Thomas Bernhard’s Old Masters has been called his “most enjoyable novel” by the New York Review of Books. It’s a wild satire that takes place almost entirely in front of Tintor
Although he is best known in the United States as a novelist, Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard has been hailed in Europe as one of the most significant and controversial of contemporary playwrights. Ge
A hands-on approach to tasks and techniques in data stream mining and real-time analytics, with examples in MOA, a popular freely available open-source software framework.Today many information source
What happens to us when we die? Are heaven and hell real? If so, what are they like? Heaven and Hell contains the answers to these questions as seen by Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). ? This new trans
The mathematization of causality is a relatively recent development, and has become increasingly important in data science and machine learning. This book offers a self-contained and concise introduct
Iconic Power is a collection of original articles that explores social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called "linguistic turn," s
Mostly Swiss linguists, but also some German and Belgian, show that developing and using research methods in linguistics cannot be separated from analyzing methods, that is methodology. They discuss c
Presented by Wiemer (Institut fur Slavistik, Germany), Walchli (Institutionen for Lingvistik, Sweden), and Hansen (Institut fur Slavistik), 15 articles examine two key theoretical issues that have bee
This book is completely revised and updated and features a new author team. The original photographs, tables, algorithms, graphs, and charts have been updated, as well as the reference section of each
A comprehensive introduction to Support Vector Machines and related kernel methods. In the 1990s, a new type of learning algorithm was developed, based on results from statistical learning theory: t
Originally published in English in 1984, this collection of essays documents a dialogue between phenomenology and Marxism, with the contributors representing a cross-section from the two traditions. T
Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lack
This collection of essays makes a significant contribution to the historiography of the end of the Cold War. Research on the causes and consequences of the end of the Cold War is constantly growing. I
European scholars of sociology, political science, and anthropology ponder conceptual and theoretical aspects of group and individual identity, patterns of orientation among Turkish migrants in German
