Ebooks on Education

Some of our books are eBooks, just follow the links to get their full text, no need to come into the library! Just use the 14 digit barcode on the bottom of your student or faculty ID card.

Here are some of our new eBooks on education:

California in a time of excellence [electronic resource] : school reform at the crossroads of the American dream / James Andrew LaSpina.
Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.
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Crossing borders [electronic resource] : international women students in American higher education.
Lanham : University Press of America, c2009
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Handbook of social justice in education [electronic resource] / edited by William Ayers, Therese Quinn, David Stovall.
New York : Routledge, 2009.
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The inspired teacher [electronic resource] : how to know one, grow one, or be one / Carol Frederick Steele.
Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2009.
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Making the move to eLearning [electronic resource] : putting your course online / Kay Lehmann and Lisa Chamberlin.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2009.
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The problem with boys' education [electronic resource] : beyond the backlash / edited by Wayne Martino, Michael Kehler, and Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower.
New York : Routledge, 2009.
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Race the rising sun [electronic resource] : a Chinese university's exodus during the second world war / Chiao-Min Hsieh, Jean Kan Hsieh.Lanham, Md. : Hamilton Books, c2009.
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Researching transitions in lifelong learning [electronic resource] / edited by John Field, Jim Gallacher and Robert Ingram.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
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Teaching is more than pedagogical practice [electronic resource] : thirty-three strategies for dealing with contemporary students / Ilghiz M. Sinagatullin.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2009.
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Women's experiences in leadership in K-16 science education communities, becoming and being [electronic resource] / Katherine C. Wieseman, Molly H. Weinburgh, editors.
Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2009.
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City College is always adding to its collections. Look for these books in our online catalog:
American Chinatown : a People's History of Five Neighborhoods by Bonnie Tsui.
Sports and the racial divide : African American and Latino experience in an era of change / edited by Michael E. Lomax.

Waiting by Ha Jin

Mabel Looney wrote to us to recommend Waiting by Ha Jin.  She says:

A beautiful book set in China during Mao's Cultural Revolution. Won a Pulitzer Prize. This sparely written story of an Army surgeon torn between family and mistress will capture your attention and surprise you.

Read a good book lately?

Some books really put us into the writer’s world -- when we put them down we have a different perspective than when we started. Sometimes we find our own world captured in the pages. Have you ever thought, “This describes my family!” or “Those could be my friends!” We want to highlight books that like that in the City College library collections and get more of them. Please tell us about books that open up our cultural experiences on any subject, including memoirs and fiction. Contact Karen Saginor ksaginor@ccsf.edu 415-452-5522

The Iceburg Model of Culture

What do we mean when we talk about culture? Of course there's music and food, but aspects of culture go much deeper than that. There's how we do things, what we expect of others, and many other assumptions and concepts that lie beneath the surface of what we talk about. Some cultural aspects are so deep that they are below our consciousness. In this way culuture is like an iceberg, there's more below the surface than is visible above. You can find a great diagram of the iceburg model at: http://www.doe.in.gov/lmmp/pdf/iceburgofculture.pdf

Welcome!

Share books, share the wealth of our cultures! This blog is an experiment towards promoting books (and other sources) that help connect all of us to our own cultures or help us learn about other cultures. If you are a member of the City College community and have a book you want to share, contact librarian Karen Saginor ksaginor@ccsf.edu 415-452-5522