Digital Transmission Engineering or Kinship and Capitalism

Digital Transmission Engineering (IEEE Series on Digital and Mobile Communication)

Author: John B Anderson

This introduction to digital data transmission, modulation, and error-correction coding, together with the underlying communication and information theory is an all-inclusive text suitable for all those connected with Mechanical Engineering or Computer Science. Equal emphasis is given to underlying mathematical theory and engineering practice. Not meant to be an encyclopedic treatise, the book offers strong, accessible pedagogy.

This Second Edition presents enhanced explanations of key ideas as well as additional examples and problems. It also provides greatly expanded coverage of wireless communication, which has seen exponential growth since the release of the first edition.

• A pedagogocal approach aimed at the 5th year EE student

• A balance of theory with engineering and design

• Integration of important topics such as synchronization, radio channels, and wireless communication, which are left out of competing books, or lost in more lengthy formats.

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A textbook for the first-year graduate introduction to digital communication. Anderson (electrical engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) covers pulse and carrier modulation, interference and distortion, synchronization up to the network level, the engineering details of channels, antennas and propagation, error control coding, and mobile channels. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Kinship and Capitalism: Marriage, Family, and Business in the English-Speaking World, 1580-1740

Author: Richard Grassby

This uncompromisingly empirical study reconstructs the public and private lives of urban business families during the period of England's emergence as a world economic power. Using a broad cross-section of archival, rather than literary, sources, it tests the orthodox view that the family as an institution was transformed by capitalism and individualism. The overall conclusion is that none of the abstract models invented to explain the historical development of the family withstand empirical scrutiny and that familial capitalism, not possessive individualism, was the motor of economic growth.

Table of Contents:

	Tables
	Abbreviations
	Explanatory Notes
	Preface
	Introduction: Models and Myths	1
Pt. I	Marriage
1	Making a Match	37
2	Husbands and Wives	85
3	Widowers and Widows	117
Pt. II	The Business Family
4	Parents and Children	155
5	Adulthood and Old Age	189
6	Kin and Community	217
Pt. III	The Family Business
7	Men in Business	269
8	Women in Business	312
9	Inheritance and Advancement	341
	Conclusion: Capitalism and the Life Cycle	387
	App. A. Sources for the Database	419
	App. B. Criteria for Coding Inputs	441
	Sources	455
	Index	469