Bøger af Michael A. Smith

Frank Montgomery and his family love their life in the placid suburb of Lake View. Members of the seven households surrounding the lake form an extended family. They occasionally play practical jokes on each other. However, the harmless pranks suddenly turn ugly, and very personal. Feelings are hurt, alliances form, and fingers are pointed. Then, the suspected perpetrator, Vernon Richey, is brutally murdered. While investigating the crime for the local newspaper, Frank discovers that many of his neighbors harbor secrets that, if revealed, would damage their reputations or incriminate them. Did someone kill Vernon to protect a secret he had uncovered? Or, is there a puppet master in the neighborhood, attempting to implicate the others while hiding his or her own motive? How long will the killer tolerate Frank's snooping? Secrets reveals a dark side of suburbia. It's enough to make you wonder about your neighbors. Who are they really? What are they up to? Are you watching them? Are they watching you?

Multimodal Video Characterization and Summarization is a valuable research tool for both professionals and academicians working in the video field.This book describes the methodology for using multimodal audio, image, and text technology to characterize video content. This new and groundbreaking science has led to many advances in video understanding, such as the development of a video summary. Applications and methodology for creating video summaries are described, as well as user-studies for evaluation and testing.

Sam Brownback was the first modern-day conservative to be elected governor of Kansas, the culmination of a rightward shift in the states often-dominant Republican Party. This book is a detailed case study of the policies implemented over his two terms as governor, paying particular attention to the impact on state government and services, the economy, public education, and the business environment. The authors provide extensive background, historical evidence, and detailed references. The books real-world relevance is grounded in a discussion of similar policies in other states as well as the US federal government.

State Voting Laws in America documents changing views on voting rights, emphasizing court rulings which shaped our understanding of what constitutes a legitimate right to vote.

Whether they're considered cool or creepy, reptiles and amphibians spark curiosity in most people who come across them. This introductory guide offers an educational and inspirational starting point to discovering reptiles and amphibians in their natural habitats.

Coiled beneath discarded trash or rocky slabs, basking along river edges, and tucked into rock cuts beside the highway, reptiles and amphibians constantly surround us. In Herping Texas, Michael Smith and Clint King take readers on their adventures across the state as they search for favourite herps and rare finds.

Approaches C++ as a language in its own right, rather than as a development of C. The text concentrates on the object-oriented features of the language and utilizes the mechanisms of C++ which allow the user to avoid having to use low-level features.

Multimodal Video Characterization and Summarization is a valuable research tool for both professionals and academicians working in the video field. This book describes the methodology for using multimodal audio, image, and text technology to characterize video content.