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With Friends Possessed - A Life of Edward FitzGerald (Paperback, Main): Robert Bernard Martin With Friends Possessed - A Life of Edward FitzGerald (Paperback, Main)
Robert Bernard Martin
R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

' Edward] FitzGerald (1809-1883) won a small piece of immortality with his translation-adaptation of "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.".. but in every other way he seems to have successfully avoided fulfilment. A godless Epicurean, he lived in permanent virginity, never pressing his homosexual desires beyond a number of sentimental crushes... The son of a fabulously rich heiress, he rarely travelled... Though he had many friends he also had a perverse penchant for alienating them... Robert Bernard] Martin argues that FitzGerald's greatest achievement, outside the "Rubaiyat," is his letters, which certainly have grace and a wistful charm.' "Kirkus Review"

'There is ] something sad about the life of this loving and never quite satisfied man... Mr. Martin's biography is splendid reading, and it is a real credit to it that he makes us feel the sadness.' "New York Times"

Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth - The Roles of Sociohistorical Context, Community Forces, School... Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth - The Roles of Sociohistorical Context, Community Forces, School Influence, and Individual Agency (Hardcover)
Danny Bernard Martin
R5,339 Discovery Miles 53 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

No matter how mathematics achievement and persistence are measured, African Americans seem to lag behind their peers. This state of affairs is typically explained in terms of student ability, family background, differential treatment by teachers, and biased curricula. But what can explain disproportionately poor performance and persistence of African-American students who clearly possess the ability to do well, who come from varied family and socioeconomic backgrounds, who are taught by caring and concerned teachers, and who learn mathematics in the context of a reform-oriented mathematics curriculum? And, why do some African-American students succeed in mathematics when underachievement is the norm among their fellow students? Danny Martin addresses these questions in "Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth," the results of a year-long ethnographic and observational study of African-American students and their parents and teachers.
"Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth" goes beyond the conventional explanations of ability, socioeconomic status, differential treatment, and biased curricula to consider the effects of history, community, and peers--and the individual agency that allows some students to succeed despite these influences. Martin's analysis suggests that prior studies of mathematics achievement and persistence among African Americans have failed to link sociohistorical, community, school, and intrapersonal forces in sufficiently meaningful ways, and that they suffer from theoretical and methodological limitations that hinder the ability of mathematics educators to reverse the negative achievement and persistence trends that continue to afflict African-American students.
The analyses and findings offered in Martin's book lead to exciting implications for future research and intervention efforts concerning African-American students--and other students for whom history and context play an important role. This book will be useful and informative to many groups: mathematics education researchers, education researchers interested in the social context of learning and teaching, policymakers, preservice and in-service teachers, students, parents, and community advocates. It will also be of interest to readers concerned with multicultural education, cross-cultural studies of mathematics learning, sociology of education, Black Studies, and issues of underrepresentation in science and mathematics.

Gerard Manley Hopkins - A Very Private Life (Paperback, Main): Robert Bernard Martin Gerard Manley Hopkins - A Very Private Life (Paperback, Main)
Robert Bernard Martin
R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Will surely rank as one of the foremost literary biographies of our time.' John Carey, Sunday Times In his lifetime Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) published just a single poem - only a few close friends were aware he wrote. Much of his work was burnt by fellow Jesuits on his death. And yet Hopkins is today a huge figure in English literature. Homosexual but terribly repressed, he channeled his emotions toward nature and God, with profound results. Princeton emeritus professor Martin, the only biographer to have unrestricted use of Hopkins' private papers, tells this extraordinary story from Hopkins' early life and studies at Oxford, through his tortuous conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism, to his struggle in later years to retain his very sanity. 'In Martin, the unhappy and tormented genius has found the most sympathetic and intelligent interpreter... [The book] goes to the heart of Hopkins, and plants him firmly before us as a Victorian, and a great one.' Allan Massie, Sunday Telegraph 'Martin follows Hopkins through his toils with sympathy and a great unshowy command of the facts. In this magnificently solicitous biography he has re-established the contours of the story definitively and made the homosexual drama integral to the better-known drama of conversion and poetics.' Seamus Heaney, Independent on Sunday 'The triumph of this learned, scrupulously detailed and persuasive biography is that it brings the reader as near as it is perhaps possible to come to living Hopkins' life, to sensing the mysterious crushing pressures that were for him intimately bound up with the richness and complexity of his writing.' Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph

Tennyson - The Unquiet Heart (Paperback, Main): Robert Bernard Martin Tennyson - The Unquiet Heart (Paperback, Main)
Robert Bernard Martin
R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The lyric perfection of the works of Alfred Tennyson, one of the greatest Victorian poets, and the apparent ease with which he wrote them, long obscured the disparity between the unruffled surface of many of his poems and his deeply disturbed life.

Somersby Rectory, where Tennyson was born, was made miserable by drunkenness, drug addiction, threats of violence, melodramatic disinheritances, and above all by the fear of madness. He found an anodyne for his unhappiness in the composition of poetry, and was so successful in this refuge from the bewildering complexities of his life that he eventually became Poet Laureate and the most famous of living writers.

Until he was forty years old the belief that he suffered from inherited epilepsy kept Tennyson unsettled, neurotic about money, immature in his relations with women, and apprehensive of marriage. It was a belief that gave shape to some of his finest poetry.

At the end of his life Tennyson's wife and son constructed a public facade for him of irreproachable normality and respectability. Robert Bernard Martin was the first biographer to go behind the mask of the troubled poet to investigate his black-tempered morbidity, and neurotic secrecy about his private life. More importantly, it often reveals the sources of the successes and failures of the foremost Victorian poet.

From many thousands of letters by Tennyson, his family, and his friends, as well as much other unpublished material, Robert Bernard Martin has distilled a sensitive and sympathetic portrait of Tennyson, both as his contemporaries saw him and as he was in private.

'Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart will stand as one of the great literary biographies of this century.' A. N. Wilson, "The Spectator"

Athens and Jerusalem (Paperback, 2nd edition): Lev Shestov Athens and Jerusalem (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Lev Shestov; Edited by Ramona Fotiade; Translated by Bernard Martin; Introduction by Ramona Fotiade
R1,115 Discovery Miles 11 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem). In Athens and Jersusalem, Lev Shestov—an inspiration for the French existentialists and the foremost interlocutor of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber during the interwar years—makes the gripping confrontation between these symbolic poles of ancient wisdom his philosophical testament, an argumentative and stylistic tour de force. Although the Russian-born Shestov is little known in the Anglophone world today, his writings influenced many twentieth-century European thinkers, such as Albert Camus, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Czesław Miłosz, and Joseph Brodsky. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov’s final, groundbreaking work on the philosophy of religion from an existential perspective. This new, annotated edition of Bernard Martin’s classic translation adds references to the cited works as well as glosses of passages from the original Greek, Latin, German, and French. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov at his most profound and most eloquent and is the clearest expression of his thought that shaped the evolution of continental philosophy and European literature in the twentieth century.

Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth - The Roles of Sociohistorical Context, Community Forces, School... Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth - The Roles of Sociohistorical Context, Community Forces, School Influence, and Individual Agency (Paperback)
Danny Bernard Martin
R1,377 Discovery Miles 13 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

