oOsborne/McGraw-Hill 1982. Wrap clean with edge wear. Binding tight, book square. Top of book has some soiling. Pages are clean with no names, marks or highlights. Proceeds benefit the Oro Valley Library....
The papers in this book present, for the first time, the world of warfare, both defensive and offensive, from the Classical periods to end of the Middle Ages in one collection. These scholarships have attracted ancient writers and generals and nowadays historians, archaeologists and researchers poliorcetics. Military historiography and...
This practical book draws on the author’s own experience, as well as that of leading-edge Human Resource and Knowledge Management practitioners including Linda Holbeche, Elizabeth Lank and Dave Snowden, each of whom recognizes, that building a knowledge-centric culture cannot be achieved through technology alone.
Over the last two decades, we have witnessed an explosive growth in both the diversity of techniques and the range of applications of image processing. However, the area of color image processing is still sporadically covered, despite having become commonplace, with consumers choosing the convenience of color imaging over traditional grayscale...
Why do enterprise systems have complicated search pages, when Google has a single search box that works better? Why struggle with an expense reimbursement system that is not as easy as home accounting software? Although this seems like comparing apples to oranges, as information and communication technologies increasingly reach into every...
This book focuses on interactive segmentation techniques, which have been extensively studied in recent decades. Interactive segmentation emphasizes clear extraction of objects of interest, whose locations are roughly indicated by human interactions based on high level perception. This book will first introduce classic graph-cut segmentation...
There was a time not so long ago, well within the memory of many of us, when medical
imaging was an analog process in which X-rays, or reflected ultrasound signals,
exiting from a patient were intercepted by a detector, and their intensity depicted as
bright spots on a fluorescent screen or dark areas in a photographic film. The...
Gain the competitive edge with the innovative training methods in Pilates and Conditioning for Athletes. This science-based, multidimensional approach to athletic conditioning helps you build a strong and flexible foundation by infusing Pilates into training, resulting in complete training programs that tap into the seven pillars of...
Learn how to gain the edge of providing the most reliable service-level guarantees to customers
Network and service provider engineers are often faced with the difficult challenge of meeting a less-than-logical service need of a customer–– and at the most reasonable price. In this book, Howard Berkowitz shows network and service...
XML Weekend Crash Course covers the ins and outs of XML in 30 sessions. Each session is designed to take 30 minutes to complete, so the Crash Course is an intense 15-hour learning period. You can complete the Crash Course over a single weekend -- but you can also easily adapt the Crash Course sessions to whatever schedule best suits your...
Teaches graphic artists the fundamentals of computer programming within a visual playground!
This book teaches you the basic building blocks of programming needed to create cutting-edge graphics applications including interactive art, live video processing, and data visualization. A unique lab-style manual, the book gives graphic...
SQL--Structured Query Language--is the language all relational databases use to make enquiries. This essential book teaches SQL programming in the shortest possible time. It covers both the ANSI standard as the minimum requirement, and also discusses different implementations. It also serves as a handy reference.
