«La última vez que vi a Miguel Desvern o Deverne fue también la última que lo vio su mujer, Luisa, lo cual no dejó de ser extraño y quizá injusto, ya que ella era eso, su mujer, y yo era en cambio una desconocida...» Así comienza Los enamoramientos, la nueva novela de Javier Marías, consagrado como uno de los mejores novelistas contemporáneos. María Dolz, la narradora y protagonista, sólo supo su nombre «cuando apareció su foto en el periódico, apuñalado y medio descamisado y a punto de convertirse en un muerto: lo último de lo que se debió de dar cuenta fue de que lo acuchillaban por confusión y sin causa». Con una prosa profunda y cautivadora, esta novela reflexiona sobre el estado de enamoramiento, considerado casi universalmente como algo positivo e incluso redentor a veces, tanto que parece justificar casi todas las cosas: las acciones nobles y desinteresadas, pero también los mayores desmanes y ruindades. Los enamoramientos es también un libro sobre la impunidad y sobre la horrible fuerza de los hechos; sobre la inconveniencia de que los muertos pudieran volver, por mucho que se los haya llorado y que en apariencia nada se deseara tanto como su regreso, o al menos que siguieran vivos; también sobre la imposibilidad de saber nunca la verdad cabalmente, ni siquiera la de nuestro pensamiento, oscilante y variable siempre.

La publicación de La historia del amor, segunda novela de Nicole Krauss, supuso la confirmación del extraordinario talento de esta joven escritora norteamericana, suscitando el elogio entusiasta de críticos y escritores, entre ellos el Premio Nobel de Literatura J.M. Coetzee. Con una sabia mezcla de humor y ternura, Nicole Krauss ha escrito una hermosa aproximación al insondable tema del amor, la pérdida y la memoria, además de un homenaje a la literatura y a la forma en que los libros pueden cambiar la vida de las personas. Leo Gursky, cerrajero polaco jubilado en Nueva York, cuya obsesión es «no morirme un día en que nadie me haya visto», recibe misteriosamente el manuscrito de un texto que creía perdido, acompañado de una enigmática carta. Instalado en el ocaso de su vida, esta sorpresa lo lleva a bucear en los recuerdos de su lejana juventud, recuperando emociones que suponía enterradas. No muy lejos de allí, la quinceañera Alma Singer padece los dilemas y conflictos de su edad. Hace ya ocho años que su padre murió de cáncer y ella ha decidido que es hora de que su madre deje de estar triste, o sea, se dispone a encontrarle un nuevo marido. Cuando en su camino aparece La historia del amor, una novela rara, escrita en yidis, publicada en español y comprada por su padre en una librería de Buenos Aires, los interrogantes se suceden. ¿Por qué su padre se la regaló a su madre muy poco después de conocerla? ¿Quién era su autor? ¿Y quién es el misterioso hombre que ha encargado a su madre que traduzca el libro al inglés? Como en una afinada composición musical, la intensidad de la historia va aumentando progresivamente hasta que los pasos del anciano que busca reconciliarse con su pasado y la adolescente que quiere poner remedio a la soledad de su madre se entrecruzan mediante una ingeniosa y compleja trama cuyos hilos convergen en un final inolvidable. Con un tono intimista y envolvente, la autora ha logrado lo más difícil, contar una verdadera historia de amor en el sentido más amplio y profundo de la palabra, una historia llena de pasión y melancolía que conmoverá a todo tipo de lectores.

When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward's version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun. This unforgettable tale as told through Edward's eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward's past and the complexity of his inner thoughts, we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life. How can he justify following his heart if it means leading Bella into danger?

Sapphic scrooge meets her match in this omegaverse office romance novella! Dessi Nayak adores everything about the holidays. Her boss, however? Not so much. When Aiven Burns forces her employees to work until midnight on the eve of the Winter Solstice, sparks fly between her and Dessi—and not in a good way. As snow falls and deadlines loom at the Mystic Distillery, can Dessi change her boss' heart with a little holiday magick?

Sapphic scrooge meets her match in this omegaverse office romance novella! Dessi Nayak adores everything about the holidays. Her boss, however? Not so much. When Aiven Burns forces her employees to work until midnight on the eve of the Winter Solstice, sparks fly between her and Dessi—and not in a good way. As snow falls and deadlines loom at the Mystic Distillery, can Dessi change her boss' heart with a little holiday magick?

Provides new insights and observations from Vogler's pioneering work in mythic structure for writers.

On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental priciples as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sold, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers.

