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Revised to reflect all the current trends in the digital communications field, this all-inclusive guide delivers an outstanding introduction to the analysis and design of digital communication systems. Includes expert coverage of new topics: Turbocodes, Turboequalization, Antenna Arrays, Digital Cellular Systems, and Iterative Detection. Convenient, sequential organization begins with a look at the historyo and classification of channel models and builds from there.
Customer Reviews:
worst textbook ever.......2007-04-27
I took a graduate class at the University of Cincinnati and they used this book (it was round 2 for me as I had Communication Systems with his book that was co-authored by Salehi). Two classes + two Proakis books = brain hemorrhage. I will say that if you are mathematically strong doing well in these courses won't pose a problem. However, the amount of rereading needed to hammer in the concepts is overwhelming. It wouldn't have to be this way if he put in a lot of examples. Also, most of the problems are proofs or very complex and for that reason I noticed that neither of the professors that I had used problems from the book on exams. One exam was forced to become a take home as the results were so terrible and the other was a gram schmidt problem coupled with a small proof on bandpass signals. Some advice is in order. Follow these steps if you want to learn the material:
1.) Take and ace a Random Processes class. This will get you the background you need to blow through chapters 2 and 4 of Digital Communications by Proakis.
2.) Over break or during free time pick up the Communication Systems Engineering book and read through chapter 7 to hammer home chapter 5 of Digital Communications.
3.) Invest in a solution manual if you can find it. This way one can try ALL of the problems in the text and really learn the material.
As a final note, if you can master this course then there is absolutely no graduate class that will stand in your way. Any wireless or DSP class will seem like calc I after it.
Mediocre.......2007-03-28
I have an earlier version of this book and I also had Dr. Proakis as a professor in graduate school. Dr. Proakis has a nack of making something simple into something complex. His teaching style is similar. I always thought com theory was very difficult until I read books by others that discussed the same topics in a more cogent and lucid style.
3.64 lbs of Pure Spirtual Abuse .......2006-10-26
Someone with a decent grasp of com-theory giving this book five stars is beyond my comprehension. It provides instructors all the benefits of deception with virtually no risk of being deceived themselves. Even taking into account intellectual deception and cultural coercion due to a sense of professional self-preservation and survival, the use or praise of this text is beyond justification. Unless someone has the emotional intelligence of a turnip or purely enjoys seeing students in a state of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), there is no way anybody should be saying "I love it" (official Amazonian meaning of 5 stars) about this text.
Master Tool for stupidification of next generation communications engineers.......2006-07-15
Let me explain the title below with a quote:
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< According to Professor Donaldo Macedo, director of the Applied Linguistics Graduate Program, schools do not always serve the best interests of their students. Combined with media and other social institutions, educational institutions often stifle critical thinking by creating a pretext of equality and perpetuating ignorance through what Macedo refers to as a process of "stupidification" or forced submission of the mind.>>
Proakis offers a major volume of cut and paste research results without intuition despite it is in its fourth edition. The volume of the book forces graduate students to scan the book without much thinking to learn the labels so that they can get through job interviews or decorate their resumes. As a result, the next generation engineers are bred as table look-up employees, dropping algorithm names without understanding the deep reasoning behind various approaches.
Proakis makes a decent acronym look-up dictionary, however undue trust on the quality and coverage of this book results in arrested mental development. This poses a significant challenge to hiring managers for research positions.
Two stars are given for the copy and paste effort since it takes two keys to do so (CTRL-C/CTRL-V). Buy for communicating with the lost generation, buy Wozencraft&Jacobs/VanTrees/Gallager and read tutorial papers to get a deep understanding if you care to learn the fundamentals of your profession.
If you dont care to learn your engineering profession fundamentals, then why dont you do an MBA?
Good coverage but poor organization ..........2003-10-20
I both love and hate this book at the same time! Its great for its wide coverage and unified presentation of material but the organization is rather poor indeed. There is little motivation and the material is presented as a matter of fact collection of topics. The presentation also seems to be out of sequence at times.
Other gripes: The errata is quite large and still not complete. Upon closer inspection, I found that several of the problems require assumptions that are not clearly described in the problem statement. This leads to a frustrating experience at times.
I can think of ways in which the material could be re-organized to make the "flow" much better. Doing this and adding little motivation and connecting material would make this a truly great book. I don't think that much additional effort is required for the re-organization - too bad this hasn't happened in the first 4 editions.
A major plus of the book remains - nothing else comes close in coverage. So it is still a pretty decent book if you can get the intuition and organization from elsewhere.
