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This is not good literary exegesis, it is an unabashed apologia for a literary bureaucracy, another pamphlet of the endless "literary production" under the pseudo-Marxist homology of poststructuralism. It ends up merely as a political struggle to save Kafka for purposes of cultural and intellectual identity.

This book purports to get at "the real Kafka," by stripping the man and his work of all transcendent pretensions assigned him by critics of the old school, by making him a model for the new uniformed postmodernist-socialist man. In "Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature," Deleuze and Guatarri have done the same things they accuse the old Kafkologists of doing, in effect stripping Kafka of his old Kafkalogical baggage only to create a new Kafkology, one that focuses more on a weird interpretive biography of the man as celebrity than it does by trying to understand his works in their modernist setting.

The detailed concepts on how Gilles Deleuze read Kafka still amazed me. To understand Deleuze, one must read Deleuze in relation to Kafka.

According to Deleuze & Guattari, we have suffered too long amidst the retrograde critical judgements of mainstream Kafka scholarship. Ad nauseum, these pedestrian hacks have given us Kafka the alienated loner, Kafka the neurotic metaphysician, Kafka the theological invert, Kafka the gynephobic prisoner of ascesis, Kafka the self-hating Jew, Kafka the suicidal insomniac. Scholars have made their reputations by sending this great author on greased skids to Hell, earmarking him as an avatar of the Negative, a nodal point of absurdity and paradox, the pilgrim of an epic and hallucinatory Guilt Trip (partly at fault are the Muir translations, which categorically pitch the Kafkan voice as a syntax of doom and alienation). No doubt Kafka suffered immensely in his professional, family, and erotic life, in the anti-Semitic maw of Czech nationalism, in the iron-maiden of terrors both historical and metaphysical, but critics who reach their limit in expounding the pain and absurdity of the Kafka trajectory are providing us with a false and incomplete picture of this sublime literary event.

D & G decided to bring the hammer down on these reflexive doomsayers, to restore some of the joy and vibrant panache to Kafka studies. They wanted to bring him "`a little of this joy, this amorous political life that he knew how to offer, how to invent. So many dead writers must have wept over what was written about them. [We] hope that Kafka enjoyed the book that we wrote about him'"(xxv). It is useful to recall the evening Kafka read the opening chapter of *The Trial* to his circle of literary friends, assailed by roars of laughter, Kafka himself laughing so hard he had to constantly stop reading to wipe tears from his eyes. The ramifications of this episode have been repressed and overturned by the necrophilic martyrology of a reflexive Kafka scholarship. For here we have gone beyond any mere "laughter of the Abyss," the impish cackle of "black comedy," the doomed precincts of Camus's "cosmology of the Absurd." Kafka's hilarity is a laughter of resistance, of felicity, of squeezing some measure of freedom out of our peremptory and obstructionist universe. As argued in this text, the battle is within and against the political, economic, technological, bureaucratic, judiciary, and linguistic machines which held Kafka's language in thrall to its obstacles and terrors.

Here is a cento of principles developed by D & G in their dissenting text, the prolegomenon to any future in Kafka scholarship:

1. Isolation from the Law is not merely the absence of God (coinciding with the SNAFU of metaphysical realism) but rather entails the eternal suspension of judgement, ultimately an Artaudian desire "to have done with Judgement."

2. The question of ASCESIS. Deleuze has long underscored the idea that when a writer or philosopher espouses an "ascetic" lifestyle it is only as a means to achieving a more subterranean pitch of libertinism (or Life). Kafka had plenty of opportunities for conventional happiness, to live the life of a Max Brod, for example. Rather he followed the witch's wind of literary apprenticeship, a far profounder Life although, from a judgemental distance, appearing monstrous and ill-fated.

3. Kafka's oeuvre is characterized by a complete lack of *complacency*, and stands accordingly as a total rejection of every problematic of Failure. His suicidal fantasies, then, were not merely an agonizing cry of despair, but also a series of unmerciful thought-experiments designed to charge the literary machine, to clear the waters for fresh speculation.

