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Best Telephone Systems Engineering

Digital Telephony (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)
Introduces all aspects of digital communications, emphasizing voice applications and digitization, digital transmission and switching, network synchronization, control and analysis. With 30 percent new material, Digital Telephony, Third Edition features: * Clear explanations on how to overcome problems associated with the replacement of old analog technology with new digital technology. * A new chapter on digital mobile telephone technology. * New material on how, data networks support voice communication. * A new chapter on digital subscriber access technologies. * More than 300 graphs illustrating concepts. * Examples from the U.S. network as well as ITU public telephone networks. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Very informative book and not difficult to assimilate."
"This books offers an excellent high level overview of the history of the telephony network and the migration to a nearly all digital network including detailed coverage of all aspects and issues of the modern digital systems."
"Plus, working the supplied answers to example problems backwards (because my answers didn't match the author's), I've come across two examples I believe the author made a fundamental error, to-which the teacher says, "yeah, I guess you could do it either way.""
"An excellent book for introducing anyone (with a technical interest) to digital signal processing."
"I had a master of science course in 1984 named Digital Switching Systems and this book the text book of that course, I enjoyed so much of reading the book and how simple and clear was explained all the modern Digital Telephony at that time."
"The third edition continues to provide this broad view of the public network, adding or expanding coverage of newer areas such as ATM and optical communications."
"my family all need it , great, and very happy."
"Dr. Bellamy's book covers almost all aspects of how the digital telephone network works, including voice processing, codecs, switching, and traffic analysis. Personally, I've learned a great deal from this book - my copy is dog-eared with lots of notes and yellow highlights."
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The Continuous Wave: Technology and American Radio, 1900-1932 (Princeton Legacy Library)
Hugh Aitken describes a critical period in the history of radio, when continuous wave technology first made reliable long-distance wireless communication possible and opened up opportunities for broadcasting voice and music.
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"Fantastic book!"
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The Mathematical Theory of Communication
Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace--but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as The Mathematical Theory of Communication , published originally as a paper on communication theory more than fifty years ago. Claude E. Shannon was a research mathematician at the Bell Telephone Laboratories and Donner professor of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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"The seed book for all new field of science."
"But it's certainly a seminal work."
"This book does not need any praise because anybody who had even an introductory education in computer science or electronics of communication will have met the name of Shannon (if you haven't yet, please rush to Google and read his achievements)."
"This is a classic which does not receive the attention it deserves."
"... but one must be seriously motivated to work through and understand this short book."
"If you want to understand the underlying math and logic behind compute and communication there is no way around this seminal work."
"It's hard going for a general reader, but if you persist, you begin to get a rudimentary understanding, and a glimpse of what happens when science makes a breakthrough."
"This is a classic text - the text on communications theory that started a revolution in digital communications."
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Best TV & Video Engineering

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. “I can’t think of a more prophetic, more thoughtful, more necessary – and yes, more entertaining – book about media culture.” –Victor Navasky, National Book Award-winning author of The Art of Controversy “All I can say about Neil Postman’s brilliant Amusing Ourselves to Death is: Guilty As Charged.” –Matt Groening, Creator of The Simpsons “As a fervent evangelist of the age of Hollywood, I publicly opposed Neil Postman’s dark picture of our media-saturated future.
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""Amusing Ourselves to Death" is an amazingly written and well-argued book. Today, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have bite-sized debates where one side speaks for 1 minute and the other side gets a 30-second rebuttal. Clearly, the people then were different from the people now in terms of mainstream intelligence. The reason, Postman argues, is that the people in Dickens' era were children of "The Age of Typography," and the people today (us) are the children of "The Age of Show Business," or "The Age of Television." This book was written in 1985, but don't be fooled; it still wields enormous relevance today -- The chapter titled, "Peek-a-Boo-World" as well as the "Information-to-action-ratio" theory outlined in it are particularly pertinent regarding the modern-day use of the internet, especially with portable laptops, tablets, and cellphones."
"The coverage this book got after 2016 US primaries has further fueled the interest of those who are looking for gratification to find arguments that confirm to their views of the contemporary world. Under the influence of a biased yearning to find a way out of the 2016 US political landscape, this book is a panacea; it categorically puts the blame for this presumed gaffe on the evolution of show business in the coeval society. All that this book does is present an aha moment, something on the lines of ‘I knew it!’ Otherwise, any serious explorer of this topic should start with 1984 by George Orwell or Brave New World by Aldous Huxley instead of picking up this text."
"Although the book was written twenty years ago, it is even more relevant today. Will young people even be able to read books?"
"The future and the present seem startlingly similar to aldous huxley and neil postman's vision of it, and that is frightening."
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Best Telecommunication Satellite Engineering

Communications Satellite Handbook
A Basic Atlas of Radio-Wave Propagation Shigekazu Shibuya Now, in one source, planners and designers of telecommunications operating organizations can get direct guidelines for radio system planning and design. Carefully organized to present basic concepts of radio-wave propagation and system design, this indispensable work fully details even the most difficult mathematical theories and equations with graphic presentations that beginners and non-specialists will find particularly helpful.
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"It is a must for any engineer working in the satellite industry."
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Best Antenna Engineering

