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6 reviews
Vivian Gussin Paley, Robert Coles

Harvard University Press, 1991

I have a question
Love her story-telling and its relationship to teaching - I use it in my ESL classes. Is Vivian related to the short story writer - Grace Paley?

Lives of Moral Leadership: Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
Robert Coles

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2001

In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical school, and elementary school, among others. Coles tells how to be a moral leader and shows how the ...

The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination

2 reviews
Robert Coles

Mariner Books, 1990

Confirmation of the transformative power of stories
Calling upon his own memories, experiences and those of his mentor, Dr. William Carlos Williams, Robert Coles wrote a much-needed about the transformative power of stories. In learning with students at all levels one finds Dr. Coles' faith in "moral imagination" and the "call of stories" borne out.

Letters from the Dhamma Brothers: Meditation Behind Bars

1 review
Jenny Phillips

Pariyatti Publishing, 2008

Meditation for rehabilitation in prisons
Congressman John Lewis: "This book makes it plain that no human being should be considered beyond the reach of redemption." That quote is from the cover of the book. It seems we don't know how to rehabilitate offenders other than try stiffer punishment. About 1 in 100 adults in the US are in jail or prison. New approaches are needed. Intense (Vipassana) meditation retreats may be one ...

An Eye for a Dog: Illustrated Guide to Judging Purebred Dogs

13 reviews

Dogwise Publishing, 2004

What a complete book!
If you want to be a serious breeder, judge or handler this book is a must have. There are secrets in the show rings and whelping boxes that only the best and most successful breeders know. It doesn't come around often when a breeder will open up their head and give you a glimpse of what makes a great show dog. This book will show you with a ton of pictures and diagrams the subtle differences ...

The Story Of Ruby Bridges (Scholastic Bookshelf)

26 reviews
Robert Coles

Scholastic Paperbacks, 2004

Awesome book!
My daughter has to research anyone in American history. She picked Ruby Bridges and I am so glad she did! She was an amazing girl and an inspiration to us all! I can't wait to see the movie and hope it is as good as the book.

The Doctor Stories

4 reviews
William Carlos Williams

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1984

Stories from a Master Poet
This is an incredible book of short stories by Williams Carlos Williams, the noted American Poet from the thirties, forties and fifties. Like his poems, these stories have to do with human emotions and the human condition, but unlike the poems, they are fully developed with realistic backgrounds and fully fleshed out details. This is because, while Williams was writing poetry, he eeked out ...

Minding the Store: Great Literature About Business

New Press, 2008

Entertaining and illuminating literary selections that explore the ethical quandaries of the workplace, collected by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Moral Lives of Children . "They don't know me anymore." —Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman In a course he taught at Harvard Business School and elsewhere for many years, esteemed psychiatrist Robert Coles asked future money market managers and risk arbitrageurs to pause for a ...

Accelerated SQL Server 2008 (Accelerated)

1 review
Rob Walters, Michael Coles, ...

Apress, 2008

Very misleading title!
I've just finished reading the "Development in SQL Server" section of this book (i.e. 40% of the total book). I assumed the book related solely to SQL Server 2008. The book's introduction, forward, back cover content, and free downloadable chapter 1 led me to that belief. However, the book relates to both 2005 and 2008, and frustratingly it typically does not say what features belong to ...

The Call of Service

5 reviews
Robert Coles

Mariner Books, 1994

The most insightful and thought provoking book of its field
Volunteerism has been my life. I am now in charge of community volunteers and students involved in service learning. I thought I had a pretty good grasp of the subject until I read this book. Many of my ideas where exploded and new, wonderful ideas and insights took their place.The book discusses problems in communicating with those we are tryig to help. It gives a wonderful discussion of ...

The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Secrets of Continuously Developing a More Profitable Business Model

137 reviews
Donald Mitchell, Carol Coles, ...

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

...the perennial gale of creative destruction
Mitchell and Coles have done businesses a tremendous service in writing this excellent book. They have done so by providing a practical toolbox of ideas with which to stimulate entrepreneurs, business leaders and managers to enhance and improve their business prospects in today's very competitive marketplaces. I must admit to having struggled with this book for a long time. Not because of ...

Earth's Elders: The Wisdom of the World's Oldest People

13 reviews
Jerry Friedman

Earths Elders Foundation, 2005

Couldn't put it down
Great book. I couldn't put it down. Very inspirational. Each of the stories were only a few pages long which made it nice if you didn't have a lot of time on your hands at one sitting. The author gives you complete freedom to come to your own conclusions as to why these special people lived so long. I never write reviews, but went on-line to buy another book like it and just decided to brag ...

Java Swing, Second Edition

76 reviews
James Elliott, Marc Loy, ...

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2002

Encyclopedic tome on Swing is a great reference
This extremely hefty book on Swing has just about everything in it. However, it is intended to be a reference on Swing, not a tutorial. The problem with the Java Swing API is that it is so large and unwieldy itself that it is difficult to write a complete and useful reference that does not reflect that fact. If you need a good tutorial on Java Swing, you might want to look at the Core Java books ...

Educating Everybody's Children: Diverse Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners

ASCD, 2008

This book is the culmination of the work of ASCD's Urban Middle Grades Network, Advisory Panel on Improving Student Achievement, and Improving Student Achievement Research Panel. The book is grounded in the belief that differences in student achievement are often the result of differences in the quality of instruction; if we can improve the quality of instruction, we can improve the performance of students. "Educating Everybody's Children" ...

It's Complicated: The American Teenager

11 reviews

Umbrage Editions, 2007

Teenagers and their parents will find it compelling
My 15 year old received this book as a Christmas present. It has remained out and open since then. All of her friends have picked it up and found entries that they found interesting and compelling. The book truly represents the cross-section of the teen experience in America. The author's compassion and concern for the teens as individuals is evident throughout the profiles, allowing it to ...

The Spiritual Life of Children

3 reviews
Robert Coles

Mariner Books, 1991

Theologically valuable as well
I read this book from a point-of-view more interested from a theological than psychological (not that these have to be kept separate), and I suspect that EVERYONE who studies theology could benefit from listening to children describe their own spiritualities. Coles' narration is occasionally insightful, occasionally annoying, always self-conscious. He interviews children alone and in groups, ...

Death at an Early Age

7 reviews
Jonathan Kozol

Plume, 1985

Don't Read This Book!
If you do not want to consider the injustice of schooling in America, not just public schooling, do not read this book. I first read it when I was a beginning teacher and "Death at an Early Age" affected my entire 32 year teaching career. In the age of "No Child Left Behind," we refuse to realize that school reflects the entire society in which we live. The PURPOSE of education is no longer (if ...

Teaching Stories: An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Robert Coles

Modern Library, 2004

In this remarkable anthology, some of the world’s greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize—winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and poets “render school life in all its complexity and variety.” Featuring ...

Doing Documentary Work (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)

1 review
Robert Coles

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

Documentary work related to literary fiction
This is an important book for "so called" documentary writers, photographers, and film makers. I say "so called" because we tend to think of documentary work as an accurate representation--literally the truth. Robert Coles pretty much shoots that idea down, showing how the background, beliefs, biases, hopes, and fears of the documentarian color the narrative. I came away believing that the ...

Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose: Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition

5 reviews
Brian J. Mahan, Robert Coles

Jossey-Bass, 2002

More Than Five Stars!
This is a fantastic book, not so much because it tells you how to resolve the tension between ambition and vocation, but because it accompanies you on the journey of working through these preoccupations yourself. You will not find any "5 Easy Steps to Success" here nor will find any "How to Find God's Will For Your Life." Rather you will find a philosopher who walks with us the razor's edge ...

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