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Sayers

By: Gale Sayers,Fred Mitchell

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On the gridiron, Gale Sayers allowed his remarkable running ability to speak for him. After leaving pro football, he found he had more to say. His enduring message to young athletes was to respect the game, give back to the community, and prepare for the future. Those were the principles he lived by his entire life, and they make Sayers: My Life and Times a compelling and essential sports memoir. Sayers, who grew up in modest surroundings in Omaha, Nebraska was the son of a car polisher and mechanic. After fielding 75 college scholarship offers, he selected Kansas, where he became an All-American halfback before being selected in the first round of the 1965 draft by the Chicago Bears. Later, he became the youngest man ever inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, at age 34. A knee injury in 1968 cut short his spectacular career, which included an NFL record 6-touchdown effort against the San Francisco 49ers. The story of Sayers' friendship with former Bears teammate Brian Piccolo was immortalized in the 1971 made-for-TV movie "Brian's Song," which starred James Caan as Piccolo and Billy Dee Williams as Sayers. Now available for the first time in paperback, Sayers' reflections and personal lessons are as enduring as ever.

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1637277229

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9781637277225

A Study Guide for Dorothy Sayers's "Suspicion"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for Dorothy Sayers's "Suspicion"

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A Study Guide for Dorothy Sayers's "Suspicion," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

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1410359697

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9781410359698

I Am Third

The Inspiration for Brian's Song: Third Edition

By: Gale Sayers,Al Silverman

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I Am Third

The Inspiration for Brian's Song: Third Edition

By: Gale Sayers,Al Silverman

Gale Sayers' book I Am Third, with Al Silverman, is a stirring, painfully honest account of his struggle to become the greatest running back in history and that agonizing moment between immortality and becoming a cripple." —The New York Times Book Review

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Penguin

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0142000752

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9780142000755

A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution"

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A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.

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1410392740

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9781410392749

A Study Guide for Horacio Quiroga's "The Feather Pillow"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for Horacio Quiroga's "The Feather Pillow"

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A Study Guide for Horacio Quiroga's "The Feather Pillow," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

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1410345793

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9781410345790

A Study Guide for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

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A Study Guide for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

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1410348377

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9781410348371

The Collected Novels Volume One

Notes from an Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man

By: Patrick Gale

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The Collected Novels Volume One

Notes from an Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man

By: Patrick Gale

Two deeply empathetic novels about families in crisis from an international bestselling British writer “with heart, soul, and a dark and a naughty wit” (The Observer). Armistead Maupin says of Patrick Gale: “Few writers have grasped the twisted dynamics of family the way Gale has. There’s really no one he can’t inhabit, understand, and forgive.” In both the international bestseller, Notes from an Exhibition, and its subtly linked companion novel, A Perfectly Good Man, Gale’s generous compassion for his characters and their struggles resonates on every page. Notes from an Exhibition: Gifted painter Rachel Kelly lived a life of manic highs and suicidal lows, which took its toll on her family. After a fatal heart attack in her studio in Penzance, Rachel is honored with a retrospective of her work, attracting art lovers but also stirring up emotional turmoil in her husband and four grown children as they try to come to grips with a legacy of secrets and the devastating effects of her bipolar disorder. Told from the multiple viewpoints of the family members—including Rachel—Gale’s compassionately curated novel evolves into “an engrossing portrait of a troubled and remarkable character” (The Mail on Sunday). “A warm, well-written novel about creativity and the perils of living with the creative spirit.” —The Times Literary Supplement A Perfectly Good Man: Barnaby Johnson is a good man, a priest in a West Cornwall parish, beloved and trusted by his community. But when twenty-year-old Lenny Barnes, paralyzed in a rugby accident, commits suicide in his presence, the reverberations shake Barnaby, his family, and his neighbors to the core. Those around him then invite Barnaby’s morally repellent nemesis to attempt to bring about his downfall. With several narrators, this “warm and humane . . . beautifully written” novel confronts profound questions of morality, faith, and consequences (The Times, London). “A moving account of a man’s struggle with faith, marriage, and morality.” —The Sunday Times

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Open Road Media

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1504054326

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9781504054324

A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "Wasp's Nest"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "Wasp's Nest"

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A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "Wasp's Nest," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

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141033922X

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A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "City of the Beasts"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "City of the Beasts"

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A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "City of the Beasts", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

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1410392910

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A Study Guide for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's "Loa to Divine Narcissus"

By: Gale, Cengage

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A Study Guide for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's "Loa to Divine Narcissus"

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A Study Guide for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's "Loa to Divine Narcissus", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.

