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The Van Gogh Quartet: A Writer Rediscovers His Process: Volume Two

By: Keith Spencer Felton

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The Van Gogh Quartet: A Writer Rediscovers His Process: Volume Two

By: Keith Spencer Felton

It is 1973, and the Los Angeles Presse-Syndicat’s thirtyish music-arts “stringer” Axel Haberley believes in the arts’ cross-fertilization. With a passion for Vincent Van Gogh, an editor willing to let him “file pieces” from abroad, and passable college French, Axel plans a cultural wanderjahr. The Van Gogh Quartet is a true story which reads like a novel. Travelling with his young love interest Daphne, and stumbling onto an unknown Van Gogh work, what “Axie” really finds is the subject on his own canvas: Himself. THE VAN GOGH QUARTET reveals a picaresque best—the treasure which is one’s own life’s meaning.

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1682909751

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The Van Gogh Quartet: A Writer Rediscovers His Process: Volume 1

By: Keith Spencer Felton

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By: Keith Spencer Felton

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1682908429

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Indispensable Tools

A Principal Builds His High School : Dialogues on Charter Education with Peter Thorp

By: Keith Spencer Felton

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A Principal Builds His High School : Dialogues on Charter Education with Peter Thorp

By: Keith Spencer Felton

The charter school movement in America is a radical departure from traditional ways of facing the dilemma of matching student to school. With the advent of the charter concept-- schools where individualized attention becomes possible, where lower teacher-to-student ratios are the norm, and where public moneys provide the same backing as for "regular" schools-- enormous possibilities opened up for addressing the unsuccessful high school careers of many in America's cities. Indispensable Tools follows a year in the life of a new charter high school and its principal. From birth pangs to the Education Board's award of a five-year opportunity, Gateway High School in San Francisco has proven that modern pedagogy and inspired leadership can offer real betterment to those facing secondary education's disheartening pitfalls.

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University Press of America

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0761820159

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American Government

Continuity and Change, 2004 Texas Edition, Election Update

By: Karen O'Connor,Larry J. Sabato,Stefan Haag,Gary A. Keith

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American Government

Continuity and Change, 2004 Texas Edition, Election Update

By: Karen O'Connor,Larry J. Sabato,Stefan Haag,Gary A. Keith

With complete updated coverage of the 2004 elections, this Texas Edition of the election update of the number one book in American government continues to provide the most current and engaging introduction available for the course. Written in the belief that we must first understand how American government and politics have developed in order to fully understand the issues facing our nation today, O'Connor and Sabato offer a historical perspective and bring the story of our system right up to the present with an abundance of current and student-relevant examples.

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1176

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321298586

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9780321298584

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A Principal Builds His High School : Dialogues on Charter Education with Peter Thorp

By: Keith Spencer Felton

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A Principal Builds His High School : Dialogues on Charter Education with Peter Thorp

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A Hummingbird Under the Eaves

A Physician's Life and an American Family's Saga

By: Keith Spencer Felton

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A Hummingbird Under the Eaves

A Physician's Life and an American Family's Saga

By: Keith Spencer Felton

A five-year old boy can live another eighty-seven years, and, having created an exemplary life of cultural service, become a world-class professional. And yet, psychic injuries sustained at that early age can maintain their relentless impress upon his character, his goodness, his optimistic world-view, and his vulnerability at the hands of others-those who would serve themselves at his expense. JEAN SPENCER FELTON, M.D., became a world figure in medicine, and raised an attractive family. However, his drive proved a challenged force for those who would diminish him in an effort to aggrandize their own circumstances. Happily, humanitarianism wins out. This world-renowned physician recognizes many gifts, and some obligations. FELTON's new biography of his father, a powerful sequel to 2013's A HOUSE CALL IN INK, fills out the familial picture, revealing in rich detail how a shy youngster who lost his mother at five can persevere to make an invaluable contribution. HUMMINGBIRD is Felton's twelfth book, setting the stage for shrewd analyses of family dynamics, character development, and the meaning of a life of richness.

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1681765802

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Lars and Little Olduvai

A Father and Son Solve Anthropological Mysteries Buried in Their Own Back Yard

By: Keith Spencer Felton

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A Father and Son Solve Anthropological Mysteries Buried in Their Own Back Yard

By: Keith Spencer Felton

How can a man and his son enrich their relationship-and add to scientific history? The Feltons did just that-by expanding with imagination the unremarkable universe of a tidemarsh salt flat near the boat harbor where the newly-divorced writer lived with his younger son. Lars Felton-aged ten, and already a protege in the public eye through winning national prizes in science-equaled his dad's energy in bringing the Rift Valley discoveries of the Leakeys as models for their own research realm. Their discoveries soon involved a wide scope of Native American lore-and all because they chose to see the commonplace as extraordinary. Lars and Little Olduvai is a triumph of intellectual curiosity over the limitations of our everyday lives. Mysteries resolve with huge reward for the two amateur anthropologists.

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1462656293

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Bearing Witness

Growing to Maturity in Shades of Dark and Light

By: Keith Spencer Felton

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Growing to Maturity in Shades of Dark and Light

By: Keith Spencer Felton

This uniquely creative history traces author Felton's life-passage as a white man, interacting with Black persons throughout formative and young-adult years. The book's two parts interweave both nonfiction narrative and short fiction into a compelling whole. Recent reports declared Americans had the least diverse "friendship groups" of any society. Addressing this problem, Part One follows the author's involvements integrating Oak Ridge, Tennessee schools; personal effects of 1954's Brown v. Board of Education; contacts between Black and white communities in the West/Midwest; and meanings from 1965's Watts Riots. Part Two is a fictional rendering of the postwar experience of a young white boy being raised by a Black woman in mid-century Tennessee. The book's thrust and advocacy show how contacts on elemental levels between the races can be enriching, meaningful, and life-changing. A trenchant text bearing moral lessons without preachments, Felton's ninth book is a "must-read" for the contemporary racial conversation.

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1629075396

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Going to Grinnell!

A Californian's Four Years at an Iowa College

By: Keith Spencer Felton

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Going to Grinnell!

A Californian's Four Years at an Iowa College

By: Keith Spencer Felton

It is the end of the Eisenhower Administration, and a lively West Coast amateur actor-musician is looking for a college which meets his predilections: The last thing he wants is "studies-are-everything" pressure in his college experience. And yet, he selects far-off Grinnell College, rural but rigorous, famous for academic excellence. Felton joins the growing group of artistic outcasts at Grinnell, choosing to live in off-campus digs, and eschewing the rah-rah frivolity seen in the more conventional undergraduate life. With perennial fear of having made the wrong choices in this highly-rated institution, a unique life at Grinnell instead prepares the author for the post-graduate vagaries of peddling a talent. Going to Grinnell! describes four years of life and love lived in picaresque-novel fashion, which by great good luck turns out to be just the right ticket for a young person searching for the vivid variety of life's options.

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1462668143

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The Van Gogh Quartet: A Writer Rediscovers His Process: Volume Two

The Van Gogh Quartet: A Writer Rediscovers His Process: Volume Two

The Van Gogh Quartet: A Writer Rediscovers His Process: Volume 1

The Van Gogh Quartet: A Writer Rediscovers His Process: Volume 1

Indispensable Tools

Indispensable Tools

American Government

American Government

Indispensable Tools

Indispensable Tools

A Hummingbird Under the Eaves

A Hummingbird Under the Eaves

Lars and Little Olduvai

Lars and Little Olduvai

Bearing Witness

Bearing Witness

Going to Grinnell!

Going to Grinnell!

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