User:Andrei Radulescu-Banu

Andrei Radulescu-Banu is a Lexington Town Meeting member from Precinct 8 since 2013. He lives at 86 Cedar St.

Web sites

 * http://lex4lang.org - advocacy for Foreign Languages in Lexington elementary schools
 * http://andrei4schools.com - Andrei's 2012 School Committee campaign web site
 * http://bitdribble.com - Andrei's personal web site

Andrei is a maintainer of lex-wiki.org. Please feel free to contact him for questions and suggestions through his talk page or by direct email:



He is also a founder of the LinkedIn Math Connection discussion forum, counting 7,489 members in June, 2013.

Newspaper articles and blog posts

 * Lexington Patch: The Obama-Romney Benghazi debate, 11 months later (Aug 6, 2013)
 * Lexington Patch: Gomez v Markey: the Policy Wonk and the Neophyte (June 24, 2013)
 * Lexington Patch: Lex-Wiki.org Version 2.0 Released (May 3, 2013)
 * Lexington Patch: School Committee Starts Elementary School Foreign Languages Discussion (Mar 29, 2013)
 * Lexington Minuteman: Foreign languages needed at elementary schools (Jan 13, 2012)
 * Lexington Patch: Give Foreign Languages Another Chance (Sep 28, 2011)

Mailing list and blog posts

 * lex-tmma (mailing list of Lexington Town Meeting): Andrei's posts
 * lex-polrel (requires registration to view): Andrei's posts
 * The Core Knowledge Blog: Andrei's posts

Math papers and preprints

 * Faithfulness of a functor of Quillen, by William G. Dwyer, Andrei Radulescu-Banu, Sebastian Thomas, Algebraic & Geometric Topology 10(1) (2010), pp. 525-530: arXiv:0910.1038
 * Cofibrations in Homotopy Theory, by Andrei Radulescu-Banu, preprint (2006): arXiv:math/0610009
 * Cofibrance and Completion, by Andrei Radulescu-Banu, PhD thesis (1999): arXiv:math/0612203.

Andrei's Bookshelf

 * The Crisis Of Zionism, by Peter Beinart (2012), ISBN 978-0805094121
 * Kill Or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency, by Daniel Klaidman (2012), ISBN 9780547547893
 * The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat, by Vali Nasr (2013), ISBN 978-0385536479
 * The Writing On The Wall and other literary essays, by Mary McCarthy (1970, first published 1965), ISBN 978-0156983907
 * Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarty, 1949-1975, edited by Carol Brightman (1995), ISBN 978-0156002509
 * Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World, 2nd edition, by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (2004, first published 1998), ISBN 978-0300105889
 * The Portable Hannah Arendt, edited by Peter Bayer (2000), ISBN 978-0142437568
 * Free For All: Defending Liberty in America Today, by Wendy Kaminer (2002), ISBN 978-0807044117
 * Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook, by Josh Lerner, Felda Hardymon, Ann Leamon, ISBN 978-0470650912 (ordered)
 * The Trouble With America, by Michel Crozier (1984), ISBN 978-0520049789
 * Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City, by Robert A. Dahl (orig publication 1961), ISBN 978-0300103922
 * Fundamentals of Tax Policy, by Richard Almy, Alan Dornfest, Daphne Kenyon (2008), ISBN 978-0-88329-188-7
 * The Appraisal of Real Estate, by the Appraisal Institute (12th Edition, 2001), ISBN 978-0922154678
 * Community Power Structure, by Floyd Hunter (initial publication 1953), ISBN 978-0807840337
 * Private Guns, Public Health, by David Hemenway (2004), ISBN 978-0472031627
 * How to be an MP: Learning the Commons Knowledge, by Paul Flynn (2012), ISBN 978-1849542203
 * Energy Myths And Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate, by Vaclav Smil (2010), ISBN 978-0844743288
 * The Environmental Advantages of Cities: Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism, by William B. Meyer (2013), ISBN 978-0262518468
 * Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities, by Kent E. Portney (2013), ISBN 978-0262518277
 * Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City: Somerville, MA, by Susan Ostrander, ISBN 978-1439910139
 * City Limits, by Paul E. Peterson (1981), ISBN 978-0226662930
 * Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, by Ron Suskind (2011), ISBN 978-0061430466
 * Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture, by Diana Senechal (2012), ISBN 978-1610484114
 * The German Genius, by Peter Watson (2010), ISBN 978-0060760229