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Charles Brasch Journals 1945-1957Discover the profound insights of Charles Brasch in his journals covering the transformative years from 1945 to 1957. This captivating hardback volume, published by Otago University Press, showcases the reflections of one of New Zealands literary giants. With 660 pages, you delve into Brasch's experiences as he returned to New Zealand post World War II, establishing a literary quarterly at Caxton Press. These journals chronicle the dawn of his
Discover the profound insights of Charles Brasch in his journals covering the transformative years from 1945 to 1957. This captivating hardback volume, published by Otago University Press, showcases the reflections of one of New Zealand’s literary giants. With 660 pages, you delve into Brasch's experiences as he returned to New Zealand post-World War II, establishing a literary quarterly at Caxton Press. These journals chronicle the dawn of his impactful editorship of 'Landfall', during which he interacted with renowned New Zealand artists and intellectuals such as Frank Sargeson, Janet Frame, and Colin McCahon.Brasch’s candid entries provide readers with a rare glimpse into his life, exploring his relationships and longing for intimacy, as well as his deep connection to nature and poetry. Experience his evocative descriptions of iconic locations like the Milford and Routeburn tracks, showcasing his love for the New Zealand landscape. His journey culminates in a trip to Europe in 1957, reflecting on how New Zealand became his true 'centre & a world'.
Perfect for literature enthusiasts and historians, this beautifully bound journal collection not only preserves Brasch’s legacy but also serves as a treasure trove of New Zealand’s cultural history. Enjoy combined shipping from our Auckland-based, NZ-owned business, ensuring you receive this remarkable product without unexpected import charges or customs duties.
CONDITION: Brand New
Dimensions: 170 x 245 mm
Pages: 660
Bind: hardback
Author: Charles Brasch Publisher: Otago University Press
Publication Date: 01-05-2017
This volume of Charles Brasch’s journals covers the years from late 1945 to the end of 1957, when the poet and editor was aged 36 to 48. It begins with his return to New Zealand after World War II to establish a literary quarterly to be published by the Caxton Press. The journals cover the first decade or so of his distinguished editorship of Landfall, a role that brought Brasch into contact with New Zealand’s leading artists and intelligentsia. His frank and often detailed descriptions of these people – including Frank Sargeson, A.R.D. Fairburn, Keith Sinclair, Eric McCormick, James Bertram, J.C. Beaglehole, Maria Dronke, Fred and Evelyn Page, Alistair Campbell, Bill Oliver, Toss and Edith Woollaston, Denis Glover, Allen Curnow, Leo Bensemann, Lawrence Baigent, Ngaio Marsh, Colin McCahon, James K. Baxter, Janet Frame, Ruth Dallas and many others – are among the highlights of the book. Unmarried and longing for intimacy, Brasch also writes with great candour about his relationships with Rose Archdall, Rodney Kennedy and Harry Scott, revealing a side of himself that has not been known about before. Central to Brasch’s life was the vocation of poetry. He writes movingly about his own work, and also about his love of nature and the outdoors, including lively descriptions of walking the Milford and Routeburn tracks. The book ends with his visit to Europe in 1957, which confirmed his sense that New Zealand had become for him â€a centre & a world’. A lengthy introduction by Peter Simpson and other editorial apparatus guide the reader through this engrossing material.
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Too Dry.
Format: Hardcover
This was a required textbook for my class in college. I think it was too dry.
The book titled Deep Learning: From Curiosity To Mastery is much more approachable.
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Comprehensive! The Bible of Deep Learning!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2017
★★★★★ 1
A rushed, poorly written guide of how the "experts" can't really explain what Deep Learning is
Format: Hardcover
This book, in every sense of the word, is rushed. I think the authors wanted to establish themselves as leaders of this young-ish field, but does so by sacrificing quality. It also shows that Deep Learning theory has been there for a long time, known by another name called Neural Networks. The interesting algorithms are of MLP, Back Propagation and the classical neural networks. The optimization methods such as Adam are the ones that are new and interesting, and the only ones worthy of in this book. So, essentially, what you get from this book is use A for X, B for Y and C for Z type of dry, un-intuitive, badly written waste of paper.
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The praise that this book gets is beyond me. Did Musk even read this book? I doubt it.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2018
★★★★★ 5
The classic textbook on Deep Learning
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Deep Learning is the promising direction towards general purpose effective artificial intelligence.
There is an explosion of fruitful research in recent years and a lot of applications pursued mainly from technology giants as Google, Amazon, etc. and outstanding research institutions.
The book "Deep Learning " by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Gourville, is an excellent piece of work.
They manage to present rather difficult things in an understandable manner. The theoretical presentation is outstanding typical of "classic" books. Also, the book stays close to the practical applicability of all the methods and discusses applications extensively.
There are a lot of other useful books on deep learning that follow a more practical approach by focusing on a particular deep learning software package, but this one book is certainly much more essential since it provides the required theoretical background in order to be able to do serious work on deep learning.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2018
★★★★★ 5
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