books about: machine

books about: machine

books:

Machine

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence)

Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig

Prentice Hall, 2002

Fantastic Textbook
As a student with a very strong background in technical fields I am no stranger to heavy studying, reference, and in some cases even total reliance on textbooks. I have encountered many kinds of textbooks, some which get the job done, some which do the same painfully, ...

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay Books, 2007

An Excellent Management Guide!
As a person that has worked in manufacturing organizations all of my life, I often wondered how the grizzled veteran managers could always tell what was going to happen next. They didn't seem to be any smarter than the average Joe but somehow, they could predict the ...

The Pilates Body: The Ultimate At-Home Guide to Strengthening, Lengthening, and Toning Your Body--Without ...

Brooke Siler

Broadway, 2000

Outstanding Pilates book!
As a beginner to the practice of Pilates, I found the Siler book indispensable--motivating, easy to use, geared to exercisers at all levels. A great buy.

The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies

Chet Holmes

Portfolio Trade, 2008

Good Stuff!
Haven't finished reading this yet, but Chet Holmes really offers some great insights into creating sales and what it takes to be a sales person. I like the layout - the 12 strategies makes it easy to understand. It's definitely worth the time.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)

Christopher M. Bishop

Springer, 2007

Probably the best book for machine learning
I am a PhD student in machine learning. Bishop is really gifted and he explains very well basic and advanced concepts of machine learning. I would say that this book is much more comprehensive than Hastie's Statistical learning book The Elements of Statistical ...

Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

Toby Segaran

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

Great, simple presentation of some powerful techniques
Programming Collective Intelligence is a book about applying data mining techniques to analyse collections of data. There is submerged information in Ebay prices, in Facebook profile networks, in collections of movie reviews, in news sites, in the stockmarket; this ...

The Accidental Time Machine

Joe Haldeman

Ace, 2008

The Accidental Time Machine is a blast
This is the modern version of H.G. Well's Time Machine. Except the scientist happens to discover time travel by accident. A very interesting look into the future. Well written and a definite page turner.

Betty Crocker's Best Bread Machine Cookbook: The Goodness of Homemade Bread the Easy Way

Betty Crocker Editors

Betty Crocker, 2002

Another wonderful book from Betty!
I just recently bought my first bread machine. When I was browsing, I came across this cookbook and bought it simply because I have always had good luck with my other Betty Crocker recipes. I love this book! It makes it so easy, especially for beginning bread ...

The Homework Machine

Dan Gutman

Aladdin, 2007

teacher of grades 4-5
Kids in grades 4-5 will love this book! It is a bit too easy for middle school kids, but a fun read none the less. It is written unlike most other chapter books. It is written more like an interview conducted with each character as the school year progresses and ...

Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Second Edition

Michael Sipser

Course Technology, 2005

My choice for textbook in my computation theory class
I recently encountered this book at a publisher's booth at a computer conference and read it on the ride back home. This morning I made a trip to the college bookstore and notified them that it is the textbook that I will be using in my computation theory class this ...

The Time Machine (Signet Classics)

H.G. Wells

New American Library, 2002

Wells blends Genre's with ease
I am sure that you have seen the movies that have been made from this book, there are quite a few and most of them are very entertaining. Unfortunately none of the movies that I have seen have captured the social meaning behind this book. Certainly they have the ...

Hell's Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine
Diarmuid Jeffreys

Metropolitan Books, 2008

The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century’s greatest conglomerates At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the world. To this day, companies formerly part of the Farben cartel—the aspirin-maker Bayer, the graphics supplier Agfa, ...

The Law of Debtors And Creditors: Text, Cases, And Problems

Elizabeth Warren, Jay Lawrence Westbrook

Aspen Publishers, 2005

More engaging than my teacher.
As a student, this was probably the best textbook I've ever used. The authors presented the material in an engaging way that brings out the relevance, controversy, and centrality of creditor/debtor/bankruptcy law in the life of almost every American. I never thought ...

The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler

Chris Eagle

No Starch Press, 2008

The IDA Pro Book Review
I was able to pick up a pre-released copy of The IDA Pro book at Defcon in the vendor area, thanks to Adam from No Starch. This book is not an introduction to reverse engineering, its a hard core manual for IDA Pro. IDA Pro is a critical weapon in any reverser's ...

The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook

Beth Hensperger

Harvard Common Press, 2000

Love it!!!
My experiences with my bread machine (West Bend) were very poor. Could not make a good loaf of bread. Then came this book!!! Outstanding. So far, I have made three recipes from it (just got it recently) and all 3 were excellent. I made the basic Pizza dough on ...