White John: 141 books

Sometimes things simply don’t go as planned. Rocky excelled at using people, manipulating them to achieve his own ends. It never dawned on him that there might be predators out there who were better at it than him.

When looking for ways to improve your website, how do you decide which changes to make? And which changes to keep? This concise book shows you how to use Multiarmed Bandit algorithms to measure the real-world value of any modifications you make to your site. Author John Myles White shows you how this...

If you’re an experienced programmer willing to crunch data, this concise guide will show you how to use machine learning to work with email. You’ll learn how to write algorithms that automatically sort and redirect email based on statistical patterns. Authors Drew Conway and John Myles White approach...

William Faulkner in the Media Ecology explores the Nobel Prize-winning author immersed in the new media of his time. Intersecting with twentieth-century technology such as photography, film, and sound recording, these twelve essays portray Faulkner as not only as a writer looking back on the history...

What was travel like in the 1880s? Was it easy to get from place to place? Were the rides comfortable? How long did journeys take? Wet Britches and Muddy Boots describes all forms of public transport from canal boats to oceangoing vessels, passenger trains to the overland stage. Trips over long distances...

Policing in the latter half of the 20th Century was an undertaking not for the faint of heart. This book relates the experiences of the author as a police officer in a small southern town and the people he met and worked with during that time. Some names have been changed or omitted but the facts...

It is a common assertion that the history of America is written in its Westerns, but how true is this? In this guidebook John White discusses the evolution of the Western through history and looks at theoretical and critical approaches to Westerns such as genre analysis, semiotics, representation,...

In the late 1980s, when several people in southern Tennessee began to disappear they seemed to have one thing in common, they all were last seen with the Bondurant brothers. When investigators finally pieced together the murder cases surrounding the twin brothers they discovered a horrifying spree...

In this comprehensive guide, experienced climber and coach John White shows how to climb indoors and introduces the reader to a range of exercises and techniques that will not only improve their indoor climbing but also help them to climb more safely and effectively outside. Climbing on artificial...

The story of Lori's Miracle is more than an inspiring account of a little girl who survived in the face of some of the best medical knowledge in the country. It is the chronicle of a family's journey through incredible trials, both emotional as well as spiritual, to a life they never dreamed...

John White's study is the most substantial work on what the aims of education should be since Whitehead's Aims of Education of 1929. It draws on material not only from schools and colleges, but also from the broader educative or miseducative nature of the 'ethos' of society and some of its major institutions....

There is joy & triumph in the Christian life. But the victory can come through struggle. John White knows this balance and gives us the encouragement to persevere. Here is a guide through the basic areas of Christian living we wrestle with throughout our lives: faith, prayer, temptation, evangelism,...

The nature of intelligence and how it can be measured has occupied psychologists, educationalists, biologists and philosophers for hundreds of years. However, there has been little investigation into the rise of the traditional dominant educational ideology that intelligence and IQ have innate limits...

What if... we had to do it over and over until we got it right? What if... the end was the beginning? What if... Dante was on to something? James T Lawrence is about to find out.