4. Reflexive scholarship tends to move backward from unknowns to knowns (i.e. the castle is God, the beetle is oedipal frustration, the penal colony is fascism, the singing mouse is a writer, and writers are those who express CONTENT and represent THINGS). Rather we should take Walter Benjamin to his limit, by acclimatizing ourselves to a mode of literature "that consists in propelling the most diverse contents on the basis of (nonsignifying) ruptures and intertwinings of the most heterogeneous orders of signs and powers"(xvii).

5. Renovate the battlefield...: reterritorialize Kafka's "metaphysical" estrangement onto the concrete political arrangements with which he engaged throughout his life. Understand the political or "fantasmatic" nature of Kafka's simulations, that his fictions are not merely an allegory of resistance to fascism, but the infiltration of a ruptured sensibility into the fascistic functioning of the Law, a node of deterritorialization inside the torn apart.

6. The desire for innocence is as pernicious as the fetishization of guilt, since both imply an Infinity by which we can define and calibrate Judgement. Justice is desire and not law. Desire is a social investment traversed and legitimized by Kafka's literary machine, which "is capable of anticipating or precipitating contents into conditions that...concern an entire collectivity"(60), which speak for a people that may not be prepared to live through its message.

Perhaps I'm trying too hard to cram difficult arguments into tiny hard-to-swallow capsules. The text itself has to be read to be believed. Perhaps in response to those who felt *Capitalism and Schizophrenia* did not provide enough "concrete examples," D & G have steered their war-machine onto one of the most treacherous and misunderstood literary oeuvres of the preceding century. The result will either leave you cold (as is the case with virtually every reader I've conferred with on this text) or revolutionize your jilted perceptions of a great author.

I DO NOT AGREE that Dr. Leuder's book is "difficult to read. Style and composition are poor." The reviewer does not consider that English is a second language for Dr. Leuder.

I have read many of Dr. Leuder's English language papers, and I believe him to be one of the most innovative pioneers of lcds, and recently of flexible lcds. He has trained a small army of P.H.D.'s about flexible display technologies, and his papers were lauded by dozens and dozens of commercial companies at the annual SID shows.

I very carefully read this entire book, and I found it to be a good primer for the bachelor level student, and full of lots of innovative ideas for the experienced lcd practitioners.

I especially enjoyed his chapters about flexible display technologies, and reread them over and over again.

I strongly encourage you to consider this book.

This work is a major summary of complex technology which is readily understood by way of diagrams and references to meaningful applications. It includes the mathematical support needed for the expert and yet brings the newcomer a breadth and depth which is outstanding. These comments from a physicist working in the field who yet develops practical products.
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The book is difficult to read. Style and composition are poor.
The author overuses formulas while lacking clear formulations.
Don't recommend it for beginers and intermediates. While if you are in advanced category you may not need this book at all. Just to give you a reference point - I earned my PhD in physiscs/math. General conclusion: waste of trees, time and money. My sorry to the author for a bad review.

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Having recently passed exam 70-310 I believe this book does a satisfactory job of exposing us to the basic concepts required for the exam. Unfortunately, basic concepts are not enough for 70-310. During my month of preparation, I found I had to refer to both MSDN and "Microsoft .NET Distributed Applications" (ISBN 0735619336) for more elaborate explanations and working examples (some of the Sybex sample code did not work, and no errata appeared to be available on-line).

Bottom line: if you plan to use this book to prepare for 70-310, then be prepared to supplement your studies with additional resources.

This is the third Sybex book I have purchased. The first two books I bought were for the 70-306 and 70-229 exams and they were both sufficient for those exams. Although I passed the 70-310 exam, I believe it is only because I first took the 70-306 exam which has a lot of overlap with the 70-310 exam. There were at least a half dozen questions out of 57 which were not even lightly covered in this book.

That said, I would still recommend this book as an introduction for your preparation for the 30-310 exam. The chapter on security is very well written and is superior to the same section in the 70-305/70-306 book. You will just need to cover each topic a bit more thoroughly with other materials (perhaps reading Microsoft online documentation after each topic). This is good advice for any exam since you should have a goal of thoroughly understanding each topic as well as wanting to pass the exam.

This book cuts through the "code speak" and tells in plain english how to interpret the National Electrical Code. It is formatted to match the NEC. The authors point out some of the controversial areas of the NEC and always recommend the safest and most conservative view. The only shortcoming of this book in my opinion is that is does not cover every single NEC article. The authors choose to dwell on some important topics in great detail and others not at all. Regardless, this is an excellent reference book.

