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Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment (New Forum Books, 65)

Princeton Press, 2021

A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy

We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change?even if it means undermining the foundations of our...

Structured Query Language (SQL): a Practical Introduction

NCC Blackwell, 1994

Let's start from basics. What is a database? In very general terms, a database is a collection of related data. Notice the word related, this implies that the collection of letters on this page do not by themselves constitute a database. But if we think of them as a collection of letters arranged to form words, then they can be conceptualised as...

Online Education For Dummies

For Dummies, 2009

According to a report published by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2008, nearly one in five college students experienced some sort of Web-based instruction. That’s a lot of students learning online! And, considering that college is no longer limited to advantaged 18- to 22-year-olds, that means a lot of those online students may be...

The Animator's Survival Kit, Expanded Edition: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators

Faber & Faber, 2009

The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Animation is one of the hottest areas of filmmaking today--and the master animator who bridges the old generation and the new is Richard Williams. During his fifty years in the business, Williams has been...

IT-Enabled Strategic Management: Increasing Returns for the Organization

Idea Group Publishing, 2006

We live in an age in which the value of information and knowledge has far surpassed that
of physical goods. Information resources have become a key differentiator of successful
businesses. Information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) are now integrated
in almost every aspect of business, from planning to analysis and...

Digital Character Animation 2, Volume II: Advanced Techniques (Digital Character Animation)

Waite Group Press, 2001

At last, George Maestri’s advanced-techniques volume of his groundbreaking [digital] Character Animation book. Completely new: No updated material from the first volume (covering Essential Techniques) or from the first edition (published in 1996 and now out of print). If you are into 3D animation at all—learning, practicing (or managing...

Digital Privacy: PRIME - Privacy and Identity Management for Europe

Springer, 2011

Information technologies are becoming pervasive and powerful to the point that the privacy of citizens is now at risk. Indeed, more and more of our daily transactions are conducted electronically and require us to transmit personal information. Examples include using an electronic identity card to prove one’s age in a...

Influencer Marketing for Brands: What YouTube and Instagram Can Teach You About the Future of Digital Advertising

Apress, 2019

In the next few years, brands are on track to spend billions of dollars on influencer marketing. This form of marketing?currently utilized with great success on Instagram and YouTube?is not a short-lived fad, but a tectonic shift for the future of digital advertising. It's the way of the future, and the responsibility is on...

Adventure Diffusion: From Meandering Molecules to the Spreading of Plants, Humans, and Ideas

Springer, 2019

This easy-to read book looks at the many ways in which diffusion bears on processes that involve dispersion, starting from the Brownian motion of molecules, covering the invasion of exotic plants, migration of populations, epidemics, and extending to the spreading of languages and ideas.

Recently, there has been a growing...

E-Business, E-Government & Small and Medium Size Enterprises: Opportunities & Challenges

Idea Group Publishing, 2004

Much of the e-commerce and IT research in small and medium sized enterprises (SME) indicates that these smaller businesses are lagging behind in implementing technological advances. This raises concerns for these SME's success as the Information Age becomes ever more of a reality. e-Business, e-Government & Small and Medium-Size...

Multimedia Management (Innovative Technology Series)

ISTE Publishing Company, 2002

For years, industry has predicted and anticipated the arrival of multimedia services
via the network. From all indications, this new age is upon us now especially
with the emergence of the Internet and the huge potential of e-commerce.
The study of multimedia transmission over various network technologies has
been the subject of...

Emerging Spatial Information Systems and Applications

IGI Global, 2006

Spatial information systems were created manually for many years. For example, historically, the source of cholera in London in 1854 was found by John Snow, by mapping where victims of the disease lived. The graph clearly showed them to be close to the Broad Street Pump,1 one of the city’s water wells. Another example is Zipf’s Law,2...

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