Author: Tony Bowman
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781502861863
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An evil has descended upon the small town of Bedford, Virginia. Grisly murders on the nearby Blue Ridge Parkway are being blamed on a rogue bear.Only one man understands the true nature of the beast that haunts the parkway.And, he knows the only thing that can stop a werewolf is another werewolf.
A Poet's Revolution
Author: Donna Hollenberg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520272463
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
"The first full-length biography of British-born poet Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life a major voice in American poetry during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on exhaustive archival research of Levertov's entire opus and on interviews with dozens of the poet's friends, Donna Krolik Hollenberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov's entire opus and on interviews with dozens of the poet's friends, Donna Korlik Hollenberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov as both a woman and an artist, and the dynamic world she inhabited"--Front jacket flap.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520272463
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
"The first full-length biography of British-born poet Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life a major voice in American poetry during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on exhaustive archival research of Levertov's entire opus and on interviews with dozens of the poet's friends, Donna Krolik Hollenberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov's entire opus and on interviews with dozens of the poet's friends, Donna Korlik Hollenberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov as both a woman and an artist, and the dynamic world she inhabited"--Front jacket flap.
Behind the Motion-picture Screen
Author: Austin Celestin Lescarboura
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Publishing Company, Munn & Company
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Publishing Company, Munn & Company
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Nine Fingers
Author: Tony Bowman
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781502861863
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An evil has descended upon the small town of Bedford, Virginia. Grisly murders on the nearby Blue Ridge Parkway are being blamed on a rogue bear.Only one man understands the true nature of the beast that haunts the parkway.And, he knows the only thing that can stop a werewolf is another werewolf.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781502861863
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An evil has descended upon the small town of Bedford, Virginia. Grisly murders on the nearby Blue Ridge Parkway are being blamed on a rogue bear.Only one man understands the true nature of the beast that haunts the parkway.And, he knows the only thing that can stop a werewolf is another werewolf.
Handbook of Iris Recognition
Author: Mark J. Burge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1447144023
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This authoritative collection introduces the reader to the state of the art in iris recognition technology. Topics and features: with a Foreword by the “father of iris recognition,” Professor John Daugman of Cambridge University; presents work from an international selection of preeminent researchers, reflecting the uses of iris recognition in many different social contexts; provides viewpoints from researchers in government, industry and academia, highlighting how iris recognition is both a thriving industry and an active research area; surveys previous developments in the field, and covers topics ranging from the low-level (e.g., physics of iris image acquisition) to the high level (e.g., alternative non-Daugman approaches to iris matching); introduces many active and open areas of research in iris recognition, including cross-wavelength matching and iris template aging. This book is an essential resource for anyone wishing to improve their understanding of iris recognition technology.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1447144023
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This authoritative collection introduces the reader to the state of the art in iris recognition technology. Topics and features: with a Foreword by the “father of iris recognition,” Professor John Daugman of Cambridge University; presents work from an international selection of preeminent researchers, reflecting the uses of iris recognition in many different social contexts; provides viewpoints from researchers in government, industry and academia, highlighting how iris recognition is both a thriving industry and an active research area; surveys previous developments in the field, and covers topics ranging from the low-level (e.g., physics of iris image acquisition) to the high level (e.g., alternative non-Daugman approaches to iris matching); introduces many active and open areas of research in iris recognition, including cross-wavelength matching and iris template aging. This book is an essential resource for anyone wishing to improve their understanding of iris recognition technology.
