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  • FROM PILLAR TO POST: LEAVES FROM A LECTURER'S NOTE-BOOK
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    Excerpt: "I cannot imagine a more disagreeable way of qualifying for the income tax," said one of America's most noted after-dinner speakers to me when at a chance meeting he and I were discussing the joys and woes of the lecture platform. I must admit that in a way I sympathized with him; for I knew something of the sufferings endured for days and nights prior to one's own pub...

    $39.70

  • JACK AND THE CHECK BOOK
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    Mr. Bangs turns his light and ingenious fancy to the task of retelling the familiar fairy tales of our youthful days. In several of them it is Wall Street that replaces the land of "Never-Never" and "Once Upon a Time," and the personages in the drama are more interested in high finance than in fairy treasures. It is all admirable fooling, and done in the author's best vein. ...

    $39.70

  • R. HOLMES & CO.
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    Raffles Holmes comes from impressive stock, with both larceny and detection in his blood in equal measure. He’s the son of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, and the grandson of gentleman criminal A. J. Raffles. No wonder he’s so conflicted between the desire to solve crimes and the urge to make sure the rich get their deserved comeuppance. Yet there is one ambition that ...

    $39.70

  • REFORMING OR RE-INVENTING SCHOOLS?
    JOHN MACBEATH / MAURICE GALTON / JOHN BANGS
    What has changed and what will change in the next decade? Reforming or Re-inventing Schools? revisits some of the key issues in school and system reform, with a reflection on developments in the English education system and internationally. It offers an insightful review and critique of education principles and their relationship to school practice, exploring some of the myths ...

    $1,100.00

  • REINVENTING SCHOOLS, REFORMING TEACHING
    JOHN BANGS / JOHN MACBEATH / MAURICE GALTON
    What lessons can we learn from the relationship between policy-makers and schools over the life of the ‘New’ Labour and its predecessor Conservative government? What happened to ‘Education, Education, Education’ as it travelled from political vision to classroom practice? What are the lasting legacies of 13 years of a reforming Labour government? And what are the key messages f...

    $740.00

  • R. HOLMES & CO.
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    Raffles Holmes possesses all of the detection skills of his father, Sherlock—with none of the responsibility Raffles Holmes comes from impressive stock, with both larceny and detection in his blood in equal measure. He's the son of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, and the grandson of gentleman criminal A. J. Raffles. No wonder he's so conflicted between the desire to so...

    $85.00

  • THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE-BOAT
    JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
    Not even death can keep a good pirate down—but the world's greatest detective might be able to give him a run for his money The houseboat on the river Styx is the afterlife's hippest meeting spot, and it attracts some of history's greatest luminaries: William Shakespeare, Confucius, Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington, and Socrates have all spent time together there. But such...

    $85.00