Download or read book Advances in Visual Computing written by Richard Boyle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-22 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volume set LNCS 4841 and LNCS 4842 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2007, held in Lake Tahoe, NV, USA, in November 2007. The 77 revised full papers and 42 poster papers presented together with 32 full and five poster papers of six special tracks were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers cover the four main areas of visual computing: vision, graphics, visualization, and virtual reality.

Download or read book Bureaucrazy Blues written by Dean Hasse and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the people and institutions that influence our daily life. What is eating them? What do they achieve at the end of the day? Bureaucracy is the model that supports them to rise to the top and stay there. Waterland is a fictional country, which is good because people all over the world will recognize leaders who pretend to revitalize society but only do well for themselves. The writer also highlights the hype of our modern timesthe hunt for happiness, the fitness craze, sexual fixations, eating disorders, obsession with animals, extraordinary interest in sports, homophobia, and the desperate search for role models. He also exposes in a subtle way the human failings. In this fairy tale of modern times, the heroes and villains are not kings, knights, witches, or wizards but politicians, psychotherapists, beautiful people, and business tycoons. If you like plots with several layers drenched in dry humor, you will have a good time. We ought to be grateful for his description of the not-so-brave new world. The hilarious happenings in this book will make you understand the weaknesses of the Western world. This book is a fine spoof, except that this is todays reality and not a prediction of the future.

Download or read book Cycle World Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-01 with total page 1776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Merging Traffic written by John A. C. Conybeare and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Conybeare examines the motivations at work behind the consolidation of the automotive industry worldwide into six giant conglomerates. He shows that the publicly anticipated goals are not always achieved and reveals that the real reasons behind mergers are not always what they seem to be.

Download or read book Anden written by Vincent Lee and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Coleman wanted a simple life. Money, women and booze. Former crewman of the military, a job onboard the colony ship Pytheas fits right in his alley. Ship people from a dying Earth to a terraformed planet named Anden ready for colonization. Couldn’t get any simpler than that, he had imagined. Reality had different ideas when the Pytheas is sabotaged and crash lands onto the planet. Stranded with little food and water, he is forced to find a way to survive and call home for rescue lest he be stuck forever. More dangerous since Anden turned out to be far more hostile than first imagined. His helping hand, a computer artificial intelligence, technology and mankind’s industrial might of the 31st century.

Download or read book Doing Business in Emerging Markets written by S. Tamer Cavusgil and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Business in Emerging Markets: Entry and Negotiation Strategies is an authoritative and timely guide for executives who are contemplating business in these markets. Including numerous exhibits and real-world examples, the authors explore analysis and evaluation of market potential, management of the negotiation process, and the recognition of important regional business styles and cultural issues. Students and professors in MBA or Ph.D. programs in international management, marketing, and strategy will also find this an invaluable aid to understanding emerging markets.

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Download or read book Truth of Nagasaki written by Hironobu Fujio and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2024-01-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. military reported after the fact that "On August 9, 1945, the initial target of the nuclear attack was Kokura, but clouds over the target made it impossible to visually sight the target, so we were forced to drop a nuclear bomb on a second target, Nagasaki.” Most Japanese people believe this story. In particular, the citizens of Kokura, who having "luckily survived" did not spare any effort to cooperate with the U.S. military when the Korean War five years later. This book establishes that this after-the-fact report was false strategic information. It is hoped that this it will help to increase momentum for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Download or read book The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece written by Kurt Raaflaub and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there is constant conflict over its meanings and limits, political freedom itself is considered a fundamental and universal value throughout the modern world. For most of human history, however, this was not the case. In this book, Kurt Raaflaub asks the essential question: when, why, and under what circumstances did the concept of freedom originate? To find out, Raaflaub analyses ancient Greek texts from Homer to Thucydides in their social and political contexts. Archaic Greece, he concludes, had little use for the idea of political freedom; the concept arose instead during the great confrontation between Greeks and Persians in the early fifth century BCE. Raaflaub then examines the relationship of freedom with other concepts, such as equality, citizenship, and law, and pursues subsequent uses of the idea—often, paradoxically, as a tool of domination, propaganda, and ideology. Raaflaub's book thus illuminates both the history of ancient Greek society and the evolution of one of humankind's most important values, and will be of great interest to anyone who wants to understand the conceptual fabric that still shapes our world views.