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0028670957

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A Perfectly Good Man

A Novel

By: Patrick Gale

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A Perfectly Good Man

A Novel

By: Patrick Gale

The bestselling British novel about love, marriage, family, secrets, and how the power of faith can transform lives even in the midst of inconsolable loss After being paralyzed in a rugby accident, twenty-year-old, wheelchair-bound Lenny Barnes feels he has nothing left to live for and is putting his affairs in order before committing suicide. As lively Mazey Day celebrations take place in the Cornish town of Penzance, Lenny summons a parish priest to his home. Father Barnaby Johnson is shocked to discover that he has been called in not to comfort but to deliver last rites. Lenny’s death will reverberate not only in Barnaby’s life but in the lives of his family and those around them, from Barnaby’s wife, Dorothy, to Modest Carlsson, a parishioner and former teacher whose affair with an underage student cost him his job, his marriage, and, quite possibly, his soul. Narrated in a nonlinear style from the characters’ shifting perspectives and ages, this spellbinding, exquisitely crafted novel exposes the fault lines in relationships as it limns the consequences of our actions. The novel that author Patrick Gale describes as “an echo chamber” to his international bestseller Notes from an Exhibition, A Perfectly Good Man reveals another family in crisis and asks what it truly means to be good. This Richard & Judy Book Club pick is a story of warmth, wisdom, and compassion on crises of faith, the power of prayer, morality, and what it means to be a parent.

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Open Road Media

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1504036522

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A Study Guide for Emilio Carballido's "I, Too, Speak of the Rose"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for Emilio Carballido's "I, Too, Speak of the Rose"

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A Study Guide for Emilio Carballido's "I, Too, Speak of the Rose," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

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1410349098

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A Study Guide for H. G. Wells's "Island of Dr. Moreau"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for H. G. Wells's "Island of Dr. Moreau"

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A Study Guide for H. G. Wells's "Island of Dr. Moreau," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

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1410349896

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9781410349897

Engaging Teachers

Towards a Radical Democratic Agenda for Schooling

By: Gale, Trevor,Densmore, Kathleen

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Engaging Teachers

Towards a Radical Democratic Agenda for Schooling

By: Gale, Trevor,Densmore, Kathleen

Engaging Teachers makes a deliberate attempt to reclaim the education discourse captured by new right politics and connect it with a radical democratic agenda for schooling. On its agenda are education markets, policy, leadership, professionalism, and communities. Engaging with these is conceived on at least two levels.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335210260

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9780335210268

EBOOK: ENGAGING TEACHERS

By: Trevor Gale,Kathleen Densmore

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EBOOK: ENGAGING TEACHERS

By: Trevor Gale,Kathleen Densmore

“This is a useful, interesting and valuable work. The authors ask the difficult questions and attempt answers which, although complex, are written in an accessible and open manner. It deserves to be widely read.” Educational Review Engaging Teachers makes a deliberate attempt to reclaim the education discourse captured by new right politics and connect it with a radical democratic agenda for schooling. On its agenda are education markets, policy, leadership, professionalism, and communities. Engaging with these is conceived on at least two levels. First, as an invitation to teachers to become involved in reconstructing schooling for socially just purposes and in democratic ways. From this perspective, the politics of engagement is not simply a matter of acquiescence or resistance but is informed by a commitment to generate alternatives: teachers, parents and students making things happen rather than having things done to them. Also signalled is an intent to work collectively, exploring and acting on common interests and across uncommon ground. Second, the book also celebrates teachers engaging in these reconstructive efforts in attractive and meaningful ways. The attraction is decisions about schooling made by those they affect as well as decisions that are meaningful because they engage the interests of all.

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033522508X

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9780335225088

A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up"

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A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

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1410353885

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9781410353887

A Study Guide for Anna Sewell's "Black Beauty"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for Anna Sewell's "Black Beauty"

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A Study Guide for Anna Sewell's "Black Beauty," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

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1410341402

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A Study Guide for Doris Lessing's "Debbie and Julie"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for Doris Lessing's "Debbie and Julie"

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A Study Guide for Doris Lessing's "Debbie and Julie," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

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1410344002

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9781410344007

Gale Biography Presents: Literary Figures

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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Gale Biography Presents: Literary Figures

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

Gale Biography Presents contains content derived from the Encyclopedia of World Biography, a reference title providing biographical information on individuals who have made a lasting contribution to society. Each eBook contains authoritative content covering a broad range of people who have made their mark on the world we live in today. Whether through the written word, science, history, activism, or politics, these individuals have contributed to society and have reputations that stand the test of time. These women and men from around the world have risen above the ordinary and earned a place in the annals of human history. Their life stories will fascinate people of all ages.

