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The Last American in Damascus

An Autobiography

By: Thomas L Webber

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For the first time in my life, I was shot at as I approached the Beirut shore. I know now that if they wanted to kill me, they could have that night. This is just one of the many adventures the author has faced during his 44 years of living and working in the volatile Middle East. As the famous writer and lecturer, Helen Keller once wrote: “Life is a daring adventure, or it is nothing at all”. In the author’s own lifetime he has experienced a profuse number of adventures, and many were truly amazing life-changing episodes, in fact so many that he has decided to share them by writing his third book, The Last American in Damascus.

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The Last American in Damascus

An Autobiography

By: Thomas L Webber

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An Autobiography

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Flying over 96th Street

Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy

By: Thomas L. Webber

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Flying over 96th Street

Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy

By: Thomas L. Webber

Tommy Webber is nine years old when his father, a founding minister of the East Harlem Protestant Parish, moves the family of six from a spacious apartment in an ivy-covered Gothic-style seminary on New York City's Upper West Side to a small one in a massive public- housing project on East 102nd Street. But it isn't the size of the apartment, the architecture of the building, or the unfamiliar streets that make the new surroundings feel so strange. While Tommy's old neighborhood was overwhelmingly middle class and white, El Barrio is poor and predominantly black and Puerto Rican. In Washington Houses, a complex of over 1,500 apartments, the Webbers are now one of only a small handful of white familes. Set during the late 1950s and early 1960s, Flying over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy is the story of one boy's struggle with race, poverty, and identity in a city -- and a country -- grappling with the same issues. Tommy's classmates at the exclusive Collegiate School for Boys, which he attends on scholarship, dare not venture above the city's Mason-Dixon Line of 96th Street into the unknown territory of muggers, gangs, and junkies. Tommy, however, slowly makes new friends on the local basketball courts and at church, and discovers a different East Harlem, one where an exuberant human spirit hides within the oppressive projects and drab tenements, fighting to break through the cracked sidewalks. Webber interweaves the nation's growing Civil Rights movement -- from watching on television the forced integration of Little Rock's Central High School to participating in the famous 1963 March on Washington -- with the subtler, more immediate changes he observes in the lives of his friends and neighbors. In simple yet compelling prose, lit by the candor and innocence of childhood, Webber brings to life his East Harlem: children playing under gushing fire hydrants; the piraguas man and his pushcart of rainbow-colored icies; Fourth of July barbecues on rooftops; heated games of 5-2 on the public school courts; streets teeming with ugliness, anger, and despair, but also alive with color, community, and hope.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439125600

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Marketing Data Science

Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics with R and Python

By: Thomas W. Miller

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Marketing Data Science

Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics with R and Python

By: Thomas W. Miller

Now, a leader of Northwestern University's prestigious analytics program presents a fully-integrated treatment of both the business and academic elements of marketing applications in predictive analytics. Writing for both managers and students, Thomas W. Miller explains essential concepts, principles, and theory in the context of real-world applications. Building on Miller's pioneering program, Marketing Data Science thoroughly addresses segmentation, target marketing, brand and product positioning, new product development, choice modeling, recommender systems, pricing research, retail site selection, demand estimation, sales forecasting, customer retention, and lifetime value analysis. Starting where Miller's widely-praised Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics left off, he integrates crucial information and insights that were previously segregated in texts on web analytics, network science, information technology, and programming. Coverage includes: The role of analytics in delivering effective messages on the web Understanding the web by understanding its hidden structures Being recognized on the web – and watching your own competitors Visualizing networks and understanding communities within them Measuring sentiment and making recommendations Leveraging key data science methods: databases/data preparation, classical/Bayesian statistics, regression/classification, machine learning, and text analytics Six complete case studies address exceptionally relevant issues such as: separating legitimate email from spam; identifying legally-relevant information for lawsuit discovery; gleaning insights from anonymous web surfing data, and more. This text's extensive set of web and network problems draw on rich public-domain data sources; many are accompanied by solutions in Python and/or R. Marketing Data Science will be an invaluable resource for all students, faculty, and professional marketers who want to use business analytics to improve marketing performance.

