Unlike what usually passes for economics in many classrooms, government, the media and elsewhere, Choice is an engaging and intriguing book that provides something quite unique: a genuine treatise on economics that instructs and entertains both economists and general readers.Drawing on the seminal volume by the “Austrian School” economist Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, and comparing classical and neoclassical approaches,

One night, I had a dream about dancing cupcakes.When I woke up and recalled the dream, the name Cupcake Katy came to me.The creation of Cupcake Katy then began.

Fantasia on the life and works of W.B. Yeats set as a dream during his last days in the south of France. Captures the symbols, the quest for magic, the Celtic folklore and the tremendous creative drive of the greatest Irish poet in his twilight years. All this in a story of a young man's quest to rescue his girl transformed into a swan, a journey full of perils and trials. The worst enemy is time. Can all this be truly complete before the dreamer awakes?

The Christmas Miracle comes to Dracula's Castle via a newly installed cable dish. A crisis of fear, dissatisfaction and dwindling finances lead to a special haunting of the old demon himself. Three Night Visitors using the large TV screen show Vlad Dracul his Christmas past, present and future, but can the Christmas spirit itself prevail? An incredible and scandalous challenge, a war of mismatched stereotypes, comedy, and satire that would have both Dickens and Stoker clutching crucifixes ...

Two Americans in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War land in France to search out Charles Baudelaire("Les Fleurs du Mal"), to offer that notable poet a literary business proposal. Meeting Baudelaire in exile in Belgium, they offer unpublished, "genuine" manuscripts to the Poe fan and translator. What follows is a jumble of doubles, fraud, and mystery that tests the patience of the very ill and failing Baudelaire- whose own last angry works are themselves in disarray. Included in these...

An advanced book for researchers and graduate students working in machine learning and statistics who want to learn about deep learning, Bayesian inference, generative models, and decision making under uncertainty.An advanced counterpart to Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction, this high-level textbook provides researchers and graduate students detailed coverage of cutting-edge topics in machine learning, including deep generative modeling, grap...

A light-hearted old style OZ book with an ocean of humor and rich plot. Dorothy is swept from the Emerald City along with stolen flowers into a spiral rainbow sea of petals. She is rescued by an odd duck, Captain Tuckerdown Bufflehead Drake III, and his crew, Motley and Powwy the Parrot. Set on a course to find the source of ancient magic by Queen Belizabuzz of the Undersea Hive, they are accompanied by beople drones and a Mingwing Hummer. Island adventures, more transformed characters, in...

A detailed and up-to-date introduction to machine learning, presented through the unifying lens of probabilistic modeling and Bayesian decision theory.This book offers a detailed and up-to-date introduction to machine learning (including deep learning) through the unifying lens of probabilistic modeling and Bayesian decision theory. The book covers mathematical background (including linear algebra and optimization), basic supervised learning (including linear and l...

Caught up in a space station turf war between gangs and corrupt law, a lone asteroid miner decides to take them all down.When an asteroid miner comes to Station 35 looking to sell her cargo and get back to the solitude she craves, she gets swept up in a three-way standoff with gangs and crooked cops. Faced with either taking sides or cleaning out the Augean Stables, she breaks out the flamethrower.

They may be young, but they are ruthless, violent and rule the streets of London with an iron fist. They are the Young Gangsters. Terrifying and cold-blooded,some people said that they were only kids and would grow out of it. Little did they know the power of friendship and what they would do for it...The Young Gangsters is a high-octane, action-packed adventure tracing the lives of a group of friends to whom loyalty and respect is tantamount, and who will stop at nothing to get their own ...

Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diverse collection of essays that shed new light on the historical intersections between gender and sexuality across time and space.Demonstrates both the particularities of specific formulations of gender and sexuality and the nature of the relationship between the categories themselvesPresents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis of the shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminates broa...

In this timely new P.I. Guide, Murphy reveals the stark truth: free market failure didn't cause the Great Depression and the New Deal didn't cure it. Shattering myths and politically correct lies, he tells why World War II didn t help the economy or get us out of the Great Depression; why it took FDR to make the Depression Great; and why Herbert Hoover was more like Obama and less like Bush than the liberal media would have you believe. Free-market believers and capitalists everywhere shou...