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This practical book is essential for installers or contractors responsible for cabling LANs, security systems, telephones, or CATV. Separate sections on fiber optics and copper wiring make understanding each much easier and highlight the differences in installation. Background material carefully explains why and how networks and systems work. This invaluable resource provides detailed instruction in down-to-earth language on how state-of-the-art installation should be done!
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Introduction.......2006-07-12
This book is easy to read and covers most topics in a logical easy to follow format. I am a architect and needed a good starting point for understanding cabling installation and various types of low voltage wiring systems (voice, data, CCTV, security). The author emphasizes that this book is meant for practical application, but he does provides good coverage of basic theories without being like an engineering textbook. The discussion of how fiber-optics are transmitted was very helpful. If one already knows the basics, this book may not be useful but I found it a good overview of the subject.
Data, Voice, and Video Cabling.......2001-11-21
Very dissappointing. The video cabling section didn't discuss splitters, taps, attenuators, modulators,signal loss and many other areas of video installation. The other sections were somewhat better but also lacking in depth. I've learned more from reading the appendixes in the Leviton Catalog.
Excellently Writtten.......2001-11-02
I found this book to be written in a way that can be understood easily by the common "Joe". I've read many books on this subject and found that I wish I would have started with this one to begin with. It lays out the foundations of the infrastructure field in a descriptive and understandable way. Excellent choice.
An Instructors reveiw.......2000-12-21
I have been teaching fibre optics (Canadian Spelling for fiber) and communications for a number of years now, and I have read and used most every book available on the subject. I have been able to get something pertinent out of all of them. I have been using "Data, Voice and Video Cabling for some time now. The majority of the time my students are offered these books, not as a requirement of the course, but as a an option. (They are supplied during the course free of charge.)
Recently a class involved in an extensive training course asked about Homework. I suggested reading the issued text books by the next morning. (Big mistake) The next AM, I was inundated with questions and ideas about communications cabling. Further, I sold 12 of the VD&V books immediately. Most of my people had spent many hours reading over and reveiwing all required reading. These students were all eminently qualified instructors in a Communications, train-the-trainer course.
Many people assume that they can learn everything from books without the benifit of formal instruction. An unfortunate mistake. I have to deal with this attitude on a daily basis. However if you want to be close to this assumption, try this book. Always keep an open mind and try to refrain from the negativity.
An excellent and helpful book.......2000-12-21
This book is probably the best book on communications cabling I have seen. It covers copper cabling and fiber in different sections which makes it less confusing. It has lots of good pictures on how to actually install the cables.
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Trade Policy Review Japan 2000 (Trade Policy Review)
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Manufacturer: Bernan Assoc
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European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective
Klausen Jytte
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Exploring the social dimensions of state formation and European integration, a respected interdisciplinary group of European and North American scholars takes a novel approach to the historical processes of integration. Rather than being led by EU institu
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Western Europe and Germany: The Beginnings of European Integration, 1945-196 (German Historical Perspectives)
Manufacturer: Berg Publishers
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This book aims to broaden readers' understanding of the issues now facing the European Union by explaining the motivation underpinning the process of integration in Western Europe after 1945. The contributors discuss: - the part played by the Federal Republic of Germany; - the role of ideas and political movements in stimulating policy; - the economic interest of West Germany and West German business; and - the strategic aspects of Germany's policy. Also included is a German view of French and British attitudes toward a unified Europe and a discussion of the social history of integration.
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Learn and explore the music of one of the most respected and pioneering jazz guitar players of our time. This book/CD pack provides a hands-on analysis of 13 great performances: Affirmation * Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) * Body Talk * The Borgia Stick * Breezin' * C-Smooth * Clockwise * The Cooker * Easy Living * So What * Stormy Weather * Take Five * This Masquerade. The CD includes full-band examples of all the exercises.