Summary Real-World Machine Learning is a practical guide designed to teach working developers the art of ML project execution. Without overdosing you on academic theory and complex mathematics, it introduces the day-to-day practice of machine learning, preparing you to successfully build and deploy powerful ML systems. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Machine learning systems help you find valuable insights and patterns in data, which you'd never recognize with traditional methods. In the real world, ML techniques give you a way to identify trends, forecast behavior, and make fact-based recommendations. It's a hot and growing field, and up-to-speed ML developers are in demand. About the Book Real-World Machine Learning will teach you the concepts and techniques you need to be a successful machine learning practitioner without overdosing you on abstract theory and complex mathematics. By working through immediately relevant examples in Python, you'll build skills in data acquisition and modeling, classification, and regression. You'll also explore the most important tasks like model validation, optimization, scalability, and real-time streaming. When you're done, you'll be ready to successfully build, deploy, and maintain your own powerful ML systems. What's Inside Predicting future behavior Performance evaluation and optimization Analyzing sentiment and making recommendations About the Reader No prior machine learning experience assumed. Readers should know Python. About the Authors Henrik Brink, Joseph Richards and Mark Fetherolf are experienced data scientists engaged in the daily practice of machine learning. Table of Contents THE MACHINE-LEARNING WORKFLOWWhat is machine learning? Real-world data Modeling and prediction Model evaluation and optimization Basic feature engineeringPRACTICAL APPLICATIONExample: NYC taxi data Advanced feature engineering Advanced NLP example: movie review sentiment Scaling machine-learning workflows Example: digital display advertising

An introduction to a broad range of topics in deep learning, covering mathematical and conceptual background, deep learning techniques used in industry, and research perspectives. Deep learning is a form of machine learning that enables computers to learn from experience and understand the world in terms of a hierarchy of concepts. Because the computer gathers knowledge from experience, there is no need for a human computer operator to formally specify all the knowledge that the computer needs. The hierarchy of concepts allows the computer to learn complicated concepts by building them out of simpler ones; a graph of these hierarchies would be many layers deep. This book introduces a broad range of topics in deep learning. The text offers mathematical and conceptual background, covering relevant concepts in linear algebra, probability theory and information theory, numerical computation, and machine learning. It describes deep learning techniques used by practitioners in industry, including deep feedforward networks, regularization, optimization algorithms, convolutional networks, sequence modeling, and practical methodology; and it surveys such applications as natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, online recommendation systems, bioinformatics, and videogames. Finally, the book offers research perspectives, covering such theoretical topics as linear factor models, autoencoders, representation learning, structured probabilistic models, Monte Carlo methods, the partition function, approximate inference, and deep generative models. Deep Learning can be used by undergraduate or graduate students planning careers in either industry or research, and by software engineers who want to begin using deep learning in their products or platforms. A website offers supplementary material for both readers and instructors.

The Original The White Years Will he take his rightful place as King of Manhattan’s kink kingdom? A man who can’t be tamed… Bouncing from bed to bed on the Upper East Side, Kingsley Edge is brilliant, beautiful and utterly debauched. No one can relieve his self-destructive appetite for carnal acts – except Søren, a man he can never have but whom he has always loved. A dream that becomes an obsession… When Kingsley opens the ultimate BDSM club in Søren’s honour – a dungeon playground for New York’s A-list – it becomes his life. With the help of a secretive new assistant, he is soon ruler of a debauched new world. A fight to the end… But their expertise in domination can’t stop the enigmatic Reverend Fuller – he won’t rest until the club is destroyed. Now it’s one man’s sacred mission against another’s… The Original Sinners The Red Years Book 1: The Siren Book 2: The Angel Book 3: The Prince Book 4: The Mistress The Original Sinners continues with The White Years Book 1: The Saint Book 2: The King Book 3: The Virgin Praise for Tiffany Reisz“This series is complex and utterly compelling with rich, three dimensional characters” – Sarah Gibson, NetGalley “Tiffany again you fulfil every want and desire in a book, this series will forever sit proudly on my shelf, I get excited to know a new one is on its way. I am so excited for The Virgin.” Lorraine Kaprii, NetGalley

MIL KILÓMETROS DE DISTANCIA, DOS CORAZONES EMPEÑADOS EN ENCONTRARSE Y UNA PASIÓN A LA QUE NO PODRÁS RESISTIRTE. Elena y Marcos por fin han reconocido que, aunque no entraba en sus planes, están locos el uno por el otro. Elena y Marcos tienen que enfrentarse a un nuevo obstáculo: la distancia. Mientras ella busca su propio camino en Madrid, él debe regresar a su vida en Londres. Entre conversaciones nocturnas, mensajes subidos de tono y reencuentros fogosos, Elena y Marcos están a punto de descubrir que no hay mayor aventura que la de rendirse al amor, aunque no siempre sea fácil. La distancia mata la pasión... ¿O es al contrario?

