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National Geographic Compact Atlas of the World, Second Edition

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Report copyright infringementby National Geographic (Author)Beautiful, accurate, and up-to-the-minute, this completely updated mini atlas puts the entire world in the palm of your hand in an amazingly accessible format. National Geographic's maps and atlases are critically acclaimed and world-renowned for their accuracy, originality, authoritative content, and clean design. Now, the most convenient package of this trusted map content has been completely updated in Compact Atlas of the World, ...

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Moore (Author)A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller! "The glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." --NPR Books Discover the gripping and inspiring true story of The Radium Girls, a groundbreaking work by acclaimed author Kate Moore. Immerse yourself in this compelling narrative that unravels the extraordinary lives of these fearless women who fought against all odds.The Curies' newly discovered element of...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth Field (Author)Winner of the 2019 International Cartographic Conference - Educational Products award A lavishly illustrated reference guide, Cartography. by Kenneth Field is an inspiring and creative companion along the nonlinear journey toward making a great map. This sage compendium for contemporary mapmakers distills the essence of cartography into useful topics, organized for convenience in finding the specific idea or method you need. Unlike books ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tiku Sudhir (Author)Artificial Intelligence in the Global South examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping the Global South, not as an equal partner but often as an exploited periphery. It traces parallels between colonial extraction of resources and today's extraction of data, compute, and invisible labour. The book shows how workers, languages, and infrastructures in Asia, Africa, and Latin America remain under-valued even while powering Northern AI pr...

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by Jeff Friesen (Author)LEGO(R) bricks meet The Way Things Work in this fun, informative tour of the world of engineering, from the creative mind of expert LEGO(R) builder Jeff Friesen. In The LEGO(R) Engineer, you'll explore how some of humanity's greatest feats of engineering work, from towering skyscrapers to powerful rockets to speeding bullet trains. Then follow step-by-step instructions to build these marvels with LEGO(R) bricks as you experience the world of engineering in a fun new wa...

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Hamming (Author), Bret Victor (Foreword by)A groundbreaking treatise by one of the great mathematicians of our age, who outlines a style of thinking by which great ideas are conceived. What inspires and spurs on a great idea? Can we train ourselves to think in a way that will enable world-changing understandings and insights to emerge? Richard Hamming said we can. He first inspired a generation of engineers, scientists, and researchers in 1986 with "Y...

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Report copyright infringementby Matyás Namai (Author)Harrowing and graphic re-telling of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster from the creator of George Orwell's 1984 graphic novel.This graphic and harrowing account of nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl in April 1986 follows the dozens of human stories cruelly affected by disaster.From the engineers and firefighters to doctors and soldiers, the children and families in the surrounding towns and villages to the animals in the forests - they all make u...

Living with Radiation: How to Be a Nuclear Greenie

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Pope (Author)Charles Pope a well know expert on Non-destructive radiation expels a few myths surrounding the fears associated with the use of radiation. Charles is what you would discribe, a Nuclear Greenie. He has written a layman's guide in plain English to ionising radiation over the last 4 billion years via prehistoric Gabon, Einstein, Hiroshima, Chernobyl and Fukushima. We really do stress ourselves too much about nuclear radiation simply because w...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Singmin (Author)If you are interested in electronics, but don't know where to start, Beginning Electronics Through Projects lets you learn the basics through building 10 step-by-step projects. Theory is limited to need-to-know information that will allow you to get started right away. No complex math. Common components and their functions are described briefly in everyday terms. All the components used in the book are widely available, and pre-assembled ...

Teaching Basic Engineering mechanics for optimum student involvement

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Report copyright infringementby Pastoll (Author), Gregory Pastoll (Illustrator)This book is intended primarily for instructors of engineering subjects, whether in high school, college or universities. The teaching/learning activities described in the book are based on the author's experience of teaching basic engineering mechanics in a university of technology for 14 years.These teaching/learning activities would also be of interest to teachers in other disciplines, because they result in the...

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Report copyright infringementby Jin-Gyun Chung (Author), Keshab K. Parhi (Author)Pipelined Lattice and Wave Digital Recursive Filters uses look-ahead transformation and constrained filter design approaches. It is also shown that pipelining often reduces the roundoff noise in a digital filter. The pipelined recursive lattice and wave digital filters presented are well suited where increasing speed and reducing area or power or roundoff noise are important. Examples are wireless and cellular co...

iPhone 17 Pro User Guide for Beginners and Seniors: The Simple, Step-by-Step Visual Guide to Master Calling, Texting, Photos, and Essential Apps with

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Report copyright infringementby Colaine Jobs (Author)The simplest way to learn your new iPhone 17 Pro, with clear steps and full-color visuals on every page. The iPhone 17 Pro User Guide for Beginners and Seniors is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to stop feeling confused and start feeling confident with their phone. Whether you're brand new to Apple devices or upgrading from an older iPhone, this guide walks you through each essential feature in plain English, with large text and ...

