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  • One Hundred Years of Pressure

    Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton

    by Alan F. Chalmers ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This monograph investigates the development of hydrostatics as a science. In the process, it sheds new light on the nature of science and its origins in the Scientific Revolution. Readers will come to see that the history of hydrostatics reveals subtle ways in which the science of the seventeenth century differed from previous periods.The key, the author argues, is the new insights into the ... Read more

    $153.99 CAD

  • The Global Partnership Against WMD

    Success and Shortcomings of G8 Threat Reduction since 9/11

    by Alan Heyes, Wyn Q. Bowen, Hugh Chalmers ...
    Series series Whitehall Papers
    The 9/11 terrorist attacks prompted a new urgency in efforts to deal with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear proliferati on. The potential acquisition and use by terrorist groups of such weaponry was suddenly a much increased threat. The G8 Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction subsequently encouraged some twenty-two countries and the ... Read more

    $26.10 CAD

  • High Dynamic Range Video

    Concepts, Technologies and Applications

    Edited by Alan Chalmers, Patrizio Campisi, Peter Shirley, Igor García Olaizola ...
    High Dynamic Range Video: Concepts, Technologies and Applications gives an introduction to a full range of topics within the end-to-end HDR video pipeline, covering the issues around capturing HDR and stereo HDR video, such as ghosting and use of legacy LDR systems, how HDR video can be manipulated, including real-time mixing, the very latest designs for HDR displays, HDR video on mobile devices, ... Read more

    $155.99 CAD

  • Advanced High Dynamic Range Imaging

    by Francesco Banterle, Alessandro Artusi, Kurt Debattista, Alan Chalmers ...
    This book explores the methods needed for creating and manipulating HDR content. HDR is a step change from traditional imaging; more closely matching what we see with our eyes. In the years since the first edition of this book appeared, HDR has become much more widespread, moving from a research concept to a standard imaging method. This new edition incorporates all the many developments in HDR ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Practical Parallel Rendering

    Edited by Alan Chalmers, Erik Reinhard, Tim Davis ...
    Meeting the growing demands for speed and quality in rendering computer graphics images requires new techniques. Practical parallel rendering provides one of the most practical solutions. This book addresses the basic issues of rendering within a parallel or distributed computing environment, and considers the strengths and weaknesses of multiprocessor machines and networked render farms for ... Read more

    $119.54 CAD

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  • Low-Rank and Sparse Modeling for Visual Analysis

    Edited by Yun Fu ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book provides a view of low-rank and sparse computing, especially approximation, recovery, representation, scaling, coding, embedding and learning among unconstrained visual data. The book includes chapters covering multiple emerging topics in this new field. It links multiple popular research fields in Human-Centered Computing, Social Media, Image Classification, Pattern Recognition, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Is God a Mathematician?

    by Mario Livio ...
    Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history’s greatest mathematicians to ask how—if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind—it can so perfectly explain the physical world.Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics” in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Securitization Theory

    How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve

    Edited by Thierry Balzacq ...
    Series series PRIO New Security Studies
    This volume aims to provide a new framework for the analysis of securitization processes, increasing our understanding of how security issues emerge, evolve and dissolve.Securitisation theory has become one of the key components of security studies and IR courses in recent years, and this book represents the first attempt to provide an integrated and rigorous overview of securitization practices ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The SAP BW to HANA Migration Handbook

    by Rob Frye, Joe Darlak, Dr. Bjarne Berg ...
    SAP HANA has revolutionized the way we store data and architect reporting solutions. This book provides a step-by-step guide for moving an existing SAP BW system on any database to SAP HANA. Identify the differences between the database migration option (DMO) process and other options. Get sample staffing plans, tools for hardware sizing and planning, and budgeting tips for planning your migration ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Sparsity-Based Multipath Exploitation for Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging

    by Michael Leigsnering ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This thesis reports on sparsity-based multipath exploitation methods for through-the-wall radar imaging. Multipath creates ambiguities in the measurements provoking unwanted ghost targets in the image. This book describes sparse reconstruction methods that are not only suppressing the ghost targets, but using multipath to one’s advantage. With adopting the compressive sensing principle, fewer ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • A Certain Ambiguity

    A Mathematical Novel (New in Paper)

    by Gaurav Suri, Hartosh Singh Bal ...
    While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War

    Enriched edition. Navigating the Future: A Vision of Post-War Society

    by H. G. Wells, Tessa Longmere ...
    In "What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War," H. G. Wells delves into the future possibilities shaped by the aftermath of World War I, combining speculative fiction with incisive social commentary. The book is written in Wells' characteristic prophetic style, melding vivid imagination with a deep understanding of societal dynamics. He grapples with themes of technological advancement, ... Read more

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