Book Review: Advanced Cardiac Life Support–The Practical Approach: Second Edition.

A Practical Approach Second Edition

Book review: Epigenetics (second edition, eds. Allis, Caparros, Jenuwein, Reinberg)

A book review on Epigenetics, second edition Edited by C. Epigenetics is a dynamic and well-established branch of genetics. It deals with heritable traits, which are not transmitted by the sequence of DNA but rather by the state of chromatin. The evolving landscape of epigenetic research has been reviewed in many excellent books and monographs. Amongst these, the second edition of Epigenetics b...

Book Review: 'Teaching and Researching Writing (3rd Edition)'

Writing has an overarching significance in our lives. We experience this significance in our personal, professional and social activities. Much of who we are and who we wish to become in our social life, in the professional community we belong to and even in the privacy of our individual life is the outcome of what we write and how we write. We are often judged and evaluated by our control of i...

Practical Genetic Algorithms Practical Genetic Algorithms Second Edition

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Book Review: Mobile Robotics - A Practical Introduction, 2nd Edition, By Ulrich Nehmzow

Well, this book made me reconsider. In his introductory(!) book Ulrich Nehmzow not only gives practical high-level advice on most important aspects of robot building, but also rigorously emphasizes the theme of learning as it should be done. Some of his case studies are among the most interesting work in robot learning I have yet seen. Still, most of these approaches work with little computing ...