Stephanie Thomas: 33 books

Harness the power of MATLAB to resolve a wide range of machine learning challenges. This book provides a series of examples of technologies critical to machine learning. Each example solves a real-world problem.   All code in MATLAB Machine Learning Recipes:  A Problem-Solution Approach...

What happens when you fall for the one person you can’t have? For college student Olivia Deering that meant waiting three long years. Years spent wondering if he would still want her the way he did that fateful graduation day. Wondering if his gaze would still electrify her soul like nothing...

I knew better than to become involved. Our tortured pasts were too much for either of us to bear. Yet I couldn’t stay away and neither could he. We were bound by our desires that exposed our deepest wounds. Ones that left us both open and raw and wanting more than the rules allowed. We knew we couldn’t...

I did what I had to do, yet in my heart I knew I needed Andre as much as he needed me. Our souls had entwined themselves together exposing our darkest secrets. Secrets that bound us as one and lured fierce enemies from the darkness who tested our love in ways we hadn’t expected. And I knew if we...

This book is a comprehensive guide to machine learning with worked examples in MATLAB. It starts with an overview of the history of Artificial Intelligence and automatic control and how the field of machine learning grew from these. It provides descriptions of all major areas in machine learning. The...

Learn from state-of-the-art examples in robotics, motors, detection filters, chemical processes, aircraft, and spacecraft. This is a practical reference for industry engineers using MATLAB to solve everyday problems. With MATLAB Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach you will review contemporary MATLAB...

Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awareness of energy efficiency. Here she reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that lie behind the realization of her ideals. By using her own house as a case study, Roaf guides the reader through the ideas for energy-efficient design...

Drag kings and sea monsters, switchblade travellers and teacup ghosts—these stories and poems are a mixture of the mundane and the bizarre. Here you’ll find true tales of a son’s death and a girl’s first heartbreak, stories that range from the minutely personal to the transcendently universal. Words...

Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games. Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...

From baking a magical love spell to having the opportunity to rectify a mistake from the past to hunting a serial killer, Debut Writers’ Showcase highlights stories from Fiction River’s first year that marked a first professional sale for these up-and-coming authors. Since first appearing in a...

Bailey's Irish Dream by Stephanie Doyle Married by thirty or else! If still single on her birthday, Baily Monohan promised her family she'd return home and marry her boring childhood sweetheart. But fate has other plans when Baily is involved in an accident with a black Mercedes-driven...

The first state-of-the-art, comprehensive resource to encompass the wide breadth of the rapidly growing field of Judaism and health. "For Jews, religion and medicine (and science) are not inherently in conflict, even within the Torah-observant community, but rather can be friendly partners...

Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness,...

The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural...