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Topographic Laser Ranging and Scanning Principles and Processing Second Edition

Topographic Laser Ranging and Scanning Principles and Processing Second Edition

Topographic Laser Ranging and Scanning Second Edition provides a comprehensive discussion of topographic LiDAR principles systems data acquisition and data processing techniques. This edition presents an introduction and summary of various LiDAR systems and their principles and addresses the operational principles of the different components and ranging methods of LiDAR systems. It discusses the subsequent geometric processing of LiDAR data with particular attention to quality accuracy and meeting standards and addresses the theories and practices of information extraction from LiDAR data including terrain surface generation forest inventory orthoimage generation building reconstruction and road extraction. Written by leaders in the field this comprehensive compilation is a must-have reference book for senior undergraduate and graduate students majoring or working in diverse disciplines such as geomatics geodesy natural resources urban planning computer vision and computer graphics. It is also vital resource for researchers who are interested in developing new methods and need in-depth knowledge of laser scanning and data processing and other professionals may gain the same from the broad topics addressed in this book. New in the Second Edition:A comprehensive array of new laser ranging and scanning technologies. Developments in LiDAR data format and processing techniques. Regrouping of surface modeling representations and reconstruction. Enhanced discussions on the principles and fundamentals beyond small-footprint pulsed laser systems and new application examples. Many new examples and illustrations. | Topographic Laser Ranging and Scanning Principles and Processing Second Edition

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Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing of Metal Parts Modeling Optimization and Control of Mechanical Properties

Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing of Metal Parts Modeling Optimization and Control of Mechanical Properties

Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing (LBAM) technologies hailed by some as the third industrial revolution can increase product performance while reducing time-to-market and manufacturing costs. This book is a comprehensive look at new technologies in LBAM of metal parts covering topics such as mechanical properties microstructural features thermal behavior and solidification process parameters optimization and control uncertainty quantification and more. The book is aimed at addressing the needs of a diverse cross-section of engineers and professionals. | Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing of Metal Parts Modeling Optimization and Control of Mechanical Properties

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17 Things Resilient Teachers Do (And 4 Things They Hardly Ever Do)

17 Things Resilient Teachers Do (And 4 Things They Hardly Ever Do)

This book will help you learn practical ways to manage the stress of teaching and avoid burnout. Bestselling author and educational consultant Bryan Harris presents strategies for building resilience including reframing understanding the power of no focusing on what you can control building positive relationships advocating for yourself and more. Each chapter clearly presents concise and practical applications that you can implement right away. With this guidebook you’ll feel ready to bounce back from challenges and stay focused on the joys of the profession. | 17 Things Resilient Teachers Do (And 4 Things They Hardly Ever Do)

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Women Do Genre in Film and Television

Women Do Genre in Film and Television

Winner of first Prize in the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection competition this volume examines how different generations of women work within the genericity of audio-visual storytelling not necessarily to ‘undo’ or ‘subvert’ popular formats but also to draw on their generative force. Recent examples of filmmakers and creative practitioners within and outside Hollywood as well as women working in non-directing authorial roles remind us that women are in various ways authoring commercially and culturally impactful texts across a range of genres. Put simply this volume asks: what do women who are creatively engaged with audio-visual industries do with genre and what does genre do with them? The contributors to the collection respond to this question from diverse perspectives and with different answers spanning issues of direction screenwriting performance and audience address/reception. | Women Do Genre in Film and Television

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Pedagogical Tact Knowing What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

Pedagogical Tact Knowing What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

Pedagogical Tact describes how teacher-student relations possess an improvisational and ethical character. The daily realities of educators parents and childcare specialists are pedagogically conditioned by sensitive insights active thoughtfulness and the creative ability to act caringly and appropriately in the immediacy of the moment. Internationally known educator Max van Manen shows through recognizable examples and evocative stories how good teaching is driven by the phenomenology of pedagogy. His book-refocuses educators and others away from an emphasis on instrumental skills and technocratic programs toward the need for pedagogical tact;-describes how pedagogical actions have latent effects that will influence children throughout their lives;-shows how our actions with young people have pedagogically ethical and moral significance;-gives educators back their original vocational motivation and inspiration. | Pedagogical Tact Knowing What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

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What Do We Owe Other Animals? A Debate

