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Radical Equations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Radical Equations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-06-10
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  • Publisher: Beacon Press

The remarkable story of the Algebra Project, a community-based effort to develop math-science literacy in disadvantaged schools—as told by the program’s founder “Bob Moses was a hero of mine. His quiet confidence helped shape the civil rights movement, and he inspired generations of young people looking to make a difference”—Barack Obama At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside—national standards, high-stakes tests, charismatic individual saviors—the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of communities. Begun in 1982, the Algebra Project...

Visions in Exile
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Visions in Exile

Malcolm K. Read employs a psychoanalytic model which sees civilization as a manner of instinctual renunciation in this analysis of selected texts from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on their moments of silence and contradiction, he demonstrates that certain attitudes toward the body expressed in these texts have a basis, albeit unconscious, in a motivation which is ultimately political. The central topics, deeply intertwined thematically and theoretically, relate to the nature and development of language; to the Baroque art of Gongora and Quevedo; to Feijoo's defense of the rationalist subject set against Torres Villarroel's subversion of the same; and to the neo-classical aesthetics of Luzan and Arteaga. The result is an interdisciplinary approach that challenges traditional assumptions in both literary criticism and linguistic historiography.

Spanish Naval Power, 1589-1665
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Spanish Naval Power, 1589-1665

The first comprehensive analysis of Spain's naval forces after the defeat of the Great Armada in 1588.

The Spanish Armada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

The Spanish Armada

"The Spanish Aramda" is a radical interpretation of why Philip II's Armada of 1588 failed so disastrously. This new edition is based on a fresh examination of archival sources across Europe, combined with the archeaological investigation of some of its wrecked ships off the coasts of Scotland and Ireland. The new edition has been extensively revised to incorporate ten further years of research by the authors and others, and is likely to remian the standard account for years to come.

Power and Penury
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Power and Penury

A reconsideration of the Spanish crown's involvement with technology and the sciences.