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FT Press

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0133887340

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Web and Network Data Science

Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics

By: Thomas W. Miller

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Web and Network Data Science

Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics

By: Thomas W. Miller

Master modern web and network data modeling: both theory and applications. In Web and Network Data Science, a top faculty member of Northwestern University's prestigious analytics program presents the first fully-integrated treatment of both the business and academic elements of web and network modeling for predictive analytics. Some books in this field focus either entirely on business issues (e.g., Google Analytics and SEO); others are strictly academic (covering topics such as sociology, complexity theory, ecology, applied physics, and economics). This text gives today's managers and students what they really need: integrated coverage of concepts, principles, and theory in the context of real-world applications. Building on his pioneering Web Analytics course at Northwestern University, Thomas W. Miller covers usability testing, Web site performance, usage analysis, social media platforms, search engine optimization (SEO), and many other topics. He balances this practical coverage with accessible and up-to-date introductions to both social network analysis and network science, demonstrating how these disciplines can be used to solve real business problems.

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Pearson Education

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0133886441

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Flying over 96th Street

Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy

By: Thomas L. Webber

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Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy

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Formed From This Soil

An Introduction to the Diverse History of Religion in America

By: Thomas S. Bremer

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Formed From This Soil

An Introduction to the Diverse History of Religion in America

By: Thomas S. Bremer

Formed from This Soil offers a complete history of religion in America that centers on the diversity of sacred traditions and practices that have existed in the country from its earliest days. Organized chronologically starting with the earliest Europeans searching for new routes to Asia, through to the global context of post-9/11 America of the 21st century Includes discussion of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, political affiliations, and other elements of individual and collective identity Incorporates recent scholarship for a nuanced history that goes beyond simple explanations of America as a Protestant society Discusses diverse beliefs and practices that originated in the Americas as well as those that came from Europe, Asia, and Africa Pedagogical features include numerous visual images; sidebars with specialized topics and interpretive themes; discussion questions for each chapter; a glossary of common terms; and lists of relevant resources to broaden student learning

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1405189274

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Indian and Pioneer History of the Saginaw Valley: with Histories of East Saginaw, Saginaw City and Bay City, from their earliest Settlements

Also Pioneer Directory and Business Advertiser, for 1866 and 1867

By: James Thomas,Andrew Galatian

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Indian and Pioneer History of the Saginaw Valley: with Histories of East Saginaw, Saginaw City and Bay City, from their earliest Settlements

Also Pioneer Directory and Business Advertiser, for 1866 and 1867

By: James Thomas,Andrew Galatian

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

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3752579056

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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 26

11 May-31 August 1793

By: Thomas Jefferson

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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 26

11 May-31 August 1793

By: Thomas Jefferson

This volume documents exhaustively for the first time Edmond Charles Genet's dramatic challenges to American neutrality and Jefferson's diplomatic and political responses. After welcoming Genet's arrival as the harbinger of closer relations between the American and French republics, Jefferson becomes increasingly distressed by the French minister's defiance of the Washington administration's ban on the outfitting of French privateers in American ports, the enlistment of American citizens in French service, and the exercise of admiralty jurisdiction by French consuls in American ports. Although the Supreme Court declines to advise the executive branch on neutrality questions that Jefferson prepares with the President and the Cabinet, he helps to formulate a set of neutrality rules to meet Genet's challenge. Unable to convince the impetuous French envoy to adopt a more moderate course, Jefferson works in the Cabinet to bring about Genet's recall so as to preserve friendly relations with France and minimize political damage to the Republican party, in which he takes a more active role to prevent the Federalists from capitalizing on Genet's defiance of the President. Grappling with the threat of war with Spain, Jefferson involves himself equivocally in a diplomatically explosive plan by Genet to liberate Louisiana from Spanish rule. In this volume Jefferson also plays a decisive role in resolving a dispute over the design of the Capitol and plans agricultural improvements at Monticello in preparation for his retirement to private life.

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Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics with Python and R

A Guide to Data Science

By: Thomas W. Miller

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Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics with Python and R

A Guide to Data Science

By: Thomas W. Miller

Using Phyton and R, the author addresses multiple business challenge, including segmentation, brand positioning, product choice modeling, pricing research, finance, sprots, text analytics, sentiment analysis and social network analysis, cross sectional data, time series, spatial and spatio-temporal data.

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0133892069

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Ecological Time Series

By: Thomas M. Powell,John H. Steele

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Ecological Time Series

By: Thomas M. Powell,John H. Steele

This book results from a summer school held at Cornell University in 1992. The participants were graduate students and postdoctoral researchers selected from a broad range of interests and backgrounds in ecological studies. The summer school was the second in a continuing series whose underlying aim and the aim of this volume-is to bring together the different methods and concepts underpinning terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecology. The first volume in the series focused on patch dynamics in these three ecologi cal sectors. Here we have endeavored to complement that volume by extending its comparative approach to the consideration of ecological time series. The types of data and the methods of collection are necessarily very different in these contrasting environments, yet the underlying concept and the technical problems of analysis have much in common. It proved to be of great interest and value to the summer school participants to see the differences and then work through to an appreciation ofthe generalizable concepts. We believe that such an approach must have value as well for a much larger audience, and we have structured this volume to provide a comparable reading experience.

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1461517699

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Green Republican

John Saylor and the Preservation of America's Wilderness

By: Thomas G. Smith

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Green Republican

John Saylor and the Preservation of America's Wilderness

By: Thomas G. Smith

Green Republican chronicles the life of Congressman John Saylor and his personal legacy as an environmental champion. Saylor believed the wilderness was intrinsic to the American experience-that our concepts of democracy, love of country, conservation, and independence were shaped by our wilderness experiences. Through his ardent protection of national parks and diligent work to add new areas to the parks system, Saylor helped propel the American environmental movement in the three decades following Word War II. At the height of the federal dam-building program in the 1950s and 1960s, Saylor blocked efforts to erect hydroelectric dams whose impounded waters would have invaded Dinosaur National Monument and the Grand Canyon. During the energy crisis of the early 1970s, Saylor denounced attempts to open the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. He was the House architect of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968. Because Saylor represented a coal-mining district, he doggedly promoted the use of coal, instead of atomic or hydropower, to generate electricity, and repeatedly won the support of his constituents over thirteen terms between 1949 and 1973. But he also fervently supported legislation to purify the air and water and redeem stripped lands.Considered both a maverick and a pioneer, John Saylor won respect on both sides of the aisle because he was direct, hardworking, and passionate about conservation at a time when the cause was not popular. Environmental leaders dubbed him "St. John" because he tenaciously advocated their proposals and battled resistance by resource-use proponents.Based on extensive research and numerous interviews with Saylor's colleagues and members of the conservationist community, Thomas G. Smith assembles the remarkable story of John Saylor, arguably the leading congressional conservationist of the twentieth century, and a major force in the preservation of America's wilderness.

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0822971054

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Nathan and Oski's Hematology and Oncology of Infancy and Childhood E-Book

By: Stuart H. Orkin,David G. Nathan,David Ginsburg,A. Thomas Look,David E. Fisher,Samuel Lux

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Nathan and Oski's Hematology and Oncology of Infancy and Childhood E-Book

By: Stuart H. Orkin,David G. Nathan,David Ginsburg,A. Thomas Look,David E. Fisher,Samuel Lux

Written by the leading names in pediatric oncology and hematology, Nathan and Oski's Hematology and Oncology of Infancy and Childhood offers you the essential tools you need to overcome the unique challenges and complexities of childhood cancers and hematologic disorders. Meticulously updated, this exciting full-color set brings together the pathophysiology of disease with detailed clinical guidance to provide you with the most comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date information for diagnosing and treating children. - Form a definitive diagnosis and create the best treatment plans possible with comprehensive coverage of all pediatric cancers, including less-common tumors, as well as all hematologic disorders, including newly recognized ones. - Develop a thorough, understanding of the underlying science of diseases through summaries of relevant pathophysiology balanced with clear, practical clinical guidance. Nathan and Oski's is the only comprehensive product on the market that relates pathophysiology in such depth to hematologic and oncologic diseases affecting children. - Quickly and effortlessly access the key information you need with the help of a consistent organization from chapter to chapter and from volume to volume. - Stay at the forefront of your field thanks to new and revised chapters covering topics such as paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, lysosomal storage diseases, childhood genetic predisposition to cancer, and oncology informatics. - Learn about the latest breakthroughs in diagnosis and management, making this the most complete guide in pediatric hematology and oncology. - Discover the latest in focused molecularly targeted therapies derived from the exponential growth of knowledge about basic biology and genetics underlying the field. - Rely on it anytime, anywhere! Access the full text, images, and more at Expert Consult.

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The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism

Religious Revivalism in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670–1760

By: Thomas J. Little

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The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism

Religious Revivalism in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670–1760

By: Thomas J. Little

During the late seventeenth century, a heterogeneous mixture of Protestant settlers made their way to the South Carolina lowcountry from both the Old World and elsewhere in the New. Representing a hodgepodge of European religious traditions, they shaped the foundations of a new and distinct plantation society in the British-Atlantic world. The Lords Proprietors of Carolina made vigorous efforts to recruit Nonconformists to their overseas colony by granting settlers considerable freedom of religion and liberty of conscience. Codified in the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, this toleration ultimately attracted a substantial number of settlers of many and varying Christian denominations. In The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism, Thomas J. Little refutes commonplace beliefs that South Carolina grew spiritually lethargic and indifferent to religion in the colonial era. Little argues that pluralism engendered religious renewal and revival, which developed further after Anglicans in the colony secured legal establishment for their church. The Carolina colony emerged at the fulcrum of an international Protestant awakening that embraced a more emotional, individualistic religious experience and helped to create a transatlantic evangelical movement in the mid-eighteenth century. Offering new perspectives on both early American history and the religious history of the colonial South, The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism charts the regional spread of early evangelicalism in the too-often neglected South Carolina lowcountry—the economic and cultural center of the lower southern colonies. Although evangelical Christianity has long been and continues to be the dominant religion of the American South, historians have traditionally described it as a comparatively late-flowering development in British America. Reconstructing the history of religious revivalism in the lowcountry and placing the subject firmly within an Atlantic world context, Little demonstrates that evangelical Christianity had much earlier beginnings in prerevolutionary southern society than historians have traditionally recognized.

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The Hein and Fischer Families of Oberstedten, Germany, and Indiana, USA: Volume 1

By: Thomas Hein

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The Hein and Fischer Families of Oberstedten, Germany, and Indiana, USA: Volume 1

By: Thomas Hein

The history and descendants of the Hein and Fischer families of Oberstedten, Germany who immigrated to Clark and Washington Counties Indiana in 1853. Includes the Blackman, Dodge, and Conway families. Volume 1 of 3. See www.TomHeinFamily.com for more information.

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Marketing Data Science

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Web and Network Data Science

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Flying over 96th Street

Formed From This Soil

Formed From This Soil

Indian and Pioneer History of the Saginaw Valley: with Histories of East Saginaw, Saginaw City and Bay City, from their earliest Settlements

Indian and Pioneer History of the Saginaw Valley: with Histories of East Saginaw, Saginaw City and Bay City, from their earliest Settlements

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 26

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 26

Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics with Python and R

Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics with Python and R

Ecological Time Series

Ecological Time Series

Green Republican

Green Republican

Nathan and Oski's Hematology and Oncology of Infancy and Childhood E-Book

Nathan and Oski's Hematology and Oncology of Infancy and Childhood E-Book

The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism

The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism

The Hein and Fischer Families of Oberstedten, Germany, and Indiana, USA: Volume 1

The Hein and Fischer Families of Oberstedten, Germany, and Indiana, USA: Volume 1

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