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 | The Essential Guide to the Business of U.S. Mobile Wireless Communications Product# 460543975 Selling for $34.99 "Decision-maker's guide to the mobile wireless communications industry in the United States. Covers key business issues faced by device manufacturers, service providers, customers, and others. Analyzes industry growth, structure, and other economics. An understanding of both the basic technology and its industry. Softcover. DLC: Telecommunications equipment industry." |
 | Wireless Telecommunications Networking with ANSI-41 Product# 460548066 Selling for $79 "Explains the changes and operational details and protocol usage of the new ANSI-41 standard in non-technical terms. Shows how the ANSI-41 supports mobile telecommunications networking, with graphic illustrations of common signalling situations that expedite network implementation. Also includes numerous specific examples of protocol use." |
 | The Big Book of Meeting Games Product# 460548225 Selling for $21.95 "Offers meeting leaders 75 short, challenging, and fun activities to accomplish specific meeting objectives. Break the ice with unfamiliar employees, engage and energize for more powerful, valuable input, and effectively solve problems and voice solutions. Softcover." |
| The Essential Guide to the Business of U.S. Mobile Wireless Communications Product# 460549681 Selling for $34.99 "Decision-maker's guide to the mobile wireless communications industry in the United States. Covers key business issues faced by device manufacturers, service providers, customers, and others. Analyzes industry growth, structure, and other economics. An understanding of both the basic technology and its industry. Softcover. DLC: Telecommunications equipment industry." |
 | Human Communication Product# 460679018 Selling for $69.88 "Intended for a survey of communication course (versus the hybrid or skills course), this text's strength is its ability to link theory and research with interesting examples. Human Communication, 8/e fuses current and classical communication theory, fundamental concepts, and basic skills. Written by an academic author and a professional author, this text provides students with an understanding of modern communication, by presenting the immediate and long term applications to their lives." |
 | Wireless Communication Systems: Advanced Techniques for Signal Reception Product# 460679252 Selling for $110 "Comprehensive coverage of a number of key contributions to advanced signal processing for wireless communications, in a unified framework. -- Presentation of a number of key recent contributions to advanced signal processing for wireless communications in one place and in a unified framework. -- Focuses on explicit algorithms for performing advancedprocessing tasks arising in receiver design for emerging wireless systems. This book presents, in a unified framework, a number of key recent contributions in the field of advanced signal processing for wireless communications. The focus of this presentation is on the development, analysis, and understanding of explicit algorithms for performing advanced processing tasks arising in receiver design for emerging wireless systems. Wireless communications, together with its applications and underlying technologies, is among today's most active areas of technologydevelopment. The advancement of wireless devices to market and the rapid pace of improvements to their systems have made it clear to engineers that advan" |
 | Algorithms for Statistical Signal Processing Product# 460679385 Selling for $139 Authoritative presentation of computational algorithms for statistical signal processing focuses on advanced topics. Softcover |
 | Better English Every Day: Language for Living, Book I Product# 460680830 Selling for $24 "BETTER ENGLISH EVERY DAY is a three-book series for adult students of English as a Second Language. It presents the grammar, vocabulary and survival skills required in a basic ESL program. In addition, it supplies students with ample opportunity to practice the four language skills in the context of interesting and varied activities. Lessons carefully integrate survival topics, grammatical structures and vocabulary to present practical and meaningful activities for the students." |
 | Quick Tips for Better Business Writing Product# 460682929 Selling for $12.95 "A portable treasury of clear, persuasive business communication that takes the pain out of organizing and writing dozens of the most common business documents, from e-mail to fund-raising letters to technical reports. Includes easy-to-follow do; s and don'ts for each of the 28 different categories." |
 | Signaling System #7 Product# 460683230 Selling for $69 "Provides and understanding of the signaling network, its architecture, and the protocols used to communicate through it. Also provides the technical details, protocol messages, and application examples helpful to developers, engineers, and network planners." |
 | Talk Your Way to the Top Product# 460683367 Selling for $14.95 "Field-proven presentation tips and communication skills, from two of today's top corporate coaches Every business situation is both a presentation and a chance to leave a positive impression. In 'Talk Your Way to the Top, corporate communications gurus Kevin Daley and Laura Daley-Caravella give readers the know-how to recognize and maximize the opportunities they face throughout the day. Each chapter represents a specific situation, from running a meeting to disagreeing with the boss, and outlines the steps needed to handle it with poise, skill, and success. Communication has a tremendous impact on how professionals are judged. 'Talk Your Way to the Top gives them the skills they need to: Know when and where to speak up--versus when to shut up Convey passion and make it contagious Connect with an audience on multiple levels" |
