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Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia

Cornell University Library, 2019

Democracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinations. Edward Aspinall and Ward Berenschot assess the informal networks and political strategies that shape access to power and privilege in the messy political environment of contemporary...

Visual Perception for Humanoid Robots: Environmental Recognition and Localization, from Sensor Signals to Reliable 6D Poses (Cognitive Systems Monographs (38))

Springer, 2018

This book provides an overview of model-based environmental visual perception for humanoid robots. The visual perception of a humanoid robot creates a bidirectional bridge connecting sensor signals with internal representations of environmental objects. The objective of such perception systems is to answer two fundamental...

The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso (Early Modern Exchange)

University of Delaware Press, 2019

In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities. In Dante’s Divina Commedia, Luigi Pulci’s Morgante, Ludovico Ariosto’s...

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library

Scribner, 2019

“Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world.” —Stephen Greenblatt

“A captivating adventure…For lovers of history, Wilson-Lee offers a thrill on almost every page…Magnificent.” —The New York Times Book Review...

Research and Practice in Chemistry Education: Advances from the 25th IUPAC International Conference on Chemistry Education 2018

Springer, 2019

This book brings together fifteen contributions from presenters at the 25th IUPAC International Conference on Chemistry Education 2018, held in Sydney. Written by a highly diverse group of chemistry educators working within different national and institutional contexts with the common goal of improving student learning, the book...

The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution

Springer, 2019

This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly...

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Python for Data Science For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

For Dummies, 2019

The fast and easy way to learn Python programming and statistics

Python is a general-purpose programming language created in the late 1980s?and named after Monty Python?that's used by thousands of people to do things from testing microchips at Intel, to powering Instagram, to building video games with the...

Learn TensorFlow 2.0: Implement Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models with Python

Apress, 2020

Learn how to use TensorFlow 2.0 to build machine learning and deep learning models with complete examples.

The book begins with introducing TensorFlow 2.0 framework and the major changes from its last release. Next, it focuses on building Supervised Machine Learning models using TensorFlow 2.0....

Circuit Analysis for Complete Idiots

Independent Publishers Group, 2019

In today’s world, there’s an electronic gadget for everything and inside these gadgets are circuits, little components wired together to perform some meaningful function. Have you wondered how a led display sign works or how a calculator works or toy cars work? How is it possible?? All because of electrical circuits. These tiny...

Quantum Mechanics: A Simplified Approach

CRC Press, 2018

Quantum mechanics is one of the most challenging subjects to learn. It is challenging because quantum phenomenon is counterintuitive, and the mathematics used to explain such a phenomenon is very abstract, and difficult to grasp. This textbook is an attempt to overcome these challenges. Every chapter presents quantum ideas step- by-...

Mining the Social Web: Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, GitHub, and More

O'Reilly, 2019

Mine the rich data tucked away in popular social websites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. With the third edition of this popular guide, data scientists, analysts, and programmers will learn how to glean insights from social media—including who’s connecting with whom, what they’re...

Using Excel for Business and Financial Modelling: A Practical Guide (Wiley Finance)

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

A hands-on guide to using Excel in the business context

First published in 2012, Using Excel for Business and Financial Modelling contains step-by-step instructions of how to solve common business problems using financial models, including downloadable Excel templates, a list of shortcuts and tons of...