The dream of automatic language translation is now closer thanks to recent advances in the techniques that underpin statistical machine translation. This class-tested textbook from an active researcher in the field, provides a clear and careful introduction to the latest methods and explains how to [...]

The limiting of violence through state powers is one of the central projects of the modern age. Why then have recent centuries been so bloody? In "Trust and Violence", acclaimed German intellectual and public figure Jan Philipp Reemtsma demonstrates that the aim of decreasing and deterring violence [...]

Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. But did this era vanish in the trenches of the Somme, of Ypres, and of Passchendaele? Look closer and the more this world seems like ours: feminism, democratisation, commercial branding, genetic[...]

A unique gift book and self-discovery journal prompts givers to reveal their most profound experiences, beliefs, secrets, and dreams, and probe their psyches through simple but provocative questions and suggestions. $40,000 ad/promo.[...]

All About Me: Teenage Edition
Being a teenager is never easy. These special years are often challenging, but also full of wonderful surprises. With questions about wishes and fears, memories and beliefs, secrets and dreams, this edition of "All About Me" will reveal everything everyone ever want[...]

This truly transnational history reveals the important role of Americans abroad in the Age of Revolution, as well as providing an early example of the limits of American influence on other nations. From the beginning of the French Revolution to its end at the hands of Napoleon, American cosmopolitan[...]

Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the lan[...]

This book is a collection of selected articles I've written for my weekly marketing newsletter. Initially I was very happy to educate, entertain, and assist my subscribers in private through email. But as a marketer I was well aware that this was keeping me from reaching many of the people that real[...]

International Organizations as Orchestrators reveals how IOs leverage their limited authority and resources to increase their effectiveness, power, and autonomy from states. By 'orchestrating' intermediaries - including NGOs - IOs can shape and steer global governance without engaging in hard, direc[...]