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Information Visualization, Third Edition: Perception for Design (Interactive Technologies)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2012

Information Visualization: Perception for Design is a comprehensive guide to what the science of human perception tells us about how we should display information.

The human brain is a super-computer for finding patterns in information. Our understanding of visual data and visual information is greatly enhanced or impeded by...

Bayesian Data Analysis, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)

CRC Press, 2003

This book is intended to have three roles and to serve three associated audiences: an introductory text on Bayesian inference star ting from first principles, a graduate text on effective current approaches to Bayesian modeling and computation in statistics and related fields, and a handbook of Bayesian meth ods in applied...

Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Birkh?user Advances in Infectious Diseases)

Birkhauser, 2007

Community-acquired pneumonia is a disease of high morbidity and mortality. Demographic changes in industrialised countries with a growing population of elderly persons will add to its significance. In the last years much progress in the field of community-acquired pneumonia has been achieved. Vaccination programs against...

Mathematics and Computation in Music: 4th International Conference, MCM 2013, Montreal, Canada, June 12-14, 2013, Proceedings

Springer, 2013

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music, MCM 2013, held in Montreal, Canada, in June 2013. The 18 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are promoting the collaboration and exchange of ideas among...

Genes, Development and Cancer: The Life and Work of Edward B. Lewis

Springer, 2007

While Edward B. (‘Ed’) Lewis is famous for his contributions to genetics and developmental biology, few have read his research papers. One reason for this is availability, many having been published in obscure journals or as book chapters. A second is because his papers in those fields are very difficult to read. The...

Casarett & Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, Eighth Edition

McGraw-Hill, 2013

The most trusted all-in-one overview of the biomedical and environmental aspects of toxicology--NOW more complete, up-to-date, and in full color

A Doody's Core Title for 2015!

NEW to the Eighth Edition

FULL-COLOR design to allow for a clearer interpretationof the basic...

What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

Prometheus Books, 2011

This book reveals a remarkable paradox: what your brain wants is frequently not what your brain needs. In fact, much of what makes our brains "happy" leads to errors, biases, and distortions, which make getting out of our own way extremely difficult.

Author David DiSalvo presents evidence from evolutionary and...

Six Sigma and Beyond: Design for Six Sigma, Volume VI

CRC Press, 2002

This volume addresses design improvement from the perspective of prevention by introducing readers to the tools of the Six Sigma design process, and discusses DFSS (DCOV), and provides linkages between the traditional DMAIC and the DFSS model.

In this volume of the Six Sigma and Beyond series, quality engineering expert D.H....

History of Wireless

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Important new insights into how various components and systems evolved

Premised on the idea that one cannot know a science without knowing its history, History of Wireless offers a lively new treatment that introduces previously unacknowledged pioneers and developments, setting a new standard for understanding the evolution of this important...

Introduction to Physical Polymer Science

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

An Updated Edition of the Classic Text

Polymers constitute the basis for the plastics, rubber, adhesives, fiber, and coating industries. The Fourth Edition of Introduction to Physical Polymer Science acknowledges the industrial success of polymers and the advancements made in the field while continuing to deliver the...

Computer Vision: A Modern Approach

Prentice Hall, 2002

This extraordinary book gives a uniquely modern view of computer vision. Offering a general survey of the whole computer vision enterprise along with sufficient detail for readers to be able to build useful applications, this book is invaluable in providing a strategic overview of computer vision. With extensive use of probabalistic...

Distributed Operating Systems

Prentice Hall, 1994

As distributed computer systems become more pervasive, there is a need for a book that explains how their operating systems are designed and implemented. This book, which is a revised and expanded Part II of the best selling MODERN OPERATING SYSTEMS, fulfills that need. KEY TOPICS: It covers the material from the original...

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