Author: Iain Dale
Publisher: Harriman House
Keywords: blogging, political, guide, dale, iain
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1905641621
ISBN-13: 9781905641628
- Articles by thirty leading bloggers and commentators - Profiles of more than fifty leading blogs - A directory of 1,200 political blogs - The best 500 political blogs in the UK - The best 100 Conservative, Labour and LibDem blogs
Authors:Iain Richardson, Iain E. G. Richardson,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: video, multimedia, generation, compression, mpeg, coding
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-08-12
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0470848375
ISBN-13: 9780470848371
Following on from the successful MPEG-2 standard, MPEG-4 Visual is enabling a new wave of multimedia applications from Internet video streaming to mobile video conferencing. The new H.264 ‘Advanced Video Coding’ standard promises impressive compression performance and is gaining support from developers and manufacturers. The first book to cover H.264 in technical detail, this unique resource takes an application-based approach to the two standards and the coding concepts that underpin them. Presents a practical, step-by-step, guide to the MPEG-4 Visual and H.264 standar
Authors:Banks, Iain M. Banks,
Publisher: Abacus Software
Keywords: iain, banks, unsaved, amongst, isis, whit
Number of Pages: 455
Published: 1996-09
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0349107688
ISBN-13: 9780349107684
A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing. Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag - Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian’s four- yearly Festival of Love - disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to venture among the Unsaved and bring the apostate back into the fold. But the road to Babylondon (as Sister Angela puts it) is a treacherous one, particularly when Isis discovers that Morag appears to ha
Author: Iain Bank
Publisher: Spectra
Keywords: excession
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1998-02-02
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0553575376
ISBN-13: 9780553575378
It’s not easy to disturb a mega-utopia as vast as the one Iain M. Banks has created in his popular Culture series, where life is devoted to fun and ultra-high-tech is de rigueur. But more than two millennia ago the appearance--and disappearance--of a star older than the universe caused quite a stir. Now the mystery is back, and the key to solving it lies in the mind of the person who witnessed the first disturbance 2,500 years ago. But she’s dead, and getting her to cooperate may not be altogether easy.Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction
Author: Iain Pears
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Keywords: judgement, last
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-12-03
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0425186474
ISBN-13: 9780425186473
Iain Pears-who "exhibits quite a masterful touch at suspensful storytelling"*-has delighted fans and critics alike with his charming mystery novels featuring art dealer Jonathan Argyll. In The Last Judgement, Argyll agrees to transport a decidedly nondescript painting from a gallery in Paris to its new owner in Rome. But when his mission is plagued by robbery and murder, Argyll must investigate the dark secrets in the painting’s past-before someone tries to put him out of the picture for good.
Author: Iain M. Banks
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Keywords: art, state
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2007-04-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1597800740
ISBN-13: 9781597800747
The first ever collection of Iain Banks’ short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks’ staggering talent.
Author: Iain M. Banks
Publisher: Orbit
Keywords: weapons
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2008-07-28
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0316030570
ISBN-13: 9780316030571
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances’ foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action.The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought.The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman’s life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even i
