“… This detailed, hands-on guide provides the technical and conceptual information you need to build cool applications with Microsoft's Kinect, the amazing motion-sensing device that enables computers to see. Through half a dozen meaty projects, you'll learn how to create gestural interfaces for software, use motion capture for easy 3D character animation, 3D scanning for custom fabrication, and many other applications. …”

“…This vital information gives you a head-start when planning your Microsoft Flow implementation. The second half of the book continues with managing connections and gateways, where you’ll cover the configuration, creation, and deletion of connectors and how to connect to a data gateway. …”

“…Think like America’s #1 sales trainer—and close more deals than ever Stephan Schiffman has trained more than half a million sales professionals. No one understands the sales mindset better. …”

“…The two diseases account for about a million deaths a year and 78 percent of world's hepatocellular carcinoma and more than half of all fatal cirrhosis. In 2013 viral hepatitis, of which hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are the most common types, surpassed HIV and AIDS to become the seventh leading cause of death worldwide. …”

“…Human resources, as all other resources in multinational firms, are now being managed on a global scale. The first half of Managing the Global Workforce<…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Overview of the book -- The core of the argument -- Our different assumptions -- Language as a model -- Essentialism and structuralism -- Values and ethnocentrism -- Interpellation -- Emotional attachment -- 1. …”

“…Since the early 1990s, culture, in the sense of norms and values, has entered economic analysis again, whereas it was totally absent from mainstream economics during most of the second half of the twentieth century. The disappointing results of mainstream economics and developments in the world economy triggered an awareness of the relevance of the context in which people make decisions. …”

“…It is less well known that he was still living in Vienna more than half a century since his analysis with Freud. In this remarkable biographical account, the Wolf-Man comes alive not only through Freud's case history, which is reprinted in full, and Ruth Mack Brunswick's account of the follow-up analysis which she conducted, but also through his own autobiographical memoirs covering his childhood in Russia, his recollections of Freud, his marriage, and the circumstances of his life in Vienna after the First World War. …”

“…In The Mystery of Personality: A History of Psychodynamic Theories, acclaimed professor and historian Eugene Taylor synthesizes the field’s first century and a half into a rich, highly readable account. Taylor situates the dynamic school in its catalytic place in history, re-evaluating misunderstood figures and events, re-creating the heady milieu of discovery as the concept of "mental science" dawns across Europe, revisiting the widening rift between clinical and experimental study (or the couch and the lab) as early psychology matured into legitimate science. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Editorial principles and abbreviations -- Poetry in context -- John Tyndall: The poems -- 1 Acrostic (Maria) -- 2 In praise of Bruen -- 3 The Leighlin "Orators"-or, 'The late repeal meeting' -- 4 Carlow -- 5 The testimonial -- 6 The battle of the constitution is to be fought at the registry -- 7 Landlord and tenant -- 8 Lines sent with a forget me not -- 9 Acrostic (Christina Tidmarsh) -- 10 To Ginty -- 11 To Chadwick -- 12 Suggested on hearing High Mass in Saint Wilfred's Chapel -- 13 On leaving Westmorland -- 14 An Hibernian's Song. …”

“…Recreational mathematicians and computer scientists will not be disappointed! In the second half of the book, Knuth addresses Satisfiability, one of the most fundamental problems in all of computer science. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Editorial conclusion: Arcticness, outside the Arctic. Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface -- 'Arcticness and change'; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; 1 Editorial Introduction: Shall I compare thee to an Arctic day (or night)?…”

“…Despite its criticisms and travails, for over half a century the Port Authority overcame hurdles that had frustrated other public and private efforts, built the world's longest suspension bridge, and took a leading role in creating an organization to reduce traffic delays in the New York-New Jersey region. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. …”

“…Despite being preventable and curable since the middle of the twentieth century, tuberculosis (TB) has long persisted as the world's deadliest infectious disease, with the communities most devastated by TB among the poorest and most vulnerable in the world. Only about half of people with TB receive successful treatment each year. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Summaries of the chapters -- Introduction: Visual citizenship: communicating political opinions and emotions on social media -- 0.1 Concepts -- 0.2 Methods -- 0.3 Empirical insights -- Part 1 Concepts -- 1 Everyday political expression as a citizenship practice -- 1.1 Broad definitions of citizenship, civic engagement and political participation -- 1.1.1 Dutiful versus self-actualising citizenship -- 1.1.2 Civic engagement -- 1.1.3 Political participation -- 1.2 Idealising political participation over (online) civic engagement -- 1.2.1 Civic engagement as latent participation -- 1.2.2 Three criticisms of the gateway model -- 1.3 Listening as an underestimated activity -- 1.4 Idealising rational deliberation and consensus -- 1.4.1 The anachronistic bourgeois public sphere -- 1.4.2 Ideal rational versus fragmented and messy citizenship practices -- 1.4.3 Deliberation versus agonism, and the conflictual nature of modern pluralism -- 1.5 Idealising a certain kind of citizen -- 1.5.1 Nostalgia for sophisticated literacy in the olden days…”

“…Use this practical guide to understand the concepts behind Intelligent Multimode Security Systems (IMSS) and how to implement security within an IMSS system to improve the robustness of the devices and of the end-to-end solution. There are nearly half a billion active IMSS cameras globally, with over 100 million added annually. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Boxes -- Abbreviations -- Check-in -- 1. …”

“…Using data from the London-Lund Corpora of spoken British English, the Element shows, firstly, that there are systematic differences in advising between discourse contexts over the past half a century, and, secondly, that who gave the advice and how they did it are the strongest predictors of the advisee's response. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. …”