Level-Up Your Machine Learning
Textbooks?  Really?How about start with a great lecturer like -Nando de Freitas - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0z_jCi0XWqI8awUuQRFnywDavid Mackay -http://videolectures.net/course_information_theory_pattern_r...or the (sometimes too dense) Andrew Ng -
https://www.coursera.org/course/ml