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The Cable and Telecommunications Professionals' Reference: Transport Networks (Telecommunications Engineer's Reference Book Ser.)
by Goff HillVolume 2 of TERB 3ed covers the convergence of telephony and data transport, including wireless networks. Now that data is becoming the predominant source of traffic more efficient multiplexing schemes and more flexible control methods are needed in the transport network, such as giving the customer the ability to call for bandwidth on demand. With the development of control methods for switched data services it is now recognised that improved ways to control the transport network are possible and standards initiatives are taking place to establish and improve the network control layer. Detailed explanation of propagation in wireless and optical fibre systems requires a substantial amount of mathematics, also covered in this volume. For each of the math chapters there is an explanation of why the mathematics is important, where it is applied and references to other chapters.
The Cable and Telecommunications Professionals' Reference: PSTN, IP and Cellular Networks, and Mathematical Techniques (Telecommunications Engineer's Reference Book Ser.)
by Goff HillThis book is for any telecommunications-convergence professional who needs to understand the structure of the industry, the structure of telephony networks and services, and the equipment involved.With the growing variety of networks and technologies now on offer it is inevitable that some convergence will take place between different networks, services and products. New VOIP (voice over internet protocol) networks must interwork with traditional networks. For instance, mobile phones can offer data services; wireless broadband connections to laptops will allow VOIP phone calls away from base; users could have the option of 'convergent phones' that can be used on a landline when at home or business, but which can be used as a mobile when on the move, and so on.
Cable and Wireless Networks: Theory and Practice
by Mário Marques da SilvaCable and Wireless Networks: Theory and Practice presents a comprehensive approach to networking, cable and wireless communications, and networking security. It describes the most important state-of-the-art fundamentals and system details in the field, as well as many key aspects concerning the development and understanding of current and emergent services. In this book, the author gathers in a single volume current and emergent cable and wireless network services and technologies. Unlike other books, which cover each one of these topics independently without establishing their natural relationships, this book allows students to quickly learn and improve their mastering of the covered topics with a deeper understanding of their interconnection. It also collects in a single source the latest developments in the area, typically only within reach of an active researcher. Each chapter illustrates the theory of cable and wireless communications with relevant examples, hands-on exercises, and review questions suitable for readers with a BSc degree or an MSc degree in computer science or electrical engineering. This approach makes the book well suited for higher education students in courses such as networking, telecommunications, mobile communications, and network security. This is an excellent reference book for academic, institutional, and industrial professionals with technical responsibilities in planning, design and development of networks, telecommunications and security systems, and mobile communications, as well as for Cisco CCNA and CCNP exam preparation.
Cable Networks, Services, and Management
by Mehmet ToyThis is the first book describing cable networks, services, and their management in greater detail by thirteen experts in various fields covering network architectures and services, operations, administration, maintenance, provisioning, troubleshooting (OAMPT) for residential services; network architectures, services, and OAMPT for business services; Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Virtualization conceptsComprehensive reference book useful for people working for a multiple systems operatorIncludes chapter introductionsWritten by 13 experts in various fields such as network services and soft defined networks
The Cactus and Snowflake at Work: How the Logical and Sensitive Can Thrive Side by Side
by Devora ZackThis hilarious and profound workplace guide proves the rigorously rational and the supremely sympathetic can meet in the middle and merge their strengths. Readers will discover how blending with their opposite opens the pathway to being their truest selves.The famed Myers-Briggs personality scale says that Feelers (who lead with their hearts) put more weight on personal concerns and the people involved, and Thinkers (who lead with their heads) are guided by objective principles and impartial facts. This book calls them Cacti and Snowflakes—each singularly transcendent. But can people with such fundamentally different ways of making sense of and engaging with the world work together?Yes, says Devora Zack! The key is not to try to change each other. Zack says we can directly control only three things: what we say, what we think, and what we do. The best use of our energy is to focus on our own reactions and perceptions rather than try to "fix" other people. This book includes an assessment so readers can learn where they are on the Thinker/Feeler spectrum—and because it's a spectrum, readers might well be a snowcactus or a cactusflake. Then Zack helps them figure out where other people might be, guiding them through a myriad of modes of communication and motivation based on personality type. She includes real-life scenarios that show how to nurture one's nature while successfully connecting with those on the other side.As always, Zack fearlessly and entertainingly dispels myths, squashes stereotypes, and transforms perceived liabilities into strengths. And she once again affirms that, like chocolate and peanut butter, we are better together.
