Windows Assembly Language and Systems Programming 16- and 32-Bit Low-Level Programming for the PC and Windows -Access Real mode from Protected mode; Protected mode from Real mode Apply OOP concepts to assembly language programs Interface assembly language programs with high-level languages Achieve direct hardware manipulation and memory access Explore the archite | Windows Assembly Language and Systems Programming 16- and 32-Bit Low-Level Programming for the PC and Windows GBP 160.00 1
Lie Algebras In Particle Physics from Isospin To Unified Theories In this book the author convinces that Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington had things a little bit wrong as least as far as physics is concerned. He explores the theory of groups and Lie algebras and their representations to use group representations as labor-saving tools. | Lie Algebras In Particle Physics from Isospin To Unified Theories GBP 130.00 1
Semiconductor Memory Devices and Circuits This book covers semiconductor memory technologies from device bit-cell structures to memory array design with an emphasis on recent industry scaling trends and cutting-edge technologies. The first part of the book discusses the mainstream semiconductor memory technologies. The second part of the book discusses the emerging memory candidates that may have the potential to change the memory hierarchy and surveys new applications of memory technologies for machine/deep learning applications. This book is intended for graduate students in electrical and computer engineering programs and researchers or industry professionals in semiconductors and microelectronics. Explains the design of basic memory bit-cells including 6-transistor SRAM 1-transistor-1-capacitor DRAM and floating gate/charge trap FLASH transistor Examines the design of the peripheral circuits including the sense amplifier and array-level organization for the memory array Examines industry trends of memory technologies such as FinFET based SRAM High-Bandwidth-Memory (HBM) 3D NAND Flash and 3D X-point array Discusses the prospects and challenges of emerging memory technologies such as PCM RRAM STT-MRAM/SOT-MRAM and FeRAM/FeFET Explores the new applications such as in-memory computing for AI hardware acceleration. | Semiconductor Memory Devices and Circuits GBP 99.99 1
C# and Game Programming A Beginner's Guide The second edition of C# and Game Programming offers the same practical hands-on approach as the first edition to learning the C# language through classic arcade game applications. Complete source code for games like Battle Bit Asteroid Miner and Battle Tennis included on the CD-ROM demonstrates programming strategies and complements the comprehensive treatment of C# in the text. From the basics of adding graphics and sound to games to advanced concepts such as the . Net framework and object-oriented programming this book provides the foundations for a beginner to become a full-fledged programmer. New in this edition: - Supports DirectX 9. 0 - Revised programs and examples - Improved frame rate for game examples | C# and Game Programming A Beginner's Guide GBP 170.00 1
Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design Surfaces steps and margins Designs for gardens and landscapes need to contain accurate information to ensure that both the designer's intent is clear and to enable the highest quality constructions. This book contains the elements most often used when detailing surfaces with key information on standards guidance and construction that the practitioner must be aware of. Alongside the text are 2D and 3D images with suggestions of measurements design considerations and materials. Key topics covered in this book are: Vehicular paving Pedestrian paving and patios Steps and ramps Margins edges and kerbs Drainage channels. ***Please follow the Companion Website button above for access to an innovative online library of freely downloadable CAD (SketchUp format) details which link directly to those in the book. These details are available for the reader to edit adapt and use in their own designs - and make the task of detailing for projects that little bit easier. *** | Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design Surfaces steps and margins GBP 175.00 1
Adobe Photoshop Elements 10: Maximum Performance Unleash the hidden performance of Elements Master the most powerful photo editing tools and techniques that Elements has to offer! Using step-by-step projects Mark Galer will have you creating stunning images in no time at all. Whether you want to create impressive seamless montages optimize your photos for perfect print quality or simply enhance your images for maximum impact Maximum Performance will give you the skills and know-how you need to create professional quality results. Featured projects teach you how to work with multilayered 16 bit/channel files as well as convert to black and white using Adobe Camera Raw create High Key images work with image borders and textures and create tilt-shift and cross-process effects. Three movie tutorials featuring specific techniques from the book are available for free online and a supplemental package of images and movies can be purchased with an easy one-time download from the authors' website www. elements-maxperformance. com. Find everything you need to unleash the power of Elements with Max Performance or for a more interactive learning experience download the supplemental images and movies for comprehensive hands-on learning. | Adobe Photoshop Elements 10: Maximum Performance Unleash the hidden performance of Elements GBP 130.00 1
Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing Defying the Ontology of the Stranger This book is an in-depth study of the category stranger as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers. Examined from an interdisciplinary perspective that brings together different approaches to the figure of the stranger and Affect Theory the plurality of experiences of estrangement disorientation and unbelonging portrayed in these texts allows expansion upon Sara Ahmed’s investigation of stranger fetishism in her title Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-coloniality (2000) and in so doing contributes to the recent call for a more nuanced understanding of the idea of stranger. In particular the critical and comparative study of the different migration experiences of the protagonists reveals that within the framework of the contemporary African diaspora to the West strange(r)ness is a situated embodied and emotional condition that depends on the politics of location and of identity from which it emerges. This book will particularly appeal to scholars and students in the fields of Postcolonial Studies African Diaspora Studies and Black Women’s Literature and will also be suitable for students at graduate and advanced undergraduate levels in English Studies. | Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing Defying the Ontology of the Stranger GBP 130.00 1
