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Wireless video is projected to become a £2.8 billion global business in less than five yearsThis is a system-level design guide written for engineers deploying mobile video services around the world. Compiling relevant aspects of the many confusing standards and protocols surrounding video telephony, the author delivers a detailed tutorial on each phase of deployment, from video compression through multiplexing and call control.

"Play Redux excels in tying together intellectual traditions that are rooted in literary studies, cognitive science, play studies and several other fields, thereby creating a logical whole. Through this, the book makes service to several academic communities by pointing out their points of contact. This is clearly an important contribution to a growing academic field, and will no doubt become important in many future discussions about digital games and play." ---Frans Mäyrä, University of Tampere, Finland"David Myers has researched video games longer than anyone else. Play Redux shows him continually relevant, never afraid of courting controversy."---Jesper Juul, IT University of Copenhagen, DenmarkPlay Redux is an ambitious description and critical analysis of the aesthetic pleasures of video game play, drawing on early twentieth-century formalist theory and models of literature. Employing a concept of biological naturalism grounded in cognitive theory, Myers argues for a clear delineation between the aesthetics of play and the aesthetics of texts. In the course of this study, Myers asks a number of interesting questions: What are the mechanics of human play as exhibited in computer games? Can these mechanisms be modeled? What is the evolutionary function of cognitive play, and is it, on the whole, a good thing? Intended as a provocative corrective to the currently ascendant, if not dominant, cultural and ethnographic approach to game studies and play, Play Redux will generate interest among scholars of communications, new media, and film.David Myers is Reverend Aloysius B. Goodspeed Distinguished Professor at the School of Mass Communication, Loyola University New Orleans.

"Play Redux excels in tying together intellectual traditions that are rooted in literary studies, cognitive science, play studies and several other fields, thereby creating a logical whole. Through this, the book makes service to several academic communities by pointing out their points of contact. This is clearly an important contribution to a growing academic field, and will no doubt become important in many future discussions about digital games and play." ---Frans Mäyrä, University of Tampere, Finland"David Myers has researched video games longer than anyone else. Play Redux shows him continually relevant, never afraid of courting controversy."---Jesper Juul, IT University of Copenhagen, DenmarkPlay Redux is an ambitious description and critical analysis of the aesthetic pleasures of video game play, drawing on early twentieth-century formalist theory and models of literature. Employing a concept of biological naturalism grounded in cognitive theory, Myers argues for a clear delineation between the aesthetics of play and the aesthetics of texts. In the course of this study, Myers asks a number of interesting questions: What are the mechanics of human play as exhibited in computer games? Can these mechanisms be modeled? What is the evolutionary function of cognitive play, and is it, on the whole, a good thing? Intended as a provocative corrective to the currently ascendant, if not dominant, cultural and ethnographic approach to game studies and play, Play Redux will generate interest among scholars of communications, new media, and film.David Myers is Reverend Aloysius B. Goodspeed Distinguished Professor at the School of Mass Communication, Loyola University New Orleans.

Horseracing has stood the test of time as a great sporting spectacle, with the capacity to stir deep emotions in the enthusiast. It remains as popular now as it was over 400 years ago, when the first official meeting took place in Britain. The sight of a thoroughbred displaying enormous courage in the heat of a contest intrigues everyone from the occasional fan to the professional punter, and even the Royal Family, and the outcome is never predictable. No one can foresee the result of a race, not even the bookmaker! There are too many variables, enough to baffle the finest mind. The 'Sport of Kings' tests not only equines and humans, but marries both worlds together. A win is born of a team effort involving the horse itself, the jockey, the trainer and all others involved. This book offers the chance to ride in racing's very own time machine, visiting the most significant points in its long history. Revealed are the most picturesque venues, richest races, oldest racecourses, greatest battles, famous horses and shrewdest trainers - the Grand National, Cheltenham, Red Rum, Shergar, Lester Piggott, Frankie Dettori, to name but a few. The recent growth of Internet betting is another subject woven into racing's colourful tapestry. It is a must read for any horse racing enthusiast.

What is the nature of computer games, and what happens when we play them? This book describes human play as a semiotic process and computer game play as a fundamental act of human cognition, or semiosis . Offering one of the first fully articulated theories of computer games based on game play rather than game texts, The Nature of Computer Games mounts a serious challenge to literary critics, cultural theorists, and others who might assume computer game play is best understood with reference to preexisting social contexts. David Myers argues that computer game play displays a fundamentally intractable, self-reflexive structure - analogous to certain structures of thought - integral to language, consciousness, and our sense of self.

This book is an examination of nuclear weapons policy options in light of recent declared changes in Soviet military strategy. David B. Myers addresses the question: How should the United States respond to the fact that the Soviet Union has thousands of nuclear weapons aimed at the American homeland? He points out that even if a Soviet-American treaty cutting strategic weapons by fifty percent becomes a reality, this question will remain compelling. Given the current climate of glasnost, US. strategy now must carefully be rethought. Myersâ discussion provides an explanation of essential policy alternatives, the major arguments for each, and criteria for evaluating all proposals. In an effort to make the security options more accessible to readers, Myers draws an original analogy between four criminal correction theories and four major policy options. Nuclear deterrence strategy is compared to the theory of criminal deterrence; strategic defense, to social defense; conventional defense, to retribution; and civilian-based defense, to rehabilitation. He evaluates each policy by means of seven criteria: coherence, moral defensibility, legal defensibility, technical feasibility, affordability, adequacy vis-Ã -vis Soviet policy, and value for disaster avoidance. This work in applied philosophy clearly provides readersspecialists as well as generalistswith technical information, policy alternatives, and criteria to evaluate competing answers to one of the most crucial questions facing our nation. Author note: David B. Myers, Professor of Philosophy at Moorhead State University, is the author of between Marx and Nietzsche.

Exploring Social Psychology succinctly explores social psychological science and applies it to contemporary issues and everyday life. Based on the bestselling text, Social Psychology by David Myers and Jean Twenge, the book presents 31 short modules—each readable in a single sitting—that introduce students to such scientific explorations as love and hate, conformity and independence, prejudice and helping, and persuasion and self-determination. The Connect course for this offering includes SmartBook, an adaptive reading and study experience which guides students to master, recall, and apply key concepts while providing automatically-graded assessments.McGraw-Hill Connect® is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription to Connect includes the following:• SmartBook® - an adaptive digital version of the course textbook that personalizes your reading experience based on how well you are learning the content.• Access to your instructor’s homework assignments, quizzes, syllabus, notes, reminders, and other important files for the course.• Progress dashboards that quickly show how you are performing on your assignments and tips for improvement.• The option to purchase (for a small fee) a print version of the book. This binder-ready, loose-leaf version includes free shipping.Complete system requirements to use Connect can be found here: http://www.mheducation.com/highered/platforms/connect/training-support-students.html

Exploring Social Psychology succinctly explores social psychological science and applies it to contemporary issues and everyday life. Based on the bestselling text, Social Psychology by David Myers and Jean Twenge, the book presents 31 short modules—each readable in a single sitting—that introduce students to such scientific explorations as love and hate, conformity and independence, prejudice and helping, and persuasion and self-determination. The Connect course for this offering includes SmartBook, an adaptive reading and study experience which guides students to master, recall, and apply key concepts while providing automatically-graded assessments.McGraw-Hill Connect® is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription to Connect includes the following:• SmartBook® - an adaptive digital version of the course textbook that personalizes your reading experience based on how well you are learning the content.• Access to your instructor’s homework assignments, quizzes, syllabus, notes, reminders, and other important files for the course.• Progress dashboards that quickly show how you are performing on your assignments and tips for improvement.• The option to purchase (for a small fee) a print version of the book. This binder-ready, loose-leaf version includes free shipping.Complete system requirements to use Connect can be found here: http://www.mheducation.com/highered/platforms/connect/training-support-students.html

Why would a ten-year-old tomcat, living the easy life of a family pet, leave all behind to follow a mysterious stray on a quest to save other cats? Why would he risk life and safety when the chances of success are all too slim? These are the questions that Scratcher cannot answer without following Jackson, the train-hopping tom who enters his life one summer afternoon. By all appearances, Jackson is just another cat who takes shelter with a neighborhood woman. But as days pas Told in the person of Scratcher, A Prophecy of Snow opens the door upon a world that human beings have never seen and perhaps never imagined, a world uniquely feline, where cats vie for their portion of the world with greed, ferocity, and honor.

