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Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production addresses the complex entanglements of science, technology, and sporting cultures. The collection explores themes around human and non-human actants, knowledge formations and processes, and the materiality and multiplicity of bodies through an...

Information Security : Principles and Practice

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Your expert guide to information security

As businesses and consumers become more dependent on complex multinational information systems, the need to understand and devise sound information security systems has never been greater. This title takes a practical approach to information security by focusing on real-world examples. While not...

Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Wireless sensor networks will revolutionise applications such as environmental monitoring, home automation, and logistics.

Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the most important issues and questions that have to be addressed in a wireless sensor network....

Professional Practice in Artificial Intelligence: IFIP 19th World Computer Congress, TC-12: Professional Practice Stream, August 21-24, 2006

Springer, 2006

This volume presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. The proceedings of the World Computer Congress are a product of the gathering of 2,000 delegates from more than 70 countries to discuss a myriad of topics in the ICT domain. Of particular note, this marks the first time that a World Computer Congress has...

Point-Based Graphics (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2007

This book will present the latest research results in point-based computer graphics. After an overview of the key issues, affordable 3D scanning devices will be discussed and new concepts for the mathematical representation of point-sampled shapes will be presented. Then the authors will describe methods for high-performance and high-quality...

Patterns for e-business

MC Press, 2001

Get an inside look at how successful businesses build their e-business architectures. In this book, four IBM e-business experts capture years of experience into easy-to-follow guidelines. Deliberately focusing on Business patterns, Integration patterns, and Application patterns, the authors share with you proven architectural patterns that can help...

Handbook of Logic in Computer Science 5

Oxford University Press, 2001

"Oxford University Press publishes a wonderful series of books entitled Handbook of Logic in Computer Science. ... Volume 5: Logic and Algebraic Methods, has I think the best discussion of abstract data types that I have read."--he Bulletin of Mathematics Books

Logic is now widely recognized as one of the foundational...

Explorations in Information Space: Knowledge, Actor, and Firms

Oxford University Press, 2008

As humankind seeks to extend its spatiotemporal reach both on and beyond its planet, it is constantly being forced by a recalcitrant nature to renegotiate the terms of its covenant with her. In some cases, the bargaining gets tough and nature takes offence, gradually revealing her anger with the terms that humanity seeks to impose on her through...

Optimal Portfolio Modeling, CD-ROM includes Models Using Excel and R: Models to Maximize Returns and Control Risk in Excel and R (Wiley Trading)

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

it takes more than just precise timing and picking the right stocks to achieve exceptional results in today's markets. In order to capture consistent success, you need to strike the right balance between position sizing and risk management.

Nobody understands this better than author Philip McDonnell, and with Optimal Portfolio Modeling,...

The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Routledge Classics)

Routledge, 2002

`One of the most important documents of the twentieth century.' - Sir Peter Medawar, New Scientist

`One cannot help feeling that, if it had been translated as soon as it had been originally published, philosophy in this country might have been saved some detours. Professor Popper's thesis has that quality of greatness that, once...

Fluid Mechanics: An Introduction to the Theory of Fluid Flows

Springer, 2008

Fluid mechanics is a field that spreads widely and to all fields of engineering, science and medicine. The book takes this into account and provides a sound basis.

This is a modern book on fluid mechanics that is written in a way needed these days to teach the subject to students in engineering and science at higher educational institutes. The...

Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2005

The book issued by two professors at MIT is intended to initiate a new approach in presenting and developing analog and digital electronics. Traditionally, analog and digital elements and circuits are given in separate courses. Here, the authors want to show that in presenting both topics (analog and digital), a deeper insight of the real...

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