This fascinating book provides a stimulating introduction to analog electronics by analysing the design and construction of a radio transceiver. Essential theoretical background is given along with carefully designed laboratory and homework exercises. The author begins with a thorough description of basic electronic components and simple circuits and goes on to describe the key elements of radio electronics, including filters, amplifiers, oscillators, mixers, and antennas. Laboratory exerc...

Higher Education: Open for Business addresses a problem in higher learning, which is newly recognized in the academic spotlight: the overcommercialization of higher education. The book asks that you, the reader, think about the following: Did you go to a Coke or Pepsi school? Do your children attend a Nike or Adidas school? Is the college in your town a Dell or Gateway campus? These questions should not be a primary concern for students, parents or faculty in an environment that h...

Like Hunger probes the ways in which Joyce Carol Oates’s characters strive for some kind of faith. When traditional religions become uncompelling, Oates’s characters reach for beliefs that reflect distinctly American values, ranging from faith in celebrities, food, or science to continual efforts at finding an idea of home. Drawing on works throughout Oates’s six-decade career, David S. Rutledge uncovers how hunger often functions as a metaphor for the need to believe, and how thi...

KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER THROUGH THE YEARSCarl Kolchak has faced more than his share of monsters throughout his infamous career. Now, Monstrous Books presents 13 short stories chronicling the intrepid reporter's exploits from his time in World War II until his semi-retirement in the 1990s.Kolchak's luck runs out during World War II. Devils in the outfield stir up trouble in the '50s. A road trip with editor Tony Vincenzo in the '70s takes a turn for the w...

Maddie and the Stolen Treasures is an action adventure middle grade novel recommended for children aged 8 to 12 years of age, years 5 to 6.While on holiday in Egypt, Maddie's grandfather is wrongly imprisoned after being found with a 3,000-year-old relic of Queen Nefertari.To save him, Maddie and her newfound friends must outsmart the sinister smuggler Red Scarf.Can Maddie overcome her anxieties before it's too late?Readers who love Tristan Bancks' ...

We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existentialist piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature. The unnamed narrator is frequently named an anti-hero and is described by the note on the back of the Dover edition as "a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative value...