Melvin Webster Oliver

New Frontiers in Bryology: Physiology, Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics

The mosses (Bryophatea, Musci) are a diverse and widely distributed group of land plants. Mosses are attractive experimental plants because they exhibit the traditional attributes of good model systems (Le. ease of growth & maintenance, fast generation time, and amenable genetics) with the added adv...

Black Wealth / White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality, 2nd Edition

The award-winning Black Wealth / White Wealth offers a powerful portrait of racial inequality based on an analysis of private wealth. Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro's groundbreaking research analyzes wealth - total assets and debts rather than income alone - to uncover deep and persistent racial i...

Plant Gene Containment

Gene Containment provides a comprehensive look at genetically modified organisms and the strategies and implementation of key methods to gene containment. The book is divided into 5 parts: An Introduction that discusses the need for biotechnology and GMOs, Section 1 looks at the need for gene contai...

Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles (Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality)

This book cuts through the powerful mythology surrounding Los Angeles to reveal the causes of inequality in a city that has weathered rapid population change, economic restructuring, and fractious ethnic relations. The sources of disadvantage and the means of getting ahead differ greatly among the c...

Black Wealth/ White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality

Black Wealth/White Wealth demonstrates how an analysis of private wealth uncovers a revealing story about race in America. An examination of how assets are created, expanded and preserved reveals a deep economic divide between blacks and whites. Charting the changing structure of inequality over man...

New Frontiers in Bryology: Physiology, Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics

The mosses (Bryophatea, Musci) are a diverse and widely distributed group of land plants. Mosses are attractive experimental plants because they exhibit the traditional attributes of good model systems (i.e. ease of growth and maintenance, fast generation time, and amenable genetics) with the added ...

Securing the Future: Investing in Children from Birth to College (Ford Foundation Series on Asset Building)

Securing the Future assembles an interdisciplinary team of scholars to investigate the full range of factors-pediatric, psychological, social, and economic-that bear on a child's development into a well-adjusted, economically productive member of society. A central purpose of the volume is to identi...

Black Wealth/ White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality

Black Wealth/White Wealth demonstrates how an analysis of private wealth uncovers a revealing story about race in America. An examination of how assets are created, expanded and preserved reveals a deep economic divide between blacks and whites. Charting the changing structure of inequality over man...

New Frontiers in Bryology: Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Functional Genomics

Black Wealth/white Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality

Black Wealth/white Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality

Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles

Securing the Future: Investing in Children from Birth to College

Melvin Oliver

Melvin Deontae Oliver (born on July 25, 1983) is an American football defensive end who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in...