Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
A Palpable Elysium A Palpable Elysium Jonathan Williams "If any place of the past century spawned originals like a breeding box, it was Black Mountain College, and among its many illustrious graduates is one Jonathan Williams, poet, publisher, raconteur, … OL14919276W
The street sweeper The street sweeper Elliot Perlman "From the author of Seven Types of Ambiguity, an epic that reaches across generations and spans continents, revealing the interconnectedness and interdependence of humanity and the profound impact of… OL16342588W
Tel Grain Tel Pain Tel Grain Tel Pain Stacey B. Day MD Describes persons, places, events, and travels in a life devoted to Medical Education in America, Central Europe, Tropical West Africa, Japan and elsewhere. Commentaries give insights into author's v… OL16807502W
The darkest evening The darkest evening William Durbin In the 1930s, a young Finnish-American boy reluctantly moves with his family to Karelia, a communist-Finnish state founded in Russia, where his idealistic father soon realizes that his conception of … OL1908883W
The Center Cannot Hold The Center Cannot Hold Elyn R. Saks Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California… OL1943090W
John Woman John Woman Walter Mosley At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's … OL19749346W
Authoritas Authoritas Aaron Greenspan Aaron Greenspan was just like any other recent Harvard graduate until the day he read that his invention, a web site called The Facebook, was worth billions of dollars—and someone else was taking the… OL19927994W
Hitchhikers Hitchhikers Bernard Poduska In this candid and unflinching memoir, Brigham Young University Professor Bernard Poduska portrays his young fight for survival on the streets, his triumphant rise among the ranks of BYU's most disti… OL23217039W
It was quite a ride It was quite a ride Bonnie Graham In this memoir, Bonnie Graham shares her experiences as a student, teacher, and wife of a college president, and reflects on the changes in women's roles and prospects during her lifetime. Graham's s… OL24273893W
Building faculty learning communities Building faculty learning communities Laurie Richlin,Milton D. Cox Changing our colleges and universities into learning institutions has become increasingly important while also becoming more difficult. Faculty learning communities have proven to be effective for ad… OL24688178W
Transformed from glory to glory Transformed from glory to glory Christopher R. Little,Christopher R. Little Transformed from Glory to Glory honors the legacy of J. Robertson McQuilkin, a distinguished and influential evangelical leader, speaker, writer and past president of Columbia International Universit… OL27310623W
Wordplaygrounds Wordplaygrounds John S. O'Connor High school English teacher O'Connor, currently of New Trier HS, wrote this book as a guide for teaching poetry. It is organized by poem type, which is useful for teaching. (There is a chapter on l… OL9251388W