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John Holt
What Do I Do Monday? is John Holt's response to hundreds of letters he received from teachers asking for practical advice on implementing change in their classrooms. Teachers asked, "I…
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John Holt’s tender and acute observation of how small children gobble up the world have never been surpassed. A class of child development
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Dr Roland Meighan
John Holt is indisputably a major thinker in education. This volume offers an account of Holt’s educational thought. It is divided into: intellectual biography; critical exposition of Holt’s work; and…
John Holt (1841-1915) was a successful British merchant who made several voyages to West Africa during his lifetime to establish business and trade in the era of British Imperialism.
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Adam Dickerson
This is the first-ever book to offer an analytical study of John Holt’s philosophy of education. It provides a clear analysis and critical evaluation of the key themes in his…
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Linear Perspective Simplified: For The Use Of Schools, Photographers, And Students In Art (1861) is a book written by John Holt that aims to provide a simplified guide to the…
An irreplaceable reference that offers everything a fly fisher needs for the ultimate eastern Montana fishing experience; illustrated with great maps and hatch charts.
A collection of essays and articles, featuring ideas on how to teach children. Taking into account how children actually learn, this book shows us the difference between learning and schooling.
Full Title: A True State of the Difference Between Sir George Rook, Kn and William Colepeper, Esq; Together with an Account of the Tryal of Mr. Nathanael Denew, Mr. Robert…
An exhilarating and, at times infuriating, chronicle of a trip down America’s largest undammed river.
From one of the most respected fishing writers in the country, this how-to guide will show every fly fisherman, from beginning to experienced, how to catch the biggest trout of…
A combination and condensation of the author’s popular Montana Fly-Fishing Guide, East, and Montana Fly-Fishing Guide, West, revised, updated, and expanded.
An exciting and spirited trip through a year’s fishing – from Montana and Morocco to Iceland and the Canadian Rockies.
Following a terminal diagnosis in 2010 from pure right ventricle heart failure and cancer, Fields of Freedom: Breaking through fear in personal and professional life seeks to speak from a…
What do you care about? What really matters to you? Family? Friends? Career? Success? It’s all here in Book One of POEMS THAT MATTER. The author looks at life with…
The name's Daniels, Jack Daniels - just like the whiskey you know. I'm a Private Detective. And I can't help butting my nose into other people's business. It's what I…
I'm not a gambling man. I mean life's one big gamble ain't it. The odds are stacked against you, you just can't win. You know there are some people who…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Across the bottom of the screen the ticker tape announced in large black letters 'Governor Reynolds Murdered'. Apparently his body had been discovered earlier that morning. He had been found…
'To make a killing in the City' is a phrase often used within the financial world, to indicate making a large profit on investments, or through dealings on the stock…
The lake was flat and calm, with barely a ripple. Its dark waters glistening, reflecting the moonlight as though it were a mirror. Fritz Marschall knew that neither he, nor…
Tom Kendall had been with the 32nd Precinct, New York Police Department for just under ten years. But now he wanted a change. Now he wanted to start his own…
The best book about fly fishing since A River Runs Through It. Makes me dream of rainbow trout and cold streams and remote wilderness landscapes … - Edward Squires, Not…
The myth that in order to be successful, one must start an instrument (or a sport, or a language) in early childhood, is demolished when John Holt takes up the…
If you appreciate the pristine beauty of the wilderness, the quiet trickle of a trout stream, or the bowl of the endless sky, you’ll want to read these epistles by…
John Holt’s writings make the stark beauty of wilderness lands seem as real as if you’re standing there on a high plateau with him. His characters are sunburnt, wind-blistered real…
Instead of Education is Holt’s most direct and radical challenge to the educational status quo and a clarion call to parents to save their children from schools of all kinds…
