Introduction to 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.