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Job Hunting in the 21st CenturyExploding the Myths, Exploring the Realities
Carol A. Hacker
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Carol A. Hacker is an educator, speaker and the founder of Carol A. Hacker & Associates. She has written numerous magazine articles and three books including The Costs of Bad Hiring Decisions & How to Avoid Them. Prior to starting her own firm she held a number of management positions, including that of Director of Human Resources for the North American division of Bahlsen, Inc. , a European manufacturer.Promo Copy
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Superior Book!.......2003-03-12
In this book Carol Hacker has given the job hunter a powerful tool - true knowledge. Unlike many dense books on job search, she made the book easy to read and to understand. It's very much like sitting down over a cup of coffee with a senior executive and finding out what's REALLY going on. Whether you are an experienced executive or entry level newcomer, there is a lot you don't really know about job hunting and won't until you read this superb book!
Excellent book for anyone out of work.......2002-07-15
I lost my job and found this book to be invaluable in helping me figure out what I wanted to do from this point on. It's practical and filled with lots of information that I could put to use immediately. Now my wife is using it in her job search.
Good Read.......1999-12-28
This book gets to the heart of what it takes to get the best job available. I was enouraged by the information offered to the reader. I don't read a lot because I don't like to read, but this book was recommended to me by my brother and I found it to be very valuable.
Jam-packed with valuable tips.......1999-12-21
I recently purchased this book and found it to be well-written. The author appears to know what she's talking about. I got some valuable ideas that helped me in my job search. I started a new job 3 months ago and attribute some of the good decision-making I made, especially in the area of negotiating salary and benefits, to Job Hunting in the 21st Century. Happy reading!
Wonderful resource for professional people at any level.......1999-07-21
I bought this book and several others on this subject as I'm looking for a new job. This book is by far the most comprehensive and useful. It's easy to read and has a lot of ideas that I hadn't thought about. I know that my college-age children will benefit from this book as well. I'm happy to have it as part of my personal library.
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- Only book which consolidates Audio coding & Standards
- Not satisfying for a nerd like myself...
- Touching the core mechanisms underlying digital audio codec.
- First comprehensible book on the topic
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Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
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Foreword by
Leonardo Chiariglione.
The topic of digital audio coding is of interest to a wide audience, including engineering and industrial professionals working in telecommunications, hardware design, music, and software product development.
Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards provides a detailed introduction to the methods, implementations, and official standards of state-of-the-art audio coding technology. In the book, the theory and implementation of each of the basic coder building blocks is addressed. The building blocks are then fit together into a full coder and the reader is shown how to judge the performance of such a coder. Finally, the authors discuss the features, choices, and performance of the main state-of-the-art coders defined in the ISO/IEC MPEG and HDTV standards and in commercial use today.
The ultimate goal of this book is to present the reader with a solid enough understanding of the major issues in the theory and implementation of perceptual audio coders that they are able to build their own simple audio codec. There is no other source available where a non-professional has access to the true secrets of audio coding.
Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards is based on a graduate course at Stanford University going into its 7th year. The subject material has been fine-tuned through this process to be accessible to readers of vastly differing backgrounds, levels of preparation, and interests. Exercises that apply the concepts covered are included at the end of each chapter.
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Only book which consolidates Audio coding & Standards.......2004-06-22
This book describes the basic details and the Signal Processing behind the Audio compression. It also describes PQMF and MDCT in continuation which is rare in books. Almost all the standard audio codecs are described with comparisons. I am delighted to read the book. At least my search end with this book on this topic. After getting this book, I need not look into IEEE & AES papers. For Audio engineers working on this domain should read this book to have a complete picture and overview of the technology and the domain.
Not satisfying for a nerd like myself..........2004-02-24
The book gives a good review of the historical development of audio coding standards with emphasis on ISO. Generally speaking it is well written, but the technical details as well as theoretical aspects are frankly, quite superficial; therefore it is not satisfying for a (proud) nerd like myself. If one's goal is to implement a program to handle the MP3 bitstream, for instance, then the book does not help. If one's goal is to design a new filter bank to improve the MP3 coder, then the book does not help either. However, it is recommended for beginners to get a flavor of the audio coding field.
Touching the core mechanisms underlying digital audio codec........2004-01-18
For a long time in my school life and now as a audio engineer I look forward to this kind of book.
MPEG Audio or AC3 audio standard is rather simple, but the syntax and decoding procedures imply considerably complex algorithms have been included there.
This book explains related theorys - for example filterbanks in detail, psychoacoustics, entropy coding, etc - concretely and expertly. She(Bosi) was one of the leading members in making MPEG Audio Standards.
Strongly recommendable!
First comprehensible book on the topic.......2003-03-14
This is a 'reference' book for anyone interested in how modern perceptual audio coders work. It is very well written, and complete.
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Midi: A Comprehensive Introduction (Computer Music and Digital Audio Series)
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Master the basics from first principles: the physics of sound, principles of hearing etc, then progress onward to fundamental digital principles, conversion, compression and coding and then onto transmission, digital audio workstations, DAT and optical disks. Get up to speed with how digital audio is used within DVD, Digital Audio Broadcasting, networked audio and MPEG transport streams.
All of the key technologies are here: compression, DAT, DAB, DVD, SACD, oversampling, noise shaping and error correction theories are treated in a simple yet accurate form.
Thoroughly researched, totally up-to-date and technically accurate this is the only book you need on the subject.