Rhythm of the Wild
Author: Kim Heacox
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493049593
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park. Music runs through every page of this book, as do stories, rivers and wolves. At its heart, Rhythm of the Wild is a love story. It begins in 1981 and ends in 2014, yet reaches beyond the arc of time. Author and mountaineer Jonathan Waterman has called Heacox “our northern Edward Abbey.” In this book we find out why. We hitchhike with Kim through Idaho, camp on the Colorado Plateau, and fly off the sand cliffs of Hangman Creek with a little terrier named Super Max, the Wonder Dog. We meet Zed, the Aborigine; Nine Fingers, the blues guitarist; and Adolph Murie, the legendary wildlife biologist, who dared to say that wolves should be protected, not persecuted. Kim also reprises in this book his friend Richard Steele, a beloved character from The Only Kayak. Some books are larger than their actual subject—this is one. Part memoir, part exploration of Denali’s inspiring natural and human history, and part conservation polemic, Rhythm of the Wild ranges from funny to provocative. It’s a celebration of—and a plea to restore and defend—the vibrant earth and our rightful place in it.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493049593
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park. Music runs through every page of this book, as do stories, rivers and wolves. At its heart, Rhythm of the Wild is a love story. It begins in 1981 and ends in 2014, yet reaches beyond the arc of time. Author and mountaineer Jonathan Waterman has called Heacox “our northern Edward Abbey.” In this book we find out why. We hitchhike with Kim through Idaho, camp on the Colorado Plateau, and fly off the sand cliffs of Hangman Creek with a little terrier named Super Max, the Wonder Dog. We meet Zed, the Aborigine; Nine Fingers, the blues guitarist; and Adolph Murie, the legendary wildlife biologist, who dared to say that wolves should be protected, not persecuted. Kim also reprises in this book his friend Richard Steele, a beloved character from The Only Kayak. Some books are larger than their actual subject—this is one. Part memoir, part exploration of Denali’s inspiring natural and human history, and part conservation polemic, Rhythm of the Wild ranges from funny to provocative. It’s a celebration of—and a plea to restore and defend—the vibrant earth and our rightful place in it.
Computational Algorithms for Fingerprint Recognition
Author: Bir Bhanu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461504910
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Biometrics such as fingerprint, face, gait, iris, voice and signature, recognizes one's identity using his/her physiological or behavioral characteristics. Among these biometric signs, fingerprint has been researched the longest period of time, and shows the most promising future in real-world applications. However, because of the complex distortions among the different impressions of the same finger, fingerprint recognition is still a challenging problem. Computational Algorithms for Fingerprint Recognition presents an entire range of novel computational algorithms for fingerprint recognition. These include feature extraction, indexing, matching, classification, and performance prediction/validation methods, which have been compared with state-of-art algorithms and found to be effective and efficient on real-world data. All the algorithms have been evaluated on NIST-4 database from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Specific algorithms addressed include: -Learned template based minutiae extraction algorithm, -Triplets of minutiae based fingerprint indexing algorithm, -Genetic algorithm based fingerprint matching algorithm, -Genetic programming based feature learning algorithm for fingerprint classification, -Comparison of classification and indexing based approaches for identification, -Fundamental fingerprint matching performance prediction analysis and its validation. Computational Algorithms for Fingerprint Recognition is designed for a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in computer science and engineering.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461504910
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Biometrics such as fingerprint, face, gait, iris, voice and signature, recognizes one's identity using his/her physiological or behavioral characteristics. Among these biometric signs, fingerprint has been researched the longest period of time, and shows the most promising future in real-world applications. However, because of the complex distortions among the different impressions of the same finger, fingerprint recognition is still a challenging problem. Computational Algorithms for Fingerprint Recognition presents an entire range of novel computational algorithms for fingerprint recognition. These include feature extraction, indexing, matching, classification, and performance prediction/validation methods, which have been compared with state-of-art algorithms and found to be effective and efficient on real-world data. All the algorithms have been evaluated on NIST-4 database from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Specific algorithms addressed include: -Learned template based minutiae extraction algorithm, -Triplets of minutiae based fingerprint indexing algorithm, -Genetic algorithm based fingerprint matching algorithm, -Genetic programming based feature learning algorithm for fingerprint classification, -Comparison of classification and indexing based approaches for identification, -Fundamental fingerprint matching performance prediction analysis and its validation. Computational Algorithms for Fingerprint Recognition is designed for a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in computer science and engineering.
