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Book The North End  A Brief History of Boston s Oldest Neighborhood

Download or read book The North End A Brief History of Boston s Oldest Neighborhood written by Alex R. Goldfeld and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before evolving into a thriving "Little Italy," Boston's North End saw a tangled parade of military, religious and cultural change. Home to prominent historical figures such as Paul Revere, this neighborhood also played host to Samuel Adams and the North End Caucus--which masterminded the infamous Boston Tea Party--as well as the city's first African-American church. From the Boston Massacre to Revere's heroic ride, the North End embodies almost four centuries of strife and celebration, international influence and true American spirit. A small but storied stretch of land, the North End remains the oldest neighborhood in one of the country's most historic cities.

Book Boston s First Neighborhood

Download or read book Boston s First Neighborhood written by Paula J. Todisco and published by . This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book South Boston  My Home Town

Download or read book South Boston My Home Town written by Thomas H. O'Connor and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging yet objective look at the 350-year old history of "Southie," a neighborhood that has survived largely unchanged since the early days of immigrant Irish families and old-time political bosses.

Book Faces of a Neighborhood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynne Potts
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-09-15
  • ISBN : 9781537705569
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Faces of a Neighborhood written by Lynne Potts and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to A Block in Time, an informal history of Boston's South End, Lynne Potts interviews twenty-four current residents who reflect the extraordinary ethnic and economic diversity of the neighborhood. They include newcomers and old-timers, owners of luxury town houses and financially stressed tenants, risk-takers and conformists, young and old, gay and straight, who together illustrate the dramatic changes that have taken place in the community over the past fifty years. Despite their differences, these South Enders reveal, perhaps to a surprising degree, a shared outlook on the factors that characterize life in the city today.

Book Promoting Community Health

Download or read book Promoting Community Health written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book DHEW Publication

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book DHEW Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Boston

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Boston written by DK Travel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your in-depth guide to the very best of Boston. Make the most of your trip to this beautiful destination with our DK Eyewitness Travel Guide. Packed with insider tips to make your trip a success, you'll find a guide to Boston's stunning architecture and its scenic drives that let you experience the best hotels, bars, and shops that the city has to offer. Try local delicacies at fantastic restaurants, bars, and clubs, and enjoy the great views in spots that will take your breath away. We have the best hotels for every budget, plus fun activities for the solitary traveler or for families and children visiting Boston. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Boston: + Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance. + Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights. + Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums. + Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area. + Area maps marked with sights. + Detailed city maps include street finder indexes for easy navigation. + Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights. + Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Boston truly shows you these places as no one else can. Recommended: For a pocket guidebook to Boston, check out DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Boston, which is packed with dozens of top 10 lists, ensuring you make the most of your time and experience the best of everything.

Book Baseball

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dorothy Seymour Mills
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1991-05-30
  • ISBN : 0199879265
  • Pages : 672 pages

Download or read book Baseball written by Dorothy Seymour Mills and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-05-30 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Baseball: The People's Game, Dorothy Seymour Mills and Harold Seymour produce an authoritative, multi-volume chronicle of America's national pastime. The first two volumes of this study -The Early Years and The Golden Age -won universal acclaim. The New York Times wrote that they "will grip every American who has invested part of his youth and dreams in the sport," while The Boston Globe called them "irresistible." Now, in The People's Game, the authors offer the first book devoted entirely to the history of the game outside of the professional leagues, revealing how, from its early beginnings up to World War II, baseball truly became the great American pastime. They explore the bond between baseball and boys through the decades, the game's place in institutions from colleges to prisons to the armed forces, the rise of women's baseball that coincided with nineteenth century feminism, and the struggles of black players and clubs from the later years of slavery up to the Second World War. Whether discussing the birth of softball or the origins of the seventh inning stretch, the Seymours enrich their extensive research with fascinating details and entertaining anecdotes as well as a wealth of baseball experience. The People's Game brings to life the central role of baseball for generations of Americans. Note: On August 2, 2010, Oxford University Press made public that it would credit Dorothy Seymour Mills as co-author of the three baseball histories previously "authored" solely by her late husband, Harold Seymour. The Seymours collaborated on Baseball: The Early Years (1960), Baseball: The Golden Age (1971) and Baseball: The People's Game (1991).