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The idea and set up of the CD is great. Just that this code on this disk conflicts with my 1999 NEC code book. And often!

I am not a beginner at networking, but certainly not a longtime professional,either. I rate your book at four stars because it helped me to do a very good job on a rather lenghthy project for someone else. I used information only from the book, and the project turned out very well.I don't expect to have to go back to the job because I did the work, as they say, "by the book".I enjoyed reading your book, as well as using your book. Thank you.

This book falls into the category of books that provide a survey of a field, useful for a beginner but certainly not for an advanced network administrator or cabling installer. For example, I needed to send instructions to an electrician at a remote site in Alaska on basic cabling techniques so that he could set up a small LAN using best practices. Unfortunately, this book lacked a basic procedure on how to punch down strands of 4-pair on to a punch down block. Another example, the 568a / 568b issues are poorly explained. Therefore, if you need real, hands-on information for an implementation, then move on to another book, perhaps one from BCSI, or perhaps the Sybex book by Groth and McBee.

An excellent source for network schemes, cabling options and investments in cabling. Derfler's book contains many vivid diagrams of cable and the book is easy to navigate and understand

I expected a tutorial and design guide, but this book turned out to be just a brief introduction to a few oscillators. It does start off with a good introduction (feedback theory, LC tanks, etc.) but falls short with a proper explaination on actual oscillators. Recommended only if you have a prior understanding of oscillators.

I don't know, this is quite a good little book but something is definitely missing. It covers a lot on oscillator theory but when I needed to build a special saw tooth oscillator, it had no information at all. It seems to have a blind spot for practical circuits and ideas and above all certain equations. (scratching my head I wondered if the censors had banned oscillators slightly recently) It is still a good book though and if you've never seen a klystron before is very interesting.

First, my background. I'm a software engineer by profession. I've got an undergraduate degree in Applied Math. I'm interested in radio frequency electronics as a hobby -- I'm licensed as an amateur radio operator in the US and I'm particularly interested in building my own equipment.

I bought this book pretty much blind, and have been pleased with it overall. I think it's helped me understand and build RF oscillators with more confidence. It's certainly not filled with abstruse mathematics; it is practical, as the title claims. It's also not filled with construction hints, although it's not entirely devoid of them.

It primarily consists of a general discussion of oscillation, followed by a catalog of various types of oscillators, including both tube and solid state designs. Design parameters and special features of the various circuit types are discussed.

The inclusion of tube circuits gives the book a bit of a historical feel, although I don't think that was the intent.

On the down side, there are numerous small typographical errors, and places where diagrams and drawings have been corrected with pen and ink.

That being said, the binding is very nice and the overall layout is decent, IMO, and all the typographical errors were minor and easily corrected by this reader from context.

If you're interested in more detail on radio frequency design and aren't afraid of some (minimal amount of) math, also check out "Introduction To Radio Frequency Design" by Wes Hayward, a fine book.

If you are looking for another book describing the Verilog Language Reference Manual then this book is not for you. If, however, to are looking for an excellent set of principles to build a design and verification philosophy then I highly recommend this book. The authors have produced an RTL centric view of design emphasizing the verification process. They argue that synthesis productivity gains have now placed the verification process in the critical path and that equal attention should be giving to coding for verification as is currently given to coding for synthesis. The chapter I particularly enjoyed, entitled "Bad Stuff," provides an excellent discussion with examples on coding styles that hinder efficient verification. The author's discussion of the problems with the use of X at the RT-level, due to X-state pessimism and optimism, and the need for 2-state RTL simulation is enlightening.

The chapter on bad stuff is useful and practical, even though it repeats parts of previous chapters. The chapter on assertion based verification is practical too. Some of the reasonings on use of "x" may be debatable. For example, the authors argued that two-state detects more problems than x injection, based on their experiences. In the text, an example was given. What the example illustrates is NOT the inherent problems with x injection but a truly bad style of coding to detect x. Thus, the example is misleading.

The chapter on formal verification is a cheat-sheet user manual for some commercial tools. It gives a couple of lines of math symbols about formal verification theory, without explanation whatsoever. In general, this chapter is too shallow for understanding the ideas behind formal verification.