The Revealing Ode
Author: Henry Xiao
Publisher: Australian Self Publishing Group
ISBN: 192308741X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Revealing Ode of Master Dòu, the truth in acupuncture be told. Written by Hànqīnɡ Dòu (窦汉卿) in 1259, one of the most eminent physicians to ever practice acupuncture and moxibustion. Only through this ode can you achieve an efficacy greater than any practitioner. The original ways of thinking lives on inside the ode. The significance of its profound sayings, like “select five acupoints but to use one is surely proper, select three Channels but to use one is suitably correct’ (取五穴用一穴而必端,取三经用一经而可正), for example, are historical contributions per se. The annotations of the ode are contextualised from Dòu’s ‘A Guide to Acupuncture Classics’《针经指南》and in modern practice, which was never done before. Henry Xiao, an Australian-born second-generation Chinese Medicine practitioner, deeply benefited from the ode in clinical practice, and hopes his translations and annotations extend his personal benefits to all practitioners. So that you can also learn to know the true power of acupuncture from the guidance of such a renowned Grand Master.
Publisher: Australian Self Publishing Group
ISBN: 192308741X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Revealing Ode of Master Dòu, the truth in acupuncture be told. Written by Hànqīnɡ Dòu (窦汉卿) in 1259, one of the most eminent physicians to ever practice acupuncture and moxibustion. Only through this ode can you achieve an efficacy greater than any practitioner. The original ways of thinking lives on inside the ode. The significance of its profound sayings, like “select five acupoints but to use one is surely proper, select three Channels but to use one is suitably correct’ (取五穴用一穴而必端,取三经用一经而可正), for example, are historical contributions per se. The annotations of the ode are contextualised from Dòu’s ‘A Guide to Acupuncture Classics’《针经指南》and in modern practice, which was never done before. Henry Xiao, an Australian-born second-generation Chinese Medicine practitioner, deeply benefited from the ode in clinical practice, and hopes his translations and annotations extend his personal benefits to all practitioners. So that you can also learn to know the true power of acupuncture from the guidance of such a renowned Grand Master.
Preserving the Spell
Author: Armando Maggi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022624296X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Once upon a time, glass slippers, poison apples, evil stepmothers, fairy godmothers, and princes charming exerted a magnetic hold, cast a magic spell, on adults and children alike. Real-life anxieties fostered a need for stories that assuage. But the world changes, and Maggi asks here whether fairy tales have found a way to transform themselves to keep up. He says no, they haven t. The genre of fairy tale has become contaminated, it has been entitized, like processed food, fossilized as Disney-esque icons. We need to rediscover the marvelous, the oneiric trance of dazzling dreams or horrid torments. We need a new mythic lens to help us understand reality, but to chart what that might be, it is necessary to understand the history of the various traditions of oral and written narrative that intersect with each other across time and space. He goes to Giambattista Basile for the Ur fairy tales, with a special focus on the emblematic Cupid and Psyche myth, an anchor for Maggi s wide-ranging investigation of essential variations on fairy tales (with oppositions of beauty/ugly, human/divine, apparent/real). The transformations of later Italian, French, English, and German traditions come to a head with the Brothers Grimm in 19t-century Germany. Maggi brilliantly weaves the traditions into the 20th century, in memoirs such as those by Joan Didion, in postmodern novels such as Robert Coover s, and, in a final manifestation, in the convulsively, bleakly beautiful movie, "Beasts of the Southern Wild." This book offers profound reflections on reading fairy tales, on the inherent human need for narrative-myth (and, ultimately, for hope), showing us why we tell tales and how these stories transform over time. He offers, in an appendix, the first translation of the original Grimm edition of Basile s 50 tales."
