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Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2021, Virtual Event, September 13-17, 2021, Proceedings, Part I
Av Michael Kamp, Irena Koprinska m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1591 kr
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This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 21th Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD, held in September 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held online. …
Florence of Arabia
A Novel
E-bok, 2007
95 kr
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The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking , conspiracy theories in Little Green Men , and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the entire world–Arab-American relations–in a blistering comic novel …
Thank You for Smoking
A Novel
E-bok, 2010
221 kr
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Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He’s a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies–in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The problem? He’s so good at his job, so effortlessly unethical, that he’s become a target for both …
God Is My Broker
A Monk-Tycoon Reveals the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth
Av John Tierney, Christopher Buckley
E-bok, 2012
95 kr
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This is an incredible story. The author, a failed, alcoholic Wall Street trader, had retreated to a monastery. It, too, was failing. Then, one fateful day, Brother Ty decided to let God be his broker--and not only saved the monastery but discovered the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth. …
Little Green Men
A Novel
E-bok, 2011
221 kr
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In 1994, Christopher Buckley published one of the most acclaimed and successful comic novels of the decade, Thank You for Smoking. Now Buckley returns to the strange land of Washington, D.C., in Little Green Men , a millennial comedy of manners about aliens and pundits . . . and how much they have …
Wry Martinis
E-bok, 2011
236 kr
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n the most inebriating humor book of the year, the author of Steaming to Bamboola and The White House Mess goes straight for the funny bone with essays and mischief that includes such gems of gullibility as the pope''s appearance on Oprah, O.J. Simpson''s search for a new apartment, the true story …
White House Mess
E-bok, 2011
236 kr
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With a pajama-clad President Reagan refusing to leave the White House on his successor’s Inauguration Day, Buckley has given this farce of Oval Office politics a nearly perfect beginning. Parodying the familiar form of the White House memoir, Buckley recounts the turbulent years of the Democratic …
Wet Work
E-bok, 2011
79 kr
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Charley Becker, head of one of America’s biggest conglomerates, is a man on a mission. His only granddaughter, the beloved Natasha, has been found dead in her flat after taking an accidental overdose of cocaine and now he wants revenge. Determined to find the men responsible, Charley starts by …
Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir
Häftad, 2010
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
294 kr
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On the Poetry of Philip Levine
Stranger to Nothing
Häftad, 1990
363 kr
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Readers and critics alike have applauded Philip Levine's poems for their eloquent and elegiac narrative and their vivas for the dignity of the human spirit. In 1987 Levine received the esteemed Ruth Lilly Prize, given by the Modern Poetry Association and the American Council for the Arts in …
Star Apocrypha
Häftad, 2001
176 kr
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Christopher Buckley's new collection is a brilliant expression of philosophy and feeling. Throughout Star Apocrypha, Buckley relentlessly questions the metaphysics of life in the heavens and on earth. These poems bear the beauty and weight of big questions and dazzling language. Yet there is also a …
Star Journal
Selected Poems
Häftad, 2016
348 kr
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Star Journal is a selection of poems from Christopher Buckley's twenty previous collections, from 1980-2014.
Long Embrace
21 Contemporary Poets on the Long Poems of Philip Levine
Häftad, 2020
314 kr
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Philip Levine is one of the foremost poets of the last fifty years, but moreover he is a master and unparalleled practitioner of the long poem in our time. No recent poet has written as many exceptional long poems as Levine, and his influence has continued virtually undisturbed since his death in …
Now What?
The Voters Have Spoken-Essays on Life After Trump
Av Hruska, Stephen Mack Jones m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
138 kr
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When the networks called the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden on Saturday, November 7, 2020, people from coast to coast exhaled-and danced in the streets. This quick-turnaround volume, a collection of 38 personal essays from writers all over the country-"e;many of America's most …
Flying Backbone
The Georgia O'Keeffe Poems
Av Christopher Buckley, 1stworld Library
Häftad, 2008
148 kr
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But Enough About You
Essays
Ljudbok, 2014
482 kr
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An extraordinary wide-ranging collection of essays with “distinctive wordplay and quirky opinions…Christopher Buckley is good company whether you’re looking for two quick pages and a smile, or want to linger” ( The New York Times Book Review ). Christopher Buckley, like his terrific volume But …
Relic Master
A Novel
Ljudbok, 2015
427 kr
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Christopher Buckley’s “hilarious, bawdy, and irreverent frolic of a tale” about a sixteenth-century relic hunter and the artist Albrecht Dürer who conspire to fabricate Christ’s burial shroud reads “like Indiana Jones gone medieval” ( USA TODAY ). The year is 1517. Dismas is a relic hunter who …
