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Designing Gestural Interfaces: Touchscreens and Interactive Devices

O'Reilly, 2008

If you want to get ahead in this new era of interaction design, this is the reference you need. Nintendo's Wii and Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch have made gestural interfaces popular, but until now there's been no complete source of information about the technology.

Designing Gestural...

The Edges of Fiction

Polity, 2019

What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how...

Peak: The New Science of Athletic Performance That is Revolutionizing Sports

Chelsea House Publications, 2019

An integrated and personalized approach to health, nutrition, training, recovery, and mindset

There is a new revolution happening in sports as more and more athletes are basing their success on this game-changing combination: health, nutrition, training, recovery, and mindset. Unfortunately, the...

Inspired by Art: Fighting Goliath (The David Chronicles)

Independent Publishers Group, 2021

How did the masters of art imagine the epic battle of David and Goliath?

This collection depicts every move leading up to the moment of victory.

These amazing sculptures, paintings, etchings, and manuscripts inspired the author to write The David Chronicles, an epic historical fiction trilogy with a...

Riddles of the Sphinx and Other Mathematical Puzzle Tales (New Mathematical Library Series/No. 32)

Mathematical Association of America, 1987

This is the third and final collection of puzzle columns that I contributed to Isaac Asimov' s Science Fiction Magazine over a period of about ten years. The format follows that of two previous anthologies: Science Fiction Puzzle Tales (1981) and Puzzles from Other Worlds (1984).

Each chapter poses a problem answered in the First Answers...

Cybercrime: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)

ABC Clio, 2004

Cybercrime: A Reference Handbook documents the history of computer hacking from free long distance phone calls to virtual espionage to worries of a supposed "cyber apocalypse," and provides accessible information everyone should know. How can a person's identity be stolen? What exactly is a "hacker"? How much damage can a 17...

Mastering BeagleBone Robotics

Packt Publishing, 2014

Master the power of the BeagleBone Black to maximize your robot-building skills and create awesome projects

About This Book

Create complex robots to explore land, sea, and the skies

Control your robots through a wireless interface, or make them autonomous and self-directed

How To Write A Page-Turner: Craft a Story Your Readers Can't Put Down

Writer's Showcase Press, 2019

Infuse Your Fiction with the Powerful Tug of Tension!

Tension is the heart of conflict, the backbone of uncertainty, the hallmark of danger. It keeps readers guessing and characters on their toes. When you've got tension in place, stories leave readers breathless and wanting more. When it's missing, scenes...

The Grid: Core Technologies

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Find out which technologies enable the Grid and how to employ them successfully!

This invaluable text provides a complete, clear, systematic, and practical understanding of the technologies that enable the Grid. The authors outline all the components necessary to create a Grid infrastructure that enables support for a range...

The Nintendo Wii Pocket Guide

Peachpit Press, 2007

Here is your essential companion to the best-selling Wii game console. The Nintendo Wii Pocket Guide steers you through how to

Set up your Wii and connect it to your network.

Make your way around the Wii Channels.

Pick and use Wii controllers, including the Wii Remote, Nunchuk, and Classic and...

Biomimetics: Biologically Inspired Technologies

CRC Press, 2005

Imagine a smart microchip that is buried in the ground for a long time. Upon certain triggering conditions this chip begins to grow and consume materials from its surroundings, converting them into energy and structural cells. As the chip grows further, it reconfigures its shape to become a mobile robot. Using its recently created mobility, the...

Black Holes, Wormholes & Time Machines

Taylor & Francis, 1999

Do you know: · What might happen if you fall into a black hole? · That the Universe does not have an edge? · That the reason it gets dark at night is proof of the Big Bang? · That cosmic particles time-travel through the atmosphere defying death? · That our past, present and future might all coexist...

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