Category: Textbooks

Python for Programmers: with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Case Studies (in PDF) is the professional programmer’s Deitel guide to Python with introductory artificial intelligence case studies. Written for programmers with a background in another high-level language, this ebook uses hands-on instruction to teach today’s most compelling, leading-edge computing technologies

Autocratization in post-Cold War Political Regimes, (PDF) deals with post-Cold War processes of autocratization, that is, system change towards autocracy. While these processes are increasing in number and frequency, autocratization remains a comparatively understudied phenomenon, especially its latest manifestations. In this volume, the authors provide one of the first cross-regional

Philosophers, criminologists, legal scholars, psychiatrists, and psychologists have long asked vital questions about punishment: What is its reason? What theories help us better comprehend its nature? Are there effective alternatives to punishment? Is punishment just? How can empirical data from the sciences help us better understand punishment? What are the

Forensic botany is the application of plant science to the resolution of legal questions. A plant’s ecological requirements and its anatomy are in some cases species specific and require taxonomic verification; correct interpretation of botanical evidence can give vital information about a suspect, crime scene or a victim. The use

Electromagnetic Linear Machines with Dual Halbach Array (PDF) extends the conventional two-dimensional (2D) magnet arrangement into 3D pattern for permanent magnet linear machines for the first time, and offers a novel dual Halbach array. It can not only effectively raise the radial component of magnetic flux density and output force