CHALLENGING THE GIANT- the Best of SKOLE, the Journal of Alternative Education, volumes I-IV $14.95 each, plus shipping $2.00 (pb, 500+ pages each volume), or $40.00 for all four plus shipping and handling $5.00). Click here for reviews of vols. 1 & 2 by Claudia Berman and vols. 3 & 4 by Emanuel Pariser.
THE FLYING BIRD BRINGS THE MESSAGE, Lessons from Life, by Mary Leue. $12.95 plue $2 shipping.
THE HERMIT'S HANDBOOK, by Jack Barry, a sensitive and very moving journal of a year spent by the author completing and living in a beautifully crafted house he had built in a tree over a swamp in the hills of western Massachusetts. .
INDIA JOURNAL, a Pilgrimage toward the Self, $14.95 plus $2 shipping.
METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR A THEORY OF VALUE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD, by William Hendrichs Leue, PhD. $18.95
REAL SCHOOLS - IN THEIR OWN WORDS - edited by Mary Leue. This is an account of 27 different schools, 24 of them in the US.with accompanying essays by members of each of them - or, in a couple of cases, parents of children in them - taken from SKOLE, The Journal of Alternative Education. Valuable for parents looking at educational alternatives or student teachers, struggling to learn about what is possible in the field. $16.95 plus shipping.
REAL TEACHERS; REAL TEACHING - IN THEIR OWN WORDS: due out in June, 2006.
RUSHING TO EVA, a Pilgrimage in Search of the Great Mother, by Mary Leue. $14.95 plus $2 shipping. Click here for a wonderful review by Ann Mossop.
A SEARCH FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS, From Apocryphal, Buddhist, Islamic and Sanskrit Sources by Professor Fida Hassnain, $16.50 plus $2 shipping. Click here for a review by Chris Mercogliano.
SKOLE, THE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION, Mary Leue, editor. Past issues available, $4 each, plus $2 shipping, reviewed by John Potter. Down-to-Earth Books has been operating, both as a publishing house and a bookstore, since the mid-seventies. Our particular emphasis has always been on the implications of various models of education, social customs and attitudes upon family and community - and especially on children. Click here for John Potter's review.
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SKOLE, THE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION, Mary Leue, editor. Past issues available, $4 each ($6 for a few issues needing to be reconstituted) - plus $2 shipping, reviewed by John Potter. Back orders available for all issues from 1985 to 1998. Special prices for orders of more than one issue.
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