Practical Antenna Handbook 5/e
Characteristics of all-driven and parasitic arrays Beverages and small MF/HF receiving loops Top-loaded shunt-fed towers and other verticals Theory and design of Yagi beams Effect of real ground on propagation and antenna patterns, impedance, and efficiency Lightning protection and four kinds of ground systems Zoning and restrictive covenants. Dipoles and inverted-Vs Quads, delta, and NVIS loops Wire arrays (bobtail curtain, half-square, rhombic) Verticals and shunt-fed towers Rotatable Yagi beams MF/HF receiving antennas (flag, pennant, K9AY, Beverage) Mobile and portable antennas VHF/UHF/microwave antennas And many more. Joseph Carr was a military electronics technician and the author of several popular electronics books, including McGraw-Hill’s Secrets of RF Design , Third Edition and Old Time Radios!
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"The book first of all is *readable* not being either a compendium of example antennas others have created that may or may not work, nor is it a book full of old antenna information the foundation for which might date back 80 years and be suspect."
"Everything you need to know about any antenna, matching network or any other topic associated with antennas is directly located in the chapter you are reading."
"Good book."
"This book starts with some basic concepts and gradually build them up until the reader is working with some very deep aspects of RF transmission and propagation."
"Lots of good information."
"Even if you don't have the technical background it's a excellent reference for any serious radio amateur."
"This book is a good intermediate level book for people who have a working knowledge of RF and antennas."
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Best Mobile & Wireless Telecommunications

The Hobbyist's Guide to the RTL-SDR: Really Cheap Software Defined Radio
A comprehensive guide to the RTL2832U RTL-SDR software defined radio by the authors of the RTL-SDR Blog. What's in the book?
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"In addition, it covers a number of issues in detail, provides links to online sources for hardware and software."
"Lots of detailed work put into this book."
"An excellent compilation of available RTL-SDR resources, and then some."
"I've already some knowledge of using the cheap amazing SDR dongles and this book was inspirational to push further with some nice future project ideas."
"Please also visit and follow RTL-SDR on the web to keep up to date on the current state of the art for SDR use and applications."
"It’s a great reference source and primer for those highly technical readers wanting to know all the dimensions of SDR Radio."
"and, if able, print the larger font Table of Contents pages."
"This book has a lot of good information, but not good for Apple users and SDR's."
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Best Microwaves Telecommunications

Troubleshooting and Repairing Major Appliances
Automatic dishwashers Garbage disposers Electric water heaters Gas water heaters Top load automatic washers Front load automatic washers Automatic electric dryers Automatic gas dryers Electric ranges, cooktops, and ovens Gas ranges, cooktops, and ovens Microwave ovens Refrigerators Freezers Automatic ice makers Residential under-the-counter ice cube makers Room air conditioners Dehumidifiers. Eric Kleinert is a professional with more than 40 years of experience in commercial and domestic major appliances, refrigeration, and HVAC sales, service, and installation.
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"The best book out."
"Great."
"The most complete book I've encountered."
"Big book with a lot of diagrams, details and pictures."
"tells you nothing but theory basics which we already know, right''?"
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Best Signal Processing

Signals and Systems (2nd Edition)
This authoritative book, highly regarded for its intellectual quality and contributions provides a solid foundation and life-long reference for anyone studying the most important methods of modern signal and system analysis. 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, communication, sampling, discrete-time processing of continuous-time signals, and feedback.
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"As a total nerd who also minored in mathematics, I found that studying Fourier Transforms within the topic of Mathematics did a better job of explaining the techniques found in here."
"Heavy in math notation, but if you are taking a signals class then you can probably already read math very well."
"Exactly as ordered."
"Great book."
"Quality of book is good as new."
"Also, the fact that there is an accompanying MIT open courseware course by Oppenheim that closely follows the textbook (readings are even assigned) makes this pretty much a no-brainer purchase."
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Best Radar Technology

Stimson's Introduction to Airborne Radar (Electromagnetics and Radar)
Has any technical book, radar or otherwise, presented the fundamentals and applications of a topic with such clarity and interest as George Stimson’s masterpiece has? Over 50,000 happy Stimson owners would say, “Not likely!” Now a skilled and respected team of radar and EW engineers, working closely with a community of radar advisors and the publisher’s editors, have fully modernized coverage and maintained the unique Stimson look and feel. Even the “timeless principles” and core fundamentals of general radar have been updated in wording and new graphics, while the more advanced concepts and applications in airborne radar have been brought into the digital age of radar signal processing and solid state electronics. Hugh D. Griffiths has published over 300 technical articles and papers and is the Editor-in-Chief of the IET Journal Radar, Sonar and Navigation .
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"It even has sections written by additional authors that are subject matter experts in the specific radar domains, including Adamy who wrote the EW 100 series."
"This is THE book on radar."
"Has been easy to follow and is generally to the point."
"Enjoyed reading this book because its style is oriented toward. students, not experts."
"I have the first two editions of this book and now own the third."
"A wealth to info in this great book."
"Understandable and easy to grasp with great illustrations and text."
"Great product, great service."
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Best Radio Communications

The ARRL General Class License Manual Spiral Bound
Upgrading to a General license--which conveys extensive HF privileges only requires passing a written examination. Once you do, the entire range of operating modes and the majority of the amateur spectrum below 30 MHz become available to you. Use this book to study for your General Class license exam. Every page presents information you will need to pass the exam and become an effective operator.
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"Using this process with a clean copy of the pool questions I got to mostly "blue" and a couple of "greens"...and easily passed the three test."
"I already have the Tech book and I used that and the practice exams on line to pass my Tech exam."
"Hypertext jumps from the subject to questions and answers was flawless."
"Excellent book."
"The book was so simple and easy to follow. This book will go over various topics and then at the end of the chapter it will just say, "Please review questions in section etc, etc, etc before continuing to the next chapter" I hate flipping back and forth between reading material and question pools in the back of the book. In the end this book will work and some of you might just say I have a different way of learning than others which is true."
"Very comprehensive and clear."
"Brand new and is current..."
"I bought this book to upgrade my amateur license upgrade from tech, and passed the test no with no problems."
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