Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil that good may come of it & his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity & immorality Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner focuses on three major works The Prince the Discourses & The History of Florence & distils from them an introduction to Machiavelli's doctrines of exemplary clarity ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...

In his introduction to this new translation by Russell Price Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response both to the world of Florentine politics & as an attack on the advice-books for princes published by a number of his contemporaries This edition

Includes:: notes on the principal events in Machiavelli's life & on the vocabulary of The Prince as well as biographical notes on characters in the text

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Machiko Noguchi a human colonist who performs the incredible feat of earning his respect & joining his tribe Broken Tusk utilizes the new Ultimate Predator body & comes with gun & bladed weapon that measures over 12" in length! Machiko has a removable mask extra interchangeable hands & rifle accessory NECA have paid close attention to detail to make these as accurate to the comics as possible Hornhead & Broken Tusk stand 8" tall; Machiko stands 65" tall Each has between 25 & 30 points of articulation Blister card packaging Based on Dark Horse Comics Predators Machiko Noguchi stands about 65 inches tall & highly articulated Accessories included removable mask extra interchangeable hands rifle Collect the entire NECA
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A major rediscovery of a forgotten woman playwright of the twenties Machinal is a powerful expressionist play about the status of women in an increasingly mechanized society & the torture of a loveless marriage ...

Tracklist Sex Drive El Diablo Hollywood Whore Glass House Burning Memories A Message From The Count Floor 13 Roulette Truck Norris Interlude Death In My Pocket Candy Waste Love 53666I Think I'm Okay ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A former biker & drug dealer single-handedly takes on the nefarious Lord&s Resistance Army in a noble bid to save young Sudanese refugees from a life of violence & suffering Inspired by actual events Marc Forster&s MACHINE GUN PREACHER stars Gerard Butler as Sam Childers a tough-as-nails biker whose heart shatters upon witnessing the harrowing plight of children in Sudan Determined that no child shall be enslaved by the brutal Lord&s Resistance Army Childers turns to God for inspiration & establishes an orphanage for wounded kids & child soldiers When the Lord&s Resistance Army refuses to stand down Childers organizes a militia to protect the children In helping to give the orphans of war-torn Sudan a better future the former outlaw begins to find new meaning in his own life as well ...

' Some bright kid's got a gun & 2000 rounds of live ammo & that gun's no pea-shooter It'll go through a brick wall at a quarter of a mile' Chas Mc Gill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth & he desperately wants it to be the best When he stumbles across the remains of a German bomber crashed in the woods
- its shiny black machine-gun still intact
- he grabs his chance Soon he's masterminding his own war effort with dangerous & unexpected results The Machine Gunners is Robert Westall's gripping first novel for children set during World War Two & winner of the Carnegie Medal Now with a brilliant cover look celebrating its fortieth anniversary

Includes:: a bonus short story
- ' The Haunting of Chas Mc Gill'
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Tracklist Now We Die Killers & Kings Ghosts Will Haunt My Bones Night Of Long Knives Sail Into The Black Eyes Of The Dead Beneath The Silt In Comes The Flood Damage Inside Game Over Imaginal Cells Take Me Through The Fire ...

Over 17 years & eight albums heavy metal band Machine Head have sold millions of units earned a Grammy nomination & won personal awards from Metal Hammer & other magazines The story is a classic rise fall & rise again scenario -- they exploded onto the metal scene in 1994 enjoyed a successful string of albums & then lost their way in the nu-metal era Now they are in the middle of one of metal's most acclaimed comebacks Joel Mc Iver has interviewed all the b&-members several times & has a unique insight into their rollercoaster story which

Includes:: alcohol addiction inter-band brawls & therapy sackings near-splits & two decades of the heaviest music known to man delivered all over the world

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A comprehensive introduction to machine learning that uses probabilistic models & inference as a unifying approach Today's Web-enabled deluge of electronic data calls for automated methods of data analysis Machine learning provides these developing methods that can automatically detect patterns in data & then use the uncovered patterns to predict future data This textbook offers a comprehensive & self-contained introduction to the field of machine learning based on a unified probabilistic approach The coverage combines breadth & depth offering necessary background material on such topics as probability optimization & linear algebra as well as discussion of recent developments in the field including conditional random fields L1 regularization & deep learning The book is written in an informal accessible style complete with pseudo-code for the most important algorithms All topics are copiously illustrated with color images & worked examples drawn from such application domains as biology text processing computer vision & robotics Rather than providing a cookbook of different heuristic methods the book stresses a principled model-based approach often using the language of graphical models to specify models in a concise & intuitive way Almost all the models described have been implemented in a MATLAB software package -- PMTK (probabilistic modeling toolkit) -- that is freely available online The book is suitable for upper-level undergraduates with an introductory-level college math background & beginning graduate students ...