"A first-rate biography of this grand admiral who is better known for his political skills than his naval ones." — US Naval Insitute ProceedingsGrand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930) was the principal force behind the rise of the German Imperial Navy prior to World War I, challenging Great Britain's command of the seas. As State Secretary of the Imperial Naval Office from 1897 to 1916, Tirpitz wielded great power and influence over the national agend...

An in-depth breakdown of the recent wave of Canadian Senate scandals, highlighting the need for abolition.The Senate of Canada was created as a temporary expedient at the time of Confederation, offered as part of the negotiations to bring Canada’s original colonial provinces into the new political union in the mid-1860s. Since then, the original provinces with upper houses abolished them. New provinces were created without second chambers to their legislatures. Only the Parliament ...

Rare views of human lives in turmoil are revealed in several hundred trials conducted in 1890s Muskoka by Magistrate James Boyer of Bracebridge. The charges and evidence show how raw life really was in Canada's frontier towns, with cases ranging from nostalgic and humorous to pitiable and deeply disturbing.While dispensing speedy justice, Boyer, who was also town clerk and editor of the Northern Advocate, the first newspaper in Ontario's northern districts, kept a careful ...

Offering a clear and accessible introduction to the fast-growing field of archaeogenetics, this book pays particular attention to the methods and approaches that are reshaping how archaeologists and historians think about the past.Written for readers with no prior background in genetics, it explains in straightforward terms how genomic research can shed light on mobility, population change, social organization and cultural practices. At the same time, it begins wit...

Quiet Isaac Jelfs led many lives: a scapegoated law clerk in England; a soldier in the mad Crimean War; a lawyer on swirling Broadway Avenue in New York. His escape from each was wrapped in deep secrecy. He eventually reached Canada, in 1869, with a new wife and a changed name. In his new home — the remote wilderness of Muskoka — he crafted yet another persona for himself. In Another Country, Another Life, his great-grandson traces that long-hidden journey, exposing Isaac Jelfs' c...

An inside account of the Progressive Conservative’s campaign organization.The Progressive Conservative Party’s “big blue machine” pioneered electoral techniques of centralized control, communications, campaign advertising, polling, policy-presentation, and fund-raising. Inspired by Dalton Camp and Norman Atkins, its widespread yet close-knit network of organizers and specialists changed how Canadian campaigns were fought, even as their “political machine” transform...

For fans of Ender’s Game, Red Rising,and The Hunger Games comes an explosive, epic science fiction debut...Cities vanished, gone in flashes of world-shattering destruction. An alien race had come to make Earth theirs, bringing a power so far beyond human technology it seemed like magic. It was nearly the end of the world—until we learned to seize the power, and use it to fight back.The war has raged for five centuries. For a cadet...

The way we develop AI has completely changed. I mean, who builds models from scratch these days? Nobody.Today's developers are creating apps based on existing models, and this second edition teaches you how to do that in Python. We start with one API call and end up with a full production service that's all set to go. As you go through the chapters, you build one application that grows with you, so you never throw anything out. With retrieval, you can suppl...

Dr. Fullerton's Performance Weight Management ProgramA Physician's Evidence-Based Guide to Lifelong Weight Management, Better Health & Peak PerformanceMost diets fail. Here's why.Most diet programs assume everyone has the same metabolism.Science says otherwise.Every person has a unique Daily Calorie Requirement (DCR) based on age, sex, body composition, metabolism, a...

How the Odyssey illuminates the two sides of the American mind, from one of our most influential cultural commentators.The Odyssey is among the oldest-known written works. Yet it is somehow profoundly contemporary. Its themes are inescapably human: the desire to strike out for new adventures; the aspiration to be more than human; the temptation to wallow in beastlike torpor; the impulse to exact vengeance; the possibility that mercy might bring a ...

This book aspires young graduates and programmers to become AI engineers and enter the world of artificial intelligence by combining powerful Python programming with artificial intelligence. Beginning with the fundamentals of Python programming, the book gradually progresses to machine learning, where readers learn to implement Python in developing predictive models.The book provides a clear and accessible explanation of machine learning, incorporating practical examples and exerci...

The Gymnast might have been an “everyman” memoir: Patrick grew up hard and fast in the New York of the 1950s and ’60s. He found a sport and then a career he was passionate about. Found love, raised a family.Except The Gymnast isn’t any old coming-of-age tale. Patrick contracted polio, and one of his legs atrophied because of it. He became the boy with the “repulsive leg,” as he called it, and for a long time, he didn’t believe he’d have a normal life.With ...