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Better than any book I can think of, White Noise captures the particular strangeness of life in a time where humankind has finally learned enough to kill itself. Naturally, it's a terribly funny book, and the prose is as beautiful as a sunset through a particulate-filled sky. Nice-guy narrator Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a small college. His wife may be taking a drug that removes fear, and one day a nearby chemical plant accidentally releases a cloud of gas that may be poisonous. Writing before Bhopal and Prozac entered the popular lexicon, DeLillo produced a work so closely tuned into its time that it tells the future.
Book Description
Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise was immediately hailed as Don DeLillo's "breakout novel" when it first appeared in 1985. The novel entertains a wide array of compelling topics and concerns with consummate agility. Study this spot-on satire of post-war America.
The title, Don DeLillo's White Noise, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Don DeLillo's White Noise through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Don DeLillo, a chronology of the author's life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful payoff.......2007-10-07
I'll admit this one can drag a bit in many places, I put it on the back burner 3 times before finishing it. But once you get to the end it really does change the way you see the rest of the book and makes you want to read it again. If you meet someone who says it was pretentious ask them if they finished it. The author is clearly in on the truth about his charactors and people like them in real life.
Cutting through the noise (3.5*s).......2007-09-14
White Noise is a lament on the superficiality and noise of modern life and the overwhelming prospect of death. Jack Gladney is the head of Hitler studies at a small Northern college living in some equanimity with his fourth wife Babette and various kids from their marriages.
There is a great deal of artificiality that permeates the book, which mirrors the fluff and stuff of everyday life. The kids are hipper, wiser, more observant, and more questioning than the parents, who seem to be in constant deference mode to that pretentiousness. Even the simplest of conversations turn into a debate over what is meant or implied. Bits of irrelevant, offsetting popular culture are continually interjected in the narrative: advertising, television, tabloids, etc. It's in the consumption paradise of a brightly lit grocery store that the characters are most comfortable. Jack must shore up his teaching position by constructing a persona, including attire, suitable for a Hitler scholar while hiding the fact that he does not speak German. A disaster official looks at a community evacuation from a noxious gas cloud as merely an opportunity for training. Jack and Babette have an endless dialog over the fear of death, who will die first, and how to ameliorate the situation.
Some refer to the book as postmodernist. It is definitely commentary on absurdities, commercialism, contradictions, meaninglessness, etc. The characters and the plot are rather far-fetched, perhaps necessarily so. Some may prefer commentary on life to be more down-to-earth realistic.
The Scenes with Family Discussions are Unparalleled [82][T].......2007-09-11
This book entangles rip-snorting laugh-out-loud dialogue with sardonic, depressing, and gloomy introspection by numerous characters.
Death, a common fear of anyone, is the theme of this book. Counting the number of times the word is used would amount to full time occupation. White noise is death. White death is the subject of discussion. "What if death is nothing but sound?" "Electrical noise." "You hear it forever. Sound all around. How awful." How depressing!
The book revolves around the dysfunctional combined families of Jack Gladney and his fifth wife, Babette. With a house full of preteenage and teenage children, the dinner and other discussions are both intently ADHD and outrageous. And, Jack is something of a goofball himself. He is a professor of Hitler studies who speaks not a lick of German. His discussions with other professors are enlightening and entertaining. And, when he has a Hitler symposium, Delillo writes, "The Hitler scholars assembled, wandered, ate voraciously, laughed through oversized teeth." Surreal? Very.
The depression peaks when we witness a death where "White noise [is]everywhere." We almost see what Jack and Babette dread.
The ending, without ruining the plot, surprised and disappointed me. The first 300 pages were great satire on the college professor's life, miserable and absolutely happy. In the end, he sees things better, but is probably much less happy.
Many aspects of this book reminded me of "The Moviegoer." Each protagonist is self deprecating, and endearing as well. Each is full of human frailty, but these weaknesses construct their personalities' strengths.
If you are still suspicious of this book - read Chapter 15. Delillio's pithy - almost aphorismatic - discussion contrasting Elvis to Hitler is both hilarious and reflective of substantial research into the character of Jack. If you do not like this chapter, you will not like this book. But, I believe few can finish this chapter and put the book down.
he slices open family life with emotional candor.......2007-07-24
for all the discussion of how this book fits into the cannon of postmodern literature, complaints of pretention, lack of care in narrative form, i think that something important is being overlooked.
i can't think of any other book that approaches the such a poignant telling of LATE 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN FAMILY LIFE. jack's tender musings and relations with babette and their kids... the sort of messy cacaphony of family conversations in the car... the surprise, distance, and fierce love that jack feels for his kids as they grow and assert their personalities... the haphazard manner in which jack and babette attempt to protect their children from whatever dangers lurk in their environment...it's all lovely, sharply written, true-- and buried in the mess of human thought (virginia woolf...yes).
maybe it strikes a cord with me because i grew up a professor's daughter in a college town in the 80s and 90s, and might not have the same poignancy for someone else, but i whole-heartedly recommend this book not only as a text, but as a novel.
