Managing Skin Cancer

Windows Game Programming with Visual Basic and DirectX

Que, 2001

I’ve been fascinated by computer games for years. Some of my first experiences date back to the late 1960s when I was in junior high school. I was allowed to skip math class once a week to use an old teletype terminal. I spent hours punching a tic-tac-toe game written in BASIC onto paper tape so that I could play it when I...

Visualizing Time: Designing Graphical Representations for Statistical Data (Statistics and Computing)

Springer, 2011

Art or science?Which of these is the right way to think of the field of visualization? This is not an easy question to answer, even for those who have many years of experience in making graphical depictions of data with a view to helping people understand them and take action. When we look at beautiful hand-drawn pictures of...

Halophytes and Climate Change: Adaptive Mechanisms and Potential Uses

CABI Publishing, 2019

This book contains current knowledge and the most recent developments in the field of halophyte biology, ecology, and potential uses. Halophytes are characterized as plants that can survive and complete their life cycle in highly saline environments. This book explores the adaptive mechanisms and special features of halophytes that allow...

Network Design for IP Convergence

Auerbach Publications, 2009

A Comprehensive “Global” Vision of Convergence

The emergence of quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms continues to propel the development of real-time multimedia services such as VoIP and videoconferencing. However, there remain many challenges to achieving optimized standardization convergence.

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CCNP ONT Portable Command Guide (Self-Study Guide)

Cisco Press, 2008

Welcome to ONT! In 2006, Cisco Press came to me and told me, albeit very quietly, that there was going to be a major revision of the CCNP certification exams. Then they asked whether I would be interested in working on a command guide in the same fashion as my previous books for Cisco Press: the Cisco Networking Academy Program ...

Locating Maldivian Women’s Mosques in Global Discourses

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

In this ethnographic examination of women’s mosques in the Maldives, anthropologist Jacqueline H. Fewkes probes how the existence of these separate buildings?where women lead prayers for other women?intersect with larger questions about gender, space, and global Muslim communities. Bringing together ethnographic insight with...