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Learn with your children.......2007-09-01
This book was purchased for my son for school, but I purchased two to refresh my memory. It is a wonderful book.
Art Education Student.......2007-08-16
I am preparing to take the Art education part of the GACE exam. Not only is ths book a must but all of my professors encourage us to study it. The color photos are perfect and you could not buy anything better.
Great summary.......2007-05-13
This book points out the specifics of different art movements in a brief and informative fashion. Don't expect in-depth analysis of specific works, but you will get a run-down of the important names and pieces from significant periods in Art History. This book helped me go from a 4 to a 5 in A.P. Art History practice tests. I highly recommend it for the price!
The Annotated Mona Lisa.......2007-05-07
Excellent book for AP Art History review. I have used it in my classroom for eight years with great results!
Not what I expected.......2007-03-16
The type is different all over the page and makes for hard reading. It is not cohesive and seems to be just bits and pieces. Quite disappointing - considering it was "recommended" when I purchased other books.
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This acclaimed wireless intro book provides a thorough understanding the basic workings of wireless networks, technology, and regulations, clearly explaining concepts like radio frequency, cell sites and switching, as well as the regulatory processes that affect all wireless service providers and equipment manufacturers. This new edition has been heavily revised to cover digital wireless: GPRS, 3G, UTMS, cdma2000, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and the host of new digital services driving wireless growth.
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A clearly written, jargon-free explanation of how wireless telecommunications work, with an emphasis on the design and management of systems.
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Too basic for engineers, but an excellent general reference........2007-01-05
I used this book as a supplemental reference for teaching an undergrad course in Wireless Communications. Although it is too basic for students with communications engineering backgrounds, it is terrific as a basic intro to multiple wireless technologies and related business applications and services. Technologies grow and industries change quickly, but this book's 2005 edition seemed reasonably up to date as of the end of 2006. Even I used it as a quick refresher on specific topics like WiMax, GPRS, 3G, UTMS, cdma2000. The author writes clearly, and this book is a great reference for general telecom audiences.
clear prose, without drowning you in maths.......2006-06-11
This second edition has prose that clearly explains the concepts in wireless engineering. Without diving deeply into the underlying physics or maths. Bedell explicitly states that he directs the book at a wide audience, including possibly those in the financial industry, who want to make some sense of the various wireless networks.
He covers all the important types of networks. From those that have been around for decades, to the latest WiFi and WiMax. The latter is especially speculative, but offers great potential for connecting up a wide area.
Best book on the wireless industry.......2006-05-11
This is by far the best book I've ever read on the wireless industry. I'm starting my career in this field and found the book very informative and easy to understand. I e-mailed Mr. Bedell with a question and he returned my e-mail in less than 12 hours!! If your new to wireless or your an old pro, this is the last book you'll ever need. TRY IT!! You won't be disapointed.
Good books for engineers wanting to understand current wireless technologies.......2005-08-19
For technical professionals and engineers, this book is a great way to understand past and existing wireless technologies. It gives an overview on the many aspects of wireless communication and explains the technologies to some amount of depth. The areas that explain how the wireless encoding works would have to be read more than once to grasp it. Every chapter starts with a good overview. The nice thing about this book is that it also contains information about the companies behind these technologies, their evolution (or demise) based on how technologies were selected over others and the evolution of the technologies themselves.
Crashed Course.......2004-04-22
This is a very disappointing book. Technical stuff needn't be turgid or boring although I suspect this is less the author's fault than the publisher's, the latter perhaps worriedly taking the view that any hint of personality, lightness, humour or the like equates with lack of gravitas and must be ruthlessly excised and a few diddy questions stuck at the end of chapters for the book to be taken seriously; absolute rubbish of course.
In fact Bedell often makes good use of analogies and models to explain particular concepts and implementations (for instance on CDMA on p259) and even makes the occasional jokey aside. The book would have been greatly improved by more of this.
There are, however, too many factual and other errors as in the following examples.
In 22.5.7 Bedell says, "There is currently a newer version of CDMA under development. Known as wideband CDMA (W-CDMA), sometimes known as `CDMA 2000'". Really? Well, that solves at a stroke the problems of the two leading South Korean operators wondering which route to emphasise. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), GSM operators looking to upgrade, and others, may be surprised as well.
Page 268 has, "... any SIM card works with any GSM handset ... [then] the owner must enter their four-digit PIN number. The SIM card cannot be activated without this PIN number ..." PIN stands for "Personal Identification Number" so it's just "PIN", incidentally, not "PIN number" but, more importantly, the statement is wrong as anyone who happily swaps SIMs between GSM handsets and hasn't enabled an optional PIN will confirm.
24.10.2.4 has "Bluetooth[`s range is] much lower than the 3.5 mi of 802.11b." Well, yes. And so actually is the ordinary open-air range of 802.11b itself, at some three hundred feet or around only 1.5% of the distance claimed.
Page 234 offers, "With the world shrinking at the rate it is in lieu of the globalization of the world economy ...."; "in lieu of" means "in place of" - presumably Bedell actually means "because of". And later in the paragraph he uses half a dozen words when a couple would suffice, one of many instances where the book would have benefited greatly by better editing and a reduction of maybe 15% to 20% overall.
"ie" is not a synonym for "eg". The former stands for "id est" and means "that is", the latter for "exempli gratia" and means "for example". Eg, from page 364, "...locations will range from large enterprises (i.e. office buildings, hospitals, campuses)..", ie apparently will not include the likes of industrial complexes, airports or anything other than those three groups cited.
So is this just being picky over things that ultimately don't matter?
No, because factual errors (although, as every writer knows, they creep in) have no place in such a text book and this is sloppy editing. And the problem with grammatical or stylistic errors is that, firstly, they obfuscate rather than clarify meaning and so risk confusing the reader and, secondly, their presence raises the suspicion that if the writer or editor has been cavalier with language how cavalier has been the treatment of information which must be taken on trust. It matters greatly in programming whether a coder uses "OR" or "AND" and it's as important that a writer uses writing tools correctly to convey meaning accurately.
More generally, the text is far too US-centric for something offering a fast-track route to grasping the essentials of a particular technology area.
South Korea in particular and Asia in general is well ahead of the rest of the planet in wireless yet there's no mention of the exciting and innovative developments in those areas. Page 205, for instance, makes some bizarre claims about GPS yet location based systems (LBS) are big in South Korea and Japan and have been for some time.
In 2001 the gap between Europe and the US in wireless was huge (although it's certainly narrowing) yet the technology used by 75% of the world, GSM, is barely considered.
Who, some earnest US factoid collectors perhaps excepted, gives a toss about the dreary recitations of US cellular regulations or the arcane minutae distinguishing PCS and cellular? Far better to have skated briskly over all that and used the space to look in more detail at GSM, at CDMA-IS95 and the future developments of each, at the whole WiFi and WiMAN developments which, granted, were nascent in 2001 but which could still have been covered.
The book has no glossary and the indexing is poor. Initialisms are fine to use but a reader needs easily to be able to recheck what, for instance, ESN, GSM, CTIA, AMPS, EIR, HLR and so on and so on stand for when he meets them later. This is entirely the publisher's fault, of course, but such a slapdash contempt for the reader simply isn't acceptable, particularly in a book for relative beginners.
I certainly learned a fair bit I didn't earlier know and to that extent the book was useful. And an updated version would be welcome, particularly if it bravely struck out into the rest of the world where so much more is now happening, lightened up greatly the writing style and were properly edited. But until then, no, sadly it's a crashed course.
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- Excellent Introduction, in the opinion of a Telecom newcomer
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This unique book serves as a readable, holistic introduction to telecommunications. Far more than an acronym-studded quick fix, Telecom Crash Course is a true tutorial that offers context, connections--and humor-- to teach the importance of key technologies. Author Steven Shepard, an accomplished writer and teachers, uses lively stories that deliver important points about the markets that drive the technologies. He provides not only rigorous technical accuracy, with explanations of each technology's economic importance, but a market and customer-focused analysis of the use and business significance of each technology – and how they relate to each other.
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Wonder world of telecommunication around you.......2005-08-12
The book, in my opinion, will be useful to the people not having a technical education and working in sphere of telecommunications and allied industries; for the beginners, wishing to expand the knowledge; for the employees responsible for administration of telecommunication services of the organizations; for managers on sales, marketing, management of projects, and also telecommunication managers and managers of a high level.
good, but may be overkill for some.......2005-07-13
I really enjoyed this book, especially the anecdotes in the introduction, but I can't realy see alot of applications for a "crash-course" that is this long. There are many situations I can envision where someone would need to learn about telecom networks quickly, but they probably wouldn't need to know many of the intricacies that Shepard deals with and they almost certainly wouldn't be interested in his anecdotes and discussion of undersea cable laying.
However, I don't know of any other comprehensive book like this so it may be your only option. Either way I certainly enjoyed reading it and intend to buy his other books, but to read at my leisure.
Everything's here...you just have to find it!.......2004-10-12
Telecom's Crash Course is an excellent compilation of all major facets of the Telecommunications industry. As someone who monitors foreign investments into the US technology sector, I've found this both an excellent primer for newbies as well as a very helpful resource to those who have been doing this for a while.
The PROS: The book is comprehensive and walks through the very tactical level, detailed explanation of specific technologies and the many ways that a given portion of data can move across the planet. If you're new to the field, reading this book is the cheapest and fastest method to be armed with a semi-comprehensive knowledge spanning the industry.
The CONS: I can see how people could say that this book gets lost in the weeds because the explanations are sometimes extensive, detailed, and probably don't fit the bill if you're looking for a book covering the overall trends present in the telecoms market. If you're looking for a "big concepts" book only, this isn't for you. Reviewers commenting on the book's lack of focus were probably hoping primarily for a "here are the major trends in the industry" and not an industry technology primer, a "crash course" in the industry.
Buy the paperback. It's a bit of a painful read in places, but hey, this is Telecoms, and it doesn't get too many people hyper excited--if you're buying a book called "Telecoms Crash Course" and expecting a nail-biting thriller, you probably have some misplaced expectations! Enjoy.
Excellent Introduction, in the opinion of a Telecom newcomer.......2004-07-16
This is a fantastic book if you want an overview that focuses on technical and some business aspects of telecommunications, and are someone that enjoys reading more techie-oriented material. (For the record, I am an MechE by training who is now working for one of the companies mentioned in the book, so this really was my entire Intro course to Telecom, and I plan to continue my learning. This book was an excellent guide for future, more in-depth subjects to pursue.)
The book does an excellent job of being ubiquitous and covering all the aspects of the telecom field that you've ever heard about. At the same, I found it easy to skip around in reading chapters, based on my own priorities in buying the book. The chapters are divided very logically into sections on the Telephone network, Access technologies, Transport options, Protocols, etc. (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, you will after reading this book :).
One of my favorite aspects of the books is that the author is very good at using diagrams to supplement his text, which can be rare in more engineering/technical books. The whole picture-worth-a-thousand-words idea, especially if you take the time to go through the diagrams.
Yes, the text can require a few read-throughs - but telecommunications itself is a dense field that really requires one to be patience in reading and gain understanding of the technology. There *is* a lot of detail stuffed through out the chapters, and perhaps not everyone will care to know everything -- but that is alright, there is no harm in skipping the nitty-gritty of sections that do not interest you.
Please, please, please do not let the bad reviews of this book discourage you from checking it out. I just finished reading the entire book, and wanted to log on to share my high opinion of it.
Excellent Telecom Overview.......2004-01-25
As an industry outsider with limited technical experience, I found this book informative, easy-to-follow, and entertaining. My compliments to the author for a job well done.
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Combined with the two other Crash Course books, Digital Technology and Microprocessor Technology, this book forms a complete course in electronics and microcomputer technology appropriate for technical schools, industrial training, and hobbyists.
Crash Course in Electronics Technology teaches the basics of electronics, components, and circuits in an easy-to-understand format. Each chapter includes learning objectives, clear explanations and examples, and an end-of-chapter self-quiz. The drill-and-review software included with the book allows the learners to test themselves on the contents of each chapter, providing a second way to reinforce the material. A final chapter teaches the basics of troubleshooting circuits.
Louis Frenzel is an experienced electronics engineer and educator, as well as the author of many magazine articles and texts. He is currently based in Texas.
Drill-and-review software included.
Clear, easy format.
Self-paced introduction to electronics theory.
Book Description
Comic books are more popular now than ever. Kids and adults avidly follow the tales of their favorite superheroes--and now, with the lessons in Comics Crash Course, they can create their own adventures!
Vince Giarrano has worked on some of the most popular comic books in the world, including Superman, Batman, Peter Parker, and Action Comics. Now, he brings his fifteen years of experience to bear on a book with over twenty demonstrations. Starting from the basics and working up to an intermediate level, he shows readers how to create: -Super heroes and villains -Animals and creatures -Robots and vehicles -Backgrounds and settings -And much more!
With clear, high-quality illustrations, this Comics Buyers Guide-endorsed book will also appeal to its target audience's taste for dynamic designs and colors.
Customer Reviews:
SKETCH BOOK.......2007-01-09
OUR TEENAGE SON LOVES TO DRAW CREATURES, DRAGONS, AND MEN. WE HAVE SEVERAL OF THESE BOOKS AND HE LOVES TO DRAW EVEN MORE! THEY GIVE HIM SO MUCH HELP WHEN IT COMES TO DRAWING EACH WEEK. WE LOVE THE BOOK!!
One of the best!.......2005-01-28
I just bought this book last December 2004, and I must say it's one of the best how-to draw comics. It's not exactly "how to draw" because as the title says it's a crash course on how to make comic books. By this, I mean that the instructions on drawing are not very detailed. But when it comes to story-telling and do's and dont's in creating comics, this book has it all.
The author included so many tips - very helpful ones! From composition to inking. For example, he explains how to make a single panel look great, or how to work with a script, and so on.
This book deals with things that you need, without going into too much detail. And it cuts straight to the point. Thus, it's ideal for young readers as well (young adults).
Instead of buying Christopher Hart titles, you might as well get this one. It's just great, simple great!
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This book is designed especially for those interested in breaking into storyboarding as a career but don't know where to start.
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Some good information, but..........2003-10-13
This book had some good information, but focused more on career building and Hollywood networking than on actual storyboarding techniques. I'm glad the author was able to develop such a career, but he goes on too much about it and I think the book would have been more useful with more detail on translating script and director's vision into storyboards rather than stories on how lucky the guy was getting to be a director's assistant.
Not Very Useful.......2003-10-11
I bought this book expecting a how-to, instructional guide. There's none of that! No tips on drawing or the art of storyboarding. Instead, we get a autobiography of Fraioli and tips on breaking in: "hang around movie sets." Wow. I never would have figured that out on my own.
The few examples of art Fraioli gives are amatuer and poorly drawn. I didn't find this book useful at all.
Sincerely written...but.......2002-07-10
Mr. Fraioli's book is certainly a wonderful work about sticking to something and getting where you wish to be. However, I found it interesting that his name isn't found in the crew listing for either Ace Ventura nor Wild America. Of course, this could be a simple oversight...but still.
In my opinion the situations seemed a bit "staged" and in a lot of ways cliched. He does try to inspire, however and for that I give him two stars.
Definitely a motivating book!!.......2002-04-26
This book will motivate any artist or filmmaker trying to break into the highly competitive Hollywood scene. The author's words of wisdom, and "tricks of the trade" is something not taught in any school. If you want an edge on the competition, pick up a copy of this book!
