[D] Does ML have a "bible"/reference textbook at the Intermediate/Advanced level?

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Hello, everyone! This is my first time posting here and I apologise if the question is, perhaps, a bit too basic for this sub-reddit. A bit of an introduction: I am a 23 years old Master's Student enrolled in an Artificial Intelligence programme at a University (which one is irrelevant). Next year I shall have to work on my thesis and the topics that are currently being floated around by my to-be supervisor are: handwriting recognition, historical document analysis, document binarisation, lay...