Robert Coles: 19 books
Lives We Carry with Us
Profiles of Moral Courage
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
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...
The Call of Stories
Teaching and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
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...
Lives of Moral Leadership
Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston...
Geography of Faith
Underground Conversations on Religious, Political and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2001
A classic of faith-based activism―updated for a new generation. Why was Daniel Berrigan wanted by the FBI? Why did Robert Coles harbor a fugitive? Listen in to the conversations between these two great teachers as they struggle with what it means to put your faith to the test. Discover how their...
by Robert Coles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A groundbreaking study of the impact of current events on the lives and minds of children from the Pulitzer Prize-winning child psychiatrist.
Most parents teach their children the lessons and skills they need to function in the world while trying to shield them from the harsher realities of...
by Robert Coles
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
In the 1950s Robert Coles began studying, living among, and, above all, listening to American children. The results of his efforts--revealed in five volumes published between 1967 and 1977--constitute one of the most searching and vigorous social studies ever undertaken by one person in the United...
Bruce Springsteen's America
The People Listening, a Poet Singing
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
In this compelling book, Robert Coles, the celebrated Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning author, turns his attention to popular music legend Bruce Springsteen, and to the powerful impact Springsteen’s work has had both on the lives of his audience and on this country’s literary tradition....
Handing One Another Along
Literature and Social Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
In this book on shaping a meaningful and ethical life, the renowned, Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores how character, courage, and human and moral understanding can be fostered by reflecting on the lives of others, through stories. Based on Robert Coles’ legendary course at Harvard, this...
by Robert Coles
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1991
**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...
Political Leadership
Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From ancient times to the present day, here are indispensable insights on political power and leadership as expressed in the novels, plays, and poetry of the world’s greatest artists and intellectuals. Adapted from a course taught at Harvard by Pulitzer Prize—winning author Robert Coles, Political...
by Robert Coles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In this searching, vivid inquiry Robert Coles shows how children struggle with questions of moral choice. Bringing to life the voices of children from a rich diversity of backgrounds, he explores their reactions to movies and stories, their moral conduct, their conversations and relationships with friends...
Teaching Stories
An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this remarkable anthology, some of the world’s greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize—winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable...
by Robert Coles
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first African American child to integrate a New Orleans school with this paperback reissue! The year is 1960, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her family have recently moved from Mississippi to New Orleans in search of a better life. When a judge orders Ruby...
by Robert Coles
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1994
In this book, Coles explores the concept of idealism and why it necessary to the individual and society.
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