Broadband Cable Access Networks focuses on broadband distribution and systems architecture and concentrates on practical concepts that will allow the reader to do their own design, improvement, and troubleshooting work. The objective is to enhance the skill sets of a large population that designs and builds broadband cable plants, as well as those maintaining and troubleshooting it. A large cross-section of technical personnel who need to learn these skills design, maintain, and service HF...

Fully updated, revised, and expanded, this second edition of Modern Cable Television Technology addresses the significant changes undergone by cable since 1999--including, most notably, its continued transformation from a system for delivery of television to a scalable-bandwidth platform for a broad range of communication services. It provides in-depth coverage of high speed data transmission, home networking, IP-based voice, optical dense wavelength division multiplexing, new video compre...

The 1940 Under the Volcano—hidden for too long in the shadows of Lowry’s 1947 masterpiece—differs from the latter in significant ways. It is a bridge between Lowry’s 1930s fiction (especially In Ballast to the White Sea) and the 1947 Under the Volcano itself. Joining the recently published Swinging the Maelstrom and In Ballast to the White Sea, The 1940 Under the Volcano takes its rightful place as part of Lowry’s exciting 1930s/early-40s trilogy. Scholars have only recently begun to pay s...

Chat GPT、Gemini、Grok、Claude...各種AI工具現世，能寫、能說、能創作這些原本都是人類獨有的技能，卻輕易地被AI奪走。當機器開始取得話語權，是否代表人類的時代已經結束？在AI浪潮之中，重新探尋人類與科技的關係!本書特色☛作者科克爾柏格與岡克爾專攻技術哲學與倫理，為你帶來「AI有自我意識嗎?」、「AI可以成為『人類』嗎?」、「AI會思考嗎?」等疑問的回應，重新思考AI在人文視角上帶給我們的危機!☛以圖靈測試、溝通理論、羅蘭．巴特「作者已死」、柏拉圖等哲學理論，探究AI的語言、意識、智慧、作者權威性等議題，這些答案將改變人類對於AI的認知!☛全面性的探討AI與人類的關係，不僅要懂得如何使用AI，更要懂AI對於人類的「意義」!專文導讀☛臺大外文系博士、獨立學者 林宛瑄「《當AI取得話語權，人類還剩下什麼？》最具啟發性的觀點在於：我們確實需要以批判態度檢視LLM與其他生成式AI對語言、書寫與創作等領域造成的衝擊，...

Due giornalisti premi Pulitzer. Un lavoro d’indagine durato anni. Centinaia d’interviste a militari, politici, giudici e agenti dei servizi israeliani. Decine di documenti portati alla luce. L’inchiesta definitiva sulla radicalizzazione della destra ebraica, che racconta come il movimento dei coloni – grazie alla protezione della polizia, del sistema giudiziario e della politica – è riuscito a conquistare le istituzioni d’Israele.

規模化不是角色變多, 流程變複雜, 而是協作方式的改變！導入LeSS的最佳教戰手冊！深入淺出帶你解決協作開發會遇到的難題【擴展學習】漸進式學習進而拓展團隊的能力和彈性【團隊協作】如何一起協作以減低相依性帶來的延遲【開發導向】從開發角度協作而非控制性的專案管理【叔公講古】進行講說的過程當中適時加入補充資料【系統性/高效性/務實性】對於多團隊協作提供最好的解決方案！本書內容改編自第15屆iThome鐵人賽IT管理組的冠軍系列文章《多團隊如何協作進行敏捷開發的利器──Large Scale Scrum(LeSS)》。關於大規模敏捷的因應之道，目前市面上已經盛傳許多做法。有些增加了很多角色，導致流程變得十分複雜，讓人難以著手。有些則是過於簡陋，打算以不變應萬變，卻讓人不知如何在實務上應用。還有一些解法...

A vision of the future of education in which the classroom experience is distributed across space and time without compromising learning.What if there were a model for learning in which the classroom experience was distributed across space and time--and students could still have the benefits of the traditional classroom, even if they can't be present physically or learn synchronously? In this book, two experts in online learning envision a future in which education...

In Germans to the Front, David Large charts the path from Germany’s total demilitarization immediately after World War II to the appearance of the Bundeswehr, the West German army, in 1956. The book is the first comprehensive study in English of West German rearmament during this critical period. Large’s analysis of the complex interplay between the diplomatic and domestic facets of the rearmament debate illuminates key elements in the development of the Cold War and in Germany’s ...

Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, this compelling book provides the first comprehensive history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for the abduction of Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists and the hostages’ tragic deaths after a botched rescue mission by the German police. Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources from the time, eminent historian David Clay Large explores the 1972 festival in all its ramifications. He interweaves the...

Wer verstehen will, wie es um die politische und geistige Situation in den zwanziger und dreißiger Jahren in Deutschland bestellt war, kommt um Larges Analyse des Mikrokosmos München nicht herum.» Rheinischer Merkur München ist berühmt für seine Architektur, für den Kunstsinn und die Lebenskunst seiner Bürger, für Bierseligkeit und Gemütlichkeit. Warum wurde ausgerechnet dieses vielgepriesene «Isar-Athen» zum Geburtsort des Nationalsozialismus? David Clay Large schildert Münchens Weg in da...

The Grand Spas of Central Europe leads readers on an irresistible tour through the grand spa towns of Central Europe—fabled places like Baden-Baden, Bad Ems, Bad Gastein, Karlsbad, and Marienbad. Noted historian David Clay Large follows the grand spa story from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present, focusing especially on the years between the French Revolution and World War II, a period in which the major Central European Kurorte (“cure-towns”) reached their peak of influence and then slip...

Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is one of contemporary art's most newsworthy figures, noted for both his groundbreaking work and his outspoken stance on human rights, which ultimately resulted in his controversial 2011 detainment. In an astonishing new large-scale project, he turns his attention to Alcatraz—a place he cannot visit because he is not permitted to leave China, but that stands as a world-famous symbol of both incarceration and protest. This book ...