The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare - Paperback

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by Christian Brose (Author)From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might. For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US military fights, and the systems and weapons that it fights with, have been uncontested. That old reality, however, is rapidly deteriorating. America's traditional sources of power are eroding amid the emergence of new te...

Machine Decision Is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin H. Bratton (Editor), Anna Greenspan (Editor), Amy Ireland (Editor)Author BiographyBenjamin Bratton is a philosopher, design theorist, sociologist of technology, and the author of The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (MIT Press), and The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World. He is Programme Director of the New Normal at Strelka Institute in Moscow, Director of the AI & Culture Research Centre at NYU Shanghai, Professor of Digita...

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Report copyright infringementby Hew Strachan (Author)Carl von Clausewitz's On War, first published in Germany after the Napoleonic Wars, is perhaps the most important book on military strategy ever written. It has influenced generations of generals and politicians, has been blamed for the unprecedented death tolls in the First and Second World Wars, and is still required reading at military academies to this day.But On War, which was never finished and was published posthumously, is obscure a...

Xps-99: Knowledge-Based Systems - Survey and Future Directions: 5th Biannual German Conference on Knowledge-Based Systems, Würzburg, Germany, March 3-

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Puppe (Editor)A special year like 1999 invites one to draw a balance of what has been achieved in the roughly 30 years of research and development in knowledge based systems (still abbreviated as XPS following the older term "expert systems") and to take a look at th what the future may hold. For the 5 German conference on knowledge-based systems we therefore asked current and former speakers of the four working groups (FG's) in the subdivision of knowled...

Learning Robots: 6th European Workshop Ewlr-6, Brighton, England, August 1-2, 1997 Proceedings

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Report copyright infringementby Andreas Birk (Editor), John Demiris (Editor)Robot learning is a broad and interdisciplinary area. This holds with regard to the basic interests and the scienti c background of the researchers involved, as well as with regard to the techniques and approaches used. The interests that motivate the researchers in this eld range from fundamental research issues, such as how to constructively understand intelligence, to purely application o- ented work, such as the e...

Services and Visualization: Towards User-Friendly Design: Acos'98, Visual'98, Ain'97, Selected Papers

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Report copyright infringementby Tiziana Margaria (Editor), Bernhard Steffen (Editor), Roland Rückert (Editor)This book comprises a strictly refereed selection of papers presented at three international workshops on advanced communication services (ACoS'98), visualization issues for formal methods (VISUAL'98), and advanced intelligent networks (AIN'97). The 20 revised full papers included in the book together with three invited presentations are centered around the user-friendly design of soft...

Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems: Ecai'96, Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, August 13, 1996, Revised Papers

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Report copyright infringementby Elisabeth Meier (Editor), Marion Mast (Editor), Susann Luperfoy (Editor)This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop documentation of the ECAI'96 Workshop on Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems, held in Budapest, Hungary, in August 1996, during ECAI'96.The volume presents 16 revised full papers including a detailed introduction and survey paper by the volume editors. The papers are organized in sections on foundations of spoken language ...

Mobile Communications - Advanced Systems and Components: 1994 International Zurich Seminar on Digital Communications, Zurich, Switzerland, March 8-11,

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Report copyright infringementby Christoph Günther (Editor)The Global System for Mobile Communication met with wide acceptance in 1993. Its technical conception has significant advantages over the first generation of cellular systems. Digital European Cordless Telecommunications will provide similar advantages. In Europe, the second generation of wireless communication is established and a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System is currently being conceived. All this leads to a natural subd...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth M. Ford (Editor), Clark Glymour (Editor), Patrick Hayes (Editor)Android epistemology is the exploration of the space of possible machines and their capacities for knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, desires, and for action in accord with their mental states.Android epistemology is the exploration of the space of possible machines and their capacities for knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, desires, and for action in accord with their mental states.Author Biograph...

Expert Systems in Engineering: Principles and Applications: Principles and Applications

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Report copyright infringementby Georg Gottlob (Editor), Wolfgang Nejdl (Editor)The papers in this book discuss technologies relevant to expert systems in engineering and describe applications of these technologies in such areas as computer integrated manufacturing and process automation. Number of Pages: 264 Dimensions: 0.58 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: September 12, 1990

Computer-Aided Verification: 2nd Internatonal Conference, Cav '90, New Brunswick, Nj, Usa, June 18-21, 1990. Proceedings

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Report copyright infringementby Edmund M. Clarke (Editor), Robert P. Kurshan (Editor)This volume is the proceedings of a workshop presenting results that lead to new or more powerful computer aided verification methods: advances in the use of binary decision diagrams, dense time, reductions based upon partial order representations, and proof-checking in controller verification. Number of Pages: 378 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes ...