Telecommunications Engineering Since the publication of the second edition of this highly acclaimed textbook telecommunications has progressed at a rapid rate. Major advances continue to occur in mobile communications and broadband digital networks and services sophisticated signal processing techniques are prevalent at increasingly higher bit rates and digital systems are widespread. These developments need to be addressed in a textbook that bridges the gap in the current knowledge and teachings of telecommunications engineering. Telecommunications Engineering 3rd Edition offers an introduction to the major telecommunications topics by combining an analytical approach to important concepts with a descriptive account of systems design. Completely updated and expanded this third edition includes substantial material on integrated services digital networks mobile communications systems metropolitan area networks and more. What's New in the 3rd Edition • New chapter on mobile communications covering first generation analog and second generation digital systems • Expanded chapter on non-linear coding of voice waveforms for PCM • New section on NICAM • Updated chapter on the transient performance of the phase locked loop • Revised chapter on recent major developments in satellite television • New introduction to coding techniques for burst errors • Extended chapter on ISDN and broadband digital communications Supplemented with worked problems numerous illustrations and extensive references to more advanced material this textbook provides a solid foundation for undergraduate students of electrical electronic and telecommunications engineering. GBP 175.00 1
Policy Analysis Concepts and Practice Often described as a public policy “bible ” Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its sixth edition Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It offers practical advice about how to do policy analysis but goes a bit deeper to demonstrate the application of advanced analytical techniques through the use of case studies. Updates to this edition include: A chapter dedicated to distinguishing between policy analysis policy research stakeholder analysis and research about the policy process An extensively updated chapter on policy problems as market and governmental failure that explores the popularity of Uber and its consequences The presentation of a property rights perspective in the chapter on government supply to help show the goal tensions that arise from mixed ownership An entirely new chapter on performing analysis from the perspective of a public agency and a particular program within the agency’s portfolio: public agency strategic analysis (PASA) A substantially rewritten chapter on cost–benefit analysis to better prepare students to become producers and consumers of the types of cost–benefit analyses they will encounter in regulatory analysis and social policy careers A new introductory case with a debriefing that provides advice to help students immediately begin work on their own projects Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practices remains a comprehensive serious and rich introduction to policy analysis for students in public policy public administration and business programs. | Policy Analysis Concepts and Practice GBP 99.99 1
Fortran 2018 with Parallel Programming The programming language Fortran dates back to 1957 when a team of IBM engineers released the first Fortran Compiler. During the past 60 years the language had been revised and updated several times to incorporate more features to enable writing clean and structured computer programs. The present version is Fortran 2018. Since the dawn of the computer era there had been a constant demand for a “larger” and “faster” machine. To increase the speed there are three hurdles. The density of the active components on a VLSI chip cannot be increased indefinitely and with the increase of the density heat dissipation becomes a major problem. Finally the speed of any signal cannot exceed the velocity of the light. However by using several inexpensive processors in parallel coupled with specialized software and hardware programmers can achieve computing speed similar to a supercomputer. This book can be used to learn the modern Fortran from the beginning and the technique of developing parallel programs using Fortran. It is for anyone who wants to learn Fortran. Knowledge beyond high school mathematics is not required. There is not another book on the market yet which deals with Fortran 2018 as well as parallel programming. FEATURES Descriptions of majority of Fortran 2018 instructions Numerical Model String with Variable Length IEEE Arithmetic and Exceptions Dynamic Memory Management Pointers Bit handling C-Fortran Interoperability Object Oriented Programming Parallel Programming using Coarray Parallel Programming using OpenMP Parallel Programming using Message Passing Interface (MPI) THE AUTHOR Dr Subrata Ray is a retired Professor Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Kolkata. | Fortran 2018 with Parallel Programming GBP 140.00 1
Versatile Video Coding Video is the main driver of bandwidth use accounting for over 80 per cent of consumer Internet traffic. Video compression is a critical component of many of the available multimedia applications it is necessary for storage or transmission of digital video over today's band-limited networks. The majority of this video is coded using international standards developed in collaboration with ITU-T Study Group and MPEG. The MPEG family of video coding standards begun on the early 1990s with MPEG-1 developed for video and audio storage on CD-ROMs with support for progressive video. MPEG-2 was standardized in 1995 for applications of video on DVD standard and high definition television with support for interlaced and progressive video. MPEG-4 part 2 also known as MPEG-2 video was standardized in 1999 for applications of low- bit rate multimedia on mobile platforms and the Internet with the support of object-based or content based coding by modeling the scene as background and foreground. Since MPEG-1 the main video coding standards were based on the so-called macroblocks. However research groups continued the work beyond the traditional video coding architectures and found that macroblocks could limit the performance of the compression when using high-resolution video. Therefore in 2013 the high efficiency video coding (HEVC) also known and H. 265 was released with a structure similar to H. 264/AVC but using coding units with more flexible partitions than the traditional macroblocks. HEVC has greater flexibility in prediction modes and transform block sizes also it has a more sophisticated interpolation and de blocking filters. In 2006 the VC-1 was released. VC-1 is a video codec implemented by Microsoft and the Microsoft Windows Media Video (VMW) 9 and standardized by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). In 2017 the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) released a call for proposals for a new video coding standard initially called Beyond the HEVC Future Video Coding (FVC) or known as Versatile Video Coding (VVC). VVC is being built on top of HEVC for application on Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) High Dynamic Range (HDR) and 360° Video. The VVC is planned to be finalized by 2020. This book presents the new VVC and updates on the HEVC. The book discusses the advances in lossless coding and covers the topic of screen content coding. Technical topics discussed include: Beyond the High Efficiency Video CodingHigh Efficiency Video Coding encoderScreen contentLossless and visually lossless coding algorithmsFast coding algorithmsVisual quality assessmentOther screen content coding algorithmsOverview of JPEG Series GBP 89.99 1