Authors:Martin J. Dougherty, Chris McNab,
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Keywords: modern, infantry, tactics, guide, forces, techniques, elite, combat
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-11-13
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0312368240
ISBN-13: 9780312368241

Combat Techniques is an up-to-date reference work on tactical procedures for today’s infantry. Illustrated with action photographs and detailed artworks, it provides a thorough insight into how the soldiers of today’s armies would fight in any combat scenario they encounter. The book covers all the main areas of battlefield tactics and procedures, with chapters on infantry weaponry, infantry tactics, heavy support -- such as air, armor, and artillery -- use of terrain, special forces tactics, and counter-insurgency warfare. The author detail the various forces and assets at a batt

Author: Dougherty
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: science, engineering, optical, methods, image, processing, digital
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 1994-01-12
List price: $249.95
ISBN-10: 082478927X
ISBN-13: 9780824789275

This unique reference presents in-depth coverage of the latest methods and applications of digital image processing-describing various computer architectures ideal for satisfying specific image processing demands. Providing timesaving access to practical algorithms necessary to accomplish key digital image processing tasks, Digital Image Processing Methods details nonlinear image filtering for enhancement and restoration elucidates morphological segmentation of both particles and textures discusses skeletonization investigates current pattern recognition technology, including handwritten chara

Author: Ray C. Dougherty
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: grammar, prolog, generative, english, language, computing, natural
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1994-11-01
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0805815252
ISBN-13: 9780805815252

This book’s main goal is to show readers how to use the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky, called Universal Grammar, to represent English, French, and German on a computer using the Prolog computer language. In so doing, it presents a follow-the-dots approach to natural language processing, linguistic theory, artificial intelligence, and expert systems. The basic idea is to introduce meaningful answers to significant problems involved in representing human language data on a computer. The book offers a hands-on approach to anyone who wishes to gain a perspective on natural language pro

Author: M. V. Dougherty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, companions, philosophy, essays, new, della, mirandola, pico
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2007-10-08
List price: $87.99
ISBN-10: 0521847362
ISBN-13: 9780521847360

This volume provides a comprehensive presentation of the philosophical work of the fifteenth-century Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. In essays specially commissioned for this book, a distinguished group of scholars presents the central tropics and texts of Pico’s literary output. Best known as the author of the celebrated "Oration on the Dignity of Man," a magnificent speech originally intended to introduce a debate of 900 theses to be held in Rome before the Pope, the College of Cardinals, and an international group of scholars, Pico also wrote several other promi

Author: Jim Dougherty
Publisher: BeachHouse Books
Keywords: jimmie, love, jeane, norma
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1888725516
ISBN-13: 9781888725513

The sensitive and touching story of the four-year marriage of Jim Dougherty and Norma Jeane Baker before her Hollywood transformation to Marilyn Monroe. This is a very unusual book about Norma Jeane, because it isn’t just another book about Marilyn Monroe. It’s a completely different, and very sensitive, view of a young girl married at 16 who is very much in love with her husband, Jim Dougherty. This book will give you a different perspective on Hollywood stardom. Dozens of photographs. 5« X 8«, 220 pp..

Author: Bob Dougherty
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: california, america, images, honda
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-06-13
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738547387
ISBN-13: 9780738547381

Less than 45 miles from San Francisco and Silicon Valley, La Honda is an isolated rural community nestled in the majestic coastal redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Pioneers in the late 19th century were loggers and ranchers who competed against grizzly bears and mountain lions for food. Outlaws like the Younger brothers (partners with Jesse James) used La Honda’s isolation to avoid justice. Gradually the community became a mountain retreat for city weary San Franciscans, and in the 1960s, La Honda was home to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest author Ken Kesey and his psych

Author: Peter J. Dougherty
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: soul, market, smith, adam
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-08-16
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0471184772
ISBN-13: 9780471184775

"Peter Dougherty does the near-impossible in this brilliant book . . . [he] makes economics engaging and accessible." --Professor Larry J. Sabato, University of Virginia In this spirited and timely book, Peter Dougherty shows how economists are drawing on Adam Smith’s civic writings to illuminate how the market creates not only fiscal capital, but "social capital." Dougherty demonstrates how Smith’s ideas are currently experiencing a renaissance. He then explores several impressive initiatives to demonstrate what today’s theoretical and practicing economists are accomplish