The Illio

The Illio
Author: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1895
Genre: College yearbooks
ISBN:

A Chance to Make History

A Chance to Make History
Author: Wendy Kopp
Publisher: Public Affairs
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-02-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1610391047

The founder of Teach for America details the lessons learned during the organization's twenty-year existence and explains how the achievement gap in U.S. education can be closed.

One Day, All Children...

One Day, All Children...
Author: Wendy Kopp
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2008-08-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0786724005

From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In One Day, All Children... , she shares the remarkable story of Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sends outstanding college graduates to teach for two years in the most under-resourced urban and rural public schools in America. The astonishing success of the program has proven it possible for children in low-income areas to attain the same level of academic achievement as children in more privileged areas and more privileged schools. One Day, All Children… is not just a personal memoir. It's a blueprint for the new civil rights movement--a movement that demands educational access and opportunity for all American children.

My Two Moms

My Two Moms
Author: Zach Wahls
Publisher: Avery
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1592407633

An advocate and son of same-gender parents recounts his famed address to the Iowa House of Representatives on civil unions, and describes his positive experiences of growing up in an alternative family in spite of prejudice.

Made in Bangkok

Made in Bangkok
Author: Anthony Minghella
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1990
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573691614

Anthony MinghellaFull Length, Comedic Drama Characters: 7 male, 5 female Interior and exterior scenes or one unit set. Written by the late writer/director of many cinematic hits including The English Patient, this play explores British imperialism and the exploitation of indiginous culture focussing on five English tourists in Bangkok. "The best new English play since Benefactors. It asks all the right questions while managing also to be a bittersweet comedy about impossible sexual differences."-Punch "Under a deceptively comic surface, Anthony Minghella's play offers a dark and troubled view of both Eastern and Western values."-London Guardian "An extremely funny play but also a scathing indictment of our so called civilized society."- Time Out "Strong, brave, uncomfortable, provocative."-London City Limits

Marathon 33

Marathon 33
Author: June Havoc
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1969-10
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822207306

THE STORY: As The New York Daily News describes: MARATHON '33 does not fall into any pat category, for it is not a comedy or a drama or a musical or a vaudeville show, even though it makes brilliant use of each. It is a documentary--a sharp

Man and Boy

Man and Boy
Author: Terence Rattigan
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2014-12-31
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0573612145

At the height of the Great Depression, ruthless financier Gregor Antonescu's business is dangerously close to crumbling. In order to escape the wolves at his door, Gregor tracks down his estranged son Basil in the hopes of using his Greenwich Village apartment as a base to make a company-saving deal. Can this reunion help them reconcile? Or will this corrupt father use his only son as a pawn in one last power play? A gripping story about family, success and what we're willing to sacrifice for both.