Author Michael Topic offers the fast, relible, and painless way to get the lowdown on the streaming of video over the internet (both...

Great vacation photos—too bad you can't remember where you took them. And wouldn't it have been terrific to find a pizza joint when you bumped into your college buddy in that little ski town? Well, by making Google Maps and Google Earth do your bidding, you can find out not only where...

The 10 revised full papers presented together with 9 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers cover topics such as algebraic semantics on...

“The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet, like the closing of a gigantic circle,” observes the ever-smaller hero of the 1950s movie The Incredible Shrinking Man. What I love most about close-up photography is the way size, scale and orientation gets lost as you photograph things that are smaller and...

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"This heavily illustrated introductory text covers the most important clinical, radiological, and management points in caring for the patient with spine problems. Both residents and practitioners will find the book simple but detailed enough to understand the nature of the patient's complaints, diagnose and manage common problems,...

Not very long ago, there was television, film, video, and other forms of moving imagery. Now, in the Digital Era, all of this is "content," a stream of bits providing superior picture and audio quality and options for HDTV, interactivity, e-commerce, and new ways to create and consume the...

Picture yourself creating your very own entertaining and exciting video games to play and share with others, without needing any programming knowledge or game creation experience. "Picture Yourself Creating Video Games" shows amateur video game enthusiasts how to make their own games with The Game Factory 2, a simple drag-and-drop...

As the twenty-first century begins, the United States has emerged as not only the most powerful nation on earth, but also by far the most religiously diverse nation ever. Several thousand distinct religious communities live side-by-side in relative harmony, and in any urban area it is not unusual to see a Catholic church...