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Mobile Communications: An Introduction to New Media (Berg New Media Series)

Berg Publishers, 2009

The cellphone has achieved a global presence faster than any other form of information and communication technology. A global multi-billion dollar industry, this small, mundane device is now an intrinsic part of our everyday life.

This communications medium has had an immense social and cultural impact and...

Hierarchical Voronoi Graphs: Spatial Representation and Reasoning for Mobile Robots

Springer, 2009

Voronoi graphs and their hierarchical extensions have become a widely used tool for deriving abstract spatial representations from environmental data. They are currently being studied and applied in several subfields of computer science such as AI and robotics, computational geometry, and geoinformatics.

This book investigates the...

Algorithmic Adventures: From Knowledge to Magic

Springer, 2009

The public image of computer science does not reflect its true nature. The general public and especially high school students identify computer science with a computer driving license. They think that studying computer science is not a challenge, and that anybody can learn it. Computer science is not considered a scientific discipline but a...

JavaScript, A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition

McGraw-Hill, 2009

Welcome to JavaScript: A Beginner’s Guide, Third Edition! Years ago, I was surfing the Web and noticed that people were publishing pages about themselves and calling them homepages. After viewing a number of these, I decided to create a homepage myself. I had no idea where to begin but, through trial and error, I figured out how to code...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane

Oxford University Press, 2000

"Dr. Evans-Wentz, who literally sat at the feet of a Tibetan lama for years in order to acquire his wisdom...not only displays a deeply sympathetic interest in those esoteric doctrines so characteristic of the genius of the East, but likewise possesses the rare faculty of making them more or less intelligible to the layman."--Anthropology...

Entrepreneurship Three Volumes: The Engine of Growth (Praeger Perspectives) (v. 1-3)

Praeger Publishers, 2006

“This three-volume set brings together 32 essays exploring the topic of entrepreneurship. The first volume explores entrepreneurship as a form of human action, examining the influence of various factors on entrepreneurial behavior, including cognition, risk, social capital, institutions, immigration and ethnicity, and gender. The second...

Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences, Three-Volume Set

Academic Press, 2000

The Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences is the first resource to provide comprehensive coverage of the core theories, methods, techniques, and applications employed by forensic scientists. One of the more pressing concerns in forensic science is the collection of evidence from the crime scene and its relevance to the forensic...

Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World (Series on Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics)

World Scientific Publishing, 2008

Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World presents the most comprehensive description in book form of what is currently known about Titan, the largest satellite of the planet Saturn and arguably the most intriguing and mysterious world in the Solar System. Because of its resemblance to our own planet, Titan is often described as a frozen primitive Earth...

Image Processing of Edge and Surface Defects: Theoretical Basis of Adaptive Algorithms with Numerous Practical Applications

Springer, 2009

The edge and surface inspection is one of the most important and most challenging tasks in quality assessment in industrial production. Typical defects are cracks, inclusions, pores, surface flakings, partial or complete tears of material surface and s.o. These defects can occur through defective source material or through extreme strain during...

Computer Vision: A Unified, Biologically-Inspired Approach

Elsevier Limited, 1992

This volume provides comprehensive, self-consistent coverage of one approach to computer vision, with many direct or implied links to human vision. The book is the result of many years of research into the limits of human visual performance and the interactions between the observer and his environment. A wide-ranging approach to computer vision is...

Photoshop CS4: Essential Skills (Photography Essential Skills)

Focal Press, 2008

This inspirational guide to creative image editing will help you master the essential features and tools of Adobe Photoshop CS4. Broken into three parts to form a structured, self-study guide, Photoshop CS4: Essential Skills covers the foundation skills and more advanced techniques you need to enhance photographs creatively and professionally....

Mathematics for Finance: An Introduction to Financial Engineering (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series)

Springer, 2003

Designed to form the basis of an undergraduate course in mathematical finance, this book builds on mathematical models of bond and stock prices and covers three major areas of mathematical finance that all have an enormous impact on the way modern financial markets operate, namely: Black-Scholes' arbitrage pricing of options and other derivative...

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