Introduction to Research in Leadership examines the process and skills required for effectively conducting research on the concept of leadership. Its authors employ a microscope for close analysis and build balconies to see trends and gain perspective. Designed to be imminently practical, it employs concrete examples of fictional graduate students, faculty, and professionals struggling with their own issues to help readers make sense of the world of research and all of its complexities. Fi...

Ancients and moderns alike have constructed arguments and assessed theories on the basis of common sense and intuitive judgments. Yet, despite the important role intuitions play in philosophy, there has been little reflection on fundamental questions concerning the sort of data intuitions provide, how they are supposed to lead us to the truth, and why we should treat them as important. In addition, recent psychological research seems to pose serious challenges to traditional intuition-driv...

Is the life she can’t remember one she’d rather forget?One year after her family was in a tragic car accident that killed her teenage son, Lori Mendenhall returns home with a traumatic brain injury that has stolen the last eight years of memories from her, leaving the life she has returned to unrecognizable.Her once-loving husband, Michael, is a distant workaholic she isn’t sure she can trust, and her once-bubbly daughter, Avery, has spent the last year hidden away in her ro...

A young child’s fate is at stake in a deadly battle between his deceased parents in this gripping and profoundly original psychological thriller, perfect for fans of What Have You Done and Middle of the Night.When a commercial flight crashes, all 184 people on board perish—with the singular exception of a two-year-old boy named Ethan, who’s entrusted to family friends Matthew and Nicole per his late parents’ wishes.From the afterlife, Etha...

This book is a comprehensive guide to understanding and utilizing PyTorch 2.0 for deep learning applications. It starts with an introduction to PyTorch, its various advantages over other deep learning frameworks, and its blend with CUDA for GPU acceleration. We delve into the heart of PyTorch - tensors, learning their different types, properties, and operations. Through step-by-step examples, the reader learns to perform basic arithmetic operations on tensors, manipulate them, and ...

This book has been updated with Pandas 2.3, and it's exactly what ML engineers, data scientists and data engineers have been waiting for. It's a hands-on desk guide that's full of solutions, and it's the most up-to-date, production-ready book to the most widely used data manipulation library in the Python ecosystem.This book covers all the big changes in Pandas 2.3, like Copy-on-Write semantics, PyArrow-backed types that sa...

Starting a PyTorch Developer and Deep Learning Engineer career? Check out this 'PyTorch Cookbook,' a comprehensive guide with essential recipes and solutions for PyTorch and the ecosystem. The book covers PyTorch deep learning development from beginner to expert in well-written chapters.The book simplifies neural networks, training, optimization, and deployment strategies chapter by chapter. The first part covers PyTorch basics, data preprocessing, tokenization, and vocabulary. Nex...

To protect those most vulnerable, Haven Haviland must trust her heart--and her regrets--to a mysterious newcomer in this moving contemporary romance.Few in the community of Whisper Canyon have actually met Jace Daring, a handsome recluse who lives at Aspen Crossroads, the farm at the edge of town. But that doesn't stop the rumors about the multiple women who live with him. He must protect the truth--that his farm-to-table restaurant will provide new livelihoods for...

How far would you go to fix the mistakes you've made and regain the trust you lost? For Jade Jessup, the answer is 2,448 miles. Once one of Chicago's significant financial advisors, Jade lost her credibility when her fiancé (and coworker) stole millions of dollars from their clients in a Ponzi scheme. Now she's agreed to help one of them--an aging 1960s Hollywood starlet named Berenice "Benny" Alderidge--seek financial restoration.Jade sets off along Route 66 with Benny and her han...

"Learning Pandas 2.0" is an essential guide for anyone looking to harness the power of Python's premier data manipulation library. With this comprehensive resource, you will not only master core Pandas 2.0 concepts but also learn how to employ its advanced features to perform efficient data manipulation and analysis.Throughout the book, you will acquire a deep understanding of Pandas 2.0's data structures, indexing, and selection techniques. Gain expertise in loading, storing, and ...

"Learning PyTorch 2.0, Second Edition" is a fast-learning, hands-on book that emphasizes practical PyTorch scripting and efficient model development using PyTorch 2.3 and CUDA 12. This edition is centered on practical applications and presents a concise methodology for attaining proficiency in the most recent features of PyTorch.The book presents a practical program based on the fish dataset which provides step-by-step guidance through the processes of building, training and deploy...

To protect those most vulnerable, Haven Haviland must trust her heart--and her regrets--to a mysterious newcomer in this moving contemporary romance.Few in the community of Whisper Canyon have actually met Jace Daring, a handsome recluse who lives at Aspen Crossroads, the farm at the edge of town. But that doesn't stop the rumors about the multiple women who live with him. He must protect the truth--that his farm-to-table restaurant will provide new livelihoods for...