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Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications This fascinating book demonstrates how you can build web applications to mine the enormous amount of data created by people on the Internet. With the sophisticated algorithms in this book, you can write smart programs to ac... More

This book introduces Web developers to the advanced topic of machine learning and statistics in a clear and concise way, with easy-to-follow examples and code that can be used in their own applications.Want to tap the power behind search rankings, product recommendations, social bookmarking, and onl... More

Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry, yet it continues to generate strong opposition by the orthodox medical establishment. "The Whole Story" rounds up the latest evidence on the placebo effect, the randomized control trial, personalized genetic medicine, acupuncture, hom... More

In 1995, high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour - so why couldn't he? Surely, it would only be a matter of time before the Big Apple was in the palm ... More

You've probably heard of Spartacus...He is dead famous for: *being quite a good gladiator *giving the Romans the run-around *looking an awful lot like Kirk Douglas But have you heard that Spartacus: *fought for the Romans as well as against them *once camped his army of rebel slaves inside a volcano... More