Color in Computer Vision: Fundamentals and Applications

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Report copyright infringementby Theo Gevers (Author), Arjan Gijsenij (Author), Joost Van de Weijer (Author)While the field of computer vision drives many of today's digital technologies and communication networks, the topic of color has emerged only recently in most computer vision applications. One of the most extensive works to date on color in computer vision, this book provides a complete set of tools for working with color in the field of image understanding. Based on the authors' intens...

Integrating Functional and Temporal Domains in Logic Design: The False Path Problem and Its Implications

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick C. McGeer (Author), Robert K. Brayton (Author)This book is an extension of one author's doctoral thesis on the false path problem. The work was begun with the idea of systematizing the various solutions to the false path problem that had been proposed in the literature, with a view to determining the computational expense of each versus the gain in accuracy. However, it became clear that some of the proposed approaches in the literature were wrong in th...

Asymptotic Waveform Evaluation: And Moment Matching for Interconnect Analysis

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Report copyright infringementby Eli Chiprout (Author), Michel S. Nakhla (Author)The intense drive for signal integrity has been at the forefront ofrapid and new developments in CAD algorithms. Thousands ofengineers, intent on achieving the best design possible, use SPICE on a daily basis for analog simulation and general circuit analysis. But the strained demand for high data speeds, coupled with miniaturizationon an unprecedented scale, has highlighted the previously negligible effects of in...

Signal Processing for Telecommunications and Multimedia

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Report copyright infringementby Tadeusz A. Wysocki (Editor), Bahram Honary (Editor), Beata J. Wysocki (Editor)The unprecedented growth in the range of multimedia services offered these days by modern telecommunication systems has been made possible only because of the advancements in signal processing technologies and algorithms. In the area of telecommunications, application of signal processing allows for new generations of systems to achieve performance close to theoretical limits, while i...

Technology and Future Trends: Reflections on the Future of Technology and Society

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Report copyright infringementby Ivette Smith (Author)The future isn't coming-it's already here. Are you ready?In Technology and Future Trends: Reflections on the Future of Technology and Society, discover how emerging innovations are reshaping the way we live, work, and think. From Artificial Intelligence and robotics to quantum computing, nanotechnology, and blockchain, this book offers a clear, engaging look at the technologies defining our century.Written in accessible language and packed ...

Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications: 4th International Workshop, Mata 2002 Barcelona, Spain, October 23-24, 2002, Proceedings

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Report copyright infringementby Ahmed Karmouch (Editor), Thomas Magedanz (Editor), Jaime Delgado (Editor)Research in the telecommunications ?eld suggests that future network infrastructures will be composed of sensors, wireless devices, personal digital assistants, networked appliances and numerous types of services. This brings up key issues such as unfamiliar users and service interfaces, discovering services that match user's needs, ?nding and tracking people and resources, establishing us...

Handbook of Texture Analysis: Ai-Based Medical Imaging Applications

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Report copyright infringementby Ayman El-Baz (Editor), Mohammed Ghazal (Editor), Jasjit S. Suri (Editor)The major goals of texture research in computer vision are to understand, model, and process texture and, ultimately, to simulate the human visual learning process using computer technologies. In the last decade, artificial intelligence has been revolutionized by machine learning and big data approaches, outperforming human prediction on a wide range of problems. In particular, deep learnin...

5G Unleashed: Transforming Business Operations

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Report copyright infringementby Milan Frankl (Author)5G Unleashed is the essential, jargon-free guide you need to future-proof your business and maintain a competitive edge.This book demystifies 5G by clearly explaining its core business advantages-speed, low latency, and massive connectivity-and how they fundamentally change operations. It provides a practical roadmap for leveraging 5G's revolutionary impact across key sectors like manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and remote work, offer...

Demystifying the Digital Design Interview: The Missing Guide for Practical RTL and FPGA Interview Preparation

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Report copyright infringementby Milind Parelkar (Author)Move beyond simple Q&A memorization to a fundamental understanding of hardware design concepts. Whether targeting RTL, ASIC, or FPGA roles, you need an in-depth understanding of core concepts to succeed in the modern interview process."Demystifying the Digital Design Interview" bridges the gap between academia and real-world engineering. While the fundamentals apply to all logic roles, this guide includes a dedicated chapter on FPGA ...