James Peters: 25 books
Toward a Political Economy of Culture
Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics...
How to Use Value-Added Analysis to Improve Student Learning
A Field Guide for School and District Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
A step-by-step guide to transforming student learning with value-added analysis
Value-added analysis is the most robust, statistically significant method available for helping educators quantify student progress over time. This bookprovides a field-tested continuous improvement model for using...
by Helen Doe, John C. Appleby, John Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region. Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea. Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent maritime environment, while its strategic position at the western approaches—jutting out into the...
Foundations of Computer Vision
Computational Geometry, Visual Image Structures and Object Shape Detection
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This book introduces the fundamentals of computer vision (CV), with a focus on extracting useful information from digital images and videos. Including a wealth of methods used in detecting and classifying image objects and their shapes, it is the first book to apply a trio of tools (computational...
by James Carlson, Stefan Müller-Stach, Chris Peters
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This up-to-date introduction to Griffiths' theory of period maps and period domains focusses on algebraic, group-theoretic and differential geometric aspects. Starting with an explanation of Griffiths' basic theory, the authors go on to introduce spectral sequences and Koszul complexes that are used...
Communicating User Experience
Applying Local Strategies Research to Digital Media Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Communicating User Experience: Applying Local Strategies Researchto Digital Media Design examines how Local Strategies Research (LSR) helps investigate user experiences with digital media. This edited collection uses case studies to examine the way we communicate in the digital age whether between...
Computational Proximity
Excursions in the Topology of Digital Images
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book introduces computational proximity (CP) as an algorithmic approach to finding nonempty sets of points that are either close to each other or far apart. Typically in computational proximity, the book starts with some form of proximity space (topological space equipped with a proximity...
Topology with Applications
Topological Spaces via Near and Far
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The principal aim of this book is to introduce topology and its many applications viewed within a framework that includes a consideration of compactness, completeness, continuity, filters, function spaces, grills, clusters and bunches, hyperspace topologies, initial and final structures, metric spaces,...
Individualism And Community
Education And Social Policy In The Postmodern Condition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Examining, in the widest sense, the changes in political philosophy that have occurred in Western capitalist states since the early 1980s, this book focuses on the introduction of neo-liberal principles in the combined area of social and education policy. New Zealand presents a paradigm example of...
Engaging and Transforming Global Communication through Cultural Discourse Analysis
A Tribute to Donal Carbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Global communication can be difficult in the best of circumstances. The contributors in this book take seriously the premise that one can examine communication within specific global settings and scenes with the goal of ensuring that the meanings made among those within specific communities is more...
by Daron I Freedberg, Anthony S Serianni, Mario Schubert
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This volume focuses on solution and solid-state NMR of carbohydrates, glycoproteins, glyco-technologies, biomass and related topics. It is estimated that at least 80% of all proteins are glycoproteins. Because of the complexity, heterogeneity and flexibility of the sugar chains, the structural biology...
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