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The Road to Life: An Epic of Education - Book Two
by Makarenko, A. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
Moscow, USSR: Progress Publishers, 1973. First Edition Thus 4th Printing. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 453pp. Prov. library stamp at bottom of title page. Goldenrod cloth with brown lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Illustrated DJ clean, showing light wear top and bottom back edges, very small chips to head and tail. DJ preserved in archival cover.. From the Progress Soviet Authors Library. "Anton Semyonovich Makarenko was a Russian educator and novelist. The Road to Life, in which Makarenko describes life in the Gorky Colony and his pedagogical system, was begun in 1925 and completed in 1935. The language of the book... gives subtle psychological descriptions of the pupils and teachers in the colony.
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- Bookseller
- Post Horizon Booksellers
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 043459
- Title
- The Road to Life: An Epic of Education - Book Two
- Author
- Makarenko, A. S
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus 4th Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Progress Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Moscow, USSR
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Makarenko, A. S. (Anton Semyonovich), 1888-1939. Gorky Colony - Memoir. Education - USSR - Pedagogy. NOISBN Educators, History, Experimental Methods, Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography and Memoirs; Education and Teaching;
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
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