1,600円 Franz-Michael Konrad beschreibt anschaulich die Geschichte der Schule vom Alten Ägypten über antike Gymnasien und mittelalterliche Klosterschulen bis zur Gegenwart. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Entwicklung in Deutschland im 20.Jahrhundert: Die allgemeine Schulpflicht, Vereinnahmungen der Schule ...

1,600円 Salerno, Bologna, Paris – etwa ab dem elften Jahrhundert formieren sich in Europa neuartige Bildungseinrichtungen, die für die gesamte Entwicklung des Kontinents von herausragender Bedeutung werden sollten: die Universitäten. Stefan Fisch schildert ebenso kenntnisreich wie konzise den Siegeszug d...

1,600円 "Schaut nicht auf meinen Finger, der euch die Richtung weist, sondern schaut auf das Kind", sagte einmal sinngemäß Maria Montessori und brachte damit in denkbar kürzester Form auf den Punkt, was Grundlage des später einmal weltweit erfolgreichsten pädagogischen Konzeptes werden sollte. Betrachtet...

460円 Ludovico Scarfiotti was a versatile Italian race driver, the nephew of a Fiat executive. He raced Formula 1, sports cars and was an especially talented hill climber in European competitions. Known to his friends as Lulu, his family were in the Italian cement business. Ludovico's most famous trium...

458円 Mike Parkes was an engineer before he became a driver for Ferrari in the 1960s. He was drafted by Enzo Ferrari to drive the Maranello, Italy's F1 cars in midseason of '66. Of his 7 grand prix starts Parkes qualified his Ferrari on the front row along with teammate Lorenzo Bandini for the July 3, ...

458円 Anthony Miles Standish Tony Brooks drove a works Ferrari from 1956 until he departed to drive Cooper cars near the end of a career that ended in 1961. The son of a dentist Tony also trained to become a dentist before he went racing. His father gifted him with the first car that he entered in comp...

458円 Willy Mairesse was a Belgian Formula 1 and Sports Car driver with a penchant for wrecking his Ferraris. So much so that his death by suicide in 1969 was attributed to a severe wreck he had at Le Mans in the Mulsanne Straight in 1968. Mairesse drove in races with friends before making the big time...

451円 Umberto Maglioli competed in the most noteworthy sports car races beginning in the 1950s and concluding in 1967. It was after he won the world's oldest sports car race, the Targa Florio, that he was recruited to race for Scuderia Ferrari. He also raced in the Pan American Road Race in Mexico and ...

455円 Chris Bristow was a promising English racer who died very young while attempting to pass Willy Mairesse's Ferrari at Spa-Francorchamps during the Belgian Grand Prix of 1960. In doing so he took a line that caused him to veer off the circuit and was it impossible for him to recover from. Bristow's...

3,740円 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title! Tells the little known story of the collaboration and clash between the indomitable educator Maria Montessori and the American publisher S. S. McClure over the launch of Montessori education in the United States Born on the Adriatic, Montessori first entere...

3,960円 The Village on the Plain tells the story of the founding of Auburn University as a small private college and the tumultuous history of its growth and transformation into the complex institution it is today. Auburn University possesses a rich and storied past as well as an esprit de corps that is ...

3,050円 No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity’s origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its successor theory, intelligent design), yet we seem no closer to a resolution than we were in Darw...