Best Selling Books by John Kane

In Hollywood, five women are nominated best actress and prepare themselves for Oscar night. One has obtained a gun to make sure that if she does not obtain the award the winner will die. Sex and backbiting galore. A first novel by a TV writer.

The third stupendously funny instalment in the bestselling I say, You say series by John Kane.

This title is part of UC Press''s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

La dieta paleo è particolarmente indicata per evitare gli effetti nocivi dei cibi eccessivamente lavorati.La dieta occidentale non fa bene alla salute perchè può causare diverse malattie croniche.

Este Manual de tipografía es una introducción a todo lo que cualquier estudiante o profesional del diseño gráfico debe saber sobre tipografía para desarrollar una sensibilidad y unos conocimientos tipográficos bien fundamentados. El libro expone los principios básicos de la tipografía y principales aplicaciones mediante una equilibrada combinación de historia, teoría y práctica. Así, el lector encontrará en estas páginas desde la descripción de las partes de la letra o la clasificación de los diferentes tipos, a la explicación de cómo se compone el texto en la página o cómo funcionan los sistemas de retículas. Pero también encontrará una breve y reveladora historia de la tipografía así como numerosos ejemplos y ejercicios prácticos que pretenden ayudar a adquirir un conocimiento experiencial de la disciplina. Esta segunda edición revisa algunos contenidos de la primera e incorpora nuevos diagramas explicativos y nuevos materiales sobre la composición de textos, la elección de tipos y el uso del color. El libro se apoya además en un nuevo sitio web www.atypeprimer.com (en inglés) que alberga materiales adicionales y una serie de ejercicios prácticos.

"Este no es un libro norml. Tienes que hacer todo lo que yo te diga. Un libro ilustrado, interactivo (¡y, con calzones!) para partirse de risa"--Back cover

A Computational Approach to Statistical Learning gives a novel introduction to predictive modeling by focusing on the algorithmic and numeric motivations behind popular statistical methods. The text contains annotated code to over 80 original reference functions. These functions provide minimal working implementations of common statistical learning algorithms. Every chapter concludes with a fully worked out application that illustrates predictive modeling tasks using a real-world dataset. The text begins with a detailed analysis of linear models and ordinary least squares. Subsequent chapters explore extensions such as ridge regression, generalized linear models, and additive models. The second half focuses on the use of general-purpose algorithms for convex optimization and their application to tasks in statistical learning. Models covered include the elastic net, dense neural networks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and spectral clustering. A unifying theme throughout the text is the use of optimization theory in the description of predictive models, with a particular focus on the singular value decomposition (SVD). Through this theme, the computational approach motivates and clarifies the relationships between various predictive models. Taylor Arnold is an assistant professor of statistics at the University of Richmond. His work at the intersection of computer vision, natural language processing, and digital humanities has been supported by multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). His first book, Humanities Data in R, was published in 2015. Michael Kane is an assistant professor of biostatistics at Yale University. He is the recipient of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), DARPA, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. His R package bigmemory won the Chamber''s prize for statistical software in 2010. Bryan Lewis is an applied mathematician and author of many popular R packages, including irlba, doRedis, and threejs.

In Hollywood, all the stars, the top directors, the studio tycoons and, of course the rock stars have replaced their first wives with the younger, newer, hotter model. Everywhere she looks, glitz-writer Nikki Tyler sees trophy wives. Some of them are even her friends... but that doesn''t mean she wants one of them to send her their manuscript and ask for help placing it with her publisher. Still, Hollywood is all about connections and favors--Nikki figures she owes it to her friend Tamara to at least look at the project which turns out to be a story of blackmail and murder among the trophy wives of Beverly Hills. Nikki doesn''t see much hope, but when Nikki finds Tamara''s murdered body, she suspects someone thought the book''s sins were more than its lack of literary merit. Nikki sets out to uncover the truth behind Tamara''s death--while tooling around Beverly Hills in her Bentley. Interviews with rock stars in rehab, a divorce lawyer who delivers results for men dumping troublesome wives (so they can marry a younger trophy), a secretive cult-like religion that''s attracting Hollywood''s top talent and Nikki''s developing relationship with the detective assigned to the case (a detective who has an interesting secret past) make her investigation a lot of fun. Author John Kane gives us a fun look at modern Beverly Hills where wealth and beauty survive in a continuing struggle, where Hollywood''s top names crave attention while fleeing from too much of it, and where just about anything can be bought at a price. Kane humanizes his sleuth, Nikki, by giving her a son she adores, an ex-husband she still gets along with, and a frustrated ambition as a one-time actor. He scatters his clues carefully--giving the reader what they know to solve the mystery, but providing plenty of challenge as well. SOMEBODY IS KILLING THE TROPHY WIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS is Kane''s first mystery. I hope to see more. "A hilarious, dishy, and incisive look at the dark side of having too much California sunshine. This comedy/mystery romp could change your life if you stop laughing for a sec and start heeding its morals. Yes, there are some morals " -- Michael Musto, La Dolce Musto, The Village Voice.

Invites the reader to interact with the story by repeating words and actions while helping a timid donkey find something he is missing.

This brief text focuses on the principles of form that anyone study graphic design needs to learn. Through a series of exercises, readers learn two-dimensional design concepts and will gain the graphic skills they need to develop their individual expression. Part I focuses on graphic design drawing and Part II focuses on graphic relationships.