Using machine learning for products, services, and critical business processes is quite different from using ML in an academic or research setting—especially for recent ML graduates and those moving from research to a commercial environment. Whether you currently work to create products and services that use ML, or would like to in the future, this practical book gives you a broad view of the entire field.Authors Robert Crowe, Hannes Hapke, Emily Caveness, and Di Zhu help you ident...

This book is responsive to widespread individual and social concerns. The author assumes everyone wants to be better at building selected behaviors for themselves and others, and many of us want strategies for constructively dealing with political and social issues. We might want to exercise more or get our children and friends or coworkers and leaders to learn or behave better.The author addresses topics of personal and social well-being in a stepwise manner. The book features fiv...

Not all ghosts are dead. Grace doesn't understand why Mama always drags her to see her creepy Uncle Eddie. The victim of a horrific gunshot wound, Uncle Eddie is literally missing half of his brain. The devastating injury has left him near-catatonic, with only some basic motor functions and cognitive ability. His interaction with Grace is nothing more than mispronouncing her name and occasionally shedding a tear. So when Uncle Eddie gives her a cryptic warning seemingly ou...

I have few friends and fewer allies. What I do have on the island of Everland is a lot of people who want me gone. So when the Crocodile and Captain Hook reappear in my life, I am in no mood. And worse, they’re unknowingly endangering themselves by asking for me by a name I long considered dead.Now, not only do I have to save myself, I have to save the two men who I swore I would murder with my bare hands if I ever set eyes on them again considering they abandoned me....

Vane and the Crocodile AKA the Madd Brothers, have been stripped of their titles and their assets after their father’s failed coup of the Darkland Court. Immortal, powerful and monstrous, it doesn’t take them long to make their way back up the ladder, but this time it’s not in the manors and mansions of the Darkland elite, it’s the dark underbelly known as the Umbrage.Years later, they now rule the Umbrage and they are ruthless, destroying anyone who gets in their way. But even mon...

I’m getting married. Again. But this time it’s to the men I love: Captain James Hook and the Crocodile, the Devourer of Men.As a Darling, I never thought I’d get the fairytale life. Not with Peter Pan haunting my family line. Not with the monsters and witches and myths of the Seven Isles plotting for revenge.On the morning of my wedding, all seems well……until someone kidnaps James.Surely it must be a mistake. Because no one on Darkland would be stup...

He’s my monster now.The Crocodile, the Devourer of Men, has devoured something he shouldn’t: a Myth Maker Witch. Now, with the witch’s dark power swirling inside of him, he’s losing control of his monster and quickly making his way through my ship and my crew. It’s only me and Wendy Darling who can pull him back. But even we know time is running out.We steer my ship to Neverland where Vane, Roc’s little brother and one of Peter Pan’s Lost Boys, rev...

1592: Sir Robert Carey is having to step carefully in London where he has just punched his father's powerful colleague, Vice Chamberlain Heneage, on the nose. Lawsuits are abounding, multiplying like locusts and Dodd wants his vengeance too.However there is a strange shortage of lawyers at the Inns of Court and the best Carey can find is a nervous oddity called James Enys. Although he is a barrister, he has no practice or money and is scarred by smallpox. He has his own agenda and ...

From the best selling and award-winning Irish author Robert Craven,A Kind of DrowningThe man standing at the funeral in bubble-gum pink hair is P.J. Crowe. His career as a detective is in tatters - he's facing dismissal, vilified by the press, and his wife's about to leave. Lying low in a small seaside town he spots a ‘Help Wanted’ ad in the kitchen of a local café. It offers him an escape from the public and his spiralling mental health - and it's...

We don't just want to live a long time. We want to live young! We want to enjoy life, be active, look good, travel, make love and socialize.Robert Yonover, PhD, attacks the problem of aging with personally researched techniques and practical advice from today's medical experts.Jennifer Armstrong, M.D., Advanced Skincare and Surgery Medcenter, Newport Beach, CA, shares guidelines for keeping skin young.Adam Crowe, PDC, permaculture consultant, herbalist and organic f...

This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Oral History Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever compiled of African American life under segregation.

The passage from real life to an imagined, magical one has fulfilled a childish yearning for many a young person, particularly those who grew up in less than desirable circumstances. Writer and editor Dayle A. Dermatis tapped into that yearning to bring together this collection of stories that take their characters through portals to fantastical worlds—although sometimes the new worlds prove more problematic than the old ones. Still, for anyone who sees herself as the hero of her own story...