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An Inconvenient Minority

The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence

By: Kenny Xu

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An Inconvenient Minority

The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence

By: Kenny Xu

“A strident critique of critical race theory” that examines how policies of diversity and inclusion have ill-served Asian Americans (Kirkus Reviews). From a journalist on the frontlines of the Students for Fair Admission (SFFA) v. Harvard case comes a probing examination of affirmative action, the false narrative of American meritocracy, and the attack on Asian American excellence with its far-reaching implications—from seedy test-prep centers to gleaming gifted-and-talented magnet schools, to top colleges and elite business, media, and political positions across America. Even in the midst of a nationwide surge of bias and incidents against them, Asians from coast to coast have quietly assumed mastery of the nation’s technical and intellectual machinery and become essential American workers. Yet, they’ve been forced to do so in the face of policy proposals—written in the name of diversity—excluding them from the upper ranks of the elite. In An Inconvenient Minority, journalist Kenny Xu traces elite America’s longstanding unease about a minority potentially upending them. Leftist agendas, such as eliminating standardized testing, doling out racial advantages to “preferred” minorities, and lumping Asians into “privileged” categories despite their deprived historical experiences have spurred Asian Americans to act. Going beyond the Students for Fair Admission (SFFA) v. Harvard case, Xu unearths the skewed logic rippling countrywide, from Mayor Bill de Blasio’s attempted makeover of New York City’s Specialized School programs to the battle over “diversity” quotas in Google’s and Facebook’s progressive epicenters, to the rise of Asian American activism in response to unfair perceptions and admission practices. Asian Americans’ time is now, as they increase their direct action and amplify their voices in the face of mounting anti-Asian attacks. An Inconvenient Minority chronicles the political and economic repression and renaissance of a long ignored racial identity group—and how they are central to reversing America’s cultural decline and preserving the dynamism of the free world. Praise for An Inconvenient Minority “Contending that the social advancement of ‘the Asian American community’ in spite of historic discrimination ‘directly challenge[s] the Leftist narrative of minority victimhood,’ Xu claims that Asian Americans have been left out of conversations about ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ because they suffer from persistent stereotypes and lack the kind of ‘cultural capital’ necessary to make their struggles visible to the mainstream. . . . Xu raises intriguing questions about the place of Asian Americans in U.S. society.” —Publishers Weekly

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An Inconvenient Minority: The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence

By: Kenny Xu

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An Inconvenient Minority: The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence

By: Kenny Xu

From a journalist on the frontlines of the Students for Fair Admission (SFFA) v. Harvard case comes a probing examination of affirmative action, the false narrative of American meritocracy, and the attack on Asian American excellence with its far-reaching implications--from seedy test-prep centers to gleaming gifted-and-talented magnet schools, to top colleges and elite business, media, and political positions across America The Asian American minority, transcending its impoverished history, has quietly assumed mastery of the nation's technical and intellectual machinery and become essential to the workforce that makes modern American life possible. Yet, they've been forced to do so in the face of policy proposals--written in the name of diversity--that serve to exclude them from the upper ranks of the elite. In An Inconvenient Minority, journalist Kenny Xu, who has covered the sensational Students for Fair Admission (SFFA) v. Harvard case since its inception, traces White America's longstanding unease about a minority potentially upending them in the race for group status. Their policy proposals, such as eliminating standardized testing, doling out racial preferences to non-Asian minorities, inflaming anti-Asian stereotypes, and lumping Asians into "privileged" categories despite their deprived historical experiences have forced Asian Americans to fight back--a battle given a boots-on-the-ground perspective here. Going beyond the Harvard case, Xu unearths the skewed logic that has had ripple effects throughout the US, from Governor Bill de Blasio's attempted makeover of the New York City Specialized School programs to the battle over diversity quotas in Google's and Facebook's progressive epicenters, to the rise of Asian American political activism in response to unfair perceptions and admission practices. For too long, Asian Americans have stood in the shadows, operating the machinery in the back. But their time is now. An Inconvenient Minority chronicles the political and economic repression and renaissance of a long ignored racial identity group--and how they are central to reversing America's cultural decline and preserving the dynamism of the free world.

