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  • Background Modeling and Foreground Detection for Video Surveillance

    Edited by Thierry Bouwmans, Fatih Porikli, Benjamin Höferlin, Antoine Vacavant ...
    Background modeling and foreground detection are important steps in video processing used to detect robustly moving objects in challenging environments. This requires effective methods for dealing with dynamic backgrounds and illumination changes as well as algorithms that must meet real-time and low memory requirements.Incorporating both establish ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Climate change

    What challenges for the South?

    Edited by Serge Janicot, Catherine Aubertin, Martial Bernoux, Edmond Dounias, Jean-François Guégan, Thierry Lebel, Hubert Mazurek, Benjamin Sultan ...
    Series series Focus
    The mobilisation centred on the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP 21) is an opportunity to highlight the vulnerability of environments and populations in the South in the face of climate warming. Some tropical regions are already suffering from its effects, with heat waves in the Sahel, disturbances to monsoon systems, the melting of the Andean glaciers, threats to biodiversity, a rise in sea ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Connecting Women

    Women, Gender and ICT in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

    Edited by Valérie Schafer, Benjamin G. Thierry ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This important volume examines European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies (ICTs), since the telegraph. Features: describes how gendered networks have formed around ICT since the late 19th Century; reviews the gendered issues revealed by the conflict between the actress Ms Sylviac and the French telephone ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Atonement and Comparative Theology

    The Cross in Dialogue with Other Religions

    by Bede Benjamin Bidlack, Francis X. Clooney, Thierry-Marie Courau, S. Mark Heim, Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Leo D. Lefebure, Daniel A. Madigan, S.J., Marianne Moyaert, Joshua Ralston, Elochukwu Uzukwu, Klaus von Stosch, Michelle Voss ...
    Series Book 9 - Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions
    The central Christian belief in salvation through the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ remains one of the most intractable mysteries of Christian faith. Throughout history, it has given rise to various theories of atonement, many of which have been subject to critique as they no longer speak to contemporary notions of evil and sin or to current conceptions of justice. One of the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Our Final Warning

    Six Degrees of Climate Emergency

    by Mark Lynas ...
    This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning.Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it’s only looking worse.We are living in a climate emergency. But how much worse could it get? Will civilisation collapse? Are we already past the point of no return? What kind of future can our children ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The God Species

    How Humans Really Can Save the Planet...

    by Mark Lynas ...
    Originally published as The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of HumansThe green movement has got it very wrong.Nature no longer controls our planet – it is humanity, ‘the god species’, that must save the environment we have inflicted unprecedented damage upon. And the tools we must use are the very technologies that environmentalist have told us for years will spell disaster: ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Weather of the Future

    Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet

    by Heidi Cullen ...
    "A scorching vision of what life might be like in the warmer world that is already on its way. " — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times"Vivid and compelling, this book shows what life will be like in a warming world. Essential reading for anyone who's planning to inhabit the planet for the next few decades." — Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a CatastropheFrom Heidi Cullen, one of America ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cambridge International AS and A Level Geography second edition

    by Garrett Nagle ...
    Endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education for full syllabus coverage.Rely on a course with international focus and examples and case studies from around the world, which has been especially written to cover the Cambridge International AS & A Level Geography syllabus for examination from 2018 (9696).- Build geographical skills with clear guidance and practice, including advice on ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Weather Makers

    How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

    by Tim Flannery ...
    The #1 international bestseller on climate change that's been endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers, and energy executives around the world.Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers contributed in bringing the topic of global warming to worldwide prominence. For the first time, a scientist provided an accessible and comprehensive account of the history, current status, and future impact of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Introduction to Human-Environment Geography

    Local Dynamics and Global Processes

    by William G. Moseley, Eric Perramond, Holly M. Hapke, Paul Laris ...
    This introductory level text explores various theoretical approaches to human-environment geography, demonstrating how local dynamics and global processes influence how we interact with our environments.Introduces students to fundamental concepts in environmental geography and scienceExplores the core theoretical traditions within the field, along with major thematic issues such as population, ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Cambridge International AS/A Level Geography Revision Guide 2nd edition

    by Garrett Nagle, Paul Guinness ...
    Exam board: Cambridge Assessment International EducationLevel: A-levelSubject: GeographyFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Reinforce and practise skills learned with step-by-step support from experts to help you achieve your maximum potential.- Improve your knowledge of geographical patterns, processes and changes with internat... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Climate Change

    The Science, Impacts and Solutions

    by A Barrie Pittock ...
    It is widely accepted in the scientific community that climate change is a reality, and that changes are happening with increasing rapidity. In this second edition, leading climate researcher Barrie Pittock revisits the effects that global warming is having on our planet, in light of ever-evolving scientific research. Presenting all sides of the arguments about the science and possible remedies, ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD