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“paul attewell”

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  • Data Mining for the Social Sciences

    An Introduction

    by Paul Attewell, David Monaghan ...
    We live in a world of big data: the amount of information collected on human behavior each day is staggering, and exponentially greater than at any time in the past. Additionally, powerful algorithms are capable of churning through seas of data to uncover patterns. Providing a simple and accessible introduction to data mining, Paul Attewell and David B. Monaghan discuss how data mining ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Growing Gaps

    Educational Inequality around the World

    Edited by Paul Attewell, Katherine S. Newman ...
    The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion in access to primary, secondary, and higher education in many nations around the world. Educational expansion is desirable for a country's economy, beneficial for educated individuals themselves, and is also a strategy for greater social harmony. But has greater access to education reduced or exacerbated social inequality? Who are the winners and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Growing Gaps

    Educational Inequality around the World

    Edited by Paul Attewell, Katherine S. Newman ...
    The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion in access to primary, secondary, and higher education in many nations around the world. Educational expansion is desirable for a country's economy, beneficial for educated individuals themselves, and is also a strategy for greater social harmony. But has greater access to education reduced or exacerbated social inequality? Who are the winners and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • White Working Class

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  • The Marrow of Tradition

    by Charles Waddell Chesnutt ...
    "The Marrow of Tradition" is a 1901 historical novel written by the African-American author Charles W. Chesnutt. Set in 1898, it presents a fictionalised version of events related to the Wilmington Insurrection in Wilmington, a riot enacted by white supremacists in North Carolina. Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858 –1932) was an African-American essayist, lawyer, author, and political activist most ... Read more

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  • Stupid Black Men

    How to Play the Race Card—and Lose

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  • Praying for Sheetrock

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    by Melissa Fay Greene ...
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  • American Babylon

    Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland

    by Robert O. Self ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar OaklandAs the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland and ... Read more

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  • Jackson Rising

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  • Spain in the Southwest

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