Customer Reviews:
Breezin' through Benson.......2004-06-17
Wolf Marshall has been industriously turning out transcriptions and re-recordings of major jazz guitarists' soli for about three years now. "Best of George Benson" is one of his early efforts in this vein, and has since been joined by works on Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Grant Green and Joe Pass.
The book is balanced roughly equally between Benson's early recordings and his later CTI and commercial career. The early studies include the "Easy Living" chord solo from "The New Boss Guitar of...," "Clockwise" and "Stormy Weather" from "It's Uptown," "The Cooker" and "The Borgia Stick" theme from "The George Benson Cookbook," and "Billie's Bounce" from "Giblet Gravy." The CTI phase of his career represented in this book and recording includes "So What" from "Beyond the Blue Horizon," "Body Talk" from the album of the same title, and "Take Five" from "Bad Benson." "Breezin'," "This Masquerade," and "Affirmation" are all from 1976's "Breezin'." The book closes (somewhat incongruously) with "C-Smooth" from 1998's "Standing Together."
The transcriptions are clearly printed, meticulously detailed, and annotated by Wolf Marshall, who draws upon years of transcription and guitar performance experience to discuss departures from conventional chord changes, unusual passages, and linkages to past and contemporary jazz musicians. The transcriptions typically include the introductions and heads of the tunes as well as Benson's solos. Marshall's choices of material scruple to adhere mostly to Benson's more important work while giving a chronological overview of Benson's evolution. In this light it's easy to see why there's such a focus on "Breezin'"- arguably Benson's most important album in terms of his own career, and also possibly the single most influential album of the Benson oeuvre - even though most guitar nuts might prefer Benson's exciting explorations of the early 70s (even those from other leaders' albums - it's a shame licensing for transcriptions doesn't apparently extend to albums by Freddie Hubbard). The inclusion of "C-Smooth" from 22 years after "Breezin'" seems almost an afterthought. One can almost hear Marshall saying "...and now he's doing this..." but without much evolutionary context, it's not as appreciable, perhaps. Still, there are limits to what both media and market will accept, and I am very grateful to have access to as much insight as has been granted here.
The recording is beautifully (and very clearly) done by a small group led by Marshall, who does an admirable job of replicating the early frenetic Benson of "...Cookbook" as well as the comparatively mellow Benson of "Breezin'." The audio has been mixed with the guitar to one side so that the CD may be used as a play-along as well as an audio reference.
All in all, this is really wonderful work, documenting as it does the uniquely American art form of jazz guitar, and helping its legacy inform the future. I look forward to other and forthcoming volumes in Wolf Marshall's series.
fusongs.......2004-02-06
The book is great the CD was damaged So be careful I didn't use the book until it was too late for a refund or exchange (30) days
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Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Charlie LeDuff gives his incomparable take on the city and its denizens-the bars, the workingmen, the gamblers, the eccentrics, the lonesome, and the wise.
Work and Other Sins is filled to burst with stories of the fascinating, one-of-a-kind characters who populate the modern metropolis. In these pages we meet a Long Island used-car salesman; a professional Santa; the men who change the light bulbs atop the Empire State Building; a Sinatra imitator; a retired Harlem chorus-line girl; a lighthouse keeper; a saloon priest; Latin lovers; a host of barroom regulars; and myriad others-all of whom present their take on working, drinking, gambling, dying, and countless other facts of life. Charlie LeDuff takes us to the watering holes, prisons, veterans' hospitals, firehouses, apartment buildings, baseball fields, and graveyards that make up the landscape of modern life. Also included is LeDuff's acclaimed series of articles on Squad One, the Brooklyn firehouse that suffered devastating losses on September 11, as well as his Pulitzer Prize-winning piece on workers in a North Carolina slaughterhouse.
LeDuff captures the spirit of the people and places he profiles with a dead-on feel for character and idiom and his signature wry wit. But more than that, LeDuff lets his characters speak for themselves. What results is at turns riotous, dirt-under-the-nails, contemplative, salty, joyous, whiskey tinged-an utterly unique vision of life in the Big Apple and beyond.
