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Newnes Guide to Television and Video Technology, Fourth Edition: The Guide for the Digital Age - from HDTV, DVD and flat-screen technologies to Multimedia Broadcasting, Mobile TV and Blu Ray This book provides a full and comprehensive coverage of video and television technology including the latest developments in display equipment, HDTV and DVD. Starting with TV fundamentals, the bulk of the book covers the many new technologies that are bringing growth to the TV and video market, such as plasma and LCD, DLP (digital light processing), DVD, Blu ray technology, Digital television, High Definition television (HDTV) and video projection systems. For each technology, a full explanation is provided of its operation and practical application, supported by over 300 diagrams including schematic diagrams of commercially available consumer equipment. Where relevant, testing and fault finding procedures are outlined together with typical fault symptoms supported by photographs. The new edition has a number of useful appendices on microcomputer/microcontroller systems, test instruments, serial buses (I2C and RS 232), teletext and error correction techniques. The book is intended for students of electronics and practicing engineers. In particular, it will useful for students on vocational courses and service engineers as well as enthusiasts. *The definitive guide to the new technologies transforming the world of television: HDTV, Digital TV, DVD recorders, hard disk re Read more...

Geometry is the cornerstone of computer graphics and computer animation, and provides the framework and tools for solving problems in two and three dimensions. This may be in the form of describing simple shapes such as a circle, ellipse, or parabola, or complex problems such as rotating 3D objects about an arbitrary axis. Geometry for Computer Graphics draws together a wide variety of geometric information that will provide a sourcebook of facts, examples, and proofs for students, academics, researchers, and professional practitioners. The book is divided into 4 sections: the first summarizes hundreds of formulae used to solve 2D and 3D geometric problems. The second section places these formulae in context in the form of worked examples. The third provides the origin and proofs of these formulae, and communicates mathematical strategies for solving geometric problems. The last section is a glossary of terms used in geometry. Read more...

The content and services available on the web continue to be accessed mostly through direct human control. But this is changing. Increasingly, users rely on automated agents that save them time and effort by programmatically retrieving content, performing complex interactions, and aggregating data from diverse sources. Programming Spiders, Bots, and Aggregators in Java teaches you how to build and deploy a wide variety of these agents-from single-purpose bots to exploratory spiders to aggregators that present a unified view of information from multiple user accounts. You will quickly build on your basic knowledge of Java to quickly master the techniques that are essential to this specialized world of programming, including parsing HTML, interpreting data, working with cookies, reading and writing XML, and managing high-volume workloads. You'll also learn about the ethical issues associated with bot use--and the limitations imposed by some websites. This book offers two levels of instruction, both of which are focused on the library of routines provided on the companion CD. If your main concern is adding ready-made functionality to an application, you'll achieve your goals quickly thanks to step-by-step instructions and sample programs that illustrate effective implementations. If you're interested in the technologies underlying these routines, you'll find in-depth explanations of how they work and the techniques required for customization. Read more...

List (in one doc file): Flinx 01 - For Love Of Mother Not Flinx 02 - The Tar-Aiym Krang Flinx 03 - Orphan Star Flinx 04 - The End Of The Matter Flinx 05 - Flinx in Flux Flinx 06 - Mid-Flinx Flinx 08 - Reunion Flinx 09 - Flinx's Folly Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is a prolific American writer of science fiction and fantasy novels and movie novelizations. He was born in New York City, and currently resides in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife. He is best known for his science fiction novels set in the Humanx Commonwealth, an interstellar ethical/political union of species including humankind and the insectoid Thranx. Many of these novels feature Philip Lynx ("Flinx"), an empathic young man who has found himself involved in something which threatens the survival of the Galaxy. Flinx's constant companion since childhood is a minidrag named Pip, a flying, empathic snake capable of spitting a highly corrosive and violently neurotoxic venom. Philip Lynx (Flinx) is a fictional character, an adventurous young man with unusual qualities in a series of books set in the "Humanx Commonwealth", written by Alan Dean Foster and published by Del Rey Books. Flinx was born 533 A.A (2933 A.D) in Alahabad, India, on Terra. Flinx was born to a prostitute named Rud Anasage Lynx (the last part Lynx is a title for her form of prostitute, not a last name.) She was approximately age 22. It was recorded that Flinx had unusual R-wave activity in his brain at birth that was Read more...