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1410394247

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9781410394248

The Collected Novels Volume Two

A Sweet Obscurity and The Cat Sanctuary

By: Patrick Gale

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The Collected Novels Volume Two

A Sweet Obscurity and The Cat Sanctuary

By: Patrick Gale

Two family novels from an international bestselling British writer “with heart, soul, and a dark and a naughty wit” (The Observer). Armistead Maupin says of Patrick Gale: “Few writers have grasped the twisted dynamics of family the way Gale has. There’s really no one he can’t inhabit, understand, and forgive.” In both novels presented in this collection, Gale explores the complex dynamics of family with dead-on observation and generous compassion. A Sweet Obscurity: Dido, a nine-year-old orphan, lives with her aunt Eliza, who adopted the girl after her mother died. A depressed musicologist unable to balance her brilliant academic career with motherhood, Eliza ruined her marriage with an affair. Her estranged husband, Giles, is an opera singer whose girlfriend, Julia, uncovers a shocking secret while concealing one of her own. As Dido shuttles between Eliza’s squalid flat and Giles’s elegant townhouse, she acts as both tactful diplomat and insightful analyst to the adults who act like children. Until something happens that powerfully impacts her young life. “This is arguably Gale’s most questioning, troublesome work. It amuses, startles and occasionally bewilders. A Sweet Obscurity is worth every minute of your time.” —The Independent The Cat Sanctuary: Deborah Curtis’s husband, a diplomat in an African principality, was killed by a car bomb, and months later she is still recovering from the assassination. Her estranged sister Judith, an author who lives with her American lover, Joanna, in Cornwall, insists Deborah come to her farmhouse to grieve in peace. But unresolved wounds between the sisters bleed into the present, and a history of abuse comes to light. Forced to confront painful memories, the women’s secrets and lies collide in a shattering climax. “A dark tale of loss, sex and mistrust . . . A sensitive, thoughtful novel with a conclusion that is both unsettling and consistent.” —Time Out London

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Open Road Media

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150405542X

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9781504055420

A Study Guide for Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party"

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A Study Guide for Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

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Gale, Cengage Learning

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1410341380

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9781410341389

"A Study Guide for Pablo Neruda's ""Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market"""

By: Gale, Cengage

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"A Study Guide for Pablo Neruda's ""Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market"""

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A Study Guide for Pablo Neruda's ""Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market"", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

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002866566X

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9780028665665

A Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: KAREN CLEMENTINE HORNEY

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: KAREN CLEMENTINE HORNEY

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Perfect for research assignments in psychology, science, and history, this concise study guide is a one-stop source for in-depth coverage of major psychological theories and the people who developed them. Consistently formatted entries typically cover the following: biographical sketch and personal data, theory outline, analysis of psychologist's place in history, summary of critical response to the theory, the theory in action, and more.

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1410333310

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The Education of Alice M. Jordan

Navigating a Career in Children's Librarianship

By: Gale Eaton

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The Education of Alice M. Jordan

Navigating a Career in Children's Librarianship

By: Gale Eaton

A biography of Alice M. Jordan, who headed children’s work at the Boston Public Library (BPL) from 1902 to 1940, is long overdue. Daughter of a Maine sea captain and a Massachusetts schoolteacher, she was one of the pioneering generation of children’s librarians, women who entered the field when salaries were low, progressive ideals high, academic credentials spotty, and the drive to professionalization was revolutionizing librarianship and education. Modest and unassuming, high-school graduate Jordan worked effectively to improve educational opportunities for children and their librarians alike. She taught at the Simmons Library School, helped create the BPL Training School, founded the New England Round Table of Children’s Librarians (NERTCL), and mentored Bertha Mahony Miller, founder of The Horn Book Magazine. She had a national reputation among children’s book editors and librarians for her critical acumen, clear writing, and astute advice. Locally, she networked tirelessly with Boston educators, negotiated the placement of qualified children’s librarians in all BPL branches, and trained a generation of gifted youth workers—all from a desk in the middle of a busy children’s room. She left a legacy of high standards for children’s reading, storytelling, and reference services. This biography draws on archival materials including Jordan’s correspondence with poet Louise Imogen Guiney and Horn Book editor Miller; BPL memos and reports; and 1979 interviews with Jordan trainees. I have shown her life and achievement in the context of social history, from late nineteenth-century women’s economic opportunities to early twentieth-century developments in librarianship, especially at the BPL. Each chapter has a brief list of milestones in Jordan and U.S. history.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442236485

