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Secondary Surveillance Radar (Artech House Radar Library)

Artech House Publishers, 1988

Starting with a brief precis of the history of radar, this book concentrates on the principles of Secondary Radar, explaining its genesis during the Second World War, and its subsequent development as a significant feature of modern air travel.

This is followed by a comprehensive description of how Secondary Radar functions. It is clearly...

Cics Performance Monitor Release 2 (IBM Redbooks)

IBM Press, 2004

This IBM Redbook updates the CICS PM Release 1 Redbook with enhancements that come with Release 2. Historical data capture is added, as well as additional functionality in the GUI. We also look at the enhancements of the underlying Web User Interface region. This book is intended primarily for CICS Transaction Server V2.2 customers who plan to...

Wavelets and Their Applications (Digital Signal and Image Processing series)

ISTE Publishing Company, 2007

Showing how wavelets combine signal in image processing, mathematics, physics, and electrical engineering, this introduction to wavelet technology helps engineers master the basic techniques for using wavelets in such applications as image compression, turbulence, human vision, radar, and earthquake prediction. Among the topics covered are the...

Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Edition: In C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

Wrox Press, 2009

Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 In C# and VB

ASP.NET 3.5 brings the power of Visual Studio® 2008 along with the multitude of language improvements in C# 2008 and Visual Basic® 2008 as well as powerful new technology called LINQ, together with the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework you already know and love. Packed with valuable coverage of ASP.NET 3.5...

Artillery: An Illustrated History of Its Impact (Weapons and Warfare)

ABC Clio, 2007

This volume traces the history of artillery and its place in society from the ancient world to the present. The term “artillery” is derived from the Latin ars, or artis, terms for “craft” that later evolved through the Old French atillier, meaning “to deck, adorn with care or arrange”; atil,...

Extracellular Nucleotides and Nucleosides: Release, Receptors, and Physiological & Pathophysiological Effects, Volume 54 (Current Topics in Membranes)

Academic Press, 2003

Purinergic receptors are proteins that bind ATP as their extracellular ligand. Once thought only as an intracellular molecule that provides energy, ATP is also now considered an essential autocrine/paracrine agonist that acts extracellularly within tissues and tissue microenvironments. Receptors for ATP and its metabolites, so-called...

The Domestic Cat: The Biology of its Behaviour

Cambridge University Press, 2014

The most commonly kept domestic animal in the developed world, the cat has been a part of human life for thousands of years. Cats have been both worshipped and persecuted over this long period - either loved or hated for their enigmatic self-reliance and the subject of numerous myths and fables. Highlighting startling discoveries made over...

The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall

Basic Books, 2019

The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating species

If a chimpanzee ventures into the territory...

The Myths of Innovation

O'Reilly, 2007

How do you know whether a hot technology will succeed or fail? Or where the next big idea will come from? The best answers come not from the popular myths we tell about innovation, but instead from time-tested truths that explain how we've made it this far. This book shows the way.

In The Myths of Innovation, bestselling...

An Illustrated History of the United States of America (Background Books)

Longman Publishing Group, 1990

A fascinating history of the USA from the time of the Amerindians to the culturally diverse but united country of today.

This is a companion volume to "An Illustrated History of Britain". It traces the history of the USA from the time of the Amerindians, through to the arrival of the Europeans, to the present day. Topics...

Background Screening and Investigations: Managing Hiring Risk from the HR and Security Perspectives

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2008

Every company needs to protect its people and other assets by managing risk in the hiring process!

Hiring highly qualified people is crucial to every company, and Background Screening and Investigations is an essential guide to succeeding in a turbulent business environment. A crucial part of any hiring process should be...

The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid

Cambridge University Press, 2005

"Heslin's analysis convincingly shows that Statius skillfully employs the literary past to revisit familiar questions and to offer new insights. In the process, Heslin reveals a coherently intriguing and interesting Achilleid." - Charles McNelis, Georgetown University, Classical World

As we follow Achilles'...

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