Caged Eyes: An Air Force Cadet's Story of Rape and Resilience
by Lynn K. HallAn insider’s account of misogyny and rape in the US military and her extraordinary path to recovery and activismDesperate to realize her childhood dream of being an astronaut, Lynn K. Hall was an enthusiastic young cadet. For Hall, the military offered an escape from her chaotic home—her erratic mother, absent biological father, and a man she called “dad” who sexually abused her. Resolute and committed to the Air Force Academy, Hall survived the ordeals of a first-year cadet: intense hazing from upperclassmen, grueling physical training, and demanding coursework. But she’s dismissed from the Academy when, after being raped by an upperclassman and contracting herpes, she is diagnosed with meningitis and left with chronic and debilitating pain.Betrayed by the Academy and overcome with shame, Hall candidly recounts her loss of self, the dissociation from her body and the forfeiture of her individuality as a result of the military’s demands and her perpetrator’s abuse. Forced to leave the military and return to the civilian world, Hall turns to extreme sports to cope with and overcome PTSD and chronic pain. She, in turn, reclaims herself on the mountain trails of the Colorado Rockies.An intimate account of grappling with shame and a misogynistic culture that condones rape and blames victims, Caged Eyes is also a transformative story of how it’s possible to help yourself and others in the aftermath of a profound injustice.
La caída de las AFP
by MAURICIO WEIBELUna impactante investigación periodística que revela una historia de operaciones ilegales, fraudes y paraísos fiscales Después de cuarenta años desde que se privatizó el sistema de pensiones en Chile, durante la dictadura, las AFP han perdido su legitimidad social a golpe de irregularidades y pensiones bajo la línea de la pobreza para la gran mayoría de las personas. La más reciente investigación de Mauricio Weibel, autor de Traición a la patria, describe cómo un sistema que ampara la preeminencia del mercado sobre los derechos sociales, ha permitido el abuso y los fraudes a cuenta del futuro de los chilenos. El autor reconstruye la historia de los conflictos de interés y las operaciones ilegales que han atravesado el sistema privado de pensiones en Chile en los últimos años. Con testimonios inéditos y documentos exclusivos deja al descubierto una trama que incluye pensiones de invalidez negadas, desfalcos bursátiles, lujos castrenses y paraísos fiscales
Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong
by Jen YatesNew York Times Bestseller: Stories and photos of confectionary calamities that “will have you laughing so hard you’ll forget to eat” (The Washington Post).Have your cake and laugh at it, too, with the sweet treat known as Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong. From the creator of the award-winning blog, here are the worst cakes ever, including the ugly, the silly, the downright creepy, the unintentionally sad or suggestive, and the just plain funny. With witty commentary and behind-the-scenes tidbits, Cake Wrecks will ensure that you never look at a cake the same way again.Jen Yates’ CakeWrecks site was a winner of a Blogger’s Choice Award for Best Humor Blog, among other honors, and for this inspired and sidesplitting collection, she gathered extensive never-before-seen material to create “a hilarious winner” (The Oregonian).“I haven’t laughed so hard in ages.” —Mary Alice, from the Food Network’s Ace of Cakes“Think of them as epic fails, with frosting.” —TheNew York Times
Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong
by Jen YatesNew York Times Bestseller: Stories and photos of confectionary calamities that “will have you laughing so hard you’ll forget to eat” (The Washington Post).Have your cake and laugh at it, too, with the sweet treat known as Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong. From the creator of the award-winning blog, here are the worst cakes ever, including the ugly, the silly, the downright creepy, the unintentionally sad or suggestive, and the just plain funny. With witty commentary and behind-the-scenes tidbits, Cake Wrecks will ensure that you never look at a cake the same way again.Jen Yates’ CakeWrecks site was a winner of a Blogger’s Choice Award for Best Humor Blog, among other honors, and for this inspired and sidesplitting collection, she gathered extensive never-before-seen material to create “a hilarious winner” (The Oregonian).“I haven’t laughed so hard in ages.” —Mary Alice, from the Food Network’s Ace of Cakes“Think of them as epic fails, with frosting.” —TheNew York Times
Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong
by Jen YatesNew York Times Bestseller: Stories and photos of confectionary calamities that “will have you laughing so hard you’ll forget to eat” (The Washington Post).Have your cake and laugh at it, too, with the sweet treat known as Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong. From the creator of the award-winning blog, here are the worst cakes ever, including the ugly, the silly, the downright creepy, the unintentionally sad or suggestive, and the just plain funny. With witty commentary and behind-the-scenes tidbits, Cake Wrecks will ensure that you never look at a cake the same way again.Jen Yates’ CakeWrecks site was a winner of a Blogger’s Choice Award for Best Humor Blog, among other honors, and for this inspired and sidesplitting collection, she gathered extensive never-before-seen material to create “a hilarious winner” (The Oregonian).“I haven’t laughed so hard in ages.” —Mary Alice, from the Food Network’s Ace of Cakes“Think of them as epic fails, with frosting.” —TheNew York Times
Call Me Commander: A Former Intelligence Officer and the Journalists Who Uncovered His Scheme to Fleece America
by Jeff Testerman Daniel M. FreedWhen Lt. Commander Bobby Thompson surfaced in Tampa in 1998, it was as if he had fallen from the sky, providing no hint of his past life. Eleven years later, St. Petersburg Times investigative reporter Jeff Testerman visited the rundown duplex Thompson used as his home and the epicenter of his sixty-thousand-member charity, the U.S. Navy Veterans Association. But something was amiss. Thompson&’s charity&’s addresses were just maildrops, his members nonexistent, and his past a black hole. Yet, somehow, the Commander had stood for photos with President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, and other political luminaries. The USNVA, it turned out, was a phony charity where Thompson used pricey telemarketers, savvy lawyers, and political allies to swindle tens of millions from well-meaning donors. After Testerman&’s story revealed that the nonprofit was a sham, the Commander went on the run. U.S. Marshals took up the hunt in 2011 and found themselves searching for an unnamed identity thief who they likened to a real-life Jason Bourne. When finally captured in 2012, Thompson was carrying multiple IDs and a key to a locker that held nearly $1 million in cash. But, who was he? Eventually, investigators discovered he was John Donald Cody, a Harvard Law School graduate and former U.S. Army intelligence officer who had been wanted since the 1980s on theft charges and for questioning in an espionage probe. As Cody&’s decades as a fugitive came to an end, he claimed his charity was run at the behest of the Central Intelligence Agency. After reporting on the story for CNBC&’s American Greed in 2014, Daniel M. Freed dug into Cody&’s backstory—uncovering new information about his intelligence background and the evolution of his con. Watch a book trailer at callmecommander.net.
Callie and Natalie's Dutch Family History
by Darlene MillerCallie and Natalie wear period dresses as they accompany Grandma Darlene Miller to learn about their fourth, fifth, and sixth great-grandparents who arrived in Pella in 1847. Other true Dutch stories are about more great-grandparents who immigrated in the early 1900s. They see, hear, and taste “all things Dutch” as they travel through Pella.
Calma, vai correr tudo bem
by Sofia ArrudaO primeiro livro da actriz Sofia Arruda conta de uma forma intimista e com humor a sua experiência da gravidez e do pós-parto e fala de tudo sem complexos. Engravidar, ter um filho, amamentar, não dormir, recuperar. Milhões de mulheres o fazem diariamente, em todo o mundo, uma e outra vez. Entram na estrada da maternidade com um certo espírito de missão e sacrifício que faz com que, de longe, pareça uma coisa simples. Uma coisa fácil, para a qual todas as mulheres nascem. Mas não é verdade. Engravidar, ter um filho, amamentar, não dormir, recuperar é difícil. Muito difícil, mesmo quando se tem uma rede de apoio feita de pessoas disponíveis para ajudar. Sofia Arruda, actriz e mãe, gostava de ter sabido algumas coisas antes de ter entrado na aventura da maternidade. Gostava que lhe tivessem dito que a amamentação pode ser um processo doloroso, que não é normal sentir tristeza após o parto, ou mesmo que, quando nasce um bebé,nasce uma mãe carregada de culpa infundada. E como ninguém lhe disse, decidiu que seria ela a dizê-lo às mães (e pais) - as que já são e as que ainda vão ser. Partindo do relato da sua própria experiência, e recorrendo a testemunhos de outras mães e de profissionais de saúde como a enfermeira Carmen Ferreira, Clementina Almeida, psicóloga e fundadora da clínica For Babies Brain, e a fisioterapeuta Mariana Rosa, especializada em saúde da mulher, Sofia desconstrói uma série de mitos e crenças e dá ferramentas para que as mulheres possam tomar as rédeas do seu bem-estar durante a gravidez e o pós-parto.
Cambio de palabras
by César Hildebrandt"No hay crónica ni entrevista sin una visión del mundo previa. Por eso quizá los editores de prensa encargan tanto las entrevistas como las crónicas a quienes ven por encima la grisura y el promedio". César Hidlebrandt "Releyendo algunas de las entrevistas de esta edición compruebo, además, que la política peruana se quedó sin repuestos. A Sánchez lo sucedió don Nadie, a Towsend le tomó la posta el silencio, a Pedro Beltrán lo heredó la Confiep, de Barrantes solo quedaron viudad. cambio de palabras no podría haberse hecho ahora por falta de elenco. Cuando escucho a muchos de los congresistas balbucera desde sus escaños una jerga brotada en sucesivas lobotomías, me digo que tuve, como muchos, la suerte de asistir a un país mejor educado. Suerte relativa, por supuesto, porque junto con ella viene algo parecido a la melancolía. Si alguien me preguntara si hubo un par de entrevistas que me gustaría volver a hacer, diría, previsiblemente quizá, que esas son las de Borges y Juan Gonzalo Rose. Uno instalado en la erudición y el otro en el desasosiego, ambos me demostraron que tal vez elegí mal cuando opté por la entrevista política. Hoy no haría eso. Los políticos ya no son primos de la cultura ni lectores con los que tratar una agenda que esté más allá de lo contingente". César Hildebrandt Cambio de palabras reúne 25 de las mejores entrevistas de César Hildebrandt, el periodista más respetado del país. Publicadas de 1971 a 1992, en el semanario Caretas principalmente, las conversaciones con políticos como Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre o Fernando belaunde Terry, o escritores como Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges o Juan Gonzalo Rose, son consideradas verdaderas clases de buen periodismo. Esta es la edición de un libro ya clásico.
Cambridge Classical Studies: Revisiting Delphi
by Julia KindtRevisiting Delphi speaks to all admirers of Delphi and its famous prophecies, be they experts on ancient Greek religion, students of the ancient world, or just lovers of a good story. It invites readers to revisit the famous Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, along with Herodotus, Euripides, Socrates, Pausanias and Athenaeus, offering the first comparative and extended enquiry into the way these and other authors force us to move the link between religion and narrative centre stage. Their accounts of Delphi and its prophecies reflect a world in which the gods frequently remain baffling and elusive despite every human effort to make sense of the signs they give.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s First Folio
by Emma SmithShakespeare's First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the world's most studied books, prompting speculation about everything from proof-reading practices in the early modern publishing industry to the 'true' authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Arguments about the nature of the First Folio are crucial to every modern edition of Shakespeare and thus to every reader or student of the plays. This Companion surveys the critical methods brought to bear on the Folio and equips readers with the tools to understand it and to develop their skills in early modern book culture more generally. A team of international scholars surveys the range of bibliographic, historical and textual material relating to the Folio, its editors, collectors and critical reception. This revealing volume will be of wide interest to scholars of Shakespeare, the history of the book and early modern drama.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Writing
by Linda H. PetersonThe Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing brings together chapters by leading scholars to provide innovative and comprehensive coverage of Victorian women writers' careers and literary achievements. While incorporating the scholarly insights of modern feminist criticism, it also reflects new approaches to women authors that have emerged with the rise of book history; periodical studies; performance studies; postcolonial studies; and scholarship on authorship, readership, and publishing. It traces the Victorian woman writer's career - from making her debut to working with publishers and editors to achieving literary fame - and challenges previous thinking about genres in which women contributed with success. Chapters on poetry, including a discussion of poetry in colonial and imperial contexts, reveal women's engagements with each other and male writers. Discussions on drama, life writing, reviewing, history, travel writing, and children's literature uncover the remarkable achievement of women in fields relatively unknown.
The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship
by Ingo Berensmeyer Gert Buelens Marysa DemoorThis Handbook surveys the state of the art in literary authorship studies. Its 27 original contributions by eminent scholars offer a multi-layered account of authorship as a defining element of literature and culture. Covering a vast chronological range, Part I considers the history of authorship from cuneiform writing to contemporary digital publishing; it discusses authorship in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, early Jewish cultures, medieval, Renaissance, modern, postmodern and Chinese literature. The second part focuses on the place of authorship in literary theory, and on challenges to theorizing literary authorship, such as gender and sexuality, postcolonial and indigenous contexts for writing. Finally, Part III investigates practical perspectives on the topic, with a focus on attribution, anonymity and pseudonymity, plagiarism and forgery, copyright and literary property, censorship, publishing and marketing and institutional contexts.
