This dictionary will keep you up to speed with your telecommunications and internet terminology. Harry Newton has designed his book to be used as a daily quick reference; he has simplified difficult terms that are being used more and more casually in today's technological marketplace.
This is a "Fortune" best business book of the year! It presents the strategies that built Disney - and how they can help your business soar beyond the limits of traditional management. Walt Disney's dreams, beliefs, and daring launched an entertainment and marketing empire, one whose influence is felt around the world and whose success provides a ...
How are you affected by the media that surrounds you every day? Do you understand how technology works, develops and changes over time? What can you do to use the media more effectively? How can you make the media responsive to you? MEDIA NOW is the first mass communication text to encourage critical thinking about the media and its effects on ...
For undergraduate-level courses in Signals and Systems. This comprehensive exploration of signals and systems develops continuous-time and discrete-time concepts/methods in parallel -- highlighting the similarities and differences -- and features introductory treatments of the applications of these basic methods in such areas as filtering, ...
This text surveys the field of modern electronic media and beyond. Beyond, more than a word in the title, refers to the new technologies, regulations, programming, and competition that affect our world and the broadcasting industry. The authors of "Broadcasting, Cable, the Internet and Beyond" have three main goals for every edition: to convey the ...
Data communications and computer networks are becoming increasingly more important - today's business world could not function without either. Business managers, computer programmers, system designers, and home computer users alike need a thorough understanding of the basic features, operations, and limitations of different types of computer ...
This introductory level book gives comprehensive treatment to signals and linear systems. It emphasizes the physical appreciation of concepts rather than the mere mathematical manipulation of symbols. Mathematics is used to enhance physical and intuitive understanding, instead of to prove axiomatic theory. This book is divided into five parts and ...
This user-friendly and highly readable book presents the basic and intermediate level treatment of modern digital and analog communication systems. The basics of communication systems without using probabilistic concepts are introduced first. With this solid base, the students are ready to master the probabilistic concepts introduced in later ...
In BAMBI VS. GODZILLA, David Mamet, the award-winning playwright and screenwriter, gives us an exhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from the perspective of a film-maker who has always played the game his own way. Who really reads scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a personals ad? Whose opinion matters when revising ...
Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest trends in audio technology, this new edition of David B Weems' best seller (more than 35,000 copies in print) will guide do-it-yourselfers through the building and testing of low-cost speaker systems that rival the most expensive units on the market.
As cellular telephones become commonplace business tools, interest in wireless technology is booming. This book responds to that demand with a comprehensive survey of the field, suitable for educational or technical use. Materials are drawn from academic and business sources, numerous journals, and an IEEE professional reader. Extensively ...
It may be a while before Internet telephony with VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) reaches critical mass, but there's already tremendous movement in that direction. A lot of organizations are not only attracted to VoIP's promise of cost savings, but its ability to move data, images, and voice traffic over the same connection. Think of it: a ...
This book helps readers analyze visual messages using a technique similar to the one used to evaluate words. It offers physiological and theoretical background on visual perception, then moves to discussion of various media (including typography, graphic design, informational graphics, photography, television, video, and interactive media) and the ...
For Business Data Communications, Data Communications, and introductory Networking for Business courses. Business Data Communications, 6/e, covers the fundamentals of data communications, networking, distributed applications, and network management and security. Stallings presents these concepts in a way that relates specifically to the business ...
For senior/graduate-level courses in Discrete-Time Signal Processing. THE definitive, authoritative text on DSP -- ideal for those with an introductory-level knowledge of signals and systems. Written by prominent, DSP pioneers, it provides thorough treatment of the fundamental theorems and properties of discrete-time linear systems, filtering, ...
What Does Winning the Lottery Have To do with Engineering? Whether you're trying to win millions in the lottery or designing a complex computer network, you're applying probability theory. Although you encounter probability applications everywhere, the theory can be deceptively difficult to learn and apply correctly. This text will help you grasp ...
A significant revision of a best-selling text for the introductory digital signal processing course. This book presents the fundamentals of discrete-time signals, systems, and modern digital processing and applications for students in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science.The book is suitable for either a one-semester ...
Every business decision-maker needs to understand telecommunications: its costs, risks, and breakthrough opportunities for competitive advantage. With The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, Third Edition you can -- even if you have no technical background at all. Leading consultant Annabel Z. Dodd covers all the fundamental concepts you need ...
This edition contains BASIC computer programs for antenna design and impedance matching, expanded coverage of long-wire directional antennas and radio-wave propagation theory, and new material on small loop direction-finding antennas. It presents practical projects, providing nuts-and-bolts information on an array of antenna types, including: high ...
Focusing on the design of microwave circuits and components, this valuable reference offers professionals and students an introduction to the fundamental concepts necessary for real world design. The author successfully introduces Maxwell's equations, wave propagation, network analysis, and design principles as applied to modern microwave ...
For practicing engineers and scientists who design and analyze signal processing systems, i.e., to extract information from noisy signals - radar engineer, sonar engineer, geophysicist, oceanographer, biomedical engineer, communications engineer, economist, statistician, physicist, etc. A unified presentation of parameter estimation for those ...
For Telecommunications courses requiring comprehensive coverage of today's most cutting edge telecommunications technologies and concepts. Rosengrant's 2nd edition deploys a layered approach to examining current telecommunications technology. The first layer provides students with the "big picture" the second layer provides students with the ...
This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs that chronicle the history and form the foundation of the still-emerging field of new media. General introductions by Janet Murray and Lev Manovich, along with short introductions to each of the texts, place the works in their historical context and explain their significance. The texts ...
This definitive, bestselling telecommunications reference is fully revised and updated to cover the latest technologies. Voice and data communications expert Bud Bates delivers a complete, straightforward, and newly updated implementation guide on the latest telecommunications technologies to hit the market. You will get hands-on advice on ...
This lively account traces the history of the telegraph and examines how this first global communications network--and such seemingly modern phenomena as on-line romances and high-tech crimes--affected Victorians.
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