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UNINA9910159022903321 |
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Selgin Peter |
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Titolo |
The inventors : a memoir / / Peter Selgin |
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Portland, Oregon : , : Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (405 pages) : illustrations |
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Teacher-student relationships |
Authors, American - 21st century |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs |
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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""This book is mainly about two men who were very important to me. "The first was there at my conception; the second came along 13 years later. Both men shaped my personality. "The first man was my father, Paul Selgin, who, it so happens, was an inventor. The second was my eighth grade English teacher." Both Selgin's father and the man he calls "the teacher" led remarkable lives. Among other things, Paul Selgin invented the first dollar bill-changing-machine and helped design the so-called proximity fuse, which hastened the end of World War II. As for the teacher, he became a forceful advocate for human rights and diversity, championing the cause of indigenous peoples and refuges from Southeast Asia, while insisting that they not forget their history - ironically, since the teacher did everything he could to obliterate his own. As Selgin discovers only after their deaths, for very different reasons both men felt compelled to reinvent themselves. The Inventors is the story of how these two charismatic men shaped the author's life. It's also the story of a relationship between a boy and his teacher, a relationship that was equal parts inspiring and destructive. "-- |
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UNINA9910810667603321 |
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Renaud Jorge Antonio <1956-> |
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Behind the walls : a guide for family and friends of Texas inmates / / Jorge Antonio Renaud |
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Denton, Tex., : University of North Texas Press, c2002 |
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1-57441-432-1 |
1-4337-1004-8 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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North Texas crime and criminal justice series ; ; no. 1 |
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Prisons - Texas |
Prison administration - Texas |
Prisoners - Texas |
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A short history of Texas prisons -- Diagnostic -- Living quarters -- Food -- Clothing -- Work -- Administrative segregation -- Medical/dental -- Recreation -- Money -- Mail -- Visits and phone calls -- Religion -- Law Libaries/libraries -- Craft shop -- Substance abuse -- Education -- Discipline -- Lockdowns -- Drugs -- Racism, gangs and violence -- Parole and good-time -- Emergencies -- The ECHO -- Helping convicts stay out of prison. |
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Written to inform about the processes, services, activities, issues and problems of being incarcerated, this is a valuable guide to anyone who has a relative or friend incarcerated in Texas, or for those who want to understand how prisoners live, eat, work, play and die in a contemporary US prison. |
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