Michael Kane

Peter Bühlmann

Petros Drineas

Mark van der Laan

Handbook of Big Data provides a state-of-the-art overview of the analysis of large-scale datasets. Featuring contributions from well-known experts in statistics and computer science, this handbook presents a carefully curated collection of techniques from both industry and academia. Thus, the text instills a working understanding of key statistical

Handbook of Big Data

Moraig Macgillivray

Tonia Peters

Reading for the Real World is a four-book series designed for intermediate to advanced English learner who wish to improve their academic reading fluency and comprehension. All reading passages and exercises have been revised and updated. High-interest readings on a wide range of topics motivate students and provide abundant practice, while also enabling students to acquire the New Academic Word List (NAWL) in context.

Reading for the Real World

Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory seeks to place the contemporary transformation of notions of space and time, often attributed to the technologies we use, in the context of the ongoing transformations of modernity. Bringing together examples of modern and contemporary fiction (from Defoe to DeLillo, Frankenstein to Finnegans Wake) and theoretical discussions of the modern and the post-modern, the author explores the legacy of modern transformations of space and time under five headings: “The Space of Nature”; “The Space of the City”; “Postmodern or Most Modern Time”; “The Time and Space of the Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction”; and “Travel: from Modernity to...?”. These five essays re-examine the meanings of modernity and its aftermath in relation to the spaces and times of the natural, the urban and the media environment.

Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory

Profiles competitive video-game players who compete for dominance in the professional gaming circuit, in an account of the lifestyle and business of gaming that follows such top teams as 3D and CompLexity to analyze their strategies, cheating practices, and relationships with coaches. Reprint.

Triumph, Heartbreak, and the Quest for Cash in the Battleground of Competitive Videogaming

Game Boys

An examination of some of the canonical works of modern literature in English and German with regard to masculinity, relations between men, national identity and patriarchy. These were major preoccupations of male writers as they came to terms with or reacted against the decline of patriarchal authority. The book identifies five leitmotifs which serve to characterize the period between 1880 and 1930: the "double", the "other" (narcissus and Salome), the nationalization of Narcissus, Kampf or male bondage, and after patriarchy. Again and again one sees how men attempted to define themselves against what they imagined as "femininity", not merely outside but also within their selves, and further how men sought to overcome or find a socially acceptable expression for their narcissistic, homosexual and even sadomasochist libido.

Mapping Masculinity in English and German Literature, 1880-1930

Modern Men

A year inside the fierce rivalries and big business of competitive videogaming A technology-fueled spin on a classic sports tale, Game Boys profiles "cyber-athletes" who compete for dominance in the professional gaming circuit, a world populated with rivalries, big egos, corporate sponsorships, and large cash prizes. Michael Kane's pioneering account of the lifestyle and business of gaming takes readers to the heart of "e-sports," what many consider the successor in sports entertainment to the X-games and competitive poker. Following the top teams-3D and CompLexity, a rivalry as bitter as the Yankees versus the Red Sox-Kane profiles the star players as they cheat, strategize, sign with rival teams, and get berated by sideline-pacing coaches. Are gamers really the athletes of tomorrow? They act like they are. A lively tour of the quirks and dramas of a subculture on the cusp of big things, Game Boys is a tale of sports glory and a glimpse into the lucrative business of gaming.

Triumph, Heartbreak, and the Quest for Cash in the Battleground of Competitive V ideogaming

Taylor Arnold

Bryan W. Lewis

This book synthesizes those techniques from numerical analysis, algorithms, data structures, and optimization theory mostcommonly employed in statistics and machine learning. We provide concrete applications of these methods by giving complete reference implementations for a large set of the most commonly used statistical estimators. The goal is

A Computational Approach to Statistical Learning

Based on the highly successful Los Angeles workshop by the same name, HEAL YOUR BROKEN HEART is an easy-to-follow process that gently guides us through understanding, releasing, and ultimately healing our heartbreak from a lost romantic relationship. Michael Kane has filled his book with extraordinary tools and superb guidance we can all use. In his direct, easy tone he teaches us how to heal both our past and present heart wounding as we simultaneously learn to identify our relationship patterns. The result gives us a renewed connection to ourselves, a refreshed sense of self-confidence and personal awareness, and a healthy approach to our future relationships. HEAL YOUR BROKEN HEART is also a primer on love, clarifying what love is and inspiring us to love and nurture ourselves as we mend from our broken hearts. This is a book for both women and men that teaches us how to process through our pain and recover fully from it.

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