Pretentiousness Run Amok.......2007-07-22
Read this on an empty stomach or its unabashed pretentiousness will make you throw up.
Book Description
Learn the basics of white noise theory with White Noise Distribution Theory. This book covers the mathematical foundation and key applications of white noise theory without requiring advanced knowledge in this area. This instructive text specifically focuses on relevant application topics such as integral kernel operators, Fourier transforms, Laplacian operators, white noise integration, Feynman integrals, and positive generalized functions. Extremely well-written by one of the field's leading researchers, White Noise Distribution Theory is destined to become the definitive introductory resource on this challenging topic.
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Winner of the National Book Award in 1985, White Noise is the story of Jack and Babette and their children from their six or so various marriages. They live in a college town where Jack is Professor of Hitler Studies (and conceals the fact that he does not speak a word of German), and Babette teaches posture and volunteers by reading from the tabloids to a group of elderly shut-ins. They are happy enough until a deadly toxic accident and Babette's addiction to an experimental drug make Jake question everything. White Noise is considered a postmodern classic and its unfolding of themes of consumerism, family and divorce, and technology as a deadly threat have attracted the attention of literary scholars since its publication. This Viking Critical Library edition, prepared by scholar Mark Osteen, is the only edition of White Noise that contains the entire text along with an extensive critical apparatus, including a critical introduction, selected essays on the author, the work and its themes, reviews, a chronology of DeLillo's life and work, a list of discussion topics, and a selected bibliography.
Customer Reviews:
An Excellent Case Study.......2005-07-20
This book provides a critical look at the world of postmodern culture. It gives perspective which is not easy to find and also provides a critique in non-academic language, a helpful addition to any library.
Get this edition!.......2004-11-25
I've sometimes asked myself why I don't get a library card and save the money I spend buying books. This book answered that question, because the reviews and essays featured in this edition provided such insight and enlightenment that I was inspired to return to the novel again and again for a more penetrating read.
The novel itself is beautifully, brilliantly written; DeLillo is a master ironist. Though I thoroughly enjoyed the novel the first time, I highly recommend revisiting it after reading the critical essays (which were so informative that they were quite enjoyable reads themselves).
If you're going to read White Noise outside of a college class, this is the edition you should get.
Witty.......2003-08-06
This book was required reading in my college literature class at Auburn University. I enjoyed this book more than any of the other books required (Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary, Gulliver's Travels, etc). This book gave excellent descriptions and amazing character development. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
Should we be laughing?.......2002-05-10
This book has a very humorous touch to it, while questioning our culture. The book is the story of a typical family, living in this commercialistic society. It shows that our lives' are based on what the media tells us. It's strange that a book that questions so much about the way we live can also be comedic, but it does so very nicely. Why? Because Don DeLillo is a genius. He does not act as though the concepts he writes about are very important. His humor is comparable to those of us who can't stop laughing at funerals, or roar when someone trips and falls. This book is indeed a trip!
Great novel for English classes.......2002-05-09
White Noise by Don Delillo was a book that should be read by all ages. It's basic concepts that were brought out were the acts of consumerism and death. There was also some sex involved in there too. As you can see, a perfect book for the growing college student. I also liked how Delillo brought in some humorous moments when they were during his grocery shopping and watching television. This novel basically describes the typical American family and shows how this family is just as normal as the rest of us, but shows the side we never really see. I particularly like how Delillo displays Jack as this bizarre man who really focuses on death. He can't help but think about it. I really liked him in this novel because he reminds me of myself as I walk around and think "outside the box" if you know what I mean. This book constantly made me laugh, especially when the father fights with his son. That whole argument is hysterical! The book throws some good twists to American society that most of us never see. My basic thoughts on this novel are that you should read this because it will really make you laugh, and make you think about your typical day of work and life.
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In Muting White Noise, James H. Cox considers how Native authors have liberated our imaginations from colonial narratives. Cox takes his title from Sherman Alexie, for whom the white noise of a television set represents the white mass-produced culture that mutes American Indian voices. Cox foregrounds the work of Native intellectuals in his readings of the American Indian novel tradition. He thereby develops a critical perspective from which to re-see the role played by the Euro-American novel tradition in justifying and enabling colonialism.
Muting White Noise breaks new ground in literary criticism. It stands with Native authors in their struggle to reclaim their own narrative space and tell stories that empower and nurture, rather than undermine and erase, American Indians and their communities.