* Expand your knowledge with this thorough treatment of digital audio for a wide range of disciplines
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* Get up to speed with how digital audio is used within DVD, Digital Audio Broadcasting, networked audio and MPEG transport streams
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What do we measure and why? Peter Hodges explains the answer to this question in approachable language and with clear illustrations. Newcomers to the video industry, as well as those already established, will find this uniquely readable guide to the basics of a complex subject. Building on the success of the two previous editions of this popular title and covering both analog and digital video, the third edition includes new sections on audio measurement, high definition video, and innovative techniques of test and measurement.
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This digital document is an article from Music Trades, published by Music Trades Corp. on September 1, 1996. The length of the article is 862 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Aiming for a broad new market, JBL shows EON. (J.B.L. Inc.'s audio system) (Product Announcement)
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Title: Alesis aims at revolutionizing the market with new keyboard. (Alesis Corp. new sound synthesizer QuadraSynth master keyboard) (Product Announcement)
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Title: Alesis promises to ship synth in 2nd qtr. (Alesis Corp.; synthesizer)
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Title: Alesis redefines digital tape market with breakthrough machine. (product announcement)
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This romantic comedy features explicit sexual themes and sharp dialogue and character development in the story of Suekichi Terayama, a student who's inherited $4.5 million - which he won't actually get unless he graduates and gets married.
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- My footnote to the 1-star review
- Trivial, oh so trivial
- book critic in love
- Superbly presented study on an important aspect of writing.
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The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes
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Footnotes have not had it easy. Their dominance of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century literature and scholarship was both hard-won -- following many years of struggle -- and doomed, as it led to belittlement in the twentieth century. In The Devil's Details, Chuck Zerby playfully explores footnotes' long and illustrious history and makes a clarion call to save them from the new world of the Internet and hypertext.
In a story that boasts a marvelous plot and a rogues' gallery of players, Zerby examines traditional footnotes and their less-buttoned-down incarnations, as when used by pornographers. Yes, The Devil's Details is full of surprises: Zerby hunts down the first bona fide fully functioning footnote; unearths a multivolume history of Northumberland County, England, that uses one volume for a single footnote; and uncovers a murder plot. He even explains why footnotes are like blind dates.
Carefully researched and highly opinionated, The Devil's Details affirms that delight in reading can come from unexpected places.
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My footnote to the 1-star review.......2003-02-26
Don't listen to the reviewer who purports to give Zerby 0 stars, that review isn't worth your while. Try this, instead: I'm trying to delve into the study of footnotes (non-scholarly). Grafton's work relies too heavily on scholarly use. Kevin Jackson's Invisible Forms only lends the footnote a chapter. So Zerby, as of now, is the happy medium. And yes, he rambles. Yes, the book weaves in and out of direction. But that's the point, and assuming you'd encounter otherwise is somewhat deluded. If you accept Zerby's offering for what it is, and roll with the punches the book provides, you might learn a thing or two about how the footnote has evolved (AND discover a few interesting original sources to peruse later)!
Trivial, oh so trivial.......2002-07-04
This is a zero star book. I read about half and then skimmed the rest because I couldn't take the torture and I read for enjoyment and education, not as a form of masochism. I picked this book up because I am an editor/writer and love the English language, including its more obscure aspects. This book, however, offers nothing of value. The basis for the book appears to be the author's one semi-bright idea: that there can be a kind of interplay between text and footnote, which some authors exploit to good effect. Unfortunately, Zerby does not fall into that category.
One needn't rack his or her brains for an appropriate and clever adjective to describe this book. It is simply stupid -- on every conceivable level. The scholarship on the beginnings of the footnote is suspect at best; the footnoting and comments on such are pompous and totally subjective; the ironic, "this is so trivial it must be amusing" tone is after a few pages damned irritating; and the author engages in an orgy of name dropping and jumps from one subject to another to make himself sound erudite, when it is clear he doesn't know what the hell he is talking about -- how does a book like this get published?
As for those people who report to have enjoyed this pointless mush, fyi: readig a book that makes reference to obscure texts and a handful of name authors does not make you clever. Try reading a few of the originals instead.
book critic in love.......2002-04-25
You will laugh, you will cry, you will beg for more from this mercurial clown of literary criticism and history! For those of you who are refreshed by sets of ten point text at the bottom of your current volume, or for those who are wondering just what good are they. Timely, appropriate, and altogether brilliant. Charles Zerby, we love you and your precious, precious footnotes.
Superbly presented study on an important aspect of writing........2002-03-29
The Devil's Details: A History Of Footnotes is a carefully researched and superbly presented study of the footnote -- an editorial convention most often seen in academic texts yet fast becoming more widespread than ever, particularly in the world of the Internet where a "footnote" can in fact be a hyperlinked note. Fascinating and informative with its close attention to minute matters, The Devil's Details is an enjoyable and even slightly whimsical study of an oft-overlooked aspect of writing and recommended reading for anyone wanting to improve the professionalism of their writings in print or on the Internet.
A delightful read!.......2002-03-01
What a joy this book is. Funny, insightful, daring. Who is Chuck Zerby? Where in the world did he come from, and how did he learn so much? He does what no traditional scholar has been able to do--capture what is so rich and, yes, silly about getting caught up in minutiae about books, and reminding us bibliophiles why we love to read so much. Get this gorgeous little book for everyone you know who still appreciates the beauty of the word on the page.
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