In this title collecting the first six issues of the DC Comics - The New 52 series, the United Nations brings together Batman, Booster Gold, Green Lantern Guy Gardner, August General in Iron, Fire, Ice, Vixen and Rocket Red to form a new group called Just

A New York Times Bestseller As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics-The New 52 event of September 2011, the United Nations brings together Batman, Booster Gold, Green Lantern Guy Gardner, August General in Iron, Fire, Ice, Vixen and Rocket RedÐa new group called Justice League International! With the growing presence of super beings around the world, the JLI are charged with promoting unity and trustÐbut if they're going to discover the mystery behind the giant alien Signalmen who are appearing all over the globe can they reach that goal without killing each other first? Collects #1-6

Formed by the United Nations, the Justice League International consists of Batman, Rocket Red, Vixen, a Green Lantern, and other heroes from around the world, led by Booster Gold. When their first mission to investigate unexplained seismic activity in Peru goes unexpectedly wrong, however, Booster fails to understand the abilities of his team members and to inspire them to depend on his leadership, placing both the team and their mission in jeopardy.

The first book to offer practical applications of neural networks to solve problems in digital signal processing and imaging. A highly practical book with a minimum of math and a wealth of examples. Disk includes a complete program for training, testing, and using neural networks along with C++ subroutines for all techniques discussed and source for the book's example code.

Nancy takes readers on location and reveals how she makes the most of her subjects and their surroundings. Learn the insider secrets of a top lifestyle photographer.

"One of the more momentous books of the decade." —The New York Times Book Review Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger—all by the time he was thirty. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster with his near perfect prediction of the 2012 election. Silver is the founder and editor in chief of the website FiveThirtyEight. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data. Most predictions fail, often at great cost to society, because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and uncertainty. Both experts and laypeople mistake more confident predictions for more accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the “prediction paradox”: The more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we can be in planning for the future. In keeping with his own aim to seek truth from data, Silver visits the most successful forecasters in a range of areas, from hurricanes to baseball to global pandemics, from the poker table to the stock market, from Capitol Hill to the NBA. He explains and evaluates how these forecasters think and what bonds they share. What lies behind their success? Are they good—or just lucky? What patterns have they unraveled? And are their forecasts really right? He explores unanticipated commonalities and exposes unexpected juxtapositions. And sometimes, it is not so much how good a prediction is in an absolute sense that matters but how good it is relative to the competition. In other cases, prediction is still a very rudimentary—and dangerous—science. Silver observes that the most accurate forecasters tend to have a superior command of probability, and they tend to be both humble and hardworking. They distinguish the predictable from the unpredictable, and they notice a thousand little details that lead them closer to the truth. Because of their appreciation of probability, they can distinguish the signal from the noise. With everything from the health of the global economy to our ability to fight terrorism dependent on the quality of our predictions, Nate Silver’s insights are an essential read.