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The Paths of History

By: Igor M. Diakonoff

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The Paths of History

By: Igor M. Diakonoff

A history of mankind from palaeolithic times to the present day by a leading scholar of world history.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521643988

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An Autobiography

By: Igor Stravinsky

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An Autobiography

By: Igor Stravinsky

Stravinsky reflects upon episodes in his life as a composer and performer.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393318567

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Cancer Mortality and Morbidity Patterns in the U.S. Population

An Interdisciplinary Approach

By: K.G. Manton,Igor Akushevich,Julia Kravchenko

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Cancer Mortality and Morbidity Patterns in the U.S. Population

An Interdisciplinary Approach

By: K.G. Manton,Igor Akushevich,Julia Kravchenko

The purpose of this book is to examine the etiology of cancer in large human populations using mathematical models developed from an inter-disciplinary perspective of the population epidemiological, biodemographic, genetic and physiological basis of the mechanisms of cancer initiation and progression. In addition an investigation of how the basic mechanism of tumor initiation relates to general processes of senescence and to other major chronic diseases (e.g., heart disease and stroke) will be conducted.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387781935

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9780387781938

Lucas Makes a Comeback

By: Igor Plohl

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Lucas Makes a Comeback

By: Igor Plohl

Lucas fell, and now he lives with a disability. A story of grit and resilience. When Lucas falls off a ladder, he damages his spine and can't use his legs anymore. He can't stand on them and he can't walk on them. Read about how, with self-determination as well as with the love of friends and family, Lucas can drive a car, play sports, and be a teacher again! The author, Igor Plohl, used his own experiences as a paraplegic and as a teacher to speak to children about disability, resilience, and grit.

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Holiday House

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0823447669

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9780823447664

Lucas at the Paralympics

By: Igor Plohl

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Lucas at the Paralympics

By: Igor Plohl

Introduce your child to the Paralympics--where physically disabled world-class athletes exemplify strength, determination, and courage. Lucas and Eddie, two physically disabled friends, visit the Paralympics and cheer on blind and physically challenged athletes as they compete in running, swimming, sitting volleyball, para archery, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair basketball, and more. Readers learn about some of the rules that expedite play and that even the playing field. For example, blind runners wear blindfolds so none of the competitors (some totally blind and some with limited sight) have an unfair advantage. Also, all of the blind competitors are tethered to guides. Author Igor Plohl, who lost the use of his legs after a spinal injury, is a teacher and passionate advocate for raising awareness of physical disability. As a teacher, he knows the questions children ask and how to answer them. A CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book

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0823447650

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Conversations with Igor Stravinsky

By: Robert Craft,Igor Stravinsky

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Conversations with Igor Stravinsky

By: Robert Craft,Igor Stravinsky

Remarks on composing, musicians, contemporary music, Stravinsky's own life, and other topics. Includes a selection of photographs and letters.

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Faber & Faber

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0571255779

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9780571255771

Geometries and Groups

By: Viacheslav V. Nikulin,Igor R. Shafarevich

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Geometries and Groups

By: Viacheslav V. Nikulin,Igor R. Shafarevich

This book is devoted to the theory of geometries which are locally Euclidean, in the sense that in small regions they are identical to the geometry of the Euclidean plane or Euclidean 3-space. Starting from the simplest examples, we proceed to develop a general theory of such geometries, based on their relation with discrete groups of motions of the Euclidean plane or 3-space; we also consider the relation between discrete groups of motions and crystallography. The description of locally Euclidean geometries of one type shows that these geometries are themselves naturally represented as the points of a new geometry. The systematic study of this new geometry leads us to 2-dimensional Lobachevsky geometry (also called non-Euclidean or hyperbolic geometry) which, following the logic of our study, is constructed starting from the properties of its group of motions. Thus in this book we would like to introduce the reader to a theory of geometries which are different from the usual Euclidean geometry of the plane and 3-space, in terms of examples which are accessible to a concrete and intuitive study. The basic method of study is the use of groups of motions, both discrete groups and the groups of motions of geometries. The book does not presuppose on the part of the reader any preliminary knowledge outside the limits of a school geometry course.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642615708

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9783642615702

Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons

By: Igor Stravinsky

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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons

