Nancy B Hoffman

Change of Heart: The Bypass Experience

Change of Heart: The Bypass Experience

Women Working

Woman's "True" Profession: Voices from the History of Teaching

Eleanor Roosevelt and the Arthurdale Experiment

West Virginia

South Carolina

Lessons from Restructuring Experiences: Stories of Change in Professional Development Schools

My Story, My Life: A Journal of Self Discovery

My Story, My Life is an interactive life review journal designed by a psychologist to help families share their life stories with one another. This book has prompts that take you through the different phases of your life with lined space to record your memories, thoughts, and reflections. Each page ...

Patients as Policy Actors (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

Patients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of more consciously patient-centered care and policymaking. The authors in this volume illustrate, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the unexpect...

Multicultural Health

Multicultural Health serves as a comprehensive guide for healthcare workers in any cultural community. By focusing on differences in cultural beliefs about health and illness and models for cross-cultural health and communication, this text helps students and professionals learn effective ways to im...

Women Working: An Anthology of Stories and Poems

In these 34 selections, women work-as they do in real life, but as they rarely do in standard literary anthologies. Such writers as Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Tillie Olsen, Alice Walker, Sara Orne Jewett, and Sholem Asch capture the intensity of women's work experience, paid and unpaid, insid...

Woman's "True" Profession: Voices from the History of Teaching, Second Edition

A rich and fascinating portrait of education life in America between 1830 and 1920, Woman's "True" Profession is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the teaching profession. "Women have always been teachers." So begins this second edition of Nancy Hoffman's classic history of women...

Schooling in the Workplace: How Six of the World's Best Vocational Education Systems Prepare Young People for Jobs and Life

Which non-American education systems best prepare young people for fulfilling jobs and successful adult lives? And what can the United States—where far too many young people currently enter adulthood without adequate preparation for the twenty-first-century job market—learn, adopt, and adapt from th...

Daughter of Earth

A precious, priceless book—from the foreword by Alice Walker"An entire society is limned in the pages of this book.... The power of Daughter of Earth lies in the erotic heat which informs every page of the book, erotic in the original Greek sense of life force."—Vivian Gornick, The Village VoiceSugg...

Minding the Gap: Why Integrating High School with College Makes Sense and How to Do It

Minding the Gap argues that in today’s highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book from Jobs for t...