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  • Resurrection of the Dead

    by Elder Roland John Buras ...
    About the BookDifferent, yes, in its approach to the real meaning of one’s future. Fact or fable depends on your study of the word. Faith and belief will lead you first to Jesus Christ and then to The First Resurrection, in which the second has no hope. What is hope is answered in the The Resurrection of the Dead. As we are fastly approaching The End of Time, the writer exhorts and admonishes all, ... Read more

    $7.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Natural Language Processing Workshop

    Confidently design and build your own NLP projects with this easy-to-understand practical guide

    by Rohan Chopra, Aniruddha M. Godbole, Nipun Sadvilkar, Muzaffar Bashir Shah, Sohom Ghosh, Dwight Gunning, Ankit Bhatia, Nagendra Nagaraj, John Bura, Sumit Kumar Raj, Tom Taulli, Ankit Verma ...
    Make NLP easy by building chatbots and models, and executing various NLP tasks to gain data-driven insights from raw text dataKey FeaturesGet familiar with key natural language processing (NLP) concepts and terminologyExplore the functionalities and features of popular NLP toolsLearn how to use Python programming and third-party libraries to perform NLP tasksBook DescriptionDo you want to learn ... Read more

    $27.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space

    Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance

    by Kristen L. Buras ...
    Charter schools have been promoted as an equitable and innovative solution to the problems plaguing urban schools. Advocates claim that charter schools benefit working-class students of color by offering them access to a "portfolio" of school choices. In Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space, Kristen Buras presents a very different account. Her case study of New Orleans—where veteran teachers ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Rightist Multiculturalism

    Core Lessons on Neoconservative School Reform

    by Kristen L. Buras ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    For nearly two decades, E. D. Hirsch’s book Cultural Literacy has provoked debate over whose knowledge should be taught in schools, embodying the culture wars in education. Initially developed to mediate against the multicultural "threat," his educational vision inspired the Core Knowledge curriculum, which has garnered wide support from an array of communities, including traditionally ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Way Down Yonder in Plaquemines

    by Janice P. Buras ...
    Series series Parish Histories
    A Louisiana historian presents the definitive history of Plaquemines Parish, the rich land that encompasses the mouth of the Mississippi River."Way down yonder, at the mouth of the Mississippi River sits a land like no other on this continent. A land occupied by man but belonging to a force greater than he." So begins Janice P. Buras' history of Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish (County). Land, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    What We Stand to Lose

    Black Teachers, the Culture They Created, and the Closure of a New Orleans High School

    by Kristen L. Buras ...
    Narrated by Jasmin Walker ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 36 min

    Spotlights the tireless work of Black teachers in a historic New Orleans public school, one of countless public schools now part of a school closing crisis in cities nationwideTime and again, teachers of color have been blamed for every conceivable wrong in urban schools, a tactic that ignores the history of racism and bolsters the expansion of charter schools that lack community roots. Covering ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Gauge Theory of Weak Decays

    The Standard Model and the Expedition to New Physics Summits

    by Andrzej J. Buras ...
    This is the first advanced, systematic and comprehensive look at weak decays in the framework of gauge theories, covering both theoretical and experimental topics. In addition to explicit advanced calculations of Feynman diagrams and the study of renormalization group strong interaction effects in weak decays, the book is devoted to the Standard Model Effective Theory, dominating present ... Read more

    $91.09 USD

  • What We Stand to Lose

    Black Teachers, the Culture They Created, and the Closure of a New Orleans High School

    by Kristen L. Buras ...
    Spotlights the tireless work of Black teachers in a historic New Orleans public school, one of countless public schools now part of a school closing crisis in cities nationwideTime and again, teachers of color have been blamed for every conceivable wrong in urban schools, a tactic that ignores the history of racism and bolsters the expansion of charter schools that lack community roots. Covering ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pedagogy, Policy, and the Privatized City

    Stories of Dispossession and Defiance from New Orleans

    by Kristen L. Buras, Jim Randels, Kalamu ya Salaam, Students at the Center ...
    In cities across the nation, communities of color find themselves resisting state disinvestment and the politics of dispossession. Students at the Center—a writing initiative based in several New Orleans high schools—takes on this struggle through a close examination of race and schools. This book builds on the powerful stories of marginalized youth and their teachers, who contest the policies ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Louisiana Mayor’S Court

    An Overview and Its Constitutional Problems

    by Floyd A. Buras III ...
    The Mayors Court is Louisianas most numerous type of court, with about 250 of these courts across the state, yet very little appears to be known about them. Out of the fifty states, only Louisiana and Ohio still use these courts. Under this system of informal tribunals, a town mayor essentially acts as prosecutor, judge, and jury to enforce municipal ordinances. There is no requirement that a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Thomas Reid on Mind, Knowledge, and Value

    Edited by Rebecca Copenhaver, Todd Buras ...
    Series series Mind Association Occasional Series
    This volume offers a fresh view of the work of Thomas Reid, a leading figure in the history of eighteenth-century philosophy. A team of leading experts in the field explore the significance of Reid's thought in his time and ours, focusing in particular on three broad themes: mind, knowledge, and value. Together, they argue that Reid's philosophy is about developing agents in a rich world of ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Build 6 Games In Unreal

    by John Bura, Alexandra Kropova, Glauco Pires ...
    In this book, you learn how to navigate the Unreal editor while building 6 basic games. This book is an extension of Mammoth Interactive's "Introduction to Unreal" book. You set up each game's design, thus learning to create video game levels. Then you learn how to use C++ scripts to give your game custom functionality. By the end of this book, you know how to create games that respond to user ... Read more

    $13.89 USD