By: Igor Stravinsky

One of the greatest of contemporary composers has here set down in delightfully personal fashion his general ideas about music and some accounts of his own experience as a composer. Every concert-goer and lover of music will take keen pleasure in his notes about the essential features of music, the process of musical composition, inspiration, musical types, and musical execution. Throughout the volume are to he found trenchant comments on such subjects as Wagnerism, the operas of Verdi, musical taste, musical snobbery, the influence of political ideas on Russian music under the Soviets, musical improvisation as opposed to musical construction, the nature of melody, and the function of the critic of music. Musical people of every sort will welcome this first presentation in English of an unusually interesting book.

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Harvard University Press

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0674678567

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9780674678569

The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology

A Study of Theoretical Reason

By: Igor Hanzel

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The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology

A Study of Theoretical Reason

By: Igor Hanzel

The author argues that a reconstruction of scientific laws should give an account of laws relating phenomena to underlying mechanisms generating them, as well as of laws relating this mechanism to its inherent capacities. While contemporary philosophy of science deals only with the former, the author provides the concept for the reconstruction of scientific laws, where the knowledge of the phenomena enables one to grasp the quantity of their cause. He then provides the concepts for scientific laws dealing with the relation of the quantity and quality of the cause underlying phenomena to the quality and quantity of its capacities. Finally, he provides concepts for scientific laws expressing how a certain cause, due to the quantity and quality of its capacities, generates the quantitative and qualitative determinations of its manifestations. The book is intended for philosophers of science and philosophers of social science, as well as for natural and social scientists.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401732655

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9789401732659

The Egyptian Princesses

By: Igor Baranko

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The Egyptian Princesses

By: Igor Baranko

A tale of adventure, conspiracy, and black magic amid the myths and mysteries of Ancient Egypt.

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Humanoids Inc

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1594657254

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9781594657252

Expositions and Developments

By: Igor Stravinsky,Robert Craft

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Expositions and Developments

By: Igor Stravinsky,Robert Craft

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.

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Univ of California Press

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0520371410

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9780520371415

Phonon Focusing and Phonon Transport

In Single-Crystal Nanostructures

By: Igor Gaynitdinovich Kuleyev,Ivan Igorevich Kuleyev,Sergey Mikhailovich Bakharev,Vladimir Vasilyevich Ustinov

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Phonon Focusing and Phonon Transport

In Single-Crystal Nanostructures

By: Igor Gaynitdinovich Kuleyev,Ivan Igorevich Kuleyev,Sergey Mikhailovich Bakharev,Vladimir Vasilyevich Ustinov

The monograph is devoted to the investigation of physical processes that govern the phonon transport in bulk and nanoscale single-crystal samples of cubic symmetry. Special emphasis is given to the study of phonon focusing in cubic crystals and its influence on the boundary scattering and lattice thermal conductivity of bulk materials and nanostructures.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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311067050X

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9783110670509

Igor Presnyakov's Solo Guitar Songbook

As Popularized on YouTube

By: Igor Presnyakov

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Igor Presnyakov's Solo Guitar Songbook

As Popularized on YouTube

By: Igor Presnyakov

(Guitar Solo). Presnyakov is a popular Russian guitarist known for combining a wide range of styles in his solo arrangements of popular songs. His fiery and entertaining performances have gained hundreds of millions of views on YouTube. This book contains 14 choice selections of his video performances transcribed note-for-note with tab so guitarists can learn and play. Songs include: Aerials * Ain't No Sunshine * Careless Whisper * Fade to Black * I Don't Want to Miss a Thing * Money * More Than a Feeling * No Woman No Cry * November Rain * Road Trippin' * Snuff * So Far Away * Sultans of Swing * Thunderstruck.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1540048845

