Shaped By Shadows, A Psychiatrist and Poet Explores His Holocaust Heritage

Published Sept 2023: Available on Amazon in paperback and e-book formats. 505 pages.

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The Newsstand

— Coming of age in the ’60s on the Tough Streets of New York’s Little Italy
By J.J. Anselmo

Third Edition, 2022; available on Amazon as a soft cover and as an eBook

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Moonlight Over Tuscany

— Romance and Murder at a Tuscan Cooking School
By J.J. Anselmo with Maria Cabrini

Second edition, 2021; available on Amazon as a soft cover, an eBook and an Audio Book, which is skillfully narrated by Maile Gove (a young female trapeze artist who moonlights as an audio book narrator.)

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Cell and Molecular Biology: What We Know & How We Found Out

(5th edition) Annotated CMB5e iText (Digital Edition)

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Time and the Verb: A Guide to Tense & Aspect

An in-depth guide to the study of tense and verbal aspect from the ancients through the 1990s, intended not only for specialists, but anyone wishing to understand how languages indicate distinctions of time.

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The Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb: Meaning and Use

Leiden and Boston: Bill, 2012

In the Modern Mongolian language, there are four different verb forms that have been traditionally labeled as past tense markers, differing mainly in verbal aspect (for example, completeness/incompleteness of actions). Recently scholars have suspected they differ in evidentiality and inferentiality (what the speaker witnessed, affirms, infers, or is offering as hearsay). This study confirms this, and shows distinctions of remoteness in time as well (recent events versus those distant in time), and details significant differences between the spoken and written languages.

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Judaism Inside Out: Reclaiming the Promise of Israel

Publisher ‏: ‎ Waterwheel Pr (January 1, 2005)
Available on Amazon
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0977178102
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0977178100

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God Hold Me

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (June 2014)
Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
ISBN-13: 9781499026535

God Hold Me is the story of a personal healing, born of the courage to embrace one’s own deepest fears. Raised as a secular Jew, Joshua Chasan grew from being unable to relate to traditional religion to depending upon a personal relationship with the spiritual source of his being. His story is not for Jews only but for all who seek integrity in their personal identity. God Hold Me is both a narrative of a spiritual journey and a source book of short poetic meditations that offer help in the personal struggle for integrity which is a hallmark of our time. These spiritual exercises, which appear in sans-serif type, were developed by Rabbi Joshua over the years of his own seeking, and he has taught them over the course of the past twenty years.

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A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication

Friendly, M. & Wainer, H. (2021). History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication.
Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674975231.
Available on Amazon.
Web site: https://friendly.github.io/HistDataVis/

With complex information everywhere, graphics have become indispensable to our daily lives. Navigation apps show real-time, interactive traffic data. Charts communicate stock market trends, government spending, and the dangers of epidemics. A History of Data Visualization & Graphic Communication tells the story of how graphics left the exclusive confines of scientific research and became ubiquitous. As data visualization spread, it changed the way we think. This book is an exploration and celebration of the origins and, to some extent, future of graphical methods of data presentation.

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Discrete Data Analysis with R

Friendly, M. & Meyer, D. (2016). Discrete Data Analysis with R: Visualization and Modeling Techniques for Categorical and Count Data.
Chapman & Hall/CRC. ISBN 978-1-4987-2583-5.
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Web site: http://ddar.datavis.ca.

Discrete Data Analysis with R: Visualization and Modeling Techniques for Categorical and Count Data presents an applied treatment of modern methods for the analysis of categorical data, both discrete response data and frequency data. It explains how to use graphical methods for exploring data, spotting unusual features, visualizing fitted models, and presenting results.

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EHAA: Every Hand An Adventure

by Eric Landau and Randall Baron
Publisher: Devyn Press, January 1, 1996
ISBN-10: 0939460610
ISBN-13: 978-0939460618
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The book describes EHAA, a bidding system for contract bridge. EHAA is an aggressive, effective bidding style that will increase your success and enjoyment at the bridge table. It features mini notrumps and undisciplined weak two-bids.

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The Challenge for Business and Society: From Risk to Reward

The book outlines an effective model for business combining a commitment to the bottom line with a serious dedication to the common good. At a time when trust in all institutions including business has declined, Litow’s book outlines the historical role played by business, both positive and negative. He takes us through the role of the “robber barons” and others with challenging ethical standards, contrasted against path-breaking actions by companies that initiated the first pension plan, provision of free healthcare for employees, and paid vacation. It goes on to detail the current role, also both positive and negative. And finally, he lays out a set of innovative and effective strategies that are good for business and good for the nation. The book is particularly relevant given the push-back on CSR/ESG by some political forces.

