For one- or two-semester, senior-level undergraduate courses in Communication Systems for Electrical and Computer Engineering majors. This text introduces the basic techniques used in modern communication systems and provides fundamental tools and methodologies used in the analysis and design of these systems. The authors emphasize digital communication systems, including new generations of wir…
This updated and revised new edition of The Healthy Edit provides aspiring and working editors with creative editing strategies they can employ to enhance a film, while also overcoming common production problems. With decades of experience editing and film doctoring Hollywood features, author John Rosenberg reveals both the aesthetic and technical aspects of the editor's art, demonstrating tric…
Here, advertising is viewed from the perspective of advertisers, advertising agencies and the media. With the emphasis on practical application in the current marketing scene, this book includes examples, guidelines and checklists.
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The Avengers assemble again in Marvel Studios' follow-up to the record-breaking Marvel's The Avengers. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner reprise their roles as world-saving heroes in an adventure like no other. In this new collectible volume, go around the world with the Avengers in page after page of stunning concept art, produc…
Readers of the first edition of this innovative book will benefit from the increased coverage of pipelining and storage, the comprehensive presentation of caches and new chapters--including shared memory multiprocessing and networking technology--presented in this new edition. The book will benefit anyone involved in building computers.
Brilliant Flash CS4 offers a fast, visual way to solve Flash CS4 problems. All the most important tasks are covered, using clear, highly visual step-by-step instructions.
A guide to Adobe Illustrator CS5 covers such topics as creating and managing documents, drawing, coloring artwork, working with typography and images, and preparing graphics for the Web.
Get started with 3D printing using AutoDesk's easy 123D tool suite! This book covers everything you need to know - even if you're an absolute beginner, and even if you don't own your own 3D printer.
In recent years, innovative texts in mathematics, science, foreign languages, and other fields have achieved dramatic pedagogical gains by abandoning the traditional encyclopedic approach in favor of teaching a shorter list of core principles in depth. Two well-respected writers and researchers, Bob Frank and Ben Bernanke, have shown that the less-is-more approach affords similar gains in intro…
The next major advance in the Web-Web 3.0-will be built on semantic Web technologies, which will allow data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Written by a team of highly experienced Web developers, this book explains examines how this powerful new technology can unify and fully leverage the ever-growing data, information, and services that are ava…
This is an introductory sociology text that shows students how sociology is relevant in their daily lives.
For courses in Introductory SociologySee sociology in everyday lifeSociology empowers students to see the world around them through a sociological lens, helping them better understand their own lives and the world we all share. John Macionis, author of the best-selling Introductory Sociology franchise over the last three decades, takes students step by step through the theories and research tha…