How do we reconcile a videogame industry's insistence that games positively affect human beliefs and behaviors with the equally prevalent assumption that games are “just games”? How do we reconcile accusations that games make us violent and antisocial and unproductive with the realization that games are a universal source of human joy?In Games are not, David Myers demonstrates that these controversies and conflicts surrounding the meanings and effects of games are not going away; they are essential properties of the game's paradoxical aesthetic form. Games are not focuses on games writ large, bound by neither digital form nor by cultural interpretation. Interdisciplinary in scope and radical in conclusion, Games are not positions games as unique objects evoking a peculiar and paradoxical liminal state – a lusory attitude – that is essential to human creativity, knowledge, and sustenance of the species.

V sedmom izdanii "Sotsialnoj psikhologii" obobschajutsja rezultaty samykh poslednikh issledovanij razlichnykh sotsialnykh javlenij. Predstavleny teorii i dannye, kotorye, s odnoj storony, vpolne dostupny rjadovomu studentu, a s drugoj - ne osveschajutsja v inykh kursakh po sotsiologii ili psikhologii. V etom izdanii, tak zhe kak i v predyduschem, bolshoe vnimanie udeleno razlichnym kulturam, fundamentalnym printsipam sotsialnogo myshlenija, sotsialnogo vlijanija i sotsialnogo povedenija. Avtor illjustriruet eti printsipy transnatsionalnymi primerami. Zhivoj jazyk avtora, obzor sotsialno-psikhologicheskikh i obschepsikhologicheskikh teorij, opisanie raznoobraznykh eksperimentov, nesomnenno, privlekut vnimanie ne tolko studentov-psikhologov i ikh prepodavatelej, no i sotsiologov, filosofov, politologov.7-e izdaniePerevodchik: Zamchuk Z. S.Redaktor: Maslova E.

Naskolko nadezhna nasha intuitsija? Mozhem li my polagatsja na nee, kogda delaem pokupki v magazine, vybiraem sputnika, nanimaem sotrudnikov ili otsenivaem sobstvennye sposobnosti? Izvestnyj vo vsem mire psikholog Devid Majers pokazyvaet, chto intuitsija, probuzhdaja v nas porazitelnuju pronitsatelnost, v to zhe vremja mozhet inogda vvesti v opasnoe zabluzhdenie. Avtor osveschaet silnye i slabye storony ispolzovanija intuitsii v sluchajakh, kogda sudi i prisjazhnye otsenivajut pravdivost pokazanij, kogda psikhologi i psikhiatry vyjavljajut sklonnost k prestupleniju, kogda rukovoditeli prinimajut reshenie o najme novykh sotrudnikov.Izdanie prednaznacheno dlja psikhologov i predstavitelej smezhnykh spetsialnostej, a takzhe dlja prepodavatelej i studentov profilnykh fakultetov vysshikh uchebnykh zavedenij.

V sedmom izdanii "Sotsialnoj psikhologii" obobschajutsja rezultaty samykh poslednikh issledovanij razlichnykh sotsialnykh javlenij. Predstavleny teorii i dannye, kotorye, s odnoj storony, vpolne dostupny rjadovomu studentu, a s drugoj - ne osveschajutsja v inykh kursakh po sotsiologii ili psikhologii. V etom izdanii, tak zhe kak i v predyduschem, bolshoe vnimanie udeleno razlichnym kulturam, fundamentalnym printsipam sotsialnogo myshlenija, sotsialnogo vlijanija i sotsialnogo povedenija. Avtor illjustriruet eti printsipy transnatsionalnymi primerami. Zhivoj jazyk avtora, obzor sotsialno-psikhologicheskikh i obschepsikhologicheskikh teorij, opisanie raznoobraznykh eksperimentov, nesomnenno, privlekut vnimanie ne tolko studentov-psikhologov i ikh prepodavatelej, no i sotsiologov, filosofov, politologov.7-e izdaniePerevodchik: Zamchuk Z. S.Redaktor: Maslova E.