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House Concert

By: Igor Levit,Florian Zinnecker

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House Concert

By: Igor Levit,Florian Zinnecker

Igor Levit ranks among the greatest pianists of his generation, described by The New York Times as ‘one of the essential artists of our time’. But his influence reaches far beyond music: he uses his public platform to speak out against racism, antisemitism and all forms of intolerance and prejudice. Convinced of the duty of the musician to remain an engaged citizen, he is recognized and admired for his willingness to take a stand on some of the great issues of our day, even though it has come at considerable personal cost. When the pandemic broke out and Levit was unable to give live concerts, he switched his piano recitals from concert halls to his living room and gained a huge international following. This book opens a window onto Levit’s life during the 2019–2020 concert season, charting the transition from his whirlwind life of back-to-back live concerts in packed concert halls to the eerie stillness of lockdown and the innovative series of house concerts livestreamed over Twitter. A year in which Levit spoke out against hate and received death threats in response. A year in which he found his voice and found himself – as an artist and as a person.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509553568

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Basic Notions of Algebra

By: Igor R. Shafarevich

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Basic Notions of Algebra

By: Igor R. Shafarevich

Wholeheartedly recommended to every student and user of mathematics, this is an extremely original and highly informative essay on algebra and its place in modern mathematics and science. From the fields studied in every university maths course, through Lie groups to cohomology and category theory, the author shows how the origins of each concept can be related to attempts to model phenomena in physics or in other branches of mathematics. Required reading for mathematicians, from beginners to experts.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540251774

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9783540251774

Red Devils over the Yalu

A Chronicle of Soviet Aerial Operations in the Korean War 1950-53

By: Igor Seidov,Stuart Britton

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Red Devils over the Yalu

A Chronicle of Soviet Aerial Operations in the Korean War 1950-53

By: Igor Seidov,Stuart Britton

The Korean War (1950-1953) was the first - and only - full-scale air war in the jet age. It was in the skies of North Korea where Soviet and American pilots came together in fierce aerial clashes. The best pilots of the opposing systems, the most powerful air forces, and the most up-to-date aircraft in the world in this period of history came together in pitched air battles. The analysis of the air war showed that the powerful United States Air Force and its allies were unable to achieve complete superiority in the air and were unable to fulfill all the tasks they'd been given. Soviet pilots and Soviet jet fighters, which were in no way inferior to their opponents and in certain respects were even superior to them, was the reason for this. The combat experience and new tactical aerial combat tactics, which were tested for the first time in the skies of Korea, have been eagerly studied and applied by modern air forces around the world today. This book fully discusses the Soviet participation in the Korean War and presents a view of this war from the opposite side, which is still not well known in the West from the multitude of publications by Western historians. The reason for this, of course, is the fact that Soviet records pertaining to the Korean War were for a long time highly classified, since Soviet air units were fighting in the skies of North Korea "incognito", so to speak or even more so to write about this was strictly forbidden in the Soviet Union right up to its ultimate collapse. The given work is in essence the first major work in the post-Soviet era. First published in a small edition in Russian in 1998, it was republished in Russia in 2007. For the first time, the Western reader can become acquainted with the most detailed and informative work existing on the course of the air war from the Soviet side, now in English language. The work rests primarily on the recollections of veterans of this war on the so-called 'Red' side - Soviet fighter pilots, who took direct part in this war on the side of North Korea. Their stories have been supplemented with an enormous amount of archival documents, as well as the work of Western historians. The author presents a literal day-by-day chronicle of the aerial combats and combat work of Soviet fighter regiments in the period between 1950 and 1953, and dedicates this work to all the men on both sides who fought and died in the Korean air war.

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Helion and Company

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1909384410

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9781909384415

Aspects of the Theory of Morphology

By: Igor Mel'cuk

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Aspects of the Theory of Morphology

By: Igor Mel'cuk

The book is dedicated to linguistic morphology and it contains a sketch of a complete morphological theory, centered around a discussion of fundamental concepts such as morph vs. morpheme, inflectional category, voice, grammatical case, agreement vs. government, suppletion, relationships between linguistic signs, etc.: the hottest issues in modern linguistics! The book introduces rigorous and clear concepts necessary to describe morphological phenomena of natural languages. Among other things, it offers logical calculi of possible grammemes in a given category. The presentation is developed in a typological perspective, so that linguistic data from a large variety of languages are described and analyzed (about 100 typologically very different languages). The main method is deductive: the concepts proposed in Aspects of the Theory of Morphology are based on a small set of indefinibilia and each concept is defined in terms of these indefinibilia and/or other concepts defined previously; as a result, logical calculi can be constructed (similar to Mendeleev's Periodical Table of Elements in chemistry). Then the concept is applied to the actual linguistic data to demonstrate its validity and advantages. Thus, Aspects of the Theory of Morphology combines metalinguistic endeavor (a system of concepts for morphology) with typological and descriptive orientation. It reaches out to all students of language, including the border fields and applications.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110199866

