At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual sp
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This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.It covers aspects of unsupervised machine learning used for knowledge discovery in data science and introduces a data-driven approach to cl
The vast circulations of mobile devices, sensors and data mean that the social world is now defined by a complex interweaving of human and machine agency. Key to this is the growing power of algorithm
You’ve seen the sci-fi movies and dreamed of creating your very own robot – a machine built by your own hands that will move and perform tasks at your command.This book is the perfect illu
International adoption is in a state of virtual collapse, rates having fallen by more than half since 2004 and continuing to fall. Yet around the world millions of orphaned and vulnerable children nee
To the sound of machine gun fire and the smell of burning flesh, award-winning author In Koli Jean Bofane leads readers on a perilous, satirical journey through the civil conflict and political instab
Four hundred years in the future, the most dangerous criminals are kept in suspended animation aboard prison ships and "rehabilitated" in a shared virtual reality environment. But Miska Corbin, a thie
Ellie Ultra, third-grade superhero, is running for class president, and her opposition is her nemesis, Dex Diggs, who has got his hands on a wish machine--so when Ellie gets a glimpse of what would ha
?This book investigates the global hub airport as an exemplar of cosmopolitan culture and space. A machine made for movement, itself perched at the crossroads of the world’s incessant mobility, the ai
Out of the lawless west rises the legend of John “Shotgun” Bishop—half man, half killing machine, and all vengeance . . . Here together for the first time are C Courtney Joyne
This book is not a valentine. It doesn't have lacey edges or sugary hearts. But it is full of lucky rocks, secret hiding spots, and gumball machine treasures. This is a book about waiting in line and
Explore the latest Java-based software development techniques and methodologies through the project-based approach in this practical guide. Unlike books that use abstract examples and lots of theory,
The North American power grid has been called the world's largest machine. The grid connects nearly every living soul on the continent; Americans rely utterly on the miracle of electrification. In thi
The history of the grid, the world's largest interconnected power machine that is North America's electricity infrastructure. The North American power grid has been called the world's largest machin
This book explores the mechanics of rotor spinning machines. It discusses the open-end spinning machine rotor’s vibrations and bearings as well as the kinematics of the rotor's drive as individual dri
Master reinforcement learning, a popular area of machine learning, starting with the basics: discover how agents and the environment evolve and then gain a clear picture of how they are inter-related.
This book provides over 1,000 review questions and answers for all types of mechanical engineering exams. It covers all the aspects of mechanical engineering topics including thermodynamics, machine d
The mathematization of causality is a relatively recent development, and has become increasingly important in data science and machine learning. This book offers a self-contained and concise introduct
A new pulse pounding, caffeine fueled, sword swinging, machine-gun firing, car crashing sci-fi adventure comic! In a future where coffee is illegal, Helena is a courier, delivering black market goods
“Little Domesday Clock is a brilliant, sweeping book which, like a time machine, transports a reader back and forth across boundaries of nation and history and, in doing so, exposes and indicts the hu
Get started with Julia for engineering and numerical computing, especially data science, machine learning, and scientific computing applications. This book explains how Julia provides the functionalit
Get started with Apache Flink, the open source framework that enables you to process streaming data—such as user interactions, sensor data, and machine logs—as it arrives. With this practi
Metal enables Apple iOS and macOS platform developers to maximize performance in demanding tasks like 3D graphics, games, scientific programming, visualization, and now GPU-accelerated machine learnin
Gamers and action fans of all types will dive straight into the MEEP, a virtual-reality gaming world, thanks to Julia Durango's cinematic storytelling. A touch of romance, constant twists, and a vivid
Time travel runs amok as Pigsticks and his loyal sidekick commandeer a faulty time machine, catching comical glimpses of history along the way.Pigsticks aspires to be a brilliant inventor like his gre
In Cherokee, the term for motion picture is “a-da-yv-la-ti” or “a-da-yu-la-ti,” meaning “something that appears.” In essence, motion pictures are machine-produced a
The boundaries between the real and the virtual break down in this literary SF thriller from the author of If Then and The Destructives Once, Nelson was a radical journalist, but now he works for Mona
The Teletubbies play with bubbles—and make a bubbly mess—in this sweet 8x8 storybook.The Teletubbies love the Tubby Custard Machine! It makes yummy Tubby Custard for them to eat and Tubby
From the author of Fury, the final book in an explosive trilogy about the secret battle for control of an all-powerful ancient machine which can grant you anything you wish for, in exchange for the pr
Learn Spring Boot and how to build Java-based enterprise, web, and microservice applications with it. In this book, you'll see how to work with relational and NoSQL databases, build your first microse
The War of the Worlds, the best alien invasion novel ever written, gets a superb sequel from the man who knows Wells' work best, the author of the official sequel to The Time Machine.
