The 68000 Microprocessor: Hardware and Software Principles and Applications (4th Edition)

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Designed to demystify the Motorola 68000 microprocessor -- its hardware and software -- this book leads readers on an in-depth, hands-on exploration of more than 75 different applications and then guides them through the construction and programming of their own working single-board 68000 system. KEY TOPICS: Covers software details of the 68000, exception processing, data structures, programming the 68000, hardware details of the 68000, memory system design, I/O system design, advanced programming using 68000 peripherals, building a working 68000 system, and the advanced 680x0 series microprocessors. Features a Troubleshooting Techniques section in each chapter -- with real-world tips, techniques, and suggestions on how to work with various hardware and software topics. Provides a companion diskette containing all programs found in the text plus additional software -- ASM68K and EMU68K -- for emulating 68000 code on IBM compatible personal computers. For anyone interested in the hardware and software aspects of the Motorola 68000 microprocessor.

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Excellent Book !.......2000-11-03

I purchased this book about a year ago, and I have now read it pretty-much cover-to-cover. It is an excellent book. What I have found is that there are very few books on the market that cater to the individual who wants to build a microcomputer, starting from square one. This book caters to that market. If you are trying to build a Motorola 68000 system "from scratch", this book is for you. Be aware that there are a few pieces of information in the book that seem to be out of date. For instance, in the "working system" Mr. Antonakos describes how to build, he recommends an easier-to-use version of a UART that was apparently meant for the old Motorola 6800. The serial communications chip he recommends is now obsolete. However, as I have plowed my way through the morass of parts sellers and other charlatans, I have found that MANY parts are obsolete, even ones listed in the current catalogs of some of the biggest, most reputable IC distributors. Antonakos cannot be blamed for that. If you are interested in "building from scratch" with a Motorola 68000, also be aware of another data point : the 68000 seems to have an obituary written on it. My nose tells me Motorola is going to pull the carpet out from under it, maybe soon, or maybe not for another couple of years. In any case, it doesn't seem like the 68000 is going to be around for long. If you want to do it (build your own 68000 system), get this book and do it now !

outstanding "pratical" text on the 68000.......1999-12-04

This is a very good introduction about the 68000 from a pratical point of view,both at the assembly language level and at the hardware level.Only bad point is the accluded diskette which i found very tricky to use.The style of exposition of mr Antonakos is outstanding and very easy to follow.A great introduction to the 68000.

THE 68000 MICROPROCESSOR: HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS.

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THE 68000 MICROPROCESSOR: HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS.
James L. Antonakos
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIXA5K

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The HSBC Bank Canada Papers on Asia series was begun in 1995 to examine Canada's relationship with the East Asian economies and to reduce the information barriers resulting from distance and unfamiliarity in these markets. Six years on from the inception of the series, much has changed in the international environment. The Asian economies suffered a significant crash, a rapid rebound, only to slow again in 2000-2001. This, the sixth and last volume in the series, looks to the future. This new volume focuses on key issues facing the region that corporations and governments should understand, including East Asian regionalization initiatives, obstacles to continued rapid growth in China, aging and pension reform, and the changing security environment. In addition, the Canadian business performance six years on is re-evaluated.

With contributions from leading scholars intimately familiar with both Canadian and East Asian business practices, these volumes are an indispensable resource for corporations and governments looking to expand their business into East Asia, or for anyone who wants to better understand Canada's complex relationship with the Asian countries.

East Asia in Transition; Economic and Security Challenges.

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East Asia in Transition; Economic and Security Challenges.
A.e. Safarian And Wendy Dobson
Manufacturer: U. of Toronto Pr.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N660KA

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Through extensive interviewing, the author collects a vivid array of oral histories that examine the impact of NAFTA and attest to how neo-liberal reform has relentlessly impoverished Mexico's peasants and working class while decimating a fragile ecosystem.

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Great United Methodist Humor.......2006-10-07

If you (or people you know) are United Methodists, then this book will be very amusing to you. I suppose that parts of it would also be funny to anyone.

Walker speaks lovingly about the idiocyncracies of the denomination and the people. Since the author worked with churches in both the north and south, he does well to compare and contrast them in the beginning part of the book. He seems a bit tougher on the northerners, but it's all in good fun. The remainder of the book speaks of United Methodists in general.

The whole book is good for laughs. It's also a great ice-breaker to start group meetings and gatherings.

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Landmark book by leading expert, hailed for its astonishingly clear, delightfully readable explication of everything acoustical important to music-making. "Comprehensive...rigorous...well-organized...will surely be the text of choice." — American Scientist. "Recommended for music lovers and audiophiles" — Stereo Review. Over 300 illustrations. Examples, experiments and questions conclude each chapter.

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The best book I have seen.......2007-08-09

The best book on this topic that I have seen. Benade is a master of writing clearly and giving great examples that help the reader to visualize or imagine why sound is acting the way it does. I am using it in my quest to design a new kind of guitar, and it is extremely helpful. I also have Horns String and Harmony by Benade. He is a nuclear physicist with a penchant for audio, and I am glad he beat his weapons into flutes.

