Online Business Security Systems applies the concept of synchronization to security of global heterogeneous and hetero-standard systems by modeling the relationship of risk access spots (RAS) between advanced and developing economies network platforms. The proposed model is more effective in securing the electronic security gap between these economies with reference to real life applications, such as electronic fund transfer in electronic business...

It is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they've found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it...

Around the World in Eighty Days is a fantastic journey by an Englishman and his manservant in 1873. The story is a comedy filled with exotic locations, cultures, and suspense along the way. Phileas Fogg, an Englishman, with his French manservant, Passepartout, create an unusual pairing with their distinct cultural backgrounds...

Watership Down is a heroic fantasy novel about a small group of rabbits, written by British author Richard Adams. Although the animals in the story live in their natural environment, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language (Lapine), proverbs, poetry, and mythology...

They met as children, innocents from two different worlds. And from that moment their lives were fated to be forever entwined. Timothy : Abandoned at birth, he finds a home--and a dazzling career--within the Catholic Church. But the vows he takes cannot protect him from one soul-igniting passion. Daniel : The scholarly son of a great rabbi, he is destined to follow in his father's footsteps...

From the world-renowned author of Love Story comes a powerful and moving saga of five extraordinary members of the Harvard class of 1958 and the women with whom their lives are interwined. Their explosive story begins in a time of innocence and spans a turbulent quarter century.

Provides a comprehensive, systematic approach to understanding current and emerging methods for handling the increasing demands of multimedia databases and their inherent systems issues. Demonstrates how to create an effective multimedia database by integrating the various information indexing and retrieval methods available...

In recent years rapid Internet growth has pushed the development of new multimedia applications in all aspects of life such as entertainment, communication, collaborative work and electronic commerce...

Helps you choose audio and video equipment, capture and edit, and set up a streaming site.
* Explores how streaming media can be delivered via dial-up connections, as well as broadband connections.
* CD-ROM includes the author's streaming software package, allowing readers to configure, monitor, and mange a live encoded media stream.
* Reviews server issues, digital distribution systems, advanced enterprise streaming, and narrowband versus broadband.
* Also addresses legal issues and the future of streaming with wireless devices.

Provides an overview of DTV technology, standards, & regulation with an emphasis on the development of the standards generated by the European Project for digital video broadcasting (DVB). DLC: Digital television.

This is the third in the series BIO OF A SPACE TYRANT, featuring the stages in the life of Hope Hubris, the Tyrant of Jupiter, and his beloved sister Spirit.

This introductory treatment surveys useful stochastic methods and techniques in quantum physics, functional analysis, probability theory, communications, and electrical engineering...

Intended for graduate students in physics and related fields, this text is a self contained treatment of the physics of many-body systems from the point of view of condensed matter. The approach, quite traditionally, uses the mathematical formalism of quasiparticles and Green's functions...

This book provides an overview of current approaches and research in the field of international organizations with a focus on implementation issues in a globalized context.
Written by a team of recognized leaders in the field, associated with the growing and influential International Organizations Network (ION)....

Does Farmer Field really know his prize cow, Daisy, is in the field? When is an unexpected exam not wholly unexpected? Are all bachelors (really) unmarried? Martin Cohen's bestselling 101 Philosophy Problems is a witty and engaging introduction to philosophy, covering classical as well as contemporary problems from the fields of medical ethics, modern physics and artificial intelligence...