Books with author Richard F.

Human and Machine Hearing is the first book to comprehensively describe how human hearing works and how to build machines to analyze sounds in the same way that people do. Drawing on over thirty-five years of experience in analyzing hearing and building systems, Richard F. Lyon explains how we can now build machines with close-to-human abilities in speech, music, and other sound-understanding domains. He explains human hearing in terms of engineering concepts, and describes how to incorporate those concepts into machines for a wide range of modern applications. The details of this approach are presented at an accessible level, to bring a diverse range of readers, from neuroscience to engineering, to a common technical understanding. The description of hearing as signal-processing algorithms is supported by corresponding open-source code, for which the book serves as motivating documentation.

The projects tackled by the software development industry have grown in scale and complexity. Costs are increasing along with the number of developers. Power bills for distributed projects have reached the point where optimisations pay literal dividends. Over the last 10 years, a software development movement has gained traction, a movement founded in games development. The limited resources and complexity of the software and hardware needed to ship modern game titles demanded a different approach.Data-oriented design is inspired by high-performance computing techniques, database design, and functional programming values. It provides a practical methodology that reduces complexity while improving performance of both your development team and your product. Understand the goal, understand the data, understand the hardware, develop the solution.This book presents foundations and principles helping to build a deeper understanding of data-oriented design. It provides instruction on the thought processes involved when considering data as the primary detail of any project.

War rages across the galaxy. And humanity is losing battle after battle. The renegade Armor, Roland, seeks the key to victory against the enemy encroaching from all sides. An Aeon guards a secret which will tip the balance of power in the galaxy. But first, Roland, and the Ibarra Nation must defeat her guardians, the Cyrgal.On another front and amid the tumultuous aftermath of Roland’s defection, Gideon leads a desperate attempt to assassinate a Kesaht general. He is the last hope to turn the tide of the battle, and save the world of Ouranos.As the war against the Kesaht and their merciless allies grinds on, Gideon and Roland must summon faith and fury to survive. Don’t miss the next action-packed military science fiction adventure in the Terran Armor Corps series!

This bilingual color concept book celebrates a rainbow of traditional objects seen during the Chinese New Year.Hóng is the color of explosive firecrackers! Jīn is the hue of lucky coins. Zŏng is the shade of sweet peanut puffs. Welcome to the festivities of the Chinese New Year, where symbolic gifts, foods, and objects come together in a celebration of beautiful colors. This vibrant, simple, and highly graphic bilingual book is the perfect introduction to Chinese and English words for colors as it honors one of the biggest holidays around the world. Includes informative back matter.

The Smurfs is a Belgian comic franchise centered on a fictional colony of small, blue, human-like creatures who live in mushroom-shaped houses in the forest. There are more than 100 Smurf characters, and their names are based on adjectives that emphasise their characteristics, such as "Jokey Smurf", who likes to play practical jokes on his fellow smurfs. "Smurfette" was the first female Smurf to be introduced in the series. The Smurfs wear Phrygian caps, which came to represent freedom during the modern era.Smurfs Trivia Book have many facts and 50 questions for every fans of the little Smurfs.

This book now includes free online video tutorials. Just go to www.mathessentials.net and click on VIDEOS. Each lesson in the book has a corresponding video tutorial taught by award-winning author, Richard W. Fisher. This is the same Mastering Essential Math Skills Pre-Algebra Concepts reformatted into a more concise kindle version. Also, Need an algebra tutor? Try our new revolutionary title, NO-NONSENSE ALGEBRA. COMES WITH FREE ONLINE VIDEO TUTORIALS FOR EACH LESSON!This book is now available kindle, also. Also, see the new reformatted library version also available in kindle. THIS BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE WITH A COMPANION DVD WITH OVER 6 HOURS OF LESSONS! LET AMERICA'S MATH TEACHER, RICHARD W. FISHER, BE YOUR OWN PERSONAL TUTOR. If you are about to take your first algebra class, this book was written just for you! This is a new title by America's math teacher and author, Richard W. Fisher. This book is a must for students who are about to enter their first algebra class. Exponents, scientific notation, ratios and proportions, number theory, probability and statistics, equations, algebraic word problems, and coordinate systems are just some of the topics covered. Students will learn and master the essential topics that will ensure success in algebra and beyond. Plenty of easy-to-follow instructions and built-in reviews are included to ensure mastery of all topics included. If you are taking algebra I this fall, this is excellent summer preparation. If you are an algebra student who is struggling, this book will Excellent for summer. TRY OUR FREE iphone app, MATH EXPERT, from Math Essentials.net. you up to speed.

