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The Making of a Black Scholar: From Georgia to the Ivy League signed

2003réf. 026172Iowa City: The University of Iowa Press 2003. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the half title page signed copies are RARE. The inscription is to a fellow University of Iowa professor and two others. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Fine dust jacket. NO chips or tears. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 2014. First printing of the First Edition with complete number row 54321 on the copyright page. Bound in the original tan boards with a black cloth spine stamped in bright silver. From the dust jacket: "This captivating and illuminating book is a memoir of a young black man moving from rural Georgia to life as a student and teacher in the Ivy League as well as a history of the changes in American education that developed in response to the civil rights movement the war in Vietnam and affirmative action. Born in 1950 Horace Porter starts out in rural Georgia in a house that has neither electricity nor running water. In 1968 he leaves his home in Columbus Georgia -- thanks to an academic scholarship to Amherst College -- and lands in an upper-class mainly white world. Focusing on such experiences in his American education Porter's story is both unique and representative of his time. THE MAKING OF A BLACK SCHOLAR is structured around schools. Porter attends Georgia's segregated black schools until he enters the privileged world of Amherst College. He graduates spending one semester at Morehouse College and moves on to graduate study at Yale. He starts his teaching career at Detroit's Wayne State University and spends the 1980s at Dartmouth College and the 1990s at Stanford University. Porter writes about working to establish the first black studies program at Amherst the challenges of graduate study at Yale the infamous DARTMOUTH REVIEW and his meetings with such writers and scholars as Ralph Ellison Tillie Olsen James Baldwin and Henry Louis Gates Jr. He ends by reflecting on an unforeseen move to the University of Iowa which he ties into a return to the values of his childhood on a Georgia farm. In his success and the fulfillment of his academic aspirations Porter represents an era a generation of possibility and achievement.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xii 159pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The University of Iowa Press Hardcover

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Berliner, David C (signed); & Bruce J BiddleBiblio.com

The Manufactured Crisis: Myths Fraud and the Attack on America's Public Schools signed

1995réf. 027357Reading Massachusetts: Addison Wesley Publishing Company 1995. INSCRIBED "To an old friend. Good seeing you again. I hope you find this useful. Thanks for all you do for all our kids SIGNED on the front free endpaper by Dave Berliner. SIGNED copies are SCARCE. BRAND NEW condition in a bright and shiny BRAND NEW dust jacket. NEAR PERFECT CONDITION. The jacket has only mild shelfwear like you sometimes find in any new book store. NO chips tears creases or fading. NOT price clipped $25.00. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh crisp clean and unmarked - obviously never read. Bound in the original dark gray boards with a black cloth spine stamped in bright gold. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "Dispelling sensational beliefs that portray public schools as bureaucratic violent and ineffective a study argues that increased population levels have distorted the statistics and reveals an improved competency among average students." From NEPA: "David C. Berliner is Regents' Professor of Education Emeritus at Arizona State University. He has also taught at the Universities of Arizona and Massachusetts at Teachers College and Stanford University and at universities in Canada Australia The Netherlands Denmark Spain and Switzerland. He is a member of the National Academy of Education the International Academy of Education and a past president of both the American Educational Research Association AERA and the Division of Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association APA. He is the winner of numerous awards most notably the Brock award and the AERA award for distinguished contributions to education the E. L. Thorndike award from the APA for lifetime achievements and the NEA "Friend of Education" award for his work on behalf of the education profession Professor Berliner has authored more than 200 published articles chapters and books. Among his best known works is the book co-authored with B. J. Biddle THE MANUFACTURED CRISIS and the book co-authored with Sharon Nichols COLLATERAL DAMAGE: HOW HIGH-STAKES TESTING CORRUPTS AMERICAN EDUCATION. He co-edited the first HANDBOOK OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY and the books TALKS TO TEACHERS and PERSPECTIVES ON INSTRUCTIONAL TIME. His most recent book 50 MYTHS AND LIES THAT THREATEN AMERICA'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS was co-authored with Gene V Glass and students and published in March 2014.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by David C. Berliner. Hardcover. New condition/New dust jacket. 8vo. ii 109pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Addison Wesley Publishing Company Hardcover

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration, The Viking Lander Imaging TeamBiblio.com

The Martian Landscape; NASA SP-425

1978réf. 72350Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Scientific and Technical Information Office 1978. Presumed First Edition First printing. Hardcover. good. 11" x 14" vii 1 160 pages profusely illus. some in color tables Cover has some fading. Some pages has slight corner creasing. No dust jacket present. 3D viewer in pocket at rear boards have some edge wear. Oversized item requires more shipping charges if sent overseas. The Viking program consisted of a pair of American space probes sent to Mars Viking 1 and Viking 2. Each spacecraft was composed of two main parts: an orbiter designed to photograph the surface and a lander designed to study the planet from the surface. The orbiters also served as communication relays for the landers. The Viking program grew from NASA's earlier Voyager Mars program. Viking 1 entered Mars orbit on June 19 1976 with Viking 2 following suit on August 7. After orbiting Mars for more than a month and returning images used for landing site selection the orbiters and landers detached; the landers then soft-landed. The Viking 1 lander touched down on the surface of Mars on July 20 1976 and was joined by the Viking 2 lander on September 3. The orbiters continued imaging and performing other scientific operations from orbit while the landers deployed instruments on the surface. Pictures from the Viking 1 and Viking 2 Landers as well as an account of the decade leading up to the Mars pictures by Tim Mutch leader of the Viking Lander Imaging Team. The Viking landers were the first completely successful spacecrafts to land on Mars. Before Viking arrived at Mars landing sites were chosen for both Viking landers. On July 20 1976 Viking lander 1 arrived at its chosen site in the western part of Chryse Planitia. On August 7 1976 Viking lander 2 touched down on Utopia Planitia. Each of the Viking landers carried a series of science packages which included a weather station a seismometer a chemical analysis package two cameras a soil composition package and a biological experiment package. Within minutes of lander 1's touch down the first picture was taken in case something happened to the spacecraft. This picture showed what looked like a sandy dusty surface with rocks up to 10 cm in diameter. The two cameras on each lander were mounted on opposite sides of the space craft. This allowed stereoscopic images to be taken which could be used to calculate distances from the lander to the features in the pictures. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office hardcover

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