Author: Michael Weeks File Type: pdf Although DSP Has Long Been Considered An EE Topic, Recent Developments Have Also Generated Significant Interest From The Computer Science Community. DSP Applications In The Consumer Market, Such As Bioinformatics, The MP3 Audio Format, And MPEG-Based CableSatellite Television Have Fueled A Desire To Understand This Technology Outside Of Hardware Circles. Designed For Upper Division Engineering And Computer Science Students As Well As Practicing Engineers, Digital Signal Processing Using Matlab And Wavelets Emphasizes The Practical Applications Of Signal Processing. Over 100 Matlab Projects And Wavelet Techniques Provide The Latest Applications Of DSP, Including Image Processing, Games, Filters, Transforms, Networking, Parallel Processing, And Sound. The Book Also Provides The Mathematical Processes And Techniques Needed To Ensure An Understanding Of DSP Theory. Designed To Be Incremental In Difficulty, The Book Will Benefit Readers Who Are Unfamiliar With Complex Mathematical Topics Or Those Limited In Programming Experience. Beginning With An Introduction To Matlab Programming, It Moves Through Filters, Sinusoids, Sampling, The Fourier Transform, The Z Transform And Other Key Topics. An Entire Chapter Is Dedicated To The Discussion Of Wavelets And Their Applications. A CD-ROM (Platform Independent) Accompanies The Book And Contains Source Code, Projects, And Microsoft Powerpoint Slides.(Electrical Engineering Series)

Author: Jonathan Franzen File Type: epub From the author of Freedom, a richly realistic and darkly hilarious masterpiece about a family breakdown in an age of easy fixes.After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity, and their children have long since fled for the catastrophes of their own lives. As Alfreds condition worsens and the Lamberts are forced to face their secrets and failures, Enid sets her heart on one last family Christmas.Bringing the old world of civic virtue and sexual inhibition into violent collision with the era of hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare and globalised greed, The Corrections confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of the most brilliant interpreters of the American soul.From Publishers WeeklyIf some authors are masters of suspense, others postmodern verbal acrobats, and still others complex-character pointillists, few excel in all three arenas. In his long-awaited third novel, Franzen does. Unlike his previous works, The 27th City (1988) and Strong Motion (1992), which tackled St. Louis and Boston, respectively, this one skips from city to city (New York St. Jude Philadelphia Vilnius, Lithuania) as it follows the delamination of the Lambert family Alfred, once a rigid disciplinarian, flounders against Parkinsons-induced dementia Enid, his loyal and embittered wife, lusts for the perfect Midwestern Christmas Denise, their daughter, launches the hippest restaurant in Philly and Gary, their oldest son, grapples with depression, while Chip, his brother, attempts to shore his eroding self-confidence by joining forces with a self-mocking, Eastern-Bloc politician. As in his other novels, Franzen blends these personal dramas with expert technical cartwheels and savage commentary on larger social issues, such as the imbecility of laissez-faire parenting and the farcical nature of U.S.-Third World relations. The result is a book made of equal parts fury and humor, one that takes a dry-eyed look at our culture, at our pains and insecurities, while offering hope that, occasionally at least, we can reach some kind of understanding. This is, simply, a masterpiece. Agent, Susan Golomb. (Sept.)Forecast Franzen has always been a writers writer and his previous novels have earned critical admiration, but his sales havent yet reached the level of, say, Don DeLillo at his hottest. Still, if the ancillary rights sales and the buzz at BEA are any indication, The Corrections should be his breakout book. Its varied subject matter will endear it to a genre-crossing section of fans (both David Foster Wallace and Michael Cunningham contributed rave blurbs) and FSGs publicity campaign will guarantee plenty of press. QPB main, BOMC alternate. Foreign rights sold in the U.K., Denmark, Holland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Spain. Nine-city author tour. 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.From Library JournalHeres a family that will never be mistaken for the Royal Tennenbaums. Meet the Lamberts Dad is a retired railroad man who is slipping into dementia Mom is still trying to believe in the rosiest possible marriage and family life and their grown children are each living out a catastrophe. The youngest son is failing miserably as a sort of screenwriter in Lithuania, the daughter is a chef of some accomplishment who cant seem to keep out of bed with just about anyone, and the oldest son is yelling at and withholding affection from his family just as his father did before him. The family home is in St. Jude (aptly named for the patron saint of hopeless causes). Enid, the wife and mother, wants the whole family together for one last Christmas before her husband, Alfred, slips beyond reach. Getting them all under the same roof even for a few hours is a massive undertaking. Franzen is a keen observer of the way the world works, and it is a tribute to his skill as a novelist that the listener remains interested in the craziness of these lives. Reader Dylan Baker brings these quirky characters to life. Recommended for fiction collections in public libraries. - Barbara Valle, El Paso P.L., TX 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.