J Ryan: 295 books

The Complete, Up-To-Date Guide to Building Great 3D User Interfaces for Any Application 3D interaction is suddenly everywhere. But simply using 3D input or displays isn’t enough: 3D interfaces must be carefully designed for optimal user experience. 3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice,...

Defense planning faces significant uncertainties. This report applies robust decision making (RDM) to the air-delivered munitions mix challenge. RDM is quantitative, decision support methodology designed to inform decisions under conditions of deep uncertainty and complexity. This proof-of-concept...

Precision medicine is a rapidly-evolving field in the management of cancer. The use of novel molecular or genetic signatures in local-regional management is still in its infancy. Precision Radiation Oncology demystifies this state-of-the-art research and technology.  By describing current...

***They're watching you... *** Ron Dunn is desperate to heal a loveless marriage and draw in a distant child. When Ron buys a new home in the suburbs of Los Angeles to try and mend the fences of broken relationships everything changes.  When the Dunn family settle into the house they...

Everyone has an origin story. Dexter O'Kane never fit the small town culture of LeClaire Missouri. He believed he was made for something more. Finding the "more" a different story. In a search for meaning and purpose outside the confines of small town living. Dexter finds himself...

Dexter and John are back with another action-packed crime adventure when investigating a shady Russian organization in Los Angeles. Dexter O'Kane is an antique collector turned assassin who's not on good terms with Mrs. O'Kane. When another job takes him away from the family in Missouri, and...

The cowboys of the T-Lazy-A and the M-L Connected just don’t see eye to eye. In fact, they hate each other. So when Hank Collins rides up to the waterhole to find an M-L Connected rider floating on his side of the pond, his hackles naturally rise. And when that rider challenges him to a bout of...

Cold War, hot spies, y'all. Vincent and Kolya are back -- in the Deep South. They must protect a brilliant chemist and his family while the man completes the new formula he's promised to sell to T.H.R.U.S.T.The assignment should have been a piece of pecan pie, but F.I.S.T. has its eye on the formula,...

Heavy metal backbeat vs. the classics. Bassist Kit Barlow doesn't have time for romance. He's holding down two jobs and playing in a heavy metal band -- while raising his seven-year-old son by himself. But when Ebon joins the Cub Scouts, Kit can't help but notice his group leader, Max Hill. Max...

This is a book of history, ethics, and philosophy. It is a record of teachings passed down through the generations from the East and the West. It contains the fullness of the sealed covenant established between man and the laws of the universe. As we evolve as a race, we take things out of our lives...

This text explores how the public purpose doctrine reconciles the often conflicting, but equally binding, obligations that states have to engage in regulatory sovereignty while honoring host-state obligations to protect foreign investment. The work examines the multiple permutations and iterations...

Was ist dran an diesem Aberglauben, dass Freitag, der 13te, ein Unglückstag ist? So mancher Aberglaube lässt sich als „selbst-erfüllende Prophezeiung“ verstehen. Dieser soziologische Begriff bedeutet: Wenn man fürchtet, dass am Freitag, den 13., mehr schief geht als sonst, wird das auch passieren....

Cognitive-behavioral therapy using the techniques of exposure and response prevention has helped countless individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) overcome debilitating symptoms and live fuller, more satisfying lives. This volume opens with an overview of the diagnosis and assessment...

Veterinary Embryology, 2nd Edition, has been updated to reflect the many changes that have developed in the field; the text has been fully revised and expanded and is now in full colour and many pedagogical features and a companion website have been developed. A new edition of this highly successful...