What Do We Owe Other Animals? A Debate

Philosophers Bob Fischer and Anja Jauernig agree that human society often treats animals in indefensible ways and that all animals morally matter; they disagree on whether humans and animals morally matter equally. In What Do We Owe Other Animals?: A Debate Fischer and Jauernig square off over this central question in animal ethics. Jauernig defends the view that all living beings morally matter equally and are owed compassion on account of which we are also obligated to adopt a vegan diet. Fischer denies that we have an obligation to become vegans and argues for the position that humans morally matter more than all other living creatures. The two authors each offer a clear well-developed opening statement a direct response to the other’s statement and then a response to the other’s response. Along the way they explore central questions like: What kind of beings matter morally? What kind of obligations do we have towards other animals? How demanding can we reasonably expect these obligations to be? Do our individual consumer choices such as the choice to purchase factory-farmed animal products make a difference to the wellbeing of animals? The debate is helpfully framed by introductions and conclusions to each of the major parts and by smaller introductions to each of the sub-sections. A Foreword by Dustin Crummett sets the context for the debate within a larger discussion of sentience moral standing reason-guided compassion and the larger field of animal ethics. Key Features Showcases the presentation and defense of two points of view on the moral worth of non-human animals Provides frequent summaries of previously covered material Includes a topically-organized list of Further Readings and a Glossary of all specialized vocabulary | What Do We Owe Other Animals? A Debate

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What Great Teachers Do Differently Nineteen Things That Matter Most

What Great Teachers Do Differently Nineteen Things That Matter Most

What are the beliefs and behaviors that set great teachers apart? In this internationally renowned bestseller Todd Whitaker reveals 19 keys to becoming more effective in the classroom. This essential third edition features new sections on why it’s about more than relationships how to focus on a consistent engaging learning environment and the importance of choosing the right mode—business parent child—to improve your classroom management. Perfect for educators at any level of experience for independent reading or for schoolwide book studies this practical book will leave you feeling inspired and ready to do the things that matter most for the people who matter most—your students. | What Great Teachers Do Differently Nineteen Things That Matter Most

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How To Do Primary Care Research

How To Do Primary Care Research

This practical ‘How To’ guide talks the reader step-by-step through designing conducting and disseminating primary care research a growing discipline internationally. The vast majority of health care issues are experienced by people in community settings who are not adequately represented by hospital-based research. There is therefore a great need to upskill family physicians and other primary care workers and academics to conduct community-based research to inform best practice. Aimed at emerging researchers including those in developing countries this book also addresses cutting edge and newly developing research methods which will be of equal interest to more experienced researchers. | How To Do Primary Care Research

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What Great Principals Do Differently Twenty Things That Matter Most

What Great Principals Do Differently Twenty Things That Matter Most

What are the attitudes and actions that make great principals stand out? In this internationally renowned bestseller Todd Whitaker reveals the 20 keys to effective school leadership. This essential third edition features helpful new strategies for recruiting talent through better interview and reference questions as well as tips for retaining talent. It also offers a new section on how leadership is not an event but rather requires a consistent approach to affect the climate and eventually shape the culture of your school. Perfect for new and experienced principals for independent professional reading or for leadership courses this practical book will leave you feeling inspired and ready to do the things that matter most for the people who ultimately matter most—the students. | What Great Principals Do Differently Twenty Things That Matter Most

GBP 22.99
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The Shortcut Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us

The Shortcut Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us

An influential scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) explains its fundamental concepts and how it is changing culture and society. A particular form of AI is now embedded in our tech our infrastructure and our lives. How did it get there? Where and why should we be concerned? And what should we do now? The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us provides an accessible yet probing exposure of AI in its prevalent form today proposing a new narrative to connect and make sense of events that have happened in the recent tumultuous past and enabling us to think soberly about the road ahead. This book is divided into ten carefully crafted and easily digestible chapters. Each chapter grapples with an important question for AI. Ranging from the scientific concepts that underpin the technology to wider implications for society it develops a unified description using tools from different disciplines and avoiding unnecessary abstractions or words that end with -ism. The book uses real examples wherever possible introducing the reader to the people who have created some of these technologies and to ideas shaping modern society that originate from the technical side of AI. It contains important practical advice about how we should approach AI in the future without promoting exaggerated hypes or fears. Entertaining and disturbing but always thoughtful The Shortcut confronts the hidden logic of AI while preserving a space for human dignity. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in AI the history of technology and the history of ideas. General readers will come away much more informed about how AI really works today and what we should do next. | The Shortcut Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us

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Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do?

Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do?