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9781442236486

A Study Guide for Carlos Fuentes's "The Old Gringo"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for Carlos Fuentes's "The Old Gringo"

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A Study Guide for Carlos Fuentes's "The Old Gringo," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

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1410354369

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Edwin Hubble

Mariner of the Nebulae

By: Gale E. Chrisitanson

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Edwin Hubble

Mariner of the Nebulae

By: Gale E. Chrisitanson

Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae is both the biography of an extraordinary human being and the story of the greatest quest in the history of astronomy since the Copernican revolution. The book is a revealing portrait of scientific genius, an incisive engaging history of ideas, and a shimmering evocation of what we see when gazing at the stars. Born in 1889 and reared in the village of Marshfield, Missouri, Edwin Powell Hubble-star athlete, Rhodes Scholar, military officer, and astronomer- became one of the towering figures in twentieth-century science. Hubble worked with the great 100-inch Hooker telescope at California's Mount Wilson Observatory and made a series of discoveries that revolutionized humanity's vision of the cosmos. In 1923 he was able to confirm the existence of other nebulae (now known to be galaxies) beyond our own Milky Way. By the end of the decade, Hubble had proven that the universe is expanding, thus laying the very cornerstone of the big bang theory of creation. It was Hubble who developed the elegant scheme by which the galaxies are classified as ellipticals and spirals, and it was Hubble who first provided reliable evidence that the universe is homogeneous, the same in all directions as far as the telescope can see. An incurable Anglophile with a penchant for tweed jackets and English briars, Hubble, together with his brilliant and witty wife, Grace Burke, became a fixture in Hollywood society in the 1930s and 40s. They counted among their friends Charlie Chaplin, the Marx brothers, Anita Loos, Aldous and Maria Huxley, Walt Disney, Helen Hayes, and William Randolph Hearst. Albert Einstein, a frequent visitor to Southern California, called Hubble's work "beautiful" and modified his equations on relativity to account for the discovery that the cosmos is expanding.

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Routledge

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1351453858

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9781351453851

A Study Guide for Wilkie Collins's "The Moonstone"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for Wilkie Collins's "The Moonstone"

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A Study Guide for Wilkie Collins's "The Moonstone," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

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1410353028

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West End Women

Women and the London Stage 1918 - 1962

By: Maggie Gale

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West End Women

Women and the London Stage 1918 - 1962

By: Maggie Gale

Maggie Gale's West End Women uncovers groundbreaking material about women playwrights and the staging of their performances between the years 1918 and 1962. It documents a dynamic era of social and theatrical history, analysing the transformations that occurred in the theatre and the lives of British women in relation to specific plays of the period. Focusing on the work of playwrights such as Dodie Smith, Clemence Dane, Gordon Daviot and Bridget Boland, Maggie Gale examines the cultural and political context within which they enjoyed commercial success and great notoriety.

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Routledge

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1134886721

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9781134886722

A Sweet Obscurity

A Novel

By: Patrick Gale

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A Sweet Obscurity

A Novel

By: Patrick Gale

A nine-year-old English girl must look after the dysfunctional adults in her life in this novel from the bestselling British author of Notes from an Exhibition Everyone needs Dido. All the adults in her life—grown-ups who act like children—depend on her for their happiness and stability. The nine-year-old orphan lives with her aunt Eliza, who adopted Dido when her mother died. A depressed musicologist unable to balance her brilliant academic career with motherhood, Eliza ruined her marriage with an illicit affair and is now paying the price. Her estranged husband, Giles, is an opera singer whose girlfriend, Julia, uncovers a shocking secret while concealing one of her own. As Dido shuttles between Eliza’s squalid flat and Giles’s elegant townhouse, she acts as both tactful diplomat and insightful analyst. Until something happens that powerfully impacts her young life. Narrated from the alternating viewpoints of Eliza, Giles, Julia, and Pearce, a Cornish cattle farmer who falls in love with Eliza, A Sweet Obscurity plays out like one of the Tudor madrigals at its heart: Each character is a counterpoint to another. And the theme running through their intersecting lives is Dido, who is supposed to save them all. But who will save Dido?

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1504036549

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A Study Guide for W. P. Kinsella's "The Thrill of Grass"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for W. P. Kinsella's "The Thrill of Grass"

By: Gale, Cengage Learning

A Study Guide for W. P. Kinsella's "The Thrill of Grass," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

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