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Darker Than the Deepest Sea

The Search for Nick Drake

By: Trevor Dann

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Darker Than the Deepest Sea

The Search for Nick Drake

By: Trevor Dann

Looks at the life and career of the English singer and songwriter who died of a drug overdose at the age of twenty-six in 1974.

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Da Capo Press

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0306815206

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9780306815201

The Elements of Statistical Learning

Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction

By: Trevor Hastie,Robert Tibshirani,Jerome Friedman

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The Elements of Statistical Learning

Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction

By: Trevor Hastie,Robert Tibshirani,Jerome Friedman

During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Many of these tools have common underpinnings but are often expressed with different terminology. This book describes the important ideas in these areas in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics. Many examples are given, with a liberal use of color graphics. It should be a valuable resource for statisticians and anyone interested in data mining in science or industry. The book’s coverage is broad, from supervised learning (prediction) to unsupervised learning. The many topics include neural networks, support vector machines, classification trees and boosting---the first comprehensive treatment of this topic in any book. This major new edition features many topics not covered in the original, including graphical models, random forests, ensemble methods, least angle regression & path algorithms for the lasso, non-negative matrix factorization, and spectral clustering. There is also a chapter on methods for “wide” data (p bigger than n), including multiple testing and false discovery rates. Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman are professors of statistics at Stanford University. They are prominent researchers in this area: Hastie and Tibshirani developed generalized additive models and wrote a popular book of that title. Hastie co-developed much of the statistical modeling software and environment in R/S-PLUS and invented principal curves and surfaces. Tibshirani proposed the lasso and is co-author of the very successful An Introduction to the Bootstrap. Friedman is the co-inventor of many data-mining tools including CART, MARS, projection pursuit and gradient boosting.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387216065

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9780387216065

The War of Stardeon

The Bowl of Souls: Book Four

By: Trevor H. Cooley

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The War of Stardeon

The Bowl of Souls: Book Four

By: Trevor H. Cooley

The Battle Academy has been besieged by an army of goblinoids under the control of the mother of the moonrats. They bide their time, keeping the academy out of the fight while Ewzad Vriil prepares to unleash a force of mutated monsters. Jhonate and Faldon the Fierce have begun to unravel the mystery of the mother of the moonrat's identity, while Justan and Master Coal have learned the secret of Ewzad Vriil's powers. Both groups scramble to find a way to help the academy, but neither of them knows the full extent of the forces they are up against. Will they be able to gather the strength they need to win The War of Stardeon? The War of Stardeon is Book Four of The Bowl of Souls series. Book one: Eye of the Moonrat Book 1.5: Hilt's Pride Book two: Messenger of the Dark Prophet Book three: Hunt of the Bandham Book four: The War of Stardeon Book five: Mother of the Moonrat Upcoming (Tarah Woodblade)

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Trevor H. Cooley

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1301544906

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9781301544905

Inverting the Norm

Law as the Form of Common Practice

By: Trevor N. Wedman

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Inverting the Norm

Law as the Form of Common Practice

By: Trevor N. Wedman

Trevor N. Wedman seeks to understand the key assumptions underlying modern legal theory. Going back to Hobbes, but also making use of the developments in the theory of action and language philosophy over the past century, he breaks down the static conception of the state into one dependent on the actions and reflections of individuals, i.e., its citizens. He develops a social ontological theory of the law, in which the law is not taken as a mere given, but as an institutional fact. He criticizes both the Kelsenian conception of the Basic Norm and the Hartian notion of the Rule of Recognition as failing to account for the agency of individuals. The author turns to the work of one of Kelsen's contemporaries, Felix Somlo, in order to develop an alternative conception of the law that operates not from the top down, but from the bottom up. In this way, the law itself comes into focus as that which results from the reasoned jurisprudential reflection on the reality of meanings and actions.

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Mohr Siebeck

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316161691X

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9783161616914

German Grammar 11-14

By: Oliver Gray,Trevor Stevens

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German Grammar 11-14

By: Oliver Gray,Trevor Stevens

German Grammar 11-14 is a flexible resource which enables pupils to gain a real understanding of grammar early on. The book can be used alongside any major German course while simple explanations in English and lots of practice exercises also make it ideal for independent study. Covers all the essential grammar for the early years of language learning.Stepped activities provide opportunities for progression.Use of familiar vocabulary minimises barriers to understanding.Self-standing chapters enable a flexible approach.Comprehensive revision section allows students to revise grammar through fresh activities.

