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

Dutton Juvenile, 2019

"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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Kallocain

Penguin Press, 2019

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...

An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair

Head of Zeus, 2018

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...

Rightwing Populism: An Element of Neodemocracy (SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice (40))

Springer, 2018

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...

Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You

Simon & Schuster, 2003

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...

Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities

Harry N. Abrams, 2020

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...

The Portal

Murdoch Books, 1970

For thousands of years, the question has been asked: How do you get through the turbulence of life?

We are hurtling towards a pivotal moment for humanity, a point in time when what we do next could determine the future of our species. Economic, environmental, technological and humanitarian experts suggest we are...

Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food

blue bird uk, 2020

Review: Truly life-changing . It's about trusting your appetite - something that shouldn't be radical, yet something many women (including myself) see as a hugely daunting task. (Dolly Alderton); Laura is a passionate and intelligent voice of new thinking, a fire starter of the revolution in how we think about food, eating and our...

Lewis Fry Richardson: His Intellectual Legacy and Influence in the Social Sciences (Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice)

Springer, 2019

This is an open access book. Lewis F Richardson (1981-1953), a physicist by training, was a pioneer in meteorology and peace research and remains a towering presence in both fields. This edited volume reviews his work and assesses its influence in the social sciences, notably his work on arms races and their...

Practical Data Mining

CRC Press, 2011

Used by corporations, industry, and government to inform and fuel everything from focused advertising to homeland security, data mining can be a very useful tool across a wide range of applications. Unfortunately, most books on the subject are designed for the computer scientist and statistical illuminati and leave the reader largely...

Numerical Computing with Python: Harness the power of Python to analyze and find hidden patterns in the data

Packt Publishing, 2018

Understand, explore, and effectively present data using the powerful data visualization techniques of Python

Key Features

Use the power of Pandas and Matplotlib to easily solve data mining issues

Understand the basics of statistics to build powerful predictive data...

Hands-On Deep Learning for Images with TensorFlow: Build intelligent computer vision applications using TensorFlow and Keras

Packt Publishing, 2018

Explore TensorFlow's capabilities to perform efficient deep learning on images

Key Features

Discover image processing for machine vision

Build an effective image classification system using the power of CNNs

Leverage TensorFlow's capabilities to...

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