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An Inconvenient Minority

The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence

By: Kenny Xu

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The Evolution of Language

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7), Barcelona, Spain, 12-15 March 2008

By: Andrew D. M. Smith,Kenny Smith,Ramon Ferrer i Cancho

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The Evolution of Language

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7), Barcelona, Spain, 12-15 March 2008

By: Andrew D. M. Smith,Kenny Smith,Ramon Ferrer i Cancho

This proceedings volume contains the latest results from the field of particle physics. The contributions cover the current status of all the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, the implications of the LHC for cosmology, and the search for dark matter and nuclear astrophysics. It also includes work on the current status of the future International Linear Collider (ILC).

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World Scientific

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9812776125

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The Plague Cycle

The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease

By: Charles Kenny

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The Plague Cycle

The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease

By: Charles Kenny

This history of mankind's battles against infectious diseases looks at how epidemics shaped empires and economies and how medical revolutions freed us from these cycles until new threats arose caused by changes in global trade and climate.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982165340

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The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren

The Crisis of Writing Chengdu in Revolutionary China

By: Kenny Kwok-kwan Ng

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The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren

The Crisis of Writing Chengdu in Revolutionary China

By: Kenny Kwok-kwan Ng

Engaged with the paradigms of cultural geography, local history, spatial politics, and everyday life, The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren unveils a Sichuan writer’s lifelong quest: an independent historical fiction writing project on Chengdu from the turn of the century through China’s 1911 Revolution. Kenny Kwok-kwan Ng's study illuminates the crisis of writing home in a globalized age by rescuing Li Jieren’s repeatedly revised but never finished river-novel series written from Republican to Communist China, struggling to liberate local memory from the national cum revolutionary currents. The book undercuts official historiography and rewrites Chinese literary history from the ground up by highlighting Li’s resilient geopoetics of writing that decenters the nation by adopting the place-based view of a distant province.

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BRILL

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9004292667

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Understanding Identity and Organizations

By: Kate Kenny,Andrea Whittle,Hugh Willmott

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Understanding Identity and Organizations

By: Kate Kenny,Andrea Whittle,Hugh Willmott

An understanding of identity is fundamental to a complete understanding of organizational life. While conventional management textbooks nod to in-groups, cohesion and discrimination, this text offers instead a deeper, more nuanced understanding of why people, groups and organizations behave the way they do. With conceptions of identity perhaps less stable than they have ever been, the authors make complex theoretical issues accessible to the reader through the use of lively examples from popular culture. The authors present an overview of the key issues, as well as an examination of cutting-edge research and topical forces currently re-defining identity, such as globalisation, the fair trade movement and online identities. This text is a succinct, relevant and exciting overview of the field of identity studies as it relates to business and management and applied social sciences, an is an invaluable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of management on any course that has an identity component.

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SAGE

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1446266184

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Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites Based on Cellulosic Reinforcements

By: Debora Puglia,Elena Fortunati,José M. Kenny

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Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites Based on Cellulosic Reinforcements

By: Debora Puglia,Elena Fortunati,José M. Kenny

Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites Based on Cellulosic Reinforcements introduces the innovative applications of polymeric materials based on nanocellulose, and covers extraction methods, functionalization approaches, and assembly methods to enable these applications. The book presents the state-of-the-art of this novel nano-filler and how it enables new applications in many different sectors, beyond existing products. With a focus on application of nano-cellulose based polymers with multifunctional activity, the book explains the methodology of nano-cellulose extraction and production and shows the potential performance benefits of these particular nanostructured polymers, for applications across different sectors, including food active packaging, energy-photovoltaics, biomedical, and filtration. The book describes how the different methodologies, functionalization, and organization at the nano-scale level could contribute to the design of required properties at macro level. The book studies the interactions between the main nano-filler with other active systems and how this interaction enables multi-functionality in the produced materials. The book is an indispensable resource for the growing number of scientists and engineers interested in the preparation and novel applications of nano-cellulose, and for industrial scientists active in formulation and fabrication of polymer products based on renewable resources. - Provides insight into nanostructure formation science, and processing of polymeric materials and their characterization - Offers a strong analysis of real industry needs for designing the materials - Provides a well-balanced structure, including a light introduction of basic knowledge on extraction methods, functionalization approaches, and assembling focused to applications - Describes how different methodologies, functionalization, and organization at the nano-scale level could contribute to the design of required properties at macro level

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William Andrew

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0323417396

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9780323417396

Numerical Methods for Linear Complementarity Problems in Physics-Based Animation

By: Sarah Niebe,Kenny Erleben

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Numerical Methods for Linear Complementarity Problems in Physics-Based Animation

By: Sarah Niebe,Kenny Erleben

Linear complementarity problems (LCPs) have for many years been used in physics-based animation to model contact forces between rigid bodies in contact. More recently, LCPs have found their way into the realm of fluid dynamics. Here, LCPs are used to model boundary conditions with fluid-wall contacts. LCPs have also started to appear in deformable models and granular simulations. There is an increasing need for numerical methods to solve the resulting LCPs with all these new applications. This book provides a numerical foundation for such methods, especially suited for use in computer graphics. This book is mainly intended for a researcher/Ph.D. student/post-doc/professor who wants to study the algorithms and do more work/research in this area. Programmers might have to invest some time brushing up on math skills, for this we refer to Appendices A and B. The reader should be familiar with linear algebra and differential calculus. We provide pseudo code for all the numerical methods, which should be comprehensible by any computer scientist with rudimentary programming skills. The reader can find an online supplementary code repository, containing Matlab implementations of many of the core methods covered in these notes, as well as a few Python implementations [Erleben, 2011]. Table of Contents: Introduction / Numerical Methods / Guide for Software and Selecting Methods / Bibliography / Authors' Biographies

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Springer Nature

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3031795644

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Taatsaa' Shaa K' Exalthet

By: Kenny Thomas

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Taatsaa' Shaa K' Exalthet

By: Kenny Thomas

Born in 1922, Kenny Thomas Sr. has been a trapper, firefighter, road builder, river-freight hauler, and soldier. Today he is a respected elder and member of a northern Athabaskan tribal group residing in Tanacross, Alaska. As a song and dance leader for the Tanacross community, Thomas has been teaching village traditions at an annual culture camp for more than twenty years. Over a three-year period, folklorist Craig Mishler conducted a series of interviews with Thomas about his life experiences. Crow Is My Boss is the fascinating result of this collaboration. Written in a style that reflects the dialogue between Thomas and Mishler, Crow Is My Boss retains the authenticity of Thomas’s voice, capturing his honesty and humor. Thomas reveals biographical details, performs and explains traditional folktales and the potlatch tradition, and discusses ghosts and medicine people. One folktale is presented in both English and Tanacross, Thomas’s native language. A compelling personal story, Crow Is My Boss provides insight into the traditional and contemporary culture of Tanacross Athabaskans in Alaska. Volume 250 in the Civilization of the American Indian series

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806136596

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9780806136592

Mathematical Methods in Engineering and Physics

By: Gary N. Felder,Kenny M. Felder

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Mathematical Methods in Engineering and Physics

By: Gary N. Felder,Kenny M. Felder

This text is intended for the undergraduate course in math methods, with an audience of physics and engineering majors. As a required course in most departments, the text relies heavily on explained examples, real-world applications and student engagement. Supporting the use of active learning, a strong focus is placed upon physical motivation combined with a versatile coverage of topics that can be used as a reference after students complete the course. Each chapter begins with an overview that includes a list of prerequisite knowledge, a list of skills that will be covered in the chapter, and an outline of the sections. Next comes the motivating exercise, which steps the students through a real-world physical problem that requires the techniques taught in each chapter.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118449606

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Dyadic Data Analysis

By: David A. Kenny,Deborah A. Kashy,William L. Cook

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Dyadic Data Analysis

By: David A. Kenny,Deborah A. Kashy,William L. Cook

Interpersonal phenomena such as attachment, conflict, person perception, learning, and influence have traditionally been studied by examining individuals in isolation, which falls short of capturing their truly interpersonal nature. This book offers state-of-the-art solutions to this age-old problem by presenting methodological and data-analytic approaches useful in investigating processes that take place among dyads: couples, coworkers, parent and child, teacher and student, or doctor and patient, to name just a few. Rich examples from psychology and across the behavioral and social sciences help build the researcher's ability to conceptualize relationship processes; model and test for actor effects, partner effects, and relationship effects; and model and control for the statistical interdependence that can exist between partners. The companion website provides clarifications, elaborations, corrections, and data and files for each chapter.

