Suggested Books of the Week 47, 2017

Check out these books below by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, TradePub and Ancient Origins.

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Adversarial Machine Learning

Adversarial Machine
Learning

Written by leading researchers, this complete introduction brings together all the theory and tools needed for building robust machine learning in adversarial environments. Discover how machine learning systems can adapt when an adversary actively poisons data to manipulate statistical inference, learn the latest practical techniques for investigating system security and performing robust data analysis, and gain insight into new approaches for designing effective countermeasures against the latest wave of cyber-attacks...

Providing a thorough overview of the current state of the art in the field, and possible future directions, this groundbreaking work is essential reading for researchers, practitioners and students in computer security and machine learning, and those wanting to learn about the next stage of the cybersecurity arms race.

• The first book to provide a state-of-the-art review of adversarial machine learning
• Covers availability and integrity attacks, privacy-preserving mechanisms, near-optimal evasion of classifiers, and future directions for adversarial machine learning
• Includes in-depth case studies on email spam and network security

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Machine Learning Refined - Foundations, Algorithms, and Applications

Machine Learning
Refined

Providing a unique approach to machine learning, this text contains fresh and intuitive, yet rigorous, descriptions of all fundamental concepts necessary to conduct research, build products, tinker, and play...

With in-depth Python and MATLAB/OCTAVE-based computational exercises and a complete treatment of cutting edge numerical optimization techniques, this is an essential resource for students and an ideal reference for researchers and practitioners working in machine learning, computer science, electrical engineering, signal processing, and numerical optimization.

• Provides MATLAB-based coding exercises, real-world examples, and practical applications 
• Takes a unique approach, enabling a more coherent, intuitive, and interactive way of learning 
• Includes over 150 illustrations, many of which are in full colour 

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AI - Its Nature and Future

AI - Its Nature and Future

The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and - not least - on the Internet. The results of Artificial Intelligence have been invaluable to biologists, psychologists, and linguists in helping to understand the processes of memory, learning, and language from a fresh angle.
As a concept, Artificial Intelligence has fuelled and sharpened the philosophical debates concerning the nature of the mind, intelligence, and the uniqueness of human beings... 
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Artificial Intelligence - What Everyone Needs to Know 

Artificial Intelligence 
What Everyone Needs to Know

Over the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence will profoundly impact the way we live, work, wage war, play, seek a mate, educate our young, and care for our elderly. It is likely to greatly increase our aggregate wealth, but it will also upend our labor markets, reshuffle our social order, and strain our private and public institutions. Eventually it may alter how we see our place in the universe, as machines pursue goals independent of their creators and outperform us in domains previously believed to be the sole dominion of humans. Whether we regard them as conscious or unwitting, revere them as a new form of life or dismiss them as mere clever appliances, is beside the point. They are likely to play an increasingly critical and intimate role in many aspects of our lives...
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The 50 Greatest Motivational Quotes Of All Time - And Why 

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Everyone loves to sink their teeth into a great quote - but why?

Quotes in isolation have an impact. But quotes that are deeply explained resonate on a whole new level.

Feel free to read it all at once or dip into them from time to time. If you have a day when things aren't going quite according to plan or you feel less than inspired, open this up and you'll spot a quote in no time that will get you back on track.
Explore your curiosity and brighten your day with these motivational quotes!
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Ancient Worlds: The Search for the Origins of Western Civilization 

Ancient Worlds: 
 The Search for the Origins
of Western Civilization

Across the Middle East, the Mediterranean and the Nile Delta, awe-inspiring, monstrous ruins are scattered across the landscape - vast palaces, temples, fortresses, shattered statues of ancient gods, carvings praising the eternal power of long-forgotten dynasties. These ruins - the remainder of thousands of years of human civilization - are both inspirational in their grandeur, and terrible in that their once teeming centres of population were all ultimately destroyed and abandoned.
In this major book, Richard Miles recreates these extraordinary cities, ranging from the Euphrates to the Roman Empire, to understand the roots of human civilization...
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Source: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, TradePub and Ancient Origins.