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9783110199864

Problems in Set Theory, Mathematical Logic and the Theory of Algorithms

By: Igor Lavrov,Larisa Maksimova

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Problems in Set Theory, Mathematical Logic and the Theory of Algorithms

By: Igor Lavrov,Larisa Maksimova

Problems in Set Theory, Mathematical Logic and the Theory of Algorithms by I. Lavrov & L. Maksimova is an English translation of the fourth edition of the most popular student problem book in mathematical logic in Russian. It covers major classical topics in proof theory and the semantics of propositional and predicate logic as well as set theory and computation theory. Each chapter begins with 1-2 pages of terminology and definitions that make the book self-contained. Solutions are provided. The book is likely to become an essential part of curricula in logic.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461501857

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9781461501855

Animals Up Close

Zoom in on the World's Most Incredible Creatures

By: Igor Siwanowicz

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Animals Up Close

Zoom in on the World's Most Incredible Creatures

By: Igor Siwanowicz

Zoom in on the world’s most incredible creatures If your child could be pint-sized like a pipistrelle bat, or see eye-to-eye with a housefly they’d encounter a miniature world of strange body shapes, weird and wonderful behaviour, and some jaw-dropping insights into life for the very small. Thanks to nature photographer Igor Siwanowicz’s incredible photographs, they can do just that. With these astonishing images, they’ll see in eye-popping close up detail how tiny creatures hunt, feed, move, survive and thrive. There are familiar creatures like flies and beetles to look at, along with exotic birds, reptiles, amphibians and rodents. Discover what makes them different and how they cope with living in highly varied habitats. With Igor’s behind the scenes guide on how to photograph such tiny beasts, this is an awesome view of nature in miniature.

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Penguin

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0756656036

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9780756656034

The Suicidal Crisis

Clinical Guide to the Assessment of Imminent Suicide Risk

By: Igor Galynker

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The Suicidal Crisis

Clinical Guide to the Assessment of Imminent Suicide Risk

By: Igor Galynker

The Suicidal Crisis has everything clinicians need to evaluate the risk of imminent suicide. What sets it apart is its clinical focus on those at the highest risk--the book includes individual case studies of acutely suicidal individuals, detailed instructions on how to conduct risk assessments, test cases with answer keys, and empirically validated Suicidal Crisis risk assessment scales.

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Oxford University Press

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0197582710

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9780197582718

Blockchain Babel

The Crypto Craze and the Challenge to Business

By: Igor Pejic

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Blockchain Babel

The Crypto Craze and the Challenge to Business

By: Igor Pejic

WINNER: Independent Press Award 2020 - Technology Category Blockchain is the technology behind bitcoin and other crypto-currencies. According to Santander, it could save financial institutions $15-20bn a year from 2022 onward. Most experts see an unprecedented potential, but many banks, payment processors and credit card companies fret that bitcoin entrepreneurs could cast a pall over their core business. Whatever the position of blockchain, many voices are shouting from different angles, creating a cacophony of confusion including tech-evangelists, anarcho-libertarians and industry experts. But while everybody in IT and banking seems to have an opinion on the blockchain, there is little systematic research, no strategic analysis. Blockchain Babel is the ultimate guide to the most disruptive technology to have entered the finance industry in recent years. Blockchain Babel looks at blockchain alongside innovation diffusion, competitive dynamics and management strategy. Shortlisted as one of the three best business book proposals by McKinsey and the Financial Times for the Bracken Bower Prize in 2016, this is a must-read for business leaders and aspiring leaders wanting to grasp blockchain and put it into context and understand the practical implications it may have.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749484179

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9780749484170

Machine Learning and Data Mining

By: Igor Kononenko,Matjaz Kukar

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Machine Learning and Data Mining

By: Igor Kononenko,Matjaz Kukar

Good data mining practice for business intelligence (the art of turning raw software into meaningful information) is demonstrated by the many new techniques and developments in the conversion of fresh scientific discovery into widely accessible software solutions. Written as an introduction to the main issues associated with the basics of machine learning and the algorithms used in data mining, this text is suitable foradvanced undergraduates, postgraduates and tutors in a wide area of computer science and technology, as well as researchers looking to adapt various algorithms for particular data mining tasks. A valuable addition to libraries and bookshelves of the many companies who are using the principles of data mining to effectively deliver solid business and industry solutions.

