Introduction to Machine Learning, Second Edition (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

I've read several parts of chapters which concerned my work and skimmed other chapters faster. This book should serve as a starting point and mostly as a quick introduction in a subject. However, i've found this book to be useful in other way - it is compact and I found several basic reasonements and assumptions quickly to base my conclusions in work i was doing. Also i like the style where key-words appear outside the text where they can be easily spotted and also the references at the end of each chapter.