Authors:Ling Guan, S.Y. Kung, Yifeng He, Sun-Yuan Kung, Jan La
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: processing, image, series, video, multimedia
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2000-08-23
List price: $139.95
ISBN-10: 0849334926
ISBN-13: 9780849334924

Multimedia stands as one of the most challenging and exciting aspects of the information era. Although there are books available that deal with various facets of multimedia, the field has urgently needed a comprehensive look at recent developments in the systems, processing, and applications of image and video data in a multimedia environment.Multimedia Image and Video Processing fills that need. Beginning with existing standards and their impact on multimedia image and video processing, experts from around the world address a broad spectrum of topics in a tutorial style. Their authoritative c

Author: Tor Kung
Publisher: Olympia Press
Keywords: ecstasy, forever
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2008-11-25
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1596540362
ISBN-13: 9781596540361

The New Traveller’s Companion Series, #6 Published in 1968, and possibly earlier, this book had the honor of being our most-requested title (after the addition of My Mother Taught Me, the other legitimate Tor Kung, which earlier held the rank). An amazing story about schoolboys, led by Paul and the devious but cowardly Rick, who at the end of the schoolyear find themselves holding a young geometry teacher... right where they want her. Also a subplot involving Paul and his new home.

Author: Kung-Kiu Lau
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: amp, transformation, synthesis, program, based, logic
Number of Pages: 183
Published: 2001-06-15
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 3540421270
ISBN-13: 9783540421276

Presents papers from the 10th Intl Workshop, LOPSTR 2000, held in London, UK, July 24-28, 2000. Synthesis, transformation, analysis, specialization, and abstract interpretation are discussed. Softcover.

Author: Tor Kung
Publisher: Olympia Press
Keywords: taught, mother
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-11-24
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1596540060
ISBN-13: 9781596540064

One of six novels to be published by the short-lived Danish Olympia Press (founder Maurice Girodias’ legal troubles in the early ’60s were horrendous, so he tried his hand in Copenhagen briefly before emigrating to America). My Mother Taught Me is a special Traveller’s Companion title, and ranks as the most-requested book we have. This is the tale of Lars, a Swedish boy, raised in an all-male orphanage without ever seeing even pictures of women, adopted into a new household with enthusiastic siblings and an energetic foster-mother. The immediacy of the writing here is perhaps

Author: Hans Kung
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: global, economics, ethic, politics
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1998-04-16
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0195122283
ISBN-13: 9780195122282

As the twentieth century draws to a close and the rush to globalization gathers momentum, political and economic considerations are crowding out vital ethical questions about the shape of our future. Now, Hans Kung, one of the world’s preeminent Christian theologians, explores these issues in a visionary and cautionary look at the coming global society. How can the new world order of the twenty first century avoid the horrors of the twentieth? Will nations form a real community or continue to aggressively pursue their own interests? Will the Machiavellian approaches of the past prevail o

Author: Kung-Jong Lui
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: statistics, practice, risk, epidemiological, estimation, statistical
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2004-03-19
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 047085071X
ISBN-13: 9780470850718

Statistical Estimation of Epidemiological Risk provides coverage of the most important epidemiological indices, and includes recent developments in the field. A useful reference source for biostatisticians and epidemiologists working in disease prevention, as the chapters are self-contained and feature numerous real examples. It has been written at a level suitable for public health professionals with a limited knowledge of statistics. Other key features include: Provides comprehensive coverage of the key epidemiological indices. Includes coverage of various sampling methods, and pointers

Author: Shain-Dow Kung
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: volume, biology, plant, discoveries
Number of Pages: 473
Published: 2000-01-15
List price: $138.00
ISBN-10: 9810238827
ISBN-13: 9789810238827

Scientific progress hinges on continual discovery and the extension of previous discoveries. The important series of volumes Discoveries in Plant Biology is specially compiled to provide a microcosmic atlas of the landmark discoveries that span the breadth of plant biology. Written by renowned plant biologists, the papers describe how classic discoveries were made and how they have served as the basis for subsequent breakthroughs. The 24 chapters in this third volume describe discoveries which contribute to the foundations of modern plant biology. The contributors, many of whom pers