Protect yourself and your business from online eavesdroppers—it’s easier than you think! If you were hoping for a flame-throwing watch or flying a car, we’re sorry—this isn’t James Bond’s equipment manual. Cryptography is a common-sense way to secure stuff on the Internet, and this friendly guidebook makes...

The PRINCE2 Study Guide, Second Edition, offers comprehensive preparation for the latest PRINCE2 exam. Covering 100 percent of the exam objectives, this guide provides invaluable guidance that will help you master both the material and its applications;...

This book presents a unique combination of mobile robots and embedded systems, from introductory to intermediate level. It is structured in three parts, dealing with embedded systems (hardware and software design, actuators, sensors, PID control, multitasking), mobile robot design (driving, balancing, walking, and flying robots), and mobile...

• Learn to implement a number of features offered by Raspberry Pi to build your own amazing robots
• Understand how to add vision and voice to...

Sensor processing is a central and an important problem in aerospace/defense, automation, medical imaging, and robotics, to name only a few areas. A surveillance system used in aerospace and defense is an example of a sensor processing system. It uses devices such as infrared sensors, microwave radars, and laser radars that are...

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What would you expect to find if you traveled back in time to the Garden of Eden? Adam and Eve? The tree of knowledge? A wicked serpent? How about some giant fucking flying sharks! That's right, I said sharks. Biblical sharks. Sharks that are bigger than city buses....

"Air Transport and the Environment" provides an overview of the main issues relating to aviation environmental impacts. It explains the challenge facing policymakers in terms of sustainable development, focusing on the importance of balancing the industry's economic, social and environmental costs and benefits, both for people...

The challenge of this book is thinking critically about media practices in a setting where they are fast, fun, and ubiquitous. As an avowedly engaged and political approach to thought, critical theory of any sort encounters challenges. Attempting to analyze and intervene in the present, it nonetheless adopts a backward gaze, an idea G.W.F....

"Finally, a book taking a critical look at quantitative finance models, illuminating both their flawed fantasy assumptions as well as the uncritical use of such models on Wall Street, in many cases, leading to billion dollar losses. Pablo Triana knows both the financial...