“…In this book, two of the field's leading experts introduce today's state-of-the-art, presenting realistic examples and projects designed to help implementers create multimedia systems with unprecedented performance. Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt introduce the fundamental characteristics of digital audio, images, video, graphics, and animation; demonstrate powerful new approaches to content analysis and compression; and share expert insights into system and end-user issues every advanced multimedia professional must understand. …”

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Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: Toward a social science of the social sciences / Didier Fassin and George Steinmetz -- Concept-quake : from the history of science to the historical sociology of social science / George Steinmetz -- Spaces of real possibilities : counterfactuals and the impact of donors on the social sciences / Álvaro Morcillo Laiz -- The social life of concepts : or, How to study the idea of creativity? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: Conceptual history : challenges, conundrums, complexities / Willibald Steinmetz, Michael Freeden -- Europe at different speeds : asynchronicities and multiple times in European conceptual history / Helge Jordheim -- Multiple transformations : temporal frameworks for a European conceptual history / Willibald Steinmetz -- Concepts and debates : rhetorical perspectives on conceptual change / Kari Palonen -- Conceptual history, ideology and language / Michael Freeden -- Transnational conceptual history, methodological nationalism and Europe / Jani Marjanen -- Conceptual history : the comparative dimension / Jorn Leonhard -- Concepts, contests and contexts : conceptual history and the problem of translatability / László Kontler -- Conceptualizing spaces within Europe : the case of meso-regions / Diana Mishkova, Balázs Trencsényi -- Conceptualizing modernity in multi- and intercultural spaces : the case of Central and Eastern Europe / Victor Neumann -- Concepts in a Nordic periphery / Henrik Stenius -- Conclusions: Setting the agenda for a European conceptual history / Javier Fernández Sebastián…”