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Rudolf Graf and William Sheets have written a book containing twenty low-power (LP) transmitter projects, perfect for the electronics hobbyist and radio experimenter. Now that the FCC has changed its regulations about "pirate" transmissions, more and more people are setting up radio and video stations for broadcast from their homes. Build Your Own Low-Power Transmitters addresses applications for hobbyist broadcasting of AM, SSB, TV, FM Stereo and NBFM VHF-UHF signals with equipment the reader can build himself for thousands of dollars less than similar equipment sold on the retail market. The authors also fully explore the legal limits and ramifications of using the equipment as well as how to get the best performance for optimum range. The key advantage is referencing a low-cost source for all needed parts, including the printed circuit board, as well as the kit.
Projects in the book include: LP FM stereo transmitter; digitally synthesized PLL FM stereo transmitter; LP AM transmitter for 150-1710 KHz; radio control transmitter/receiver; carrier current transmitter and AM and FM receivers; LP VHF one-way and two-way audio links; 1-watt 40-meter CW transmitter for ham radio use; SSB LP transmitter for 10-meter ham radio use; 2-meter VHF FM ham radio transmitter; FM video link for 900 MHz NTSC/PAL operation; 2-watt TV transmitters for 440, 900 and 1300 MHz amateur TV NTSC/PAL transmissions; linear amplifier for 440MHz, 10-15watt NTSC/PAL operation; D Read more...
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"An excellent textbook, providing careful and thorough explanation of the concepts and techniques of electric circuits, highly recommended."
"At present there are very few books like this available for NC"
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Student-centred microelectronics textbook supported with a lecturers' supplement
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* Paperback: 213 pages
* Publisher: Newnes; 1st edition (January 15, 2000)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 075064723X
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Modern communications technology demands smaller, faster and more efficient circuits. This book reviews the fundamentals of electromagnetism in passive and active circuit elements, highlighting various effects and potential problems in designing a new circuit. The author begins with a review of the basics - the origin of resistance, capacitance, and inductance - then progresses to more advanced topics such as passive device design and layout, resonant circuits, impedance matching, high-speed switching circuits, and parasitic coupling and isolation techniques. Using examples and applications in RF and microwave systems, the author describes transmission lines, transformers, and distributed circuits. State-of-the-art developments in Si based broadband analog, RF, microwave, and mm-wave circuits are reviewed. With up-to-date results, techniques, practical examples, illustrations and worked examples, this book will be valuable to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of electrical engineering, and practitioners in the IC design industry. Further resources for this title are available at www.cambridge.org/9780521853507.
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Reviews the fundamental electromagnetics of passive and active circuit elements, highlighting various effects and potential problems in circuit design. Contains up-to-date results, techniques, practical examples, illustrations and worked examples. Suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of electric Read more... 
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"This compact manifesto is essential reading for anyone who’s ever used an electronic product. Hertzian Tales explores the complex chemistry whereby industry, design, use, misuse, and marketing all combine to form product. But while products are often boring, Dunne sees the potential for them to offer the sorts of 'complicated pleasures' we get from film or literature, and points to concrete ways that poetic products could be engineered. A theorist and practitioner, Dunne sees industrial design as a form of popular culture, and his analysis of that culture is accessible and profound."
--Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, MIT Media Lab
"In refreshing contrast to the widespread, breathless adulation of new electronic gadgets, Dunne demonstrates that product design can and should be subject to a level of critical reflection that goes far deeper than packaging and superficial features and functionalities. And by daring to question some cherished myths of the design profession--such as the presumed merits of 'user-friendliness'--he opens up the possibility of a richer, more nuanced, but often disquieting discourse about designed objects and the social values and relationships they enable or suppress."
--Janet Abrams, Director, University of Minnesota Design Institute, editor of If/Then: Play and coeditor of Else/Where: Mapping.
"Anthony Dunne's thoroughly researched book is a harbinger of the future--a future where invisible electromagnetic spaces with their surreal qu Read more... 
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A seminal reference to electrically small antennas for today's wireless and Wi-Fi world
This book is dedicated to the challenges posed by electrically small antennas and their solutions. Electrically small antennas have characteristics that limit performance: low radiation resistance, high reactance, low efficiency, narrow bandwidth, and increased loss in the matching network. Most of these limitations are shared by two other classes of antennas: superdirective and superconducting antennas. All three classes of antennas are thoroughly treated in three interrelated parts:
* Part One, Electrically Small Antennas, begins with a discussion of the fundamental limitations of bandwidth and matching, then provides detailed design information on loaded whips and dipoles, ferrite loops, patches with unusual substrates, and dielectric resonator antennas. In addition to exploring designs that work, the author sets forth antenna designs that are based on good physics yet are poor performers, as well as designs with both poor underlying physics and poor performance.
