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 Multimedia Information Storage and Retrieval: Techniques and TechnologiesSince multimedia systems are required to store and manipulate a variety of media types -- including text, graphics, images, sound, audio, and video among many others -- applications such as video-on-demand systems, interactive television, and video conferencing are becoming widely available at warp speed. This presents new challenges and obstacles... | | 365 Steps to Self-Confidence: A Program for Personal Transformation"'I've spent hundreds of pounds on books over the last few years, but yours is worth a dozen of my collection.' Personal Development Trainer, Ireland; 'Follow the 52 themed chapters, including exercises, insights and practical hints on how to overcome your lack of self-esteem and begin to live life to the full Now, not tomorrow!' Good... | | The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence: A Philosophical InquiryThe Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence critically evaluates claims concerning the status of SETI as a genuine scientific research program and examines the attempts to establish contact with other intelligent life forms in the past thirty years.
Despite a wealth of science fiction and scientific speculation on the origins of... |
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Ship-shaped Offshore Installations: Design, Building, and OperationShip-shaped offshore units are some of the more economical systems for the development of offshore oil and gas, and are often preferred in marginal fields. These systems are especially attractive to develop oil and gas fields in deep and ultra-deep water areas and remote locations away from existing pipeline infrastructures. Recently, the... | | Composites for Construction: Structural Design with FRP MaterialsFiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials have developed into economically and structurally viable construction materials for buildings and bridges over the last 20 years. FRP composite materials used in structural engineering typically consist of glass, carbon, or aramid fibers encased in a matrix of epoxy, polyester, vinylester, or... | | Fiber Based Dispersion Compensation (Optical and Fiber Communications Reports)A pulse of light spreads in time as it propagates in a fiber due to the physical phenomenon called dispersion. While dispersion can be deleterious in optical communications systems, it can also be exploited to manage the temporal and spectral shapes of pulses and their interactions with other pulses. Much of dispersion control is realized in... |
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| | RSS and Atom: Understanding and Implementing Content Feeds and SyndicationThis is a concise yet comprehensive guide to feeds and syndication for content professionals, web developers and marketing teams who want to understand what RSS and content syndication is, how it works, what it can for them, and how they can get it up and running. The feed formats and vocabularies are covered in depth, and the book does require... | | A Brief History of Death (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion)"The author reveals himself to be a sensitive and humane guide, in a book that ought to fascinate anyone interested in the existential conundrum of human morality." Times Higher Education Supplement
The act of death itself and the rituals surrounding it vary enormously and shed a fascinating light on the... |
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