Subject(s): Data mining -- Case studies | R (Computer program language) Summary: "The versatile capabilities and large set of add-on packages make R an excellent alternative to many existing and often expensive data mining tools. Exploring this area from the perspective of a practitioner, Data mining with R: learning with case studies uses

Subject(s): English language -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Grammar | English language -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Rhetoric | Report writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Summary: "A bestseller since the first edition, The Little, Brown Handbook provides reliable and thorough coverage of handbook basics--the writing process, grammar and usa

Subject(s): Wooden-frame buildings -- Design and construction | Wooden-frame buildings -- Drawings | Framing (Building) | House framing Summary: From the Publisher: The classic guide-revised and updated. The book that builders, architects, and students have relied on for almost 20 years has been completely updated to cover new materials, constr

Subject(s): Clinical psychology | Psychotherapy Summary: "Contemporary Clinical Psychology, Third Edition introduces students to this fascinating profession from an integrative, biopsychosocial perspective. Thoroughly updated to include the latest information on topics central to the field, this innovative approach to studying clinical psyc

Subject(s): Wealth | Faith | Happiness | Lifestyles | Alternative lifestyles Summary: Two Japanese Americans combines the true life stories of Robert Kiyosaki and his sister [Barbara] Emi into one book that attests to a belief in the power of purpose, the importance of action, and the ability to overcome all obstacles in a quest for wealth, bot

Subject(s): Computer games -- Programming | Computer graphics Summary: "Many of computer graphics classes in colleges are focused on real-time rendering and animation. However, it is not easy to nd an appropriate textbook, which presents the state of the art in interactive graphics, is balanced between theory and practicality, and is of a p

Subject(s): Risk (Insurance) | Risk assessment Summary: "A straightforward guide to the evolution, benefits, and implementation of Solvency II Providing a guide to the evolution, practice, benefits, and implementation of Solvency II, Executive's Guide to Solvency II deftly covers this major European regulation which ensures that insure

Subject(s): Elections | Voting | Representative government and representation Summary: "Elections lie at the heart of democracy, and this book seeks to understand how the rules governing those elections are chosen. Drawing on both broad comparisons and detailed case studies, it focuses upon the electoral rules that govern what sorts of pref

Subject(s): Human-alien encounters -- Fiction | Space flight -- Fiction Summary: "An object one hundred miles across, originating from Octans constellation, on a trajectory for our sun. Now its journey is almost over. And humanity's journey is about to begin. As the Near-Earth Object--dubbed "Keanu"--approaches, two manned vehic

Subject(s): Older people -- Humor | Old age -- Humor Summary: Wry essays about the advantages and indulgences of aging. No matter what they say, sixty will never be the new forty. But 65-year-old British writer Virginia Ironside is determined to convince people that getting old is not so bad--even for a Baby Boomer who interviewed the Rolling S