John Elder: 20 books
Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa
From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
"Set aside your Bella Tuscanys and Year in Provences for a different kind of travel book. Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa puts a walking stick in your hand and Marsh’s Man and Nature in your knapsack, exploring how Italians have managed their natural and cultural heritage in ways that sustain both....
Picking Up The Flute
A Memoir With Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Picking Up the Flute sets to music a former professor’s musings on retirement, marriage, literature, and the natural world. From his home in historic Bristol, Vermont to Ireland’s Connemara coast, travel through John Elder’s exquisite topography and relish his explorations of nature, poetry,...
Switched On
A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
An extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and mind of John Elder Robison, the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
Imagine spending the first forty...
by John Elder Robison, Augusten Burroughs
Language: German
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Als Ausdruck seiner ehrlichen Zuneigung tätschelt er andere Kinder mit Knüppeln, grinst erleichtert, wenn ein Unbekannter stirbt und hält Halloween mit kleinen Explosionen im Vorgarten kinderfrei: Verhaltensweisen, die immer ein strenges „Schau mich an!“ seiner Eltern zur Folge...
Be Different
Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
In Be Different, New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye shares a new batch of endearing stories about his childhood, adolescence, and young adult years, giving the reader a rare window into the Autistic mind.
In his bestselling memoir, Look Me in the Eye, John Elder Robison...
So Little Time
Words and Images for a World in Climate Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
*So Little Time *is a revolving door of political activism, spirituality, nature, and humanity. It is a call to action, where urgency meets poetry in no uncertain terms, and asks, What hour are we in? Edited by poet, Irish and U. S. citizen, and Vermont activist, Greg Delanty, it takes its cue from...
Raising Cubby
A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
**The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble **
John Robison was not your typical dad. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the age...
Look Me in the Eye
My Life with Asperger's
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find.” —from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs
Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination...
by John Elder Robison
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Con disarmante onestà ed acutezza John Robison sostiene che l’Asperger sia soprattutto una questione di differenze, lontane dalla mera invalidità. Il volume propone storie di vita dell’Autore al fine di fornire al lettore una finestra sulla mente degli affetti da questa sindrome. Altrettanto...
Ensemble Methods in Data Mining
Improving Accuracy Through Combining Predictions
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Ensemble methods have been called the most influential development in Data Mining and Machine Learning in the past decade. They combine multiple models into one usually more accurate than the best of its components. Ensembles can provide a critical boost to industrial challenges -- from investment...
by Robert Nisbet, John Elder IV, Gary Miner
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
The Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications is a comprehensive professional reference book that guides business analysts, scientists, engineers and researchers (both academic and industrial) through all stages of data analysis, model building and implementation. The Handbook...
by Gary Miner, John Elder IV, Thomas Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications brings together all the information, tools and methods a professional will need to efficiently use text mining applications and statistical analysis.
Winner of a 2012 PROSE Award in Computing and Information...
An Anointed Man Who Care About People
The Life of Elder John R. Walden
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
My name is John Walden. I am married to a great woman of integrity who has brought nothing but joy into my life since the day we said our vows before God. She has been there through the good, the bad, and the ugly. Together we adopted three children and have been foster parents to several others....
Raccoon John Smith
Frontier Kentucky's Most Famous Preacher
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2005
The Disciples of Christ, one of the first Christian faiths to have originated in America, was established in 1832 in Lexington, Kentucky, by the union of two groups led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone. The modern churches resulting from the union are known collectively to religious scholars...
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