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Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series

Powerful, Flexible Tools for a Data-Driven WorldAs the data deluge continues in today's world, the need to master data mining, predictive analytics, and business analytics has never been greater. These techniques and tools provide unprecedented insights into data, enabling better decision making and forecasting, and ultimately the solution of incre

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Markus Werner

A bracing and darkly comic novel about a disgraced priest who finds himself haunted by his dead and disapproving father, this little-known classic of Swiss literature is impossible to forget.In a small town in Switzerland, Franz—ex-clergyman, ex-husband, current counselor of locals at loose ends—is being haunted by his recently deceased father, Klement. In life, Franz was caught cheating on his wife and defrocked, after which Klement never spoke to him again. In de...

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Markus Werner

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Kyle Goslin, Markus Hofmann

Applied User Data Collection and Analysis Using JavaScript and PHP is designed to provide the technical skills and competency to gather a wide range of user data from web applications in both active and passive methods. This is done by providing the reader with real-world examples of how a variety of different JavaScript- and PHP-based libraries can be used to gather data using custom feedback forms and embedded data gathering tools.Once data has been gathered, thi...

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Zach Davis, Juliana Kushner, Gustavo Ticic

PoweReading is a tried and tested step-by-step system that guarantees above-average success. With PoweReading 1.378 users have been scientifically proven to achieve an average increase in reading speed of 124,5 % with a 4 % higher rate of text comprehension. With this system you will to ride the wave of information instead of being smothered by it. Inclusive: Interview with Markus Hofmann

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Kyle Loudon

How do you create a mission-critical site that provides exceptional performance while remaining flexible, adaptable, and reliable 24/7? Written by the manager of a UI group at Yahoo!, Developing Large Web Applications offers practical steps for building rock-solid applications that remain effective even as you add features, functions, and users. You'll learn how to develop large web applications with the extreme precision required for other types of software.Avoid co...

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Irene Duke

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Everything® Series

Discover the intricacies of American Sign Language with this comprehensive, essential guide to learning the basics of sign language.The appeal of American Sign Language (ASL) has extended beyond the Deaf community into the mainstream—it’s even popular as a class in high school and college. You are guided through the basics of ASL with clear instruction and more than 300 illustrations. With a minimum of time and effort, you will learn to sign: the ASL alphabet; ques...

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Harbor City Apps

Learn all about the note-taking technique that improves memory and learning, concentration, time management, and creativity.Included:IntroductionChapter One: The Science of Mind MappingChapter Two: Guidelines for the Mind Mapping ProcessChapter Three: The Structure of the Mind Mapping ProcessChapter Four: Mind Mapping CharacteristicsChapter Five: Understanding the Architecture of Your BrainChapter Six: Uses for Mind MappingCha...

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Scott Millett

Design patterns are time-tested solutions to recurring problems, letting the designer build programs on solutions that have already proved effectiveProvides developers with more than a dozen ASP.NET examples showing standard design patterns and how using them helpsbuild a richer understanding of ASP.NET architecture, as well as better ASP.NET applicationsBuilds a solid understanding of ASP.NET architecture that can be used over and over again in many projects...

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Tove Ditlevsen

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Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell

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Penguin Modern Classics

A new selection of poetry from the generation-defining author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, translated for the first time into EnglishWhile Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as an extraordinary prose writer, in Denmark she has also long been celebrated as a poet. She published her first collection in her early twenties, and continued writing and publishing poetry until the end of her life. This new selection offers English readers a chance to expl...

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Franz Kafka

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Michael Hofmann

A windfall for every reader: a trove of marvelous impossible-to-find Kafka stories in a masterful new translation by Michael HofmannSelected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, the seventy-four pieces gathered here have been lost to sight for decades and two of them have never been translated into English before. Some stories are several pages long; some run about a page; a handful are on...

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Drew Boyd, Jacob Goldenberg

“The ‘inside-the-box approach’ can reveal key opportunities for innovation that are hiding in plain sight” (Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive).The traditional attitude toward creativity in the American business world is to “think outside the box”—to brainstorm without restraint in hopes of coming up with a breakthrough idea, often in moments of crisis. Sometimes it works, but it’s a problem-specific solution that does nothing to engender creative thinking mo...