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Life, Death & Bialys

A Father/Son Baking Story

By: Dylan Schaffer

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Life, Death & Bialys

A Father/Son Baking Story

By: Dylan Schaffer

In 2002 Flip Schaffer asked his son to join him in an intensive bread class at a fancy culinary school in New York. At, first, the idea seemed considerably less than half-baked. The two hadn't spent much time together-not since Flip left Dylan and his siblings in the care of their crazy mother thirty years before. Neither knew the first thing about making bread. And, Flip's end-stage lung cancer was expected to kill him long before the class began. But Flip made it. The two spent seven days at the French Culinary Institute becoming artisanal bakers and seven tumultuous nights in a shabby Bowery hotel getting to know each other. And to their mutual astonishment, just in time, they came to something like terms of forgiveness. As moving as it is irreverent, Life, Death & Bialys is about how an imperfect father said goodbye to his son and to his city and how a reluctant son discovered the essence of forgiveness. Dylan Schaffer is the author of the award winning legal thrillers Misdemeanor Man, which won Mystery Ink Magazine's 2004 Gumshoe Award for best debut, and I Right the Wrongs, both of which were Booksense picks. In his spare time he is a criminal defense lawyer who has served as appellate counsel in hundreds of cases ranging from drunk driving to multiple murders. He lives in Oakland, California, with many animals and one wife. Excerpt: Als drait zich arum broit un toit It all comes down to bread and death -Yiddish proverb Flip greets me in the airport lobby. I expect to see some sign that the cancer is taking its toll. But when I find him, he seems fine. He doesn't look like he's dropped any weight. His breathing is normal.... I want to run to him and bury my face in his stomach and bawl into his shirt. I want to tell him how much I miss him and beg him not to go away again. At the same time I am compelled to punch him in the face.

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1596919019

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I Right the Wrongs

A Novel

By: Dylan Schaffer

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I Right the Wrongs

A Novel

By: Dylan Schaffer

In the sequel to Misdemeanor Man, Gordon Seegerman is content with his low-end legal practice, dealing with misdemeanors for the Santa Rita, California, public defender's office, until he takes the case of a high school quarterback arrested for marijuana possession and dognapping, a case complicated by the murder of the dog owner's wife. Reprint.

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1582345708

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Misdemeanor Man

A Novel

By: Dylan Schaffer

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Misdemeanor Man

A Novel

By: Dylan Schaffer

Gordon Seegerman is a reluctant public defender by day and the Barry-obsessed singer in a Manilow cover band by night. When a routine misdemeanor case exposes corruption among his city's most prominent citizens, Seegerman finds himself having to act like a real lawyer for the first time in his life. Irresistible and irreverent, Misdemeanor Man will have you on the edge of your seat, rooting for the underdog and believing in the magic of Manilow.

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1596919043

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Life, Death & Bialys

A Father/Son Baking Story

By: Dylan Schaffer

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A Father/Son Baking Story

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Data-driven Modelling of Structured Populations

A Practical Guide to the Integral Projection Model

By: Stephen P. Ellner,Dylan Z. Childs,Mark Rees

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Data-driven Modelling of Structured Populations

A Practical Guide to the Integral Projection Model

By: Stephen P. Ellner,Dylan Z. Childs,Mark Rees

This book is a “How To” guide for modeling population dynamics using Integral Projection Models (IPM) starting from observational data. It is written by a leading research team in this area and includes code in the R language (in the text and online) to carry out all computations. The intended audience are ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and mathematical biologists interested in developing data-driven models for animal and plant populations. IPMs may seem hard as they involve integrals. The aim of this book is to demystify IPMs, so they become the model of choice for populations structured by size or other continuously varying traits. The book uses real examples of increasing complexity to show how the life-cycle of the study organism naturally leads to the appropriate statistical analysis, which leads directly to the IPM itself. A wide range of model types and analyses are presented, including model construction, computational methods, and the underlying theory, with the more technical material in Boxes and Appendices. Self-contained R code which replicates all of the figures and calculations within the text is available to readers on GitHub. Stephen P. Ellner is Horace White Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University, USA; Dylan Z. Childs is Lecturer and NERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at The University of Sheffield, UK; Mark Rees is Professor in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at The University of Sheffield, UK.

