A "richly anecdotal" account of the secluded LA neighborhood's legendary music scene, a tale of groupies, cocaine, and California dreaming ( Salon).Finalist, SCBA Book Award for NonfictionA Los Angeles Times BestsellerIn the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and melded folk, rock, and ...

Winner: Arthur Goodzeit AwardFor seven weeks in 1929, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union battled in Manchuria over control of the Chinese Eastern Railroad. It was the largest military clash between China and a Western power ever fought on Chinese soil, involving more that a quarter million combatants. Michael M. Walker’s The 1929 Sino-Soviet War is the first full account of what UPI’s Moscow correspondent called “the war nobody knew”—a “limited mod...

This work examines the cognitive capacity of great apes in order to better understand early man and the importance of memory in the evolutionary process. It synthesizes research from comparative cognition, neuroscience, primatology as well as lithic archaeology, reviewing findings on the cognitive ability of great apes to recognize the physical properties of an object and then determine the most effective way in which to manipulate it as a tool to achieve a specific goal. The authors argue...

The Workhorse© 2025 by Michael WalkerIntroduction:The saga is set—long before cities rose, when treasure maps were drawn on faded weathered parchment—there lived a poor prospector named Juriel (pronounced "Zhuriel"), a man who believed fortune was always hiding just one day farther down the road. He dreamt of treasures, but mostly just gold.His only companion was a horse, though "companion" was far too loving a word...

The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from different countries, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Spain, and Great Britain. Making a crucial distinction between these atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most...

Why do people gamble, and why is it that people sometimes gamble to excess? Originally published in 1992, The Psychology of Gambling provides a comprehensive study of gambling behaviour and explores both theories and therapies for the treatment of problem gambling. Involvement in each form of gambling is examined in terms of social and cognitive factors and from this a socio-cognitive theory of gambling is developed in which false beliefs about gambling play a core role in maintai...

Discover how to describe your data in detail, identify data issues, and find out how to solve them using commonly used techniques and tips and tricksKey FeaturesGet well-versed with various data cleaning techniques to reveal key insightsManipulate data of different complexities to shape them into the right form as per your business needsClean, monitor, and validate large data volumes to diagnose problems before moving on to data analysis

The two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter bares her heart and soul in this intimate memoir, a story of music, stardom, love, family, heritage, and resilience.She inspired songs—Leon Russell wrote "A Song for You" and "Delta Lady" for her, Stephen Stills wrote "Cherokee." She co-wrote songs—"Superstar" and the piano coda to "Layla," uncredited. She sang backup for Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, and Stills, before finding fame as a solo artist with such hits as "We're All Al...

Charles Frohman is a theater business mogul with a syndicate that stages productions up and down the eastern seaboard of the United States and across the Atlantic to England and Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. A great deal of Frohman's success is due to his association and friendship with one man – the prominent actor of his time, William Hooker Gillette.Actor, playwright, director, and stage set designer, William Gillette, has thrilled the American public with his int...

Explore supercharged machine learning techniques to take care of your data laundry loadsKey FeaturesLearn how to prepare data for machine learning processesUnderstand which algorithms are based on prediction objectives and the properties of the dataExplore how to interpret and evaluate the results from machine learningBook DescriptionMany individuals who know how to run machine learning algorithms do not have a good sense of ...

“The cross” is a simple phrase used to refer to the greatest single act in history. An act that has transformed the world. An act that produced a seismic shift in the whole world. An act with profound depths. Those simple words, though, have within so much more than just the crucifixion of Jesus nearly 2000 years ago. A new place for us was ushered in – the Kingdom of God. This book intends to convey something of the fullness of what is meant when we refer to “the cross” and as such brings...

Within the Western church in this 21st century, for the first time in man's history, death is as much a taboo subject as without, yet the Christian's greatest hope is not for this present life. Instead it is in the “afterlife”, where we talk of “being with Jesus” or “going to Heaven” as though these are better options for us than our present life. Yet, the way we live our lives does not reflect these ideas. And how can we live our lives in the truth of death, unless we know what the bible ...