In comparison with Literary Studies and Media and Film Studies the disciplines of Theatre and Performance with their strong anthropocentric heritage have been relatively slow in responding to such things as climate change species extinction or pollution and toxicity etc. However in the wake of recent work on animals cyborgs and objects as well as publications with a specific focus on ecology and environment there are real signs that theatre and performance scholars are beginning to make their own contribution to the Environmental Humanities. But if theatre critics are engaged in new forms of ecocritical analysis it is worth posing a pertinent question from the outset: namely what can theatre do ecologically? In this book leading researchers and practitioners seek to answer that question from a number of perspectives and with diverse methodologies. Topics include: reflections on rehearsal processes scores for performance site-based interventions ideas of conflict investigations of temporality and time ecology ecospectating and the experience of disappointment. Taken together these essays make an important intervention in the emergent (inter)disciplines of the Environmental Humanities and further our understanding of the ecological potential of Theatre and Performance in ways that are cautious tentative but also generative. This book was originally published as a special issue of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism. | Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do?

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Do Funerals Matter? The Purposes and Practices of Death Rituals in Global Perspective

Do Funerals Matter? The Purposes and Practices of Death Rituals in Global Perspective

Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical sociocultural and research-based perspectives on death rituals drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals have been; and where especially in the Western world they are going. The Classic Edition includes a new preface from the author reflecting on changes in the field since the book’s initial publication. Death educators researchers counselors clergy funeral-service professionals and others will appreciate the book’s theory- and research-based approach to the ways in which different cultural groups memorialize their dead. They will also find clear clinical and practical applications in the author’s exploration of the five ritual anchors of death-related ceremonial practice and help for professionals counseling the bereaved surrounding funerals. Based on nearly four decades of research and teaching on funeral rites this volume promises to fill an important gap in the cross-cultural literature on bereavement while answering an important question for our generation: Do funerals matter? | Do Funerals Matter? The Purposes and Practices of Death Rituals in Global Perspective

GBP 28.99
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Do We Have Free Will? A Debate

Do We Have Free Will? A Debate

In this little but profound volume Robert Kane and Carolina Sartorio debate a perennial question: Do We Have Free Will? Kane introduces and defends libertarianism about free will: free will is incompatible with determinism; we are free; we are not determined. Sartorio introduces and defends compatibilism about free will: free will is compatible with determinism; we can be free even while our actions are determined through and through. Simplifying tricky terminology and complicated concepts for readers new to the debate the authors also cover the latest developments on a controversial topic that gets us entangled in questions about blameworthiness and responsibility coercion and control and much more. Each author first presents their own side and then they interact through two rounds of objections and replies. Pedagogical features include standard form arguments section summaries bolded key terms and principles a glossary and annotated reading lists. Short lively and accessible the debate showcases diverse and cutting-edge work on free will. As per Saul Smilansky’s foreword Kane and Sartorio present the readers with two things at once: an introduction to the traditional free will problem; and a demonstration of what a great yet very much alive and relevant philosophical problem is like. Key Features: Covers major concepts views and arguments about free will in an engaging format Accessible style and pedagogical features for students and general readers Cutting-edge contributions by preeminent scholars on free will. | Do We Have Free Will? A Debate

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Damned If You Do Damned If You Don't Working in Child Welfare

Damned If You Do Damned If You Don't Working in Child Welfare

First published in 1998 Anthony McMahon details the accounts of public agency child welfare dealing abused and neglected children and their families and the pressures on child welfare workers. Opening up the discussion on the ambiguities whilst dealing with balancing child welfare work whilst dealing with the societal pressure of the non-intrusion into family life. | Damned If You Do Damned If You Don't Working in Child Welfare

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Evolution Politics and Charisma Why do Populists Win?

Evolution Politics and Charisma Why do Populists Win?

Evolution Politics and Charisma: Why do Populists Win? shines compelling new light on the way in which the systematic targeting and manipulation of human physiology remain a cornerstone of all populist political campaigns. Readers wishing to make sense of the populist juggernauts of Trump and Brexit and of the cyclical and formulaic nature of the rise and fall of charismatic populism will find this book particularly appealing. Elesa Zehndorfer begins by presenting a highly applied explanation of the critical importance of political physiology physiology theory neuroscience and evolutionary biology in populist charismatic politics. She later eloquently explains how manipulation of physiological variables (such as heightened testosterone and dopamine) renders the political rally one of the most powerful weapons in a populist leaders’ campaign. Weber’s seminal conceptualisation of charisma ‘in statu nascendi’ and Hyman Minsky’s insightful theories of cyclical boom-and-bust scenarios are then juxtaposed alongside physiological theory to greatly amplify our understanding of the powerful biological antecedents of charismatic populism. These theoretical observations are then applied directly to recent high-profile populist campaigns – including the 2016 Trump Presidential campaign and early Presidency – and the Brexit referendum to elucidating and compelling effect. Ultimately Evolution Politics and Charisma paints a clear evolutionary picture of the way in which politics is an emotional – not a rational – process where our emotions are continually targeted to great and strategic effect and where the most recent intersection of technology and physiology has driven the greatest surge in populism ever seen across the Western hemisphere since the 1930’s. Acknowledging this reality opens up exciting vistas in our understanding of the true power of charismatic populism and provides answers as to how its seductive and often dangerous power can be effectively resisted. | Evolution Politics and Charisma Why do Populists Win?

