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This was the first book I read for my Communication Engineering course and this subject became one of my strengths after I read it. The style of writing is conversational and not overly technical.The arrangement of the topics is again just like a beginner needs for it to be.The language is lucid .The matter covers not only the technical details but also the practical difficulties.The author has taken pains to make things simple except in places like receivers where its impossible. In my opinion it is the best place you can learn your basic radio and modulation thoery and also stuff about receivers and radio wave propagation from.Be sure to read about tuned amplifiers,oscillators and push-pull amplifiers...you wouldnt understand most of the book if you dont know these elementary concepts.

There were very few things that I didnt find in this book...one was the procedure for determination of AM modulation index by the use of a Oscilloscope,but i dont think i can recall anything else which was missing.

For anyone interested in modern music, by whatever name (contemporary classical composition, "new music"), this book is invaluable. Elliott Carter, in my view one of the two best composers of the late 20th century, along with Gyorgy Ligeti, has written fairly extensively over the years about his music. He was actually employed as a critic for Modern Music in the late 1930s, one source of these essays. Presented here are trenchant analyses of the difficulty of being a composer of advanced works in a commercial society, including the problems of orchestras and rehearsals ("the orchestral brontosaur"), reflections on American and European music, reminiscences of his studies with Boulanger in Paris, explanations of various compositions including the First and Second string quartets and the Concerto for Orchestra, and fascinating comments on other composers, including of course Charles Ives, along with Stravinsky, Varese, the Second Vienna School, Debussy and Mozart. Carter expresses the utmost respect for Webern's exquisite miniatures, while making clear his rejection of serialism, which he never adopted.

Elliott Carter enjoys a much higher level of recognition in Europe than in the U.S., where composers of schlocky film scores are vastly more popular (ie, "Star Wars"). While noticed by only a few today, these writings will play a part in establishing Carter's future reputation as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century -- an American composer whether he was recognized by his contemporaries at home or not.

this is a great book about a medic/priest experiences in wwii........an easy read.........very enlightening

This book is packed with amusing and detailed illustrations. Each page has a lot of little details in the illustrations that add a lot of information about the people and their reactions, moods, etc. This classic story is well-written and it's a fun book to read together with your child and talk about the people in the pictures and the funny expressions and things that happen. Fun book.

About the Book :
This encyclopaedia in three volumes is an invaluable compilation of religious rites and ceremonies of all nations from different reliable sources. It describes in detail the old and ancient customs, usages and religious practices of the various peoples of the globe, such as the Jews, the Greeks, the Abyssinians, the Armenians, the Manorites (who are supposed to have migrated from Antioch to Rome with a legate of Pope Honorius), the Nasseires (who constitute a Mohammedan sect), the Russians (the conversions of the Russians to the Christian faith), the Roman Catholics (who exercised great influence over different parts of the world and who are said to hold the fundamental tenets of the Christian religion), the Mohameddans (who are the followers of the Prophet Mohammad), the Chinese, the Japanese, the Koreans, the Tartars (who are scattered all over the northern and eastern parts of Asia), the Persians, the Indians (who are divided into four castes, i.e. Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras), the Mexicans, the Peruvians, the Missisippians, the Africans, the Siamese (now known as Thailanders), the Phillippineans, the Laplanders, etc. The volume also contains discussions on the Church of England, on the Anabaptists, the Presbyterians, the Lutherians, the Bohemians, and some modern mystical sects. Picart has given in one single volume a thorough survey of the religious sects all over the world.

Contents :
Volume I

1. Fundamental Doctrines of the Jews
2. Customs and Laws of the Ancient Jews
3. Customs of the Modern Jews
4. Religious Rites of Jews
5. Ecclesiastical Discipline and Traditions Among the Jews
6. Mode of Reckoning Time of the Jews
7. Remarkable Fasts and Festivals of the Jews
8. Heretical or Dissenting Jews
9. Early History of the Jews, Until Their Conquest by Pompey
10. From the Roman Conquest to the Destruction of Jerusalem
11. From Their Dispersion to the Ninth Century
12. The Jews in Arabia, Persia, Turkey and Africa
13. The Jews in China and Hindostan
14. The Jews in Germany and the North of Europe
15. The Jews in Spain and Portugal
16. The Jews in England
17. The Jews in France
18. The Jews in Holland
19. The Jews in Italy
20. The Jews in the West Indies and America
21. Summary Statement of the Character and Present Condition of the Jews
22. The Religious Ceremonies and Tenets of the Greek Church
23. A General Idea of the State of the Greek Church
24. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Greek Patriarch
25. The Melchites
26. Religious Principles and Customs of the Nestorians
27. The Religious Ceremonies of the Indians, or Christians of St. Thomas
28. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Jacobites
29. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Cophti
30. Doctrines and Customs of the Abyssinians or Ethiopians
31. The Religious Tenets and Customs of the Armenians
32. Tenets and Customs of the Maronites
33. Nasseries, Kalbites, and Christians of St. John

