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 A Mastering the Minds of Machines: A Journey into Deep Learning and AI by Laith Abualigah English | September 8, 2025 | ISBN: 1032834838 | 204 pages | MOBI | 2.05 Mb The book unravels fundamental concepts that underpin deep learning, allowing even those without prior technical knowledge to grasp the intricacies of neural networks and machine learning algorithms. It provides roadmap to understanding the key principles, from the simplest perceptron to the most advanced convolutional and recurrent networks, explaining how they can perceive, learn, and make intelligent decisions. Real-world applications of deep learning and AI are given, showcasing how these technologies have transformed industries such as healthcare, finance, and self-driving cars. Case studies and expert insights provide valuable perspectives on the enormous potential and ethical challenges in the field. The book bridges the gap between theoretical concepts and practical implementation. It empowers readers to embark on their own AI journeys, with step-by-step guidance on building and training neural networks, working with popular frameworks, and handling big data. As the AI and deep learning landscape evolves rapidly, this book keeps pace. It delves into emerging trends such as generative adversarial networks (GANs), reinforcement learning, and the ethical considerations surrounding AI development. An essential reading for AI enthusiasts, students, and professionals alike. It provides the knowledge and tools to harness the potential of intelligent machines and contribute to the ongoing AI revolution.  Laura Wayman, "A Loving Approach to Dementia Care: Making Meaningful Connections while Caregiving " English | ISBN: 1421440067 | 2021 | 200 pages | MOBI | 1322 KB An encouraging and compassionate guide for dementia caregivers.  Nancy L. Rosenblum, "A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy" English | ISBN: 0691202257 | 2020 | 232 pages | MOBI | 697 KB How the new conspiracists are undermining democracy―and what can be done about it  A Land Claimed Twice: Palestine and Israel in History. Conflict, Memory, and Power from Antiquity to the Present English | December 21, 2025 | ASIN: B0GCHYPR5G | 288 pages | EPUB (True) | 641.08 KB A Land Claimed Twice: Palestine and Israel in History Conflict, Memory, and Power from Antiquity to the Present This book offers a sweeping, deeply researched history of one of the world's most enduring and contested conflicts. From ancient empires to modern nation-states, A Land Claimed Twice traces how Palestine and Israel became bound together by faith, conquest, displacement, nationalism, and competing visions of justice. Rather than beginning in 1948, this history reaches back to antiquity, exploring how successive empires-Assyrian, Persian, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, Ottoman, and European-shaped the land and its peoples. It examines how sacred narratives, imperial administration, and demographic change laid foundations that would later be mobilized by modern nationalism. By situating the conflict within a long historical arc, the book challenges the idea that today's crisis emerged suddenly or can be understood through a single moment alone. The modern chapters explore the rise of Zionism, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, British rule, and the catastrophic rupture of 1948 that Palestinians remember as the Nakba and Israelis remember as independence. The book follows the evolution of Israeli statehood and Palestinian dispossession through war, occupation, resistance, diplomacy, and international intervention. Particular attention is given to the lived consequences of political decisions-refugeehood, settlement expansion, military rule, and the fragmentation of Palestinian society. Later chapters examine the wars of 1967 and 1973, the rise of the Palestinian national movement, the First and Second Intifadas, the Oslo process and its collapse, the transformation of Gaza under blockade, and the repeated cycles of violence that defined the early twenty-first century. These events are not treated as isolated episodes but as interconnected outcomes of structural power imbalances, failed diplomacy, and unresolved historical trauma. Throughout, the book foregrounds memory as a political force. Competing narratives of victimhood, survival, and legitimacy are shown to shape policy, identity, and international alignment. Israeli fears rooted in the Holocaust and regional hostility are examined alongside Palestinian experiences of displacement, military occupation, and statelessness. Neither narrative is dismissed; both are critically analyzed. Written in a clear, narrative style grounded in historical scholarship, A Land Claimed Twice avoids slogans and simplifications. It does not seek to assign moral absolutes but to explain how power operates, why peace efforts repeatedly faltered, and how human lives have been shaped by decisions made far beyond their control. This is a book for readers seeking