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Encyclopedia Of Human Computer Interaction

Idea Group Publishing, 2005

Human computer interaction (HCI) evolved as a recognized discipline that attracts innovation and creativity. For the last 25 years, it inspired new solutions, especially for the benefit of the user as a human being, making the user the focal point that technology should serve rather than the other way around. The advent of the Internet, combined...

Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing, Second Edition

Cambridge University Press, 1992

Our aim in writing the original edition of Numerical Recipes was to provide a
book that combined general discussion, analytical mathematics, algorithmics, and
actual working programs. The success of the first edition puts us now in a difficult,
though hardly unenviable, position. We wanted, then and now, to write a book
that is...

Guide to Information Sources in Mathematics and Statistics (Reference Sources in Science and Technology)

Libraries Unlimited, 2004

This book was conceived as a reference for librarians, mathematicians, and statisticians involved in college- and research-level mathematics and statistics in the twenty-first century. Now in a time of transition in scholarly communications in mathematics, practices that have changed little for a hundred years are giving way to new modes of...

American History Through Literature 1870-1920

Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005

This A-Z, cross-referenced and illustrated title provides a unique overview of the period following the Civil War through the emergence of the United States as a world power at the end of World War I. The set features more than 250 survey entries. Subjects include: political topics (Reform, Women's Suffrage); ideas in context (Scientific...

Analog-to-Digital Conversion

Springer, 2010

A book is like a window that allows you to look into the world. The window is shaped by the author and that makes that every window presents a unique view of the world. This is certainly true for this book. It is shaped by the topics and the projects throughout my career. Even more so, this book reflects my own style of working and...

Mass Spectrometry for Drug Discovery and Drug Development (Wiley Series on Mass Spectrometry)

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Facilitates the discovery and development of new, effective therapeutics

With coverage of the latest mass spectrometry technology, this book explains how mass spectrometry can be used to enhance almost all phases of drug discovery and drug development, including new and emerging applications. The book's fifteen chapters...

Carbon Allotropes: Metal-Complex Chemistry, Properties and Applications

Springer, 2019

This book provides a detailed description of metal-complex functionalized carbon allotrope forms, including classic (such as graphite), rare (such as M- or T-carbon), and nanoforms (such as carbon nanotubes, nanodiamonds, etc.). Filling a void in the nanotechnology literature, the book presents chapters generalizing the synthesis,...

Reading Between the Signs: Intercultural Communication for Sign Language Interpreters 2nd Edition

Intercultural Press, 2006

Ann Mindess examines a culture not widely understood - American deaf culture. Collectivist and high-context, it contrasts with mainstream individualistic, low-context American culture. Both cultures are examined and the interpreter's role and responsibilities are discussed.

This book provides us with a penetrating look at a subject that,...

The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld: Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat

Cornell University Library, 2010

"The ancient Egyptian sources come alive, speaking to us without seeming alien to our modern ways of thinking. Andreas Schweizer invites us to join the nocturnal voyage of the solar barque and to immerse ourselves, with the 'Great Soul' of the sun, into the darkness surrounding us. Here in the illustrations and texts of the...

Conspiracy in Camelot: The Complete History of the Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Algora Publishing, 2003

Those not already deeply immersed in recondite Kennedy assassination lore will find this offering by Kroth-an associate professor of counseling psychology at Santa Clara University, and a contributor to CounterPunch, a biweekly "muckraking newsletter"-well over the top. Advertised as an "objective" look at the myriad conspiracy...

The Role of Labour Mobility and Informal Networks for Knowledge Transfer

Springer, 2004

The purpose of this volume is to analyze the microfoundations of knowledge spillovers. The microeconomic analysis of spillovers leads to the insight that the spillover and flow of knowledge is not at all automatic. Instead, this volume suggests that a filter exists between knowledge and its economic application. The focus of this volume is on...

Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism

MIT Press, 2006

"Bogost challenges humanists and technologists to pay attention to one another, something they desperately need to do as computation accelerates us into the red zones of widespread virtual reality. This book gives us what we need to meet that challenge: a general theory for understanding creativity under computation, one that will apply...

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