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Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway From High School to College to Career

Published by Teachers College Press in2021 co-authored with Tina Kelley

The book outlines the story behind Litow’s creation and expansion of the innovative school model, praised in former President Obama’s State of the Union, and embraced by Mayors, Governors, and heads of state across the globe that combines high schools with community colleges resulting in high rates of completion of competitive degrees and high wage private sector careers. The initial P-TECH school launched in New York has expanded across 14 states and 28 countries with over 350 schools serving tens of thousands of students. Breaking Barriers details how this much-needed school reform transitioned from concept to reality, and from exemplary schools to scalable and sustainable reform.

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Brooklyn Joe and Sal

Publisher: ‎ Barringer Publishing/Schlesinger Advertising
(May 31, 2023)
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1954396414
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1954396418
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https://josephpolacco.me

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Giovanni, Street Urchin of Naples: Giovanni ‘O Scugnizzo

Publisher: ‎ Joseph C Polacco (September 30, 2020)
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0578763761
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9978-0578763767
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https://josephpolacco.me

The slums of early 20th century Naples are threatened by violence and disease. Thirteen-year-old scugnizzo— street urchin—Giovanni survives by his wits and by alliances with the few he can trust. He and beautiful Filomena eventually fly off to Brooklyn, founding their own business and setting up their American home. Their Brooklyn family sends offshoots to LA, Las Vegas and the Ivy League. Family members serve America in both World Wars and in Korea. As Giovanni integrates into American life, he maintains his good humor and finds family among Americans of all origins. But creeping racist attitudes threaten that broader family. Giovanni’s scugnizzo experiences sharpen his own eye for underhanded and illegal activities by American authorities. Some of them question Giovanni’s loyalty and whether he fully washed himself free of the filth of Naples’ harbor.

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The 60-Year Curriculum: New Models for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Economy

(Editor, with Chris Dede). New York: Routledge (2020)

The 60-Year Curriculum explores models and strategies for lifelong learning in an era of profound economic disruption and reinvention. The book describes the evolution of new models by which universities can increase learners’ trajectories across multiple careers.

Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Realities in Education

(Editor, with Dejian Liu, Chris Dede, and Ronghuai Huang). Hong Kong: Springer (2017)

Virtual Augmented and Mixed Realities in Education provides a strategic vision for educational VR and immersive learning. The book proposes a Grand Challenge of applied, collective research. The illustrative research agenda includes Authenticity, representation of the self, social immersion, and infrastructure.

Quantifying Environmental Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic

Springer Series on Environmental Management

Richard Shepard, Ph.D.
The environmental issues doctor
Applied Ecosystem Services, LLC
Troutdale, OR 97060 USA
503-667-4517
http://www.appl-ecosys.com

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Plan of Attack

A Powerful, Principled Strategy for Office Space Negotiation

Copyright 1990 Robert T. Tunis ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Falcon Press, Inc.
ISBN 0-9626532-0-9

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The Ancient Near East: An Encyclopedia for Students: 4 Volumes

R. Wallenfels, Editor in Chief; J. M. Sasson, Consulting Editor. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2000

This 4-volume set is largely an alphabetized illustrated abstract of J. M. Sassos, ed., Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1995), which presented for the first time to college and secondary school teachers, their students, and educated laymen a rich and balanced view of the history and cultures of the Ancient Near East, now updated and tailored to younger readers. The entries treat the history and cultures of the core of the ancient Near East, including Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, the Levant, western Iran, Egypt, and Anatolia, and span the period from the time of the development of the first cities and the invention of writing toward the end of the fourth millennium BCE through the invasion of the Macedonian Alexander the Great and the birth of Hellenism towards the end of the third century BCE.

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Hellenistic Seal Impressions in the Yale Babylonian Collection: Ring-bullae and Other Clay Sealings

Catalogue of the Babylonian Collections at Yale 5. Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press, 2016

This is the second of two volumes devoted to the publication of the Hellenistic seal impressions in the Yale Babylonian Collection. The first volume, Uruk: Hellenistic Seal Impressions in the Yale Babylonian Collection I. Cuneiform Tablets (1994), an expanded version of my Ph.D. dissertation (1989) published in Ausgrabungen in Uruk-Warka Endberichte 19 at the generous invitation of the late series editor, Professor Rainer Michael Boehmer, is a descriptive catalogue analyzing the 1100 different legible seal impressions found on the edges of 149 sealed cuneiform tablets from the ancient Babylonian city of Uruk presently in the Yale Babylonian Collection. This second volume catalogues an additional 616 contemporary seal impressions on 77 clay sealings originally wrapped around or appended to rolled and tied parchment, or more rarely papyrus, documents, all now lost. The study demonstrates the adoption and adaptation of Western motifs to millennia-old native Babylonian traditions as well as novel innovations, including the earliest depictions of all of the signs of the Babylonian zodiac, transmitted later in this period to the West.

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