There are already many computer vision textbooks, and it is reasonable to question the need for another. Let me explain why I chose to write this volume.
Computer vision is an engineering discipline; we are primarily motivated by the real-world concern of...
Women's health care is an ever-changing field. It relies on both quantitative and qualitative
scientific advances that must be translated into clinical skills and application against the
backdrop of current...
Discovering Geometry is designed so that you can be actively engaged as you
learn geometry. In this book you "learn by doing." You will leam to use the tools
of geometry and to perform geometry investigations with them. Many of the
investigations are carried out in small cooperative groups in which you jointly
plan...
The publication of Society and Health: Sociology for Health Professionals represents the results of an information-gathering process that has extended over a 30-year career as a health professional. It reflects a determination to frame medical sociology as a multidisciplinary endeavor that must, of necessity, draw information from a wide...
his book is a new type of intermediate macroeconomics textbook- Until now, the choice was between books that use calculus to present formal theory dryly and with few, if any, applications to the real world and books that include applications but present theory using only graphs and algebra. This book uses calcu- lus, algebra, and graphs to...
In Collaborate or Perish! former Los Angeles police chief and New York police commissioner William Bratton and Harvard Kennedy School’s Zachary Tumin lay out a field-tested playbook for collaborating across the boundaries of our networked world. Today, when everyone is connected, collaboration is the game changer. Agencies and...
It's never been more important to have the ability to develop an App for Mac OS X. Whether it's a System Preference, a business app that accesses information in the Cloud, or an application that uses multi-touch or uses a camera, you will have a solid foundation in app development to get the job done.
"A must-have book for all photographers."
--John Shaw, johnshawphoto.com
If you're serious about digital photography, you know that taking a great photo is only the beginning. You want to share your polished images with the widest possible audience. This means you need to optimize images for different...
The book describes and analyses the new environment for innovation, it does this with an emphasis on yet uncharted regions within the field of practice-based innovation, coming up with guidelines for innovation policy measures needed in order to realise this. While it focuses on these policies it also takes into account multi-actor innovation...
With an increasing emphasis on creativity and innovation in the twenty-first century, teachers need to be creative professionals just as students must learn to be creative. And yet, schools are institutions with many important structures and guidelines that teachers must follow. Effective creative teaching strikes a delicate balance between...
Scratch is a fun, free, beginner-friendly programming environment where you connect blocks of code to build programs. While most famously used to introduce kids to programming, Scratch can make computer science approachable for people of any age. Rather than type countless lines of code in a cryptic programming language, why not use...
Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2 is a fun and creative approach to learning programming. Using the easy to learn Processing programming language, you will quickly learn how to draw with code, and from there move to animating in 2D and 3D. These basics will then open up a whole world of graphics and...