 | Carrier Grade Voice over Ip Product# 460683372 Selling for $59.95 "In 2002 voice over IP will constitute more than 25% of all long distance voice calls, according to Network World. That's more than a 30% ramp-up from 2001. The emergence of SIP, MPLS and new quality of service tools is making carrier grade voice over IP a service reality, and a potentially huge margin booster and revenue driver for service providers.The first edition of Carrier Grade Voice over IP played a roll in VoIP growth, in less than year becoming an essential tool for carriers working to provide high quality IP telephony. This new edition vastly updates the SIP chapter, details MPLS, and takes the explanations of the previous edition a step further in a final chapter that shows, step by step, how to design working VoIP networks." |
 | Madison & Vine Product# 460683485 Selling for $21.95 "From the sharp decline in CD sales to the fragmentation of network TV audiences, the business models of the entertainment and advertising industries are showing severe cracks. 'Advertising Age editor Scott Donaton-- who coined the term Madison & VineTM--lays out a case for why these industries will need to converge to survive, overcoming hurdles and creating business models based on content-commerce partnerships. 'Madison & Vine reveals how new technology is disrupting traditional business models, giving the consumer more control over the product. Donaton explains how these industries will need to overcome distrust, divergent agendas, and creative conflicts to form mutually beneficial alliances--or face the threat of extinction.Examines the factors that threaten business models of the advertising industry and nearly every entertainment industry sector Relates the glamorous inside stories of prominent Madison & Vine alliances" |
 | Speak Like a CEO: Secrets for Commanding Attention and Getting Results Product# 460683506 Selling for $21.95 "An award-winning news anchor presents methods for better communication in any business environment During her 20 years in broadcasting, award-winning news anchor Suzanne Bates conducted more than 10,000 interviews, during which she witnessed business leaders, politicians, and celebrities at their best and worst. Now a top CEO communication coach, Bates is renowned for her uncanny ability to transform even the shyest oratorical mouse into a public-speaking lion. In 'Speak Like a CEO, Bates: Reveals the secrets for communicating in any situation Describes simple techniques for acing speeches, presentations, media interviews, Q&A sessions, business meetings, and more Outlines self-improvement plans that can easily be customized to your needs Shares secrets from top leaders, including Mario Cuomo's technique for overcoming stage fright and Colin Powell's secret for projecting authenticity" |
| Human Communication Product# 460683643 Selling for $69.88 "Intended for a survey of communication course (versus the hybrid or skills course), this text's strength is its ability to link theory and research with interesting examples. Human Communication, 8/e fuses current and classical communication theory, fundamental concepts, and basic skills. Written by an academic author and a professional author, this text provides students with an understanding of modern communication, by presenting the immediate and long term applications to their lives." |
 | Basic Business Communication: Skills for Empowering the Internet Generation with Student CD-ROM/PowerWeb, and BComm Skill Booster Product# 460683778 Selling for $128.9 "Lesikar and Flatley's, Basic Business Communication (BBC): Skills for Empowering the Internet Generation, has long been known as a solid introductory business communication book that gets to the writing skills sooner than most other texts and gives students true 'how-to' skills in all areas of business communication. It has solid examples, and is both consumer-and service-oriented. Its strength has also been its use of margin notes, cartoons and photos that relate to the concepts and use of cases. Recent editions have established BBC as truly cutting edge; it was the first text in the market with PowerPoint as part of its package, the first to have an online chapter, and with the 9th Edition is now the first to offer writing tips and templates for PDAs (personal digital assistants).)." |
 | Business English at Work, Text Workbook (2nd Printing) Product# 460683855 Selling for $117.15 "Written in a conversational tone, Business English at Work 2e by Jaderstrom and Miller is a four-color text that takes a totally new learning approach to relating Business English to the workplace. Telecommunications, customer service, online references, and a host of other real-world topics connect directly to activities and exercises in grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, spelling, word division, and sentence writing/revising." |
 | Undersea Fiber Communication Systems Product# 460684155 Selling for $142 "Description This book provides a detailed overview of the evolution of undersea communications systems, with emphasis on the most recent breakthroughs of optical submarine cable technologies based upon Wavelength Division Multiplexing, optical amplification, new-generation optical fibers, and high-speed digital electronics. The role played by submarine-communication systems in the development of high-speed networks and associated market demands for multiplying Internet and broadband services is also covered. Importance of This Topic This book will fill the gap between highly specialized papers from large international conferences and broad-audience technology review updates. The book provides a full overview of the evolution in the field and conveys the dimension of the large undersea projects. In addition, the book uncovers the myths surrounding marine operations and installations in that domain, which have remained known so far to only very few specialists." |