No matter how mathematics achievement and persistence are measured, African Americans seem to lag behind their peers. This state of affairs is typically explained in terms of student ability, family background, differential treatment by teachers, and biased curricula. But what can explain disproportionately poor performance and persistence of African-American students who clearly possess the ability to do well, who come from varied family and socioeconomic backgrounds, who are taught by caring and concerned teachers, and who learn mathematics in the context of a reform-oriented mathematics curriculum? And, why do some African-American students succeed in mathematics when underachievement is the norm among their fellow students? Danny Martin addresses these questions in Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth, the results of a year-long ethnographic and observational study of African-American students and their parents and teachers. Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth goes beyond the conventional explanations of ability, socioeconomic status, differential treatment, and biased curricula to consider the effects of history, community, and peers--and the individual agency that allows some students to succeed despite these influences. Martin's analysis suggests that prior studies of mathematics achievement and persistence among African Americans have failed to link sociohistorical, community, school, and intrapersonal forces in sufficiently meaningful ways, and that they suffer from theoretical and methodological limitations that hinder the ability of mathematics educators to reverse the negative achievement and persistence trends that continue to afflict African-American students. The analyses and findings offered in Martin's book lead to exciting implications for future research and intervention efforts concerning African-American students--and other students for whom history and context play an important role. This book will be useful and informative to many groups: mathematics education researchers, education researchers interested in the social context of learning and teaching, policymakers, preservice and in-service teachers, students, parents, and community advocates. It will also be of interest to readers concerned with multicultural education, cross-cultural studies of mathematics learning, sociology of education, Black Studies, and issues of underrepresentation in science and mathematics.

Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children (Paperback): Danny Bernard Martin Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children (Paperback)
Danny Bernard Martin
R1,894 Discovery Miles 18 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With issues of equity at the forefront of mathematics education research and policy, Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children fills the need for authoritative, rigorous scholarship that sheds light on the ways that young black learners experience mathematics in schools and their communities. This timely collection significantly extends the knowledge base on mathematics teaching, learning, participation, and policy for black children and it provides new framings of relevant issues that researchers can use in future work. More importantly, this book helps move the field beyond analyses that continue to focus on and normalize failure by giving primacy to the stories that black learners tell about themselves and to the voices of mathematics educators whose work has demonstrated a commitment to the success of these children.

Lectures on Probability Theory and Statistics - Ecole d'Ete de Probabilites de Saint-Flour XXV - 1995 (Paperback, 1998... Lectures on Probability Theory and Statistics - Ecole d'Ete de Probabilites de Saint-Flour XXV - 1995 (Paperback, 1998 ed.)
Pierre Bernard; Martin T. Barlow, David Nualart
R1,628 Discovery Miles 16 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume contains lectures given at the Saint-Flour Summer School of Probability Theory during the period 10th - 26th July, 1995. These lectures are at a postgraduate research level. They are works of reference in their domain.

