Guide to Interpersonal Communication (Guide to Business Communication Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you are in business, you need to read this book. As a manager and business owner, I regard this Guide to be an essential part of my library. It's a fine read and useful as a desk reference -- I refer back to it often. Practical suggestions, engaging voice. Read now, avoid awkwardness later!

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Brief, practical, and reader-friendly, this is a handy guide for improving your business interactions and relationships. It offers clear, straightforward tools useful in a professional context, with an "easy-to-skim"format and a direct, matter-of-fact tone. This book gives practical advice on how to improve the foundational interpersonal communication skills of listening, feedback, asking and responding to questions, and adjusting to others' styles. It offers step-by-step recommendations for approaching such common interactions as interviewing, negotiating, and conducting performance appraisals. This direct, step-by-step guide for interpersonal communication skills is a necessary read for people who communicate in professional contexts, such as managers, supervisors, and executives in any business or professional arena.

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Guide to Managerial Communication (Guide to Business Communication Series) (8th Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)I picked this book up for a required Communications course in my MBA program. Prior to going back to school, I spent about 10 years in the workforce. So, when I opened this book, I was able to relate a lot of what I read to what I learned "on the job". That said, I recognize this book as a well-rounded and very detailed "communications manual". Some may say that a lot of the content is obvious, but what I say to them is that it may be obvious because they learned from experience. For others, it may not be quite so obvious; e.g., what to wear for television interviews. That said, this book is to the point and cuts out the fat; what a dictionary is for words is what this book is for communications approaches.

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Guide to Managerial Communication is a clear, concise, practical text for effective written and oral communication in a managerial, business, government, or professional context. The Eighth Edition adds contemporary content throughout.

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Mathematical Methods and Algorithms for Signal Processing Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a very unique book. It presents a range of material relevant to dsp and communications that you will not likely find together in any other book. I think the proofs and explanations are pretty clear, and the book is very readable. Although my math background is limitied to the math courses I've taken within my EE curriculum, I found the math in this book to be accessible and understandable.
What brings it down, however, is the absolutely insane number of errors and typos. The errata for the SECOND printing is 43 pages long! It's so thick that I can't even staple it together with a regular stapler. And that's just the mistakes that they've identified. Who knows how many others lurk in the text undetected.
I can understand a page or two of corrections, that is typical of most EE textbooks. And I can understand that since this is a first edition, there will be more mistakes than for a typical textbook which has been through several editions. But 43 pages worth of mistakes is unacceptable in my opinion. This material is difficult enough without mistakes in the proofs and explanations.
Without the huge errata I would have happily given this book 5 stars, but for now I give it 2.

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Mathematical Methods and Algorithms for Signal Processing tackles the challenge of providing readers and practitioners with the broad tools of mathematics employed in modern signal processing. Building from an assumed background in signals and stochastic processes, the book provides a solid foundation in analysis, linear algebra, optimization, and statistical signal processing. Interesting modern topics not available in many other signal processing books; such as the EM algorithm, blind source operation, projection on convex sets, etc., in addition to many more conventional topics such as spectrum estimation, adaptive filtering, etc. For those interested in signal processing.

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Adaptive Filter Theory (4th Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)Despite the commonly negative opinion against Simon Haykin's book, I find this book to be a very fun reading. It starts off with a very brief review of DSP (more useful just for getting familiar with the notation, really), properties of random processes, and a small section on linear algebra in the middle of the book.
The rest of the book can be viewed as a story of how different approaches and algorithms were developed, and is a little difficult to use as reference due to its lack of structure and over-dependency on the previous chapters, both for technical content and notation.
But there's a lot of hidden treasures within this book that should have been more emphasized. For example, Mold's theorem that states that any discrete stationary process can be decomposed into a deterministic component and a random component, which are uncorrelated to each other. I'm sorry, but a reference to a proof in another book is not enough to really motivate me. This is a very fundamental theorem if you're interested in stochastic signal processing. Sure, you don't cover the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus in your very first calculus class, but then again this is supposed to be a fairly advanced book.
So if you're interested in learning certain things quickly, this is NOT the book to get. Consider Munson Hayes' book instead. Save this one when you feel like investing a little time to hear Haykin's story on stochastic signal processing.

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Adaptive Filter Theory, 4e, is ideal for courses in Adaptive Filters.

Haykin examines both the mathematical theory behind various linear adaptive filters and the elements of supervised multilayer perceptrons. In its fourth edition, this highly successful book has been updated and refined to stay current with the field and develop concepts in as unified and accessible a manner as possible.

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Good Arguments: An Introduction to Critical Thinking (4th Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)Connie Missimer's Good Arguments is the best book I know of to teach beginning argumentation to college freshmen and sophomores. It is clear, elegant, and sharp. I especially like the way she outlines the skeleton of an argument, using thesis, evidence, and implications as crucial aspects of the structure.
I have used the book on several occasions as a college textbook and it has proved its worth. Although it is quite expensive, every page is smart and clear, and students really learn from it.
I wish that there was just a little bit more humor in the book, and perhaps some illustrations. It is quite dry for young people who have short attention spans. I have to push them through it, and use the book with other materials such as comic strips and jokes to lighten up the rigorous and sustained ideas which Missimer presents.
-- Kirby Olson, Ph.D.

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This book proceeds from CT in everyday life to sophisticated critical thinking in academic fields, with chapters which clearly outline the types of evidence in science, the social sciences, and the humanities. Unlike most other books, it offers a clear description of CT as the comparison of formulas of CT. Chapter topics include issue, conclusion, and reason; how to create alternative arguments; deciding to accept an argument; assumptions and implications; prescriptions; deliberations; experiment, correlation, and speculation; and problem solving by way of review. For a lifetime of thinking critically, reading the good arguments of others, and creating your own—across a wide spectrum of subjects.

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Detection and Estimation Theory Review

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(More customer reviews)In my opinion, this book is for people who want to learn detection and estimation theory for communications quickly. It brings together many of the main ideas in modern detection and estimation problems for communications engineering in one place. This book is suitable for master and PhD student, as well as engineers in electric engineering such as signal processing and communications. Additionally, for researchers the book contains a number of advanced sections in many chapters. Dr. Mohamed Sahmoudi, CAC, Villanova University, PA, USA.

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This is the first reader-friendly book to comprehensively address the topics of both detection and estimation – with a thorough discussion of the underlying theory as well as the practical applications. Modernizes classical topics by focusing on discrete signal processing with continuous signal presentations included to demonstrate uniformity and consistency of the results. Summarizes concepts that are extensively treated in other sources, but are provided here to reacquaint readers with these topics and introduce a consistent notation used throughout. Illustrates the application of previously developed general principles. CoversMATLAB m-file and Simulink routines;does not require prior knowledge of MATLAB. A useful reference text for practicing engineers.

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