Chicago: Scott Foresman and Company, 1947. hardcover. 8vo 626pp. from Preface: "Most readers expect to find in the preface a brief but concise account of what the book contains. Here is a brief summary of the purpose, the special features, and the general content of Children and Books: It is.....
New York: Macmillan Company, 1907. hardcover. 8vo 358pp. from Preface: "The following account of the Educative Process is intended to present a systematic and comprehensive view of the task taht is to be accomplished by the school. It covers the field commonly included under the terms, "General Method," "Method of.....
New York: Thomas Y Crowell, 1968. softcover. 8vo. 144pp. see pictures for synopsis. #04835.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1959. Third Edition Reprinted. hardcover. 8vo. 525pp. from front flap: "Dynamic Aspects was an early and most successful University text-book on Biochemistry as an independent scientific discipline. It has served two kinds of reader: the undergraduate doing a degree course in the subject, and those.....
Harcourt Brace and World. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 116pp. history of forms of communication for young readers. #01816.
New York: WW Norton & Company, 2006. first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 344pp. from front flap: "Just what does get taught in American colleges and universities? Is an English major a fast track to muddy-headed relativism? Are college campuses the domestic equivalent of one-party states? Are college students being punished for.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1958. Third Edition, Revised. hardcover. 12mo 330pp. fourth printing, 1958. from Preface to the Third Edition: "In this book an attempt is made to give the student of Russian a basic course, on systematic and practical lines, and with ample illustrative material, such as exists.....
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1947. hardcover. 8vo. 688pp. first edition, fourth impression. from Preface: "In view of the number of histories of education already in the field, the addition of one more may well require justification. New histories usually appear either because the discovery of new sources demands the.....
New York: Vintage Books, 1960. mass market paperback. 16mo 97pp. Vintage Book V234. see pictures for synopsis. #03349.
New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1950. first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 440pp. + B/W photographs. from Preface: An Open Letter to Student Teachers. This book is for you. It is for your use during your first intensive teaching experience. It is written to help you meet practical problems involved in guiding children.....
New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1944. hardcover. 8vo. 601pp. from Preface: "The general principles of teaching offered for the guidance of teachers are summarized ordinarily in either one of two broad general schemes: the traditional assign-study-recite-test procedure, or the more recently developed unitary organization. Texts in this field usually present one.....
Dubuque, IA: William C. Brown, 1984. fourth edition. softcover. 8vo 503pp. from Preface: "Simply stated, we believe that to be an effective small group participant one must understand and appreciate the relationship existing between communication and the small group context. [. . .] all of our essays, whether they are.....
New York: Pocket Books, 1942. first thus. mass market paperback. 16mo. 184pp. Pocket Books 160. first printing January 1942. scarce copy thus. #03637.
New York: Viking Press, 1940. hardcover. 8vo. 354pp. third printing. #04458.
New York: Bantam Books, 1963. mass market paperback. 16mo. 233pp. see pictures for synopsis. #04080.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1959. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 294pp. #01875.
Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company, 1971. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 184pp. a memoir and history of public education and public summer camps for children by the co-founder of Blue Mountain Camps in Pennsylvania, and a plea for more funding for camping and education instead of military spending. #01715.
New York: American Book Company, 1925. hardcover. 12mo 124pp. from Preface: THE SERIES. The Foresman Books of Songs will find a place wherever music teaching aspires to acquaint its disciples with the finer things of song in their original simplicity and grandeur. These collections have a definite function, for in.....
New York: Lyons and Carnahan, 1936. Donald D. Nelson. hardcover. 12mo 480pp. + illustrations. number 6 in the series of Child Story Readers. Elementary level reader for children with stories and poems about work, science, nature, fun, and more. #01580.
Vintage Books, 1967. trade paperback. duodecimo 300pp. Vintage V-368. #00534.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1947. first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 678pp. from front flap: "In Unseen Harvests, modern educators like Mark Van Doren and Jacques Barzun have their say, and famous teachers like William Lyon Phelps, Bliss Perry, and Mary Ellen Chase. There are vivid excerpts from the memoirs of such.....
New York: Harper and Row, 1965. softcover. 12mo 141pp. Harper Colophon CN 54H. See pictures for synopsis. #03497.
Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill Company, 1974. first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 376pp. from Preface: "Teaching Reading to the Mildly Retarded Child is intended as an introduction to the field of reading and how it relates to the educable and borderline retarded child. This book should be of particular interest to.....
Philadelphia: Uplift Publishing Company, 1913. hardcover. 8vo 301pp. from Introduction: "To Parents and Teachers:-- In conversing with earnest parents and enlightened teachers, who confide to me many of the problems which daily confront them, I have become more and more convinced of the pressing need of a work dealing frankly.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1899. Revised and Enlarged. hardcover. 12mo 595pp. from Introduction: This book is intended as a text-book and laboratory manual for beginners in the systematic study of physics. The course of work herein is described is designed to correspond to the [. . .] definition.....