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Horwood Publishing

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1904275214

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9781904275213

LABOUR CAMP JASENOVAC

By: Igor Vuki_

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LABOUR CAMP JASENOVAC

By: Igor Vuki_

The Ustasha camp in Jasenovac is a sensitive historical theme, which still provokes strong political conflicts more than 70 years after the closure of the camp. During the time of the second Yugoslavia, the camp was made into a myth and one of the main levers for disciplining the society of the time. The Communist Party imposed the number of 700,000 victims and an exaggerated view of the alleged crimes and methods of killing inmates. The aim was to present itself as sole guarantor of security, because in the case of its "reigning-in", the fratricidal war would happen again, with Jasenovac as its main symbol. Before 1990, an attempt to point out the absurdity of the 700,000 alleged victims of Jasenovac entailed going to prison or compulsory psychiatric treatment. The documents referenced in this book indicate the need to continue with research of the Jasenovac camp and that in a democratic atmosphere, as far as possible, its realistic historical picture may be reached.

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Lulu.com

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0359952089

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9780359952083

Globalizing Chinese Migration

Trends in Europe and Asia

By: Pál Nyíri,Igor Saveliev

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Globalizing Chinese Migration

Trends in Europe and Asia

By: Pál Nyíri,Igor Saveliev

This title was first published in 2003. Globalizing Chinese Migration is the first volume to deal comprehensively with the most recent wave of the migration from the People's Republic of China to Europe and Asia. By analyzing the Chinese state’s role in this migration, the authors dismiss as fiction the theory (sometimes advanced by hostile and racist foreign observers) that Chinese authorities are intent on using mass emigration as an expansionist tool. They go on to explain that migrants who might, in earlier times, have been reviled as traitors and absconders are today more likely to be viewed by sections of the Chinese state bureaucracy as patriots who remain part of China’s polity and economy and contribute to its standing overseas. Some senior officials, however, particularly diplomats, stress the harm done by new migrants, both to China’s economy (which loses assets as a result of the migrants’ entrepreneurial activities) and to its reputation in the world. An essential resource for academics and students alike, the volume presents important new data on aspects of Chinese migration largely neglected in the existing English-language literature. These include new forms of emigration from China (by students and by workers from the country’s north-eastern provinces) and emigration to destinations (including Russia, Southeast Asia, and Japan) normally unremarked by students of population movements.

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Routledge

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1000160580

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On the Edge of the Cold War

American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague

By: Igor Lukes

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On the Edge of the Cold War

American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague

By: Igor Lukes

This book studies the early stages of the Cold War from the perspective of the U.S. Embassy in postwar Prague. The main personalities include Ambassador Steinhardt and U.S. Intelligence officers Katek and Taggart. They were highly educated and motivated. Nevertheless, in 1948 they suffered a strategic defeat that helped deepen the Cold War tensions for decades to come.

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Oxford University Press

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0195166795

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Leningrad

By: Igor Vishnevetsky

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Leningrad

By: Igor Vishnevetsky

Closing the gap between the contemporary Russian novel and the masterpieces of the early Soviet avant-garde, this masterful mixture of prose and poetry, excerpts from private letters and diaries, and quotes from newspapers and NKVD documents, is a unique amalgam of documentary, philosophical novel, and black humor. Revolving around three central characters—a composer; his lover, Vera; and Vera's husband, a naval officer intercepting enemy communications—we are made witness to the inhuman conditions prevailing during the Siege of Leningrad, against a background of starvation and continuous bombing. In their wild attempts to survive, the protagonists hold on to their art, ideals, and sentiments—hoping that these might somehow remain uncorrupted despite the Bolsheviks, Nazis, and even death itself.

