Provides a complete and concise overview of deep learning using the language of mathematics. Provides a self-contained background on machine learning and optimization algorithms, and progresses through the key ideas…

The canyon in central Mexico was ablaze with torches as hundreds of people filed in. So palpable was their shared shock and grief, they later said, that neither pastor nor…

Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture is collection of essays on the relationship between law and popular culture that posits, in addition to the concepts of law in the…

Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to the present. Since the book’s initial publication in 2014, the cruel and…

This is an edited volume of essays that seeks to situate the ideas of speech and silence - particularly their circumstances of use and contexts - in American law, asking…

This book will appeal to scholars of law, rhetoric and legal history, with its detailed analysis from a number of respected contributors. It explores new approaches to rhetoric in law…

This book examines the meaning and significance of finality in capital cases, deploying various theories and perspectives to open up the meaning and significance of the death penalty’s finality to…

This book examines law’s complex relationship to sovereign power and emergency conditions. It puts today’s responses to emergency in historical and institutional context, reminding readers of the continuities and discontinuities…