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Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville

A Teacher's Education, 1968-69

By: Charles S. Isaacs

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Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville

A Teacher's Education, 1968-69

By: Charles S. Isaacs

Silver Winner, 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Education Category In 1968 the conflict that erupted over community control of the New York City public schools was centered in the black and Puerto Rican community of Ocean Hill–Brownsville. It triggered what remains the longest teachers' strike in US history. That clash, between the city's communities of color and the white, predominantly Jewish teachers' union, paralyzed the nation's largest school system, undermined the city's economy, and heightened racial tensions, ultimately transforming the national conversation about race relations. At age twenty-two, when the strike was imminent, Charles S. Isaacs abandoned his full scholarship to a prestigious law school to teach mathematics in Ocean Hill–Brownsville. Despite his Jewish background and pro-union leanings, Isaacs crossed picket lines manned by teachers who looked like him, and took the side of parents and children who did not. He now tells the story of this conflict, not only from inside the experimental, community-controlled Ocean Hill–Brownsville district, its focal point, but from within ground zero itself: Junior High School 271, which became the nation's most famous, or infamous, public school. Isaacs brings to life the innovative teaching practices that community control made possible, and the relationships that developed in the district among its white teachers and its black and Puerto Rican parents, teachers, and community activists.

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State University of New York Press

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1438452977

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9781438452975

Stochastic Processes in Genetics and Evolution

Computer Experiments in the Quantification of Mutation and Selection

By: Charles J. Mode,Candace K. Sleeman

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Stochastic Processes in Genetics and Evolution

Computer Experiments in the Quantification of Mutation and Selection

By: Charles J. Mode,Candace K. Sleeman

The scope of this book is the field of evolutionary genetics. The book contains new methods for simulating evolution at the genomic level. It sets out applications using up to date Monte Carlo simulation methods applied in classical population genetics, and sets out new fields of quantifying mutation and selection at the Mendelian level. A serious limitation of Wright-Fisher process, the assumption that population size is constant, motivated the introduction of self regulating branching processes in this book. While providing a short review of the principles of probability and its application and using computer intensive methods whilst applying these principles, this book explains how it is possible to derive new formulas expressed in terms of matrix algebra providing new insights into the classical Wright-Fisher processes of evolutionary genetics. Also covered are the development of new methods for studying genetics and evolution, simulating nucleotide substitutions of a DNA molecule and on self regulating branching processes. Components of natural selection are studied in terms of reproductive success of each genotype whilst also studying the differential ability of genotypes to compete for resources and sexual selection. The concept of the gene is also reviewed in this book, and it provides a current definition of a gene based on very recent experiments with micro-array technologies. A development of stochastic models for simulating the evolution of model genomes concludes the studies in this book. Deserving of a place on the book shelves of workers in biomathematics, applied probability, stochastic processes and statistics, as well as in bioinformatics and phylogenetics, it will also be relevant to those interested in computer simulation, and evolutionary biologists interested in quantitative methods.

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695

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World Scientific

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9814350672

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9789814350679

The Saints of Modern Art

The Ascetic Ideal in Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music, Dance, Literature, and Philosophy

By: Charles A. Riley

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The Saints of Modern Art

The Ascetic Ideal in Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music, Dance, Literature, and Philosophy

By: Charles A. Riley

Asceticism seen as a powerful force in the art and thought of our time.

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380

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UPNE

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0874517656

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9780874517651

The mistery of Edwin Drood and other pieces

By: Charles Dickens

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The mistery of Edwin Drood and other pieces

By: Charles Dickens

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

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336812112X

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9783368121129

Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone

The Authorized Biography

By: Charles Moore

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Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone

The Authorized Biography

By: Charles Moore

The masterful and definitive biography of Britain's first female prime minister reaches its climax with the story of her zenith and her fall, and “reveals a complex figure who had a lasting and lastingly controversial impact on her country and on history" (The New York Times Book Review). How did Margaret Thatcher change and divide Britain? How did her model of combative female leadership help shape the way we live now? How did the woman who won the Cold War and three general elections in succession find herself pushed out by her own MPs? Charles Moore's full account, based on unique access to Margaret Thatcher herself, her papers, and her closest associates, tells the story of her last period in office, her combative retirement, and the controversy that surrounded her even in death. It includes the fall of the Berlin Wall, which she had fought for, and the rise of the modern EU that she feared. It lays bare her growing quarrels with colleagues and reveals the truth about her political assassination. Moore's three-part biography of Britain's most important peacetime prime minister paints an intimate political and personal portrait of the victories and defeats, the iron will but surprising vulnerability of the woman who dominated in an age of male power. This is the full, enthralling story.

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Knopf

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1101947217

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9781101947210

Early Christian Ireland

By: T. M. Charles-Edwards,Fellow and Tutor in Modern History T M Charles-Edwards

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Early Christian Ireland

By: T. M. Charles-Edwards,Fellow and Tutor in Modern History T M Charles-Edwards

A fully documented history of Ireland and the Irish from the fifth to the ninth centuries.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521363950

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Book's by Charles A. Wright

Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville

Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville

Stochastic Processes in Genetics and Evolution

Stochastic Processes in Genetics and Evolution

The Saints of Modern Art

The Saints of Modern Art

The mistery of Edwin Drood and other pieces

The mistery of Edwin Drood and other pieces

Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone

Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone

Early Christian Ireland

Early Christian Ireland

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