*Not the official release date Description: Popular romance writer Lacie Lilavati, and Ryland Zahir, a standout high school junior in both basketball and academics, have been in a long-standing feud that dates back to their middle school days. Lacie despises Ryland who began his playboy streak by breaking her best friend’s heart. And Ryland cannot stand Lacie’s stuck-up, holier-than-thou attitude. Their personalities are starkly different. Lacie is prim, put-together, and introverted, while Ryland is outgoing and the life of the party. However, despite their mutual antipathy and glaring differences, they are both going to require each other’s help. Lacie's grades are in freefall due to her habit of daydreaming. For all her writing talent she struggles with other subjects in school due to her creative mind. Meanwhile, Ryland has just been rejected by his crush, Briar Westbrook who doesn't believe he is capable of committing to a real relationship or being romantic. Her assumption is not unfounded, because for all Ryland’s sexual prowess, his romantic and relationship experience is virtually none. Lacie and Ryland end up striking a deal: Ryland will tutor Lacie in her problem subjects, and she will give him lessons in romance while also posing as his fake girlfriend. But as they embark on their fake relationship, they discover very real facets of each other they never knew lay beyond the surface. Including the fact, that they both harbor pain from their past that affects the way they view life and love. As the two spend more time together, Lacie begins questioning her long-standing hatred for Ryland, and Ryland in his pursuit to learn romance for one girl, finds himself falling for the very one guiding him in the matters of heart. How To Get The Girl is a heartwarming story with themes and messages of looking beyond the surface, moving on from the pain of the past, and the cathartic power of opening up your heart.

El protagonista de esta novela es uno de los personajes más memorables de la literatura norteamericana: Ignatius Reilly –una mezcla de Oliver Hardy delirante, Don Quijote adiposo y santo Tomás de Aquino perverso, reunidos en una persona–, que a los treinta años aún vive con su estrafalaria madre, ocupado en escribir una extensa y demoledora denuncia contra nuestro siglo, tan carente de «teología y geometría» como de «decencia y buen gusto»; un alegato desquiciado contra una sociedad desquiciada. Por una inesperada necesidad de dinero, se ve «catapultado en la fiebre de la existencia contemporánea», fiebre a la que Ignatius añadirá unos cuantos grados más. La conjura de los necios se hizo acreedora al Premio Pulitzer, y en Francia fue galardonada el año de su publicación como «la mejor novela en lengua extranjera». «Una novela disparatada, bufa, rabelesiana y sorprendente, que rompe con los cauces habituales de la narrativa norteamericana actual. Una tragicomedia cósmica, cuya lectura hace alternar la carcajada y la angustia» (El País). «Irresistiblemente divertida, una comedia épica en la gran tradición de Cervantes y Fielding» (Monroe K. Spears). «Este libro se ha reseñado en todas partes, y a todos los críticos les ha entusiasmado. Por una vez, todos tenían razón» (Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone).

The Original The White Years Will he take his rightful place as King of Manhattan’s kink kingdom? A man who can’t be tamed… Bouncing from bed to bed on the Upper East Side, Kingsley Edge is brilliant, beautiful and utterly debauched. No one can relieve his self-destructive appetite for carnal acts – except Søren, a man he can never have but whom he has always loved. A dream that becomes an obsession… When Kingsley opens the ultimate BDSM club in Søren’s honour – a dungeon playground for New York’s A-list – it becomes his life. With the help of a secretive new assistant, he is soon ruler of a debauched new world. A fight to the end… But their expertise in domination can’t stop the enigmatic Reverend Fuller – he won’t rest until the club is destroyed. Now it’s one man’s sacred mission against another’s… The Original Sinners The Red Years Book 1: The Siren Book 2: The Angel Book 3: The Prince Book 4: The Mistress The Original Sinners continues with The White Years Book 1: The Saint Book 2: The King Book 3: The Virgin Praise for Tiffany Reisz“This series is complex and utterly compelling with rich, three dimensional characters” – Sarah Gibson, NetGalley “Tiffany again you fulfil every want and desire in a book, this series will forever sit proudly on my shelf, I get excited to know a new one is on its way. I am so excited for The Virgin.” Lorraine Kaprii, NetGalley