Education Book List
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The African Experience with Higher Education – On Sale
By J. F. Ade Ajayi, Lameck K. H. Goma and G. Ampah Johnson
There have been institutions of higher learning for centuries in Africa, but the phenomenal growth has taken place in the last fifty years, first in the later days of colonialism and then in the heady days of independence and commodity boom.…
Aquamarine Blue 5
Personal Stories of College Students with Autism
The first book to be written by autistic college students about the challenges they face. It details the struggles of these highly sensitive students and shows that there are gifts specific to autistic students that enrich the university system, scholarship, and the world as a whole.
The Creative Journal
The Art of Finding Yourself
A recognized classic in the field of art therapy and creativity, this book is a perfect guide to discovering and releasing your inner potential through writing and drawing. It contains over 50 writing and drawing exercises to help you find and love one's self, get in touch with ones' feelings, and dreams.…
Directing Shakespeare
A Scholar Onstage
By Sidney Homan
An impossible question from a Chinese actor—“Why is Shakespeare eternal?”—drove Sidney Homan after fifty years in the theater to ponder just what makes Shakespeare...well, Shakespeare.…
Education In the Development of Tanzania, 1919-1990
By Lene Buchert
Deals with the realities of education in a debt-ridden African country trying to cope with the pressures of externally imposed educational budgets.
Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space – On Sale
Peter Rose has spent a lifetime exploring patterns of culture, examining issues of race and ethnicity, working with refugees, teaching sociology, and roaming the world. In Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space, he reflects on his adventures and the formative experiences that led him to a fascination with lives that seem quite unlike our own.…
Hershey’s Children’s Garden
A Place to Grow
Since its opening in 1999, the Hershey Children's Garden at Cleveland Botanical Garden has been considered one of the best of the new public children's gardens that are being built throughout the country.…
Ohio University in Perspective II
The Annual Convocation Addresses of President Charles J. Ping, 1985-1993
“This volume is a companion to Ohio University in Perspective, which brought together the annual convocation addresses of President Ping from the years 1975 through 1984. Like the earlier volume, Ohio University in Perspective II provides an important window onto the world of Ohio University during the president’s second decade of service.…
Teaching Shakespeare into the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Ronald E. Salomone and James E. Davis
Shakespeare is a central shaping and defining figure in our culture. His plays are being taught, filmed, and performed every day in many places and in most of the world's languages. At the same time, teachers and students from junior high through the early undergraduate years often struggle with the Bard in discomfort and negativity that can only be counter-productive.…
Wanasema
Conversations with African Writers
Edited by Donald Burness
There is a tendency to regard African literature as a homogenous product. Certainly it is true that African writers have created a vibrant, modern literature. Nevertheless, they come from specific societies and reflect vastly differing worlds.…
Writing in Disguise – On Sale
Academic Life in Subordination
By Terry Caesar
Writing in Disguise is a series of increasingly personal essays that both discuss and dramatize through firsthand experience the significance of subordination in academic life, in terms of issues and structures but above all in terms of texts.…