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Guilford Publications

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1462546137

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The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic

Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States

By: Kevin Kenny

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The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic

Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States

By: Kevin Kenny

Immigration presented a constitutional and political problem in the nineteenth-century United States. Until the 1870s, the federal government played only a very limited role in regulating immigration. The states controlled mobility within and across their borders and set their own rules for community membership. This book demonstrates how the existence, abolition, and legacies of slavery shaped immigration policy as it moved from the local to the national level. Throughout the antebellum era, defenders of slavery feared that if Congress had power to control immigration, it could also regulate the movement of free black people and perhaps even the interstate slave trade. The Civil War removed the political and constitutional obstacles to a national immigration policy. Admission remained the norm for European immigrants until the 1920s, but Chinese immigrants fell into a different category. Starting in the 1870s, the federal government excluded Chinese laborers, deploying techniques of registration, punishment, and deportation first used against free black people in the antebellum South. To justify these measures, the Supreme Court ruled that authority over immigration was inherent in national sovereignty and required no constitutional justification. The federal government continues to control admissions and exclusions today, while the states play a double-edged role in regulating immigrants' lives, depending on their politics and location. Some monitor and punish immigrants; others offer sanctuary and refuse to act as agents of federal law enforcement. By examining the history of immigration in a slaveholding republic, this book reveals the tangled origins of border control, incarceration, deportation, and ongoing tensions between local and federal authority in the United States"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197580084

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Reviews in Computational Chemistry, Volume 16

By: Kenny B. Lipkowitz,Donald B. Boyd

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Reviews in Computational Chemistry, Volume 16

By: Kenny B. Lipkowitz,Donald B. Boyd

Volume 16 Reviews In Computational Chemistry Kenny B. Lipkowitz and Donald B. Boyd The focus of this book is on methods useful in molecular design. Tutorials and reviews span (1) methods for designing compound libraries for combinatorial chemistry and high throughput screening, (2) the workings of artificial neural networks and their use in chemistry, (3) force field methods for modeling materials and designing new substances, and (4) free energy perturbation methods of practical usefulness in ligand design. From Reviews of the Series "This series spans all the subdisciplines in the field, from techniques to practical applications, and includes reviews from many of the acknowledged leaders in the field. the reviews cross many subdisciplines yet are both general enough to be of wide interest while including detailed information of use to workers in particular subdisciplines." -Journal of the American Chemical Society

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470126213

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Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience, Fourth Edition

By: Eric J. Nestler,Paul J. Kenny,Scott J. Russo,Anne Shaefer

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Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience, Fourth Edition

By: Eric J. Nestler,Paul J. Kenny,Scott J. Russo,Anne Shaefer

The definitive guide to treating neurologic and psychiatric disorders with drugs and other approaches A Doody's Core Title for 2024 & 2023! Fully updated with the latest research and drugs, Nestler, Hyman, & Malenka’s Molecular Neuropharmacology, Fourth Edition, is the leading guide to molecular neuroscience. Providing an in-depth look at the neuropharmacological fundamentals of the nervous system, it delivers the knowledge and insight you need to master the pathophysiology of neurologic and psychiatric disorders. Complete with tables, diagrams, and figures clearly illustrating the intricacies of neurochemistry and molecular neuroscience, this peerless guide reviews the effects of drug action (organized by drug category) to enhance your understanding of major disease mechanisms, and it explains the pathophysiology and neuropharmacology of all major neurologic and psychiatric disorders. Concise overviews of the effects of drugs and other treatment approaches are presented in a way that boosts your understanding and retention of critical concepts. Nestler, Hyman, & Malenka’s Molecular Neuropharmacology, Fourth Edition provides a deep dive into: General principles of neuropharmacology Nervous system function Drugs that act on neuronal and glial function Major neurotransmitter systems in the brain and spinal cord Atypical neurotransmitters, including peptides, growth factors, and cytokines Major brain and spinal cord systems at the molecular, cellular, and circuit levels in health and disease

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McGraw Hill Professional

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1260456919

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An Inconvenient Minority

An Inconvenient Minority

An Inconvenient Minority: The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence

An Inconvenient Minority: The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence

An Inconvenient Minority

An Inconvenient Minority

The Evolution of Language

The Evolution of Language

The Plague Cycle

The Plague Cycle

The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren

The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren

Understanding Identity and Organizations

Understanding Identity and Organizations

Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites Based on Cellulosic Reinforcements

Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites Based on Cellulosic Reinforcements

Numerical Methods for Linear Complementarity Problems in Physics-Based Animation

Numerical Methods for Linear Complementarity Problems in Physics-Based Animation

Taatsaa' Shaa K' Exalthet

Taatsaa' Shaa K' Exalthet

Mathematical Methods in Engineering and Physics

Mathematical Methods in Engineering and Physics

Dyadic Data Analysis

Dyadic Data Analysis

The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic

The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic

Reviews in Computational Chemistry, Volume 16

Reviews in Computational Chemistry, Volume 16

Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience, Fourth Edition

Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience, Fourth Edition

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