The Rainbow Machine: tales from a neurolinguist's journal, by Andrew T. Austin, offers fascinating glimpses into the personal change work of a top NLP practitioner and registered nurse, in settings from mental hospitals, emergency rooms, and neurosurgery departments, to individual hypnosis and psychotherapy. Rollicking, creative, lively, funny, outrageous, touching, profound. A must read romp for anyone interested in therapy or personal change.
Includes experiences and insights regarding a wide range of issues, including overeating and eating disorders, ADD, PTSD, rage, depression, schizophrenia, use of drugs, obsessions, compulsions, bedwetting, anxiety, dying, emergency room situations, narcissism, self-esteem, critical self-talk, hoarding, hysterical paralysis, agoraphobia, phobias, etc.

 

Tintin and his friends head out to Cuthbert Calculus' estate on a mysterious lake in Syldavia. They end up discovering a large criminal gang in a base on the bottom of the lake ruled by Tintin's old enemy Rastapopoulos, who goes under the name of 'King Shark'. Calculus has invented a machine which can reproduce objects in three dimensions, which Rastapopoulos tries to steal to use in an art forgery racket.

Features of the book
    * Explains how data mining algorithms work.
    * Helps you select appropriate approaches to particular problems and to compare and evaluate the results  of different techniques.
    * Covers performance improvement techniques, including input preprocessing and combining output from different methods.
    * Shows you how to use the Weka machine learning workbench.