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Oka : a convergence of cultures and the Canadian Forces by Winegard, Timothy C. (Timothy Charles), 1977-

This book is an action : feminist print culture and activist aesthetics

Sources in the development of mathematics : infinite series and products from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century by Roy, Ranjan, 1948-

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Cloudonomics : the business value of cloud computing by Weinman, Joe, 1958-

Contents: “…-- Economies of Scale -- Competitive Advantage and Customer Value -- Cloud Ecosystem Dynamics -- IT Spend -- Issues with the Cloud -- Summary -- Notes -- What Is a Cloud? -- Defining the Cloud -- On-Demand Resources -- Utility Pricing -- Common Infrastructure -- Location-Independence -- Online Accessibility -- Difference from Traditional Purchase and Ownership -- Cloud Criteria and Implications -- Is the Cloud New or a New Buzzword -- Summary -- Notes -- Strategy and Value -- Access to Competencies -- Availability -- Capacity -- Comparative Advantage, Specialization of Labor, and Core versus Context.…”
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Computer graphics : principles and practice Third edition. by Hughes, John F., 1955-

Contents: “…Introduction : A brief history ; An illuminating example ; Goals, resources, and appropriate abstractions ; Some numbers and orders of magnitude in graphics ; The graphics pipeline ; Relationship of graphics to art, design, and perception ; Basic graphics systems ; Polygon drawing as a black box ; Interaction in graphics systems ; Different kinds of graphics applications ; Different kinds of graphics packages ; Building blocks for realistic rendering: a brief overview ; Learning computer graphics -- Introduction to 2D graphics using WPF : Overview of the 2D graphics pipeline ; The evolution of 2D graphics platforms ; Specifying a 2D scene using WPF ; Dynamics in 2D graphics using WPF ; Supporting a variety of form factors -- An ancient renderer made modern : A Dürer woodcut ; Visibility ; Implementation ; The program ; Limitations -- A 2D graphics test bed : Details of the test bed ; The C♯ code ; Animation ; Interaction ; An application of the test bed -- An introduction to human visual perception : The visual system ; The eye ; Constancy and its influences ; Continuation ; Shadows -- Introduction to fixed-function 3D graphics and hierarchical modeling : Introducing mesh and lighting specification ; Curved-surface representation and rendering ; Surface texture in WPF ; The WPF reflectance model ; Hierarchical modeling using a scene graph -- Essential mathematics and the geometry of 2-space and 3-space : Notation ; Sets ; Functions ; Coordinates ; Operations on coordinates ; Intersections of lines ; Intersections, more generally ; Triangles ; Polygons -- A simple way to describe shape in 2D and 3D : "Meshes" in 2D: polylines ; Meshes in 3D -- Functions on meshes : code for barycentric interpolation ; Limitations of piecewise linear extension ; Smoother extensions ; Functions multiply defined at vertices ; Application: texture mapping -- Transformations in two dimensions : Five examples ; Important facts about transformations ; Translation ; Points and vectors again ; Why use 3 x 3 matrices instead of a matrix and a vector? …”

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Foundations of data intensive applications : large scale data analytics under the hood by Kamburugamuve Loku Acharilage, Supun Madhushanka Kamburugamuva, Ekanayake, Saliya

The global economics of sport