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Being Home - An Anthology (Hardcover): Sam Pickering, Bob Kunzinger Being Home - An Anthology (Hardcover)
Sam Pickering, Bob Kunzinger
R746 Discovery Miles 7 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Letters to a Teacher (Paperback): Sam Pickering Letters to a Teacher (Paperback)
Sam Pickering
R407 R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Save R58 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sam Pickering has been teaching, guiding, performing, and inspiring for more than forty years. As a young English teacher at Montgomery Bell Academy in Tennessee, his musings on literature and his maverick pedagogy touched a student named Tommy Schulman, who later wrote the screenplay for Dead Poets Society. Letters to a Teacher is a welcome reminder that teaching is a joy and an art. In ten graceful yet conversational letters addressed to teachers of all types, Pickering shares compelling, funny, always elucidating anecdotes from a lifetime in the classrooms of school and universities. His priceless, homespun observations touch on topics such as competition, curiosity, enthusiasm, and truth. More than a how-to guide, Letters to a Teacher is an invitation into the hearts and minds of an extraordinary educator and his students, and an irresistible call to reflection for the teacher who knows he or she must be compassionate, optimistic, respectful, firm, and above all dynamic. This is an indispensable guide for teachers and laymen alike.

The Gate in the Garden Wall (Paperback): Sam Pickering The Gate in the Garden Wall (Paperback)
Sam Pickering
R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aesop's Fables (Paperback): Aesop Aesop's Fables (Paperback)
Aesop; Introduction by Sam Pickering; Edited by Jack Zipes; Afterword by Jack Zipes
R228 R162 Discovery Miles 1 620 Save R66 (29%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Kindness is seldom wasted."
--from "The Lion and the Mouse" It is both amazing and wonderful that so much of the richness of our language and our moral education still owes a huge debt to a Greek slave who was executed more than two thousand years ago. Yet "sour grapes," "crying 'wolf, '" "actions speak louder than words," "honesty is the best policy," and literally hundreds of other metaphors, axioms, and ideas that are now woven into the very fabric of Western culture all came from Aesop's Fables. An extraordinary storyteller who used cunning foxes, surly dogs, clever mice, fearsome lions, and foolish humans to describe the reality of a harsh world, Aesop created narratives that are appealing, funny, politically astute, and profoundly true. And Aesop's truth--often summed up in the pithy "moral of the story"--retains an awesome power to affect us, reaching us through both our intellects and our hearts. This exclusive Signet Classic edition contains 203 of Aesop's most enduring and popular fables, translated into readable, modern American English and beautifully illustrated with classic woodcuts by the great French artist J. J. Grandville.
Includes:
"The Fox and the Grapes"
"The Ants and the Grasshopper"
"The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse" Edited and with an Afterword by Jack ZipesWith an Introduction by Sam Pickering

Being Home - An Anthology (Paperback): Sam Pickering, Bob Kunzinger Being Home - An Anthology (Paperback)
Sam Pickering, Bob Kunzinger
R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Terrible Sanity (Paperback): Sam Pickering Terrible Sanity (Paperback)
Sam Pickering
R524 R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Save R46 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The World Was My Garden, Too (Paperback): Sam Pickering The World Was My Garden, Too (Paperback)
Sam Pickering
R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Happy Vagrancy - Essays from an Easy Chair (Paperback): Sam Pickering Happy Vagrancy - Essays from an Easy Chair (Paperback)
Sam Pickering; Edited by Scot Danforth
R549 R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Save R68 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The essays in Sam Pickering's new collection sing with thoughtful observations on life, death, love, and literature. Whether attending a reunion at Sewanee, cruising the Caribbean, wander ing the streets of Storrs, Connecticut, or rambling through Nova Scotia, Pickering is able to work a quotation, insight, or reminiscence into almost every page. His collection sparks with copious observations from other writers and books that he's devoured through the years. One of the many joys in Happy Vagrancy is finding a new author or essay hiding in the deep foliage of Pickering's prose. He delivers his insights with humor, wit, and a keen eye for the ordinary wonders that surround us. Many of the essays touch on death and the dying, and nothing escapes description and fascination whether profound or seemingly less so: the death of a dear friend or two fledgling cardinals blown from a nest in the backyard and now covered with "periwinkle at the corner of the yard." During a walk down a country lane, the names of flowers, birds, and bugs fill the page. Even in a meadow buzzing with life, there are reminders of our mortality and brief light too soon gone-and they remind us to read, think, and live with gusto and love.

Dreamtime - A Happy Book (Paperback, New): Sam Pickering Dreamtime - A Happy Book (Paperback, New)
Sam Pickering
R832 Discovery Miles 8 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sweeping in and out of real and imagined places, Dreamtime highlights the curious character of an unconventional teacher, writer, traveler, husband, and father as he takes stock of his multifaceted life. Sam Pickering--the inspiration for the main character in Dead Poets Society--guides us on a journey through his reflections on retirement, aging, gardening, and travel. He describes the pleasures of domesticity, summers spent in Nova Scotia, and the joy of sharing a simple life with his wife of almost forty years.
"Life is a tiresome journey," Pickering muses, "and when a man arrives at the end, he is generally out of breath." Although Pickering is now more likely to shuffle than gallop, he isn't yet out of breath, ideas, or ink. The refreshing and reflective substance of these essays shines through a patina of wit in Pickering's characteristically evocative and sincere prose. The separate events depicted in Dreamtime invite the reader into Pickering's personal experiences as well as into his viewpoints on teaching and encounters with former students. In "Spring Pruning," Pickering describes the precarious tumor in his parathyroid and the possibility of cancer affecting his daily life. In a refreshingly honest tone Pickering says, "Moreover the funeral had become a staple of chat, so much so I'd recently mulled having the raucous, insolent ringer on my telephone replaced by the recording of taps."
Appealing to creative writers and readers who enjoy an adventurous account of travels through life, Dreamtime accentuates the lifestyle of a longtime master teacher whose experiences take him from sunny days in the classroom to falling headfirst over a fence after running a half-marathon. Unpredictable, spontaneous, and always enlightening, Pickering's idiosyncratic approach and companionable charm will delight anyone who shares his intoxication with all the surprising treasures that might furnish a life with happiness.

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