Jonathan Taylor

Trevor Hastie

Robert Tibshirani

Gareth James

Daniela Witten

An Introduction to Statistical Learning provides an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning, an essential toolset for making sense of the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in fields ranging from biology to finance, marketing, and astrophysics in the past twenty years. This book presents some of the most important modeling and prediction techniques, along with relevant applications. Topics include linear regression, classification, resampling methods, shrinkage approaches, tree-based methods, support vector machines, clustering, deep learning, survival analysis, multiple testing, and more. Color graphics and real-world examples are used to illustrate the methods presented. This book is targeted at statisticians and non-statisticians alike, who wish to use cutting-edge statistical learning techniques to analyze their data. Four of the authors co-wrote An Introduction to Statistical Learning, With Applications in R (ISLR), which has become a mainstay of undergraduate and graduate classrooms worldwide, as well as an important reference book for data scientists. One of the keys to its success was that each chapter contains a tutorial on implementing the analyses and methods presented in the R scientific computing environment. However, in recent years Python has become a popular language for data science, and there has been increasing demand for a Python-based alternative to ISLR. Hence, this book (ISLP) covers the same materials as ISLR but with labs implemented in Python. These labs will be useful both for Python novices, as well as experienced users.

with Applications in Python

An Introduction to Statistical Learning

This book takes as its starting point Pierre-Simon Laplace's much-cited dream in 1812 of 'a vast intelligence' which can 'embrace in the same formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the lightest atom' and for which the future and the past are equally calculable. Laplace sets out the echt-Enlightenment ideal of scientific omniscience and the classic statement of a deterministic universe. The author investigates some of the ways in which Laplacian and, indeed, Newtonian models of observation and the universe are at once assimilated and complicated by Romantic and Victorian writers such as Carlyle, Burke, Abbott, Poe, and Wordsworth. In particular, this book retraces some of the ways in which Laplacian-Newtonian models of scientific 'intelligence' come to inform 19th-century writers' views of themselves and their own modes of observation. The author also explains how some of these literary reimaginings look forward to more modern conceptions of science in the 20th and 21st centuries, such as Chaos Theory and Einsteinian Cosmology. Oddly enough, contemporary science would seem to realize Carlyle's vision of a 'Natural-Supernaturalism,' fusing Laplace's mechanical vision with Romanticism. This book covers a vast array of topics, including philosophy, Wagner's music and music in general, Jungian analysis, and ends with the 'omniscient' narrator in Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, as an example of what came to be the dominant mode of narration in later Victorian fiction.

Science and Omniscience in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Siân Pooley

The history of child welfare through the eyes of children themselves. Children's Experiences of Welfare in Modern Britain demonstrates how the young have been integral to the creation, delivery, and impact of welfare. The book brings together the very latest research on welfare as provided by the state, charities, and families in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. The ten chapters consider a wide range of investments in young people's lives, including residential institutions, Commonwealth emigration schemes, hospitals and clinics, schools, social housing, and familial care. Drawing upon thousands of personal testimonies and oral histories--including a wealth of writing by children themselves--the book shows that we can only understand the history and impact of welfare if we listen to children's experiences.

Children's Experiences of Welfare in Modern Britain

Martha always admired her veteran father and sought to emulate his example. Her wish was granted when she, along with her prodigious and reclusive best friend Elisabeth, was accepted in the premier military academy in the world. Once there, the two are assigned in a unit with Giuliana, a free-spirited and passionate fellow cadet, as well as Viktor, a young man who maintains his cool in almost all situations and is seemingly full of surprises. As the semester rolls through, they face the hardships the university pushes on them as well as befriend some of their fellow cadets, however a looming terrorist threat and the secrets they keep from each other threaten to tear their careers, and friendships, apart.

Heir To The Empire: The Next Generation

Adam Lewis

Adam Lewis QC

Jonathan Taylor QC

This comprehensive textbook covers sports law in England and Wales, consolidating guidance across all the major practice areas of interest to sports lawyers, and discussing the effect of European legislation.

Sport: Law and Practice

Irving L. Finkel

Thanks to the use of clay tablets as a writing medium, cuneiform records have survived for thousands of years, providing a fascinating glimpse into the political, economic, and religious institutions of ancient Mesopotamia.

Cuneiform

Nick De Marco

James Segan

Challenging Sports Governing Bodies covers the decision to challenge the actions of a sports governing body and considers the causes of action that form a basis for them. This title refers to this important area of practice that more company, commercial and regulatory practitioners are venturing in to. The text is encyclopaedic in nature and practice based providing a practical analysis of key issues for practitioners. Footnotes are used to identify the leading cases for propositions in the main text and to help with finding similar and relevant cases. To ensure this work is comprehensive in its subject matter there is a short section on Remedies focusing on internal appeal routes and arbitration. [Subject: Sports Law, Arbitration]

Challenging Sports Governing Bodies

Julian Reade

Jonathan N. Tubb

Yūsuf Ḥasanʹzādah

John Curtis

Paul E. Zimansky

Elnathan Weissert

François Bridey

Thomas Michael Kiely

Falih Almutrb

Henrietta McCall

Sébastien Rey

Davide Nadali

Paul Thomas Collins

Ronnie Goldstein

John MacGinnis

Chikako E. Watanabe

Jamie R. Novotny

A fascinating glimpse into ancient Assyrian culture, history, and art explored through one of its most famous rulers, King Ashurbanipal.

King of the World, King of Assyria

I Am Ashurbanipal

Paul Russell Smith

Marketing Communications rapidly established itself as an international best-seller and has been listed as a "marketing classic" by the Marketing Society and as a "marketing major" by the Chartered Institute of Marketing. The book is recommended reading for the CIM's Marketing Communications module in the new Professional Diploma in Marketing. The authors' real business understanding of marketing communications is universally acclaimed and has proved popular with students and practitioners alike. In addition, the unique SOSTAC® Planning System is applied throughout the book. This latest edition has been completely updated with new cases, statistics and communications techniques, fresh "shock" stories and a new "e" theme on each communication tool. New illustrations and full-colour photographs all combine to bring the book right up to date with the current international business scene. A free CD-ROM containing video clips of some of the world's leading marketing experts, pictures, documents and prepared Power Point lectures is available to lecturers from the publisher on request.

An Integrated Approach

Marketing Communications

Jonathan Taylor

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