Pour une place de concert: Bernard Martins Martins Pour une place de concert
Bernard Martins Martins
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jamaica, As It Was, As It Is, and As It May Be - Comprising Interesting Topics for Absent Proprietors, Merchants &c., and... Jamaica, As It Was, As It Is, and As It May Be - Comprising Interesting Topics for Absent Proprietors, Merchants &c., and Valuable Hints to Persons Intending to Emigrate to the Island: Also an Authentic Narrative of the Negro Insurrection in 1831; With a F (Hardcover)
Bernard Martin Senior
R990 Discovery Miles 9 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jamaica, As It Was, As It Is, and As It May Be - Comprising Interesting Topics for Absent Proprietors, Merchants &c., and... Jamaica, As It Was, As It Is, and As It May Be - Comprising Interesting Topics for Absent Proprietors, Merchants &c., and Valuable Hints to Persons Intending to Emigrate to the Island: Also an Authentic Narrative of the Negro Insurrection in 1831; With a F (Paperback)
Bernard Martin Senior
R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Distribution of Incoming Lettermail at the Baltimore, Maryland City Post Office; NBS Technical Note 33 (Paperback): B M... Distribution of Incoming Lettermail at the Baltimore, Maryland City Post Office; NBS Technical Note 33 (Paperback)
B M (Bernard Martin) 1930- Levin
R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Influence of Consistent and Inconsistent Guidance on Human Learning and Transfer .. (Paperback): Bernard Martin 1924- Aronov The Influence of Consistent and Inconsistent Guidance on Human Learning and Transfer .. (Paperback)
Bernard Martin 1924- Aronov
R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Preamble - In Defense of the Fetus: The Preamble states the U.S. Constitution was ordained and established for ourselves and... Preamble - In Defense of the Fetus: The Preamble states the U.S. Constitution was ordained and established for ourselves and our posterity. The fetus links the next generation and is posterity. (Paperback)
Bernard Martin Coyle; Edited by Bernard Martin Coyle; Bernard M Martin Coyle
R154 Discovery Miles 1 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jamaica, As It Was, As It Is, And As It May Be - Comprising Interesting Topics For Absent Proprietors, Merchants &c., And... Jamaica, As It Was, As It Is, And As It May Be - Comprising Interesting Topics For Absent Proprietors, Merchants &c., And Valuable Hints To Persons Intending To Emigrate To The Island: Also An Authentic Narrative Of The Negro Insurrection In 1831 (Hardcover)
Bernard Martin Senior; Created by Retired Military Officer
R989 Discovery Miles 9 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Following My Path - Growing Up Gay in a Christian, Fundamentalist, Right - Wing, Conservative Family During The 1940's -... Following My Path - Growing Up Gay in a Christian, Fundamentalist, Right - Wing, Conservative Family During The 1940's - 1960's (Hardcover)
Bernard Martin
R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Imagine growing up in small Indiana towns in the 1940s in a very strict religious family and then realizing at the age of six that there was something sexually "wrong" with you. You had no name for it, and you didn't really understand it, but you knew it all the same. By the time you were seven and eight years old, you heard adults talk about sexual perversion and teenagers using the terms "faggot" or "queer" as if they were describing the plague. But you knew deep inside it was you they were talking about Then skip forward a few years when you felt compelled to find someone else like you. You knew you couldn't be the only one, and you didn't think you could survive on erotic dreams or daydreaming. And so you began to sexually experiment with older men who called themselves queer, but you knew it didn't describe you. Then, at age seventeen, you found yourself in your first small gay bar, where you finally discovered you weren't the only one like you on this planet But when your mother discovered you'd been invited to a gay party, she told you that you would burn in hell if you didn't become heterosexual. And that was just the beginning. Following My Path is the true account of the author discovering who he was and all the things that happened along the way. Some of the things are serious, and some are funny, but all are interesting and vital to understanding what many gay people have had to endure. Reading Following My Path may: * change your mind about whether being gay is a choice or not; * make you see gay people differently and with more understanding, particularly those who are older and in the closet longer; * teach you to love your children unconditionally, even if there are parts of them you can't understand or accept; * teach you not to lay guilt trips on your children; and * teach gay LGBT people not to leave God out of their lives, as we, too, are made in his image, and he wants us to lead happy and fulfilling lives. Following My Path is the author's confirmation in his belief in God and his comfort with being an "outed," gay Christian.

Following My Path - Growing Up Gay in a Christian, Fundamentalist, Right - Wing, Conservative Family During The 1940's -... Following My Path - Growing Up Gay in a Christian, Fundamentalist, Right - Wing, Conservative Family During The 1940's - 1960's (Paperback)
Bernard Martin
R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Imagine growing up in small Indiana towns in the 1940s in a very strict religious family and then realizing at the age of six that there was something sexually "wrong" with you. You had no name for it, and you didn't really understand it, but you knew it all the same. By the time you were seven and eight years old, you heard adults talk about sexual perversion and teenagers using the terms "faggot" or "queer" as if they were describing the plague. But you knew deep inside it was you they were talking about Then skip forward a few years when you felt compelled to find someone else like you. You knew you couldn't be the only one, and you didn't think you could survive on erotic dreams or daydreaming. And so you began to sexually experiment with older men who called themselves queer, but you knew it didn't describe you. Then, at age seventeen, you found yourself in your first small gay bar, where you finally discovered you weren't the only one like you on this planet But when your mother discovered you'd been invited to a gay party, she told you that you would burn in hell if you didn't become heterosexual. And that was just the beginning. Following My Path is the true account of the author discovering who he was and all the things that happened along the way. Some of the things are serious, and some are funny, but all are interesting and vital to understanding what many gay people have had to endure. Reading Following My Path may: * change your mind about whether being gay is a choice or not; * make you see gay people differently and with more understanding, particularly those who are older and in the closet longer; * teach you to love your children unconditionally, even if there are parts of them you can't understand or accept; * teach you not to lay guilt trips on your children; and * teach gay LGBT people not to leave God out of their lives, as we, too, are made in his image, and he wants us to lead happy and fulfilling lives. Following My Path is the author's confirmation in his belief in God and his comfort with being an "outed," gay Christian.