| Wireless Communication Systems: Advanced Techniques for Signal Reception Product# 460684554 Selling for $110 "Comprehensive coverage of a number of key contributions to advanced signal processing for wireless communications, in a unified framework. -- Presentation of a number of key recent contributions to advanced signal processing for wireless communications in one place and in a unified framework. -- Focuses on explicit algorithms for performing advancedprocessing tasks arising in receiver design for emerging wireless systems. This book presents, in a unified framework, a number of key recent contributions in the field of advanced signal processing for wireless communications. The focus of this presentation is on the development, analysis, and understanding of explicit algorithms for performing advanced processing tasks arising in receiver design for emerging wireless systems. Wireless communications, together with its applications and underlying technologies, is among today's most active areas of technologydevelopment. The advancement of wireless devices to market and the rapid pace of improvements to their systems have made it clear to engineers that advan" |
 | Advanced Electronic Communications Systems Product# 460684776 Selling for $123.2 "Comprehensive in scope and contemporary in coverage, this book extends and updates the knowledge of the reader to the most modern topics in Electronic Communications systems. Numerous examples throughout provide readers with real-life applications of the concepts of analog and digital communications systems, while chapter-end questions and problems give them a chance to test and review their understanding of fundamental and key topics. Modern digital and data communications systems, microwave radio communications systems, satellite communications systems, and optical fiber communications systems. Cellular and PCS telephone systems coverage presents the latest and most innovative technological advancements being made in cellular communication systems. Optical fiber communications chapter includes new sections on light sources, optical power, optical sources and link budget. Current topics include trellis encoding, CCITT modem recommendations, PCM line speed, extended superframe format, wavelength division multiplexing, Kepler's laws, Clark orbits, limits of visibility, Satellite Radio Navigation and Navstar GPS. For the study of electronic communications systems." |
 | Guide to Cross-Cultural Communication Product# 460684829 Selling for $26.67 "The goal of this book is to help busy professionals communicate across cultures by promoting cross-cultural understanding and fostering communication with foreign-born employees or employers. Brief, practical, and reader-friendly, it provides new insights on cultural requirements not taught in sales training manuals. 'Guide to Cross-Cultural Communication' is a handy reference with information pertinent to negotiations, business writing, and speaking with those from diverse cultural backgrounds, with business-related examples throughout. Essential reading for those interested in understanding and improving intercultural communication both inside and outside their organizations; especially managers, executives, and other business professionals who must communicate in an increasingly multicultural workplace." |
 | Manager's Survival Guide: How to Avoid the 750 Most Common Mistakes in Dealing With People Product# 460685992 Selling for $29.95 "Gives you the tips, tools, and techniques for avoiding 750 communication mistakes people make on the job every day. You'll see how to correct or avoid these mistakes with practical solutions successfully used by business people who learned them the hard way- though experience. Experience that can work for you." |
 | Principles of Communication Systems Simulation With Wireless Applications Product# 460686167 Selling for $95 "The hands-on, example-rich guide to modeling and simulating advanced communications systems. Simulation is an important tool used by engineers to design and implement advanced communication systems that deliver optimal performance. This book is a hands-on, example-rich guide to modeling and simulating advanced communications systems. The authors take a systems-level approach, integrating digital communications, channel modeling, coding, elementary statistical estimation techniques, and other essential facets of modeling and simulation. This is the first book to present complete simulation models built with MATLAB that can serve as virtual laboratories for predicting the impact of system design changes. Coverage includes: Role of simulation in communication systems engineering Simulation approaches and methodologies Signal and system representations, filter models, noise generation, Monte Carlo simulation, and postprocessing Advanced techniques for modeling and simulating nonlinear and time-varying systems Waveform level and discrete channel models Performance estimation via Monte Carlo simulation Semianalytic simulation techniques Variance reduction techniques Co-channel interference in wireless communication systems, and more The authors also present detailed case studies covering phase-locked loops, CDMA systems, multichannel nonlinear systems, as well as a start-to-finish simulation of an advanced cellular radio system. Prentice Hall Series in Communications Engineering & Emerging Technologies, Theodore S. Rappaport, Editor" |
 | Focus: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs Product# 460686333 Selling for $74.4 "Designed specifically for developmental writers, this practical, accessible worktext presents the basic elements of paragraphs and sentences -using an integrated approach that teaches the principles of grammar within specific rhetorical contexts. Chapters feature clear, comprehensive content, frequent exercises, and opportunities for writing practice." |