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1564789381

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The Unrules

Man, Machines and the Quest to Master Markets

By: Igor Tulchinsky

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The Unrules

Man, Machines and the Quest to Master Markets

By: Igor Tulchinsky

Learn from a master of quantitative finance the rules that made him a success. The UnRules presents the dynamic rules for success in the age of exponential information. Written by Igor Tulchinsky, the trader behind global quantitative investment management firm WorldQuant, this book is more than just another Big Data guide for financial wonks — it’s a prescriptive, inspirational book for everyone navigating the tidal waves of the information age. Data is everywhere, coming at us in a never-ceasing, ever-rising river that threatens to overwhelm us. Tulchinsky shows us, however, how natural patterns underlie that data — patterns that may dictate life or death, success or failure. The marriage of man and machines has allowed scientists to explore increasingly complex worlds, to predict outcomes and eventualities. This book demonstrates how to exercise real intelligence by discerning the patterns that surround us every day and how to leverage this information into success in the workplace and beyond. Igor Tulchinsky has spent his career discerning meaningful patterns in information. For decades, Tulchinsky has been at the forefront of developing predictive trading algorithms known as alphas — a quest that has led Tulchinsky to explore the nature of markets, the fundamentals of risk and reward, and the science behind complex nonlinear systems. Tulchinsky explains what we know of these systems, both natural and man-made, in accessible and personal terms, and he shares how alphas have driven his success as an investor and shaped his central “UnRule,” which is that no rule applies in every case. As markets evolve, even the most effective trading algorithms weaken over time. Decades of creating successful alphas — and learning how to effectively transform them into strategies — have taught Tulchinsky about the need to combine flexibility and focus, discipline and creativity when building complex models. At a time when data and computing power are exploding exponentially, The UnRules provides an expert introduction to our increasingly quantitative world.

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1119372127

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What Do We Know About the World?

Rhetorical and Argumentative Perspectives

By: Gabrijela Kišiček,Igor Ž. Žagar

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What Do We Know About the World?

Rhetorical and Argumentative Perspectives

By: Gabrijela Kišiček,Igor Ž. Žagar

What do we know about the world? Rhetorical and Argumentative Perspectives is a book trying to answer the title question by contributing to rhetorical and argumentative studies. It consists of papers presented at the “First International Conference on Rhetoric in Croatia: the Days of Ivo Škarić” in May, 2012, and subsequently revised for publication. Through a variety of different routs, the papers explore the role of rhetoric and argumentation in various types of public discourse and present interdisciplinary work connecting linguists, phoneticians, philosophers, law experts and communication scientists in the common ground of rhetoric and argumentation.. The Conference was organized with the intent of paying respect to the Croatian rhetorician and professor emeritus Ivo Škarić who was the first to introduce rhetoric at the Department of Phonetics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.

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0920233708

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The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia

By: Igor S. Zonn,Aleksey N Kosarev,Michael Glantz,Andrey G. Kostianoy

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The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia

By: Igor S. Zonn,Aleksey N Kosarev,Michael Glantz,Andrey G. Kostianoy

“The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia” is the second one in the new series of encyclo- dias about the seas of the former Soviet Union published by Springer-Verlag. The ?rst volume – “The Aral Sea Encyclopedia” was published by Springer in 2009. The series will be continued by “The Black Sea Encyclopedia” in 2010. Today the Caspian Sea is known to readers thanks to its oil and gas resources, sturgeon and caviar, signi?cant sea-level variations, socio-economic and political problems. The Caucasus and Central Asia (http://eurodialogue. org/?les/fckeditor_?les/Caspian-s- map2. png) vii viii Introduction For more than 250 years the Caspian Sea was shared by two states: Russia (the Soviet Union) and Persia (Iran). After the disintegration of the USSR in 1992, the new independent states of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have radically changed the political and economic situation in the region. In addition to Russia and Iran, who had determined the situation on the Caspian for a long period, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan are now interested parties, beginning a new stage in the historical development of the Caspian region. This increase in the number of the Caspian legal entities from two to ?ve has given rise to a whole tangle of geopolitical, economic, international legal, ethnic and environmental problems, each of which demands its own approach and settlement mechanism.

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