Social Work Practice in the Addictions (Contemporary Social Work Practice)

Broadcast Announcing Worktext, Third Edition: A Media Performance Guide (Book & CD Rom)

Focal Press, 2009

This book provides the aspiring broadcast performer with the skills, techniques, and procedures necessary to enter this highly competitive field. In addition to the principles of good performance, this text addresses the importance of audience and how to change message to communicate effectively to various groups. Television and radio studio...

Computational Chemistry: Reviews of Current Trends

World Scientific Publishing, 2005

There is no doubt that many of the readers of this book series wonder how the research/computational facilities will look like in the near future. It seems that the efficiency and compactness of the silicon-based computers are almost exhausted, and for significant progress one has to look for alternative solutions. A very...

Distributed Computing: Principles, Algorithms, and Systems

Cambridge University Press, 2008

Designing distributed computing systems is a complex process requiring a solid understanding of the design problems and the theoretical and practical aspects of their solutions. This comprehensive textbook covers the fundamental principles and models underlying the theory, algorithms and systems aspects of distributed computing. Broad and detailed...

Polarimetric Radar Imaging: From Basics to Applications (Optical Science and Engineering)

CRC Press, 2009

… This very concise book covering basics to applications will serve as a fundamental hands-on book for years to come. … we congratulate the authors for their diligence, oversight, and sincere dedication for assembling such a well-organized and long overdue book on the basics and applications of polarimetric radar imaging. …...

Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

Springer, 2004

GRASS GIS software was developed in response to the need for improved
analysis of landscape “trade offs” in managing government lands and the
emerging potential of computer-based land analysis tools. During the last
decades of the 20th century, government land managers in the U.S. (and
across the world) faced...

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

Addison Wesley, 1986

This introduction to compilers is the direct descendant of the well-known book by Aho and Ullman, Principles of Compiler Design. The authors present updated coverage of compilers based on research and techniques that have been developed in the field over the past few years. The book provides a thorough introduction to compiler...