List (20 Commonwealth Books in one lit file): *Indicates Books not in this file ABOUT THE AUTHOR Commonwealth Chronology A Note on the History of Interstellar Travel Classification of Planets Galographics THE AANN EMPIRE: THE BLIGHT: THE HUMANX COMMONWEALTH BOOKS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER Nor Crystal Tears (1982) The Founding of the Commonwealth --1 Phylogenesis (2000) --2 *Dirge (2000) --3 Diuturnity Dawn (2002) Drowning World (2003) Voyage To The City of the Dead (1984) Midworld (1975) The Icerigger Trilogy --1 Icerigger (1974) --2 *Mission to Moulokin (1985) --3 *Diluge Drivers (1987) Pip and Flinx Series --1 For Love Of Mother-Not (1983) --2 The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972) --3 Orphan Star (1983) --4 The End Of The Matter (1977) --5 Flinx In Flux (1988) --6 Mid-Flinx (1995) --7 Reunion (2002) --8 Bloodhype (1973) --9 Flinx's Folly (2003) --10 Sliding Scales (2004) Sentenced to Prism (1985) Cachalot (1982) The Howling Stones (1997) BOOKS BY ALAN DEAN FOSTER Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is a prolific American writer of science fiction and fantasy novels and movie novelizations. He was born in New York City, and currently resides in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife. He is best known for his science fiction novels set in the Humanx Commonwealth, an interstellar ethical/political union of species including humankind and the insectoid Thranx. Many of these novels feature Philip Lynx ("Flinx"), an empathic young man who has found Read more...

Exactly what is beyond Pluto? Why, in the last ten years, has the Solar System more than doubled in size? For the first time, in almost two centuries, an entirely new population of planetary objects has been found that may well explain these two questions. This newly discovered realm of minor planets, now known as the "Kuiper Belt," has reconceptualized our understanding of how the Solar System was formed and has finally given ontological explanations for the enigmatic outer planet Pluto. Beyond Pluto is the fascinating story of how a group of theoretical physicists decided that there must be a population of unknown bodies beyond Pluto and how a small band of astronomers set out to find them. Acclaimed scientist John K. Davies recounts how they predicted the existence of these planetary bodies, how they were eventually discovered, and how Pluto was named. In addition, Davies provides biographies of the astronomers who discovered these new worlds and information on the telescopes they used. John K. Davies is a support scientist for the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) atop the dormant volcano Mauna Kea in Hawaii. He holds PhDs in chemistry and astronomy, discovered six comets while teaching at Leicester University in the UK, and was a member of the ISO-CAM team at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has contributed to magazines such as Astronomy, New Scientist, Sky and Telescope, and Space. In 2000, a small main asteroid belt was named Johndavies in recognition of his Read more...

62 masterly demonstrations of the basic strategies of winning, featuring games by the greatest chess masters - Capablanca, Tarrasch, Fischer, Alekhine, Lasker, others. Each game offers a classic example of a fundamental problem and its best resolution, described and diagramed in the clearest possible manner for players of every level of skill. 146 illustrations. Read more...

This is a fascinating and popular account of the very large and the very small, from the universe as a whole to subatomic physics. It includes qualitative explanations of quantum mechanics and relativity, the big bang with inflation, the synthesis of elements, atoms, nuclei, subnuclear physics, quarks, leptons, and other elementary particles. It also gives an account of dark matter and dark energy. In summary, it provides and overview of what we know about the universe and what it is made of, and also what we don't know. Read more...

This introductory textbook presents optimization theory and computational algorithms useful in practice. The approach is practical and intuitive, rather than emphasizing mathematical rigor. Computationally oriented books in this area generally present algorithms alone, and expect readers to perform computations by hand. Some books are written in traditional computer languages, such as Basic, Fortran or Pascal. The programs in this text help with computations. This book is the first text to use Mathematica to develop thorough understanding optimization algorithms, fully exploiting Mathematica's symbolic, numerical and graphic capabilities. Review: This is my favorite optimisation book. I recommend it to anyone interested in the application of optimisation techniques, in particular for those in industry. This book has been a constant companion in my optimisation adventure and unlike other books; it has helped me firmly establish a solid foundation and understanding on the various optimisation techniques and the theories behind them. Believe me, I can even read those books which I have shelved in the past because they were complicated with too many cryptic mathematical statements. They don't scare me anymore. Bhatti wisely used Mathematica as the teaching platform and the accompanying OptimizationToolbox software allows one to brush aside the cryptic mathematical statements. The reader can now concentrate on the concepts, relegating the mathematics manipulations to Mat Read more...