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022624296X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Once upon a time, glass slippers, poison apples, evil stepmothers, fairy godmothers, and princes charming exerted a magnetic hold, cast a magic spell, on adults and children alike. Real-life anxieties fostered a need for stories that assuage. But the world changes, and Maggi asks here whether fairy tales have found a way to transform themselves to keep up. He says no, they haven t. The genre of fairy tale has become contaminated, it has been entitized, like processed food, fossilized as Disney-esque icons. We need to rediscover the marvelous, the oneiric trance of dazzling dreams or horrid torments. We need a new mythic lens to help us understand reality, but to chart what that might be, it is necessary to understand the history of the various traditions of oral and written narrative that intersect with each other across time and space. He goes to Giambattista Basile for the Ur fairy tales, with a special focus on the emblematic Cupid and Psyche myth, an anchor for Maggi s wide-ranging investigation of essential variations on fairy tales (with oppositions of beauty/ugly, human/divine, apparent/real). The transformations of later Italian, French, English, and German traditions come to a head with the Brothers Grimm in 19t-century Germany. Maggi brilliantly weaves the traditions into the 20th century, in memoirs such as those by Joan Didion, in postmodern novels such as Robert Coover s, and, in a final manifestation, in the convulsively, bleakly beautiful movie, "Beasts of the Southern Wild." This book offers profound reflections on reading fairy tales, on the inherent human need for narrative-myth (and, ultimately, for hope), showing us why we tell tales and how these stories transform over time. He offers, in an appendix, the first translation of the original Grimm edition of Basile s 50 tales."
LED-Based Photoacoustic Imaging
Author: Mithun Kuniyil Ajith Singh
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811539847
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
This book highlights the use of LEDs in biomedical photoacoustic imaging. In chapters written by key opinion leaders in the field, it covers a broad range of topics, including fundamentals, principles, instrumentation, image reconstruction and data/image processing methods, preclinical and clinical applications of LED-based photoacoustic imaging. Apart from preclinical imaging studies and early clinical pilot studies using LED-based photoacoustics, the book includes a chapter exploring the opportunities and challenges of clinical translation from an industry perspective. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scientists and engineers in academia and industry, as well as medical experts interested in the clinical applications of photoacoustic imaging.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811539847
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
This book highlights the use of LEDs in biomedical photoacoustic imaging. In chapters written by key opinion leaders in the field, it covers a broad range of topics, including fundamentals, principles, instrumentation, image reconstruction and data/image processing methods, preclinical and clinical applications of LED-based photoacoustic imaging. Apart from preclinical imaging studies and early clinical pilot studies using LED-based photoacoustics, the book includes a chapter exploring the opportunities and challenges of clinical translation from an industry perspective. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scientists and engineers in academia and industry, as well as medical experts interested in the clinical applications of photoacoustic imaging.
The Distance
Author: Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1939810760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A boxing bildungsroman - a collage of memories, love, resistance, and the spectacle of Muhammed Ali in Apartheid South Africa. In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy, Joe, becomes obsessed with Muhammad Ali. He begins collecting daily newspaper clippings about him, a passion that grows into an archive of scrapbooks. Forty years later, when Joe has become a writer, these scrapbooks become the foundation for a memoir of his childhood. When he calls upon his brother, Branko, for help uncovering their shared past, meaning comes into view in the spaces between then and now, growing up and growing old, speaking out and keeping silent.
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1939810760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A boxing bildungsroman - a collage of memories, love, resistance, and the spectacle of Muhammed Ali in Apartheid South Africa. In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy, Joe, becomes obsessed with Muhammad Ali. He begins collecting daily newspaper clippings about him, a passion that grows into an archive of scrapbooks. Forty years later, when Joe has become a writer, these scrapbooks become the foundation for a memoir of his childhood. When he calls upon his brother, Branko, for help uncovering their shared past, meaning comes into view in the spaces between then and now, growing up and growing old, speaking out and keeping silent.