New Releases by John Elder

EMAIL ISN''T DEAD. YOU''RE JUST DOING IT WRONG. You''ve crafted the perfect subject line. Hit "send", and... Crickets. No opens. No clicks. No sales. Your boss blames the algorithm. You blame Gmail. But what if the real problem isn''t where you''re sending- It''s how you''re showing up? Unstuck Email is the no-fluff, battle-tested playbook for marketers who are tired of guessing. Written for real-world senders, not tech wizards or "growth gurus," this book dismantles outdated advice and replaces it with the truth about how modern email really works-and why most campaigns fail before they''re even read. Inside, you''ll discover how to: Rebuild sender reputation and land in real inboxes Design plain-text emails that outperform flashy templates Turn replies-not clicks-into your most powerful signal Prune your list (without fear) and boost engagement overnight Write messages that feel human, not corporate If you''ve ever felt like you''re shouting into the void-or worse, wondering if email still works-this book is your lifeline. "Smart. Tactical. Brutally honest." Because email isn''t dying. Lazy email is. UnstuckEmail.com

This Python workbook is designed as a hands-on companion to the book "Intro to Python Programming: Beginners Guide Series", guiding learners through core concepts with engaging, practical exercises. Each chapter builds progressively on the last, emphasizing clarity, repetition, and fun - all while reinforcing real-world coding skills. The tone is casual and friendly, making it ideal for self-learners, beginners, or older adults diving into programming for the first time. This workbook focuses exclusively on concepts already introduced in the corresponding book chapters - never jumping ahead or assuming prior knowledge. Exercises avoid redundancy with the main text and instead offer fresh, creative challenges to reinforce learning. By the end, learners will have built a strong Python foundation - and had fun doing it. Written by John Elder of Codemy.com; John has taught over 20 million people to code.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Ensemble methods have been called the most influential development in Data Mining and Machine Learning in the past decade. They combine multiple models into one usually more accurate than the best of its components. Ensembles can provide a critical boost to industrial challenges -- from investment timing to drug discovery, and fraud detection to recommendation systems -- where predictive accuracy is more vital than model interpretability. Ensembles are useful with all modeling algorithms, but this book focuses on decision trees to explain them most clearly. After describing trees and their strengths and weaknesses, the authors provide an overview of regularization -- today understood to be a key reason for the superior performance of modern ensembling algorithms. The book continues with a clear description of two recent developments: Importance Sampling (IS) and Rule Ensembles (RE). IS reveals classic ensemble methods -- bagging, random forests, and boosting -- to be special cases of a single algorithm, thereby showing how to improve their accuracy and speed. REs are linear rule models derived from decision tree ensembles. They are the most interpretable version of ensembles, which is essential to applications such as credit scoring and fault diagnosis. Lastly, the authors explain the paradox of how ensembles achieve greater accuracy on new data despite their (apparently much greater) complexity. This book is aimed at novice and advanced analytic researchers and practitioners -- especially in Engineering, Statistics, and Computer Science. Those with little exposure to ensembles will learn why and how to employ this breakthrough method, and advanced practitioners will gain insight into building even more powerful models. Throughout, snippets of code in R are provided to illustrate the algorithms described and to encourage the reader to try the techniques. The authors are industry experts in data mining and machine learning who are also adjunct professors and popular speakers. Although early pioneers in discovering and using ensembles, they here distill and clarify the recent groundbreaking work of leading academics (such as Jerome Friedman) to bring the benefits of ensembles to practitioners. Table of Contents: Ensembles Discovered / Predictive Learning and Decision Trees / Model Complexity, Model Selection and Regularization / Importance Sampling and the Classic Ensemble Methods / Rule Ensembles and Interpretation Statistics / Ensemble Complexity

