BOOKS with Alphabet T (Ta, Tb,Tc, Td, Te…... )

Overview: The aim of this book is to discuss the fundamental ideas which lie behind the statistical theory of learning and generalization. It considers learning from the general point of view of function estimation based on empirical data. Omitting proofs and technical details, the author concentrates on discussing the main results of learning theory and their connections to fundamental problems in statistics. These include: - the general setting of learning problems and the general model of minimizing the risk functional from empirical data - a comprehensive analysis of the empirical risk min

Overview: The only book available devoted to the subject of eighteenthcentury Scottish politics. Includes much new research on the subject. Scottish politics and devolution are topics of much interest at the moThis study looks afresh at the assumption that those in the Scottish parliament who voted for the union of 1707 sold their country. The world of Scottish politics after the union is then explored from the perspective of the people at the top of the ruling elite. It is the world of the squadrone, Argyll, Ilay, Bute and Dundas, where there was little civic virtue. Much is learned by lookin

Overview: Hobbes‘s philosophical discourse is deconstructed as the interplay of the drama of individual behaviour as perceived by rational agents and the detached analysis of conflict by a political geometer . The author solves some long-standing problems in Hobbesian political philosophy (e.g., the role of glory, Hobbes‘ pessimism) and shows the consistency of Hobbes‘ attempt to derive absolutism as the only stable political association. Although based on extensive textual analysis of Hobbes‘ works and correspondence, the book is an exercise in political philosophy that students will find ico

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Overview: Focuses on aid activities from a developing economy, rather than the developed countries that are traditionally studied.Follows an interdisciplinary approach and gives an international perspective on .This book examines Turkey’s success within international development cooperation and how this could create a framework for a new international aid architecture. Turkey has become a world leader in humanitarian assistance and shared an extraordinary burden in official development assistance (ODA). Its achievements are used to highlight the global failure to meet aid commitments and the i

Overview: Provides the most comprehensive survey of the work of the leading philosopher, Ted Honderich.Assembles a stellar list of experts and thinkers, including Noam Chomsky, Mary Warnock and Barry Smith.Addr.This collection of original essays brings together a world-class lineup of philosophers to provide the most comprehensive critical treatment of Ted Honderich’s philosophy, focusing on three major areas of his work: (1) his theory of consciousness; (2) his extensive and ground-breaking work on determinism and freedom; and (3) his views on right and wrong, including his Principle of Human

Overview: Analyzes Latin American migration to three South American countries: Argentina, Brazil and Chile.Presents theoretical and empirical contributions to migration studies from a Latin American perspective.This book analyzes how the increase in migration from other Latin American countries to countries of the American Southern Cone such as Brazil, Argentina and Chile has generated a crisis fueled by the emergence of hate discourses towards migrant populations. While extracontinental migration to Europe, North America and elsewhere has waned over the last decades, migration between Latin A

Overview: An uptodate introductory survey of a critical period of English history Covers the whole of the Tudor dynasty and the Stuarts and the Civil War all topics that are much studied at undergraduate and A 1460-1660 was a dramatic and crucially formative period in the emergence of the modern English state, language and identity. It encompassed the reigns of the last Plantagenets, the Tudors and the early Stuarts, as well as the victory of Parliament over the King in the Great Civil War and the amazing experiment of the Puritan Republic. .The Making of the Modern English State. traces the c

Overview: .The work formulates a status quo of the music video medium in the late 2010s and shows which trends, aesthetics and (new) standards have established themselves. Particularly the role of the prosumer amidst evolved technical conditions is highlighted in this context, which strongly influences the evolution of music video in this period. Moreover, the author understands music videos as socio-political actors and examines the resulting questions of their interaction with culture..978-3-662-65048-6978-3-662-65049-3Series ISSN 2662-9089 Series E-ISSN 2662-9097

Overview: Highlights the philosophical consequences of Afanassjewa’s work in physics and mathematics.Discusses historical aspects of Afanassjewa’s work regarding the foundations of physics.Features English tran.This book presents a collection of essays that explore the life and works of Tatjana Afanassjewa (1876–1964), a Russian–Dutch physicist–mathematician. Readers will discover a scientist whose work on the foundations of thermodynamics significantly influenced the field itself as well as the philosophy of physics. This book highlights the philosophical consequences of her work in physics a