Excellent book for breaking in the biz!.......2002-04-25
This book tells it like it is! The author's straight forward advice is excellent! I'm a storyboard artist who struggled in Hollywood, but Fraioli's words of wisdom are optimistic, strategic and helped me tremendously! I read the other reviews below, and it's disappointing to see there are always one or two who think differently. It's obvious those "other readers/artists" failed in Hollywood and are looking for someone to blame. What they should worry about is trying to succeed instead of getting jealous and angry at those who do make it. Anyway, this book is a definite for those wanting to succeed in Hollywood. If you are a failure or want to fail, then don't by the book. Otherwise, pick up a copy today and learn how the "game" is played from someone who definitely knows.
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From cave paintings to Jeff Koons—that’s where this stunningly illustrated history of art takes you. Filled with pictures of paintings, sculptures, museum artifacts, and architectural standouts, and a cross-cultural approach that encompasses European, American, Asian, and Islamic masterpieces, it proceeds on a thrilling visual tour. Carol Strickland—author of the bestselling Annotated Mona Lisa (300,000 copies sold)—serves as guide, and delivers superb background that sets the stage for each era’s timeline, as well as informative sidebars that reveal the broader implications of new styles and movements.
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A better book by the same author...........2007-07-26
I would recommend skipping this one, and buying the annotated Mona Lisa and the Annotated arch, as this book is just fluff, and color pictures... I was expecting more...
An informative and engaging reference.......2007-05-11
Reading this book is like a trip to a great art museum. You see works that you know are important, and you learn not only from the descriptions of these paintings, but also from the other works displayed around them. One of the strengths of this illustrated timeline is that you can see trends developing in the art world, as artists progress from realism to more interpretive styles. The chronological progression also highlights why some artists' innovations were so exciting - how they were so different from what had come before. Another great feature is the inclusion of artistic developments in Asia, Africa, and South America. It is fascinating to see the different approaches diverse groups of people have taken to creating temples and churches, or the different media used for decoration and expression. Ms. Strickland's enthusiasm for and extensive knowledge of her subject comes across in every succinct blurb; whenever I dip in to pursue a topic, I always find myself drawn in to read more. A great reference, and a wonderful book to have on hand in your car or your bag to absorb you in those moments of downtime. I highly recommend this book!
confusing, not for the novice.......2007-04-16
This very small book did not work for my students. They found it confusing and overwhelming, though it is organized on a timeline.
Without a lot of background info on the works of art from all of the cultures, it is hard to follow.
It is such a small book, and covers so many cultures and media with small blurbs, that it doesn't do a great job on any of the arts, or relate them to each other.
If Ms. Strickland had left out architecture or concentrated more on painting & sculpture it might have been more cohesive.
"Annotated Mona Lisa" is MUCH better.
As a cliff notes for college students trying to remember names and dates, this might work well, as long as they already know the works of art.
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Anyone can play guitar with this no nonsense, jargon free book
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Great little bathroom or coffee table book.......2004-06-18
This was a fun book. Period. It's definetely a crash course. What do I actually remember from the book about modern art? Well, very little. Like a crash course, it primarily involves your short term memory. But, it takes your short term memory on a fun ride. In the moment of reading it, you'll enjoy yourself. Bell is very funny, but clearly intelligent. It's a great starting off book on modern art.
My complaints? Well, I would have liked to see more actual artwork. A given page might have 8 artists' names and then only one piece by one of them. That was a little frustrating. But, again, it's a crash course. And, it's a fun crash.
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An amazing book.......2005-11-12
Renaissance art is a complex web of names: painters, sculptors, composers, kings and queens, princes and princesses, bankers and all sorts of people who had been involved in the complicated artistic scene of renaissance Europe. David Boyle does a great job organizing these assortment of names into categories and makes it easy for the reader to follow and learn the flow of history. The drawings in the tinmeline are quite funny and help the reader a lot to remember the facts afterwards.
My only concern is that other that the photographic credits, there are no references given and some of the less famous facts are hard to confirm without propoer citation of the references.
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