New Releases by Stephen Baker

A full-color, step-by-step atlas of rhinoplasty surgical techniques Part of the McGraw-Hill Plastic Surgery Atlas series, Rhinoplasty is an unmatched visual guide to learning how to successfully perform this challenging procedure. Featuring 180 full-color illustrations, this is the perfect primer for surgeons to begin and sharpen their understanding of rhinoplasty. Rhinoplasty addresses the relevant anatomy, operative setup, surgical steps, and postoperative care to optimize patient outcomes. The book is organized by anatomic location and covers in detail the numerous maneuvers that are frequently used to shape the various parts of the nose. Designed to provide the most relevant information in the clearest manner possible, Rhinoplasty features an easy-to-apply presentation consisting of bulleted text on the left- hand page and high-quality illustrations on the right. Opening chapters include coverage of nasal anatomy, cartilaginous support, arterial support, innervations and muscles of the nose, treatment planning, operative setup, and basic approaches. The book then goes on to cover actual corrections, including: Dorsal hump deformity Doral augmentation Radix reduction and augmentation Increasing and decreasing tip rotation Lengthening the short nose Alar base modification Alar-columella relationship modification Septal modification And more Also included is an appendix illustrating key surgical instruments.

The “charming and terrifying” story of IBM’s breakthrough in artificial intelligence, from the Business Week technology writer and author of The Numerati (Publishers Weekly, starred review). For centuries, people have dreamed of creating a machine that thinks like a human. Scientists have made progress: computers can now beat chess grandmasters and help prevent terrorist attacks. Yet we still await a machine that exhibits the rich complexity of human thought—one that doesn’t just crunch numbers, or take us to a relevant web page, but understands and communicates with us. With the creation of Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy!-playing computer, we are one step closer to that goal. In Final Jeopardy, Stephen Baker traces the arc of Watson’s “life,” from its birth in the IBM labs to its big night on the podium. We meet Hollywood moguls and Jeopardy! masters, genius computer programmers and ambitious scientists, including Watson’s eccentric creator, David Ferrucci. We see how Watson’s breakthroughs and the future of artificial intelligence could transform medicine, law, marketing, and even science itself, as machines process huge amounts of data at lightning speed, answer our questions, and possibly come up with new hypotheses. As fast and fun as the game itself, Final Jeopardy shows how smart machines will fit into our world—and how they’ll disrupt it. “The place to go if you’re really interested in this version of the quest for creating Artificial Intelligence.” —The Seattle Times “Like Tracy Kidder’s Soul of a New Machine, Baker’s book finds us at the dawn of a singularity. It’s an excellent case study, and does good double duty as a Philip K. Dick scenario, too.” —Kirkus Reviews “Like a cross between Born Yesterday and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Baker’s narrative is both . . . an entertaining romp through the field of artificial intelligence—and a sobering glimpse of things to come.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Benjamin Lazarus works as a telemarketer, selling overpriced timeshares to unwary, elderly victims. He is the best employee at the company, because he can lie like no one else. On a stormy Monday morning, he is about to discover a secret. He is, in reality, dead. An expert team of villains follow Benjamin and try to trip him up at every turn on his quest to get out of the grave. But there are other forces at work in his life. Benjamin has a caring Uncle and a loving God who are intent on seeing him live.

Learn how the crisis over digital privacy and manipulation evolved in this “utterly fascinating” look at the growth of data mining and analysis (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). Award-winning journalist Stephen Baker traces the rise of the “global math elite”: computer scientists who invent ways to not only record our behavior, but also to predict and alter it. Nowadays, we don’t need to be online to create a digital trail; we do it simply by driving through an automated tollbooth or shopping with a credit card. As massive amounts of information are collected, sifted, and analyzed, we all become targets of those who want to influence everything from what we buy to how we vote. Clear and “highly readable,” The Numerati is a look at the origins of our present-day world, the possibilities of the future, and those who—whether with good or bad intentions—profile us as workers, consumers, citizens, or potential terrorists (The Wall Street Journal).

A humorous and interesting look inside the fantasy world of a psychotic personality. Follow along with a character who exists only inside his own mind. Or does he?

