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Larry Campbell
With over 35 years experience in academia, Dr. Larry Campbell retired from the mathematics education arena in 2012. He has since founded AfterMath Enterprises LLC, an umbrella organization for all the post-retirement activities in which he engages.
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The Parallel Tao Te Ching
Working with a collection of eleven different translations from eight different publishers, this book provides – for each of the 81 verses of the Tao Te Ching – three different translations and some comments.
Translated more than any other book but the Bible, the Tao Te Ching is the classic manual for living in the daily rush of today’s modern times, as valuable today (if not more so!) as it was in the world of 500 BCE China. It is a spiritual (but not religious) text and complements nicely whatever religious traditions one may (or may not) have.
The format of the book allows the reader to view both the translations and the comments for each verse at one time with the book opened flat. The comments are written in a conversational non-academic manner, designed to provide a variety of helpful tidbits. These tidbits may include further information or background about the verse, notes, and elaborations from translators, as well as the author’s own thoughts. Taken together, then, the book is a valuable resource for all readers as they begin or continue their own spiritual journeys along “The Way”.
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Rollin Down the River
Rollin’ Down the River, A vibrant photographic memoir of Larry’s 2016 seven-week adventure following the entire Missouri River by car. Published in 2017, this handsomely bound coffee-table book showcases brilliantly the beauty of the entire 2300 miles of the Missouri River Basin and highlights of places he visited, the people he met, and the history he encountered, all immersed in breathtaking scenery.
Spitballs From The Back Row
Spitballs from the Back Row -and its sequel (MORE Spitballs . . .), are books of essays, designed for anyone interested in education and our nation’s schools. The book features a collection of Larry’s most popular bi-weekly columns from the Springfield (MO) News-Leader. Full of stories, experiences, and anecdotes from Larry’s career in and around the classroom, this book is a must-read that will have you nodding in agreement while adding lots of “ah-ha” moments to your perceptions of education.
The idea – in both books – is not to give ‘right answers’, or even to convince. Instead, the books try to bring some subtle issues to the surface, raise different perspectives, minimize misperceptions, and provide balance, always in a light, readable, and even humorous style. The essays/columns may also function as minor ‘nuisances’ of sorts. Not in a negative sense, but rather in the ‘forced-to-take-notice-and-think-about-it’ sense—like buzzing gnats… or Spitballs from The Back Row.
