Schubert’s Mature Instrumental Music: A Theorist’s Perspective – by David Beach (Book Review)

Book Review: “Classifying Reality,” by David S. Oderberg (ed.) (2013)

Classifying reality is an ancient and fundamental ability. Even the most basic living creatures classify their world as do social collectives of living things, most noticeably, human beings through psychological processes. An example of the rudimentary nature of classification exists in the behavior of slime molds. When food is abundant many of the more than 900 types of slime molds exist not a...

Book Review David Banister Transport Planning

Book Review: Music, Passion, and Cognitive Function

Book Abstract: How to Write an Emergency Plan by David Alexander; Reproduced by Permission

In 2002, David Alexander wrote Principles of Emergency Planning and Management. Long a standard reference work in that book he described the processes of preparing for and responding to disasters, crises, and civil contingencies. He based the work on principles because he wanted to dissociate it from any particular system of emergency management. Then, as now, many books in this subject are tie...

Book Review: Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective

When several good books on a subject are available the pedagogical style of a book becomes more than a secondary consideration. This is particularly true in the case of mathematical and algorithmic subjects such as machine learning, where the level of formal rigor is a consideration. Peter Naur spent a portion of his career considering this issue. As the ’N’ in the Backus-Naur formalism (BNF), ...