In a world teeming with data, we ourselves become the maths gurus'' most prized specimens. In They''ve Got Your Number, Stephen Baker takes us on a guided tour (no maths required) through an unprecedented new era, in which mathematicians are starting to map individual human behaviour - what we do, who we are, how we work, chat, play and shop - and in doing so, will change every aspect of our lives. They''ve Got Your Number is a book about one of the great undertakings of the twenty-first century - the mathematical modelling of humanity. Much in the same way as neuroscientists are mapping our brains, the Numerati are mapping our behaviour - everything that makes us individuals. Stephen Baker navigates us through a world that otherwise might seem remote or disconnected, but one which is absolutely relevant to our everyday lives.

Need some encouragement? Having all the problems that you can handle? Stephen Baker shows Bible truths about the real hope that God offers to us through Jesus Christ. Covers topics such as: how to overcome depression, the purpose of life, the testimony of a convicted drug dealer and gang member who found hope in Jesus Christ, and much more!

From Stephen Baker, the wildly funny expert on pets, comes this hilarious book on living with your canine companion. Get inside the minds of dogs through topics including: • Why Dogs Think People Are Crazy: Canine Con Games • You Can Tell a Breed by the Games He Plays • People Games: The Training of a Dog Owner

From Stephen Baker, the wildly funny expert on pets, comes this hilarious book on living with your feline companion. Learn how to pick an appropriate name for your cat, and hope that kitty chooses to acknowledge this name. Chapters are organized on the basis of cat characteristics, with original names such as: • Kamaiki (Middle Eastern black coffee, for a black cat) • Paloma (Spanish for "white dove") • Koni (a shock absorber in race cars, for your fast cat)

This report examines a range of science and technology issues concerning waste management for deployed land forces. Within this waste management context, the report outlines the functional requirements of a deployed force, the status of Australian research and development, deployable technology options, and approaches to systems modelling.

The Fiction of Postmodernity is a significant and accessible study of the relation of postmodern fiction to theories of the postmodern. Contemporary works of fiction by novelists such as Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Pynchon, and Martin Amis are viewed in relation to critiques of the "culture industry," analyses of the "postmodern condition," and theories of simulacra. The work of influential theorists of the postmodern--such as Theodor Adorno, Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard--is explained and compared. The book offers descriptions of the postmodern from both the Marxist critical tradition and from the perspective of postmarxism. Key features in both these definitions are explained in relation to modernist and postmodern works of fiction. Issues relating to the postmodern representation of history and the development of a postmodern politics are also addressed in relation to works of contemporary fiction.

Cat owners know the truth: cats, in fact, own them and their feline needs must be met—sooner rather than later. In this delightfully irreverent book, highlighted by Jackie Geyer''s evocative illustrations, the author of the highly successful,How to Live with a Neurotic Dog, offers coping mechanisms for those who struggle with the endless task of keeping their cats pampered and therefore happy.

This thesis represents the most recent step in the development of a new wholesale level repairable item inventory model for the Navy. Distringuishing features of the process by which repairable items are managed in the Navy are batching of both repair and procurement orders and a specific repair assessment policy which sees repairable items enter repair agencies in batches but leave as single items. Approximate steady state probability distributions for inventory position and net inventory are developed and these are extensively tested against simulation reults. Graphical analysis and testing using nonparametric methods suggest that the approximations developed closely resemble the distributions obtained via simulation.

In the wonderfully witty style of his bestseller How To Live With A Neurotic Cat, Stephen Baker presents this charming feline family album for devoted cat owners. This adorable "baby book" for felines can be used to record every milestone of a beloved pet''s nine lives. Lavishly illustrated, in paper-over-board format, this title is a great gift for cat lovers.

Lavishly illustrated and full of "real-world" examples, The Advertiser''s Manual is packed with the kind of up-to-date, vital information every small and medium-sized advertiser needs to know.

Research paper on migrant workers'' employment in Australia from mid 1970s to early 1980s - discusses demographic aspects of migrant workers and level of qualifications; considers employment experience incl. Unemployment, labour force participation, wages, occupational distribution, and occupational status; comments on employment policy; includes unemployment and wage models. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.