Please note: This is only a very partial list. I do not claim to remember all the many books I have actually read.
tion:Education -Books
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development: ASCD 1984–2004: Defining Moments, Future Prospects
Bernstein, Richard J. (1983) Beyond Objectivism and Relativism. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Bolman, L. & Deal, T.: Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership
Brinkman, R. & Kirschner, R.: Dealing with People You Can't Stand
Covey, Stephen: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Cruickshank, D. & Jenkins, D.: The Act of Teaching
Delpit, Lisa: Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflicts in the Classroom
Groza, V.S. & Shelley, S.: Modern Elementary Algebra for College Students
Johnson, Spencer: Who Moved My Cheese?
Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.(1962). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Lunenberg, F. & Ornstein, A.: Educational Administration: Concepts and Practices
Meier, D.; Kohn, A.; Darling-Hammond, L.; Sizer, T.; Wood, G.: Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools
Perry, T.; Steele, C. & Hilliard, A., III: Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
Reissman, R.: The Evolving Multicultural Classroom
Russo, Charles: Reutter's The Law of Public Education
Spinelli, Cathleen: Classroom Assessment for Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings
Vacca, R. & Vacca, J.: Content Area Reading: Literacy and Reading Across the Curriculum
Williams, B.: Closing the Achievement Gap: A Vision for Changing Beliefs and Practices
Education - Articles - General:
Cottrol, Diamond, Ware. (2004). The Decline of the Idea Of Caste, American Educator.
Ewing, Tom. (2003, November). ETS. Achievement Gap Will Not Close Without Understanding Both School and Societal Factors [Online], (1-3). Available: http://www.ets.org/news/03111801.html
Pransky, K. & Bailey, F. (2002). Working with culturally and linguistically diverse At-risk students. The Reading Teacher, 56(4), 370-383.
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (May, 2003). Effectiveness of Educational Technology: Issues and Recommendations for the National Study (Draft), Princeton, NJ: Agodini, R.; Dynarski, M.; Honey, M.; Levin, D.
Conlon, T. & Simpson, M. (2003). Silicon Valley versus Silicon Glen: the impact of computers upon teaching and learning: a comparative study. British Journal of Educational Technology, 34(2), 137-150.
Plowman, L. & Stephen, C. (2003). An empirical study of the effect of information technology expenditures on student achievement. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 19, 149-164.
Rudd, P. (2000). School Improvement through ICT (Information and Communications Technology) Limitations and Possibilities. Retrieved October 20, 2004, from the National Foundation for Educational Research Web site: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00001768.html
Antonius, George: The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movement
Ahmad, Leila, Women and Gender in Islam
Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, In search of Islamic feminism : one woman's global journey
Friedman, Thomas: From Beirut to Jerusalem
Gibb, H. A. R. trans, The Travels of Ibn Battuta. 3 Vols, Cambridge, Hakluyt Society, 1971.
Grunebaum, G. E. von, Classical Islam: a History 600-1258, New York, Barnes & Noble Inc, 1997
Holt P. M. and Bernard Lewis (ed.), Cambridge History of Islam, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1970.
Hourani, Albert Habib, The Ottoman background of the modern Middle East, London, Harlow Longmans, 1970.
Hourani, Albert: History of the Arab Peoples
Inalcik, H. The Ottoman Empire : the classical age, 1300-1600 Kaplan, Robert D.: Eastward to Tartary : Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
Kaplan, Robert D.: Balkan Ghosts : A Journey Through History
Kaplan, Robert D.: Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite
Keddie N., Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani: A Political Biography, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1972.
Komroff, M., ed., Benjamin of Tudela, The Travels, 1160-73. London, 1928.
Lapidus, Ira M., A History of Islamic Societies, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988. Laqueur, Walter: A History of Zionism Laqueur, W. and Rubin, B.: The Israel-Arab Reader Lewis, Bernard: What Went Wrong? : The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
Lewis, Bernard: The Middle East
Lewis, Bernard: Islam and the West
Lewis, Bernard: The Arabs in History
Lewis, Bernard: The Emergence of Modern Turkey (Studies in Middle Eastern History)
Lewis, Bernard: The Muslim Discovery of EuropeMarcus, Abraham: The Middle East On the Eve of Modernity : Aleppo in the 18th Century Makdisi, George (ed.), Arabic and Islamic Studies in Honour of Hamilton, A. R. Gibb, Leiden: Brill, 1965. Massignon, L., The Passion of al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam. Translated by Mason, H. 4 Vols, Princeton, NJ, Princeton, 1982. Mernissi, Fatima, Women and Islam: A Historical and Theological Inquiry Morse, Arthur: While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy Sachar, Howard M. A History of Israel from the Rise of Zionism to Our Time, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998 Schama, Simon. The Dutch Republic : Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806
Shaw, Stanford J.: History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Volume 1, Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280-1808
Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne: A History of Food.
Vidal, Gore: Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson Watt, Montgomery W., ISLAMIC SURVEYS: THE INFLUENCE OF ISLAM ON MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1972. Literature: