Electronic Test Instruments: Analog and Digital Measurements (2nd Edition)

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Principles of measurement systems - Bentley J P, Longman Scientific and Technical - 1995.......2007-05-14

Principles of measurement systems - Bentley J P, Longman Scientific and Technical - 1995

Good treatment of electronic test equipment.......2002-03-31

This book does a good job of covering the most common pieces of test equipment....DMMs, function generators, signal generators, scopes, power supplies, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers, etc. It supports these instrument topics with the right level of theory and application information.

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Random House Book of Jokes and Anecdotes, Second Edition
Joseph Claro
Manufacturer: Random House Reference
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0679769714
Release Date: 1996-05-14

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There's a joke for every occasion in this contemporary collection of well over 1,000 jokes and anecdotes. Expanded and updated with 32 pages of new material, this gold mine has everything from punchy one-liners to hilarious anecdotes on a wide range of topics -- government, American culture, families, workplaces, sports, famous people, and even death.

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Beginning their career as a popular surf band, The Beach Boys had emerged by 1966 as America's preeminent pop group, the only act able to challenge the success of The Beatles with both mainstream listeners and the critical community. This book reconstructs their evolution to one of the best-produced groups of the '60s, and also profiles Brian Wilson, one of the most gifted songwriters, producers, and arrangers in popular music. The book's easy-to-browse, day-by-day format details their entire concert history, all known recording sessions, their broadcast history, and all records issued in the U.S. and the U.K.

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This one covers all the bases........2007-07-29

This is an excellent book for the hardcore Beach Boys fan. There is exstensive coverage of albums, highlights of important dates, photos, and inside info on sessions. I enjoyed it, and still do.

The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary Of America's Greatest Band On Stage and in the Studio........2007-01-22

Outstanding, loads of information, a must to have!!!

Still I Dream Of It..........2006-01-04

A work of unbelievable effort. I can only imagine the painstaking efforts it took to piece this marvelous historical monument together. The Beach Boys well deserve the attention this volume has given them. While most of the 60's and 70's supergroups have faded historically (Beatles, Who, and the Stones who should have quit over 20 years ago) the Beach Boys musical legacy has lived on. This book provides an excellent non-biased perception of the ups and downs that befell probably the most interesting musical group of all time, as well as profiling their most gifted and troubled leader, Brian Wilson. One cannot read the protions of this book dealing with late 1966 and early 1967 and hope that somehow the outcome of SMiLE is different. Not only does this book chronicle the Beach Boys careers, but also the relevant "goings-on" of the times. An enduring band and an enduring legacy now documented for all to learn from.

The Beach Boys' most in-depth book.......2006-01-03

Most casual fans prefer the "human" orientated bios, and that's fine - "Heroes and Villains" is probably the best straight Beach Boys biography available. Hardcore fans and musicians will froth at the mouth for this volume that goes into painstaking but never dull details of how such masterpieces as "Pet Sounds", "Good Vibrations" and all the great tunes by this most underappreciated band came to life.
Some details are not pleasant to learn - for instance, the band played very little on the albums from about "Shut Down Vol. 2" through the "Smile" sessions. Brian Wilson instead relied on a crack LA session team for the bulk of the instrumental work under his production while the rest of the band toured the country and the world. Of course, the vocals were and are the centerpiece of this band, so arguments about the backing musicians remains probably academic.
We also learn that Brian blames his partial deafness on an incident when he was three years old, claiming that his father, the notoriously abusive Murray Wilson, struck the young child in the ear with a 2 X 4, a charge the elder Wilson obviously denied.
"The Beach Boys" doesn't delve into the tragic details of Brian's childhood, concentrating instead on the music. The abuse is mentioned, however, as it most likely contributed to the mental breakdown in 1967 that prevented the release of "Smile". One can only ponder the impact this masterpiece would have had if it had been released back then as opposed to a few years ago. Still, we must be grateful "Smile" exists at all.
Rich in anectodes, studio details and great photos, "The Beach Boys" is a must-have for any self respecting fan.

The Brother years 5 stars, Early Beach Boys 3 stars.......2005-12-22

Its nice to see a book like this devoted to the Beach boys, they definitely needed one. That being said, this one can be topped, but its OK as the first stab anybody has taken into written a day by day story of the boys. Most of the research is taken from studio logs, but apparently not many could be found for the early (and best) Beach boys albums. While the book is some 350 pages, less that 1/4 is devoted to the years prior to 1966, and the rest of the book for the years 1966-1974. If you want a detail analysis of the early beach boys, you may need to look somewhere else. But for the Brother Years, this is very good. The book is not pricey and includes many photos. A revised edition would be great in a few years.

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Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communication and new dimensions of identity that affect economics, politics, aesthetics, and performance.
Reflected in these essays is the fact that mass media are as ubiquitous in Cairo and Karachi as in Los Angeles and Detroit. From Persian popular music in Beverly Hills to Egyptians' reaction to a recent film on Gamal Abdel Nasser; from postmodern Turkish novels to the music of an Israeli transsexual singer, the essays illustrate the multiple contexts of modern cultural production.
The unfolding of modernity in colonial and postcolonial societies has been little analyzed until now. In addressing transnational aspects of Middle Eastern societies, the contributors also challenge conventional assumptions about the region and its relation to the West. The volume will have wide appeal both to Middle Eastern scholars and to readers interested in global and cultural studies.

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Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communication and new dimensions of identity that affect economics, politics, aesthetics, and performance. Reflected in these essays is the fact that mass media are as ubiquitous in Cairo and Karachi as in Los Angeles and Detroit. From Persian popular music in Beverly Hills to Egyptians' reaction to a recent film on Gamal Abdel Nasser; from postmodern Turkish novels to the music of an Israeli transsexual singer, the essays illustrate the multiple contexts of modern cultural production. The unfolding of modernity in colonial and postcolonial societies has been little analyzed until now. In addressing transnational aspects of Middle Eastern societies, the contributors also challenge conventional assumptions about the region and its relation to the West. The volume will have wide appeal both to Middle Eastern scholars and to readers interested in global and cultural studies.

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Tours more than 20 Trading Spaces locations across the U.S. to inspire readers.

Readers will learn the latest decorating and design techniques showcased on Trading Spaces, while exploring alternative ideas to achieve the custom look they want.

Uses a series of before and after pictures to show how adding color in various ways can change the mood of an entire room .

Unique Trading Spaces Toolbox sidebars will help readers build the attitudes and skills necessary for successfully transforming “blah” into beautiful.

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Try Martha Stewart's "Decorating with Color" Instead.......2006-06-30

While this book will give you a lot of great examples, it doesn't tell you exactly how to put the pieces together. If you want to learn how to do it, read Martha Stewart's "Decorating with Color" instead. Martha's book will actually teach you how to use the color wheel to select colors that will complement your home and each other, while this Trading Spaces book really just shows you some before/after photos from the shows.

Don't bother.........2004-03-21

As a fan of Trading Spaces this was the first book I saw out with the Trading Spaces name on it, so I bought it up but quick. Wow.. I cannot say how much I was disappointed. This book was a very VERY entry level book on color. I had no interest in much of the book, as the color schemes were too off the wall for me. A better book on color would be Home Decorating for Dummies or the Color Directory. One could go to an elementary art class and learn the information within this book. Total disappointment. I could have read it in the store and gotten the exact same information I took away with me. Avoid!

A great book for Trading Spaces fans.......2004-02-03

This book is great for those who wish they could stop, rewind, and replay the Trading Spaces room makeovers over and over again. There are several "after" pictures of each of the rooms featured along with directions on how to complete some of the projects in those rooms--including "how to make a lamp out of anything", making pillows, measuring for slipcovers, and numerous painting techniques from faux finishes to painting images on walls. An excellent book!

Color! is King of all home decorating books!.......2003-11-14

"Color!" rules, you know what I mean. You don't because you haven't bought it yet. What's wrong with you...buy it. You don't need me to tell you what's hot. You know it's going to be a good book. It's "Trading Spaces". Anybody who's anybody knows "Trading Spaces" are in. "Color!" really helps you to explore your inner wall painting desires. All my walls used to be white before I read "Color!" by Trading Spaces but now all are filled of SPONGE BOB themes because I am truly not afraid anymore to express myself through my walls. I can hold my head up high. I have read "Color!" and you should too if you really want to be free of those boring stark white walls.

48-Hour Makeovers: Get a New Look in a Weekend! (Trading Spaces)

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48-Hour Makeovers: Get a New Look in a Weekend! (Trading Spaces)

Manufacturer: TLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0696219182

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Features 14 rooms and their makeover stories from the hit TV show.

Details options for completing projects within 48 hours including skills and techniques.

Includes room arranging kit, project planning checklists, and tips and anecdotes from the designers.

Special chapter teaches homeowners to evaluate room makeovers in terms of time, money and skills.

Plenty of advice to explore options, plan projects, choose materials, and make tradeoffs between time and money needed.

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The only authorized Engineering Journal and Workbook for use in the Cisco Networking Academy Program CCNA 3 and 4 courses

Maps to new revised CCNA 3.0 online curriculum
authors are the developers of the online curriculum
Journal includes additional exercises and focus questions

The Engineering Journal and Workbook begins the best-practice method of maintaining a journal for the workplace to document and track the work. It also includes CCNA review questions, focus questions, and additional exercises for further study.

The authors are the developers of the web-based Curriculum for the Cisco Networking Academy Program and experts in the online learning environment.

