Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists, Third Edition

Newnes | ISBN 0750684178 | 3 edition (March 8, 2007) | PDF | 3 Mb | 448 pages

This text presents MATLAB both as a mathematical tool and a programming language, giving a concise and easy to master introduction to its potential and power. Stressing the importance of a structured approach to problem solving, the text gives a step-by-step method for program design and algorithm development. The fundamentals of MATLAB are illustrated throughout with many examples from a wide range of familiar scientific and engineering areas, as well as from everyday life.

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Build Your Own Laser, Phaser, Ion Ray Gun and Other Working Space Age Projects

McGraw-Hill | ISBN 0830606041 | 1st ed. edition (November 1, 1983) | PDF | 77.7 Mb | 390 pages

Book Description:

This book teaches practical, hands-on experience with some exciting science projects that you aren't likely to
encounter elsewhere. The ultrasonic listener extends the sense of hearing to the realm of sounds above 20kHz.

The low-power one-transistor fm radio transmitter is a useful tool to have in your bag of tricks; it can be built on an hour's notice, and for under $1.

It is an educational and worthwhile book.

That's the good news.

Now for a word of caution:

What I'm suggesting here is that you approach the projects in this great book with wisdom and an ability to think vigorously and persistently.

On one hand, If you mangage to complete and operate all this book's projects, including adjustment of the high-voltage supply of the cutting CO2 laser, and still have not qualified for a postumous Darwin Award, then you have demonstrated you are either a bizzarrely lucky fool or a master technician who has the iron will to stay alive by sticking to impeccable safety procedures.

And before you make your own homemade EMP generator, consider that, at the time Mr. Ianinni wrote this wonderous book, the electronic landscape was much less involved, without the so many co$tly thing$ like cell phone$ and PDA$ in it. The radius of de$truction could lead irate villagers (now reduced to a technological level of torches and pitchforks) directly to your laboratory.

At least one of the devices i.e taser, have gotten negative legislative attention since the book was first published.

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Newnes - Design Recipes for FPGAs

Newnes | 352 pages | 2007-06-18 | ISBN: 0750668458 | 3.36 MB | PDF

This book provides a rich toolbox of design techniques and templates to solve practical, every-day problems using FPGAs. Using a modular structure, the book gives easy-to-find design techniques and templates at all levels, together with functional code, which engineers can easily match and apply to their application.

The easy-to-find structure begins with a design application to demonstrate the key building blocks of FPGA design and how to connect them, enabling the experienced FPGA designer to quickly select the right design for their application, while providing the less experienced a road map to solving their specific design problem.

Written in an informal and easy-to-grasp style, this invaluable resource goes beyond the principles of FPGA s and hardware description languages to actually demonstrate how specific designs can be synthesized, simulated and downloaded onto an FPGA. In addition, the book provides advanced techniques to create real world designs that fit the device required and which are fast and reliable to implement. An accompanying CDROM contains code, test benches and simulation command files for ModelSim.

This book will be an indispensable, well-thumbed resource for FPGA designers of all levels of experience.

* A rich toolbox of practical FGPA design techniques at an engineer's finger tips
* Easy-to-find structure that allows the engineer to quickly locate the information to solve their FGPA design problem, and obtain the level of detail and understanding needed
* Includes a CDROM containing code, test benches and simulation files for ModelSim

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Advanced FPGA Design: Architecture, Implementation, and Optimization

ISBN:0470054379 | English | 336 pages | Wiley-IEEE Press | June 29, 2007 | 5.4 MB | PDF

About The Book :
This book provides the advanced issues of FPGA design as the underlying theme of the work. In practice, an engineer typically needs to be mentored for several years before these principles are appropriately utilized. The topics that will be discussed in this book are essential to designing FPGA's beyond moderate complexity. The goal of the book is to present practical design techniques that are otherwise only available through mentorship and real-world experience.

From the Back Cover
A practical FPGA reference that's like an on-call mentor for engineers and computer scientists
Addressing advanced issues of FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) design and implementation, Advanced FPGA Design: Architecture, Implementation, and Optimization accelerates the learning process for engineers and computer scientists. With an emphasis on real-world design and a logical, practical approach, it walks readers through specific challenges and significantly reduces the learning curve. Designed to enhance and supplement hands-on experience, this real-world reference includes:

Waveform diagrams and circuit diagrams illustrating each topic
Examples that illustrate typical problems in Verilog
Case studies that demonstrate real-world applications
Chapter-end summaries that reiterate key points

Ideal for engineers and computer scientists who want to take their FPGA skills to the next level and for use as a hands-on reference, this is also an excellent textbook for senior or graduate-level students in electrical engineering or computer science.

