She argues with her mother. She occasionally skips class. And she alternately crushes on two totally different boys. But Chloe King is by no means your typical teenager. The girl can scale buildings
Dr. Sherwin Nuland, author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die, once again combines knowledge, compassion, and elegance of expression to shed light on the workings of our bodies from the per
Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes
International Trade Subsidy Rules and Tax and Financial Export Incentives is an inquiry into the interrelations between international trade subsidy rules and the use of tax and financial export incent
Taking readers to the cutting edge of physics, mathematics, and computer science, Julian Brown tells the dramatic story of the groundbreaking efforts to create a fundamentally new kind of computer tha
Students studying computer animation and computer games have to be familiar with geometry, matrices, vectors, rotation transforms, quaternions, curves and surfaces, and as computer graphics software b
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Vision/Computer Graphics Collaboration Techniques, MIRAGE 2009, held in Rocquencourt, France, in May 2009
This book covers performance analysis of computer networks, and begins by providing the necessary background in probability theory, random variables, and stochastic processes. Queuing theory and sim
Firewalk: Embracing Different Abilities presents a new perspective and action plan for anyone who lives with adversity. Author Kathy O'Connell draws from her own experiences of living with cerebral pa
Firewalk: Embracing Different Abilities presents a new perspective and action plan for anyone who lives with adversity. Author Kathy O'Connell draws from her own experiences of living with cerebral pa
Life is unpredictable. When we least expect it, it can be changed forever. That moment came for author Benedetta Lino when her one-year-old daughter was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, the possible res
Life is unpredictable. When we least expect it, it can be changed forever. That moment came for author Benedetta Lino when her one-year-old daughter was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, the possible res
A compendium of seventy poems, this book is the fifth in a series of poetry books published by Satyapal Anand. His poetry, it has been said, is more cerebral than emotional. His poems reveal many sple
A compendium of seventy poems, this book is the fifth in a series of poetry books published by Satyapal Anand. His poetry, it has been said, is more cerebral than emotional. His poems reveal many sple
Satyapal Anand's poetry is cerebral rather than emotional. It reveals a many-splendored splash of color and sound. He is an imagist in the sense that his images appeal to all our senses, and we feel t
Satyapal Anand's poetry is cerebral rather than emotional. It reveals a many-splendored splash of color and sound. He is an imagist in the sense that his images appeal to all our senses, and we feel t
This Festschrift volume contains the proceedings of the conference Mathematical Methods in Computer Science, MMICS 2008, which was held during December 17-19, 2008, in Karlsruhe, Germany, in memory of
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, WG 2002, held in Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic in June 2002.The 36 re
The title of this book is a pun on the use of the preposition “onto” with the aim of recalling “Ontology”, the term commonly adopted in the computer science community to indicate the study of the form
A computer file survives the raid on Osama bin Laden in the hands of his last courier and it launches a mission across the Middle East, Europe, Canada and into New England to kill four American soldie
The 1980s and 1990s experienced a proliferation of schools implementing Computer-Based Learning (CBL) and/or Computer-Based Training (CBT) because of today's technological growth. As Technology Educat
This is a short novel by science fiction, in which an aggressive computer virus that is transmitted over the Internet affects the behaviour of those who come into contact with it when working with com
This is a short novel by science fiction, in which an aggressive computer virus that is transmitted over the Internet affects the behaviour of those who come into contact with it when working with com
Hugh Wilkie is an officer of the Colonial Fleet. The only person alive able to meld his mind with the HCSIS computer. A system capable of not just controlling a Dread Naught but mankind s last hope in
Sid, a young computer scientist who is passionate about his profession, yearns to also serve his country. Helped by his professor, Sid accepts a job at the CIA where he can do both. But the forces of
Sid, a young computer scientist who is passionate about his profession, yearns to also serve his country. Helped by his professor, Sid accepts a job at the CIA where he can do both. But the forces of
By the year 2050, great advances have been made in the realm of computer science, but the most sophisticated computer ever to have been built is about to be revealed to the world. The brainchild of Pr
By the year 2050, great advances have been made in the realm of computer science, but the most sophisticated computer ever to have been built is about to be revealed to the world. The brainchild of Pr
Emil Lime and his kooky wife Abigail visit a newspaper office in California where Emil has been hired to solve a difficult computer problem. Aside from the editor and his lovely wife, they encounter a
Survival. It's the primary instinct built into every living thing. Computer programmer Ian Daniels has designed his latest masterpiece, the Survivor Program. Able to boost the creativity and cunning,
Survival. It's the primary instinct built into every living thing. Computer programmer Ian Daniels has designed his latest masterpiece, the Survivor Program. Able to boost the creativity and cunning,
Data analysis and machine learning are research areas at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics and statistics. They cover general methods and techniques that can b
Hurt No More No one who works at a computer or drives a car will be surprised to learn that neck pain is on the rise. About 70 million people in the United States have had neck pain, and the incidenc
EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW IS WRONG...That was the strange message left on Cory Maddox's e-mail--just at the moment when years of work on a revolutionary subspace computer system was about to pay o
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2013, held in Marseille, France, in October
Content-based 3-D object retrieval has attracted extensive attention recently and has applications in a variety of fields, such as, computer-aided design, tele-medicine,mobile multimedia, virtual real
In many computer vision applications, objects have to be learned and recognized in images or image sequences. This book presents new probabilistic hierarchical models that allow an efficient represent
In this primer for IT specialists on the aspects of molecular biology and medicine that lend themselves to the application of computer science, budding bioinformaticians will find clear explanations o
After experiencing heart break and loss, Robin, a good looking computer scientist turned to drugs for solace, and opted for the street life, where he met Monica, a committed Christian doctor, who chal