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Susan B. Anthony: A Biographical Companion explores the fascinating and often frustrating life of one of the most prolific activists of the mid-to-late nineteenth century. This comprehensive, illustrated volume presents more than a hundred entries on the significant events, people, publications, movements, and organizations associated with Anthony and her struggle for humanitarian reform.

Susan B. Anthony: A Biographical Companion will give college and high school students, historians, and general readers a unique view into the life and times of this extraordinary woman. Her childhood, young adulthood, family relationships, Quaker upbringing, and most significant conflicts, defeats, relationships, and triumphs are all explored in this engaging volume.

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The original French edition of this encyclopedia, the Encyclopédie politique et historique des femmes, Second Edition has been lauded by French reviewers, and now Routledge is pleased to publish this acclaimed resource in an English language edition.

From the Salic Law in medieval France to the American Revolution to today's women's representation in American and European politics, this valuable resource discusses women's participation in Western political and historical transformation.

The 40 authoritative in-depth articles, written by an international team of scholars, examine women's activism in areas such as voting, emancipation, equality, and democracy, providing students and general readers with an indispensable resource.

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The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876
Robert V. Bruce
Manufacturer: Cornell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJKJTE

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The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 (Impact of the Civil War)
Robert V. Bruce
Manufacturer: Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0394553942
Release Date: 1987-03-12

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Laying our foundations

The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876

Manufacturer: Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0317591282

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Laying our foundations.......2006-04-11

This winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in history provides a solid and comprehensive account of the institional, economic, and political developments that occurred in the US during the middle and late 1800s that laid the foundation for America's contributions to science in the following century.

The book looks at the following developments. First, the book traces the growth of universities such as Columbia University that would become centers of research and education in the 20th century. Second, the book shows how the Civil War firmly established the federal government as a funding source for scientific research, both military and non-military related. Third, the progress of the Civil War demonstrated the importance of science and technology to the public at large, the small scientific community, and the government. Fourth, the industrialization that accompanied the Civil War in turn aided progress in scientific developments. Last, numerous companies and corporations attained sufficient capital funds during this time that allowed them to invest in scientific research in the following decades.

Overall, this book covers an oft-neglected part of American history. The problem is the writing style; extremely boring. This reviewer appreciated the subject, but found the writing style to be dry.

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Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways that landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create our perceptions and treatment of place. In PLAYA WORKS, Fox considers the West's emptiest spaces-the playas, or dry beds, of the ancient lakes that once filled much of the Great Basin. Among the flattest, most barren places on the planet, the West's playas have haunted the American imagination since the Frémont expedition first surveyed them in the early nineteenth century.

The human psyche, Fox maintains, is ill suited to contend with playas. Humankind evolved in the tree-and-grassland environment of the African savannahs, and our powers of visual cognition suffer acute dissonance in the featureless void of the playa. Consequently, our relationship to these spaces has been fraught with uneasiness and misunderstanding, sometimes resulting in death and destruction, sometimes inspiring remarkable art.

In the eight brilliant essays that comprise this book, Fox explores many of the major playas of the American West, examining locations as diverse as Nellis Air Force Base and Frenchman Flat, where the federal government has tested experimental aircraft and atomic weaponry; the Great Salt Lake Desert, where land-speed records have been broken; and the Black Rock Desert of Northern Nevada, site of the colorful Burning Man arts festival. He analyzes the geological and climatological conditions that created the playas and the historical role that playas played in the exploration and settlement of the West. And he offers lucid and keenly perceptive discussions of the ways that artists have responded to the playas, from the ancient makers of geoglyphs to the work of contemporary artists who have found inspiration in these enigmatic spaces, including earthworks builder Michael Heizer, photographer Richard Misrach, and painter Michael Moore. The ensemble is a compelling combination of natural history, philosophy, and art criticism, a thoughtful meditation on humankind's aversion to and fascination with the void.

In PLAYA WORKS, Fox's passion for the American West combines with his scholar's curiosity and power of analysis to produce one of the most engaging discussions yet of the natural phenomena that we call playas. This is nature writing at its best-provocative, profound, richly intelligent, and delightfully adventurous.

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Good but not great.......2005-05-30

I approached this book hoping for an analysis of the impact of emptiness and isolation on the human psyche. No doubt my expectations were influenced by my nationality -- Australian -- where our "playas" (which we call claypans or saltpans) are nearly all isolated and deserted, and the impact of human activity is minimal.

Fox provides graphic descriptions of the multiplicity of activities which take advantage of the US playas, ranging from military to counter-cultural festivals. He's clearly very well acquainted with his subject.

I found it generally depressing to read about the military use of playas. (Here in Oz, we had the Brits testing atomic devices at Woomera several decades ago.)

An interesting book, but too focused on American issues to satisfy my more general interests.

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