The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science
by Allen, Joseph A. and Lehmann-Willenbrock, Nale and Rogelberg, Steven G. Joseph A. Allen Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock Steven G. RogelbergThis first volume to analyze the science of meetings offers a unique perspective on an integral part of contemporary work life. More than just a tool for improving individual and organizational effectiveness and well-being, meetings provide a window into the very essence of organizations and employees' experiences with the organization. The average employee attends at least three meetings per week and managers spend the majority of their time in meetings. Meetings can raise individuals, teams, and organizations to tremendous levels of achievement. However, they can also undermine effectiveness and well-being. The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science assembles leading authors in industrial and organizational psychology, management, marketing, organizational behavior, anthropology, sociology, and communication to explore the meeting itself, including pre-meeting activities and post-meeting activities. It provides a comprehensive overview of research in the field and will serve as an invaluable starting point for scholars who seek to understand and improve meetings.
The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought
by Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought offers the most comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has ever been published. These essays explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression. There are five main themes of the book: the roots of metaphor, metaphor understanding, metaphor in language and culture, metaphor in reasoning and feeling, and metaphor in nonverbal expression. Contributors come from a variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, literature, education, music, and law.
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
by David MckitterickThe years 1830-1914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in printing, paper-making and binding, publishers worked with authors and illustrators to meet ever-growing and more varied demands from a population seeking books at all price levels. The essays by leading book historians in this volume show how books became cheap, how publishers used the magazine and newspaper markets to extend their influence, and how book ownership became universal for the first time. The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling, this volume brings the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain up to a point when the world of books took on a recognisably modern form.
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 7, The Twentieth Century and Beyond (The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain)
by Dr Andrew Nash Professor Claire Squires I. R. WillisonThe Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is an authoritative series which surveys the history of publishing, bookselling, authorship and reading in Britain. This seventh and final volume surveys the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a range of perspectives in order to create a comprehensive guide, from growing professionalisation at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the impact of digital technologies at the end. Its multi-authored focus on the material book and its manufacture broadens to a study of the book's authorship and readership, and its production and dissemination via publishing and bookselling. It examines in detail key market sectors over the course of the period, and concludes with a series of essays concentrating on aspects of book history: the book in wartime; class, democracy and value; books and other media; intellectual property and copyright; and imperialism and post-imperialism.
Cambridge Marketing Handbook: Communications
by Paul Woodhouse Steve BaxCambridge Marketing Handbook: Marketing Communications looks at the contemporary integrated communications mix, in the light of the changes in digital marketing and aims to give an overview of the current tools that marketers need to have under their belts. Coverage includes: the purpose and uses of communications; the promotional mix; advertising tools; public relations and media tools; the meaning of consumer behaviour; communications plans and evaluation methods. The Handbook also examines the buyer behaviour theories for B2C and B2C, looking at the elements that make up the process of purchase.
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry
by Annmarie DruryTranslation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry illuminates the dynamic mutual influences of poetic and translation cultures in Victorian Britain, drawing on new materials, archival and periodical, to reveal the range of thinking about translation in the era. The results are a new account of Victorian translation and fresh readings both of canonical poems (including those by Browning and Tennyson) and of non-canonical poems (including those by Michael Field). Revealing Victorian poets to be crucial agents of intercultural negotiation in an era of empire, Annmarie Drury shows why and how meter matters so much to them, and locates the origins of translation studies within Victorian conundrums. She explores what it means to 'sound Victorian' in twentieth-century poetic translation, using Swahili as a case study, and demonstrates how and why it makes sense to consider Victorian translation as world literature in action.
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Dickens and The Business of Death
by Claire WoodCharles Dickens is famous for his deathbed scenes, but these have rarely been examined within the context of his ambivalence towards the Victorian commodification of death. Dickens repeatedly criticised ostentatious funeral and mourning customs, and asserted the harmful consequences of treating the corpse as an object of speculation rather than sympathy. At the same time, he was fascinated by those who made a living from death and recognised that his authorial profits implicated him in the same trade. This book explores how Dickens turned mortality into the stuff of life and art as he navigated a thriving culture of death-based consumption. It surveys the diverse ways in which death became a business, from body-snatching, undertaking, and joint-stock cemetery companies, to the telling and selling of stories. This broad study offers fresh perspectives on death in The Old Curiosity Shop and Our Mutual Friend, and discusses lesser-known works and textual illustrations.