Cook: 1663 books

Defines the notion of an activity model learned from sensor data and presents key algorithms that form the core of the field Activity Learning: Discovering, Recognizing and Predicting Human Behavior from Sensor Data provides an in-depth look at computational approaches to activity learning...

Doing Ethnographies is an introductory and applied guide to ethnographic methods. It focuses on those methods - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, and video/photographic work - that allow us to understand the lived, everyday world. Informed by the authors' fieldwork experience,...

The Battle for China’s Spirit is the first comprehensive analysis of its kind, focusing on seven major religious groups in China that together account for over 350 million believers: Chinese Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Tibetan Buddhism, and Falun Gong. The study examines...

Since the city�s beginnings after the War of 1812, Atlanta has had a tradition of building with a regard for becoming a world-class metropolis. Before being burned by Union general William T. Sherman in 1864, the city�s appearance was described by noted European architect and urban planner Leon Krier...

Jack Foster, a tough Australian fisherman struggling to earn his living from the sea, has one all-consuming dream - to own his own tuna boat. The chance of a bargain boat unexpectedly comes his way and Jack plunges deeply into debt to buy it. With a sudden twist of fortune, he finds himself...

This adventurous story begins at the New York airport where this holiday-maker was departing of the plane carrying his most prized possession, his loving dog called Skipper. Skipper was much cleverer than his owner took him for, Skipper looked down at the cage door and gnawed at the catch until it...

The bestselling and highly acclaimed Soul Savers series, with over 1 million downloads, continues with Book 7, Fractured Faith. Evil reigns the world. Earth's been ravaged. The only signs humans survived the war come from those who serve the Demons' army. To continue his conquest of humanity, Lucas...

The Elven Exiles trilogy ends with a monumental struggle for control of the last refuge of the elven race. The remaining free elves of Ansalon have come together at last in the shunned valley of Inath-Wakenti. While the disfigured genius Porthios wants to lead a crusade to free the elves' ancestral...

Before the War of the Lance. The Companions have gone their separate ways, each vowing to return with news of the growing darkness in Ansalon. Sturm Brightblade, a warrior whose honor is his life, and Kitiara, a passionate woman of uncertain loyalties, travel north in search of Sturm's long-lost...

While the Elven Exiles struggle for survival in the distant kingdom of Khur, the elves remaining in Qualinesti face persecution, enslavement, and extermination. Amid great suffering and unrelieved evil, a rebel leader–masked, anonymous, and with strange powers–appears, determined to cleanse the...

The eighth and final episode of The Klumps Mysteries: Season One Episode Eight – “Revelations” Many loose ends are tied, while some are inadvertently (or on purpose???) unraveled. Meh, whatchyou gonna do? Libby Klump faces off with the Town Council while an assassin lies in wait. The...

To save the world from being consumed by an alien technology that you inadvertently unleashed, you must use your wits, cunning, and of course... your Kobo ereader! In this exciting universe, you are the hero. You direct the lead character as your avatar in exploring the mysteries of an alien race as...

This is the story of Eliza Fraser - the most beautiful woman ever to set dainty foot on the rugged soil of Australia. Was she the demure and virtuous lady she appeared to be, or a lascivious wench dispensing her warm favours on convicts and officers alike? And what happened to her after she was shipwrecked...

Vheod Runechild--half human, half fiend--flees from the Abyss to find his human nature on Toril, only to discover that the dangers from the nether region respect no worldly boundaries.