Als Ausdruck seiner ehrlichen Zuneigung tätschelt er andere Kinder mit Knüppeln, grinst erleichtert, wenn ein Unbekannter stirbt und hält Halloween mit kleinen Explosionen im Vorgarten kinderfrei: Verhaltensweisen, die immer ein strenges „Schau mich an!“ seiner Eltern zur Folge haben. John Elder Robison gilt in seiner Kindheit als „unnormal“ und wird häufig gemieden. Doch als er sein großes Talent für elektrische Geräte entdeckt, öffnet sich ihm eine neue Welt: Er konstruiert flammenwerfende Gitarren für KISS und entwickelt die ersten elektronischen Spielzeuge für MB. Doch was ihn als Kind zum Außenseiter macht, lässt ihm auch im Job keine Ruhe. Erst mit vierzig Jahren erfährt er die Ursache für sein Verhalten: Er leidet am Asperger-Syndrom – einer leichten Form von Autismus. In „Schau mich an!“ erzählt John Elder Robison aus seinem Leben, wie es wirklich war: manchmal traurig, manchmal komisch, aber immer ergreifend.

Learning Python has never been this fast and easy, or fun! Veteran Codemy.com programmer John Elder walks you step by step through the ins and outs of Python Programming. Written for the absolute beginner, you don''t need any programming experience to dive in and get started with this book. Follow along as John teaches you to set up a development environment and write your first program. You''ll learn about Variables, Math, IF/ELSE Statements, Lists, Dictionaries, Loops, Functions and much more. By the end, you''ll be well on your way to becoming a professional Python coder! Build on your skills with practice exercises at the end of each chapter and build a math flashcard game using all the skills you''ve learned throughout the book. It really is this easy to learn Python!

Desde que tenía tres o cuatro años, John Elder Robison es consciente de que es diferente de los demás. Era incapaz de establecer contacto visual con otros niños y, cuando era adolescente, sus extrañas costumbres —una fuerte inclinación hacia los dispositivos electrónicos, desmontar radios o cavar profundos hoyos— le habían otorgado el sello de «socialmente desviado». Sus padres no solo no lograron entender sus problemas de socialización, sino que fueron prácticamente tan disfuncionales como él. Pero, alentado por algunos maestros a arreglar sus equipos audiovisuales averiados, el pequeño Robison descubrió un mundo más familiar y cómodo de máquinas y circuitos, luz suave y perfección mecánica. Esto recondujo más tarde su vida laboral hacia sectores donde la conducta extraña se considera normal, desarrollando las guitarras eléctricas de KISS o juguetes computerizados para la compañía de Milton Bradley. No fue hasta los cuarenta años que le diagnosticaron una forma de autismo llamada síndrome de Asperger. Entender lo que le ocurría transformó la forma en que se veía a sí mismo y al mundo. Mírame a los ojos es la historia de cómo creció con el síndrome de Asperger en un momento en que el diagnóstico simplemente no existía, con el objetivo de ayudar a quienes están hoy luchando para vivir con Asperger y mostrarles que no es una enfermedad, sino una forma de ser, que no necesita más cura que la comprensión y el aliento de los demás.

Journaling is one of the fastest ways to learn and retain information. If you''re trying to learn to code in Python, this journal is for you! Jot notes as you learn and then make a notation in the table of contents and suddenly you have a handy quick reference guide that you''ll come back to again and again throughout your coding career!

This book is a historical reference for the Presbyterianmission to Iran. It demonstrates God''s power to transformthe lives of many, and indeed a nation, through a handfulof faithful servants who were willing to pay the ultimateprice, in order that His kingdom be established among thepeople they held so dear. Our hope is that all who read thiswill be encouraged to continue pressing on in the face ofdifficulty and suffering, as the fruit of a life well lived maynot be seen this side of eternity.

Picking Up the Flute sets to music a former professor''s musings on retirement, marriage, literature, and the natural world. From his home in historic Bristol, Vermont to Ireland''s Connemara coast, travel through John Elder''s exquisite topography and relish his explorations of nature, poetry, and geology. John Elder''s memoir through music is permeated by his unique combination of prose and learning how to play the Irish flute. Elder revisits his time teaching at Middlebury College and explores the next phase of retirement, utilizing texts and memories from his past, whose meanings echo with a new sound now. Picking Up the Flute is an interactive, multimedia memoir that immerses the reader in Elder''s provocative prose, while offering the ability to listen to his spirited playing on his website.

