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father, as he offers his spirited, elegant, and deeply felt observations on an extraordinary life: from wildly dysfunctional childhood Christmases to a concupiscent career teaching literature in Istanbul; from a victory over the chaos of drink to a life-affirming surrender to the majesty of the Matterhorn; and from a foundering friendship to the transcending love of family.

Hardcover. University of Notre Dame Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth stamped in gilt and silver, 271 pages. This volume is the result of an international conference held at the University of Notre Dame in 1991 in which leading scholars, classicists, medievalists, theologians, philologists, rhetoricians, literary critics, and philosophers-gathered to focus on one of the most remarkable and influential books of late antiquity, Augustine's De doctrina christiana.Contributors to this volume place the historical setting of De doctrina christiana within the context of contemporary scholarship and explore in detail its theological meaning and impact on western culture and Christian education. The essays cover the entire field of current Augustinian studies starting with the historic setting of late antiquity in which De doctrina christiana was written. They then examine the work itself, its literary structure and interpretive and theological significance, how it was received by later patristic writers, and how it has been used as an authoritative source in contemporary times. An extensive bibliography facilitates further study.