Overview: Demonstrates the relevance of Dickens and the Romantics to contemporary culture.Exemplifies the Romantics‘ influence on Dickens by theme rather than chronology.Extends Dickens studies through a close .This book explores the relationship between Dickens and canonical Romantic authors: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Keats.  Addressing a significant gap in Dickens studies, four topics are identified: Childhood, Time, Progress, and Outsiders, which together constitute the main aspects of Dickens’s debt to the Romantics. Through close readings of key Roma

Overview: Includes cutting-edge techniques.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key implementation advice from the expertsThis fully updated volume collects laboratory techniques and tests to assess the risks to embryo-fetal development from drug exposure during early developmental stages. Beginning with a section detailing basic principles of teratogenicity, the book continues with application of in vitro models for teratogenic screening to predict toxicity in embryonic animals and humans, as well as a variety of well-established in vivo animal model tests,

Overview: Presents a unique approach to studying the politics of the Nile River basin by implementing concepts from game theory.Provides both historical and contemporary research from the Nile region.Collects r.This book introduces an analytic framework constructed upon the iterated Prisoners‘ Dilemma game to model and analyze transboundary water interactions along the Nile River. It presents a thorough and in-depth analysis of the historical path through which conflict and cooperation have been generated among the Nile riparians over large-scale developmental schemes. This is done through mod

Overview: Contains both historical and philosophical analyses of the relationship between mathematics and physics.Even though mathematics and physics have been related for centuries and this relation appears to be unproblematic, there are many questions still open: Is mathematics really necessary for physics, or could physics exist without mathematics? Should we think physically and then add the mathematics apt to formalise our physical intuition, or should we think mathematically and then interpret physically the obtained results? Do we get mathematical objects by abstraction from real object

Overview: Since the end of the cold war, civil wars and state violence have escalated, resulting in thousands of deaths. This book provides a toolbox for donors, international agencies and developing countries to prevent humanitarian emergencies. The emphasis is on long-term rather than mediation or reconstruction after the conflict ensues.978-1-4039-0532-1Series ISSN 1754-9604

Overview: The book considers Labour‘s economic strategy as it developed through the party‘s long period of opposition between 1979 and 1997. This history argues strongly that accounts of Labour‘s recent past which claim that the Party was driven by a combination of Thatcherism and opinion polls are flawed. It offers an alternative account which stresses the importance of debates within and around the Party about how the economy should be understood, the role of markets and the state, and British industrial decline.978-1-349-42462-7978-0-230-50295-6

Overview: 978-0-306-43464-8978-1-4899-6000-9

Overview: Discusses the possibilities of genetic improvement of peppers.Enumerates on the genome-wide identification of non-coding RNAs and epigenetic markers and their functional role.Describes tools and strat.This book contains complete information on Capsicum genetic resources, diversity, evolution, history and advances in capsicum improvement from classical breeding to whole genome sequencing, genomics, databases and its impact on next generation pepper breeding. Capsicum is one of the most important Solanaceae crops grown worldwide as vegetables and spices. Due to its high economic value

Overview: 153 posters. While plant biotechnology for enzyme production and designer biomass merged as "hot topics" throughout the Symposium, the preface for each session is included in the introductions. Special topic discussions were led on "Brazilian Bioethanol Progress" by Gisella Zanin, State University of Maringa, Brazil, and on "Nontradi­ tional Bioprocessing" by Gene Petersen, National Renewable Energy Labo­ ratory, Golden, CO. A tour of the Colorado Bioprocessing Center, a "state of the art" con­ tract research facility at Colorado State University highlighted the process development a

Overview: One of the very few books exploring the legitimacy of human rights among Nigerians, from below.The first book dealing empirically with the predictors of human rights attitudes among Nigerians.The book.This book provides a rigorous investigation into the adoption and culture of human rights in Nigeria, with a focus on the human rights attitudes of Nigerian students. Exploring the perceived paradox of enthusiastic endorsement of human rights instruments and their poor application in Nigeria, the author uses an empirical-theological research design to understand how young people in Nige