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The Living Cosmos: Our Search for Life in the Universe
The Living Cosmos: Our Search for Life in the Universe

Astrobiology–the study of life in space–is one of today’s fastest growing and most popular fields of science. In this compelling, accessible, and elegantly reasoned new book, award-winning scholar and researcher Chris Impey explores the foundations of this rapidly developing discipline, where it’s going, and what...

Manual of Travel Agency Practice
Manual of Travel Agency Practice

Now in its third edition, this successful must-have manual is thoroughly updated with new chapters and material, covering issues including:

* Technology development - the different types of travel agency systems available, what they do, how they do it and how to use them
* The Internet -
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Travel Medicine: Tales Behind the Science (Advances in Tourism Research)
Travel Medicine: Tales Behind the Science (Advances in Tourism Research)

Travel to exotic places is fascinating, and equally so are infections and other dangers of exotic travel. Moreover, one need not be traveling to suffer these maladies; sometimes they travel to you. The enormous global mobility demands a public health response. The result is the concept of ‘travel medicine’ as a separate...

Oil and Security: A World beyond Petroleum (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)
Oil and Security: A World beyond Petroleum (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)
The celebration welcoming the second half of the 21st century on 31 December 2050 was subdued in the Persian Gulf. The major cities of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and others were dark. No fireworks or other signs of jubilation. Even those among them who had diversified their economies by investing in tourism, technology parks,...
Recommender Systems for the Social Web (Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Vol. 32)
Recommender Systems for the Social Web (Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Vol. 32)
The emergence and deployment of new digital communication technologies (3G mobile networks, digital television, xDSL, home automation networks, etc.) has led to a gradual increase in speed while a steady decline in prices at Internet connections. Moreover, since much longer ago, the continuing advances in electronic technology...
Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2005: 6th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Jeju Island, Korea, November 11-13, 2005
Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2005: 6th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Jeju Island, Korea, November 11-13, 2005
We are delighted to welcome readers to the proceedings of the 6th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM). The first PCM was held in Sydney, Australia, in 2000. Since then, it has been hosted successfully by Beijing, China, in 2001, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2002, Singapore in 2003, and Tokyo, Japan, in 2004, and finally Jeju, one...
Recent Trends of Mobile Collaborative Augmented Reality Systems
Recent Trends of Mobile Collaborative Augmented Reality Systems

Augmented reality (AR) is a direct or indirect view of real world scenes in which physical objects are annotated with, or overlaid by computer generated digital information. The past two decades have seen a fast growing body of research and development dedicated to techniques and technologies for AR. In particular, due to the recent...

Coping with Water Scarcity: Addressing the Challenges
Coping with Water Scarcity: Addressing the Challenges

One of the main problems confronting the world of the 21st Century is a shortage of water. There is already severe scarcity in many regions of the world, causing tremendous problems for local populations and indeed entire societies. There is insufficient water available for the production of food to alleviate poverty and starvation; the lack of...

The Encyclopedia of Rural America: The Land and People (2 Volume Set)
The Encyclopedia of Rural America: The Land and People (2 Volume Set)
The Encyclopedia of Rural America is dedicated to the land and its people. Rural America is characterized by its vast expansiveness and its diversity. Of the nation's 1.9 billion acres, 1.8 billion acres are in rural areas or federal lands. It is a land of crop and pasture land, forests and wetlands, mountains and deserts, sea coasts and inland...
How Spacecraft Fly: Spaceflight Without Formulae
How Spacecraft Fly: Spaceflight Without Formulae
The aim of this popular science text is to explain aerodynamic and astrodynamic flight without the use of mathematics, in an informal style, for non-technical readers who are interested in spaceflight and spacecraft.

The book will open with a concise introductory chapter, chronicling the ‘space age’ up to the present, and a brief...

Pro Apache, Third Edition (Expert's Voice)
Pro Apache, Third Edition (Expert's Voice)

"...a behemoth of a resource for everything you ever wanted to know about Apache." — Doug Schasteen, member, Kansas City's PHP User Group

"This is by far the best ‘know all, end all’ reference, bar none. My hat goes off to Peter Wainwright and Apress for opening up a whole new world to me."...

Spatial AutoRegression (SAR) Model: Parameter Estimation Techniques (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
Spatial AutoRegression (SAR) Model: Parameter Estimation Techniques (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
Explosive growth in the size of spatial databases has highlighted the need for spatial data analysis and spatial data mining techniques to mine the interesting but implicit spatial patterns within these large databases. Extracting useful and interesting patterns from massive geo-spatial datasets is important for many application...
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