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3319288938

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I Right the Wrongs

A Novel

By: Dylan Schaffer

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A Novel

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Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States

How Societies and States Count

By: Rebecca Jean Emigh,Dylan Riley,Patricia Ahmed

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Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States

How Societies and States Count

By: Rebecca Jean Emigh,Dylan Riley,Patricia Ahmed

Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States , the second of two volumes, uses historical and comparative methods to analyze censuses or census-like information in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Italy, starting in England over one-thousand years ago.

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113748506X

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White Reconstruction

Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide

By: Dylan Rodríguez

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White Reconstruction

Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide

By: Dylan Rodríguez

We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and racial–colonial violence. Long before November 2016, white nationalism, white terrorism, and white fascist statecraft proliferated. Thinking across a variety of archival, testimonial, visual, and activist texts—from Freedmen’s Bureau documents and the “Join LAPD” hiring campaign to Barry Goldwater’s hidden tattoo and the Pelican Bay prison strike—Dylan Rodríguez counter-narrates the long “post–civil rights” half-century as a period of White Reconstruction, in which the struggle to reassemble the ascendancy of White Being permeates the political and institutional logics of diversity, inclusion, formal equality, and “multiculturalist white supremacy.” Throughout White Reconstruction, Rodríguez considers how the creative, imaginative, speculative collective labor of abolitionist praxis can displace and potentially destroy the ascendancy of White Being and Civilization in order to create possibilities for insurgent thriving.

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Fordham University Press

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0823289419

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Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

By: Dylan C. Penningroth

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Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

By: Dylan C. Penningroth

Penningroth's conclusions emerge from an epic research agenda.... Before the Movement presents an original and provocative account of how civil law was experienced by Black citizens and how their 'legal lives' changed over time . . . [an] ambitious, stimulating, and provocative book." —Eric Foner, New York Review of Books Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize Winner of the Merle Curti Social History Award from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History Winner of the James Willard Hurst Prize Winner of the Scribes Book Award (American Society of Legal Writers) A prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement. The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America’s legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police and judges often closed their eyes, if they didn’t join in. For Black people, law was a hostile, fearsome power to be avoided whenever possible. Then, starting in the 1940s, a few brave lawyers ventured south, bent on changing the law. Soon, ordinary African Americans, awakened by Supreme Court victories and galvanized by racial justice activists, launched the civil rights movement. In Before the Movement, acclaimed historian Dylan C. Penningroth brilliantly revises the conventional story. Drawing on long-forgotten sources found in the basements of county courthouses across the nation, Penningroth reveals that African Americans, far from being ignorant about law until the middle of the twentieth century, have thought about, talked about, and used it going as far back as even the era of slavery. They dealt constantly with the laws of property, contract, inheritance, marriage and divorce, of associations (like churches and businesses and activist groups), and more. By exercising these “rights of everyday use,” Penningroth demonstrates, they made Black rights seem unremarkable. And in innumerable subtle ways, they helped shape the law itself—the laws all of us live under today. Penningroth’s narrative, which stretches from the last decades of slavery to the 1970s, partly traces the history of his own family. Challenging accepted understandings of Black history framed by relations with white people, he puts Black people at the center of the story—their loves and anger and loneliness, their efforts to stay afloat, their mistakes and embarrassments, their fights, their ideas, their hopes and disappointments, in all their messy humanness. Before the Movement is an account of Black legal lives that looks beyond the Constitution and the criminal justice system to recover a rich, broader vision of Black life—a vision allied with, yet distinct from, “the freedom struggle.”

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Liveright Publishing

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1324093110

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Book's by Dylan Schaffer

Life, Death & Bialys

Life, Death & Bialys

I Right the Wrongs

I Right the Wrongs

Misdemeanor Man

Misdemeanor Man

Life, Death & Bialys

Life, Death & Bialys

Data-driven Modelling of Structured Populations

Data-driven Modelling of Structured Populations

I Right the Wrongs

I Right the Wrongs

Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States

Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States

White Reconstruction

White Reconstruction

Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

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