understanding rather than affirmation-students, general history readers, and anyone trying to make sense of a conflict that continues to shape global politics. It argues that peace requires more than negotiations and treaties; it demands historical reckoning, recognition of competing memories, and an honest confrontation with the structures that sustain injustice. History does not end on the final page. It continues-in the streets of Jerusalem, the camps of the diaspora, the walls and borders that divide communities, and the voices of a new generation searching for dignity, security, and belonging. A Land Claimed Twice offers the context needed to understand not only how the conflict began, but why it remains unresolved-and why its future still matters to the world.  Michael K. Bergman, "A Knowledge Representation Practionary: Guidelines Based on Charles Sanders Peirce" English | ISBN: 3319980912 | 2018 | 479 pages | MOBI | 4 MB This major work on knowledge representation is based on the writings of Charles S. Peirce, a logician, scientist, and philosopher of the first rank at the beginning of the 20th century. This book follows Peirce's practical guidelines and universal categories in a structured approach to knowledge representation that captures differences in events, entities, relations, attributes, types, and concepts. Besides the ability to capture meaning and context, the Peircean approach is also well-suited to machine learning and knowledge-based artificial intelligence. Peirce is a founder of pragmatism, the uniquely American philosophy.  A Just Society By Michael Boylan 2004 | 274 Pages | ISBN: 0742533263 | PDF | 14 MB "A Just Society represents a complete account of Boylan's original worldview theory of ethics and social philosophy. In the book Boylan sets out the foundation and application of the personal worldview imperative (for ethics) and the shared community worldview imperative (for social philosophy). These form the structure for a rights-based deontological theory. Throughout, the book employs narrative devices and contemporary examples that make a contribution to ethical and political theory as well as grounding an original approach to public philosophy."  A Judge's Tale: A Trailblazer Fights for Her Place on the Bench by Janet Kintner English | December 2, 2025 | ISBN: 889636017X | 338 pages | EPUB | 3.67 Mb For fans of The Good Wife and Suits, the true story of a passionately principled young female judge in the man's world of the '60s and '70s who is forced to defend her judgeship against two male challengers in a grueling election-while pregnant with her second child.  Peter Kenez, "A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End" English | ISBN: 0521682967 | 2006 | 354 pages | MOBI | 2 MB An examination of political, social and cultural developments in the Soviet Union. The book identifies the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in the government of Russia, from the turn of the century to the revolution of 1917. Kenez envisions that revolution as a crisis of authority that posed the question, 'Who shall govern Russia?' This question was resolved with the creation of the Soviet Union. Kenez traces the development of the Soviet Union from the Revolution, through the 1920s, the years of the New Economic Policies and into the Stalinist order. He shows how post-Stalin Soviet leaders struggled to find ways to rule the country without using Stalin's methods but also without openly repudiating the past, and to negotiate a peaceful but antipathetic coexistence with the capitalist West. In this second edition, he also examines the post-Soviet period, tracing Russia's development up to the time of publication.  A History of Women's Work: The Evolution of Women's Working Lives by Janet Few English | July 30, 2025 | ISBN: 1036105261 | 176 pages | MOBI | 4.80 Mb Uncovers the vital yet often hidden roles women played in households, industries, and paid employment throughout history.  A. R. Disney, "A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, Vol. 1: From Beginnings to 1807: Portugal" English | ISBN: 0521603978 | 2009 | 418 pages | MOBI | 1070 KB The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'être and no obvious political roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe's outer fringe. Then, in the early fifteenth century, this unlikely springboard for Western expansion suddenly began to accumulate an empire of its own, eventually extending more than halfway around the globe. The History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, drawing particularly on historical scholarship postdating the 1974 Portuguese Revolution, offers readers a comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of how all this happened - the first such account to appear in English for more than a generation. Volume I concerns the history of Portugal itself from pre-Roman times to the climactic French invasion of 1807, and Volume II traces the history of the Portuguese overseas empire. |
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