The multi-faceted Revolutionary War career of Benjamin Tallmadge included operations as a dragoon commander, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer, and master of combined land-sea operations. Tallmadge fought in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, and Germantown, and defended the Patriot population in the no-man's-land of Westchester County against British and Tory raiders. After Washington rewarded him with his own legion, he unleashed bold raids on British-occupied Long Island from his bases in Connecticut. All the while, he ran Washington's most active espionage ring in New York and Long Island. Reversing roles, he played a key role in foiling Benedict Arnold's plot to betray the American stronghold of West Point to the British. Tallmadge's Revolutionary service graphically illuminates the struggle in the region that witnessed the most continuous, relentless, often pitiless, fighting of the struggle. In particular, this book describes the internecine quality of the fighting in politically-divided Long Island and Westchester, and details how the struggle continued without let-up even after Yorktown. Though Tallmadge's fascinating post-war career receives careful attention, the book focuses on his Revolutionary War service.

This edition does not include illustrations.‘Dry Store Room No. 1’ is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and imagination.Behind the public façade of any great museum there lies a secret domain: one of unseen galleries, locked doors, priceless specimens and hidden lives.Through the stories of the numerous eccentric individuals whose long careers have left their mark on the study of evolutionary science, Richard Fortey, former senior paleaontologist at London's Natural History Museum, celebrates the pioneering work of the Museum from its inception to the present day. He delves into the feuds, affairs, scandals and skulduggery that have punctuated its long history, and formed a backdrop to extraordinary scientific endeavour from Darwin to the present day. He explores the staying power and adaptability of the Museum as it responds to changes wrought by advances in technology and molecular biology – 'spare' bones from an extinct giant bird suddenly become cutting-edge science with the new knowledge that DNA can be extracted from them, and ancient fish are tested with the latest equipment that is able to measure rises in pollution.'Dry Store Room No.1’ is a fascinating and affectionate account of a hidden world of untold treasures, where every fragment tells a story about time past, by a scientist who combines rigorous professional learning with a gift for prose that sparkles with wit and literary sensibility.Note that it has not been possible to include the same picture content that appeared in the original print version.

This book contains over 1200 the best questions and answers trivia book on everything Disney,Avengers, Star War, Frozen, Pinocchio, Cars, Ratatouille,...."" With over 1200 Disney trivia questions, this book will surely keep any Disney fan occupied for hours. With questions on many of Disney's most memorable movies to questions on Walt Disney himself, this book will have young children, to the most seasoned Disney expert, scratching their heads trying to get the right answers! This book is a great way to keep kids occupied for hours on end. It can also be used at Disney themed parties and events. Adults will also love testing their memories of childhood Disney movies they grew up on.Now is the time to strap on your thinking cap and test your knowledge of everything Disney. Welcome to the magic kingdom of trivia!

Now, especially for children, a Bible that features the history of the American heroes who helped to shape our Christian nation. The New King James Bible text is wonderful for study, and the 64 color pages are packed with articles about the true American heroes who contributed to making this nation great. Children can learn about God's word and how our country's early leaders used God's wisdom to make the country we live in today.

From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life’s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms that have survived, almost unchanged, throughout time. Evolution, it seems, has not completely obliterated its tracks as more advanced organisms have evolved; the history of life on earth is far older—and odder—than many of us realize. Scattered across the globe, these remarkable plants and animals continue to mark seminal events in geological time. From a moonlit beach in Delaware, where the hardy horseshoe crab shuffles its way to a frenzy of mass mating just as it did 450 million years ago, to the dense rainforests of New Zealand, where the elusive, unprepossessing velvet worm has burrowed deep into rotting timber since before the breakup of the ancient supercontinent, to a stretch of Australian coastline with stromatolite formations that bear witness to the Precambrian dawn, the existence of these survivors offers us a tantalizing glimpse of pivotal points in evolutionary history. These are not “living fossils” but rather a handful of tenacious creatures of days long gone. Written in buoyant, sparkling prose, Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms is a marvelously captivating exploration of the world’s old-timers combining the very best of science writing with an explorer’s sense of adventure and wonder.