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Terrible Maps: Hilarious Maps for a Ridiculous World

Terrible Maps: Hilarious Maps for a Ridiculous World

Auteure: Michael Howe

Nombre de pages: 106

The joys of the world, one terrible map at a time – this is the ultimate gift book for the budding geographer or anyone who wants to have a laugh.

Brilliant Maps

Brilliant Maps

Auteure: Ian Wright

Nombre de pages: 234

Which nations have North Korean embassies? Which region has the highest number of death metal bands per capita? How many countries have bigger economies than California? Who drives on the 'wrong' side of the road? And where can you find lions in the wild? Revelatory, thought-provoking and fun, Brilliant Maps is a unique atlas of culture, history, politics and miscellanea, compiled by the editor of the iconic Brilliant Maps website. As visually arresting as Information is Beautiful and as full of surprising facts and figures as any encyclopaedia, Brilliant Maps is a stunning piece of cartography that maps our curious and varied planet. For graphic design enthusiasts, compulsive Wikipedia readers and those looking for the sort of gift they buy for someone else and wind up keeping for themselves, this book will change the way you see the world and your place in it.

Large Language Models: A Deep Dive

Large Language Models: A Deep Dive

Auteure: Uday Kamath , Kevin Keenan , Garrett Somers , Sarah Sorenson

Nombre de pages: 496

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a cornerstone technology, transforming how we interact with information and redefining the boundaries of artificial intelligence. LLMs offer an unprecedented ability to understand, generate, and interact with human language in an intuitive and insightful manner, leading to transformative applications across domains like content creation, chatbots, search engines, and research tools. While fascinating, the complex workings of LLMs—their intricate architecture, underlying algorithms, and ethical considerations—require thorough exploration, creating a need for a comprehensive book on this subject. This book provides an authoritative exploration of the design, training, evolution, and application of LLMs. It begins with an overview of pre-trained language models and Transformer architectures, laying the groundwork for understanding prompt-based learning techniques. Next, it dives into methods for fine-tuning LLMs, integrating reinforcement learning for value alignment, and the convergence of LLMs with computer vision, robotics, and speech processing. The book strongly emphasizes practical applications, detailing real-world use cases...

Mapping the Cold War

Mapping the Cold War

Auteure: Timothy Barney

Nombre de pages: 339

In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations. Barney argues that the borders, scales, projections, and other conventions of maps prescribed and constrained the means by which foreign policy elites, popular audiences, and social activists navigated conflicts between North and South, East and West. Maps also influenced how identities were formed in a world both shrunk by advancing technologies and marked by expanding and shifting geopolitical alliances and fissures. Pointing to the necessity of how politics and values were “spatialized” in recent U.S. history, Barney argues that Cold War–era maps themselves had rhetorical lives that began with their conception and production and played out in their circulation within foreign policy circles and popular media. Reflecting on the ramifications of spatial power during the period, Mapping the Cold War ultimately demonstrates that even in the twenty-first century, American visions of the world — and the maps that account for them — are inescapably rooted in the anxieties of ...

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Mapping in Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Mapping in Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Nombre de pages: 376
The Gospel According to the Broken

The Gospel According to the Broken

Auteure: Brandon Michaels

Nombre de pages: 211

The Gospel According to the Broken: Poems from the Edge of Faith and Survival is a fearless collection of free verse poetry that speaks for the unheard, the wounded, and the walking survivors of a world that too often looks away. Told through unfiltered language and stripped-down truth, these poems explore the darkest corners of human experience; addiction, abuse, mental illness, grief, abandonment, homelessness, lost faith, and the quiet battles fought behind closed doors. Each section pulls back the curtain on lives lived in shadow, offering not answers, but acknowledgment. This is not a story of neat redemption. It is a record of survival in its rawest form. These poems do not beg for grace; they demand to be seen. With aching clarity and brutal grace, The Gospel According to the Broken becomes a prayer book for the forsaken, a psalm book for the unhealed, and a sacred testament to the strength it takes to keep breathing when hope has left the room. For those who've felt forgotten by faith, ignored by society, or silenced by shame, this book is for you.

Accounting for U.S. POW/MIA's in Southeast Asia

Accounting for U.S. POW/MIA's in Southeast Asia

Auteure: United States. Congress. House. Committee On National Security. Military Personnel Subcommittee

Nombre de pages: 872
Cairo

Cairo

Auteure: Andrew Humphreys

Nombre de pages: 260

This guide to Cairo includes in-depth coverage of Pharaonic, Coptic, Islamic and modern sights, including itineraries and walking tours. There are illustrated sections on ancient Egyptian gods, pyramid and tomb architecture, and a guide to restaurant and accommodation options for various budgets.

A Critique of Existing Computer Assisted Cartography Textbooks and a Modest Proposal for a New Textbook

A Critique of Existing Computer Assisted Cartography Textbooks and a Modest Proposal for a New Textbook

Auteure: Paul Nephi Lowe

Nombre de pages: 128
A New History of England and Great Britain with Maps and Tables

A New History of England and Great Britain with Maps and Tables

Auteure: John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

Nombre de pages: 776
A Sad and Terrible Blunder, Generals Terry and Custer at the Little Big Horn

A Sad and Terrible Blunder, Generals Terry and Custer at the Little Big Horn

Auteure: Roger Darling

Nombre de pages: 320
Seeing Through Maps

Seeing Through Maps

Auteure: Ward L. Kaiser , Denis Wood

Nombre de pages: 170

Synopsis: Maps become a means of seeing the world from many perspectives in this appealing guide, which is aimed at training readers to look at images with a critical eye. The authors (a social scientist and a pastor/community organizer) challenge readers to stretch their intellectual boundaries while they wrap their minds around demonstrations of the many ways of making maps and the truth that no way is "the right one." A final chapter provides a guide to using map projections in human resource development and adult education. It's a smart book but not a beautiful one-many of the illustrations went muddy in the transfer from color to b&w, and seven unlovely pages of the publisher's advertising precede the index. Wide format: 11x8.5.

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