The author describes why he became a teacher, recounts the routines and rewards of teaching, and shares his approach to teaching specific subjects

Growing Minds: On Becoming a Teacher (The Harper & Row Series on the Professions)

Politics & Social Sciences

Kohl, Herbert R.

Social Sciences

Harper and Row, Publishers

Poetry has the power to move and challenge the reader. It can intensify or even celebrate misery, be cynical or wry, or just laugh outright in an outrageous way. Poetry is as serious and as antic as life, and yet reading modern poetry can be difficult, shocking to our sense of what language is our must be. 
 In A Grain of Poetry, Herbert Kohl opens the door to communication with poetry--the whole range and variety of contemporary poetic voices. While reading poetry doesn't have to involve making critical judgments, it does require knowing how to read modern works and how to be patient and give oneself over to the language and sentiments of a poem. Rather than provide a critical analysis of "good" poetry, Kohl presents a series of guideposts to help everyone read poetry and discover those poems that inform and inspire them. In clear, direct language, he covers all of the essential--but often uncharted--paths to understanding poetry:form and structure, line breaks and pauses, rhythm and melody, imagery, and recitation.
 Written by one of the country's leading educators, A Grain of Poetry is a comprehensive and highly accessible guide for all poets, students, and poetry lovers.

A Grain of Poetry: How to Read Contemporary Poems and Make Them Part of Your Life

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Harper

Growing Minds: On Becoming a Teacher

Harpercollins

Selections from writers including Doris Lessing, Samuel Beckett, Susan Sontag, Albert Camus, and Adrienne Rich comprise a philosophical volume meant to explore adult issues dealing with ethics and values

The Plain Truth of Things: Treasury, A

Greer, Colin

Genre Fiction

Harper-perennial

Poetry has the power to move and challenge the reader. It can intensify or even celebrate misery, be cynical or wry, or just laugh outright in an outrageous way. Poetry is as serious and antic as life, and yet reading modern poetry can be shocking to our sense of what language is or must be.
In A Grain of Poetry, Herbert Kohl presents a series of guideposts to help everyone read poetry and discover those poems that inform and inspire them. In clear, direct language, he covers all of the essential-but often unchartedpaths to understanding poetry: form and structure, line breaks and pauses, rhythm and melody, imagery, and recitation. Written by one of the country's leading educators, A Grain of Poetry is a comprehensive and accessible guide for all poets, students, and poetry lovers.

A Grain of Poetry: How to Read Contemporary Poems and Make Them A Part of Your Life

Reference

Shows the budding writer how to use Creative Writer to create short stories, plays, novels, and other works. Original.

Exploring Creative Writer: Imaginative and Fun Computer Activities

Kurshan, Barbara

Kahn, Ted M.

Children's Books

Addison-Wesley

Growing with your children

Little,Brown

Basic Skills

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Little,Brown & Co

Attempts to enable us to view the world of ticks, flies, birds, jelly fish, and other animals through their senses, not our own

The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures

Kohl, Judith

Animals

Sierra Club Books

A dictionary of terms used in contemporary intellectual debate that make up the "language of ideas" is organized by topic as it explains each word with a concise yet comprehensive definition.

From Archetype to Zeitgeist Powerful Ideas for Powerful Thinking

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

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