Author: Shai J. Lavi
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: united, states, euthanasia, history, art, dying, modern
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-07-05
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 0691102635
ISBN-13: 9780691102634

How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom.Lavi begins with the historical meaning of euthanasia as signifying an "easeful death." Over time, he shows, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of death. Lavi illustrates these changes with compelling accounts of changes at the deathbed. He takes us from early nineteenth-century deathbeds governed

Author: Dominic Lavi
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: bangkok, last
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2006-12-12
List price: $35.99
ISBN-10: 1847539645
ISBN-13: 9781847539649

A cross between Trainspotting and The Beach, Last Seen in Bangkok is a must read for anyone who’s even thought of going anywhere besides Majorca on holiday. Vinny Croston’s, had enough of the work, weather and women in England. When he meets Jeed in Pattaya he thinks he’s found true love in tropical paradise. Along with his best mate Keith Rossi a debt ridden Cocaine dealer he conspires to realise his dream and embarks on a treacherous journey through fraud, drugs, violence, triads, prostitution, trafficking and money laundering. From the gloom of Manchester to the heat of Ba

Author: Shai Vaingast
Publisher: Apress
Keywords: professionals, scripts, books, transformation, visual, python, visualization, crafting, beginning
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-02-24
List price: $42.99
ISBN-10: 1430218436
ISBN-13: 9781430218432

We are visual animals. But before we can see the world in its true splendor, our brains, just like our computers, have to sort and organize raw data, and then transform that data to produce new images of the world. Beginning Python Visualization: Crafting Visual Transformation Scripts talks about turning many types of small data sources into useful visual data. And you will learn Python as part of the bargain. What you’ll learn Write ten lines of code and present visual information instead of data soup. Set up an open source environment ready for data visualization. Forget Excel:

Author: Shai Cherry
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America
Keywords: period, modern, times, rabbinic, commentary, time, understanding, bible, torah
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 2007-09
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0827608489
ISBN-13: 9780827608481

Every commentator, from the classical rabbi to the modern-day scholar, has brought his or her own worldview, with all of its assumptions, to bear on the reading of holy text. This relationship between the text itself and the reader’s interpretation is the subject of Torah Through Time. Shai Cherry traces the development of Jewish Bible commentary through three pivotal periods in Jewish history: the rabbinic, medieval, and modern periods. The result is a fascinating and accessible guide to how some of the world’s leading Jewish commentators read the Bible. Torah Th

Authors:Ehud Lavi, Cris S. Constantinescu,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: sclerosis, multiple, models, experimental
Number of Pages: 913
Published: 2005-11-29
List price: $249.00
ISBN-10: 0387255176
ISBN-13: 9780387255170

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an enigmatic immune mediated disease of the central nervous system that affects about 350,000 individuals in the US, and many more around the world. The mechanism of this disease is largely unknown and there is no cure for it. However, there are several well-characterized experimental animal models that help us understand and speculate about potential mechanisms of pathology in this disease. Many of the experimental therapies designed for this disease rely on testing the drugs in animal models before using it in clinical trials. This book combines for the first time

Authors:Ralph Bravaco, Shai Simonson,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Keywords: ground, programming, java
Number of Pages: 1136
Published: 2009-01-22
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073523356
ISBN-13: 9780073523354

Java Programming, From The Ground Up, with its flexible organization, teaches Java in a way that is refreshing, fun, interesting and still has all the appropriate programming pieces for students to learn. The motivation behind this writing is to bring a logical, readable, entertaining approach to keep your students involved. Each chapter has a Bigger Picture section at the end of the chapter to provide a variety of interesting related topics in computer science. The writing style is conversational and not overly technical so it addresses programming concepts appropriately. Because of the f

Authors:Shai Ben David, John Case, Akira Maruoka,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: notes, lecture, proceedings, computer, science, intelligence, artificial, october, italy, theory, learning, international, conference, padova, alt, algorithmic
Number of Pages: 505
Published: 2004-12-03
List price: $89.00
ISBN-10: 3540233563
ISBN-13: 9783540233565

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2004, held in Padova, Italy in October 2004. The 29 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers and 3 tutorial summaries were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on inductive inference, PAC learning and boosting, statistical supervised learning, online sequence learning, approximate optimization algorithms, logic based learning, and query and reinforcement learning.