* Part Two, Superdirective Antennas, sets forth basic capabilities and limitations of superdirective antennas, both apertures and arrays, and investigates bandwidth, efficiency, and tolerances. The author explores the magnification of intrinsic matching circuit loss due to a large mismatch and evaluates the recent and promising non-Foster matching circuits.
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This volume, RF and Microwave Applications and Systems, includes a wide range of articles that discuss RF and microwave systems used for communication and radar and heating applications. Commercial, avionics, medical, and military applications are addressed. An overview of commercial communications systems is provided. Past, current, and emerging cellular systems, navigation systems, and satellite-based systems are discussed. Specific voice and data commercial systems are investigated more thoroughly in individual chapters that follow. Detailed discussions of military electronics, avionics, and radar (both military and automotive) are provided in separate chapters. A chapter focusing on FR/microwave energy used for therapeutic medicine is also provided. Systems considerations including thermal, mechanical, reliability, power management, and safety are discussed in separate chapters. Engineering processes are also explored in articles about corporate initiatives, cost modeling, and design reviews. The book closes with a discussion of the underlying physics of electromagnetic propagation and interference. In addition to new chapters on WiMAX and broadband cable, nearly every existing chapter features extensive updates and several were completely rewritten to reflect the massive changes areas such as radio navigation and electronic warfare.
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* Hardcover: 696 pages
* Publisher: CRC; 2 edition (December 22, 2007)
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"This highly informative book will be welcomed enthusiastically by clinical investigators and health care providers alike. Once again, Drs. Turk and Gatchel have brought together a superb list of respected authors to provide practical information and insights on psychosocial and behavioral factors in acute and chronic pain syndromes. The text is comprehensive and up to date, including an explosion of new material on the most important assessment and treatment issues surrounding persons with intractable pain. I highly recommend this book for both seasoned professionals and students new to the field. It is an absolute ?must have.'"--Robert N. Jamison, PhD, Pain Management Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
"This much-needed second edition includes a wealth of new information on emergent approaches to pain management. The authors comprise a veritable who's who of clinicians and scholars who have contributed enormously to current thinking in the field. Unlike many edited volumes, where the chapters do not dovetail well, this one offers a coherent, comprehensive review that skillfully integrates research with clinical practice. Provided are innovative perspectives on assessment and treatment, with application both to the classroom and the clinic. I recommend this highly readable volume both to experienced professionals and to students interested in the expanding field of pain treatment and research."--Raymond C. Tait, PhD, Department of Psychi Read more... 
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C-based techniques for building high-performance, FPGA-accelerated software applications
Circuits, Devices, and Systems
C-based Techniques for Optimizing FPGA Performance, Design Flexibility, and Time to Market
Forward written by Clive "Max" Maxfield.
High-performance FPGA-accelerated software applications are a growing demand in fields ranging from communications and image processing to biomedical and scientific computing. This book introduces powerful, C-based parallel-programming techniques for creating these applications, verifying them, and moving them into FPGA hardware.
The authors bridge the chasm between "conventional" software development and the methods and philosophies of FPGA-based digital design. Software engineers will learn to look at FPGAs as "just another programmable computing resource," while achieving phenomenal performance because much of their code is running directly in hardware. Hardware engineers will master techniques that perfectly complement their existing HDL expertise, while allowing them to explore design alternatives and create prototypes far more rapidly. Both groups will learn how to leverage C to support efficient hardware/software co-design and improve compilation, debugging, and testing.
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About the Book
A PMP certification is more than just passing a test. It means that you have the knowledge to solve most common project problems, and proves that you know your stuff. Once you're certified, your projects are more likely to succeed because you have the skills and knowledge to make them successful. Not only that, it can mean a better job, more money, and greater respect from your peers.
But studying for a difficult four-hour exam on project management isn't easy, even for experienced project managers. You want to remember everything that you're learning about project management, but your brain is working against you! Your brain craves novelty, and most PMP certification prep books are anything but novel. When you keep putting down a boring book instead of studying, it's because your brain doesn't think the information in it is worth learning. Your brain has more important stuff to think about, like how to keep you alive and out of danger-and it doesn't think that failing the PMP exam qualifies as life-threatening!