Bizarre, différent, dérangeant... Aux yeux des autres, John est un enfant étrange et il est exclu des jeux et des activités de ses camarades. Personne ne l’a compris, mais il est atteint d’une forme d’autisme qui l''empêche notamment de mener une conversation simple et de regarder les autres dans les yeux. Mais s''il a des difficultés sociales, John a aussi des capacités hors du commun. C’est un génie des machines et de la technologie. C''est ainsi qu''il invente certains des tout premiers jeux vidéos. À 40 ans, quand il est enfin diagnostiqué Asperger, sa vie en est bouleversée. John comprend pourquoi il est différent et décide d’écrire pour témoigner de son histoire. Dans ce récit plein d’humour et d’espoir, John montre que l’on peut réussir à sortir de la prison de l’autisme, surtout si le regard des autres change... Ma vie avec le syndrome d''Asperger : l''émouvante histoire d''un garçon « différent ».

Having a job sucks! Commuting every day, dealing with idiot bosses, putting up with back-stabbing co-workers, and doing work that bores you to death is no way to live...It just sucks! And with the coming automation invasion, who knows if your job will even be around in five years. There''s never been a better time to take control of your life and start living the dot come lifestyle! This no-nonsense guide will show you exactly how to do it from someone who knows. What kind of online business should you start? Do you have to invest an arm and a leg to build a website? How do bring traffic to your site and convert them to sales? Finally someone who''s been doing this for 20 years explains his methods, in a simple and straight forward manner that anyone can follow...

The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble John Robison was not your typical dad. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the age of forty, he approached fatherhood as a series of logic puzzles and practical jokes. Instead of a speech about the birds and the bees, he told his son, Cubby, that he''d bought him at the Kid Store—and that the salesman had cheated him by promising Cubby would “do all chores.” While other parents played catch with their kids, John taught Cubby to drive the family''s antique Rolls-Royce. Still, Cubby seemed to be turning out pretty well, at least until school authorities decided that he was dumb and stubborn—the very same thing John had been told as a child. Did Cubby have Asperger’s too? The answer was unclear. One thing was clear, though: By the time he turned seventeen, Cubby had become a brilliant and curious chemist—smart enough to make military-grade explosives and bring federal agents calling. With Cubby facing a felony trial—and up to sixty years in prison—both father and son were forced to take stock of their lives, finally accepting that being “on the spectrum” is both a challenge and a unique gift.

They say it''s easier to make money than it is to KEEP money. That may or may not be true. Either way, the "Golden Rules of Making Money" is filled with timeless advice for both making and keeping money. Written by famed showman P.T. Barnum and edited by renowned marketer John Elder (MarketingFool.com) this classic has been updated for present day. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Elder is a pioneer in Internet Marketing who created one of the first Internet advertising networks back in 1997. He sold it to a publicly traded company at the height of the dot com boom and then went on to create the best-selling Submission-Spider search engine submission software that''s been used by over 3 million individuals and small businesses in over 45 countries. Today John writes a daily marketing blog at MarketingFool.com that focuses on Adsense and Affiliate marketing. He also runs FlatplanetMedia.com to handle his various business projects. John graduated with honors with a degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis where he was an artsci scholar. You can contact him at JohnElder.org

