Textbooks

The Joy of Cryptography is a textbook for an undergraduate course in cryptography.

100 Statistical Tests in R is designed to give you rapid access to one hundred of the most popular statistical tests.

In this book some of the world's leading academic experts on American-European relations provide the most up to date presentations of the topic available today.

This book contributes to the growing scholarly interest in the history of disability by investigating the emergence of 'idiot' asylums in Victorian England. Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, as a case-study, it investigates the social history of institutionalization, privileging the relationship between the medical institution and the society whence its patients came.

Learn to harness the power of AI for natural language processing, performing tasks such as spell check, text summarization, document classification, and natural language generation. Along the way, you will learn the skills to implement these methods in larger infrastructures to replace existing code or create new algorithms.

TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript, which means that all JavaScript code is valid TypeScript code. TypeScript adds a lot of new features on top of that.

If you’re new to Erlang, its functional style can seem difficult, but with help from this hands-on introduction, you’ll scale the learning curve and discover how enjoyable, powerful, and fun this language can be.

This book highlights the methods and applications for roadside video data analysis, with a particular focus on the use of deep learning to solve roadside video data segmentation and classification problems.

The growth of social media over the last decade has revolutionized the way individuals interact and industries conduct business.

You Too Can be a Linux Command Line Genius! You've seen the sleek and point and click surface that is the Linux desktop client. While this is great, we all know the real power of Linux lies beneath the hood. The problem is the command line is intimidating and you want to learn it quickly and as easily as possible.

Build and deploy powerful neural network models using the latest Java deep learning libraries Key Features Understand DL with Java by implementing real-world projects Master implementations of various ANN models and build your own DL systems Develop applications using NLP, image classification, RL, and GPU processing

This multi-volume reference work serves as a gateway to information on all aspects of very large databases. Over 1,400 alphabetically organized entries offer convenient access to basic terminology, concepts, methods, and algorithms. Definitions, key words, illustrations, applications, and a bibliography are provided for each entry. Cross-references throughout the encyclopedia enable readers to quickly jump to related materials.

It has long been recognized that court trials in the common law system, both criminal and civil, operate around pairs of competing narratives told by opposing advocates. In recent years, however, it has increasingly been argued that narrative flows in many directions and through every form of legal theory and practice. Interest in the part played by metaphor in the law, including metaphors for the law, and for many standard concepts in legal practice, has also been strong, though research under the metaphor banner has been much more fragmentary.

The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Third Edition, assists judges in managing cases involving complex scientific and technical evidence by describing the basic tenets of key scientific fields from which legal evidence is typically derived and by providing examples of cases in which that evidence has been used.

The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law addresses the interface of psychology and law and draws from the related discipline of criminal justice. These two volumes represent an outstanding collection of entries describing a wide array of contemporary and historical psychology and law topics. With more than 400 entries, this comprehensive resource is perfect to fill the substantial gap in the holdings of academic, professional, and personal libraries on this topic.

Now in its fourth edition, this best-selling reader in international political economy offers 31 solid articles - 15 new - by renowned scholars in political science and economics.

This 2007 volume is intended to help readers understand the relationship between international law and international relations (IL/IR). As a testament to this dynamic area of inquiry, new research on IL/IR is now being published in a growing list of traditional law reviews and disciplinary journals.

Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values.

This work is intended as a study/revision aid for students, rather than as a substitute for more detailed treatises.

Sound Design Theory and Practice is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the concepts which underpin the creative decisions that inform the creation of sound design.