Robert Coles
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1995
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Language
English
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For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Language
English
Description
Assesses the origins of moral consciousness in such diverse cultures as the United States, Brazil, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Poland, Southeast Asia, French Canada, and Nicaragua, examining children of a wide range of conditions and classes.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
A look at faith through the voices of children from varied religious backgrounds, by the Pulitzer-winning author of The Moral Intelligence of Children. A New York Times Notable Book What do children think about when they consider God, Heaven and Hell, the value of life in the here and now, and the inevitability of death? Child psychiatrist, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, and Harvard professor Robert Coles spent thirty years interviewing hundreds of...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of Crisis, a profound examination of how listening to stories promotes learning and self-discovery. As a professor emeritus at Harvard University, a renowned child psychiatrist, and the author of more than forty books, including The Moral Intelligence of Children, Robert Coles knows better than anyone the transformative power of learning and literature on young minds. In this 'persuasive' book (The...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Robert Coles is a research psychiatrist for the Harvard University Health Services, Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities at Harvard Medical School, and James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University. His books include Children of Crisis, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, and over sixty works on psychology, literary criticism, and teaching. He is also the editor of Double-Take magazine.
Does the business of daily living...
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Lives We Carry with Us gathers together for the first time a diverse cross section of Coles's profiles, originally published in our premier magazines over the span of five decades but never before collected in book form. Depicting the famous, the lesser known, and the unknown, the profiles here include portraits of James Agee, Dorothy Day, Erik Erikson, Dorothea Lange, Walker Percy, Bruce Springsteen, Simone Weil, and William Carlos Williams among...
Author
Publisher
Addison-Wesley Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day when he worked in one of her Catholic worker soup kitchens. He remained close to this inspiring and controversial woman until her death in 1980. His book confronts candidly the central puzzles of her life.