Download or read book SAUBER MERCEDES The Group C Racecars 1985 1991 written by John Starkey and published by David and Charles. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Sauber-Mercedes racecars that dominated the Group C racing scene during the late 1980s and early 1990s, covering their design and development. This book features some great colour photos, interviews with many of the best known personalities of the era, and a chassis-by-chassis history of each car.

Download or read book Beitr ge Zur 14 Internationalen Konferenz Zu Stadtplanung Regionalentwicklung und Informationsgesellschaft written by Manfred Schrenk and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Time for a Model Change written by Graeme P. Maxton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The automotive industry ranks among the most significant business phenomena of the 20th century and remains vitally important today, accounting for almost 11% of the GDP of North America, Europe and Japan and one in nine jobs. In economic and social terms alike, its products have had a fundamental impact on modern society - for better and worse. Yet the industry has found it hard to adjust to recent challenges and is no longer much valued by the capital markets. It is riven with internal contradictions that inhibit reform, and faces a stark choice between years of strife or radical change. This book is a wake-up call for those who work in the automotive business. It highlights the challenges and opportunities that exist for managers, legislators, financial institutions and potential industry entrants. Most of all, it gives us all cause to reflect on the value of our mobility, today and tomorrow.

Download or read book Porsche 914 written by Richard Gooding and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Porsche 914 was born into consistently confusing and troubled times at Porsche and Volkswagen, not least with the idea of a non-911 Porsche horrifiying many at the time. A Porsche with an engine that wasn't in the back was simply unthinkable. Richard Gooding examines the story of a car of mixed parentage, which against the odds became a success in its relatively short, six-and-a half year lifespan. Around 119,000 cars were sold from 1969 to 1975, outselling contemporary rivals such as the Opel GT, and meaning it was the first mid-engined car to achieve six-digit sales. As a present-day classic, although challenging to some, low-slung looks and bright colours make the 1970s 914 period-perfect. Combined with near-ideal weight distribution and a low centre of grativity, its mid-engine layout means the 914 can achieve cornering G-forces comparable to the contemporary 911. The 914 was seen as a car that could inject a shot of glamour into VW's slightly worthy and dependable range of air-cooled cars. This book covers the history, development and manufacture of the 914 through troubled times at Porsche and Volkswagen and studies the impact of its design upon its successors. Buying and owning a 914 today is covered, and the book is illustrated with 218 colour photographs.

Download or read book Boombustology written by Vikram Mansharamani and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-disciplinary framework through which to spot financial bubbles before they burst. Based on a popular undergraduate seminar, entitled Financial Booms & Busts, taught by the author at Yale University, Boombustology presents a multi-disciplinary framework for identifying unsustainable booms and forthcoming busts. The magnitude of our recent financial crisis mandates a firm understanding of this phenomenon before the next crisis occurs. Boombustology provides an in-depth look at several major booms and busts and offers a solid framework for thinking about future occurrences. Examines why booms and busts are not random and can therefore be identified Focuses upon various theoretical and disciplinary lenses useful in the study of booms and busts Contains a framework for thinking about and identifying forthcoming financial bubbles including several tell-tale indicators of a forthcoming bust. Illustrates the framework in action by evaluating China as a potential bubble in the making. If you want to make better decisions in today’s turbulent investment environment, understanding the dynamics of booms and busts is the best place the start. Boombustology can help you achieve this elusive goal. Vikram Mansharamani is a Lecturer at Yale University and a global equity investor.

Download or read book Driving Future Vehicles written by A M Parkes and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been generated by the EC-funded Dedicated Road Infrastructure for Vehicle Safety in Europe DRIVE collaborative research programme. it brings together work on driver behaviour, traffic safety, and human- machine interfacing to review the state of the art in Europe in terms of systems specification, design, evaluation, and implementation for near- future vehicles.; Changes in vehicle functionality will be fundamental through the 1990's, and this book demonstrates that a purely technology driven approach is a recipe for disaster; integrated and co-ordinated multidisciplinary initiatives in complex system design are preferable and are more likely to deliver system efficiency, acceptability, and safety.; It is aimed at transport ergonomists, vehicle designers, HCI researchers, applied psychologists and cognitive ergonomists.