Clinician’s Guide to Treating Animal Companion Issues: Addressing Human-Animal Interaction is the first of its kind-a groundbreaking resource for mental health professionals who want the knowledge, sk
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel are some of the most highly trained people in the military, with a job description that spans defusing unexploded ordnance to protecting VIP’s and state dig
This encyclopedic handbook presented by editors Muller, Cienki, Fricke, Ladewig, McNiell, and Tesendorf catalogs knowledge relating to gesture and body language in communication. The volume is divided
Mesquita (Minho U., Portugal) unites international contributors in business management and organizational behavior, as well as those in areas such as user-centered design, human-computer interaction,
Tackling globalization is a great challenge – it is both extremely beneficial and essentially problematic.This comprehensive, multidisciplinary study confronts this ambivalence through the use of comp
What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandar
Computer scientists and electrical engineers examine interfaces between humans and computers from the perspectives of gesture interaction, augmented reality with special attention to applications in e
A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mindAll our lives a
The central task of a future-oriented computational linguistics is the development of cognitive machines which humans can freely talk with in their respective natural language. In the long run, this t
This book offers expert perspective on progress in shape perception research, covering contours, shape hierarchies and grammars, shape priors and 3D shape inference, surfaces, invariants, multiple vie
Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offe
McCardle (child development and behavior, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health) et al. draw together 10 chapters that examine the impact of the human
Prehistoric and historic archaeologists and philologists offer diachronic and multifaceted perspectives on the state of research into pastoral nomads and tribe-state interaction in the Syrian steppes,
Smart phones, tablets, Facebook, Twitter, and wireless Internet connections are the latest technologies to have become entrenched in our culture. Although traditionalists have argued that computer-me
Hunger, malnutrition, poor health, and deficient food systems are widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa. While much is known about African food systems and about African health and nutrition, our understa
The 14 chapters in this collection explore the possibilities of web-based software for supporting learning via group interaction. The contributors describe the different Web 2.0 and social software to
