John Taylor: 200 books
by Nello Cristianini, John Shawe-Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2000
This is the first comprehensive introduction to Support Vector Machines (SVMs), a generation learning system based on recent advances in statistical learning theory. SVMs deliver state-of-the-art performance in real-world applications such as text categorisation, hand-written character recognition,...
by John Donohue, Kimberly Taylor, David Lowry
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This two-volume anthology conveniently contains useful academic tools for studying the combative arts. Each chapter will prove special to all interested in the intellectual side to the martial arts. Some chapters provide fine details for categorizing the variety of what we commonly refer to as "martial...
by Mary Baginsky, Felicity Fletcher-Campbell, William Baginsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Safeguarding Children and Schools explains how schools are able to contribute to keeping children safe from harm and promoting their welfare, in line with Government Every Child Matters guidelines.
The contributors, who are all experts in the field of child protection, put the potentially daunting...
by Christian McBurney, Brian L. Wallin, Patrick T. Conley
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Rhode Island's contribution to World War II vastly exceeded its small size. Narragansett Bay was an armed camp dotted by army forts and navy facilities. They included the country's most important torpedo production and testing facilities at Newport and the Northeast's largest naval air station at...
by John Polkinghorne, Roger Penrose, Andrew Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
This book gets to the heart of science by asking a fundamental question about its essence: what is the true nature of space and time? Both defy modern physics and scientists find themselves continually searching for answers. This unique volume brings together world leaders in cosmology, particle physics,...
Waves of Protest
Social Movements Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
Think Again
A Philosophical Approach to Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Contemporary education is held captive by an obsession with assessment. The culture of 'teaching-to-the-test' and 'spoon-feeding' has distorted the purpose of teaching and destroyed the joy of free enquiry.
This book offers practical advice on how to use philosophy as the cornerstone of a new...
by John Sharrock Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
An ancient Celtic settlement, Wigan stands on the River Douglas with its face to the Pennine foothills, 8 miles south-west of Bolton and 20 miles from the South Lancashire coast. Described in 1698 as 'a pretty market town built of stone and brick', Wigan was radically transformed by the first and...
Innovations in Social Work Research
Using Methods Creatively
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
A valuable reference to help practising researchers not only to understand but also to apply innovative approaches to social work research.
Featuring extended case studies of actual research projects, the book provides an overview of a number of central features and qualities of social work...
The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration
Politics, Law, and Unintended Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Today, investor-state arbitration embodies the worst fears of those concerned about runaway globalization - a far cry from its framers' intentions. Why did governments create a special legal system in which foreign investors can bring cases directly against states? This book takes readers through...
Scattering Theory
The Quantum Theory of Nonrelativistic Collisions
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This graduate-level text is intended for any student of physics who requires a thorough grounding in the quantum theory of nonrelativistic scattering. It is designed for readers who are already familiar with the general principles of quantum mechanics and who have some small acquaintance with scattering...
Street Blues
My Experience, My Strength, and My Hope
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
THE GOOD NEWS OF DELIVERANCE
The Lord has filled me with his spirit. He has chosen me and sent me to bring good news to the poor to heal the broken hearted, to announce release the captives and freedom to those in prison. He has sent me to proclaim that the time has come when the Lord will...
Digital Literacy and Digital Inclusion
Information Policy and the Public Library
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Digital Literacy and Digital Inclusion: Information Policy and the Public Library examines the interrelationships between digital literacy, digital inclusion, and public policy, emphasizing the impacts of these policy decisions on the ability of individuals and communities to successfully participate...
Ideology and Utopia in the Twenty-First Century
The Surplus of Meaning in Ricoeur's Dialectical Concept
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
This edited work is spurred by the 30-year anniversary of the groundbreaking work by Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986)—and the 40-year anniversary of the original lectures (1975). Ricoeur took these concepts that continue to be enormously important in social and political analysis...