Bandits

Bandits
Author: Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2010-12-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0297865315

A trailblazing study of the social bandit or rebel BANDITS is a study of the social bandit or bandit-rebel - robbers and outlaws who are not regarded by public opinion as simple criminals, but rather as champions of social justice, as avengers or as primitive resistance fighters. Whether Balkan haiduks, Indian dacoits or Brazilian congaceiros, their spectacular exploits have been celebrated and preserved in story and myth. Some are only know to their fellow countrymen; others such as Rob Roy, Robin Hood and Jesse James are famous throughout the world. First published in 1969, BANDITS inspired a new field of historical study: bandit history.

Bandit Algorithms

Bandit Algorithms
Author: Tor Lattimore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2020-07-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108486827

A comprehensive and rigorous introduction for graduate students and researchers, with applications in sequential decision-making problems.

Bandit

Bandit
Author: Molly Brodak
Publisher: Icon Books
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2016-10-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1785781049

'Raw, poetic and compulsively readable ... I can't wait to buy a copy for everyone I know.' Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help The summer she turned thirteen, Molly Brodak's father was arrested for robbing eleven banks. In time, the image she held of him would unravel further, as more and more unexpected facets of his personality came to light. Bandit is her attempt to discover what, exactly, is left, when the most fundamental relationship of your life turns out to have been built on falsehoods. It is also a scrupulously honest account of learning how to trust again, and to rebuild the very idea of family from scratch. Refusing to fence off the trickier sides of her father's character, Brodak tries to find, through crystalline, spellbinding prose, a version of him that does not rely on the easy answers but allows him to be: an unknowable and incomprehensible whole – who is also her father. Unforgettable, moving, and utterly relatable, Bandit is a story of the unpredictable complexity of family.

Bandits

Bandits
Author: Elmore Leonard
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061828181

“Almost unbearable suspense. Leonard has produced another winner.” —People A wild ride with “the coolest, hottest writer in America” (Chicago Tribune), Bandits has everything Elmore Leonard fans love: non-stop thrills, unexpected twists and turns, unforgettable characters, and the most razor-sharp dialogue being rapidly exchanged anywhere in the crime fiction genre. Leonard stands tall among the all-time greats (John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain) and towers far above most of the writers currently plying the noir fiction trade. The master who created U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, currently of the hit TV series Justified, is at the top of his game, ensnaring readers in an ingenious plot hatched by a former jewel thief and a radical ex-nun to scam millions from a sadistic Nicaraguan colonel. In fact, the Philadelphia Inquirer says Bandits “may well be his best.” Read it and decide for yourself.

School for Bandits

School for Bandits
Author: Hannah Shaw
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2011
Genre: Behavior
ISBN: 178008000X

Ralph Raccoon is too polite so his parents send him to Bandit School to learn to behave like a properly bad raccoon.

Bogeys and Bandits

Bogeys and Bandits
Author: Robert Gandt
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Fighter pilots
ISBN: 9780140264128

A former Navy pilot takes readers on a thrilling ride in the FA-18 Hornet, weaving superb technological details of the plane with portraits of the day-to-day lives of very real people aspiring to fulfill a dream. photos.

Billionaires & Ballot Bandits

Billionaires & Ballot Bandits
Author: Greg Palast
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1609804791

A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts--an election decided by vote theft? It could happen this year. Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s investigative reporting for Rolling Stone and BBC television, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps might be the most important book published this year--one that could save the election. Billionaires & Ballot Bandits names the filthy-rich sugar-daddies who are super-funding the Super-PACs of both parties--billionaires with nicknames like "The Ice Man," "The Vulture" and, of course, The Brothers Koch. Told with Palast's no-holds-barred, reporter-on-the-beat style, the facts as he lays them out are staggering. What emerges in Billionaires & Ballot Bandits is the never-before-told-story of the epic battle being fought behind the scenes between the old money banking sector that still supports Obama, and the new hedge fund billionaires like Paul Singer who not only support Romney but also are among his key economic advisors. Although it has not been reported, Obama has shown some backbone in standing up to the financial excesses of the men behind Romney. Billionaires & Ballot Bandits exposes the previously unreported details on how operatives plan to use the hundreds of millions in Super-PAC money pouring into this election. We know the money is pouring in, but Palast shows us the convoluted ways the money will be used to suppress your vote. The story of the billionaires and why they want to buy an election is matched with the nine ways they can steal the election. His story of the sophisticated new trickery will pick up on Palast's giant New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

Jing: King of Bandits Volume 6

Jing: King of Bandits Volume 6
Author: Yuichi Kumakura
Publisher: TokyoPop
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2004-05-11
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781591824671

Jing, King of Bandits, and his avian sidekick Kir, embark on an electrifying adventure after stealing a map of Fuzzy Navel.

Introduction to Multi-Armed Bandits

Introduction to Multi-Armed Bandits
Author: Aleksandrs Slivkins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2019-10-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781680836202

Multi-armed bandits is a rich, multi-disciplinary area that has been studied since 1933, with a surge of activity in the past 10-15 years. This is the first book to provide a textbook like treatment of the subject.