Data compression is now indispensable to products and services of many industries including computers, communications, healthcare, publishing and entertainment. This invaluable resource introduces this area to information system managers and others who need to understand how it is changing the world of digital systems. For those who know the technology well, it reveals what happens when data compression is used in real-world applications and provides guidance for future technology development.
Data compression is now indispensable to products and services of many industries including computers, communications, healthcare, publishing and ente...
The Generals, Admirals, Politicians and yes, the hero's have many stories written about them. This is about a young man drafted into the Army and his misadventures from basic training through the Battle of the Bulge.
Recollections of friendships made and friends lost, humor in the midst of miserable situations, bad food, poor equipment and sleeping in the snow on Christmas Eve in Belgium. A day-by-day description of the life of a G.I. Infantryman in the "War to end all wars."
The Generals, Admirals, Politicians and yes, the hero's have many stories written about them. This is about a young man drafted into the Army and his ...
Nebraska Waters is black; Vivian Gold is Jewish. In an Alabama kitchen where, for nearly thirty years, they share cups of coffee, fret over their children, and watch the civil rights movement unfold on the TV screen and out their window, they are like family--almost.
As Nebraska makes her way, day in and day out, to Vivian's home where she cooks and helps tend the Gold children, the bond between the women both strengthens and frays. The "almost" threatens to widen into a great divide.
The two women's husbands affect their relationship, as do their children. This is...
Nebraska Waters is black; Vivian Gold is Jewish. In an Alabama kitchen where, for nearly thirty years, they share cups of coffee, fret over their c...
After twenty years in New York City, a prize-winning writer takes a "long look back" at his hometown of Mobile, Alabama. In Back Home: Journeys through Mobile, Roy Hoffman tells stories through essays, feature articles, and memoir of one of the South's oldest and most colorful port cities. Many of the pieces here grew out of Hoffman's work as Writer-in-Residence for his hometown newspaper, the Mobile Register, a position he took after working in New York City for twenty years as a journalist, fiction writer, book critic, teacher, and speech writer. Other pieces...
After twenty years in New York City, a prize-winning writer takes a "long look back" at his hometown of Mobile, Alabama. In Back Hom...
Data compression is now indispensable to products and services of many industries including computers, communications, healthcare, publishing and entertainment. This invaluable resource introduces this area to information system managers and others who need to understand how it is changing the world of digital systems. For those who know the technology well, it reveals what happens when data compression is used in real-world applications and provides guidance for future technology development.
Data compression is now indispensable to products and services of many industries including computers, communications, healthcare, publishing and en...
The worlds of three women and the men they love come together in this novel of war and hurricanes, loss and renewal. Christiane, or Nana, reliving the past in her eighties, her granddaughter Angela, working at a Biloxi casino in her twenties, and their teenage friend Cam, the daughter of a Vietnamese shrimper, form a deep connection. As they face heartbreak, their bonds nurture and sustain them. Ordinary people impacted by the shifts of history--Come Landfall is a southern story with a global sensibility. The Gulf Coast serves as more than just a setting--it is a character unto...
The worlds of three women and the men they love come together in this novel of war and hurricanes, loss and renewal. Christiane, or Nana, reliving the...