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Heinemann

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0435305220

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9780435305222

Blank Spots on the Map

The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World

By: Trevor Paglen

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Blank Spots on the Map

The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World

By: Trevor Paglen

Welcome to a top-level clearance world that doesn't exist...Now with updated material for the paperback edition. This is the adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a road trip through a shadow nation of state secrets, clandestine military bases, black sites, hidden laboratories, and top-secret agencies that make up what insiders call the "black world." Here, geographer and provocateur Trevor Paglen knocks on the doors of CIA prisons, stakes out a covert air base in Nevada from a mountaintop 30 miles away, dissects the Defense Department's multibillion dollar "black" budget, and interviews those who live on the edges of these blank spots. Whether Paglen reports from a hotel room in Vegas, a secret prison in Kabul, or a trailer in Shoshone Indian territory, he is impassioned, rigorous, relentless-and delivers eye-opening details.

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Penguin

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1101011491

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9781101011492

Dancing on Our Bones

New Zealand, South Africa, Rugby and Racism

By: Trevor Lawson Richards

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Dancing on Our Bones

New Zealand, South Africa, Rugby and Racism

By: Trevor Lawson Richards

Leading New Zealand anti-apartheid campaigner Trevor Richards has written this history of New Zealand's contribution to the fight against racism and apartheid in South Africa. The story of the protests is vividly told - but it is not an account of one man's battle against the system - "it is a serious history of a crucial part of our recent past.

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Bridget Williams Books

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1877242004

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9781877242007

In Tuneful Accord

The Church Musicians

By: Trevor Beeson

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In Tuneful Accord

The Church Musicians

By: Trevor Beeson

This is a superbly entertaining overview of the Church of England over the last fifty years. The image of Sung Evensong may seem timeless, but the patterns of Anglican worship have changed continuously. Beginning with the great Victorian modernisers who stamped their taste on music as much as church buildings, we are taken on a memorable and entertaining musical tour that takes in: the impact of the Wesleys, the publication of "Hymns Ancient & Modern", the great organ builders, Willis and Walker, Vaughan Williams and the "English Hymnal", the Royal School of Church Music, The hymn writing explosion and the electronic age. All this and more presented here in Trevor's inimitable and sharply observant style.

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SCM Press

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0334048133

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9780334048138

The Rise of Hitler

By: Trevor Salisbury

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The Rise of Hitler

By: Trevor Salisbury

In 1945, amidst the ruins of a bomb-damaged German home a tattered book, Deutschland Erwache, was recovered as a souvenir by a British soldier. This rare and invaluable primary resource now forms the basis of The Rise of Hitler Illustrated, which is a photographic record of Hitlers' rise to power from when he was born in 1889, as he took over the hearts and minds of the German people, and his eventual arrival at the top.The original book is typical of the propaganda of the time, with the obvious non-critical acceptance of everything that Adolf Hitler was and what he stood for. It attempts to present him as a peaceloving man, who wanted nothing other than quiet in his 'beloved Alps', who dearly loved children and was kind to all. But as we all know, the truth was completely different. He was a man who, despite his unbounded evilness, was able to assert limitless power over a nation before creating maximum misery for millions.When found, the original book was divest of its cover and all the worse for wear, but Trevor Salisbury has gone to every effort to salvage some of the images, the result a fresh and new perspective that sheds light on Hitler's control of Germany. It is a welcome addition to Pen & Sword's highly acclaimed Images of War series.

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Pen and Sword

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1473854784

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9781473854789

Hilt's Pride

The Bowl of Souls: Book 1.5

By: Trevor H. Cooley

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Hilt's Pride

The Bowl of Souls: Book 1.5

By: Trevor H. Cooley

Sir Hilt is forced to delay an urgent mission when he sees a lone woman climbing a dangerous mountain. She refuses his help but when Hilt discovers that the prophet was the one that told her to climb to the mountain's peak, Hilt realizes that it is his duty to accompany her. What dangers lie in their way? What reasons did the prophet have for bringing them together? Will all their plans be derailed by Hilt's Pride? Hilt's Pride is a 130 page novella. The events in Hilt's Pride take place just after Hilt leaves Justan at the Training School part way through Bowl of Souls: Book One. The events herein set up important events in book Four and Five. Still, this is a stand alone story and can be read apart from or along with the rest of the series. This story contains no spoilers to the rest of the series, but contains a lot of information that enhances the backgrounds of several characters including revealing previously untold information about Jhonate's past and the history of her people. The Bowl of Souls series: Book One: Eye of the Moonrat Book 1.5: Hilt's Pride Book Two: Messenger of the Dark Prophet Book Three: Hunt of the Bandham Book Four: The War of Stardeon Book Five: Mother of the Moonrat

