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Introduction to Information Retrieval

The book aims to provide a modern approach to information retrieval from a computer science perspective. It is based on a course Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze have been teaching in various forms at Stanford University, the University of Stuttgart and the University of Munich.

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Plastic Surgery Essentials for Students

The Essentials book has been written primarily for medical students, with constant attention to the thought – Is this something a student should know when he or she finishes medical school? It is not designed to be a comprehensive text, but rather an outline that can be read in the limited time available in a burgeoning curriculum. It is designed to be read from beginning to end.

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Manifest Madness: Mental Incapacity in the Criminal Law

Bringing together previously disparate discussions on criminal responsibility from law, psychology, and philosophy, this book provides a close study of mental incapacity defences, analysing their development through historical cases to the modern era. It maps the shifting boundaries between normality and abnormality as constructed in law, arguing that ‘manifest madness’ – the distinct character of mental incapacity revealed by this interdisciplinary approach – has a broad significance for understanding the criminal law as a whole.

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Bridges for Honest Skeptics

Mathematician, physicist, inventor, and philosopher Blaise Pascal once noted that God provides enough evidence of himself for people who are open to it and enough obscurity for those who aren’t. But frequent misunderstandings, biases, and misrepresentations sometimes confuse even unclosed minds. This phone-friendly e-book, a labor of love by a scientist and former honest skeptic – a person who believes in, seeks, and wants to embrace truth – mitigates some of these distortions.

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The Tumor

From John Grisham, comes a story where today’s medical fiction could become tomorrow’s lifesaving reality…

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