The Healing Ministry in the Church (Paperback): Bernard Martin The Healing Ministry in the Church (Paperback)
Bernard Martin
R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jamaica, as It Was, as It Is, and as It May Be - Comprising Interesting Topics for Absent Proprietors (Paperback): Bernard... Jamaica, as It Was, as It Is, and as It May Be - Comprising Interesting Topics for Absent Proprietors (Paperback)
Bernard Martin Senior
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Text-book of the embryology of invertebrates Volume v 1 (Paperback): Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward, William... Text-book of the embryology of invertebrates Volume v 1 (Paperback)
Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward, William McMichael Woodworth
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Strange Vigour - A Biography of Sun Yat-Sen (Hardcover): Bernard Martin Strange Vigour - A Biography of Sun Yat-Sen (Hardcover)
Bernard Martin
R1,251 Discovery Miles 12 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The life of a Chinese national hero. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Jamaica, as it Was, as it Is, and as it May be - Comprising Interesting Topics for Absent Proprietors (Hardcover): Bernard... Jamaica, as it Was, as it Is, and as it May be - Comprising Interesting Topics for Absent Proprietors (Hardcover)
Bernard Martin Senior
R988 Discovery Miles 9 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Strange Vigour - A Biography of Sun Yat-Sen (Paperback): Bernard Martin Strange Vigour - A Biography of Sun Yat-Sen (Paperback)
Bernard Martin
R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The life of a Chinese national hero. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Athens and Jerusalem (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Lev Shestov Athens and Jerusalem (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Lev Shestov; Edited by Ramona Fotiade; Translated by Bernard Martin; Introduction by Ramona Fotiade
R2,458 Discovery Miles 24 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem). In Athens and Jersusalem, Lev Shestov—an inspiration for the French existentialists and the foremost interlocutor of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber during the interwar years—makes the gripping confrontation between these symbolic poles of ancient wisdom his philosophical testament, an argumentative and stylistic tour de force. Although the Russian-born Shestov is little known in the Anglophone world today, his writings influenced many twentieth-century European thinkers, such as Albert Camus, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Czesław Miłosz, and Joseph Brodsky. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov’s final, groundbreaking work on the philosophy of religion from an existential perspective. This new, annotated edition of Bernard Martin’s classic translation adds references to the cited works as well as glosses of passages from the original Greek, Latin, German, and French. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov at his most profound and most eloquent and is the clearest expression of his thought that shaped the evolution of continental philosophy and European literature in the twentieth century.

Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children (Hardcover, New): Danny Bernard Martin Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children (Hardcover, New)
Danny Bernard Martin
R5,344 Discovery Miles 53 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With issues of equity at the forefront of mathematics education research and policy, Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children fills the need for authoritative, rigorous scholarship that sheds light on the ways that young black learners experience mathematics in schools and their communities. This timely collection significantly extends the knowledge base on mathematics teaching, learning, participation, and policy for black children and it provides new framings of relevant issues that researchers can use in future work. More importantly, this book helps move the field beyond analyses that continue to focus on and normalize failure by giving primacy to the stories that black learners tell about themselves and to the voices of mathematics educators whose work has demonstrated a commitment to the success of these children.

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