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Trevor H. Cooley

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1301999709

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9781301999705

The Lycians: The Lycians in literary and epigraphic sources

By: Trevor Bryce,Jan Zahle

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The Lycians: The Lycians in literary and epigraphic sources

By: Trevor Bryce,Jan Zahle

This book is the first of a projected 2-volume account of the ancient Lycians. The Lycian civilisation has proved, and is continuing to prove, a rich field of investigation for historians, archaeologists, numismatists, and philologists alike. It is a civilisation with many distinctive features, as illustrated by its abundant archaeological remains, particularly the impressive funerary architecture of many of its cities, by its social customs and institutions, attested in both literary and epigraphic sources, by its numerous coin issues, amongst the most varied ever prodcusted in Asia Minor, and by its peculiar language, which today is only partially understood.

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Museum Tusculanum Press

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8772890231

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9788772890234

The Biochemistry of Alkaloids

By: Trevor Robinson

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The Biochemistry of Alkaloids

By: Trevor Robinson

The alkaloids were of great importance to mankind for centuries, long before they were recognized as a chemical class. The influence they have had on literature is hinted at by some of the quotations I have used as chapter headings. Their in fluence on folklore and on medicine has been even greater. The scientific study of alkaloids may be said to have begun with the isolation of morphine by SERTURNER in 1804. Since that time they have remained of great interest to chemists, and now in any month there appear dozens of publications dealing with the isolation of new alkaloids or the determination of the structures of previously known ones. The area of alkaloid biochemistry, in comparison, has received little attention, and today is much less developed. There is a certain amount of personal arbitrariness in defining "biochemistry", as there is in defining "alkaloid", and this arbitrariness is doubtless compounded by the combination. Nevertheless, it seems to me that in any consideration of the bio chemistry of a group of compounds three aspects are always worthy of attention pathways of biosynthesis, function or activity, and pathways of degradation. For the alkaloids, treatment of these three aspects is necessarily lopsided. Much has been learned about routes of biosynthesis, but information on the other aspects is very scanty. It would be possible to enter into some speculation regarding the biosyn thesis of all the more than 1,000 known alkaloids.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662010151

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9783662010150

Mother of the Moonrat

The Bowl of Souls: Book Five

By: Trevor H. Cooley

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Mother of the Moonrat

The Bowl of Souls: Book Five

By: Trevor H. Cooley

The end is near. The Battle Academy and Mage School forces have joined, but they are outnumbered by Ewzad Vriil’s army of mutated men and Mellinda’s forest of monsters. There are spies on both sides, assassins on the hunt, secrets to be revealed, and Justan’s magic will be unleashed. But there is one thing they haven’t considered. Even if they can somehow overcome Ewzad Vriil, will they be able to destroy The Mother of the Moonrats? Mother of the Moonrat is the fifth book in The Bowl of Souls series. Book One: Eye of the Moonrat Book 1.5: Hilt's Pride Book Two: Messenger of the Dark Prophet Book Three: Hunt of the Bandham Book Four: The War of Stardeon Book Five: Mother of the Moonrat

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Trevor H. Cooley

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1311857710

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9781311857712

Magistrates, Madonnas and Miracles

The Counter Reformation in the Upper Palatinate

By: Trevor Johnson

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Magistrates, Madonnas and Miracles

