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Semi-Supervised Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

Semi-Supervised Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

In the field of machine learning, semi-supervised learning (SSL) occupies the middle ground, between supervised learning (in which all training examples are labeled) and unsupervised learning (in which no label data are given). Interest in SSL has increased in recent years, particularly because of application domains in which unlabeled data are plentiful, such as images, text, and bioinformatics. This first... (more)

History of Rome

by Michail Grant, Michael Grant

From a small Iron-Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the centre of an empire that dominated what was then known of the western world. This book recreates the evolution of that city, describing the individuals and events that made Rome a political and cultural conqueror. The book portrays not only the cynosures of the Roman world, but also lesser known figures, reassessing their impact... (more)

Isms: Understanding Art

by Stephen Little

Isms: Understanding Art is the perfect pocket-sized guide for gallery and museum lovers who have a general interest in the arts, but not necessarily any formal education in the visual arts. With this portable and indispensable tool in hand, anyone can guide themselves through the world's prestigious museums and major art collections and recognize and intelligently discuss the significant movements that have shaped... (more)

Web Design Studios: Best Studios (Icons)

Web Design Studios: Best Studios (Icons)

Julius Wiedemann was born and raised in Brazil. After studying graphic design and marketing, he moved to Japan, whore he worked in Tokyo as art editor for digital and design magazines. Since joining TASCHEN in Cologne, he has been building up TASCHEN's digital collection with titles such as Digital Beauties, 1000 Game Heroes, Animation Nowl, and TASCHEN's 1000 Favorite Websites.

Advertising Now! Print

Ideas that sell: today’s most effective and original ads... The world’s sharpest creative minds are in high demand in the advertising world, because making effective ads takes a whole lot more than just marketing know-how. A great ad grabs the viewer’s attention and gets the point across in an original, surprising, funny, touching, or even shocking way. Because ads reflect global and regional mentalities,... (more)

Web Design Flash Sites: Flash Sites (Icons)

Web Design Flash Sites: Flash Sites (Icons)

by Julius Wiedemann

The power of Flash... Many of the web’s most eye-popping sites are created using Flash, a program which allows for total creative freedom and maximum interactivity. In its early years, Flash was used mostly for artistic and design sites, but more recently large corporations—even Citibank—have turned to Flash. This guide rounds up the very best and most innovative sites using 100% Flash navigation, including... (more)

Head First Software Development

by Russ Miles, Dan Pilone

Even the best developers have seen well-intentioned software projects fail -- often because the customer kept changing requirements, and end users didn't know how to use the software you developed. Instead of surrendering to these common problems, let Head First Software Development guide you through the best practices of software development. Before you know it, those failed projects will be a thing of the... (more)

The Oxford Illustrated History of Greece and the Hellenistic World (Oxford Illustrated Histories)

The Oxford Illustrated History of Greece and the Hellenistic World (Oxford Illustrated Histories)

by John Boardman

From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age, to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical Greek world established the foundations of our culture as well as many of its most enduring achievements. Now, in this vividly illustrated volume, readers can embrace the spirit of the classical world, from the eighth to the first centuries B.C., a... (more)

Fatigue as a Window to the Brain (Issues in Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology)

Fatigue as a Window to the Brain (Issues in Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology)

Although fatigue has been actively investigated for more than 100 years, we have progressed little in either its theoretical or practical understanding. Fatigue has been considered to be both a symptom and an illness. Fatigue is a primary reason for patient visits to the physician's office, but it is difficult to measure and offers doctors little important information for diagnosis. Fatigue as a Window to the... (more)

THE PELICAN HISTORY OF GREECE.A. R. BURN

THE PELICAN HISTORY OF GREECE.

by A. R. BURN

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

by George F. Will

In his provocative and compelling new book, America’s most widely read and most influential commentator casts his gimlet eye on our singular nation. Moving far beyond the strict confines of politics, George F. Will offers a fascinating look at the people, stories, and events–often unheralded–that make the American drama so endlessly entertaining and instructive. With Will’s signature erudition and wry wit always... (more)

Robots, Reasoning, and Reification

by James P. Gunderson, Louise F. Gunderson

"Robots, Reasoning, and Reification" focuses on a critical obstacle that is preventing the development of intelligent, autonomous robots: the gap between the ability to reason about the world and the ability to sense the world and translate that sensory data into a symbolic model. This ability is what enables living systems to look at the world and perceive the things in it. In addition, intelligent living systems... (more)

WEB Design: E-Commerce (Icons)

The world’s coolest online shopping sites In this latest addition to the Web Design series, we explore the very best of electronic commerce website design. Now that people are using online shops to buy everything from computers to groceries to clothing, e-commerce has become a major player in the sales market—to such a degree that recent research has estimated that about 10% of US "brick and mortar" sales are... (more)

Institutions, development, and economic growth

Institutions, development, and economic growth

The determinants of economic growth and development are hotly debated among economists. Financial crises and failed transition experiments have highlighted the fact that functioning institutions are fundamental to the goal of achieving economic growth. The growth literature has seen an abundance of empirical studies on the influence of institutions and the mechanisms by which institutions affect development. This... (more)

A Brief History of Time

From the Big Bang to Black Holes

by Stephen W. Hawking

A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic... (more)

THESE WERE THE GREEKS

Graphic Design For The 21st Century: 100 Of The Worlds Best Graphic Designers

Graphic Design For The 21st Century: 100 Of The Worlds Best Graphic Designers

by Charlotte Fiell, Peter Fiell

Covering a vast range of cutting-edge graphics, with politically charged anti-commercial work placed in the same context as Nike's latest ads, this book presents a sweeping look at today's most progressive graphic currents - from signage at packaging to branding and web design.

Graphic Design 20th Century

by Alston W. Purvis

With over five hundred color reproductions, Graphic Design 20th Century represents a pictorial history of the last hundred years in graphic design. Alston Purvis presents all the significant designers of the twentieth century as well as the many styles that characterized this rich and tumultuous period: Art Nouveau, Arts and Craft, the Viennese Secession, the Russian Avant-Garde, Punk, New Wave, and computer... (more)

All-American Ads: Book 5

All-American Ads: 50's

Second in a series of books featuring advertising by era, All-American Ads of the 50s offers page after page of products that made up the happy-days decade. The start of the cold war spurred a buying frenzy and a craze for new technology that required ad campaigns to match. The nuclear age left its mark all over the advertisements, with a spotlight on planes, rockets, and even mushroom clouds. Shiny, big,... (more)

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