So how do you trick your brain into thinking that your life does depend on learning everything you need to know to pass the PMP Exam? Head First PMP is the answer! Using the latest research in neurobiology, cognitive science and learning theory, Head First PMP has a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works-a multi-sensory experience that helps the material stick, not a text-heavy approach that puts yo Read more... 
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"...a very good approach to introducing the concepts of object-oriented programming...I recommend this book for professionals who want a deeper look at the design of data structures in Java." Computing Reviews
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Fundamentals of OOP and Data Structures in Java presents the fundamentals of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and Graphical User Interface (GUI) programming with Java as the example language. Wiener and Pinson introduce each of the major data structures with supporting, GUI-based laboratory programs designed to reinforce the basic concepts and principles. These laboratories allow the reader to explore and experiment with the properties of each data structure. All source code for the laboratories is available on the Web. By integrating the principles of OOP and GUI programming, this unique book presents the fundamental issues of data structures within the context of paradigms that are essential to today's professional software developer. The text assumes only an elementary understanding of Java and no experience with OOP.
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* Hardcover: 463 pages
* Publisher: Cambridge University Press (June 5, 2000)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0521662206
* ISBN-13: 978-0521662208 Read more... 
In attempting to understand and explain various behaviour, events, and phenomena in their field, psychologists have developed and enunciated an enormous number of ?best guesses? or theories concerning the phenomenon in question. Such theories involve speculations and statements that range on a potency continuum from ?strong? to ?weak?. The term theory, itself, has been conceived of in various ways in the psychological literature. In the present dictionary, the strategy of lumping together all the various traditional descriptive labels regarding psychologists ?best guesses? under the single descriptive term theory has been adopted. The descriptive labels of principle, law, theory, model, paradigm, effect, hypothesis and doctrine are attached to many of the entries, and all such descriptive labels are subsumed under the umbrella term theory. The title of this dictionary emphasizes the term theory (implying both strong and weak best guesses) and is a way of indication, overall, the contents of this comprehensive dictionary in a parsimonious and felicitous fashion. The dictionary will contain approximately 2,000 terms covering the origination, development, and evolution of various psychological concepts, as well as the historical definition, analysis, and criticisms of psychological concepts. Terms and definitions are in English. Read more... 
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Financial Management and Analysis, Second Edition covers many important financial topics that are neglected elsewhere--from raising funds via securitization to managing a financial institution. This book provides valuable insights into many major aspects of financial management and analysis, and includes expert advice, real-world examples, useful charts and graphs, and incisive end-of-chapter questions that help develop the skill set necessary to deal with the important financial problems encountered in today's business world.
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Text provides an introduction to the concepts, tools, and applications of finance. Presents the fundamentals of financial management and financial analysis for beginning students. Includes chapter summaries, chapter questions, and index.
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* Hardcover: 1024 pages
* Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (July 7, 2003)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0471234842
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Best seller for introductory courses in Laser Electronics and Quantum Electronics. This is a practical approach to introductory laser electronics that emphasizes real-world applications and problem-solving skills over theory, providing a clear understanding of both optical and microwave frequencies. Read more... 
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Pump up your tunes with beats, lyrics, and harmonies
This book and a computer — all you need to start composing and your own digital music
Want to write your own digital music? This friendly guide explains the basics of composing great tunes with the hottest digital tools. You'll see how to work with the latest hardware and software, build your first tune and saveit in different formats, and add instruments to your score. With the included templates, you'll be making music in no time!
Discover how to:
* Write and arrange digital music
* Determine what — if any — equipment you need
* Compose your ownringtones and MP3s
* Compose with the MIDI controller
* Publish your creations on the Internet
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Pump up your tunes with beats, lyrics, and harmonies
This book and a computer — all you need to start composing your own digital music
Want to write your own digital music? This friendly guide explains the basics of composing great tunes with the hottest digital tools. You'll see how to work with the latest hardware and software, build your first tune and saveit in different formats, and add instruments to your score. With the included templates, you'll be making music in no time!
Discover how to:
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Write and arrange digital music
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Determine what — if any — equipment you need
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Compose your ownringtones and MP3s
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Compose with the MIDI con Read more...