The Counter Reformation in the Upper Palatinate

By: Trevor Johnson

In 1621, in one of the earliest campaigns of the Thirty Years' War, the South German principality of the Upper Palatinate was invaded and annexed by Maximilian of Bavaria, director of the Catholic League. In the subsequent years the eyes of Europe looked to the fate of this erstwhile hub of the 'Calvinist international', as Maximilian steadily moved to convert its population to Catholicism. This study is the first account in English to focus on this important instance of forced conversion and the first account in any language to place the political impact of the Thirty Years' War into the broader context of the Upper-Palatinate's religious culture examined over the longue durée, from the later sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. The book analyses the rich unpublished sources of church and state from Bavarian and Roman archives, as well as printed texts in varied genres to reconstruct the region's sacred system and to gauge the effectiveness of the campaign of conversion. This allows the study to address questions of how the re-catholicisation was achieved, how a religious culture infused with the spirit of the Counter Reformation developed and how this change shaped the identity of its people. More than this, however, the book also uses the Upper Palatinate case-study to draw broader conclusions about the strengths and limitations of the Confessional model, and suggests other ways of looking at religious change and identity formation in early modern Europe which embraces popular religious culture and voluntary religion, as well coercion. As such the book offers much, not only to scholars of early modern Germany, but to all with an interest in the formation, adoption and imposition of religious identity during this period.

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Routledge

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1351920987

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9781351920988

An Introduction to Molecular Ecology

By: Graham Rowe,Michael Sweet,Trevor John Clark Beebee

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An Introduction to Molecular Ecology

By: Graham Rowe,Michael Sweet,Trevor John Clark Beebee

Revised edition of: Introduction to molecular ecology / Trevor J. C. Beebee, Graham Rowe. 2008. 2nd ed.

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Oxford University Press

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0198716990

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9780198716990

The Trombone

By: Trevor Herbert

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The Trombone

By: Trevor Herbert

This is the first comprehensive study of the trombone in English. It covers the instrument, its repertoire, the way it has been played, and the social, cultural, and aesthetic contexts within which it has developed. The book explores the origins of the instrument, its invention in the fifteenth century, and its story up to modern times, also revealing hidden aspects of the trombone in different eras and countries. The book looks not only at the trombone within classical music but also at its place in jazz, popular music, popular religion, and light music. Trevor Herbert examines each century of the trombone's development and details the fundamental impact of jazz on the modern trombone. By the late twentieth century, he shows, jazz techniques had filtered into the performance idioms of almost all styles of music and transformed ideas about virtuosity and lyricism in trombone playing.

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Yale University Press

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0300100957

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9780300100952

South Australian Football in the Sixties

By: Trevor Gyss

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South Australian Football in the Sixties

By: Trevor Gyss

The sixties was the decade that South Australian football flourished and contined a healthy growth. This included the expansion of the competition with two new clubs joining in 1964 and this assisted the increasing interest and popularity of the game. This decade forms part of the rich tapestry of South Australian football history" -- page 5.

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Lulu.com

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1446799441

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9781446799444

Darker Than the Deepest Sea

The Search for Nick Drake

By: Trevor Dann

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Darker Than the Deepest Sea

The Search for Nick Drake

By: Trevor Dann

When Nick Drake (1948-1974) died of a drug overdose at twenty-six, he left behind three modest-selling albums, including the stark Pink Moon and the lush Bryter Layter. Three decades later, he is recognized as one of the true geniuses of English acoustic music. Yet Nick Drake--whose music was as gentle and melancholy as the man himself-- has always maintained a spectral presence in popular music. This groundbreaking biography reconstructs a vanished life while perfectly capturing the bohemian scenes surrounding the music business in London in the late '60s and early '70s. Using many newly discovered documents and all-new interviews, Trevor Dann reveals more detail on Nick Drake than ever, from his upbringing in a quintessentially English village, through his hash-fueled school days at Cambridge University, to the missed opportunities and mismanagement that defined his career. Friends and colleagues describe the difficulties that he faced as each new album was released, only to fail, and the insidious despair that consumed him. Complete with discography and rare photos, Darker Than the Deepest Sea is essential reading for anyone who has been moved by Nick Drake's unforgettable blend of beauty and sadness.

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Da Capo Press

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0786735430

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9780786735433

A Pound of Flesh

By: Trevor Barnes

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A Pound of Flesh

By: Trevor Barnes

When Scotland Yard's Detective Superintendent Blanche Hampton investigates killings as gruesome as those in America's Jeffrey Dahmer case, she suddenly discovers the terrifying secret of the identity of her target's next victim.

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William Morrow

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0688110487

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9780688110482

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