No comments about Oral Life Histories of One-Room Schoolhouse Teachers: Voices from the Recitation Bench.

No comments about Full Circle: A Life with Hong Kong and China.

No comments about The Life and Legacy of Fred Newton Scott (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture).

No comments about Bernard Ashmole, 1894-1988: An Autobiography.

1 comments about The Professor and the Profession.

1. What a great book that truly respects the importance of great literature. Such a rarity in today's superficial academic environment. I wish I could have dinner with the Prof and enjoy some great conversation!!

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1 comments about La Historia Inedita De Tin Tan.

1. This book is an excellent biography of Tin Tan. The author wrote the book making use of all her resources: personal memories of her father, her family, and historical documents such as letters, photos, and legal documents. The author managed to write as if she were right next to her father since his teens, with excellent descriptions of the environment, the moments, and the thoughts that were running through German Valdes' mind.

2 comments about Speaking for Myself: The Personal Reflections of Vernon R. Alden, University President, Corporate Director, International Entrepreneur.

1. Vernon R. Alden, a multifacited person and scholar, left an enduduring legacy at Ohio University. As president he aspired to build a university of national prominence, and he pursued those aspirations with a passion. He helped to forge the institution that many of us know today - a beautiful cosmopolitan campus born out of his international influence, his sense of style, and his ability to get things done. You will enjoy reading Vern Alden's thoughts and recollections. Prepare to do so with a smile, appreciating his enormous accomplishment and penatrating personality.



2. Vernon R. Alden, a multifacited person and scholar, left an enduduring legacy at Ohio University. As president he aspired to build a university of national prominence, and he pursued those aspirations with a passion. He helped to forge the institution that many of us know today - a beautiful cosmopolitan campus born out of his international influence, his sense of style, and his ability to get things done. You will enjoy reading Vern Alden's thoughts and recollections. Prepare to do so with a smile, appreciating his enormous accomplishment and penatrating personality.

3 comments about Return to the Drum.

1. Return to the Drum is more than a memoir. Morris is a thoughtful, respectful and self-critical writer. Her descriptions - often recalling actual conversations - are fresh and lively. She has a great respect and admiration for the people in the community. It is eminently readable



2. Return to the Drum is beautifully written, interesting,honest, thought-provoking,and in every way, excellent. I do hope that everyone who has an interest in the needs of Aboriginal people - and that should be all of us -- will read it as an important and well-told message



3. I loved this book as it contains the elements I enjoy in a good read - stories of ordinary people living, laughing and coming to appreciate each other. It is about a people's strength as they survive and adapt with dignity to the many challenges inflicted upon them across the years. It is about the author, a young Welsh teacher, who goes to the Arctic and ends up learning a great deal! The two stories intertwine as we learn about the Dene Indian's daily life in this northern community and their past. You finish the book having laughed, cried, being angry and ultimately caring about these people. It is beautifully written, interesting, honest and thought-provoking. It is a must read for anyone interested in the needs of Aboriginal people -and that should be all of us.

No comments about Teaching in Tough Times: Encouragement for Today's Teacher.

1 comments about Travels With Sophie: The Journal of Louise E. Wegner.

1. From book's back cover:
   
   "Life was hard in rural Northern Wisconsin in the years entering upon World War I. For young Louise Wegner, Rusk County's first supervising teacher, it meant traveling the county to visit the more than one hundred one-room schools, offering assistance to teachers as needed. Walking from school to school was one option for Louise. A better one was horse and buggy - or, during winter, horse and cutter. Occasionally there was a train. But life was best with Sophie, Louise's beloved albeit often untrustworthy Model T Ford, around which much of this story revolves.
   
   Louise Wegner kept a journal beginning in 1917 and continuing for more than a year. Brought to light only after her death in 1968, this personal record opens a window not only to the life of a remarkable woman, but unto everyday life in Wisconsin during a critical period when the state was rapidly evolving from frontier status to the "modern era" of telephones, moving pictures, motor cars, paved roads, and standardized schools.
   
   Writing with uncommon spirit and wit, Louise Wegner recounts her daily experiences, both professional and personal. Enhancing the journal are the many photographs that she and her six siblings took on nearly any occasion, 55 of which are reproduced here.
   
   Reading this journal, and seeing these photographs, reveals a different time and place with a freshness and immediacy unavailable in any other form. There are few who remember this era, and many today who would have trouble imagining life on these terms - and yet it was such a short time ago. This is a book for all to read, to help us understand who we are and from where we have come."