Customer Reviews:
a little bit underwhelmed.......2006-11-11
while i am certainly enjoying this book, much of it comes across as underwhelming to some degree. i was a little thrown once i realized that much of the book was simply short vignettes; perhaps i was expecting a something more in-depth and informative along the lines of jim mitchell. the grim, stoic, style of writing seems a bit facile and cliche to me at this point in my life, as frequently are the people leduff profiles; at times i even felt vaguely patronized. regardless, i definitely did enjoy the peeks into the lives of people with whom i will probably only get to wonder about, and for that i thank leduff. basically, a light, entertaining book, but more sweet candy than a full meal. i don't think it will be a permanent addition to my book collection, but it made good reading for the train.
Gritty character sketches.......2005-05-31
LeDuff writes wonderful and insightful sketches of people living and working around NYC in unsual and unexpected circumstances. From native-american iron workers who commute from Canada to work on skyscrapers to fisherman , these are people who are an integral part of city life that can easily be forgotten in the hustle and bustle but LeDuff's portraits bring them into full relief.
A very entertaining book that can be opened almost at random and capture your interest. My only critism is that some of the sketches are too short and don't have enough development. LeDuff reminds me of Joseph Mitchell and continues in that tradition of exposing characters in NY that aren't readily visible.
Portraits From the Edge.......2004-04-19
In his introduction to this collection of essays, this Pulitzer Price-winning reporter lists the "fantastic nobodies" hanging from his family tree: "a pair of heavy-drinking lighthouse keepers, a sleepy morphine addict, a grave robber, a rumrunner, a streetwalker, a numbers maker, a dean of a sham college and a police informant." Mr. LeDuff has sought out similar characters here, most but not all of them nobodies and most but not all of them from New York-- a used-car salesman, a florist, a model for Viagra ads, gravediggers, a Sinatra imitator, workers at Ground Zero, the last civilian light house keeper in the country, midgets, bar owners, a "glittering personality of the Harlem Renaissance" who is murdered in her apartment, a runaway, a retiring doorman. a seventy-three year old still employed as a lifeguard et al. Although many of these people are down and out, few are whiners. They are mildly heroic in that they are able to put their feet on the floor each morning and go to a life-sentence job, if they have one. Some of them are homeless. A few of them have their 15 minutes of glory, an alcoholic bum who catches a child thrown by her mother from a burning building, for instance. Mr. LeDuff's prose is sparse in keeping with his subject matter; he is the master of maximum discription with a minimum of words. John Byrnes who caught the baby is "just back from an extended alcoholiday." Someone in a beer hall drinks beer "greedily, like a nursing kitten." Another character is described as "a conscientious objector to the nine-to-five work world."
Most of the essays here are two to three pages long so you get the essence of the character quickly. This probably works better if you read the essays in the newspaper rather than going through many of these stories at one sitting since if you aren't careful, you may become suicidal reading of person after person living on the edge.
On the other hand, my favorite sections of this fine book are the extended write-ups of the slaughterhouse workers at the Smithfield Packing Company plant in Lumberton, North Carolina and Mr. LeDuff's moving account of the death of Dave Fontana from Squad 1 in Park Slope, Brooklyn on September 11, 2001. There are facts about the slaughterhouse that are mind-boggling. the body and mind numbing repetitive jobs day after day, (you hear people say, they don't kill pigs in the plant, they kill people) the tremendous turnover of personnel, (five thousand quit and five thousand are hired each year) the racial tension in the plant, the racial hierarchy with the best jobs going to white workers, then to the Indians, Mexicans and black workers. Mr. LeDuff writes here about some of the things that happened to people who survived September 11. As he says so well, "the story of death has been well documented in these, the first few weeks following September 1. But there is also the matter of living." He thus takes the reader into how Mr. Fontana's wife and son and his fellow firefighters after September 11 cope as they attempt to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. There are the difficulties of giving eulogies over empty coffins, the governmental red tape and saddest of all, the little boy who just wants his father to return.
