Through a recent series of breakthroughs, deep learning has boosted the entire field of machine learning. Now, even programmers who know close to nothing about this technology can use simple, efficient tools to implement programs capable of learning from data. This best-selling book uses concrete examples, minimal theory, and production-ready Python frameworks--scikit-learn, Keras, and TensorFlow--to help you gain an intuitive understanding of the concepts and tools for building intelligent s...

Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-m...

This text introduces students to the main issues, theories, and methods related to the study of food from a geographic perspective. Concise and accessible, it provides an overview of key issues in the study of food and illustrates them with current examples from around the world. As the first textbook on this topic, it provides students with theoretical concepts and analytical approaches grounded in the subfields of geography, showcasing the integrative nature of the discipline and its unique...

Los tiempos de pasado presenta de manera sencilla las reglas fundamentales que rigen el uso de los tiempos verbales de pasado en español. Cada unidad del libro presenta de forma inductiva las diferentes reglas de uso de los tiempos verbales de pasado, a través de numerosos ejemplos y ejercicios de reflexión. Además, se ofrecen un buen número de actividades, muchas de ellas basadas en la explotación de textos reales, interesantes indicaciones sobre cómo evitar los errores más comunes c...

El subjuntivo forma parte de la colección Practica tu español. Esta colección consta de cuadernos de autoaprendizaje de ELE, en los que se tratan de manera monográfica temas de dificultad del español graduados por niveles de competencia (básico, intermedio y competente). Cada cuaderno consta de diez unidades que presentan contenidos gramaticales o léxicos, acompañados de numerosos ejemplos y de una variada serie de actividades con sus soluciones, para que el estudiante pueda ejercitar...

Het lesboek is samengesteld volgens de nieuwste inzichten in de basale reanimatie en het leren van vaardigheden. De inhoud is beknopt om u doelgericht te helpen de juiste handelingen te begrijpen en op de goede manier uit te voeren. U bent daarna voorbereid op de situatie waarin u door direct met reanimeren te beginnen een goed leven kan behouden.

Dit lesboek is bedoeld als hulpmiddel om de reanimatievaardigheden te leren.Met dit lesboek leert u, onder begeleiding van een door de NRR gecertif...

Over the first decade of the 21st century the scale and importance of the commercial sport industry has increased dramatically and rapidly. This timely second edition of the ground-breaking text The Business of Sport Management has been comprehensively revised, updated and significantly expanded in scope to meet the needs of today's sports management students, and equip future managers with the tools they need to succeed. Elegantly blending theory with practice, the text looks first at the di...

It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' In the first new one-volume history in two decades, David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and its paradoxes. He examines how the anti-empire of 1776 became the greatest superpower the world has seen, how the country that offered liberty and opportunity on a scale unmatched in Europe nevertheless founded its prosperity on the labour of bl...

Designing Brand Identity Design/Business Whether you're the project manager for your company's rebrand, or you need to educate your staff or your students about brand fundamentals, Designing Brand Identity is the quintessential resource. From research to brand strategy to design execution, launch and governance, Designing Brand identity is a compendium of tools for branding success and best practices for inspiration. 3 sections: brand fundamentals, process basics, and case studies.

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With an introduction by Xiaolu GuoA classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America. When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen.

Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong Kingston listened to her mother's mesmerizing tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is e...