This book describes the important ideas in a variety of fields such as medicine biology finance & marketing in a common conceptual framework While the approach is statistical the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics Many examples are given with a liberal use of colour graphics It is a valuable resource for statisticians & anyone interested in data mining in science or industry The book's coverage is broad from supervised learning (prediction) to unsupervised learning The many topics include neural networks support vector machines classification trees & boosting---the first comprehensive treatment of this topic in any book This major new edition features many topics not covered in the original including graphical models random forests ensemble methods least angle regression & path algorithms for the lasso non-negative matrix factorisation & spectral clustering There is also a chapter on methods for wide'' data (p bigger than n) including multiple testing & false discovery rates ...

The Elephant & the Bad Baby is the classic story from Elfrida Vipont & Raymond Briggs The Elephant takes the Bad Baby for a ride & they go 'rumpeta rumpeta rumpeta down the road' They help themselves to ice creams pies buns crisps biscuits lollipops & apples & the shopkeepers follow them down the road shouting & waving All ends well as the Bad Baby learns to say ' Please' & his mother makes pancakes for everyone Elfrida Vipont worked as a teacher singer & writer She wrote over 30 books & won the Carnegie Medal in 1950 for Lark on the Wing Raymond Briggs has produced wonderful children's books including the classic titles The Snowman Father Christmas & When the Wind Blows
- all made into immensely successful films Raymond lives in Sussex Look out for these other titles by Raymond Briggs The Snowman; The Elephant & the Bad Baby; Father Christmas; Fungus the Bogeyman; Raymond Briggs's Christmas Little Library; The Father Christmas it's a Bloomin' Terrible Joke Book; Jim & the Beanstalk; Father Christmas Goes on Holiday
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Brutalised in childhood for his appalling deformities & Elephant Man& John Merrick (John Hurt) has been treated as a human freak ever since When he is discovered by London doctor Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) Merrick is finally treated with the kindness & intelligence he deserves Unfortunately by awakening his true character the problems continue for he can never lead a &normal& life David Lynch&s atmospheric fact-based film was nominated for eight Oscars including Best Director & Best Actor ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play David Lynch brings his own dreamlike style to the heartbreaking yet somehow uplifting story of John Merrick (John Hurt) a hideously deformed individual dubbed the Elephant Man during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England After suffering for years at the hands of his circus "master" the eloquent soft spoken Merrick is "rescued" by compassionate surgeon Dr Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) who allows him to live at the hospital where he works Merrick becomes a social celebrity when he meets a popular stage performer (Anne Bancroft) but he must continue to fight for his dignity with those who still choose to view him as a freak Meanwhile Treves begins to question whether his supposed act of humanity has been just as exploitative as Merrick&s former caretaker&s Lynch&s follow-up to his 1978 cult classic ERASERHEAD is a striking blend of art & entertainment which earned the film eight Academy Award nominations in 1980 Freddie Francis&s breathtaking black-&-white cinematography combines with John Morris&s score to re-create Victorian England with a deeply haunting beauty It is the compassionate performances of Hurt & Hopkins that lift THE ELEPHANT MAN to a more emotional level however bringing an inspired sadness to Lynch&s striking vision ...

A child a wild animal
- & a life-changing encounter An exciting new range of books in which children find solutions to problems
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When a man's favourite elephant vanishes the balance of his whole life is subtly upset A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a Mc Donald's A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden An insomniac wife wakes up in a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible
- even death In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal
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For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for a Hapsburg archduke in Vienna The only way for Solomon to get to his new home is to walk So begins a journey that will take the stalwart elephant across the dusty plains of Castile over the sea to Genoa & up to northern Italy where like Hannibal's elephants before him he must cross the snowy Alps Based on a true story Saramago's tale is an enchanting mix of fact fable & fantasy ...

A gripping spy thriller set at an addictive pace from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer Connor Fitzgerald is the professional's professional Holder of the Medal of Honour Devoted family man The CIA's most deadly weapon But for twenty-eight years he has been leading a double life & only days from his retirement he comes across an enemy even he cannot handle The enemy is his own boss & she has only one purpose to destroy him Meanwhile the United States is faced with an equally formidable foe a new Russian President determined to force a military confrontation between the two superpowers Ranging from the Oval Office in the White House to a Russian Mafia boss's luxurious hideaway outside St Petersburg The Eleventh Commandment sets new standards in contemporary thriller writing Jeffrey Archer scoops his readers up in the first paragraph & doesn't let them go until the last The pace the ingenuity the twists intertwined with a moving love story show Britain's bestselling writer at the peak of his page-turning powers ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Follow Scout Elves Joy Sugar Cookie Newsey Noel Scout Elf Joe Captain & Chippey on their fun-filled adventures Also meet the Elf Pets&174; Santa's cuddly friends! These three specials feature original songs & stories that prove nothing is more powerful than faith hope & love during the Christmas season Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 3 ...

Wren Ohmsford Scion of Shannara came from the Westlands where she lived the life of a Rover Now she like her kinsmen Par & Walker Boh has been called upon to help the shade of Allanon fight the totalitarian power of the Federation She must find the Elves who disappeared from their strongholds more than one hundred years ago But even knowledge of the Elves is hard to find
- only a blind wise woman of the West knows something of their location On her advice Wren & her Rover companion Garth journey to the coast of the Blue Divide where they build a fire & let it burn for three days With the unexpected help that their blaze attracts they reach the isle of Morrowindle & near their goal
- to find the last of the Elves But they also find dangers such as they could not have imagined & Wren will make a discovery that will change her life for ever

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