Book Historic Boston and Its Neighborhood

Download or read book Historic Boston and Its Neighborhood written by Edward Everett Hale and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book Data Mining for Business Intelligence

Download or read book Data Mining for Business Intelligence written by Galit Shmueli and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the First Edition " full of vivid and thought-provoking anecdotes needs to be read by anyone with a serious interest in research and marketing." —Research magazine "Shmueli et al. have done a wonderful job in presenting the field of data mining a welcome addition to the literature." —computingreviews.com Incorporating a new focus on data visualization and time series forecasting, Data Mining for Business Intelligence, Second Edition continues to supply insightful, detailed guidance on fundamental data mining techniques. This new edition guides readers through the use of the Microsoft Office Excel add-in XLMiner for developing predictive models and techniques for describing and finding patterns in data. From clustering customers into market segments and finding the characteristics of frequent flyers to learning what items are purchased with other items, the authors use interesting, real-world examples to build a theoretical and practical understanding of key data mining methods, including classification, prediction, and affinity analysis as well as data reduction, exploration, and visualization. The Second Edition now features: Three new chapters on time series forecasting, introducing popular business forecasting methods including moving average, exponential smoothing methods; regression-based models; and topics such as explanatory vs. predictive modeling, two-level models, and ensembles A revised chapter on data visualization that now features interactive visualization principles and added assignments that demonstrate interactive visualization in practice Separate chapters that each treat k-nearest neighbors and Naïve Bayes methods Summaries at the start of each chapter that supply an outline of key topics The book includes access to XLMiner, allowing readers to work hands-on with the provided data. Throughout the book, applications of the discussed topics focus on the business problem as motivation and avoid unnecessary statistical theory. Each chapter concludes with exercises that allow readers to assess their comprehension of the presented material. The final chapter includes a set of cases that require use of the different data mining techniques, and a related Web site features data sets, exercise solutions, PowerPoint slides, and case solutions. Data Mining for Business Intelligence, Second Edition is an excellent book for courses on data mining, forecasting, and decision support systems at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It is also a one-of-a-kind resource for analysts, researchers, and practitioners working with quantitative methods in the fields of business, finance, marketing, computer science, and information technology.

Book The Making of the New Deal Democrats

Download or read book The Making of the New Deal Democrats written by Gerald H. Gamm and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-08-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why is The Making of New Deal Democrats so significant? One of the major controversies in the study of American elections has to do with the nature of electoral realignments. One school argues that a realignment involves a major shift of voters from one party to another, while another school argues that the process consists largely of mobilization of previously inactive voters. The debate is crucial for understanding the nature of the New Deal realignment. Almost all previous work on the subject has dealt with large-scale national patterns which make it difficult to pin down the precise processes by which the alignment took place. Gamm's work is most remarkable in that it is a close analysis of shifting voter alignments on the precinct and block level in the city of Boston. His extremely detailed and painstaking work of isolating homogeneous ethnic units over a twenty-year period allows one to trace the voting behavior of the particular ethnic groups that ultimately formed the core of the New Deal realignment."—Sidney Verba, Harvard University

Book Data Mining for Business Analytics

Download or read book Data Mining for Business Analytics written by Galit Shmueli and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data Mining for Business Analytics: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications in Python presents an applied approach to data mining concepts and methods, using Python software for illustration Readers will learn how to implement a variety of popular data mining algorithms in Python (a free and open-source software) to tackle business problems and opportunities. This is the sixth version of this successful text, and the first using Python. It covers both statistical and machine learning algorithms for prediction, classification, visualization, dimension reduction, recommender systems, clustering, text mining and network analysis. It also includes: A new co-author, Peter Gedeck, who brings both experience teaching business analytics courses using Python, and expertise in the application of machine learning methods to the drug-discovery process A new section on ethical issues in data mining Updates and new material based on feedback from instructors teaching MBA, undergraduate, diploma and executive courses, and from their students More than a dozen case studies demonstrating applications for the data mining techniques described End-of-chapter exercises that help readers gauge and expand their comprehension and competency of the material presented A companion website with more than two dozen data sets, and instructor materials including exercise solutions, PowerPoint slides, and case solutions Data Mining for Business Analytics: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications in Python is an ideal textbook for graduate and upper-undergraduate level courses in data mining, predictive analytics, and business analytics. This new edition is also an excellent reference for analysts, researchers, and practitioners working with quantitative methods in the fields of business, finance, marketing, computer science, and information technology. “This book has by far the most comprehensive review of business analytics methods that I have ever seen, covering everything from classical approaches such as linear and logistic regression, through to modern methods like neural networks, bagging and boosting, and even much more business specific procedures such as social network analysis and text mining. If not the bible, it is at the least a definitive manual on the subject.” —Gareth M. James, University of Southern California and co-author (with Witten, Hastie and Tibshirani) of the best-selling book An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R

Book Gaining Ground

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy S. Seasholes
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2018-04-20
  • ISBN : 0262350211
  • Pages : 553 pages

Download or read book Gaining Ground written by Nancy S. Seasholes and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.

Book Historic Boston and Its Neighborhood

Download or read book Historic Boston and Its Neighborhood written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Boston Politics

Download or read book Boston Politics written by Tilo Schabert and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston Politics: The Creativity of Power.

Book Case studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Institute of Medicine (U.S.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Case studies written by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moving to Opportunity

Download or read book Moving to Opportunity written by Xavier de Souza Briggs and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving to Opportunity provides a unique account of one of the largest housing experiments in history and its effects on lives of the children and families who participated. As the authors make clear, MTO is a uniquely American experiment, and this book brings home its lessons for advocates, scholars, students, journalists, and all who share a deep concern for opportunity and inequality in a changing nation.