 | The New Public Speaker Product# 460687472 Selling for $105 "An exciting new entry intended for public speaking courses, this text by the well-respected author team of George Rodman and Ronald Adler presents balanced coverage of public speaking theory and skill." |
 | MetaCapitalism: The e-Business Revolution and the Design of 21st-Century Companies and Markets Product# 460688002 Selling for $24.95 "Strategies to Realign?Çôand Win?Çôin Today?ÇÖs E-Business Battlefield Traditional global industrial powers?Çôbuilt on a base of tremendous physical capital and manufacturing strength?Çômust today face a stunning reality: the fast, lean e-business world may pass them by. Today?ÇÖs business-to-business e-business revolution, in which companies increasingly rely on brand ownership as they outsource physical capital activities, requires a dramatically different business process model with entirely new definitions of business processes. MetaCapitalism: The E-Business Revolution and the Design of 21st-Century Companies and Markets is the first book to outline the adaptations and innovations required to thrive in the new world of e-business. Original in thought and powerful in argument, MetaCapitalism draws on the combined expertise of two leading business strategists and the unmatched resources of PricewaterhouseCoopers to define this fundamentally changed environment and explain how managers can and must move?Çôand move quickly?Çôto reformulate their companies for success. Tremendous knowledge, imagination, and insight?Çônot to mention a small degree of faith?Çôwill be required to enter and succeed in this new world. Step inside MetaCapitalism: The E-Business Revolution and the Design of 21st-Century Companies and Markets to discover the fascinating and highly profitable rules, strategies, and practices of tomorrow?ÇÖs e-business?Çôfrom the leaders who are writing the rulebook today." |
 | Say It With Charts: The Executive?ÇÖs Guide to Visual Communication Product# 460766712 Selling for $45 "Step-by-step guide to creating compelling, memorable presentations A chart that once took ten hours to prepare can now be produced by anyone with ten minutes and a computer keyboard. What hasn't changed, however, are the basics behind creating a powerful visual - what to say, why to say it, and how to say it for the most impact. In Say It With Charts, Fourth Edition --the latest, cutting-edge edition of his best-selling presentation guide -- Gene Zelazny reveals time-tested tips for preparing effective presentations. Then, this presentation guru shows you how to combine those tips with today's hottest technologies for sharper, stronger visuals. Look to this comprehensive presentation encyclopedia for information on: * How to prepare different types of charts -- pie, bar, column, line, or dot -- and when to use each * Lettering size, color choice, appropriate chart types, and more * Techniques for producing dramatic eVisuals using animation, scanned images, sound, video, and links to pertinent websites" |
 | Osi Reference Model for Telecommunications Product# 460766724 Selling for $49.95 Wetteroth provides telecom staffers the information they need to gain a working knowledge of this essential telecom service architecture and equipment. Quick reference to the OSI model. Softcover. |
 | Gprs Demystified Product# 460766732 Selling for $49.95 "GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) is global mobile data technology. More important it is a step en route to next-generation wireless, or 3G, for many networks in the US and most networks in Europe and Asia. Questions like 'when can we expect European take-up of GPRS?,' 'what kind of roaming will the standards bodies adopt?,' 'what functionality will first-generation terminals provide?,' or 'how will GPRS change the basic business practices of GSM operators?' all need to be answered before implementations proceed. This book helps the wireless industry gets its arms around the issues with contributions from many of the pioneering companies in the mobile data industry. It equips professionals with plain English explanations of technology, markets, billing systems, terminals and management challenges." |
 | Telecommunications Billing Systems Product# 460766752 Selling for $64.95 "Offers comprehensive, practical help to telecom managers facing strategic decisions in this important area. The resource needed to make every aspect of selection, implementation, and conversation easier. Softcover. CD-ROM included with usable programs in MS Access, MS Excel, MS Project, and MS Word formats." |
 | Intercultural Business Communication Product# 460767116 Selling for $45 Both the novice and experienced international business traveler will find this an excellent source of information on global etiquette. |
 | Fiber Optic Cable System Installer Product# 460767182 Selling for $85 "This book prepares individuals to pass ETAI's Fiber Cabling Installers Certification (FCIC) Exam. It focuses on the basics of fiber optic design, installations, insertion loss, optical time domain reflectometry, reflectance and safety considerations. Lab exercises cover ST-compatible and SC connector types, both single and multi-mode cables and connectors, pulling and prepping cables, mechanical and fusion splices, terminations, testing and troubleshooting fiber cable systems. For those who have mastered basic copper data cabling with the concepts and practices of fiber-optic cabling, and are preparing for the FCIC Exam." |
| Fiber Optics Product# 460767492 Selling for $73 "A practical and up-to-date tutorial on everything necessary to understand how to apply fiber in a communications application. Key topics include components, system design, cable installation, and systems and fiber measurement. This information should interest technicians, associates, trainers, supervisors, or engineers who design, install and/or maintain a practical fiber system in today's environment." |