"This fast-paced travelogue through the world of Chinese manufacturing is scary, fascinating, and very funny. Midler is not only a knowledgeable guide to the invisible underbelly of the global economy, he is a sympathetic and astute observer of China, its challenges, and its...
Remotely-sensed images of the Earth's surface provide a valuable source of information about the geographical distribution and properties of natural and cultural features. This fully revised and updated edition of a highly regarded textbook deals with the mechanics of processing remotely-senses images. Presented in an accessible manner,...
This book took a huge amount of effort and contributions by people other than myself. Firstly, I must acknowledge the persistence, gentle guidance, and eagle eye of my original editor, Dorothy Cox, and also, the rest of the staff at Focal Press, especially Dennis McGonagle; Mónica Gonzálezde Mendoza and Paul Temme, who...
The French have mastered the art of living well. With this guide, you’ll master the art of vacationing well—seeing what you want to see, doing what you want to do, and enjoying every mile and every minute. In France, there are so many sights to see and so much fabulous food and wine to savor that you may have to pick and choose....
The Second International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime (ICDF2C 2010) was hosted in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, during October 4–6, 2010. The conference was attended by over 100 international participants including academics, senior government officials from the UAE, and corporate attendees. ICDF2C 2010...
Our goal as programmers is to solve problems. Sometimes the problems are hard, sometimes they’re easy, and sometimes they’re even fun. Maybe they’re not even “problems” in the colloquial sense of the word, but we are there to solve them.
Our goal as authors is to help you solve your problems...
This book is about writing real-world applications for the Android platform primarily using the Python
language and a little bit of JavaScript. While there is nothing wrong with Java, it really is overkill when all
you need to do is turn on or off a handful of settings on your Android device. The Scripting Layer for
Android (SL4A)...
Whether responding to a tender from a potential client or pitching a new IT project to
the Board, a well-written proposal can be the difference between success and failure.
IT Project Proposals Writing to Win can help you to create high quality, persuasive
proposals that will stand out from the crowd. The author explains how to...
Prior to the 1970s, computer and electronics-based technology
was hardly a pervasive part of our everyday lives. Automobiles
were not yet computerized, fax machines were just taking off, and,
significantly, the personal computer had yet to be popularized.
Individuals who dreamed of a career in information technology
departments were...
Welcome to Internet and web programming and Internet & WorldWide Web How to Program,
Fourth Edition! At Deitel & Associates, we write programming language textbooks
and professional books for Prentice Hall, deliver corporate training worldwide and develop
Web 2.0 Internet businesses. The book has been...
The decade of the 80's saw the dramatic expansion of high performance
computer graphics into domains previously able only to
irt with the technology. Among the most dramatic has been the incorporation of real-time
interactive manipulation and display for human gures. Though actively pur-
sued by several research groups, the...
Neural Networks started as an academic discipline over 50 years ago with the publication by McCulloch and Pitts of their famous result that any logical problem can be solved by a suitable network composed of so-called binary decision nodes. These are processors which make the simplest possible decision, that is, whether or not to respond to a...