These no-nonsense essays should remind us that we are all in this together.
a brilliant writer.......2004-02-21
I have followed this writer for years in NY. He is one that was sought out by many- each article he wrote- especially the "Bending Elbows" column. I still get excited when I see his byline. What a great job he does! In NY, LA, anywhere... I look forward to more from this utterly talented and important writer of our time.
Powerful and Mesmerizing Stories.......2004-02-08
This collection of powerful and mesmerizing stories from Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Charlie LeDuff offers up a paean to the real New York and the seamy, gritty underside that is often hidden from view to the casual observer. "New York is a glamorous city, constituted mostly of nobodies," says LeDuff in the book's introduction, and it is these nobodies that he plucks from obscurity and brings to life in these nervy, punchy vignettes.
Partially drawn from his former column in the New York Times, the pieces collected in WORK AND OTHER SINS provide compelling and contemplative portraits of the laborers, dreamers, hustlers and immigrants from the city's uncelebrated ranks of working stiffs. There's the man who replaces light bulbs at the top of the Empire State Building, the last licensed trapper within city limits, the harbor policemen charged with the grisly task of removing dead bodies from the river, the black Santa Claus at Rockefeller Center, and the last civilian lighthouse keeper on Coney Island.
In his deeply personal style, LeDuff lays bare the hopes, fears and frustrations of these unsung heroes, offering us an intimate chronicle of lives lived quietly in the shadows. The city around them serves as no mere background player, but instead comes alive as a living, breathing organism in its own right. The author evocatively captures the sights and sounds of the urban landscape, authentically rendering the smoky dive bars, dingy street corners and cramped single room occupancy hotels where dreams are born and extinguished, and the city's dramas are played out.
The abbreviated length of the pieces in the collection makes them perfect for reading in short sittings, and LeDuff writes with a keen sense of perceptivity and depth that belies their brevity. In his spare, clipped prose devoid of any false sentiment, he gives us an unvarnished account of real people living real lives, and the result is profoundly moving and compassionate.
While many of the stories and characters seem to nostalgically hark back to a vanishing era, there are also some painfully modern snapshots of a post 9/11 New York, including stories about the rescue efforts and debris removal at Ground Zero and a profile of Squad One, the Brooklyn firehouse that suffered devastating losses during the attack. But even in recording these dark times, LeDuff succeeds in finding moments of beautiful humanity, often in the simplest acts and statements of his subjects.
In addition to the sheer voyeuristic reading pleasure these essays offer up, they also serve as astute works of social and cultural anthropology, much in the vein of Studs Terkel and Luc Sante. While at their core they are a celebration of the individual, taken collectively the stories form a cohesive oral history of the myriad voices residing on the fringe that deserve to be seen and heard.
LeDuff's incomparable take on the city vividly brings to life the culture of the streets and the poetry of the people, leaving us with a newfound admiration and respect for the resiliency and spirit of the common man.
--- Reviewed by Joni Rendon
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A witty, critical memoir--in print and on a DVD disc--of a life in front of the cameras and of the evolution of television news by one of America's leading TV journalists.
A generation of television viewers grew up watching Garrick Utley as he trekked to the far reaches of the Earth for NBC-News. What is life as a foreign correspondent really like? Is it all glamour and adventure? In this wise and witty memoir, Utley reveals what life is like behind the camera. He takes us from the battlefields of Vietnam to the backwaters of Belize, from communist Russia to revolutionary Rhodesia, in search of the most riveting, most important news stories out there.
But Utley's story is far more than a personal memoir--it's a sweeping history of network news. Utley reflects, in particular, on how the correspondent's role has shifted as centralized control, advanced technology, "infotainment," and profit margin have altered the way television networks operate and television news is reported. Packaged with a DVD of memorable Utley reports and dramatic footage from the heyday of network news, You Should Have Been Here Yesterday is an indispensable tour of the business and excitement of television news.
