Athology of autobiographical writings, including letters by Margaret Mead, and other writings by Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, etc.

Autobiography: A Reader for Writers

Lyons, Robert

Biographies & Memoirs

Oxford University Press

A stunning conceptual synthesis of visual and literary responses to Egypt, combining 69 exquisite color photographs by Lyons with Nobel Prize-winning, Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's short story "The Cradle," published here for the first time in English. 11.5x11.5". Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Egyptian Time

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

DOUBLEDAY

Standardized testing in the United States has been increasing at a rapid pace in the last twenty-five years. The market for tests has not only been expanding rapidly, but has also been changing sharply in structure into a fractured marketplace. Indeed, one of the main features of this book is that the market for standardized testing is highly fractured - with segments of the market facing monopoly conditions, others facing oligopoly conditions and still others where near free-market conditions exist. One of the main premises of the book is that the structures of markets have strong implications for how those markets perform. While this notion is widely accepted among economists, it is not widely appreciated in educational research. A second motivation for the book is that very little scholarly attention has been focused on the standardized testing industry. This topic - the structure of the testing industry and implications for the quality of tests and test use - affects how we evaluate the learning of students, the effectiveness of teaching, the quality of schools and the educational health of the nation. Of particular concern to the authors is one vital aspect of test quality: test validity. This book is the most current and authoritative review and analysis of the market for standardized testing.

The Fractured Marketplace for Standardized Testing (Evaluation in Education and Human Services, 34)

Business & Money

Haney, Walter M.

Madaus, George F.

Management & Leadership

Springer

Quarto, Hardcover, Pictorial Cover, , PP.144,

Bulbs (The Time-Life gardener's guide)

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Time-Life-Books

"My Darling Clementine" is one of Ford's finest treatments of the classic Western romance, telling the legendary story of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. This volume contains a full transcript of the film as released and significant material from Ford's shooting script. A 1964 interview with Ford on making Westerns and an interview with Winston Miller, the film's scriptwriter, supply background to the film. Essays by Lindsay Anderson and several film scholars establish the place of "My Darling Clementine" in Ford's career and in the tradition of the Hollywood Western.

My Darling Clementine (Rutgers Films in Print)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Rutgers University Press

While much has changed in the decade since the original publication of The Eagles Encyclopedia, the passion of Eagles fans has only grown stronger. That's why author Ray Didinger revised, updated, and expanded his history of the team with The New Eagles Encyclopedia. Didinger presents a year-by-year history of the franchise from its inception in 1933 through the 2013 season. There are profiles of more than 100 players, past and present, as well as every head coach and owner along with dozens of new photographs and stats, stats, and more stats. The New Eagles Encyclopedia includes: * More player profiles including new entries on Nick Foles, LeSean McCoy and Michael Vick. * The end of the Andy Reid era and the arrival of Chip Kelly. * Expanded chapters on Eagles in the Hall of Fame and other milestone moments. * Summaries of every post-season game. * A new chapter on the Eagles-Cowboys rivalry. An essential addition to every fan's bookshelf, The New Eagles Encyclopedia is the definitive information source on the Philadelphia Eagles. This book is not sanctioned by the NFL or its teams.

The New Eagles Encyclopedia

History

Didinger, Ray

Americas

Temple University Press

The most famous basketball tournament in the history of college basketball is the Big Five. And the Big Five was played in the most hallowed halls of college play: the Palestra. Now, for the first time, a complete story of this Philadelphia rivalry is revealed. Robert Lyons offers the story of the Big Five from its very beginnings in 1955. At that time, many of the Big Five schools—La Salle University, University of Pennsylvania, St. Joseph's University, Temple University and Villanova University—weren't even talking to each other, and everyone predicted the tournament would end before it began. Conducting interviews with coaches and players—including famed Temple coach Harry Litwack's last interview before his death—Lyons offers the play-by-play on how the Big Five became an institution, and how it was ultimately undone by college basketball's own success. Lavishly illustrated with photographs of players, teams, coaches, and the Palestra itself, Palestra Pandemonium is an immediate classic, offering a chronicle of the most monumental college basketball tournament.

Palestra Pandemonium: A History Of The Big 5

Bert Bell, a native of Philadelphia, has been called the most powerful executive figure in the history of professional football. He was responsible for helping to transform the game from a circus sideshow into what has become the most popular spectator sport in America. In On Any Given Sunday, the first biography of this important sports figure, historian Robert Lyons recounts the remarkable story of how de Benneville OC BertOCO Bell rejected the gentility of a high society lifestyle in favor of the tougher gridiron, and rose to become the founder of the Philadelphia Eagles and Commissioner of the National Football League. Bell, who arguably saved the league from bankruptcy by conceiving the idea for the annual player draft, later made the historic decision to introduce OC sudden deathOCO overtimeOCoa move that propelled professional football into the national consciousness. He coined the phrase OC on any given sundayOCO and negotiated the leagueOCOs first national TV contract. Lyons also describes in fascinating detail BellOCOs relationships with leading figures ranging from such Philadelphia icons as Walter Annenberg and John B. Kelly to national celebrities and U.S. Presidents. He also provides insight into BellOCOs colorful personal lifeOCoincluding his hell-raising early years and his secret marriage to Frances Upton, a golden name in show business. On Any Given Sunday is being published on the 50th anniversary of BellOCOs death."

On Any Given Sunday: A Life of Bert Bell

Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide

Testimony and photographs from the Rwandan genocide, providing a rare look at both perpetrators and survivors.
In 1994, an interim government in Rwanda orchestrated one of the world's worst mass crimes: a 100-day extermination campaign that took half a million lives. At the time, Rwanda's genocide went largely unnoticed by the outside world. Today there is growing interest in the Rwandan experience as many discover the horror that took place and seek to understand how and why violence of this character and magnitude could have happened in our time.
Intimate Enemy is a rare entrée into the logic, language, and imagery of Rwanda's violence. The book presents perpetrator testimony along with photographs of Rwandans, both perpetrators and survivors. The images and words are raw and unanalyzed; the reader is left to make sense of the killers and their would-be victims. Intimate Enemy challenges our assumptions about the genocide and about those who perpetrated it. It also prods us to consider how to represent and imagine violence on the scale of Rwanda.

Straus, Scott

Individual Artists

Zone Books

Zone Books (NY)

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