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The American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction. Each volume begins with a substantial introduction by a distinguished authority on the text, giving details of the novel's composition, publication history, and contemporary reception, as well as a survey of major critical trends and readings from first publication to the present. This overview is followed by a group of new essays, each specially commissioned from a leading scholar in the field, which together constitute a forum of interpretative methods and prominent contemporary ideas on the text. There are also helpful guides to further reading. Specifically designed for undergraduates, the series will be a powerful resource for anyone engaged in the critical analysis of major American novels.
White Noise, the story of a professor of Hitler studies and his family, was DeLillo's breakthrough book and has received much attention and critical acclaim. In the introduction to this volume, Frank Lentricchia provides an overview of the novel's critical reception, while examining it in the context of other works by Don DeLillo. The other essays in the volume discuss DeLillo's view of family and divorce, Hitler's role in the twentieth century, technology as a mortal threat, and postmodern America. This collection offers suggestive means by which to approach DeLillo's important contemporary work.
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Today's television is packed with programs featuring crime scene investigation and their ubiquitous scenes of autopsy and forensic medicine. Existential questions about life and death are no longer only addressed on the philosophical level of Hamlet's famous soliloquy, but in drastic images. Splatter, horror and the Gothic are not only making their comeback in TV or in movies, but are influencing the current style of editorial design, illustration and photography.
Against this background, Black Magic/White Noise presents an unsettlingly fascinating collection of visuals that deal the physical and the psychological as interpreted by contemporary designers from around the world. The book seduces its readers into a conflicted world filled with chillingly beautiful illustration, photography, graphic design, collage, painting and installation. The title's "black magic" is represented by images of darkness, mystery and horror. Its "white noise" describes the unexpected infiltration of the irrational into broad daylight that can be found in some of the included works and that we have come to know and love from films by Alfred Hitchcock or books by Haruki Murakami.
Not for the fainthearted, Black Magic/White Noise is a potent cocktail of the drastic themes and motifs that are being used and finding widespread acceptance in today's creative disciplines and design.
Customer Reviews:
Black excelence!.......2007-07-26
Este libro de imagenes es realmente sorprendente, las imagenes te transmiten mucha emoción, mucha tristeza, mucha alegría. Excelente libro de imagenes!
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Margaret Atwood describes Helen Keremos as "a cross between Lily Tomlin and Philip Marlowe." In this last book in the series, Sonny, a former client of Helen's from Hong Kong, arrives in Vancouver. He's in trouble and claims he doesn't know who's after him or why. Despite nagging apprehensions, Helen decides to help him. But a kidnapping attempt quickly ensues, forcing our heroine into the midst of a complicated set of crimes.
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The tangled connections that have bound Jews to African Americans in popular culture and liberal politics are at the heart of Michael Rogin's arresting and unnerving book. Looking at films from Birth of a Nation to Forrest Gump, Rogin explores blackface in Hollywood films as an aperture to broader issues: the nature of "white" identity in America, the role of race in transforming immigrants into "Americans," the common experiences of Jews and African Americans that made Jews key supporters in the fight for racial equality, and the social importance of popular culture. Rogin's forcefully argued study challenges us to confront the harsh truths behind the popularity of racial masquerade.
Customer Reviews:
Oh please!.......2007-03-12
No other entity spread anti-black racism more than the slave industry and Hollywood, and both were and are Jewish run. This claim that Jews put on a black face to work against anti-Jewish sentiment has to be the farthest stretch of Jews justifying their own racism towards blacks that I've read so far, and I've read more than my share. We need to be spending more time on combatting real racism, not a fabricated kind.
FASCINATING AND INVIGORATING SCHOLARSHIP.......2001-08-28
This is one of the five best non-fiction books I have ever read! It is superior to anything Rogin has written previously, magnificent as some of his earlier scholarship has been. I reccommend this book for film buffs, as well as anyone interested in learning how this country's history of racism has affected mass culture and how that has shaped our own understanding of what it means to be an American. Read and learn. This is cultural studies at its best.
Customer Reviews:
Are you open to other cultures? Do you really know them?.......2007-02-18
This book opened my eyes on how a person must feel when we (US christians) try to come to their country to "save them" and make them have a better world. Perhaps our methods and ideals are not theirs. I never realized how we are trying to plant our way of life and change theirs. We must first learn their culture and not impress our way of life on them.
What does the developing world have to teach us?.......1998-07-07
The book uses interesting anecdotes to take the reader on a jouney of self-discovery. In the midst of the author's missionary experience in the Phillipines - he is constantly learning what it means to be human, from those he is supposed to be serving.
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