Volume II

34. The Religious Principles and Customs of the Russians
35. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Catholics
36. The Supremacy of the Pope
37. Festivals and Sacraments of the Catholic Church
38. Sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church
39. Holy Orders of the Roman Catholic Church
40. The Hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church
41. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Mahometans
42. Life of Mahomet
43. The Causes of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism
44. The Temple of Mecca
45. The Koran, or Al-Koran
46. The Mahometan Profession of Faith
47. The Mahometan Liturgy
48. Precepts, Duties and Several Customs, Directly or Indirectly Authorised by the Koran
49. Feasts and Other Religious Ceremonies of the Mahometans
50. The Various Sects of Mahometanism
51. The Religion of the Sabeans
52. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Chinese and Japanese
53. Idolatrous Customs of the Chinese
54. The Nuptial Ceremonies; The Education of the Children; and the Funeral Solemnities of the Chinese
55. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Japanese

Volume III

56. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Coreans
57. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Tartars
58. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Persians
59. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Brahmins
60. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the East Indians in General
61. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Mexicans
62. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Peruvians
63. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Natives of Hudson`s Bay
64. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Nations that Inhabit the Coasts of Missippi; of the Canadians; of the Natives of Newfoundland; of the Iroquois
65. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Virginians
66. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Floridans
67. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Inhabitants of the Caribee Islands
68. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Inhabitants of the Coast of Guinea
69. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Natives o Benin and Adra
70. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Natives of Congo, Angola and of the Jages, or Gauls
71. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Natives of South Caffraria
72. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of Aracan
73. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of Pegu
74. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Siamese
75. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Phillippine Islands
76. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of Iceland and Several Other Northern Countries
77. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Lapanders
78. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Church of England
79. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Anabaptists
80. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Mennonites
81. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of those Who are Called in Holland, Collegianten and Rhynsburghers
82. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Quakers
83. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Presbyterians
84. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Lutherians
85. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Calvinists
86. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Adamites
87. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Bohemians
88. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Vaudois
89. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Socinians, &c
90. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Fanatics in General
91. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Several Modern Mystical Sects
92. The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Inhabitants Cmpeche, Jucatan, Tobasco, Cozumel &c.
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Bernard Werber, author of "Les fourmis" (The Ants)and a legend in France, has done it again: writing a book with a scientific background and making it entertaining is no small feat!

In this book, you'll discover many mysterious things and experiences that you will tell to everyone you know. It was offered to me, I love it and keep browsing through it from time to time.

Recommended to curious people.

This superb reference volume examines the English regional chair (particularly windsor and ladderback types) as a vernacular tradition of craft and design. It is more comprehensive than any other book ever written on antique furniture. A work of the very highest calibre by a most respected, insightful and dedicated scholar. Study in this field, often inspired by this extraordinary work, is still continued with great enthusiasm. It simply cannot be bettered!

This book contains more than 100 profitable business ideas and a wealth of detailed, how-to information on business start-ups, financing, prospecting, expanding and much much more! A valuable resource for anyone starting or planning to start his/her own computer-based business at home, with substantial growth and major future success on their minds.

Bernard Mayes is a visionary. Escaping God's Closet is a book of startling scale, as it is more than an autobiography. It's a thesis on what existence means, with Mayes's life presented as the evidence. Everything is connected, we are all mutually interdependent...and we must all escape "God's closet" in order to form the ties that bind and ultimately help us to survive.

Beautifully written essays on war, the legacy of Greek thought, the meaning of Sophocles' Oedipus the King for an Athenian audience in the aftermath of the plague, 20th-century English poetry and the author's personal experiences as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, an Allied military intelligence in occupied Normandy, and a classical scholar. Leaves you awed by his life and regretful that you haven't yet learned the classical languages.