In many places, the book just lists the benefits of some practices without giving reasons and details about the practices. It's very frustrating to have the thought hung in mid-air.

So if you are looking for a partial collection of tips to avoid simulation based verification problems, this book is a start. If you want a more in-depth and complete understanding in verifiable RTL design, find other books.

This book presents principles drawn from very large scale designs, like microprocessor. If you are looking for a book describing testbench implementation, another book, "Writing testbenches functional verification of hdl models", is more suitable. If you are working on very large scale and complex design verification, this book will be very helpful. The discussion of simulation optimization, X/Z state, X/Zero/Random initialization during simulation is very insightful.

If you look into this book carefully and solve every problems, you will find several wrong descriptions. For example, the answer for SFDR calculation example includes a rudimentary mistake. Yes, you should not always believe in everything written in a textbook as Dr. Egan mentioned. But it is really waste of time to read an untrustworthy textbook. I hope all would be corrected in next edition.

Descriptions about PLL, AGC, demodulator, ADC, and DAC are missed in this book.

Finally, a good RFIC design book. I have read quite a few and this truly is the best one. The book starts off with discussions about basic RF design (NF, linearity etc) and then talks about each block in the transmitter and receiver chains as a separate chapter. Good in-depth discussion about a lot of circuits. May not be a great book for a class (not that detailed in theory) but a great book for practical design.

Bottom line .. this is a great book. It covers LNA's, Mixers, VCO's and PA's and there's also a chapter on high frequency filters. The book doesn't bombard you with too much theory. It is written for a graduate course in RFIC design and assumes you already have taken some undergraduate course in analog transistor design. The book approaches circuit design from a practical perspective (An Engineering approach as opposed to a scientific approach) and covers most all of the design equations you will need to design these 4 standard blocks. There are also many practical examples throughout the book that show application of the equations. I really like how some of the chapters provide a section for a cook-book approach, giving a step-by-step recipe for designing a block. IE: From selecting a bias point to selecting a transistor size and the design steps in between.

The book is not an all-in-one reference for analog IC design, but it does a great job showing how to design the four standard blocks for real world application. If you have "Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits" by Gray/Meyer and "The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuis" by Thomas Lee and "RF Microelectronics" by Razavi you will want this one on your bookshelf also.

The self help guide becomes virtually useless in Chapter 2, in which the sample circuits provided for evaluation have key components which are not supported by the software. Chapter 2 is supposed to teach the user how to utilize the circuit analysis tool called "Probe", however, since neither sample circuit is supported by the software, the chapter becomes an effort in futility. I would not recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning MicroSim Pspice.

This book was the best book I have used for PSpice. Software was easy to install and examples were very easy to follow. Examples covered almost all topics I was interested in. If you need a recommendation on a good PSpice book this is it.

Written as an academic lab manual, it works as well for a small business designer, as I am. It's both a tutorial and reference for PSpice ver 7.1 that's included, but is applicable also to PSpice ver8, especially if you contact the author's Web site for his excellent ver8 support materials. I'm looking forward to Herniter's next edition.

Here is collection of pattern suggestions for shirt/tie combos. with useful sections on color, pattern and fabric.

Useful helps on various tie and bowtie knots.

I have previously read "Men's Wardrobe" from Chic Simple and found it very good. Bought "Shirt & Tie" by the same authors, hoping for more of the same quality. Sorry to say it was sadly missing. Shirt & tie is a much abreviated edition. Small in size, small in information. I in fact managed to read it on breaks before I even got it home from work. Color Photos and a crisp layout can't make up for the lack of content. Finished the book and came off with the feeling that it could have been very good. Even the shirt & tie combos given as examples of what worked together didn't. Better off staying with the larger, more informative Men's Wardrobe.

Chic Simple books are just as the title implies: simple, for the fasionably impaired, yet very chic and well designed. I bought this book for a male friend, hoping he might take the hint! This book would be perfect for a male who has the potential to be fashion concious. Chic Simple is a series of books that combine beautiful photography of different fashion outfits or elements, with simple guidelines on how to wear them. They are probably most well known to readers of InStyle magazine, they have fashion spreads in it every month that are always helpful. As I said before, this would be a great gift for a male with fashion potential!