In CriticalThinking: An Appeal toReason, Peg Tittle empowers students with a solid grounding in the lifelong skills of considered analysis and argumentation that should underpin every student’s education. Starting with the building blocks of a good argument, this comprehensive new textbook offers a full...
Multimedia Signals and Systems is primarily a technical introductory level multimedia textbook, including problems, examples, and MATLAB® codes. It will be a stepping-stone for readers who want to research in audio processing, image and video processing, and data compression.
This book is the second part of the two-volume set entitled The Big and the Small.
The first volume, Journey into the Microcosm: The Story of Elementary Particles,
dealt essentially with the small, i.e., elementary particles. The present volume
first takes the reader to the other extreme, the big or the cosmos, and then wraps
up...
With the growing awareness of drug-induced diseases in the last few decades, the trend of phar
maceutical research had shifted to drug targeting. The research community seems to be fascinated
with idea of delivering drugs at an optimal rate to their exact site of action. Once considered wishful
thinking, nanotechnology has made this...
This book is about storytelling—a new form of storytelling, to be sure, but part of a tradition that stretches back to preliterate times. Storytelling is a magical and powerful craft. Not only can it transport the audience on a thrilling journey into an imaginary world, but it can also reveal dark secrets of human nature or...
Set up an effective workflow and set your imagination free
If you're like most artists, the idea of structuring your work may seem at odds with true creativity, but you'll be surprised to learn from digital imaging expert Tim Grey that just the opposite is true. This latest edition of his bestselling guide to Photoshop shows you how proper...
Database security has been gaining a great deal of importance as industry, military, and government organizations have increasingly adopted Internet-based technologies on a large-scale, because of convenience, ease of use, and the ability to take advantage of rapid advances in the commercial market. Along with the traditional security aspects of...
"...throughout the text, Gershenfeld retains much of the conversational tone and spontaneity of a lecture. At its best, this makes for enjoyable reading, with interesting tidbits and asides that enliven the discussions....Gershenfeld's book will be valuable for physical scientists looking for an enjoyable introduction to the information...
This book is inspired by boredom and fascination: boredom with the usual presentation of data structures and algorithms, and fascination with complex
systems. The problem with data structures is that they are often taught without a motivating context; the problem with complexity science is that it is
usually not taught at...
Concepts of Modern Mathematics began as an extramural course
nowadays we would say 'continuing education—taught at Warwick
University in 1971. Several dozen citizens of Coventry, ranging
from school students to a retired automotive engineer, gathered for
two hours every week to grapple with what was then called...
Recent years have seen an explosive growth in research in combinatorics and graph theory.
One primary factor in this rapid development has been the advent of computers, and the
parallel study of practical and efficient algorithms. This volume represents an attempt to...
A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to explain accessibly an important but subtle scientific theory
A romantic description of the second law of thermodynamics is that the universe becomes increasingly disordered. But what does that actually mean? Starting with...