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Math You Can Really Use - Every Day

PDF | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0470054026 | Publisher: Cliffs Notes (2007-05-07) | 1.8MB

One of the most practical math books ever The National Assessment of Adult Literacy reports that 22 percent of U.S. adults have a below-basic understanding of rudimentary math, and 33 percent have only a basic understanding. This practical guide uses everyday examples to teach the math that people need to know in order to balance their checkbooks, do credit card calculations, compare loan rates, compute their gas mileage, and more. Complete with tear-out reference guides such as a tipping card, this book helps adults get up to speed on the math they really need-every day.


Math You Can Really Use—Every Day skips mind-numbing theory and tiresome drills and gets right down to basic math that helps you do real-world stuff like figuring how much to tip, getting the best deals shopping, computing your gas mileage, and more. This is not your typical, dry math textbook. With a comfortable, easygoing approach, it:

-Covers math you'll need for balancing your checkbook, choosing or managing credit cards, comparing options for mortgages, insurance, and investments, and more

-Includes the basics on fractions, decimals, percentages, measurements, and geometric math

-Clues you in on simple shortcuts

-Includes examples plus pop quizzes with answers to help you solidify your understanding

-Features tear-out guides you can take with you for tipping and converting measurements

Want to know how much 20% off is in dollars and cents? Want to figure out how much gas is going to cost for your road trip? This is the math book you'll really use!

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Strategic Planning For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)

PDF |384 Pages | ISBN:0470037164 | Publisher: For Dummies (2006-10-30)

If you’re starting a new business or planning your business’s future, there are plenty of things you should take into account. Strategic Planning For Dummies covers everything you need to know to develop a plan for building and maintaining a competitive advantage — no matter what business you’re in.


Written by Erica Olsen, founder and President of a business development firm that helps entrepreneurial-minded businesses plan for a successful future, this handy guide covers all the basics, including:

-How a strategic plan is different than a business plan
-Establishing a step-based planning process
-Planning for and encouraging growth
-Taking a long-view of your organization
-Evaluating past performance
-Defining and refining your mission, values, and vision
-Sizing up your current situation
-Examining your industry landscape
-Setting your strategic priorities
-Planning for unknown contingencies

If you’re in business, you have to plan for everything — especially if you intend your business to grow. Whether you’re planning for a small business, large conglomerate, nonprofit, or even a government agency, this book has the planning specifics you need for your organization. Step-by-step, you’ll learn how to lay the foundations for a plan, understand how your plan will affect your business, form planning teams, discover what your strengths are, see where you are, and, finally, plan where you’re going. And there’s much more:

-Learn to analyze business trends that will determine your business’s future
-Set measurable, realistic goals that you can plan for and achieve
-Make strategic planning a habitual part of the organization
-Prioritize multiple strategies that you can implement simultaneously
-Set a defining vision for the organization that guides all your planning and strategy

This friendly, simple guide puts the power of strategic planning in the palm of your hand. For small businesses that can’t afford to hire strategic planning consultants, it’s even more imperative. Careful, constant planning is the only way to handle an uncertain business future. With this book, you’ll have all the step-by-step guidance you need to ensure you’re ready for anything that comes.

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Desserts Around the World: Revised and Expanded to Include New Low-Fat Recipes

PDF | 72 Pages | ISBN:0822541653 | Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group | 4MB

Presents recipes for making favorite desserts from around the world and explains the traditions behind them.
Completely revised and updated, Desserts around the World serves up tantalizing recipes for Moroccan date cake, Sacher torte from Austria, Brazilian fried bananas, and more. Seasoned liberally with vibrant, color photographs and easy, step-by-step directions, many of the recipes are low in fat and call for ingredients you may already have at home. Also included are dessert menu selections and an expanded cultural section highlighting dessert customs from around the world, including holiday and festival traditions. This book will show you how to treat your family and friends to delicious, internationally inspired desserts.

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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

PDF | Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover | ISBN: 1591841380 | 320 Pages | 44 MB

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything is a book by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams first published in December 2006. It explores how some companies in the early 21st century have used mass collaboration (also called peer production) and open-source technology such as wikis to be successful

The word "wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian, and here author and think tank CEO Tapscott (The Naked Corporation), along with research director Williams, paint in vibrant colors the quickly changing world of Internet togetherness, also known as mass or global collaboration, and what those changes mean for business and technology. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written, compiled, edited and re-edited by "ordinary people" is the most ubiquitous example, and its history makes remarkable reading. But also considered are lesser-known success stories of global collaboration that star Procter & Gamble, BMW, Lego and a host of software and niche companies. Problems arise when the authors indulge an outsized sense of scope-"this may be the birth of a new era, perhaps even a golden one, on par with the Italian renaissance, or the rise of Athenian democracy"-while acknowledging only reluctantly the caveats of weighty sources like Microsoft's Bill Gates. Methods for exploiting the power of collaborative production are outlined throughout, an alluring compendium of ways to throw open previously guarded intellectual property and to invite in previously unavailable ideas that hide within the populace at large. This clear and meticulously researched primer gives business leaders big leg up on mass collaboration possibilities; as such, it makes a fine next-step companion piece to James Surowiecki's 2004 bestseller The Wisdom of Crowds.

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