Mary C Mann

Pedagogical Patterns: Advice For Educators

This collection of patterns proposes some successful techniques to assist with teaching and learning, especially of technical subjects. For professional educators, these patterns may seem obvious, even trivial, because they have used them so often. But for those newer to teaching, they offer a way t...

More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen

63 New and Updated Patterns for Driving and Sustaining Change   “The hard part of change is enlisting the support of other people. Whether a top manager interested in improving your organization’s results or a lone developer promoting a better way of working, this book will give you tools and ...

Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman

The Powerful, Only Known First-Person Account of One Woman's Struggles and Triumphs Taming the Mississippi DeltaNear the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) was encouraged to record her experiences as a female pioneer. The result is the only known firsthand account of a remarkable wo...

Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism (Penguin Classics)

Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century.

Mrs. Day's Daughters

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

The Construction of Tragedy: Hubris

Be Who You Are

The Right to Housing: Constitutional Issues and Remedies in Exclusionary Zoning