Authors:Frank Höppner, Rudolf Kruse, Frank Klawonn, Thomas Ru
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: analysis, image, recognition, data, methods, cluster, fuzzy, classification
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1999-07-16
List price: $215.00
ISBN-10: 0471988642
ISBN-13: 9780471988649

Provides a timely and important introduction to fuzzy cluster analysis, its methods and areas of application, systematically describing different fuzzy clustering techniques so the user may choose methods appropriate for his problem. It provides a very thorough overview of the subject and covers classification, image recognition, data analysis and rule generation. The application examples are highly relevant and illustrative, and the use of the techniques are justified and well thought-out. Features include: * Sections on inducing fuzzy if-then rules by fuzzy clustering and non-a

Author: Thomas Frank
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: market, economic, democracy, populism, extreme, god, one, capitalism
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2001-09-18
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0385495048
ISBN-13: 9780385495042

In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go ’90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone. Frank’s target is "market populism"--the widely held belief that markets are a more democratic form of organization than democratically elected governments. Refuting the idea that billionaire CEOs are looking out for the interests of the little guy, he argues that "the great euphoria of the late nineties was never as much about the return of good times as it was the giddy triumph o

Author: Thomas Frank
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Keywords: market, economic, democracy, populism, extreme, god, one, capitalism
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 2001-01-04
List price: $39.25
ISBN-10: 0436276194
ISBN-13: 9780436276194

In this work, social critic Thomas Frank examines the morphing of the language of democracy into the jargon of the marketplace. He traces an idea he calls "market populism" - the notion that markets are, in some transcendent way, identifiable with democracy and the will of the people.

Author: Thomas Frank
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Keywords: heart, america, won, conservatives, kansas, matter
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 080507774X
ISBN-13: 9780805077742

With a New Afterword by the AuthorThe New York Times bestseller, praised as "hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests" (Molly Ivins)Hailed as "dazzlingly insightful and wonderfully sardonic" (Chicago Tribune), "very funny and very painful" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "in a different league from most political books" (The New York Observer), What’s the Matter with Kansas? unravels the great political mystery of our day: Why do so many Americans vote against their economic

Author: Thomas Frank
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: rise, hip, consumerism, counterculture, culture, cool, business, conquest
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 0226260127
ISBN-13: 9780226260129

Most people remember the youth counterculture of the 1960s, but Thomas Frank shows that another revolution shook American business during those boom years. He shows how the youthful revolutionaries were joined--and even anticipated--by such unlikely allies as the advertising industry and the men’s clothing business. Halftones & tables.

Author: Thomas Frank
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Keywords: rule, conservatives, crew, wrecking
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-08-05
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0805079882
ISBN-13: 9780805079883

From the author of the landmark bestseller What’s the Matter with Kansas?, a jaw-dropping investigation of the decades of deliberate—and lucrative—conservative misruleIn his previous book, Thomas Frank explained why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the rich. Now, in The Wrecking Crew, Frank examines the blundering and corrupt Washington those politicians have given us. Casting back to the early days of the conservative revolution, Frank describes the rise of a ruling coalition dedicated to dismantling government. But rather than cutting down the big gove

Author: Frank Thomas
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Keywords: life, story, write
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 1989-08-15
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0898793599
ISBN-13: 9780898793598

How to Write the Story of Your Life shows writers how to mine the depths of their experience to write an engaging and saleable memoir. Frank P. Thomas gives readers the instruction they need to write the stories of their lives, including: The five Rs essential to the completion and publishing of a life story; research, remembering, ’riting, reading and reproduction Hundreds of memory sparkers to get readers started Organizational techniques for developing a writing plan and how to work with photos and documents Memories and the author’s expert guidance are all writers need to leave