Digital Transmission Systems, Third Edition, is a comprehensive overview of the theory and practices of digital transmission systems used in digital communication. This new edition has been completely updated to include the latest technologies and newest techniques in the transmission of digitized information as well as coverage of digital transmission design, implementation and testing.
Highlights of this edition:

-New material on error correction codes, multiple access, digital modulation, digital subscriber lines, cable modems, mobile wireless, wide area networks,...

Embark on a journey along the back roads of fear. In these sinister tales you will take a detour down the misty highway of nightmares, visit a haunted wood in the dead of night, and meet phantoms of all varieties ready to steal your soul ... or redeem it.

Dwelling on the rich interconnections between parody and festivity in humanist thought and popular culture alike, the essays in this volume delve into the nature and the meanings of festive laughter as it was conceived of in early modern art. The concept of 'carnival' supplies the main thread connecting these essays. Bound as festivity often is to popular culture, not all the topics fit the canons of high art, and some of the art is distinctly low-brow and occasionally ephemeral; themes include grobianism and the grotesque, scatology, popular proverbs with ironic twists, and a wide range of...