"Real-Time ShadowsImportant elements of games, movies, and other computer-generated content, shadows are crucial for enhancing realism and providing important visual cues. In recent years, there have been notable improvements in visual quality and speed, making high-quality realistic real-time shadows a reachable goal. Real-Time Shadows is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of real-time shadow techniques. It covers a large ..."
"Microsoft describes Silverlight as a "cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web." That's a really boring description for a really exciting new technology. Anyone who has looked at the demos and gotten a taste of what Silverlight can do knows that Silverlight represents an entirely new level of rich web interface technology for Mi ..."
Superstring Theory Loop Amplitudes, Anomalies and Phenomenology, Vol. 2 (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics) by Michael B. Green, John H. Schwarz, Edward Witten Hardcover, 616 Pages, Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-02913-2, ISBN: 1-107-02913-9
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Deadly Indifference The Perfect (Political) Storm: Hurricane Katrina, The Bush White House, and Beyond by Michael Dewayne Brown, Ted Schwarz, Schwarz/Brown Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2011 by Taylor Trade Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-58979-485-6, ISBN: 1-58979-485-0
"At last, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Brown infamously praised by President George W. Bush for doing a "heckuva job" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina tells his side of the response to one of the greatest natural disasters to occur in the United States. Without making excuses for anyone, least of all the President of the United States or himself, Brown describes in detail what ultimately turned out to be the larges ..."
"An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents.The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, art and dreams. It comprises myriad smaller archives, in which Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artefacts, assortments of images, texts and signs, th ..."
"Operating hours in Europe, Berichte des ISO 66, Köln, Institut zur Erforschung
sozialer Chancen, 181-196 Arbeit. ... Ergebnisse einer repräsentativen
Betriebsbefragung zu Betriebs und Arbeitszeiten im verarbeitenden Gewerbe,
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"This dissertation examines the importance of U.S.-British relations in the development of Jeffersonian and Madisonian ideas after the Revolution, as well as in the emergence of a "Republican" party defined in many ways by its intense ..."
"An important consideration for energy-efficient buildings is their primary energy requirements over the entire life cycle. How to determine this? What integrative factors influence the performance of a healthy and sustainable building? This, while it may be important for clients and architects to know, is frequently not very transparent.This book has been written to assist with clarifying target criteria and expanding horizons when it c ..."
"Vor dem Hintergrund weitgehend gesättigter Absatzmärkte stehen heute zahlreiche Versicherungsunternehmen einem zunehmenden Verdrängungswettbewerb, stagnierender Nachfrage, verändertem Konsumentenverhalten, kürzer werdenden Produktzyklen und, damit einhergehend, enger werdenden Wachstumsspielräumen gegenüber. Um den veränderten Anforderungen gerecht zu werden und den Unternehmenserfolg wieder zu steigern, besteht die Strategie vieler Unt ..."
"Während Operationen am offenen Herzen unter Hypothermie stehen durch die messtechnische Überwachung nur wenige Informationen zur Verfügung, die keine direkten Rückschlüsse auf die Blutversorgung und die Temperaturen einzelner Organe zulassen. Es werden ein Hämodynamikmodell und ein Modell der Wärmetransportvorgänge im Körper vorgestellt, welche mithilfe der verfügbaren Messwerte detaillierte Informationen über Blutfluss-und-druck sowie ..."