"Set aside your Bella Tuscanys and Year in Provences for a different kind of travel book. Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa puts a walking stick in your hand and Marsh’s Man and Nature in your knapsack, exploring how Italians have managed their natural and cultural heritage in ways that sustain both. John Elder’s poetic meditations on land and life demonstrate that only by searching beyond our familiar boundaries can we discover better ways of living back at home."—Marcus Hall, author of Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration "This collaboration—between George Perkins Marsh and John Elder, between Vermont and Italy, between maple and olive—is one of the smartest, soundest, deepest books about the relationship between people and nature that I’ve ever read. It will be a classic."—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Elder’s impassioned pilgrimage shows us how to delight in messy wilderness, to secure a curative habitation of the world, and, with Marsh, to lend ecological nous to our gravest task: knowing ourselves and respecting one another. Let the maple seeds and olive stones of Elder’s visionary harvest restore to us a reflective and redemptory future."—from the foreword by David Lowenthal The pivotal figure in Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa is the nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George Perkins Marsh, generally regarded as America’s first environmentalist. Like Elder, Marsh was a Vermonter, and his diplomatic career took him for some years to Italy, where, witnessing the ecological devastation wrought upon the landscape by runaway deforestation and the plundering of other natural resources, he was moved to produce his famous manifesto, Man and Nature. Marsh drew parallels between the despoiled Italian environment and his home landscape of Vermont, warning that the latter was vulnerable to ecological woes of a similar magnitude if not carefully maintained and protected. In short, his was a prescient voice for stewardship. Elder follows in Marsh’s footsteps along a trajectory running from Vermont to Italy, and at length fetches up at the managed forest of Vallombrosa. Punctuated throughout with learned and genial considerations of the poetry of Wordsworth, Basho, Dante, and Frost, Elder’s narrative takes up issues of sustainability as practiced locally, reports on family doings, and returns finally—as did Marsh’s—to Vermont, where he measures traditional stewardship values against more aggressive conservation-oriented measures such as the expansion of wilderness areas. John Elder, Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, is the author of Reading the Mountains of Home and The Frog Run. Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism

Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications brings together all the information, tools and methods a professional will need to efficiently use text mining applications and statistical analysis. Winner of a 2012 PROSE Award in Computing and Information Sciences from the Association of American Publishers, this book presents a comprehensive how-to reference that shows the user how to conduct text mining and statistically analyze results. In addition to providing an in-depth examination of core text mining and link detection tools, methods and operations, the book examines advanced preprocessing techniques, knowledge representation considerations, and visualization approaches. Finally, the book explores current real-world, mission-critical applications of text mining and link detection using real world example tutorials in such varied fields as corporate, finance, business intelligence, genomics research, and counterterrorism activities. The world contains an unimaginably vast amount of digital information which is getting ever vaster ever more rapidly. This makes it possible to do many things that previously could not be done: spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and so on. Managed well, the textual data can be used to unlock new sources of economic value, provide fresh insights into science and hold governments to account. As the Internet expands and our natural capacity to process the unstructured text that it contains diminishes, the value of text mining for information retrieval and search will increase dramatically. - Extensive case studies, most in a tutorial format, allow the reader to ''click through'' the example using a software program, thus learning to conduct text mining analyses in the most rapid manner of learning possible - Numerous examples, tutorials, power points and datasets available via companion website on Elsevierdirect.com - Glossary of text mining terms provided in the appendix

“I believe those of us with Asperger’s are here for a reason, and we have much to offer. This book will help you bring out those gifts.” In his bestselling memoir, Look Me in the Eye, John Elder Robison described growing up with Asperger’s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didn’t exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents won him jobs with toy makers and rock bands but did little to endear him to authority figures and classmates, who were put off by his inclination to blurt out non sequiturs and avoid eye contact. By the time he was diagnosed at age forty, John had already developed a myriad of coping strategies that helped him achieve a seemingly normal, even highly successful, life. In Be Different, Robison shares a new batch of endearing stories about his childhood, adolescence, and young adult years, giving the reader a rare window into the Aspergian mind. In each story, he offers practical advice—for Aspergians and indeed for anyone who feels “different”—on how to improve the weak communication and social skills that keep so many people from taking full advantage of their often remarkable gifts. With his trademark honesty and unapologetic eccentricity, Robison addresses questions like: • How to read others and follow their behaviors when in uncertain social situations • Why manners matter • How to harness your powers of concentration to master difficult skills • How to deal with bullies • When to make an effort to fit in, and when to embrace eccentricity • How to identify special gifts and use them to your advantage Every person, Aspergian or not, has something unique to offer the world, and every person has the capacity to create strong, loving bonds with their friends and family. Be Different will help readers and those they love find their path to success.

The Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications is a comprehensive professional reference book that guides business analysts, scientists, engineers and researchers (both academic and industrial) through all stages of data analysis, model building and implementation. The Handbook helps one discern the technical and business problem, understand the strengths and weaknesses of modern data mining algorithms, and employ the right statistical methods for practical application. Use this book to address massive and complex datasets with novel statistical approaches and be able to objectively evaluate analyses and solutions. It has clear, intuitive explanations of the principles and tools for solving problems using modern analytic techniques, and discusses their application to real problems, in ways accessible and beneficial to practitioners across industries - from science and engineering, to medicine, academia and commerce. This handbook brings together, in a single resource, all the information a beginner will need to understand the tools and issues in data mining to build successful data mining solutions. - Written "By Practitioners for Practitioners" - Non-technical explanations build understanding without jargon and equations - Tutorials in numerous fields of study provide step-by-step instruction on how to use supplied tools to build models - Practical advice from successful real-world implementations - Includes extensive case studies, examples, MS PowerPoint slides and datasets - CD-DVD with valuable fully-working 90-day software included: "Complete Data Miner - QC-Miner - Text Miner" bound with book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find.” —from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother, Augusten Burroughs, in them)—had earned him the label “social deviant.” It was not until he was forty that he was diagnosed with a form of autism called Asperger’s syndrome. That understanding transformed the way he saw himself—and the world. A born storyteller, Robison has written a moving, darkly funny memoir about a life that has taken him from developing exploding guitars for KISS to building a family of his own. It’s a strange, sly, indelible account—sometimes alien yet always deeply human.

Annotation "Teacher and writer John Elder, a man who loves both literature and the outdoors, describes in The Frog Run how he found a way to balance these passions in building a sugarhouse with his sons in the Vermont woods. He celebrates the moment between winter and spring - known to sugarmakers as "the frog run"--When the tree frogs begin to be heard and the last run of sap good for making syrup flows from the maples. For Elder, who also writes in this book about the resurgence of New England forests and about his life as a reader, the frog run is a time to savor and celebrate the fleeting beauties of his family''s place on earth."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Homeis a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter. As John Elder is our guide, so Robert Frost is Elder''s companion, his great poem "Directive" seeing us through a landscape in which nature and literature, loss and recovery, are inextricably joined. Over the course of a year, Elder takes us on his hikes through the forested uplands between South Mountain and North Mountain, reflecting on the forces of nature, from the descent of the glaciers to the rush of the New Haven River, that shaped a plateau for his village of Bristol; and on the human will that denuded and farmed and abandoned the mountains so many years ago. His forays wind through the flinty relics of nineteenth-century homesteads and Abenaki settlements, leading to meditations on both human failure and the possibility for deeper communion with the land and others. An exploration of the body and soul of a place, an interpretive map of its natural and literary life, Reading the Mountains of Home strikes a moving balance between the pressures of civilization and the attraction of wilderness. It is a beautiful work of nature writing in which human nature finds its place, where the reader is invited to follow the last line of Frost''s "Directive," to "Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."

This landmark work explores how our attitudes toward nature are mirrored in and influenced by poetry. Showing us a resurgent vision of harmony between nature and humanity in the work of some of our most widely read poets, Imagining the Earth reveals the power of poetry to identify, interpret, and celebrate a wide range of issues related to nature and our place in it.

Relied upon by thousands of physicians, medical directors, underwriters and actuaries worldwide, Medical Selection of Life Risks, is the most trusted reference on medical risk selection ever published. The fourth edition has been completely updated and expanded to include nine new chapters and an increased emphasis on disability insurance. Part 1 covers the operation and principles of underwriting selection/risk identification. Part 2 deals, system by system with detailed methods of risk appraisal for a very wide range of diseases, presenting the latest available medical and comparative mortality information. All the most prominent disease and ailments presenting risks to life are pinpointed from high blood pressure and cardiovascular disorders, to diseases of the blood, kidneys and urinary tract, respiratory disorders, tumors, tropical diseases and AIDS.

Mathematics of Computing -- Parallelism.