Customer Reviews:
Essential Reading for News Junkies.......2001-01-03
The title calls one attention to the past; the effect of the book is to ponder the future. This is a book well worth reading. It gives weight to the contention that the best way to describe, or teach, history is to describe a series of incidents involving real people. Mr. Utley does that and ties the incidents together not only by personal experience, but also by two more important themes. One is the development of imagery in his craft; and the other is the incremental yet accelerating advance of technology in broadcast news.
The relatively innocent images once created by the radio sound effects man have given away to powerful images that change public attitudes about fundamental questions. Films and pictures of violence over civil rights riveted the nation's attention on this issue. Films and pictures from Veit Nam, dying soldiers, fleeing refugees, immolated monks and helicopters evacuating the American Embassy, had more to do with creating fundamental changes in foreign policy and military policy than the most reasoned analyses. Mr. Utley describes the maturing of the image vividly because, in most cases, he was there.
The other theme of this book is the effect of technology on broadcasting, or the news business or what ever it is we have now. There are two constants in news. One constant is the event and the other constant is the audience that wants to be informed, or in recent years, wants to observe. The personalities and institutions that inform or televise the events are transient and are largely the creatures or victims of technology. The rise and decline of national network news was much affected by both incremental developments such as the hand-held television camera, as well as step changes such as satellite hook ups. The once venerated journalists of network news are now dinosaurs. We have all of this directly from one of the dinosaurs, our author.
Where is all of this technical development taking the news business? What will be the effect of the Internet, especially broadband, always-on connections? Nobody knows, but Mr. Utley has an opinion.
If watching the news is a ritual or a passion, you will enjoy this book.
News Reporting in Transition.......2001-01-01
In 1961 when Garrick Utley graduated from Carleton College, the world was a very different place. One major change that has taken place almost without our noticing it is the difference in the way we learn about world events. Mr. Utley started in the earliest days of television news and brings us to today's instant news on CNN and even the Internet. Well worth reading.
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Learn How To Soup Up and Customize Your PC and Really Make It Your Own
Unimpressed by how the commonplace beige or gray computer looks and performs? Want to apply a personal touch to your PC so it reflects your own sense of style? You can make it glow, fill it with water, paint your favorite emblem on the case, or ultimately transform it into a completely unique work of art. There are myriad ways you can make your PC distinct.
In PC Chop Shop, best-selling author and expert "Modder" David Groth empowers you to create original PC modifications by teaching you the essential modding skills and inspiring you with a showcase of the most imaginative ideas. Through clear, step-by-step instruction, you'll learn a variety of basic-to-advanced modifications, including how to:
- Install lights--from neon to cold cathode to UV
- Make and apply custom decals
- Integrate windows and fan grilles in your case
- Add LED's and lights to your drives
- Modify the cooling systems for your case, memory, hard drive, and CPU
- Experiment with water cooling, Peltier cooling, and phase change cooling
- Enhance performance with CPU and memory overclocking
- Deaden Sound
- Personalize your keyboard, mouse, speakers, and monitor
- Paint creative designs on metal and plastic
- And much, much more!
Customer Reviews:
Very good, but not fantastic.......2005-10-26
There is a lot of great information in this book. I learned loads in the section of lighting, from how to solder LEDs to installing those cool plasma balls and/or plates. The stealthing section was also cool.
My only gripe is the photos. Most are black and white, and don't always clearly illustrate the point, especially when he is talking about the different colors of wire coming from a PSU. Many photos are on different pages than the text describing them, making one flip a page over to see what the author is talking about, and then flip back and try to find your spot. Minor, but annoying.
Besides the issue over photos, I learned loads, and will definatly apply some of the techniques to the project I bought the book for.
Very helpful.......2004-12-24
A great book for the workbench. Photo tutorials are very clear and easy to follow. The Author also restores Classic cars so the chapter on "case painting" is worth the price alone. The book covers all skill levels. Its a great reference guide when you find yourself in garge or workshop w/o internet access.
Modders, buy this book!
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