English Idioms

Professional ADO.NET

Wrox Press, 2001

ADO.NET is Microsoft's latest data access technology and, as an integral part of the .NET Framework, is far more than simply an upgrade of previous incarnations of ADO. ADO.NET provides an extensive set of .NET classes that facilitate efficient access to data from a large variety of sources, enable sophisticated manipulation and sorting...

Modeling with Stochastic Programming (Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering)

Springer, 2012

While there are several texts on how to solve and analyze stochastic programs, this is the first text to address basic questions about how to model uncertainty, and how to reformulate a deterministic model so that it can be analyzed in a stochastic setting. This text would be suitable as a stand-alone or supplement for a second course in...

Remote Sensing: The Image Chain Approach

Oxford University Press, 2007

Remote Sensing deals with the fundamental ideas underlying the rapidly growing field of remote sensing. John Schott explores energy-matter interaction, radiation propagation, data dissemination, and described the tools and procedures required to extract information from remotely sensed data using the image chain approach. Organizations and...

Designing Gestural Interfaces: Touchscreens and Interactive Devices

O'Reilly, 2008

If you want to get ahead in this new era of interaction design, this is the reference you need. Nintendo's Wii and Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch have made gestural interfaces popular, but until now there's been no complete source of information about the technology.

Designing Gestural...

The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotion, Social Movements, and the State

Oxford University Press, 2009

1950s: Growing up in the 1940s, Barbara never talked about having been raped by a family member. As a young adult, she went to a psychiatrist who told her that people generally weren’t bothered by incest, and, despite her distress, she let the matter drop.

1982: Several women in their twenties met through a local feminist anti...

Punk Rock Warlord: the Life and Work of Joe Strummer (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

Routledge, 2014

Punk Rock Warlord explores the relevance of Joe Strummer within the continuing legacies of both punk rock and progressive politics. It is aimed at scholars and general readers interested in The Clash, punk culture, and the intersections between pop music and politics, on both sides of the Atlantic. Contributors to the collection represent a...