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Vocabulary Strategies That Work Do This—Not That

Vocabulary Strategies That Work Do This—Not That

Update your vocabulary practices to meet standards and improve students’ word knowledge! This revised clearly structured guide shows you how. Each chapter is packed with engaging research-based classroom-ready strategies for teaching vocabulary. For each vocabulary recommendation you’ll learn the research behind it how it relates to the Common Core and other state standards and how to implement it in your classroom. This expanded second edition includes a wealth of new vocabulary-building strategies and activities. Updates include a new chapter offering a research perspective more content on teacher and student selection of vocabulary and new tools and examples for content-area teachers to incorporate meaningful vocabulary instruction. Additional Support Material with free printable activities and tools is available online at www. routledge. com/9780367480592. This book is an invaluable resource for practicing and pre-service teachers. | Vocabulary Strategies That Work Do This—Not That

GBP 24.99
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Why Do I Have to Read This? Literacy Strategies to Engage Our Most Reluctant Students

Why Do I Have to Read This? Literacy Strategies to Engage Our Most Reluctant Students

Why do I have to read this?- What teacher doesn't dread this question? It usually comes from our most disengaged students a student who cries of boredom or one who is angry or apathetic. When we don't know what else to try it's easy to become frustrated and give up on these challenging learners. Author Cris Tovani has spent her career figuring out how to entice challenging students back into the process of learning. Why Do I Have to Read This?: Literacy Strategies to Engage our Most Reluctant Students Tovani shares her best secrets lessons learned from big fails and her most effective literacy and planning strategies that hook these hard to get learners. You will meet many of Tovani's students inside this book. As she describes some of her favorites you may even recognize a few of your own. You will laugh at her stories and take comfort in her easily adaptable strategies that help students remove their masks of disengagement. She shows teachers how to plan by anticipating students' needs. HerC urriculumY ouA nticipate structures of Topic Task Targets Text Tend to me and Time willhelp you anticipate your curriculum. InsideWhy Do I Have to Read This? readers will find: Literacy strategies for all content areas that support and engage a wide range of learners so they can read and write a variety of complex textReference charts packed with small bites of instructional shifts that coaches and teachers can use to quickly adjust instruction to re-engage studentsPlanning strategies that show teachers how to connect day-to-day instruction so that no day lives in isolationVersatile think sheets that are reproducible and adaptable to different grade levels content areas and disciplinesAbove all Tovani gives teachers energy to get back into the classroom and face students who wear masks of disengagement. She reminds us of the importance of connecting students to compelling topics rich text useful targets and worthy tasks. Teachers must tendto students' basic needs and helps us consider how to best structure instructional time. After reading this book teachers will have new ways to connect with students in a deep authentic way. Written in a humorous compassionate and wise voice Why Do I Have to Read This? will provide answers to the pressing questions we have when we try to teach and reach all of our students. | Why Do I Have to Read This? Literacy Strategies to Engage Our Most Reluctant Students

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Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion Do All Good Things Go Together?

Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion Do All Good Things Go Together?

The agenda of external actors often includes a number of objectives that do not necessarily and automatically go together. Fostering security and stability in semi-authoritarian regimes collides with policies aimed at the support of processes of democratization prone to conflict and destabilization. Meanwhile the promotion of national self-determination and political empowerment might lead to forms of democracy partially incompatible with liberal understandings. These conflicting objectives are often problematized as challenges to the effectiveness of international democracy promotion. This book presents systematic research about their emergence and effects. The contributing authors investigate (post-) conflict societies developing countries and authoritarian regimes in Southeast Europe Latin America Africa and Asia. They identify the socio-economic and political conditions in the recipient country the interaction between international and local actors and the capacity of international and local actors as relevant for explaining the emergence of conflicting objectives. And they empirically show that faced with conflicting objectives donors either use a ‘wait and see’-approach (i. e. not to act to overcome such conflicts) they prioritize security state-building and development over democracy or they compromise democracy promotion with other goals. However convincing strategies for dealing with such conflicts still need to be devised. This book was published as a special issue of Democratization. | Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion Do All Good Things Go Together?

