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Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities
Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities
Whiteshift: the turbulent journey from a world of racially homogeneous white majorities to one of racially hybrid majorities
 
This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over half of American babies are...
Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You
Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You
At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baffling array of percentages and probabilities as we try to navigate in a world dominated...
Rightwing Populism: An Element of Neodemocracy (SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice (40))
Rightwing Populism: An Element of Neodemocracy (SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice (40))

This book, written by a prominent German political scientist and specialist for political theory and comparative government, analyses right-wing populism as a topical theme of postmodern party systems in Europe and the United States. 

This contribution to the topical debate on right-wing populism seeks to analyse important...
An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair
An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair

The death of Dr David Kelly in 2003 is one of the the strangest events in the 21st century. This scrupulous scientist, an expert on weapons of mass destruction, was caught up in the rush to war in Iraq and in the pressure of those around Tony Blair to provide evidence that Saddam Hussein was producing chemical weapons. Kelly seemed...

Kallocain
Kallocain

Leo Kall is a zealous, middle-ranking scientist in the totalitarian World State who has just made a thrilling discovery: a new drug, Kallocain, that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. At last, criminality will be dragged out into the open and private thought can finally be outlawed. But can the World State be trusted...

Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I

"Stanley is a storyteller par excellence."--The Washington Post
Kirkus Review starred review; Publishers Weekly starred review; Booklist starred review

The birth of a world-changing idea in the middle of a bloodbath
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Grokking Deep Learning
Grokking Deep Learning
Summary

Grokking Deep Learning teaches you to build deep learning neural networks from scratch! In his engaging style, seasoned deep learning expert Andrew Trask shows you the science under the hood, so you grok for yourself every detail of training neural networks.

Purchase of the print book...
Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose
Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose
Learn about jumping insects with real gears, and the ingenious technology behind a power-punching shrimp. Enter the strange world of carnivorous plants. And check out a microscopic protein machine in a bird’s eye that may work as a GPS device by harnessing quantum entanglement. Join renowned Brazilian scientist Marcos Eberlin as he...
Sustainable Development Practices Using Geoinformatics
Sustainable Development Practices Using Geoinformatics

This exciting new volume will provide a comprehensive overview of the applications of geoinformatics technology for engineers, scientists, and students to become more productive, more aware, and more responsive to global climate change issues and how to manage sustainable development of Earth's resources.

Over...

Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
Good Thinking is our best defense against anti-vaccine paranoia, climate denial, and other dire threats of today

Publisher’s Note: Good Thinking was previously published in the UK as The Irrational Ape.

In our ever-more-polarized society, there’s at least one thing we...
Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk: Volume 4 Testing, Modeling and Risk Assessment (ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction)
Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk: Volume 4 Testing, Modeling and Risk Assessment (ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction)

This book is a part of ICL new book series “ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction” founded in 2019. Peer-reviewed papers submitted to the Fifth World Landslide Forum were published in six volumes of this book series. This book contains the followings:

• Five keynote lectures

...

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
Don’t read this book at bedtime. Not that it’s frightening. It won’t give you nightmares. But it is so exhilarating, so stimulating, it’ll turn your mind into a whirling maelstrom of excitingly provocative ideas—you’ll want to rush out and tell someone rather than go to sleep. It is a victim of...
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