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Handbook of Remote Biometrics: for Surveillance and Security (Advances in Pattern Recognition)

Springer, 2009

This comprehensive and innovative handbook covers aspects of biometrics from the perspective of recognizing individuals at a distance, in motion, and under a surveillance scenario. Features: Starts with a thorough introductory chapter; Provides topics from a range of different perspectives offered by an international collection of leading...

How to Research

Open University Press, 2006

"...an immensely useful resource." - Nursing Times Research "As a graduate research student, I have come across a number of books claiming to inform the reader 'how to research', and have become sceptical...This book challenges that scepticism and is to be warmly welcomed." - Research Policy and Planning." "...an...

Analysis of Air-Based Mechanization and Vertical Envelopment Concepts and Technologies

RAND Corporation, 2001

The Army After Next (AAN) concept of rapidly deployable mechanized battleforces in a tactical environment requires the forces to be readilytransported by vertical, or near-vertical, lift aircraft. In the nonlinearAAN battlefield, this may require the forces to be deployed near the enemy1ssecond echelon. The authors examined the performance of the...

Air Quality, Fourth Edition

CRC Press, 2003

...succeeds in giving a lucid overview of the most important principles...
-The Science of the Total Environment

We can only hope it will become a bible for thousands of students over the next few years.
-ENVIRON

Ozone-destroying chemicals, greenhouse gases, and...

The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements

1stBooks Library, 2002

MacDonald provides a theoretical analysis and review of data on the widespread tendency among certain highly influential, Jewish-dominated intellectual movements to develop radical critiques of gentile culture that are compatible with the continuity of Jewish identification. Particular attention is paid to Boasian anthropology, psychoanalysis,...

Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs

Oxford University Press, 2009

The late imam was the greatest political and military analyst and a great politician. Imam Khomeini was the best possible pattern for all people in all ages and eras,” declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2008.1 It is rare for a revolutionary leader to exercise such infl uence over the imagination of his successors two decades after his...

Secure Internet Practices: Best Practices for Securing Systems in the Internet and e-Business Age

Auerbach Publications, 2001

Touches all the bases you need to build a secure enterprise. Drawing on the experience of the world-class METASeS consulting team in building and advising on security programs, this guide shows you how to create a workable security program to protect your organization's internet risk. Softcover.

This report from METASeS is written for...

Managing the Human Factor in Information Security: How to win over staff and influence business managers

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

"...an engaging read." (Information Age, May 2009) "I found the book enjoyable and easy to read. It is very informative, and gives good references" (Infosecurity, June 2009)

With the growth in social networking and the potential for larger and larger breaches of sensitive data,it is vital for all...

Contemporary Issues in End User Computing (Advances in End User Computing)

IGI Global, 2006

Contemporary Issues in End User Computing brings a wealth of end user computing information to one accessible location. This collection includes empirical and theoretical research concerned with all aspects of end user computing including development, utilization, and management. Contemporary Issues in End User Computing is divided into three...

Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century (Cass Series, Naval Policy and History)

Routledge, 2009

The sea has always been central to human development as a source of resources, and as a means of transportation, information-exchange and strategic dominion. It has been the basis for our prosperity and security. This is even more the case, now, in the early 21^st century, with the emergence of an increasingly globalized world trading...

Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates

MIT Press, 2009

On any given night cable TV news will tell us how polarized American politics is: Republicans are from Mars, Democrats are from Canada. But in fact, writes Peter Wenz in Beyond Red and Blue, Americans do not divide neatly into two ideological camps of red/blue, Republican/Democrat, right/left. If they did, what could explain Republicans...

Contagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization

MIT Press, 2009

Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections between disease and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the relationship of public health to governance, introducing the concept of health security. In Contagion and Chaos, Andrew Price-Smith offers the most comprehensive examination yet of...

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