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Flatlined Why Lean Transformations Fail and What to Do About It

Flatlined Why Lean Transformations Fail and What to Do About It

With 30 years of driving Lean transformations under his belt—both in-house at Danaher and as the founder of Lean Horizons—Mark C. DeLuzio has a vantage point across a variety of industries. He often hears the challenges Lean leaders face now that they’ve been implementing Lean for a decade or more. They are concerned that they aren’t getting the results they used to and they don’t know why. Most leaders believe their problems are unique to their company but Mark sees more commonalities than differences. Flatlined: Why Lean Transformations Fail and What to Do About It draws on the author’s experience as the original pioneer of the most successful Lean business system next to Toyota as well as his progress over the past 18 years in helping companies replicate what Danaher achieved. Mark DeLuzio knows you need an actionable approach to make rapid shifts not theory. With this book Mark DeLuzio gives you: • the reasons why companies are now flatlining with Lean; • five steps to solving this problem no matter what your industry or corporate culture; • real talk on why your organization is probably mediocre (even if it’s making a lot of money) and how to disrupt it to make it genuinely world class; • the questions you should always be asking at every stage and level of your Lean initiative. | Flatlined Why Lean Transformations Fail and What to Do About It

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Critical Memetic Literacies in English Education How Do You Meme?

Critical Memetic Literacies in English Education How Do You Meme?

This edited collection introduces English and literacy educators to the theoretical research-based and practical dimensions of using digital memetic texts—“memes”—in the classroom. Digital memetic texts come with new affordances particularly as avenues for student creativity voice and advocacy. But these texts can also be put to manipulative propagandistic and nefarious purposes posing critical challenges to an informed democratic citizenry. Grounded in multimodality and critical literacy this book investigates the fascinating digital dimension of texts audiences and meaning and considers how English educators might take up these conversations in practical ways with students. With authentic examples from teachers and students this volume provides a road map to researchers and educators—both preservice and in-service—interested in critical and productive uses of these modern phenomena. | Critical Memetic Literacies in English Education How Do You Meme?

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The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X

The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X

The newly revised third edition of Rick Young’s The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X is the ultimate mentor for getting up and running with Apple’s professional editing software regardless of your skill level. In this step-by-step full-color guide Rick clearly explains the key concepts and essential knowledge needed to edit your project from start to finish providing clear time-saving instructions on producing and outputting using Final Cut Pro X. This new edition includes: A thorough introduction to Final Cut Pro X and the philosophy by which the software works Complete coverage of the post production process including setup importing and organizing media editing audio and output Additional sections on Multicam Editing working with Proxies effective Media Management the Magnetic Timeline Batch Share and Effects Production New chapters covering in detail: Roles Color Correction and the Touch Bar Instructions on encoding distributing and archiving your completed projects And an accompanying eResource featuring downloadable video footage that you can edit with using the techniques covered in the book Packed with tutorials and real-world examples The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X will take you through the ins and outs of the software and have you editing and outputting your movies in no time! Published July 2019

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How Do I Get Them to Write? Explore the Reading-Writing Connection Using Freewriting and Mentor Texts to Motivate and Empower Students

How Do I Get Them to Write? Explore the Reading-Writing Connection Using Freewriting and Mentor Texts to Motivate and Empower Students

Committed to the premise that all students can learn to write with appropriate teaching modelling and practice How Do I Get Them To Write? argues that reading and writing go hand in hand. Through reading writing and the inevitable discussions that follow students learn from the experiences of others open their minds to many possibilities gain a glimpse into worlds unknown to them make connections to their own lives and reflect on their own choices and learning. An ideal resource for teachers who love writing as well as those who find it challenging. | How Do I Get Them to Write? Explore the Reading-Writing Connection Using Freewriting and Mentor Texts to Motivate and Empower Students

GBP 29.99
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Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Character Behavior

Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Character Behavior

Steve Rabin’s Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Character Behavior gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous three Game AI Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology that covers character behavior in game AI. This volume is complete with articles by leading game AI programmers that focus on individual AI behavior such as character interactions modelling knowledge efficient simulation difficulty balancing and making decisions with case studies from both commercial and indie games. Key Features Provides real-life case studies of game AI in published commercial games Material by top developers and researchers in Game AI Downloadable demos and/or source code available online

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Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Movement and Pathfinding

Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Movement and Pathfinding

Steve Rabin’s Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Movement and Pathfinding gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous three Game AI Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology covering movement and pathfinding in game AI. This volume is complete with articles by leading game AI programmers that explore better ways to smooth paths avoid obstacles and navigate 3D space with cutting-edge techniques. Key Features Provides real-life case studies of game AI in published commercial games Material by top developers and researchers in Game AI Downloadable demos and/or source code available online

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