Just about everything.......2007-05-15

This book is close to exhaustive and can be an excellent addition to any reference library.

Excellent Introduction to Musical Acoustics.......2006-12-01

This book is an excellent introduction to the topic. Benade explains the subject assuming that the reader has no background in science (good for musicians) and no background in music (good for scientists). He writes the book as if he's translating a mathematical proof into plain English. Benade starts from scratch (even the notion of pitch is considered alien) and builds wonderfully intuitive understandings. Yes, this is an old book, so if you are NOT new to this field (and not afraid of math) then you'd be more interested in one of the Rossing books. But on the plus side, because the book was written before Benade had access to modern laboratory techniques, the "experiments" described in the book are all simple to understand and can be done at home. Unlike the Rossing books (which I also highly recommend), Benade's book does not read like a textbook or a reference source. It is very easy-to-read, so you can actually benefit from just sitting down and reading it (though Benade does provide problems at the end of the chapter for the dedicated reader).

In response to one of the unfavorable reviews posted, I do not find any fault with Benade when he states (p. 66) that "lopping off the higher frequency ... harmonics does not alter the perceived pitch of the sound." In fact, this statement comes right after an in-depth explanation of how the higher frequency partials DETERMINE the pitch for INHARMONIC sounds (e.g. chimes and bells). Perhaps the reviewer was confused by Benade's terminology. As explained on p. 63, Benade uses the word "partial" generically to describe higher frequency components. Benade reserves the term "harmonics" for partials that have whole-number relationships.

I wouldn't use this work as a college textbook, but I would certainly add it to the students' list of additional recommended references.

An Outstanding Book, Designed to Make You Think.......2004-08-03

While Benade's first book, "Horns Strings and Harmony", has some errors which he himself later acknowledged, "Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics" is one of the seminal books in the field. That doesn't mean that it is perfect in every respect, but it introduces a broad range of concepts in musical acoustics without the use of advanced mathematics, in a writing style that will appeal to the musician in addition to the scientist. The fine details of his theories regarding psychoacoustics, particularly pitch perception, have been challenged. But his general concepts are well accepted, and he presents them in a way that makes the reader think. His descriptions of experimental techniques (which generally aren't very complicated) have inspired me and others to repeat his experiments. Sometimes, results don't agree - that's when you have to think. Psychoacoustics relies on neurology and psychology, two sciences that, despite much brilliant work over the last 100 years, are still in their infancy. So, you can't judge his theories on psychoacoustics in the same light as his description of wave propagation, room modes, and perturbation functions in clarinets.

As a musician and an engineer, I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in how music and physics intersect. This is not the book to answer all your questions - it is the book to get you started on asking the right questions.

Misleading and completely worthless book.......2002-05-28

I bought this book ...in hope to get some help in explaining basics of musical acoustics to my college-age kids in a systematic, organized manner. What a disappointment!

In page 56 the author lists "Measured Values of Components of a Set of Guitar Strings".
One would expect a discussion about string inharmonicity as an explanation why partials of different strings have different frequencies while having the same fundamental' frequency. An utterly important and well known phenomenon is "responsible" for correct musical instruments recognition and perception is completely avoided in the text. Moreover, in the page 66 we found that "It is easy to verify ... that lopping off the higher frequency members of ...harmonics does not alter the perceived pitch of the sound". This statement is simply wrong: it is an established fact that the spectrum of the sound DOES affect the perceived pith. On the page 194 another treasure left me wondering what the author meant by "Compact, small, solid objects act somewhat as new sources of sound that originate new impulses of modified shape whenever an impulse is incident upon them". Here's more of the same amusing kind on the page 574:
"Brass instruments, particularly French horns, often "talk" to one another, so that the sound radiated by one of them enters the bell of its neighbor and thence joins in at the player's lips to influence the regime of oscillation." Tell this to a brass player!

There're glowing phrase on the back cover of this book by Audio Amateur, American Scientist, Physics Today and Stereo Review. While the first and the last - now extinct - publications can be "forgiven" as being amateur indeed, the American Scientist's and Physics' credibility is drastically diminished in my eyes; it's hard for me to believe those magazines fell for this misleading and in many cases simply wrong, book.
As a whole, this Mr. Benade' creation is anything but "a landmark book in its field, hailed for its astonishingly clear, delightfully readable statement of everything of acoustical importance..." as stated on the back; rather this book is nothing more that a pathetic waste of paper.

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Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics (Second, Revised Edition)
Arthur H. Benade
Manufacturer: Dover
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBGJRA

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Using Foucault's thinking on the relationship between power and knowledge, the author of this extraordinary book analyzes the ways in which the body of "The African" has itself been analyzed in western thought from the Renaissance to the present. The book marshals an impressive array of documentary records--from the texts of Renaissance mythology and natural science in the Classificatory age to Bantu anatomy and "the African personality." As such it not only provides a critical edge to debates around colonialism and African identity, it is also an invaluable new reservoir of source materials for scholars with a passion for knowing the body politic and its anatomy of power.

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an excellent informative work.......2004-01-23

This book gives the reader an insight into a fresh and new yet contradictory view on EUROPEAN CONSTRUCTIONS of the AFRICAN BODY. A great read.

A Brilliant Book!.......2001-11-28

A very sophisticated piece of work. With great insght into many medical/historical perceptions and social mechanisms!
Absolutely Stunning!

P.S: Looking forward to another one.

Inside Africa.......2000-03-18

A disquieting and destabilising experience is what I was left with after reading Butchart's Anatomy of Power. On beginning the book, I at first thought that it was just another social history, albeit incredibly detailed in its probing of what doctors did in the name of science. But, as a I read on, the commanding thesis of the work took ever greater shape, and by the end I was as convinced as Butchart is of the argument that without the socio-medical sciences there can be no bodies at all. This leaves one with a real dilemma in terms of what to do in terms of liberation and the struggle against oppression. While the book doesn't answer this key question, it surely poses it with a greater degree of lucidity and insight than many other books about Africa, colonialism and liberation.

Highly recommended!

Daniel Kuhlmann, Stockholm

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Extras are really good!

Not very illustrated

If your primary focus in SG-1 is the Sam Jack Romance...

Stargate SG-1 - Seasons 1 and 2, 3 and 4, and 5 and 6

Buy the DVDs instead

Stargate SG-1 The Illustrated Companion Seasons 1 and 2 (Stargate SG-1)
Thomasina Gibson
Manufacturer: Titan Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Stargate SG-1: The Ultimate Visual Guide

ASIN: 1840233540
Release Date: 2002-10-01

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Taking up from where the blockbuster Stargate movie left off, Stargate SG-1 has quickly become a sci-fi phenomenon in its own right. The hit series continues the story of Colonel Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and his elite military team as they probe the secrets of the Stargate: the mysterious, ancient portal that allows instantaneous travel to remote planets throughout the universe. Here, at last, is the authorised guide to the show. Stargate SG-1: The Illustrated Companion Volume 1 is an in-depth look at the first two seasons, packed with behind-the-scenes interviews, many previously unpublished pictures, and a comprehensive episode guide. EXCLUSIVE! Featuring contributions written by the cast, including Richard Dean Anderson, giving their own unique take on the character they play!

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Extras are really good!.......2007-09-28

I'm a SG-1 fan and the extras included in the last pages of the book (creating a past for Dr. Fraiser, for example) are a good reason for buying it.

I don't like the black and white format and maybe the experience sharing could be longer.

Not very illustrated.......2005-12-26

I was pretty disappointed to see that in an "illustrated" companion, the best they could do was one image per episode, and black and white no less. The pictures are fair, and sometimes grainy. No color, no sharp detail. Some look like the were scanned in using a low quality scanner.

The text is interesting at times, but if you're buying this to look at all the pictures, don't bother.

If your primary focus in SG-1 is the Sam Jack Romance..........2005-08-21

...than this author's approach to a 'series companion' is for you. Otherwise, save your money for something that's more comprehensive and balanced, has some good color illustration, leaves out the self-promotion and fawning and doesn't pander to one faction of a very large viewership. Save your money for a better licensee.

Stargate SG-1 - Seasons 1 and 2, 3 and 4, and 5 and 6.......2005-07-27

The written content is excellent. I was disappointed in the quality of the paper and the illustrations. Why black and white? It would be worth paying a little bit more for color and glossier and clearer print. Too bad since the articles and commentaries were very good.

Buy the DVDs instead.......2004-03-04

If you can't afford the DVD sets then this is a decent little guide. A bit of an expansion on just seeing the episodes, but not in depth. If however you can swing the DVDs they have all the background on the episodes and much much more. Believe me if you buy the set you will be so happy watching them again with an exceptional clear picture and sound and commercial free. Then when you start looking at all the extras on the DVDs you will realize it is money well spent.

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Take a look inside Symbian OS with an under-the-hood view of Symbian's revolutionary new real-time smartphone kernel

Describes the functioning of the new real-time kernel, which will become ubiquitious on Symbian OS phones in the next 5-10 years
Will benefit the base-porting engineer by providing a more solid understanding of the OS being ported
Contains an in-depth explanation of how Symbian OS drivers work. Device drivers have changed considerably with the introduction of a single code - this book helps those converting them to the new kernel
The book has broad appeal and is relevant to all who work with Symbian OS at a low level, whatever Symbian OS they are targeting
Written by the engineers who actually designed and built the real-time kernel

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Take a look inside Symbian OS with an under-the-hood view of Symbian's revolutionary new real-time smartphone kernel Describes the functioning of the new real-time kernel, which will become ubiquitious on Symbian OS phones in the next 5-10 years Will benefit the base-porting engineer by providing a more solid understanding of the OS being ported Contains an in-depth explanation of how Symbian OS drivers work. Device drivers have changed considerably with the introduction of a single code - this book helps those converting them to the new kernel The book has broad appeal and is relevant to all who work with Symbian OS at a low level, whatever Symbian OS they are targeting Written by the engineers who actually designed and built the real-time kernel

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